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Fernando Fernán-Gómez

Actor/Director/Writer
27 August 1921 to 21 November 2007

An elder statesman of Spanish cinema, Fernán-Gómez directed such films as El Manicomio (1953), La Vida Sigue Adelante (1958), Bruja, Mas que Bruja (1976) and El Viaje a Ninguna Parte (1986). As an actor he appeared in The Spirit of the Beehive (1973), Belle Epoque (1992) and Butterfly’s Tongue (1999).

*Read Fernando Fernán-Gómez's Guardian obituary