Luis Peña

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Luis Peña Illescas (born June 20, 1918 in Santander , Cantabria , † March 29, 1977 in Madrid ) was a Spanish actor .

Life

Peña was the son of the actor couple Eugenia Illescas and Luís Peña Sánchez , with whom he is often confused in the description of the actors in films from the 1930s. He played his first film role in Toda una vida in Spain , which was filmed in Joinville near Paris by the Chilean director Adelqui Millar .

In the 1940s he became one of the great stars of Spanish cinema. The operetta El rey que se rabió represented his breakthrough, which he confirmed with Boy and was then able to consolidate in numerous romantic dramas, war films and comedies. In 1946 he married his partner Luchy Soto , with whose parents' theater group he also went on tours before founding his own.

In the following decade he expanded the range of his characters, since he was no longer engaged as a teenage hero, and was able to play more complex, multilayered roles. In 1957 he received the Premio del Sindicato Nacional del Espectáculo ; in the 1960s he worked a lot on the stage and for TVE , Spanish television; even in the heyday of European genre cinema, he was now a sought-after character actor until his death in 1977.

His daughter Lucía Peña Soto (* 1963) is also an actress.

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SURNAME Peña, Luis
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Peña Illescas, Luis (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish actor
DATE OF BIRTH June 20, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Santander
DATE OF DEATH March 29, 1977
Place of death Madrid