Celebrity Biographies
Augustin Gonzalez
On January 16, 2005, one of the great secondaries of Spanish cinema left us, with an unmistakable tone of voice, present in many of the most recognized titles of Spanish cinema of all time.
Agustín González Martínez was born in Madrid on March 24, 1930. When he finished high school, he enrolled in the School of Surveyors, where he became convinced that his great passion was theater. So he entered the Spanish University Theater (TEU), an occupation that he combined with his study of Philosophy and Letters. In 1953 he made his professional theater debut, playing a role in Alonso Sastre’s Escuadra hacia la muerte. His first film work was Felices Pascuas , by Juan Antonio Bardem . From that moment on he continued to work regularly on stage, while he became an illustrious supporting actor in memorable 60s films, almost always comedies, such as Plácido or Robbery at Three .
He started the 70s with an unforgettable stage adaptation of “Luces de Bohemia”, which toured all over Spain. Luis García Berlanga constantly demanded him for films such as Natural Size or The National Shotgun and its two sequels, Nacional III and Patrimonio Nacional .
Finally, he became essential in the 80s, where he intervened in the most outstanding titles of the time, such as El nido , Las bicicletas son para la verano or La corte del Pharaoh . He acted in the first two Spanish productions that won the Oscar for best foreign film: Garci’s Volver a empezar , and Trueba’s Belle Epoque .
With Mario Camus he shot The Hive and The Holy Innocents . He also became essential in Garci’s cinema, with whom he shot, in addition to the aforementioned title, El crack , El abuelo , Historia de un beso , and Merry-go-round c. 1950 , the last film work of his.