Acting
Sep 17, 1966
Madrid, Spain
Gabino Diego
Acting
Biography
Gabino Diego was born on September 18, 1966 in Madrid. He started in cinema at the age of seventeen by chance, when he auditioned for a role in Las bicicletas son para el verano. Titles such as El viaje a ninguna parte, ¡Ay, Carmela! or El rey pasmado made him a figure of Spanish cinema. He won the Luis Buñuel Award for El viaje a ninguna parte and a Goya Award for ¡Ay, Carmela! He was also nominated for a Goya as best leading actor for El rey pasmado, as supporting actor for Belle Epoque and again as leading actor in Los peores años de nuestra vida. In 1996 he worked in El amor perjudica seriamente la salud, directed by Manuel Gómez Pereira, and in 1998 he starred in Antonio Mercero's La hora de los valientes, obtaining a Goya Award nomination for best leading male performance. Santiago Segura hired him for his film Torrente 2: misión en Marbella (Gabino also made a cameo in the 1st part of the saga Torrente, el brazo tonto de la ley). In 2018, he premiered Tiempo Después, directed by José Luis Cuerda. Translated with DeepL.com (free version)
Feature Films (39)
For this second film in the cult comedy series Torrente takes our fat police officer from Madrid to Marbella in Spain to investigate a villain’s plot to destroy the city with a missile. This James Bond style slapstick comedy became the most successful box-office film in Spanish film history beating out only the first Torrente film.
Torrente 2: Mission in Marbella
Fernando Fernán Gómez (1921-2007), actor, writer, playwright and film director, was for decades one of the most important figures in Spanish culture. His close friends and relatives reveal another facet in which he stood out above all: that of being an excellent conversationalist, capable of hypnotizing and seducing those who listened to him.
FFG, el último gran conversador
In 1931, a young soldier deserts from the army and falls into a country farm, where he is welcomed by the owner due to his political ideas. Manolo has four daughters, Fernando likes all of them and they like him, so he has to decide which one to love.
Belle Époque
Teodoro, a Spanish engineer working as a professor in the United States, returns to Spain to enjoy a sabbatical year.
Dawn Breaks, Which Is No Small Thing
Adaptation of a novel by Pedro García Montalvo that tells a story of destructive passion conditioned by social components that takes place during the 1940s.
La viuda del capitán Estrada
Matacanes dies and goes to heaven just to discover that it was not as he expected, and everyone there is revolutionized lately. Peter explains that God was concerned about the progress of the world, and decided to send a second son to Earth. However, Jesus hears and does not agree, as they would have to rewrite history.
On Earth as It Is in Heaven
During the Spanish Civil War, a group of comics lightens the days of the Republican troops. Tired of life in the front lines, they make their way to Valencia, accidentally entering enemy land and falling prisoner.
Ay, Carmela!
A struggling Miami art gallerist incurs the wrath of a mobster when he becomes accidentally engaged to his flighty ex-wife, but he falls in love with the woman's sister, so he invents a twin brother and plays both parts to satisfy the women.
Two Much
Legend says that on Saint John's Eve, humans can enter the magical world of elves and fairies. Elena, a smart, dreamy little girl, doesn't believe in legends, but her father, Duke Theseus, is very ill and she would do anything to restore his health, so she begins a search for Titania, Queen of the Fairies, accompanied by Banker Demetrio and Lisandro, who does everything possible to win her affection. Based on William Shakespeare's play.
Midsummer Dream
Jesus returns to Spain after a long exile in Argentina. The family he meets is very different from the one he left: they live under the sadness of being the losers of the war, Marcela, before a beautiful young woman, is now an alcoholic, and the youngest can not even understand them. Jesus wants to start a new life in Spain but he feels out of place; Time has turned him into an inhabitant of the other side of the 'puddle'.
The Sea and the Weather
A former pilot rebels against his creator, teaming up with the scientist responsible for android technology, her pet robot Spot, a rough-and-tumble riverboat guide, and a martial arts warrior.
Eliminators
In Madrid, the family of Don Luis, his wife Dolores and their children, Manolita and Luisito, share the daily life of the Civil War with their maid and neighbours. Despite having failed his exams, Luisito wants his father to buy him a bicycle. However, the situation forces them to delay the purchase and the delay, like the war itself, is to last much longer than expected.
Bicycles Are for the Summer
Television & Series (5)
This is the story of Manolo Beltra, a mid-aged, unbelieving foul-mouthed but cherished. He is a TV presenter, famous for his participation in a program called "El humor es algo maravilloso". With life more or less settled, a series of events will break this situation and he will have to rethink his way of thinking and deal with his existence.
Gatos en el Tejado
Documentary series that reviews cultural, social and political events that took place during the 80s in Spain.
