Celebrity Biographies
Pedro Pena
After a very long career as a supporting actor, especially on theater stages, Pedro Peña became very popular thanks to television as the endearing grandfather of the series “Médico de familia”. The man from Valladolid died on Thursday, October 2, 2014, in Madrid, at the age of 88. He had been suffering from Alzheimer’s for a year.
Born in Tordehumos (Valladolid), on December 14, 1925, when Pedro Peña was 14 years old he was already on stage. For five decades he joined the Teatro Apolo company in Barcelona, specializing in magazines.
From the 70s he became a regular secondary in Lina Morgan ‘s theatrical comedies , such as “What a pair of twins”. Fame came to him in 1995, when he became Manolo Martín, father of Emilio Aragón , in Family Doctor . Between 2002 and 2005 he joined the cast of Un paso adelante .
The actor has come to an end surrounded by his children, grandchildren and loved ones. “When you are no longer in the limelight, you no longer have any of the friends you have had, and it is true that in the
He had complained in recent years and had missed a lot of people”, comments his daughter, Maribel Peña, who gave an interview to “Lecturas” magazine a year ago, where she complained that some colleagues, especially Emilio Aragón , “they no longer called their father” not even to ask about his health.