Ángel de Andrés

Ángel de Andrés Miquel was a Spanish theatre actor and director.

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, 1940 played roles in the Isbert, Infanta Isabel 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.  Andrés and Juárez 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, cinema and television. 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 Ángel).

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 by then 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 in 1975. In the 1980s, Andrés 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 Bardem. In the 1988 he played the character of Zenón de Somodevilla in Josefina Molina film's Esquilache with Fernando Fernán Gómez and Concha Velasco.

After suffering a paralysis due to a thrombus in the 1990s, he retired from the theaters, but not from television screens. In the summer of 2006, Andrés died in his sleep from a heart attack.

Selected filmography

 Fin de curso (1944, by Ignacio F. Iquino) - Gorito
 Turbante blanco (1944) - Duque Gregorio
 Paraíso sin Eva (1944) - Mariano
 Cabeza de hierro (1944) - Polilla
 Thirsty Land (1945)
 Leyenda de feria (1946)
 The Prodigal Woman (1946, by Rafael Gil) - Miguel
 Unknown Path (1946, by José Antonio Nieves Conde) - Peter
 Dulcinea (1947) - Diego Hernández
 The Faith (1947, by Rafael Gil) - Dueño casa huéspedes
 Don Quijote de la Mancha (1947, by Rafael Gil) - Primer Caballero (First Gentleman) (uncredited)
 Confidencia (1948, by Jerónimo Mihura) - Luis
 The Sunless Street (1948) - José
 Mare Nostrum (1948) - Toni
 Pototo, Boliche y Compañía (1948)
 Jalisco canta en Sevilla (1949, by Fernando de Fuentes)
 Currito de la Cruz (1949) - Empleado de la taberna 'La gallega' (uncredited)
 ¡Fuego! (1949, by Arthur Duarte) - Bombero
 Just Any Woman (1949) - Camionero
 ¡El santuario no se rinde! (1949) - Curro
 Un corazón en el ruedo (1950) - (uncredited)
 Hipólito, el de Santa (1950)
 Tres ladrones en la casa (1950) - Talia
 I Want to Marry You (1951) - Andrés
 Tercio de quites (1951, by Emilio Gómez Muriel) - Angelillo
 Fantasía española (1953, by Javier Setó) - Pepe
 Juzgado permanente (1954) - Carterista
 Historias de la radio (1955, by José Luis Sáenz de Heredia) - Ladrón
 Manolo guardia urbano (1956, by Rafael J. Salvia) - Felipe, el limpiabotas
 Un Abrigo a cuadros (1957, by Alfredo Hurtado) - Germán
 El Hincha (1958, by José María Elorrieta) - Nicolás, el hincha
 Pasa la tuna (1960, by José María Elorrieta) - Tomás González
 091 Policía al habla (1960, by José María Forqué) - Manolo
 Las Estrellas (1962, by Miguel Lluch) - El Ciruqui
 You and Me Are Three (1962, by Rafael Gil) - Chófer
 La Pandilla de los once (1963, by Pedro Lazaga) - Dick 'EL Chuleta'
 La Batalla del domingo (1963, by Luis Marquina) - Pepe, el limpiabotas
 Tomy's Secret (1963, by Antonio del Amo) - Presentador del concurso
 El espontáneo (1964) - Situado
 Fin de semana. (1964, by Pedro Lazaga) - Fernando
 Dulcinea del Toboso (1964)
 Mi canción es para ti (1965, by Ramón Torrado) - Melitón Pérez Tumbao 'Tumbaito'
 Suena el clarín (1965) - Apoderado
 He's My Man! (1966, by Rafael Gil) - Portero Club Pinky
 El Padre Manolo (1966, by Ramón Torrado) - Roberto, el chófer
 Aquí mando yo (1967, by Rafael Romero Marchent) - Guardia urbano
 Another's Wife (1967, by Rafael Gil) - Taxista
 The Sailor with Golden Fists (1968, by Rafael Gil) - Héctor
 De Picos Pardos a la ciudad (1969, by Ignacio F. Iquino) - Pepe
 Relaciones casi públicas (1969) - Empresario teatral
 ¡Se armó el belén! (1969, by José Luis Sáenz de Heredia) - Comprador y decorador
 Con ella llegó el amor (1970, by Ramón Torrado) - Rafael
 Don Erre que erre (1970, by José Luis Sáenz de Heredia)
 La casa de los Martínez (1971) - Bombero
 Secuestro a la española (1972, by Mateo Cano) - Martín
 Casa Flora (1973, by Ramón Fernández) - Leoncio
 La llamaban La Madrina (1973) - Pardillo timado
 Me has hecho perder el juicio (1973) - Hombre en el metro
 El Reprimido (1974, by Mariano Ozores) - Pepe
 No quiero perder la honra (1975, by Eugenio Martín) - Camacho
 Bienvenido, Mister Krif (1975)
 El último tango en Madrid (1975)
 El mejor regalo (1975) - Taxista
 And in the Third Year, He Rose Again (1980) - Leoncio
 Brujas mágicas (1981, by Mariano Ozores hijo) - Don Lope
 Cristóbal Colón, de oficio... descubridor (1982, by Mariano Ozores hijo) - Fray Juan Pérez
 La canción de los niños (1982) - Andrés
 Una pequeña movida (1983)
 The Autonomines (1983, by Rafael Gil) - Telesforo
 Juana la loca... de vez en cuando (1983, by José Ramón Larraz) - Duque de Medina Sidonia
 El Cid cabreador (1983, by Angelino Fons) - Cardenal
 Libro Luces de bohemia (1985, by Miguel Ángel Díez)
 Esquilache (1989, by Josefina Molina) - Ensenada
 Tahiti's Girl (1990) - Senador Menéndez
 La forja de un rebelde (1990, TV Series, by Mario Camus) - José
 Celia (1993, TV Series, by José Luis Borau) - Don Restituto

Sources
 La auténtica vida e historia del teatro. Juan José Videgain (2005).  
 La revista (1997) Ramón Femenía
 Diccionario de Teatro Akal (1997)
 Prensa nacional española entre 1940 y 2005: ABC, El Alcázar, Pueblo, Digame, Ya, El país, El mundo, La razón...
 Teatralerias, tres siglos de la escena, (2018) Madrid: P & V.

References
 

1918 births
2006 deaths
Spanish male film actors
Spanish male stage actors
Spanish male television actors
20th-century Spanish male actors
Spanish theatre directors
Male actors from Madrid
Burials at Cementerio de la Almudena