Sancho Gracia

Sancho Gracia
Sancho Gracia
	Gracia at the San Sebastián International Film Festival in 2005
Born	Félix Ángel Sancho Gracia; 27 September 1936; Madrid, Spain
Died	8 August 2012 (aged 75); Madrid, Spain
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1962–2012
Spouse	Noelia Aguirre (m. 1969⁠–⁠2012)
Children	3 (including Rodolfo)

Félix Ángel Sancho Gracia (27 September 1936 – 8 August 2012) was a Spanish motion picture and television actor.

Career

Born in Madrid, Gracia started his acting career in Montevideo, Uruguay, where he lived from 1947 until 1961. In Montevideo he was a student of Margarita Xirgu. He made his movie acting debut in France in the 1963 film L'Autre femme opposite Annie Girardot. Since then he has appeared in more than eighty motion pictures including several Hollywood productions during the 1970s and in 1999's Outlaw Justice with Willie Nelson and Kris Kristofferson. Gracia also worked in Australia, performing as a regular cast member in the 1982 television series Runaway Island and in the 1991 made-for-TV film Pirates Island. He also participated in the Oscar-nominated Mexican film The Crime of Padre Amaro (2002).

In 2003, he was nominated for the Goya Award for Best Actor for his performance in the 2002 film 800 Bullets.

In addition to motion pictures, Sancho Gracia made more than sixty guest appearances on Spanish television shows. He became famous in Spain for the role of Curro Jiménez, in the Televisión Española drama series of the same name, that was broadcast from 1976 to 1979, being rebroadcast several times since then.

Personal life

In 1969, Sancho Gracia married Noelia Aguirre Gomensoro, the daughter of an Uruguayan National Party politician, with whom he had three children, including Rodolfo.^[1]

During the shooting of the film 100 Rifles in Spain in 1968, Gracia had an affair with American actress Raquel Welch, who at the time was married to producer Patrick Curtis. Welch's husband, upon finding out about the affair, chased Gracia at gunpoint through the hotel where they were staying in Aguadulce.^[2]^[3]^[4]

Death

Sancho Gracia died of lung cancer on 8 August 2012 in Madrid.

Selected filmography

Vampiresas 1930 (1962) – Negra de la orquesta
A Nearly Decent Girl (1963) – Amigote de Carlos
L'autre femme (1964)
Murieta (1965) – Bandido de Murrieta (uncredited)
El Zorro cabalga otra vez (1965) – Juan
Sheriff Won't Shoot (1965) – Sam, Handsome Bandit
In a Colt's Shadow (1965) – Saloon Gunslinger (uncredited)
Operation Poker (1965) – John Parker
La ciudad no es para mí (1966) – Dr. Ricardo Torres
He's My Man! (1966) – Jefe banda Sing-Sing
Los duendes de Andalucía (1966) – Simon Legrand
Per il gusto di uccidere (1966) – Bill Kilpatrick
Las viudas (1966) – Joven seductor (segment "El Aniversario")
Fray Torero (1966) – Antonio
Road to Rocío (1966) – Médico
Savage Pampas (1966) – Carlos
Espi... ando (1966)
¿Qué hacemos con los hijos? (1967) – José
Django Kill... If You Live, Shoot! (1967) – Willy
Club de solteros (1967) – Tomás
Run Like a Thief (1967) – Wes
The House of 1,000 Dolls (1967) – Fernando
La chica de los anuncios (1968) – Teddy
100 Rifles (1969) – Mexican Leader (uncredited)
Guns of the Magnificent Seven (1969) – Miguel
Simón Bolívar (1969) – Cardona
El último día de la guerra (1970) – Pvt. Martínez
Rain for a Dusty Summer (1971) – Humberto Pro
Antony and Cleopatra (1972) – Canidius
The Call of the Wild (1972) – Taglish Charlie
El espectro del terror (1973) – Doctor
Dick Turpin (1974) – Richard
País S.A. (1975) – Actores invitados
Guerreras verdes (1976) – Sargento Saez
Avisa a Curro Jiménez (1978) – Curro Jiménez
Él y él (1980) – Alberto
Marbella, un golpe de cinco estrellas (1985) – Police Inspector Vargas
The Witching Hour (1985) – Rubén Blázquez y Delgado de Aguilera
De tripas corazón (1985) – Arturo
Freckled Max and the Spooks (1987) – Prokurator
Gallego (1988)
Love, Hate and Death (1989) – Antonio Montoya
Tango (1991) – Marcos
Huidos (1993) – Juan^[5]
Tocando fondo (1993) – Bartolo
Cachito (1996) – Rafael
Martín (hache) (1997) – José M.ª Navarro
The Naked Eye (1998) – Ignacio
Dying of Laughter (1999) – Legionario brutal
Inferno (1999) – Muñoz
A galope tendido (2000) – Tío Boni
La comunidad (2000) – Castro
No te fallaré (2001) – Sandro
¡Hasta aquí hemos llegado! (2002) – Lago
The Crime of Father Amaro (2002) – Padre Benito Díaz
Box 507 (2002) – Santos Guijuelo
El robo más grande jamás contado (2002) – Fernando Baeza "Garganta Profunda"
800 Bullets (2002) – Julián
El oro de Moscú (2003) – Teniente de la Guardia Civil
El furgón (2003) – El Manco
El Cid: The Legend (2003) – Gormaz (voice)
Love by Mistake (2004) – Manolo
Mala uva (2004) – César
R2 y el caso del cadáver sin cabeza (2005) – Inspector jefe
Bailando chachacha (2005)
La bicicleta (2006) – Mario
Los mánagers (2006) – Josete
Donkey Xote (2007) – Sansón Carrasco / Siniestro (voice)
Barreiros, motor humano (2008) – (voice)
7 pasos y medio (2009) – Antonio
The Last Circus (2010) – Coronel Salcedo
Entrelobos (2010) – Atanasio

References

^ "Fallece Sancho Gracia, eterno Curro Jiménez". Fotogramas. 9 August 2012.
^ Parraga Frutos, Nerea (February 15, 2023). "Cuatro maridos y varios amores: La agitada vida sentimental de Raquel Welch" [Four husbands and several loves: The turbulent sentimental life of Raquel Welch]. La Vanguardia (in Spanish). Retrieved February 16, 2023.
^ Fernández, Pilar (February 15, 2023). "Del botellazo contra un fotógrafo al affaire con Sancho Gracia: así fue la primera visita de Raquel Welch a España" [From the bottle against a photographer to the affair with Sancho Gracia: this was Raquel Welch's first visit to Spain]. El Economista (in Spanish). Retrieved February 16, 2023.
^ Romo, Luis Fernando (February 16, 2023). "Raquel Welch: cuatro maridos, romances con Sancho Gracia y un padre boliviano que le prohibió hablar español" [Raquel Welch: four husbands, affairs with Sancho Gracia and a Bolivian father who forbade her to speak Spanish]. El Mundo (in Spanish). Retrieved February 16, 2023.
^ Benavent, Francisco María (2000). Cine español de los 90. Diccionario de películas, directores y temático. Bilbao: Ediciones Mensajero. p. 304. ISBN 84-271-2326-4.

External links

Sancho Gracia at IMDb

[1] "Fallece Sancho Gracia, eterno Curro Jiménez". Fotogramas. 9 August 2012.

[Parraga-2] Parraga Frutos, Nerea (February 15, 2023). "Cuatro maridos y varios amores: La agitada vida sentimental de Raquel Welch" [Four husbands and several loves: The turbulent sentimental life of Raquel Welch]. La Vanguardia (in Spanish). Retrieved February 16, 2023.

[Pilar-3] Fernández, Pilar (February 15, 2023). "Del botellazo contra un fotógrafo al affaire con Sancho Gracia: así fue la primera visita de Raquel Welch a España" [From the bottle against a photographer to the affair with Sancho Gracia: this was Raquel Welch's first visit to Spain]. El Economista (in Spanish). Retrieved February 16, 2023.

[Romo-4] Romo, Luis Fernando (February 16, 2023). "Raquel Welch: cuatro maridos, romances con Sancho Gracia y un padre boliviano que le prohibió hablar español" [Raquel Welch: four husbands, affairs with Sancho Gracia and a Bolivian father who forbade her to speak Spanish]. El Mundo (in Spanish). Retrieved February 16, 2023.

[5] Benavent, Francisco María (2000). Cine español de los 90. Diccionario de películas, directores y temático. Bilbao: Ediciones Mensajero. p. 304. ISBN 84-271-2326-4.

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