| Antonio Iranzo Escorihuela | |
|---|---|
| Born | (1930-05-04)4 May 1930 Valencia, Spain |
| Died | 7 July 2003(2003-07-07) (aged 73) Valencia, Spain |
| Occupation | Film actor |
Antonio Iranzo (4 May 1930 – 7 July 2003) was a Spanish film actor in 77 feature films. He gained popularity for his acting in Island of the Damned and Cut - Throats Nine.
Iranzo began his artistic career in the theater, while working as a radio announcer. Later he joined the Nuria Espert Company and made his film debut in 1963 with La chica del auto-stop directed by Miguel Lluch.
His physique and hoarse voice helped him get the chance to play the supporting character in various films including Mario Camus's The Legend of Mayor of Zalamea (1973), Gonzalo Suárez's The Regent (1974), Narciso Ibáñez Serrador's Who Can Kill a Child? (1975), Hidden Pleasures (1977), The tobacconist of Vallecas (1986) (the latter two by Eloy de la Iglesia), the TV miniseries Riders of the Dawn (1990) and Vicente Aranda's Libertarias (1996).
Iranzo had a well known career on stage, which particularly excelled in his interpretations of classics from the Golden Age. Some of the works featuring him were Adolfo Marsillach and Molière's Tartuffe (1969), Felix Lope de Vega's The Star of Seville (1958), Max Frisch's Andorra (1971), Adolfo Marsillach's Flower of Holiness (1973), Arnold Wesker and Irene Gutiérrez Caba's Chicken Soup with Oats (1978), Martín Recuerda's The Arrecogías the Beguinage of St. Mary of Egypt (1977), José María Rodríguez Méndez's Weddings that were famous in the Rag and Fandanga (1978), Miguel de Cervantes's The Baths of Algiers (1979) and The Roll Lavapies (1979), Woody Allen's Aspirin for Two (1980), Santiago Moncada's Ears of the Wolf (1980), Martin Recuerda's The Deceiting (1981), Miguel Mihura's Peach in Syrup (1982), Ibsen's Mallard (1982), Euripides's Fedra (1984), Shakespeare's Julius Caesar (1988), Alejandro Casona's The Third Word (1992).
Iranzo also had a prolific career in television; he played several characters in dramas TVE as Study 1 or Novel, Time Eleven or Fictions.
His deep voice helped him in standing out as a voice actor, remembered for being among other characters as BA Baracus in the television series El equipo A.
He was the winner of the 1966's Silver Frames Award for Best Actor of Spanish cinema for the film Burnt Skin (La piel quemada). The film was directed by Josep Maria Forn and depicted the social problems of Spain during the decade. In the film Iranzo played the character of an Andalusian worker named Jose who works in Costa Brava and falls in love with a Belgian tourist while his family including wife and two children struggle to reach him.
In 2014 the film Who can Kill a Child? was shown at Denver Film Society's Stanley Film Festival.
Selected filmography
- Inquisition (1976)
References
- "Cut-Throats Nine (Condenados a vivir) DELETE". Dallas Observer. Retrieved 28 July 2014.
- ^ "Antonio Eranzo". Letrasviperinas (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 9 August 2014. Retrieved 27 July 2014.
- "Madrid ABC 16/12/1971". Hemeroteca (in Spanish). 16 December 1971. Retrieved 27 July 2014.
- "Una gran revelación: Adolfo Marsillach, creador de Flor de Santidad" [A great revelation: Adolfo Marsillach, creator of Flower Holiness]. Diario ABC (in Spanish). 28 March 1973. Retrieved 27 July 2014.
- "Las arrecogías del beaterio de Santa María Egipciaca, un gran grito del teatro español marginado" [The arrecogías the Beguinage of St. Mary of Egypt, a great cry of the Spanish theater marginalized]. Diario ABC (in Spanish). 6 February 1977. Retrieved 27 July 2014.
- Miguel Medina Vicario (2003). Veinticinco años de teatro español, 1973-2000 [Twenty-five years of Spanish theater, 1973-2000] (in Spanish). Editorial Fundamentos. p. 169. ISBN 978-84-245-0948-4.
- Tecglen, Eduardo Haro; Pais, El (15 February 1981). "Crítica Teatro: "El engañao"" [Theater Review: "The deceiting"] (in Spanish). Retrieved 27 July 2014.
- "Antonio Iranzo". Ficha Eldoblaze (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 4 March 2014. Retrieved 28 July 2014.
- "'La piel quemada' vuelve al cine 42 años después de su estreno" [The skin burned' returns to film 42 years after its release]. Europa Press (in Spanish). Barcelona. Retrieved 27 July 2014.
- Bentley, Bernard P. E. (2008). A Companion to Spanish Cinema. Boydell & Brewer Ltd. p. 169. ISBN 978-1-85566-176-9.
- Marvin D'Lugo (1 January 1997). Guide to the Cinema of Spain. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 87. ISBN 978-0-313-29474-7.
- Gupta, Shipra (3 April 2014). "Stanley Film Festival Announces Full Lineup". Indiewire. Retrieved 28 July 2014.