Celebrity Biographies
Cesareo Estebanez
A prolific secondary, it was one of the greats, Antonio Mercero, who catapulted him to fame when he turned him into Sergeant Romerales, a hoarse-voiced policeman, from the series “Farmacia de guardia”. Cesáreo Estébanez died at the age of 77, on Sunday, December 30, 2018, in the Seville municipality of Alcalá de Guadaira, where he had lived for two decades with Paloma Vosselle, his wife.
“We loved Sergeant Romerales for his simplicity, his wit and his service to law and order. And those of you who have known him know that these attitudes were not feigned ”, the parish priest of the Church of San Lázaro, in Palencia, stated at the funeral, where both he and his seven brothers are quite dear.
Born in 1941 in Palazuelo de Vedija, a town in Valladolid near Medina de Rioseco, Cesáreo Estébanez Bueno moved to Palencia as a child, and considered himself from there. “Like the Basques, I’m from wherever I want,” he joked. “I don’t have much idea of nationalisms. I always say between laughs that I am from where I pay taxes. He was destined to follow in his parent’s footsteps as a doctor, but as soon as he entered college, he decided he liked acting better. An excellent stage director, José Luis Alonso, recruited him to make his debut at the Teatro María Guerrero. “My father encouraged me to do what I wanted, and I finished my degree in case things went wrong for me, but once I got on the boards I thought I would never get into a consultation again or die.”
Starting in the 1970s, he accepted small roles on television, such as the popular Estudio 1 . He could be seen for the first time in the cinema in the unknown Wire Dog , to later work under the orders of Antonio del Real in the comedy Y del Seguro… deliver us, sir!, playing a drunk in the adaptation of Luces de Bohemia , from Valle-Inclán , a railway worker in Luna de lobos , and a victim of the protagonist in El Lute II, tomorrow I will be free .
Illustrious filmmakers trusted him. Carlos Saura signed him for Dispara , Antonio Giménez Rico for Soldadito español , and Vicente Aranda for If they tell you I fell . But in 1991 Mercero would change his life, along with Spanish fiction, with one of the most imitated and influential series –like the rest of what this creator shot–, Farmacia de guardia , where he became very popular as one of the two policemen, always accompanied by the agent María de la Encarnación, who gave life to María Garralón. This actress always told her the phrase “Para inside, Romerales”, because she never remembered how the door opened, and that is part of Spanish popular culture. For his work, he received the Unión de Actores Award for best secondary television in 1993. “When Mercero called me to play Romerales, I didn’t want to, and in the end I told him that I would do it for a maximum of three months,” he explained in an interview. . “But Antonio told me that if he worked for a year in the theater with full rooms, a million people could see me, at most. One Thursday at the Pharmacy on duty, ten million would see me.”
At the end of this production, the roles multiplied. He participated in series like Gran Reserva. The origin and With the ass in the air , and films like The dog in the manger , The night of the sunflowers , Tuna and chocolate and 800 bullets . Since 2016 he had retired from acting.