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Fernando Rey

Fernando Rey

Spanish actor


Dead at 76 years
Birthday
Thursday
He is born 106 years, 6 months and 8 days ago
Death date
Wednesday

He is dead since 30 years and 19 days

Cause of death: bladder cancer

Birthplace
La Corogne, Spain
Nationality: spanish Espagne
Categorie
Actors
Birth sign: Virgo
Chinese birth sign: Snake
Height

177 cm

Fernando Casado Arambillet (A Coruña (Spain), 20 September 1917 – Madrid (Spain), 9 March 1994), best known as Fernando Rey, was a Spanish film, theatre, and television actor, who worked in both Europe and the United States. A suave, international actor best known for his roles in the films of surrealist director Luis Buñuel (Viridiana, 1961; Tristana, 1970; Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, 1972; That Obscure Object of Desire, 1977) and as the drug lord Alain Charnier in The French Connection (1971) and French Connection II (1975), he appeared in more than 150 films over half a century.

The debonair Rey was described by French Connection producer Philip D'Antoni as "the last of the Continental guys". He achieved his greatest fame after he turned 50: "Perhaps it is a pity that my success came so late in life", he told the Los Angeles Times. "It might have been better to have been successful while young, like El Cordobés in the bullring. Then your life is all before you to enjoy it."

Source : Wikipedia