1930-05-04 ( 94 years old ) in València, Comunitat Valenciana, Spain
Antonio Iranzo (4 May 1930 – 7 July 2003) was a Spanish film actor in 77 feature films. He gained popularity for his acting in Island of the Damned and Cut - Throats Nine.
Iranzo began his artistic career in the theater, while working as a radio announcer. Later he joined the Nuria Espert Company and made his film debut in 1963 with La chica del auto-stop directed by Miguel Lluch.
His physique and hoarse voice helped him get the chance to play the supporting character in various films including Mario Camus's The Legend of Mayor of Zalamea (1973), Gonzalo Suárez's The Regent (1974), Narciso Ibáñez Serrador's Who Can Kill a Child? (1975), Hidden Pleasures (1977), The tobacconist of Vallecas (1986) (the latter two by Eloy de la Iglesia), the TV miniseries Riders of the Dawn (1990) and Vicente Aranda's Libertarias (1996).
Iranzo had a well known career on stage, which particularly excelled in his interpretations of classics from the Golden Age. Some of the works featuring him were Adolfo Marsillach and Molière's Tartuffe (1969), Felix Lope de Vega's The Star of Seville (1958), Max Frisch's Andorra (1971), Adolfo Marsillach's Flower of Holiness (1973), Arnold Wesker and Irene Gutiérrez Caba's Chicken Soup with Oats (1978), Martín Recuerda's The Arrecogías the Beguinage of St. Mary of Egypt (1977), José María Rodríguez Méndez's Weddings that were famous in the Rag and Fandanga (1978), Miguel de Cervantes's The Baths of Algiers (1979) and The Roll Lavapies (1979), Woody Allen's Aspirin for Two (1980), Santiago Moncada's Ears of the Wolf (1980), Martin Recuerda's The Deceiting (1981), Miguel Mihura's Peach in Syrup (1982), Ibsen's Mallard (1982), Euripides's Fedra (1984), Shakespeare's Julius Caesar (1988), Alejandro Casona's The Third Word (1992).
Iranzo also had a prolific career in television; he played several characters in dramas TVE as Study 1 or Novel, Time Eleven or Fictions.
His deep voice helped him in standing out as a voice actor, remembered for being among other characters as BA Baracus in the television series El equipo A.
He was the winner of the 1966's Silver Frames Award for Best Actor of Spanish cinema for the film Burnt Skin (La piel quemada). The film was directed by Josep Maria Forn and depicted the social problems of Spain during the decade. In the film Iranzo played the character of an Andalusian worker named Jose who works in Costa Brava and falls in love with a Belgian tourist while his family including wife and two children struggle to reach him.
In 2014 the film Who can Kill a Child? was shown at Denver Film Society's Stanley Film Festival.
Source: Article "Antonio Iranzo" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Movies
Freedomfighters
1996-04-19
Tocando fondo
1993-08-26
The Tobacconist of Vallecas
1987-04-09
Réquiem por un campesino español
1985-08-29
Memorias del general Escobar
1984-09-21
The Cantabrians
1980-01-01
El buscón
1979-11-27
Stories of Love and Slaughter
1979-04-16
Inquisition
1977-12-01
El fin de la inocencia
1977-06-18
Hidden Pleasures
1977-04-14
Del amor y de la muerte
1977-01-01
El hombre que supo amar
1976-09-19
Who Can Kill a Child?
1976-04-26
The Dead Man
1975-08-21
The Birds of Baden-Baden
1975-05-02
The Regent's Wife
1974-12-19
La leyenda del alcalde de Zalamea
1973-04-13
Flower of Holiness
1973-03-25
To the Devil, with Love
1972-09-24
Delusions of Grandeur
1971-12-08
Cut-Throats Nine
1971-10-23
Las secretas intenciones
1970-07-29
Sexperiencias
1968-12-31
Hate for Hate
1967-08-18
Gentleman Killer
1967-08-14
Burnt Skin
1967-02-13
The Ugly Ones
1966-11-04
Seven Guns for the MacGregors
1966-02-02
Kingdom of the Silver Lion
1965-12-31
The Wild Men of Kurdistan
1965-10-06
La chica del autostop
1965-08-22
Totò d'Arabia
1965-02-18
La boda era a las doce
1964-10-30
El mujeriego
1964-03-02
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