Francisco Algora

Francisco Javier Jiménez Algora was born on December 7, 1948, in Madrid, inside the Astronomical Observatory where his father worked. His acting vocation was born when he saw Cómicos , by Juan Antonio Bardem .

He debuted as an actor in the 1970s, as a member of the Los Goliardos theater group. Shortly after he was successful on Spanish television as Casimiro, the ‘retratero’, or photographer, of the successful Crónicas de un pueblo . He was also the mute of Habla, mudita , with Carlos Saura , before putting himself under the orders of other renowned filmmakers, in small roles in titles such as Natural Size , by Luis García Berlanga , Tocata y fuga de Lolita , by Antonio Drove , A Man called Flor de Otoño , by Pedro Olea , and Fanny Pelopaja , by Vicente Aranda .

His most remembered role was El Fraile, one of the inseparable members of the Curro Jiménez band , who became the most popular in the first episodes. However, he dies in one of the chapters, according to rumors because the actor wanted to be fired.

He did not lack other memorable roles, such as the poet Ramón Maella, sitting at the table with Camilo José Cela himself in La colmena , or the priest Nicolás Rubín, in the series Fortunata y Jacinta . And although during the Destape era he lavished himself on medium-length films, he again achieved some recognition after playing the father of one of the kids from Barrio , by Fernando León de Aranoa . In the last years of his career, he became a regular in the cinema of José Luis Garci , in titles such as Luz de domingo , El abuelo , or Historia de un beso .

He wrote a play, “My name is Jonás”, which was directed and starred on stage by his good friend Fernando Fernán Gómez .