Conchita Montes (13 March 1914 – 18 October 1994) was a Spanish

film A film, also known as a movie or motion picture, is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, emotions, or atmosphere through the use of moving images that are generally, sinc ...

actress An actor (masculine/gender-neutral), or actress (feminine), is a person who portrays a character in a production. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. ...

Career

Born in

Madrid Madrid ( ; ) is the capital and List of largest cities in Spain, most populous municipality of Spain. It has almost 3.5 million inhabitants and a Madrid metropolitan area, metropolitan area population of approximately 7 million. It i ...

, Montes became a popular actress in Spanish films of the

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and

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. In 1950 she starred in '' El último caballo'' an

Edgar Neville Edgar Neville Romrée, Count of Berlanga de Duero (28 December 1899 – 23 April 1967) was a Spanish playwright and film director, a member of the Generation of '27. Biography Neville was born in Madrid but lived in Hollywood, Los Angeles, Holl ...

film in which she starred alongside Fernando Fernán Gómez. However, after 1960 she mostly appeared in Spanish television until her eventual retirement in 1992. She died in 1994.

Filmography

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* Spanish film actresses Spanish television actresses 1914 births 1994 deaths Actresses from Madrid 20th-century Spanish actresses {{Spain-actor-stub