Pedro Larrañaga y Ruiz-Gómez (27 April 1887 – 23 November 1944) was a Spanish actor in the 1920s and 1930s.
Early and personal life
Pedro Larrañaga was born on 27 April 1887 in
Avilés
Avilés (Asturian and ;) is a town in Asturias, Spain. Avilés is, along with Oviedo and Gijón, one of the main cities in the Principality of Asturias.
The town occupies the flattest land in the municipality, partially in a land that belonged ...
, as the son of Carlos Larrañaga y Onzalo, a native of Motrico and the first president of the Avilés Chamber of Commerce, who had settled in Avilés in 1880.
He married
María Ladrón de Guevara, with whom he had at least one son,
Carlos.
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Career
Larrañaga left his homeland of Asturias to pursue a career in acting, making his debut in 1926 under Florián Rey
Antonio Martínez del Castillo known professionally as Florián Rey was a Spanish director, actor, and screenwriter. He directed '' The Cursed Village'', widely recognized as a seminal work in silent Spanish cinema, and helped launch the career ...
at ''El Pilluelo de Madrid'' together with Elisa Ruiz Romero.[ In 1928, he performed again for Florián Rey in ''Águilas de Acero'' together with Elita Panquer, and then played the protagonist of ''Zalacaín el Aventurero de Pío Baroja'', directed by Francisco Camacho.][ He obtained his greatest success in 1929, the year in which he starred in the most important film by Florián Rey and of all Spanish silent production, ''La aldea maldita'' ('' The Cursed Village'').][ In this version, the first of the novel by Armando Palacio Valdés, he gave life to the character of Juan de Castilla.]talkies
A sound film is a Film, motion picture with synchronization, synchronized sound, or sound technologically coupled to image, as opposed to a silent film. The first known public exhibition of projected sound films took place in Paris in 1900, bu ...
, and thus his participation in them gradually faded away, despite some appearances in international co-productions.[ Richard Harlan directed him in 1933 in an argument written by Wenceslao Fernández Flores, ''Odio'' (Hate), where he featured alongside his wife María Ladrón de Guevara. He also appeared with her in 1943 in ''Rosas de Otoño'' (Autumn Roses), directed by Juan de Orduña.][
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Death
Larrañaga died on 23 November 1944 in Seville, at the age of 53.[
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Filmography
* ''El Pilluelo de Madrid'' (1926)
* ''El conde Maravillas'' (1927)
* ''Rosa de Madrid'' (1927)
* The Cursed Village (1930)
* Hate
Hatred or hate is an intense negative emotional response towards certain people, things or ideas, usually related to opposition or revulsion toward something. Hatred is often associated with intense feelings of anger, contempt, and disgust. Ha ...
(1933)
* I don't want, I don't want (1939)
* Autumn Roses (1943)
References
External links
IMDB
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1887 births
1944 deaths
Actors from Asturias
20th-century Spanish male actors