Elisa Montés
Elisa Montés (actually Elisa Rosario Ruiz Penella , born December 15, 1934 in Granada ) is a Spanish actress . She comes from a family of artists.
Life
Montés was on stage at a young age and made her screen debut in Jesús Pascuals Elena in 1954 . As a stage name she chose a title part from the work of her grandfather, the composer Manuel Penella , El gato montés . Until the early 1970s, she mostly played roles as a threatened beautiful woman or a young woman at the side of the hero in nearly fifty productions, including many genre films with an emphasis on action . Then she made herself rarer, but now also devoted herself to television and appeared there in one of the most remarkable television series in her home country: In 1981, Montés played the role of "Carmen" in Verano azul .
Montés took on more and more engagements for stage appearances; in the 1990s she returned to the screen and screen for two films and the television series Hermanos de leche .
Montés is the sister of actresses Emma Penella and Terele Pávez ; her father is the judicial politician Ramón Ruiz Alonso . From May 1960 she was married for many years to the actor Antonio Ozores ; her daughter Emma is also an actress.
Awards
- 1954: Best Supporting Actress; Prize of the "Círculo de Escritores Cinematográficos"
- 1956: Best actress at the "Festival de Valladolid"
- 1975: Prize of the "Sindicato Nacionál del Espectacúlo"
Filmography (selection)
- 1954: Elena
- 1964: The hour of tough men (Ercole, Sansone Maciste e Ursus gli invincibili)
- 1965: Per un dollaro di gloria
- 1965: El proscrito del Río Colorado
- 1965: Two idiots against Goldfinger (Due mafiosi contro Goldginger)
- 1965: The Return of the Feared (Erik il Vichingo)
- 1966: Django, the avenger (Texas addio)
- 1966: Return of the Seven (Return of the Seven)
- 1967: The Secret of Death Island
- 1968: Pig dogs do not pray (I vigliacchi non pregano)
- 1968: The Seven Men of Sumuru
- 1968: The hot death (99 mujeres)
- 1971: Captain Apache (Captain Apache)
- 1972: Soho's Death Avenger
- 1978: The low loader
- 1981/1982: Verano azul (TV series)
Web links
- Elisa Montés in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Elisa Montés in the German dubbing file
Individual evidence
- ↑ Historia de una familia: la verdad sobre el asesinato de García Lorca. Escrito por Miguel Caballero Pérez, Pilar Góngora Ayala
- ↑ according to other sources 1936
- ↑ Miguel Caballero Pérez, Pilar Góngora Ayala, Emilio Ruiz Barrachina, Ircania Producciones SL: Historía de un familia: la verdad sobre el asesinato de García Lorca. 2007, p. 305
- ↑ Premios Cinecec
- ↑ Ficha en Nuestro Cine
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Montés, Elisa |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Elisa Ruiz Penella |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Spanish actress |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 15, 1934 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Granada , Spain |