Enrique San Francisco

Born in the capital of Spain, on March 10, 1955, Rogelio Enrique San Francisco Cobo belonged to an illustrious family dedicated to entertainment, as he was the son of fellow actors Enriqueta Cobo -who worked as Queta Ariel- and Vicente Haro , while his half-brother on the father’s side, Vicente Haro, is dedicated to the representation of interpreters. At the age of six he made his film debut with Diferente , by Luis María Delgado , and later became the protagonist of the TVE series Santi, hotel buttons . His mother had separated very angry with her parent, so she did not want him to take her last name, and she gave him that of her new partner.

As a young man,  Quique San Francisco enlisted in the Spanish Legion, becoming a sniper, and was on the verge of re-enlisting, although in the end he returned to civilian life, due to family pressure. Later, he entered the Actors Studio, but soon dropped out. During the 1970s and early 1980s, he became addicted to heroin, and at the same time became one of the most representative actors in quinqui cinema, who precisely portrayed marginal characters, drug addicts and criminals. Eloy de la Iglesia  directed him in Colleagues (1982), Navajeros (1980) and El pico (1983), three of the most representative titles of the subgenre.

For some time he had a relationship with the singer and actress Rosario Flores . the one he remembered as the only woman he had ever loved. Unfortunately, the addiction ended the courtship. “She started with one person (me) and ended with another (the drug). That’s why one day I told her that she had to leave me because I was no longer a man, I was a wreck,” she recalled in an interview. For the rest, Quique San Francisco has been quite reserved when talking about his private life.

His career was largely determined by his peculiar physique. He lavished himself in the theater, in titles such as “The eighties are ours”, “Saturday night” and “Decíamos ayer”. Since the mid-1980s, Quique San Francisco  has become a secondary regular in Spanish cinema, with titles such as  Amanece, que no es poco ,  El rey pasmado ,  Orquesta Club Virginia  and  Acción mutant , among many others. He triumphed over everything like Tinín, owner of the bar in Cuéntame cómo pasó. In 2002 he suffered a terrible motorcycle accident, which was about to end his life. Fractures of the tibia and fibula he sustained left him confined to a wheelchair, which he switched to crutches during rehabilitation. Her last job was a Christmas advertisement for Campofrío, where she played Death, which has finally become a terrible omen.