Fernando Fernán Gómez

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Fernández and the second or maternal family name is Gómez.
Excelentísimo Señor Don
Fernando Fernán Gómez
OAXS MMT
Born
Fernando Fernández Gómez

(1921-08-28)28 August 1921
Lima, Peru
Died21 November 2007(2007-11-21) (aged 86)
Madrid, Spain
Resting placeCementerio de la Almudena, Madrid
Citizenship
  • Argentina
  • Spain
Occupations
  • Actor
  • director
  • writer
Years active1943–2006
Spouse(s)
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(m. 1945; div. 1957)​

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(m. 2000)​
Children2
Parents
RelativesFernando Díaz de Mendoza (grandfather)
María Guerrero (grandmother)
Seat B of the Real Academia Española
In office
30 January 2000 – 21 November 2007
Preceded byEmilio Alarcos Llorach [es]
Succeeded byJosé Luis Borau

Fernando Fernández Gómez OAXS MMT (28 August 1921 – 21 November 2007), better known as Fernando Fernán Gómez, was a Spanish actor, screenwriter, film director, theater director, novelist, and playwright. Prolific and outstanding in all these fields, he was elected member of the Royal Spanish Academy in 1998. He was born in Lima, Peru while his mother, Spanish actress Carola Fernán-Gómez, was making a tour in Latin America. He would later use her surname for his stage name when he moved to Spain in 1924.

Fernán Gómez was regarded as one of Spain's most beloved and respected entertainers, winning two Silver Bears for Best Actor at the Berlin International Film Festival for The Anchorite and Stico. He was also the recipient of the Prince of Asturias Award for the Arts, the National Theater Award, the Gold Medal of Merit in the Fine Arts, the Gold Medal of the Spanish Film Academy, and six Goya Awards. He starred in 200 films between 1943 and 2006,[1] working with directors including Carlos Saura (Ana and the Wolves, Mama Turns 100), Víctor Erice (The Spirit of the Beehive), Fernando Trueba (Belle Époque), José Luis Garci (The Grandfather), José Luis Cuerda (Butterfly's Tongue) and Pedro Almodóvar (All About My Mother).

He directed over 25 films, among them El extraño viaje (1964), and Life Goes On (1965), both great classics of the Spanish cinema that were very limited distribution due to Franco's censorship[2][3] and made him a "cursed" filmmaker in his country.[4] His film Voyage to Nowhere (1986) earned critical acclaim, becoming the most awarded Spanish film at the 1st Goya Awards ceremony.[5]

Early life

According to his memoir,[6] he was probably born in Lima on 28 August 1921, even though his birth certificate indicates that he was born in the Argentine capital, Buenos Aires. His mother, the theater actress Carola Fernán Gómez, was touring South America when he was born in Lima, and his birth certificate was issued days later in Argentina, a country whose nationality he retained, in addition to Spanish nationality, which was granted to him in 1984. He was an extramarital son, his father was also the actor Luis Fernando Díaz de Mendoza y Guerrero, whose mother, the prominent theater actress María Guerrero, prevented the marriage between Fernando Fernán Gómez's parents.[7]

Career

Acting and filmmaking

After some performing school works, he decided to study Philosophy and Letters in Madrid, which he subsequently abandoned when the Spanish Civil War began, but his true vocation led him to the theater. During the Civil War he received classes at the CNT School of Actors, making his professional debut in 1938 at the Laura Pinillos' [es] company.[8] There he was discovered by the Spanish playwright Enrique Jardiel Poncela, who offered him his first major opportunity in 1941, the role as "Redhead" in the play We Thieves Are Honourable.[9]

In 1943, Fernán Gómez joined the film studio Cifesa and made his first movie appearance in Cristina Guzmán, directed by Gonzalo Delgrás.[10] Between the 1940s and 1960s, he established himself as a leading actor in the Spanish film industry, mostly in comic roles: El destino se disculpa (1945), Anchor Button (1948), The Last Horse (1950), I Want to Marry You (1951), Captain Poison (1951), The Pelegrín System (1952), That Happy Couple (1953), Airport (1953), The Other Life of Captain Contreras (1955), Faustina (1957), and La becerrada (1963). He also revealed his abiliy to play drama in Carnival Sunday (1945), Life in Shadows (1948), Reckless (1951), The Tenant (1957), and Rififi in the City (1964). During his career he occasionally play supporting roles in such foreign films as Voice of Silence (1953), The Bachelor (1955), starring Alberto Sordi, The Pyjama Girl Case (1977), with Ray Milland, and Marcellino pane e vino [it] (1991).

Fernán Gómez in Don Mendo's Revenge (1962)

In the 1950s he began to direct movies, earning a nomination for Best Film at the Mar del Plata International Film Festival for his 1958 comedy La vida por delante,[11] a story about the difficulties that a newly married couple has in moving forward with their housing, work and economic life. The film pioneered in Spain in breaking the fourth wall and telling the plot in the form of flashbacks[12] and its success led him to made a sequel, La vida alrededor (1959).[13] His first films tended to be humorous satires, including The Wicked Carabel (1956), For Men Only (1960), and Don Mendo's Revenge (1962). In 1964 he filmed El extraño viaje, a dark portrait of Spanish rural repression.[14] It was voted seventh best Spanish film by professionals and critics in 1996 Spanish cinema centenary,[15] and included in a British Film Institute list published in 2016 by film director Pedro Almodóvar among the 13 great Spanish films that inspired him.[16] The latter was followed by Life Goes On (1965), one of the most terrifying and merciless moral portraits of Francoist Spain,[17][18]

He was very much in demand as an actor in the 1970s and 1980s, expanding his range in many films of the new Spanish cinema: starring alongside Geraldine Chaplin in Carlos Saura's Ana and the Wolves (1973) and its sequel Mama Turns 100 (1979), The Love of Captain Brando (1974), Pim, pam, pum... ¡fuego! (1975), The Remains from the Shipwreck (1978), Maravillas (1981), Feroz (1984), The Court of the Pharaoh (1985), Requiem for a Spanish Peasant (1985), Half of Heaven (1986), Moors and Christians (1987), and in the role as Leopoldo de Gregorio, 1st Marquess of Esquilache in Esquilache (1989). In 1973 he starred in Víctor Erice's The Spirit of the Beehive, reaching an international audience for his role as a mournful intellectual father who has a small beehive inside his house.[19][20] That same year he played Don Quixote in the Spanish-Mexican comedy Don Quijote cabalga de nuevo, co-starring Cantinflas as Sancho Panza. In 1977, he won the Silver Bear for Best Actor at the 27th Berlin International Film Festival for his role as a middle-aged man who decides one day to live in the bathroom and never leave it in The Anchorite,[21] and again at the 35th Berlin International Film Festival in 1985 for his role as a broke Roman law professor who offers himself as a slave to an old student in exchange for house and food in Stico.[22] He also won the Pasinetti Prize [it] for Best Actor for his role in Carlos Saura's film Los zancos at the 1984 Venice Film Festival.[23]

He directed and starred in two notable productions for Televisión Española: the fantasy TV movie Juan soldado [es], which he won the Grand Prix for Best Director at the 9th International Television Festival Golden Prague in 1973,[24] and the 1974 miniseries El pícaro [es], a historical comedy set in the 17th Century which was based on the picaresque novel. As a filmmaker he made, among others, My Daughter Hildegart (1977), a film inspired in the life of Spanish activist Hildegart Rodríguez Carballeira, which turned out to be a box office hit in Spain,[25] Mambru Went to War (1986), that gave him his first Goya Award for Best Actor,[26] Voyage to Nowhere (1986), based on his own novel which describes a troupe of impoverished actors traipsing from village to village, achieving the Goya Awards for Best Film, Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay in 1987,[27][28] and The Sea and Time (1989), winner of the Special Jury Prize at the 1989 San Sebastián International Film Festival.[29]

The 1990s was a less active acting period for him, but he enjoyed something of a revival, featuring in five major projects: the historical co-production The Dumbfounded King (1991), the two winners of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film Belle Époque (1992) and All About My Mother (1999),[30] The Grandfather (1998), which he won a second Goya Award for Best Actor in 1999 for his praised role as Don Rodrigo, Count of Albrit, an old Spanish aristocrat,[31][32] and the hit Butterfly's Tongue (1999), playing Don Gregorio, a republican schoolteacher. In between, he was part of the cast of the comedy show Los ladrones van a la oficina (The thieves go to the office, 1993-1996), awarded an Onda Award in 1993.[33]

In 1999 the San Sebastián International Film Festival granted to him the Donostia Award, which made him the first Spanish movie-maker to receive this distinction.[34]

In the 2000s he appeared in Plenilune (2000), Visionaries (2001), the popular prime time television series Cuéntame cómo pasó (Remember When, 2001), The Shanghai Spell (2002), Tiovivo c. 1950 (2004), and Something to Remember Me By (2005). One of his last great performances was in the film In the City Without Limits (2002), again with Geraldine Chaplin, where he plays a dying man who suffered fearful delusions.[35] The last film he directed was Lázaro de Tormes (2001), from which he received his second Goya Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.[36]

In 2005 he was awarded with the Honorary Golden Bear at the 55th Berlin International Film Festival for his lifetime achievement.[37][38]

Stage and literary work

In addition to his extensive career in front and behind the screen, Fernán Gómez wrote numerous stage plays, novels, memoirs, articles, and poems. The most successful was the play Las bicicletas son para el verano (Bicycles Are for the Summer) in 1977,[39] showing the sufferings of a family and their neighbours in besieged Madrid during the Civil War. He won the Lope de Vega Prize [es] for that work in 1978,[40] and it has been adapted into a popular film in 1984, directed by Jaime Chávarri.

As theater director he staged plays such as Dear Liar (1962), by Bernard Shaw; The Kreutzer Sonata (1963), by Leo Tolstoy; Thought (1963), by Leonid Andreyev; and Juan José Alonso Millán's [es] comedies Gravemente peligrosa (1962), Mayores con reparos (1965) and La vil seducción (1967).[41]

He was runner up of the Premio Planeta de Novela for his 1987 historical novel El mal amor.[42] In 1993 he won the Premio de Novela Espasa-Humor for his comedy novel El ascensor de los borrachos.[43]

On October 27, 1995, he received the Prince of Asturias Award for the Arts from the hands of Prince Felipe.[44] In 1998 he published his memoir titled El Tiempo Amarillo: memorias ampliadas (1921-1997). The work has 700 pages and was presented at the Círculo de Bellas Artes in Madrid.[45]

On January 30, 2000, he entered the Royal Spanish Academy for his artistic accomplishments, where he took possession of Seat B with the speech titled "Aventura de la palabra en el siglo xx".[46]

Personal life, death and legacy

Entrance to the Fernán Gómez Theater. Madrid

He married the Spanish, and singer María Dolores Pradera in 1945, with whom he had a daughter, the actress Helena Fernán Gómez, and a son, Fernando. They divorced in 1957. Later then, he had a long relationship with actress Emma Cohen, marrying in 2000.[47]

Fernando Fernán Gómez died in Madrid on 21 November 2007 from a heart failure aggravated by pneumonia and colon cancer.[48] On 19 November 2007, he was admitted to the Oncology area of the Madrid University Hospital La Paz to be treated for pneumonia. Carmen Caffarel, head of the Instituto Cervantes, said "We've lost the great man of Spanish theater and film of the second half of the 20th century".[49]

Emma Cohen received the Grand Cross of the Civil Order of Alfonso X the Wise in 2008 awarded to Fernando Fernán Gómez posthumously.

Pedro Almodóvar highlighted him as "an artist who represents the history of Spanish cinema from its beginnings to the present day." The "excellence" in all his work, Almodóvar noted, was felt in his work as an actor: "He made the difficult as easy as possible, thanks to limitless versatility". That made him capable of "going from Don Mendo's Revenge on Bertolt Brecht". But he was also an "essential director in both film and theater", to the point of being "a complete and irreplaceable artist." "With delightful comedies such as La vida por delante and La vida alrededor, or the very scathing and masterpiece El extraño viaje". Concluding "I will always remember him, and I will continue watching his films".[50]

After the President of the Government José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero announced the death of the actor, the Government of Spain posthumously awarded Fernán Gómez the Grand Cross of the Civil Order of Alfonso X, the Wise on 23 November.[51] The mayor of Madrid, Alberto Ruiz-Gallardón, also announced that the Cultural Center of the Villa de Madrid would be renamed the Fernán Gómez Theater.[52] As he was a lifelong anarchist, his coffin was covered in a black and red anarchist flag and was later cremated in the Almudena Cemetery in Madrid.[53]

Fernando Fernán Gómez exhibition at the Jerez Campus, University of Cádiz in 2017.

In 2017, in commemoration of the 10 years since his death, the exhibition Fernando Fernán Gómez “El Ilustrado” was inaugurated by the graphic artists of the Association of Cadiz Illustrators at the University of Cádiz.[54]

On 3 March 2022, the Instituto Cervantes received the “in memoriam” legacy of Fernán Gómez: his 1938 CNT card and the pen that was given to him when he entered the Royal Spanish Academy in 2000. The legacy was introduced into Box number 1003 of the Caja de las Letras by Fernán-Gómez's granddaughter, Helena de Llanos.[55][56]

In 2023, the Spanish Government acquired the archive of Fernando Fernán Gómez and his wife Emma Cohen, which is made up of 250 boxes and other objects that are already kept in the facilities of the Filmoteca Española, entity dependent on the Institute of Cinematography and Audiovisual Arts (ICAA).[57]

Filmography

Film

Writer and Director

Year Title Director Writer Notes
1954 Manicomio [es] Yes Yes Co-directed with Luis María Delgado
1955 El mensaje Yes Yes
1956 El malvado Carabel Yes Yes
1958 La vida por delante Yes Yes
1959 La vida alrededor Yes Yes
1960 Sólo para hombres Yes Yes
1961 La venganza de Don Mendo Yes Yes
1964 El mundo sigue Yes Yes
Los palomos [es] Yes Yes
El extraño viaje Yes No
1965 Ninette y un señor de Murcia [es] Yes Yes
1966 Mayores con reparos Yes Yes
1970 Crimen imperfecto Yes No
1971 Cómo casarse en 7 días Yes Yes
1974 Yo la vi primero [es] Yes Yes
1976 La querida Yes No
¡Bruja, más que bruja! [es] Yes Yes
1977 Mi hija Hildegart Yes Yes
1979 Gulliver No Yes
1980 Cinco tenedores [es] Yes No
1984 Los Zancos No Yes
1985 Stico No Yes
1986 Mambrú se fue a la guerra Yes No
El viaje a ninguna parte Yes Yes Also based on his novel
1987 Mi General No Yes
1989 El mar y el tiempo Yes Yes Also based on his novel
1991 Fuera de juego [es] Yes Yes
1994 Siete mil días juntos Yes Yes
1997 Pesadilla para un rico Yes Yes
2001 Lázaro de Tormes Yes Yes Co-directed with José Luis García Sánchez
Final film

Acting roles

Year Title Role Director Notes
1943 Cristina Guzmán Bob Gonzalo Delgrás
Autumn Roses Adolfo Barona Juan de Orduña and Eduardo Morera
Fantastic Night Enamorado Luis Marquina
La chica del gato Paco Ramón Quadreny
Viviendo al revés Ignacio F. Iquino
A Palace for Sale Ladislao Vajda
Fin de curso Himself (uncredited) Ignacio F. Iquino
1944 Turbante blanco Ignacio F. Iquino
Una chica de opereta Salvador Viana Ramón Quadreny
Mi enemigo y yo Antonio Aguilar 'Tony' Ramón Quadreny
Empezó en boda Raffaello Matarazzo
1945 El destino se disculpa Teófilo Dueñas José Luis Sáenz de Heredia
The Road to Babel Marcelino Pastor Jerónimo Mihura
Espronceda Mister Wilde Fernando Alonso Casares
Bambú Antonio José Luis Sáenz de Heredia
Domingo de carnaval Matías Edgar Neville
Se le fue el novio Miguel Novak Julio Salvador
1946 Es peligroso asomarse al exterior Silvio Alejandro Ulloa, Arthur Duarte
Eres un caso Inocencio Ramón Quadreny
Los habitantes de la casa deshabitada Gregorio Gonzalo Delgrás
1947 Noche sin cielo Emilio Ignacio F. Iquino
1948 Botón de ancla Enrique Tejada y Sandoval Ramón Torrado
Embrujo Mentor Carlos Serrano de Osma
La muralla feliz Don Fulgencio Ríos Enrique Herreros
The Black Siren Gaspar de Montenegro Carlos Serrano de Osma
La próxima vez que vivamos Pablo Enrique Gómez
Pototo, Boliche y compañía Ramón Barreiro
Hoy no pasamos lista Don Manuel Raúl Alfonso, Rafael Alonso
Encrucijada Pedro Lazaga Short
La mies es mucha Padre Santiago Hernández José Luis Sáenz de Heredia
1949 Vida en sombras Carlos Lorenzo Llobet Gracia
Rosas de otoño Adolfo Barona Eduardo Morera and Juan de Orduña
Wings of Youth Rodrigo Antonio del Amo
1950 Saturday Night Carlos Rafael Gil
Ninety Minutes Sr. Marchand Antonio del Amo
Tiempos felices Enrique Gómez
El último caballo Fernando Edgar Neville
La noche del sábado Director de orquesta (uncredited) Rafael Gil
1951 Balarrasa Javier Mendoza 'Balarrasa' José Antonio Nieves Conde
I Want to Marry You Ramón Jerónimo Mihura
La trinca del aire Zanahoria Ramón Torrado
Captain Poison Jorge de Córdoba Luis Marquina
1952 The Pelegrín System Héctor Pelegrín Ignacio F. Iquino
Facultad de letras Fernando Pío Ballesteros
The Eyes Leave a Trace Agente Díaz José Luis Sáenz de Heredia
Cincuenta años del Real Madrid Himself Rafael Gil
1953 La voce del silenzio Fernando Layer - assistente spirituale Georg Wilhelm Pabst
Esa pareja feliz Juan Granados Muñoz Juan Antonio Bardem, Luis García Berlanga
Airport Luis Luis Lucia Mingarro
Nadie lo sabrá Pedro Gutiérrez Ramón Torrado
Manicomio Carlos Fernando Fernán Gómez, Luis María Delgado
1954 Rebellion Federico Lanuza José Antonio Nieves Conde
El mensaje
Morena Clara Ramsés 45 / Don Lope de Baena y Carrasco / Don Enrique de Baena Rodríguez Luis Lucia Mingarro
1955 The Other Life of Captain Contreras Alonso Contreras Rafael Gil
El guardián del paraíso Manuel Arturo Ruiz Castillo
Congress in Seville Dr. Guillermo Kroll Antonio Román
Lo scapolo (El soltero) Armando Antonio Pietrangeli
1956 La gran mentira Fernando Fernán Gómez (uncredited) Rafael Gil
El fenómeno Claudio Henkel José María Elorrieta
Viaje de novios Juan Torregrosa Orózco León Klimovsky
El malvado Carabel Amaro Carabel
1957 La ironía del dinero Frasquito (segment "Sevilla") Edgar Neville and Guy Lefranc
Un marido de ida y vuelta Ramírez (uncredited) Luis Lucia Mingarro
Faustina Mogon José Luis Sáenz de Heredia
Un marido de ida y vuelta Pepe López Garcerán
Los ángeles del volante Juanito Ignacio F. Iquino
Las muchachas de azul Juan Ferrandis Pedro Lazaga
1958 The Tenant Evaristo González José Antonio Nieves Conde
La vida por delante Antonio Redondo Fernando Fernán Gómez and José Luis de la Torre
Ana dice sí Juan Pedro Lazaga
1959 Luna de verano Juan Pedro Lazaga
Soledad Manuel Mario Craveri
Bombas para la paz Alfredo Antonio Román
La vida alrededor Antonio Redondo
1960 Crimen para recién casados Antonio Menéndez Pedro Luis Ramírez
Les Trois etc. du Colonel (Los tres etc. del coronel) Le guérillo Lorenzo Claude Boissol
Sólo para hombres Pablo Meléndez
1961 Adiós, Mimí Pompón Heriberto Promenade Luis Marquina
La vida privada de Fulano de Tal José María Forn
Fantasmas en la casa Pedro Luis Ramírez
1962 La venganza de Don Mendo Don Mendo Salazar - Marqués de Cabra
¿Dónde pongo este muerto? Manuel Carrasco Pedro Luis Ramírez
1963 La becerrada Francisco Rodríguez 'Juncal' José María Forqué
Rififi in the City Sargento Detective Miguel Mora Jesús Franco
Benigno, hermano mío Arturo González hijo
1965 El mundo sigue Faustino
Un vampiro para dos Baron de Rosenthal Pedro Lazaga
1966 Ninette y un señor de Murcia Andrés Martínez Segura
La Mujer de tu prójimo Enrique Carreras
Mayores con reparos Fernando/ Miguel/ Manuel
1968 La vil seducción Ismael Bolante José María Forqué
1969 Carola de día, Carola de noche Hombre del motocarro Jaime de Armiñán
Un adulterio decente Dr. Leopoldo Cumberri Rafael Gil
Estudio amueblado 2.P. Miguel Aguirrezabala José María Forqué
Las panteras se comen a los ricos José Ramón Fernández
1970 De profesión, sus labores Federico Javier Aguirre
¿Por qué pecamos a los cuarenta? Dr. Alejandro Quesada Pedro Lazaga
Crimen imperfecto Salomón
Growing Leg, Diminishing Skirt Amadeo - Duque de Daroca Javier Aguirre
1971 Cómo casarse en 7 días Uncredited
Las Ibéricas F.C. Federico Pedro Masó
Los gallos de la madrugada Afilador José Luis Sáenz de Heredia
1972 El triangulito Lázaro López José María Forqué
1973 Don Quijote cabalga de nuevo Don Quijote / Alonso Quixano Roberto Gavaldón
La leyenda del alcalde de Zalamea Don Lope Mario Camus
Ana y los lobos Fernando Carlos Saura
The Spirit of the Beehive Fernando Víctor Erice
1974 Vera, un cuento cruel Roger Josefina Molina
Yo la vi primero Doctor
El amor del capitán Brando Fernando Jaime de Armiñán
1975 Pim, pam, pum... ¡fuego! Julio Pedro Olea
Yo soy Fulana de Tal Rodolfo Pellejo Pedro Lazaga
Jó, papá Julio Jaime de Armiñán
Sensualidad Carlos Baena Germán Lorente
1976 Imposible para una solterona Manuel Rafael Romero Marchent
La querida Eduardo
El anacoreta Fernando Tobajas Juan Estelrich
1977 Más fina que las gallinas Don Enrique Jesús Yagüe
Parranda Escribiente Gonzalo Suárez
Bruja, más que bruja Tío Justino
Las cuatro novias de Augusto Pérez Augusto Pérez José Jara
Gulliver Martín Alfonso Ungría
Chely Nicolás Ramón Fernández
Reina Zanahoria J. J Gonzalo Suárez
The Pyjama Girl Case (La ragazza dal pigiama giallo) Forensics detective Flavio Mogherini
1978 ¡Arriba Hazaña! Hermano Prefecto José María Gutiérrez Santos
Los restos del naufragio Ricardo Franco
1979 Madrid al desnudo Baltasar Jacinto Molina
Milagro en el circo Macario Alejandro Galindo
Mamá cumple cien años Fernando Carlos Saura
1980 Cuentos eróticos Don Enrique (segment "Tiempos rotos") (voice)
Yo qué sé Emma Cohen Short
1981 Maravillas Fernando Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón
Apaga... y vámonos Prof. Benjamín Rodero Antonio Hernández
127 millones libres de impuestos Félix Pedro Masó
1982 Copia cero Carlos Eduardo Campoy
Bésame, tonta Director general Fernando González de Canales
1983 Interior roig (Interior rojo) Eugenio Anglada
Soldados de plomo Don Dimas José Sacristán
Juana la loca... de vez en cuando Sir Henry José Ramón Larraz
1984 Feroz Luis Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón
Los zancos Ángel Carlos Saura
La noche más hermosa Luis Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón
1985 Stico Don Leopoldo Contreras de Tejada Jaime de Armiñán
De hombre a hombre Silvestre Ramón Fernández
Luces de bohemia Ministro Miguel Ángel Díez
Réquiem por un campesino español Don Valeriano Francisco Betriú
La corte de Faraón Roque José Luis García Sánchez
Marbella, un golpe de cinco estrellas Germán Miguel Hermoso
1986 Pobre mariposa Exiliado español Raúl de la Torre
Mambrú se fue a la guerra Emiliano
El viaje a ninguna parte Don Arturo
La mitad del cielo Don Pedro Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón
Delirios de amor Antonio González Vigil, Luis Eduardo Aute, Cristina Andreu and Félix Rotaeta
1987 Cara de acelga Madariaga José Sacristán
Mi general General Mario del Pozo Jaime de Armiñán
Moros y cristianos Don Fernando Luis García Berlanga
El gran Serafín Padre Bellot José María Ulloque
1989 Esquilache Esquilache Josefina Molina
El río que nos lleva Don Ángel Antonio del Real
El mar y el tiempo Eusebio
1991 Fuera de juego Don Aníbal
El rey pasmado Gran Inquisidor Imanol Uribe
Marcellino (Marcelino, pan y vino) Il priore Luigi Comencini
1992 Chechu y familia Don José Álvaro Sáenz de Heredia
Belle Époque Manolo Fernando Trueba
1993 Cartas desde Huesca Mainar Antonio Artero
1995 Así en el cielo como en la tierra Dios Padre José Luis Cuerda
1996 El sueño de los héroes Taboada Sergio Renán
Tranvía a la Malvarrosa Catedrático José Luis García Sánchez
Pesadilla para un rico Presidente
1997 La hermana Don Julián Juan José Porto
Pintadas José Juan Estelrich Jr.
1998 El abuelo Don Rodrigo de Arista Potestad José Luis Garci
1999 Todo sobre mi madre Padre de Rosa Pedro Almodóvar
Pepe Guindo Manuel Iborra
Plenilunio Padre Orduña Imanol Uribe
La lengua de las mariposas Don Gregorio José Luis Cuerda
2000 Voz Javier Aguirre
2001 Visionarios Gobernador Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón
2002 En la ciudad sin límites Max Antonio Hernández
El embrujo de Shanghai Capitán Blay Fernando Trueba
2003 Variaciones 1/113 Voice
Bibliofrenia Profesor Arturo Fuentes Marcos Moreno
2004 Tiovivo c. 1950 Tertuliano José Luis Garci
¡Hay motivo! Self (segment: Epílogo) (voice) Various
2005 Para que no me olvides Mateo Patricia Ferreira
Pablo G. del Amo, un montador de ilusiones Himself Diego Galán
2006 Medea 2 Mensajero
Mia Sarah Paul Gustavo Ron Final film role

Television

Writer and Director

Year Title Director Writer Notes
1973 Juan soldado Yes No TV movie
1974-1975 El pícaro Yes Yes TV Miniseries; 13 episodes
1992 Cuentos de Burgos No Yes Episode "La Intrusa"
1994 La Mujer de tu Vida 2 Yes Yes Episode "Las Mujeres de mi Vida"

Acting roles

  • Fábulas (1968) (Series)
  • El alcalde de Zalamea (Episodio de Estudio 1) (1968)
  • La última cinta (Episodio de Hora once) (1969)
  • Del dicho al hecho (Series) (1971)
  • Juan soldado (1973)
  • El pícaro (Mini-series) (1974)
  • Memorias del cine español (Episodio) (1978)
  • Fortunata y Jacinta (Mini-series) (1980)
  • El alcalde de Zalamea (Episodio de Teatro estudio) (1981)
  • Ramón y Cajal (Series) (1982)
  • Los desastres de la guerra (Mini-series) (1983)
  • Las pícaras (Episodio) (1983)
  • El jardín de Venus (Series) (1983)
  • Nuevo amanecer (Episodio de Cuentos imposibles) (1984)
  • La noche del cine español (Dos episodios) (1985–1986)
  • Juncal (Mini-series) (1987)
  • La mujer de tu vida: La mujer perdida (1988)
  • La mujer de tu vida 2: Las mujeres de mi vida (1992)
  • Esta noche es Nochebuena (Episodio de Farmacia de guardia) (1992)
  • Los ladrones van a la oficina (Series) (1993)
  • Los ladrones van a la oficina (1993–1995)
  • Cuéntame cómo pasó (2001)

Theater

Playwright

  • Pareja para la eternidad (1947)
  • Marido y medio (1950)
  • Las bicicletas son para el verano (1977)
  • Los domingos, bacanal (1980)
  • Del Rey Ordás y su infamia (1983)
  • La coartada (1985)
  • Ojos de bosque (1986)
  • El Pícaro. Aventuras y desventuras de Lucas Maraña (1992)
  • Lazarillo de Tormes (Adaptation) (1994)
  • Los invasores del palacio (2000)
  • Defensa de Sancho Panza (2002)
  • Morir cuerdo y vivir loco (2004)

Director

  • La vida en un bloc (1953)
  • Con derecho a fantasma (1958)
  • Gravemente peligrosa (1962)
  • Dear Liar (1962)
  • The Kreutzer Sonata (1963)
  • Thought (1963)
  • Mayores con reparos (1965)
  • La vil seducción (1967)
  • El alcalde de Zalamea (1979)

Actor

  • Los ladrones somos gente honrada (1941)
  • El amor sólo dura 2.000 metros (1941)
  • Madre (el drama padre) (1941)
  • Es peligroso asomarse al exterior (1942)
  • El caso del señor vestido de violeta (1954)
  • Mayores con reparos (1965)
  • La vil seducción (1967)
  • La pereza (1968)
  • Un enemigo del pueblo (1972)
  • El alcalde de Zalamea (1979)

Bibliography

Novels

  • El vendedor de naranjas (1961)
  • El viaje a ninguna parte (1985)
  • El mar y el tiempo (1988)
  • El ascensor de los borrachos (1993)
  • La Puerta del Sol (1995)
  • ¡Stop! novela de amor (1997)
  • El tiempo de los trenes (2004)

Historical novels

  • El mal amor (1987)
  • La cruz y el lirio dorado (1998)
  • Oro y hambre (1999)
  • Capa y espada (2001)

Memoirs

  • Diario de Cinecittà (1952) (Published by International Film Magazine, No. 6, November 1952 and No. 7, December 1952)
  • El olvido y la memoria. Autobiografía de Fernando Fernán-Gómez (1981) (Published in Triunfo, No. 3, 6th period, January 1981)
  • El tiempo amarillo. Memorias. I (1921-1943) (1990)
  • El tiempo amarillo. Memorias. II (1943-1987) (1990)
  • El tiempo amarillo: memorias ampliadas (1921-1997) (1998)

Articles and essays

  • El actor y los demás (1987)
  • Impresiones y depresiones (1987)
  • Historias de la picaresca (1989)
  • Las anécdotas del teatro: ¡aquí sale hasta el apuntador! (1991)
  • El arte de desear (1992)
  • Imagen de Madrid (1992)
  • Tejados de Madrid (1992)
  • Desde la última fila: cien años de cine (1995)
  • Nosotros, los mayores (1999)
  • Puro teatro y algo más (2002)

Poetry

  • A Roma por algo (1954) (First published in the poetry collection "Poesía Española" (1954) and then separately in 1982)
  • El canto es vuelo (2002) (Complete poetry collection)

Children's Literature

  • Los ladrones (1986)
  • Retal (1988)

Published plays

  • Pareja para la eternidad (1947)
  • Las bicicletas son para el verano (1977)
  • La coartada (1985) (published with "Los domingos, bacanal")
  • Los domingos, bacanal (1985) (published with "La coartada")
  • Lazarilo de Tormes (Adaptation) (1994)
  • Defensa de Sancho Panza (2002) (Published on the magazine "Acotaciones 20")

Published screenplyas

  • Mi querido general (1986)
  • La Intrusa (1991) (Teleplay for the anthology TV series "Cuentos de Burgos")
  • Fuera de juego (1991)

Collections

  • La coartada/Los domingos, bacanal (1985) (two plays published together in one book)
  • La escena, la calle y las nubes (2000) (short stories collection)
  • Variedades (2019) (articles recopilation published postmothusly)
  • Teatro (2019) (plays recopilation published postmothusly)

Interviews

Accolades

National Theater Award

Main article: National Theater Prize
Year Result
1985 Won[58]

National Cinematography Award

Year Result
1989 Won[59]

Goya Awards

Main article: Goya Awards
Year Award Film Result
1987 Best Actor Mambru Went to War Won
1987 Best Director Voyage to Nowhere Won
1987 Best Screenplay Voyage to Nowhere Won
1993 Best Supporting Actor Belle Époque Won
1999 Best Actor The Grandfather Won
2001 Best Adapted Screenplay Lázaro de Tormes Won

Fotogramas de Plata

Main article: Fotogramas de Plata
Year Award Film Result
1952 Best Spanish Movie Performer Reckless Won
1970 Best TV Performer La última cinta Won
1974 Best TV Performer Juan soldado Won
1987 Best Movie Actor Delirios de amor
Mambru Went to War
Half of Heaven
Voyage to Nowhere
Won
1998 Lifetime Achievement Award — Awarded

CEC Awards

Main article: CEC Awards
Year Award Film Result
1951 Best Actor The Last Horse Won
1952 Best Actor Reckless Won
1959 Best Original Story La vida por delante Won
1974 Best Actor The Spirit of the Beehive
Ana and the Wolves		 Won
1979 Best Actor The Remains from the Shipwreck Won
1992 Best Original Screenplay Fuera de juego Won
1999 Best Actor The Grandfather Won
2007 Best Supporting Actor Mia Sarah Won

Sant Jordi Awards

Main article: Sant Jordi Awards
Year Award Film Result
1985 Best Spanish Actor Feroz
La noche más hermosa
Los zancos		 Won[60]
1987 Best Film Voyage to Nowhere Won[61]
1990 Best Spanish Film The Sea and Time Won[62]

TP de Oro

Main article: TP de Oro
Year Award Film Result
1975 Best National Actor El pícaro Won[63]

New York Latin ACE Awards

Main article: Association of Latin Entertainment Critics
Year Award Film Result
2000 Best Supporting Actor All About My Mother Won[64]

Actors and Actresses Union Awards

Main article: Actors and Actresses Union Awards
Year Award Film Result
1992 Lifetime Achievement Award — Awarded[65]

Berlin International Film Festival

Main article: Berlin International Film Festival
Year Award Film Result
1977 Silver Bear for Best Actor The Anchorite Won
1985 Silver Bear for Best Actor Stico Won
2005 Honorary Golden Bear — Awarded

Venice Film Festival

Main article: Venice Film Festival
Year Award Film Result
1984 Pasinetti Prize for Best Actor Los zancos Won

San Sebastián International Film Festival

Main article: San Sebastián International Film Festival
Year Award Film Result
1989 Special Jury Prize The Sea and Time Won
1999 Donostia Lifetime Achievement Award — Awarded

Mar del Plata International Film Festival

Main article: Mar del Plata International Film Festival
Year Award Film Result
1959 Best Film La vida por delante Nominated

Gramado Film Festival

Main article: Festival de Gramado
Year Award Film Result
1993 Golden Kikito for Best Supporting Actor Belle Époque Won[66]

Biarritz International Festival of Audiovisual Programming

Main article: Festival International de Programmes Audiovisuels
Year Award Film Result
1999 Honorary Euro-FIPA — Awarded[67]

International Television Festival Golden Prague

Year Award Film Result
1973 Grand Prix for Best Director Juan soldado Won

Honours

See also

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