Juan Calvo
Date of birth: 1892-05-22
Place of birth: Onteniente, Valencia, Spain
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Juan Calvo Domenech, Хуан Кальво, Juan Bautista Calvo Doménech
Biography
Juan Calvo was a Spanish actor. He began his contact with cinema in 1934, with a small part in the sound version of Florián Rey's La hermana San Sulpicio. During part of the war he was representing theatrical plays in the national zone, but at the end of the war he abandoned the stage to devote himself fully to the cinema, whose filmography consists of about eighty titles. In 1938 he shot in the German studios of Ufa, Suspiros de España, by Benito Perojo, and the following year he finished shooting the film by Fernando Delgado, El genio alegre, begun in 1936, which had remained unfinished due to the outbreak of the Civil War. After shooting Florián Rey's La Dolores in 1940, he spent a couple of seasons filming between Spain and Italy, where he stood out in Ladislao Vajda's film Conjura en Venecia. In the first half of this decade he also stood out in two other films by this director, El testamento del Virrey and Cinco lobitos, as well as in Raza and El escándalo, by José Luis Sáenz de Heredia; Huella de luz, El clavo, Eloísa está debajo de un almendro and Tierra sedienta, by Rafael Gil; Boda en el infierno and Los últimos de Filipinas, by Antonio Román, or Tuvo la culpa Adán and Ella, él y sus millones, by Juan de Orduña. In 1946 he moved to Mexico, where he filmed until 1953, although he finished filming Don Quixote de la Mancha for Rafael Gil in Madrid in 1947, excelling in his interpretation of Sancho Panza. In his Aztec journey he worked under the orders of some Spanish directors who were in exile, standing out in Bel Ami, la historia de un canalla (Bel Ami, the story of a scoundrel), by Antonio Momplet. It is also worth mentioning his performance in Allá en el rancho grande, by Fernando de Fuentes. After filming La venenosa, La virgen desnuda and El mártir del calvario for Miguel Morayta, and, finally, Educando a papá, for Fernando Soler, he returned to film again in Spain, although at this stage he definitively stopped alternating with theater. Of his activity on the screen, in this decade he stands out in the film by Ladislao Vajda, Marcelino, pan y vino, in which he gave a memorable performance in the character of Fray Papilla, for which he received the Círculo de Escritores Cinematográficos Award in 1955, an entity that also distinguished him the following year for his work in Calabuch, a film by Berlanga, which gave him the same year the award of the Sindicato Nacional del Espectáculo (National Union of the Spectacle). He also shot for Vajda, Aventuras del barbero de Sevilla, Tarde de toros and Mi tío Jacinto, and for Berlanga, Los jueves, milagro, as well as in Historias de la radio and in Diez fusiles esperan, for Sáenz de Heredia. His last screen appearance was in 1961, in Fray Escoba, by Ramón Torrado. In his long cinematographic history, he was mainly cast in the roles of bullfighting impresario and businessman, often with the repeated image of an angry man, with a Havana cigar between his fingers, although it was also common that behind that interpretative mask he was allowed to show off his bonhomie. That easy-going spirit was consubstantial in him. He always stood out for his very personal voice, which he had undoubtedly educated in his years of work in the theater.
Movie Credits
El fantasma y doña Juanita
1945-03-31
Fearing that her niece Rosita will abandon her true love and enter into a marriage of convenience, d
L'ispettore Vargas
1940-10-18
A detective investigates on the death of a factory owner.
Ella y los veteranos
1961-01-01
Don Quixote
1947-03-01
The old hidalgo Don Alonso Quijano, maddened by the excessive reading of books on chivalry and deter
Eloísa está debajo de un almendro
1943-12-21
Fernando, who has returned to his hometown after studying in Brussels, finds a strange suicide note
Miracles of Thursday
1957-08-22
In Fontecilla, a Spanish village in decline, the mayor and other illustrious citizens hatch a crazy
El fenómeno
1956-09-09
A professor at the University of Frankfurt is mistaken for a Russian soccer player on his arrival at
La patria chica
1943-02-01
A Spanish folk group goes to Paris hired by a French businessman, but he runs away, leaving them wit
Suspiros de España
1939-10-16
Dolores works as a washerwoman with her daughter Sole and they both live with the girl's stepfather
The Rocket from Calabuch
1956-09-28
Professor Hamilton, a naive Nuclear scientist who once thought bombs were good for humanity, realize
Los tramposos
1959-11-02
Two guys live without working quite well using thousands of tricks and fakes. But they soon change t
Uncle Hyacynth
1956-03-31
Hyacinth, a former matador who lives miserably with his nephew Pepote, receives a letter reminding h
Nosotros los rateros
1949-09-07
A young woman, a thief and a lawyer find themselves in the same hotel room without planning it. Merc
Castles in Spain
1954-08-09
When the seductive Frenchwoman Geneviève Dupré, secretary to a Spanish businessman, travels to Madri
… Y después del cuplé
1959-01-01
Garcia, a shy young musician who can not release any of his works, is in love with Lupe, a singer wh
Suspiros de Triana
1955-12-16
The famous singer Carlos Ojeda has come to Seville to hire some Spanish figure to accompany him on t
The Miracle of Marcelino
1955-02-24
Left on the doorstep of a monastery as an infant, Marcelino was raised by the monks. He was well-car
La donna che venne dal mare
1957-10-03
Danae, a woman who came from the sea is a beautiful blonde girl at the center of a spy story during
Raza
1942-01-30
The troubled story of the Churruca family, a noble lineage of brave seamen, descendants of Cosme Dam
Educando a papá
1955-08-25
Emigre returns to Spain to visit family; reunites with long-lost illegitimate son and rescues his br
For Men Only
1960-09-08
Spain, late 19th century. When, in a time of great political instability, Flora, a beautiful young w
Quanto sei bella Roma
1959-12-17
Claudio and Maurizio, two young and reckless taxi drivers in a Roman gas station meet two American t
Tuvo la culpa Adán
1944-10-09
Nora leaves the convent where she has been raised to marry a relative. Just arrived she has an accid
El escándalo
1943-01-01
In 1860s Madrid, Fabián Conde is a dissolute young man who drives his dishonored identity into a lif
The Other Life of Captain Contreras
1955-06-05
El puente de la paz
1958-09-07
Fray Escoba
1961-11-14
La venenosa
1949-10-04
A snake-charmer falls in love with a circus trapeze artist who trains her and has her debut in this
Capitan Tempesta
1942-01-28
Vivillo desde chiquillo
1951-05-17
A freeloader goes through a case of mistaken identity after a man tries to blackmail a married woman
Radio Stories
1955-07-25
Three short stories based on radio competitions, all linked by speaker Gabriel and his fiancee. Two
Il conte Max
1957-08-30
Alberto, a newspaper man, tries a one-time shot of living the good life with the help of his pennile
Nel blu dipinto di blu
1959-03-11
Turi, a young Sicilian, makes ends meet by doing some occasional work and singing in taverns in a po
La gran mentira
1956-04-01
César Neira, an almost forgotten Spanish actor, gets involved by chance with Teresa, a teacher from
Ana María
1944-05-11
Lecciones de buen amor
1944-06-05
Eugenio asks his best friend, Federico, a wealthy lawyer, to take care of his son Titín while he dea
L'uomo dai calzoni corti
1958-06-23
Salvatore, known as "bread loaf", escapes from Caltanissetta's brewery to find his mother he never m
Las locuras de Bárbara
1959-02-02
La fiel infanteria
1960-01-11
Fiebre
1943-05-19
Martes y trece
1962-03-02
Lola and Maria are two Spanish young ladies engaged to Franz and Pepe, all so eager to spend their h
Ella, él y sus millones
1944-12-25
Arturo Salazar is a powerful businessman who wants to be related to the nobility, so he asks an aris
El hombre que las enamora
1944-12-13
Sister San Sulpicio
1934-10-18
Three Etc.'s and the Colonel
1960-08-26
In Spain, during the Napoleonic rule, the French Governor of Andalusia is besieged by the locals who
Buenas noticias
1954-04-05
Beliche, a naive postman, suffers from depression because he has almost no letters to deliver. The n
Afternoon at the Bulls
1956-02-24
Right-handers Ricardo Puente, Juan Carmona and Rondeño II, which will take the alternative are adver
El hombre del paraguas blanco
1958-05-01
Goyescas
1942-10-09
Two women (both played by Imperio Argentina) from different social backgrounds, a singer and a count
Correo de Indias
1942-12-07
A Dutch sailing ship finds the wreckage of a Spanish mail ship, which has collided with an iceberg.
Diez fusiles esperan
1959-06-15
During the first Carlist war in the 1830s in Spain a lieutenant falls into the enemy's hands and is
Allá en el Rancho Grande
1949-01-21
Remake of famous 1936 ranchera musical.
Everybody's Woman
1946-01-11
A beautiful woman of affairs falls in love with a handsome young man of great promise. Fearing for h
Monte de piedad
1951-08-01
Anthology-movie, series of anecdotes about the personal tragedies that lead people to take their val
Giuliano de' Medici
1941-02-27
Tosca
1941-01-31
Non-musical account of Puccini's opera: Tosca and Cavaradossi are in love, but the tyrant Scarpia de
El tren expreso
1955-05-23
Un americano en Toledo
1965-06-30
The Adventurer of Seville
1954-05-06
Bandits kidnap Figaro, the famous barber of Seville, and use his wonderful voice to attract traveler
Condemned to Hang
1953-10-08
Andalusia, Spain, 19th century. The roads are infested with bandits who sow panic among travelers. A
Huella de luz
1943-03-05
Octavio Saldaña is a poor young dreamer who lives with his elderly mother and is an office worker at
El Buen Mozo
1946-04-05
Unscrupulous cad sleeps his way to the top of belle epoque Paris society.
Médico de guardia
1950-07-26
The director of a hospital deceives a poor couple in order to steal their newborn child and sell the
Entre abogados te veas
1951-03-02
Crooked lawyer runs amok, making a mockery of the legal system.
Mi marido
1951-02-09