Angel de Andrés

Angel de Andrés Miquel
Born May 25, 1918(1918-05-25)
Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Died August 5, 2006(2006-08-05)
Madrid, Spain
Other names Angelito de Andrés
Years active 1938–1996

Angel de Andrés was a theatre actor and director in the 20th century in Spain.

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Background

In 1938, after the Spanish Civil War broke out, the young Andrés worked as an amateur street actor and then as a galán cómico in the Salvador Videgain theatre company. In the following years, played roles in the Isbert and María Guerrero theatre companies, among others.

Andrés began his own theatre company with Antonio Casal, which became very successful. It was there that Andrés met actress Chity Juárez. Andres and Juarez married in 1959 and remained together for the rest of Andrés' life. They had two children.

From 1939 until the 1990s, Andrés had regular jobs in theatre. He used his full name as his stage name, however, the people who knew him always called him Angelito de Andrés. (Angelito is the familiar form for Angel.)

During the 1940s, Andrés began acting in movies as an extra, but it was not until 1950 that he was first cast serious roles. Throughout his career, Andrés worked in Portugal and Mexico. In the 1950s as a presenter and actor in radio and cinema.

Andrés' best performances came after Francisco Franco's death on 1975. In the 1980s, Andres starred in numerous comedy films, winning the affection as a humorist and also in the TV series Celia and Lorca la muerte de un poeta of Juan Antonio Bardém. In the 1988 he played the character of minister Esquilache in Josefina Molina in the film Esquilache with Fernando Fernán Gómez and Concha Velasco.

In 2006, Andrés died in his sleep from a heart attack.

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