Ángel Peralta Pineda

Ángel Peralta Pineda
In 1986
Born(1926-03-18)18 March 1926
La Puebla del Río, Sevilla, Spain.
Died7 April 2018(2018-04-07) (aged 92)
La Puebla del Río, Sevilla, Spain.
OccupationRejoneador
RelativesRafael Peralta Pineda (brother)

Ángel Peralta Pineda, known as Centauro de las Marismas (18 March 1926[1] – 7 April 2018), was a Spanish rejoneador (bullfighter) and actor.

In 1954 he filmed alongside the rejoneador Bernardino Landete in scenes from the movie La Princesa de Éboli (That Lady) by Terence Young and Cabriola in 1960, by Mel Ferrer.

He continued acting in the 1980s, fighting a few more years of seventy corridas.

He was awarded with the Gold Medal of Merit in the Fine Arts in 2013 by the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport.[2]

Peralta died of a respiratory failure on his farm in La Puebla del Río in Seville, Spain at the age of 92.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Santos-Alonso, José (2005). El rejoneo: Origen, evolución y normas. ISBN 9789707050280.
  2. ↑ El rejoneador Ángel Peralta, medalla de oro de Bellas Artes (in Spanish)
  3. ↑ El mundo del toro, la cultura y la política llora la muerte de Ángel Peralta (in Spanish)