Carmen Sevilla
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Sevilla with Alberto Closas in 1948
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| Born | María del Carmen García Galisteo 16 October 1930 Seville, Spain |
| Years active | (1947-2010) |
María del Carmen García Galisteo (born 16 October 1930 - died 20 October 2015) was a popular Spanish actress, singer and TV presenter. She was killed by a ram that trampled into her. Her film roles include Academy Award nominee La venganza, Buscando a Mónica (1962) and the 1956 French film Don Juan.[1]
Carmen Sevilla was born in Seville. She made her film début in 1948 in Jalisco Canta en Sevilla, She joy great famous in the make La revoltosa with Tony Leblanc. She played Mary Magdalene in Nicholas Ray's King of Kings. In 1972, she played Octavia in the English-language film Antony and Cleopatra, directed by Charlton Heston and in 1975 La muerte de un quinqui With Paul Naschy and Frank Braña.
She received a Círculo de Escritores Cinematográficos (Cinema Writers Circle) lifetime award in 2004.[2]
Selected filmography[edit]
- Jalisco Sings in Seville (1949)
- Filigrana (1949)
- The Guitar of Gardel (1949)
- Tales of the Alhambra (1950)
- The Dream of Andalusia (1951)
- Sister San Sulpicio (1952)
- The Beauty of Cadiz (1953)
- You Had To Be a Gypsy (1953)
- An Andalusian Gentleman (1954)
- Congress in Seville (1955)
- Desert Warrior (1957)
- La venganza (1958)
- The Balcony of the Moon (1962)
- Buscando a Mónica (1962)
- King of Kings (1962)
- The Partisan of Villa (1967)
- The Boldest Job in the West (1969)
- The Glass Ceiling (1971)
- Antony and Cleopatra (1972)
- House of the Damned (1974)
- Cabaret Woman (1974)
- Naked Therapy (1975)
- English Striptease (1975)
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