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José Suárez (1919–1981) was a Spanish film actor. ==Career== José Suárez made his debut in a short role in ''Altar Mayor'' (1944), a very conventional film, whose director, Gonzalo Delgrás, had paid attention to him in his work as a train conductor in Asturias. He played increasingly important roles in following Delgrás's movies and by 1948 he was already a lead actor. He then became very popular in Spain along the late 40s and early 50s, as one of the main heartthrobs of the Spanish cinema, along with his contemporaries Francisco Rabal, Jorge Mistral and Alfredo Mayo. Nevertheless, he performed remarkably in three outstanding dramas, namely ''Brigada criminal'' (1950), ''Condenados'' (1953) and ''Así es Madrid'' (1953), in the screen version of Buero Vallejo`s most famous play, ''Historia de una escalera'' (1950), and in the historical superproduction (for Spanish standards) ''Alba de América'' (''Dawn of America'', 1951), playing King Fernando el Católico. He portrayed Zorro in the film ''La montaña sin ley'' (''Lawless mountain'') (1953), making him the first Spanish actor in the role.〔(Movies list ) at Zorro.com〕 He also co-starred with the popular Andalusian gipsy singer and dancer Lola Flores in ''La danza de los deseos'' (1954), directed by the most prestigious veteran Spanish film-maker, Florián Rey. In 1956, his lead role in the internationally acclaimed Calle Mayor (undoubtedly his best role, his best performance and his best film, although he always preferred ''Condenados'') provided him with the opportunity to work in Italy with well-known film directors as Luigi Zampa in The Magistrate, starring with Claudia Cardinale, and Francesco Rosi in La sfida, starring with Rosanna Schiaffino, while he gradually lost his popularity in his home country, despite still appearing in the 60s in some interesting Spanish movies, such as ''A tiro limpio'' (1963) or ''La boda'' (1964). Despite appearing too in two successful mainstream Italian films: ''Scano Boa'' (1961) and ''Sette uomini d'oro'' (1965), eventually he was almost confined to the Spanish-Italian sword and sandal and spaghetti westerns movies, the most interesting of all them being The Price of Power (1969), also known as ''Il Prezzo del potere'' or ''La Muerte de un Presidente''. And he even played the lead in ''El Llanero'' (1964), one of the first films directed by the (in)famous master of the sexually charged horror films, Jesús Franco. In the 70's he played too for the National Spanish television in a few series, including a Spanish-Italian coproduction on the life of Cristóbal Colón. His last film was ''La trastienda'' (1975), an artistically dispensable but sociologically significant Spanish picture, coincident with the end of Franco era in Spain. Suárez was for many years president of the Spanish Actors Union. He died of natural causes on August 6, 1981, in Moreda, Asturias. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「José Suárez」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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