Juan Diego
Date of birth: 1942-12-14
Place of birth: Sevilla, Spain
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Juan Diego Ruiz Montero
Biography
Juan Diego was born on December 14, 1942 in Bormujos, Seville, Andalucía (Spain). He was an actor (cinema, TV and theater) and producer, known for La muerte de un viajante (1972), Cabeza de Vaca (1991), Padre Coraje (2002), Los hombres de Paco (2005), El triunfo (2006) and The Cover (2021). He died on April 28, 2022 in Madrid, Spain.
Movie Credits
Jamon Jamon
1992-09-03
José Luis has a cushy corporate job at the lingerie factory his mom owns. After he falls in love and
Torremolinos 73
2003-04-29
Set in 1973 Spain, a struggling encyclopedia salesman and his wife take advantage of an offer to mak
Journey to Somewhere
2021-11-23
A young woman, who has inherited her grandparents' huge house, a fascinating place full of amazing o
The 7th Day
2004-04-23
Isabel Jimenez is a teenager witnessing a horrible feud between her own family and the Fuentes famil
Cabeza de Vaca
1991-10-11
In 1528, a Spanish expedition flounders off the coast of Florida with 600 lives lost. One survivor,
Casual Day
2007-01-01
Casual Day is a company practice imported from the USA. Every Friday the workers are asked to exchan
To Hell With The Ugly
2010-04-23
Eliseo is ugly, lame and single. He hasn't met the woman of his life and has never known love. Nati
Enrique Morente: flamenco impuro
2021-11-24
Enrique Morente's three sons tell the story of their father: the most revolutionary flamenco in hist
Fashion Victim
2009-10-14
Paris 1577 - King Henri III gives famous couturier Pic Saint Loup a crucial diplomatic mission. He m
Between Your Legs
1999-01-14
A radio-show assistant meets a budding screenwriter during a group-therapy session for sex addicts.
Torapia
2004-08-06
Basilio a pickpocket with no luck, enters a mental institution to retrieve a valuable diamond neckla
23-F: la película
2011-02-23
The failed coup d'état of February 23, 1981, which began with the capture of the Congress of Deputie
The Virgin of Lust
2002-08-30
In Vera Cruz in the 1940s, Nacho, an Indian, waits tables at Don Lázaro's café at Hotel Ofélia. He f
La novia de medianoche
1997-10-30
A wealthy woman twice widowed, lives with his family and two servants in a shady country house in Ga
Dragon Rapide
1986-07-10
The two weeks leading up to the Spanish Civil War in 1936 are dramatized from many different locatio
Arcibel's Game
2003-05-29
A chess columnist ends in prison when one of his columns is mistakenly seen as a subversive attack.
Dream Kiss
1992-12-21
The gorgeous Margot supports her aged father by seducing men on trains, slipping them a Mickey Finn
Vete de mí
2006-09-26
Santiago, a gray man who works as a supporting actor, changes his attitude towards life when, for a
Fuerte Apache
2007-01-26
Toni Darder works as an educator in a juvenile reformatory. He will retire in a few years and feels
El buscón
1979-11-27
XVII century Spain. Don Pablo tries to climb position and falls into the hands of students, rogues,
Todo es silencio
2012-10-26
In Brétema, on the Atlantic coast, there was a time when networks of smuggling, drug trafficking con
Fantasía... 3
1966-01-01
The film is an adaptation of three fairy tales classics of children literature. "The Maiden of the S
Something Bitter in the Mouth
1969-11-10
A young man goes to a relative's house to celebrate Christmas, and finds that three female family me
The Creature
1977-11-30
After a heartbreaking miscarriage, a couple adopts a stray male dog in hopes of saving their rocky m
Voyage to Nowhere
1986-10-15
The Iniesta-Galván family is a theatre company that goes from town to town offering its performances
You're the One
2000-10-13
Julia, an only child of an affluent, bank owning family living in Madrid, escapes from her family to
30 Years of Darkness
2012-05-04
When the Spanish Civil War came to an end, Manuel Cortes was unable to flee the country. After a lon
How Good the Whites Are
1988-01-20
The humanitarian aid expedition "Angeles Azules" (Blue Angels), comprising twelve Europeans and six
Camarón: The Film
2018-06-01
This documentary looks back on the life of legendary flamenco singer Camarón, who went from humble r
Your Next Life
2004-01-30
A fight over the calf of a prize milk cow in the close-knit and traditional Pas Valley of Cantabria
El taxi de los conflictos
1969-04-16
Taxi driver Tadeo is about to encounter a busy shift. Throughout the day heterogeneous characters ge
Banderas, the Tyrant
1993-11-19
In Santa Fe de Tierra Firme, an imaginary Latin American country, the indigenous dictator Santos Ban
The Dark Night of the Soul
1989-02-23
Pantheon filmmaker Carlos Saura bounced back from a handful of failures with 1989's La Noche Oscura
Remake
2006-04-12
Friends get together in a country house and reminisce about the "good old times." Some now have grow
Jordi Dauder, la revolució pendent
2012-12-05
This documentary looks at the life of Jordi Dauder through an interview with the actor a few weeks b
¿Dónde está?
2002-01-01
Peter Nueda murdered his pregnant wife, descuartizándola below. A few hours later decide to report t
Nightfall In India
2014-04-11
Ricardo, an amusing grumpy middle-aged man, decides to travel overland to India, as he used to do, s
Rincones del paraíso
1999-03-12
Venus
2023-02-17
One night, at the end of the seventies, Venus, Paula and Miguel's band, performs its last concert.
De tripas corazón
1985-02-28
In Madrid, a Lawyer gets the freedom for "El Chirlo" a usual 20 years old crook. Chirlo wants to tha
The Lost Paradise
1985-01-13
This literary film is imbued with the disenchantment of Spanish exiles who left their homes to prote
Painless
2012-10-10
While searching for a solution to his serious health condition, David, a renowned neurosurgeon, disc
Cebra
2014-03-25
Chance mingles the fate of a vet from Barcelona zoo, a skin head and a female orangutan about to giv
Stories
2024-05-24
Ten stories reflect that we are all more similar than we think. No matter where we come from, who we
The Winter of the Anjanas
2000-05-01
A young worker enjoying an affair with an upper class beauty, Adelaida, is drafted by the Spanish Ar
París-Tombuctú
1999-09-10
The frustration and vital weariness of Michel des Assantes, a prestigious plastic surgeon in Paris,
And They Lived Happily Ever After
1976-11-16
Manoli and Fernando, a couple of communist ideas, want to live their love freely, fleeing from any b
Lope: The Outlaw
2010-09-03
A chronicle of the life of Spanish playwright and poet Lope de Vega, who dominated Spain's early Gol
Los comuneros
1978-05-29
Jarrapellejos
1988-09-11
Pedro Jarrapellejos is a ladies man who cannot turn the heads of Isabel or her beautiful daughter. W
Laura, del cielo llega la noche
1987-09-14
A young woman marries a rich man and begins a new life in a little town in the Spain of the 20s. Fee
The Holy Innocents
1984-04-04
Somewhere in the spanish country, in the 60s. Paco and his wife Régula are very poor. They work as t
The Dumbfounded King
1991-11-01
Spain, under Philip IV (1621-1665). The film is based on a novel by Gonzalo Torrente Ballester. The
Pasodoble
1988-06-09
A family, expelled from their shack, occupies the museum in Cordoba where once lived the prince who,
Erotic Stories
1980-03-13
A set of nine stories whose central theme is eroticism. The different directors of the film deal fro
Smoking Room
2002-04-27
The Spanish branch of an American company is obliged to enforce the ban on smoking in their offices.
Can't Say Goodbye
2017-05-19
Carla gets a call from the small town where she grew up in the South of Spain. Her father, who she h
The Imaginary Invalid
1979-10-14
La muerte de un viajante
1972-11-10
Gold
2017-11-10
Spanish soldiers battle indigenous tribes and their own brutal natures as they search for a legendar
Sexo en el plató
2007-04-09
How are the sex scenes filmed? What tricks are used to fake the desire? How do the interpreters prep
La hija del capitán
Una pasión singular
2003-01-24
Spain, August 1936, the first days of the Spanish Civil War. During the painful pilgrimage of the An
Yo creo que...
1975-01-01
The Way They Were
1987-09-03
The Way They Were is a Spanish Drama starring Antonio Banderas
The Court of the Pharaoh
1985-09-26
In the early Spanish Civil Post-war, in Madrid, during the most hard times of the Franco dictatorshi
Martes de Carnaval
2008-01-05
Mr.Manolito and Mr.Estrafalario– characters of Valle-Inclán’s plays– spend the last days of Primo de
Golfo de Vizcaya
1985-09-23
After of living in France for fifteen years, Lucas, a journalist with a dark past, returns to Bilbao
Fugitives
2000-10-06
Tony is a young crook preparing for a bank robbery with her boyfriend Juanjo and their low-life part
Martes de carnaval
1991-06-20
Writer in need of money returns to his hometown to try to write a new book. But his addiction to alc
A Drama of Jealousy (and other things)
1970-01-18
Construction worker Oreste and young fiancee Adelaide meet Nello, a cook in a pizzeria. This love tr
Pepe Guindo
1999-08-20
Summer Rain
2006-11-23
A coming-of-age tale charting the first loves, lusts and obsessions of friends on vacation at the en
A Drama of Jealousy (and other things)
1970-01-18
Construction worker Oreste and young fiancee Adelaide meet Nello, a cook in a pizzeria. This love tr
Despite Everything
2019-03-16
Sara, Lucía, Sofía and Claudia are sisters, 4 modern women with very different personalities, who co
Dolores
1981-03-27
Based on the life of Dolores Ibarruri (La Pasionaria), president of the PCE. The film is a documenta
Yerma
1999-02-26
Yerma is desperate to have children, so when a psychic advises her to look outside her marriage to c
País S. A.
1975-10-27
A useless kidnapper tries to kdnap a rich industrialist.
El triunfo
2006-04-28
Barcelona, 1980s: in a tough urban neighbourhood inhabited by survivors and ruled by ex-legionnaires
The Longest Night
1991-09-23
Fifteen years after the plot a lawyer and a military ex-attorney meet and recall the intense days of
La corte de Ana
2020-03-19
She appeared when Spain was waking up from a long post-war period and crying with melodramas starrin
Fierce Love, or When Children Play at Love
1975-08-25
Vicente and Margarita are a traditional and middle class married couple whose life is surrounded by
Il signore della truffa
2011-10-03
Emilia... parada y fonda
1976-08-15
Xtreme
2021-06-04
Two years after the murder of his son and father, a retired hitman sets in motion a carefully crafte
A Long Return
1975-11-12
David and Anna are a newly wed couple, whose lives together take a turn as Anna becomes diagnosed wi
Los flamencos
1968-03-23
Diego, retired from flamenco due to an illness, is obsessed with the memory of Antonia Jiménez, a be
Sevilla 2030
2003-04-01
The film is a television program from a Ugandan satellite in orbit overlooking the decrepit blue pla
De los reptiles-saurios en los cafés
2014-01-01
Time and again, the quiet routine of a nameless cafe, located in a town that is also nameless, and i
Manolito Espinberg: une vie de cinéma
2005-01-12
The Cover
2021-07-23
In Benidorm, a mecca for impersonators of live singers, Dani doesn't want to be just a cover. He wil
El mar es azul
1989-08-21
DEJEME QUE LE CUENTE
1998-07-17
Break a Leg
2025-02-07
4th February 1975. It's the first day of the historic actors strike that would bring the country's t