Celebrity Biographies
Alex Angulo
His good-natured look and his particular eyebrows helped him to give life to unforgettable secondary roles. Álex Angulo died on Sunday, July 20, 2014, at the age of 61, in a traffic accident, on the highway in the municipality of Fuenmayor (La Rioja), after the vehicle he was driving left the road. The Minister of Culture, José Ignacio Wert, has highlighted his “honesty, versatility and enormous trade, expressed both on television, in the cinema, the theater, and even on the radio”. He was a prolific actor who participated in plays, television series and fifty films.
Born in Erandio (Vizcaya) on April 12, 1953, Alejandro Angulo León had ambitions to become an actor from a very young age. At the age of 18, he was chosen to be part of the La Karraka company, run by Ramón Barea , after a casting. With this formation he interprets television sketches in the children’s program “La cometa blanca”.
After several stage productions, he made his film debut at the hands of Imanol Uribe with a supporting role in La fuga de Segovia , while Enrique Urbizu hired him for Tu novia está loca . He spent some time in ETB programs before the most decisive meeting of his career, with the newcomer Álex de la Iglesia , who gave him the lead role in his shocking short film Mirindas asesinas , where the Basque interpreter looked like an individual and susceptible murderer in Serie.
After playing a general again with Urbizu in Todo por la pasta , where De la Iglesia was artistic director, Angulo became a favorite actor for the latter, who gave him lead roles in his first feature film, Acción mutanta –in the that became a Siamese– and The Day of the Beast , where his role as a priest brought him great notoriety, and led the Academy to nominate him for a Goya for best actor. Later he would again be a candidate for the award for Muertos de risa , also by the director, and El gran Vázquez , by Óscar Aibar . In the three films for which he opted for this award, he shared the screen with Santiago Segura .
“I have learned from all the Italian comedy, before Fellini and after Fellini, as well as from the Spanish comedy that has passed before me, Berlanga, Bardem, Camus, who work with some actors who we have badly copied,” he commented. modestly the actor. “I have no qualms about saying it. I don’t know, José Luis López Vazquez , Pepe Isbert , José Luis Ozores , Alfredo Landa … they have been our teachers, the ones who have marked our way of acting. But I have also noticed the street , looking and seeing people to inspire me and copy their behavior”.
A regular on the comedy show El peor programa de la semana , Álex Ángulo ‘s most remembered cathodic character was Blas Castellote, editor-in-chief of a newspaper, in Periodistas . On the big screen, he worked with filmmakers such as Icíar Bollaín ( Hello, are you alone? ), José Luis Cuerda ( Así en el cielo como en la Tierra ), Fernando Colomo ( Los años bárbaros ), Jordi Mollà ( We are nobody ), and to Guillermo del Toro ( Pan’s Labyrinth, where he plays a doctor who is possibly the best job of his career). His brief work as a bus driver who has to assist a woman in labor ( Penélope Cruz ) stands out, in the prologue –far superior to the rest of the film– of Tremulous Flesh , by Pedro Almodóvar .
Angulo shone in very different roles, such as Florencio, Imanol Arias ‘ guardian angel , in the unspeakable tribute to ¡Qué bello es vivir! from the series Tell me how it happened , a guy in love with Grace Kelly in the short What will become of Baby Grace? , the millionaire who dies prematurely in the series Aquí no hay quien viva , or Subcomisario Serrano in Hermanos y detectives .
In addition to participating in RNE as an actor in the serialized versions of films such as Blade Runner , at the end of his career he also appeared in Zipi y Zape and Club de la Canica . He leaves the feature film Justi&Cia , by Ignacio Estaregui –which hits theaters on November 7– pending its premiere. and at the time of his death he was on his way to the shooting of Bendita calamidad , by the newcomer Gaizka Urresti. The interpreter leaves a wife and a daughter.