Juan Luis Galiardo

Biography

He studies in the Escuela Oficial de Cinematografia.

His debut was in 1966.

He works also in theater and TV.

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Country: Spain
Gender: Male
Place of birth: San Roque· Cádiz
Birth date: 02 March 1940
Nationality: Spanish

He is the second actor to play both Miguel de Cervantes y Saavedra and his creation, Don Quixote, on the big screen in El caballero Don Quijote and Miguel y William . The only previous actor to play both roles is Peter OToole , who played both Cervantes and Quixote in the 1972 film version of the musical Man of La Mancha .

Movies

La daga de Rasputín
2011
Forged in ancient Egypt, Dagger of Rasputin is a legendary jewel that gives almost absolute power to its possessor.
As Luck Would Have It
2011
An out-of-work publicist who suffers an accident looks to sell the exclusive interview rights to the highest bidder in an attempt to provide for his family..
Berlanga, plano personal
2011
La llegenda de l'innombrable
2010
Miguel and William
2007
A romantic comedy inventing a friendship between Cervantes and Shakespeare, who both fall in love with a Spanish woman..
I Love Miami
2006
A story involving the famous Fidel Castro, who ironically arrives at Miami, like so many of his fellow Cubans, and at the same time living through a Cuban- American experience, creates the perfect scenario to watch him become a more humble person; the "Quixote of American Socialism".
Teatreros
2006
Queridos reyes magos
2005
Christmas Musical Special from Banco Popular that presents many Christmas traditions from Puerto Rico.
Franky Banderas
2004
Dripping
2003
Sento is an inspired romantic painter trying to find his way in the art circles with his theoretical artist friend Domingo.
Martes y 13: Qué bodito y qué herboso
2003
Dirty Vivancos III
2002
Don Quixote, Knight Errant
2002
A film version of the second half of Cervantes' s "Don Quixote"..
Rosa la China
2002
Chilean director Valeria Sarmiento weaves a tale of love, betrayal, and civil unrest centering around a nightclub in 1950s pre-Communist Cuba in her 2002 romantic drama Rosa La China.
Lisístrata
2002
411 BC, Sparta and Athens are in a endless war, but Lisistrata, a beautiful woman has an idea to stop the fight, and convinces all the women to do it: no sex until there is peace..
Un minuto antes de medianoche
2001
Goodbye from the Heart
2000
Juan unexpectedly needs to face the fact that he may be the father of a young adult who wants to live with him in Spain.
El emblema
2000
¡Qué vecinos tan animales!
1998
Mosca Safari
1998
Dura lex
1997
Familia
1996
Santiago wakes up like any other morning.
Suspiros de España (y Portugal)
1995
After the death of the abbot of a small convent the two monks who are left discover among the papers of the passed away abbot letters from the mother of one of them indicating that he is the natural son of a landowner in Extremadura.
Todos a bordo
1995
Spanish version of TV series "The Love Boat"..
Enciende mi pasión
1994
Los mares del sur
1992
Long ago, the architect Stuart Pedrell told his family that he was going to the South Seas.
Catorce estaciones
1991
Capità Escalaborns
1991
After the death of his parents, Juan goes into an adventure to find Captain Escalaborns to whom he must deliver the map of a treasure to be searched together..
La taberna fantástica
1991
Don Juan, My Dear Ghost
1990
The ghost of Don Juan Tenorio, the legendary rogue and lover from Sevilla, comes back to town once again on present days searching for the absolution.
El vuelo de la paloma
1989
A film team arrives at a more authentic and old square in Madrid to shoot a film.
Soldadito español
1988
A young man, son and grandson of soldiers, refuses to perform military service, causing a commotion in the whole family.
Ana, pasión de dos mundos
1987
Guarapo
1987
Policía
1987
El señor de los Llanos
1987
Spain, 30's.
El disputado voto del señor Cayo
1986
Based on Miguel Delibes novel.
Quiero soñar
1981
Préstame tu mujer
1981
La campanada
1980
Ambros, an executive who works hard for a company in Barcelona, Spain, see how his best friend and companion at work dies because heart attack in the enterprise's garage.
Una familia decente
1978
Un día con Sergio
1977
Sergio, a film heartthrob in the decline of his career, agrees to spend 24 hours with the winner of a radio contest.
El ladrido
1977
Imposible para una solterona
1976
Gina is a single woman with a good job.
Mayordomo para todo
1976
Carlos, a young "playboy" who lives on the Costa del Sol, has a servant named German who has made him believe he has a degenerative disease by maintaining many sexual relationships, and that he will die if he continues doing so.
El alijo
1976
A pair of Spanish truck drivers used to the game of escaping the police in smuggling operations, receive a new contract, overpaid in relation to the usual, so they won't say no: crossing the country with Portuguese emigrants to the French border..
El límite del amor
1976
Comando Txikia: Muerte de un presidente
1976
La promesa
1976
Clara es el precio
1975
Clara has a double life: although she seems like an exemplary wife, during the day she acts as a model for pornographic films in order to earn some extra money.
Novios de la muerte
1975
Los buenos días perdidos
1975
Autopsia
1973
Mondo-style docudrama about a war correspondent who comes back home and has a spiritual crisis about his own mortality.
El juego del adulterio
1973
Inspired by "The diabolical" by Clouzot.
Alta tensión
1972
José, a young mechanic, arrives in Madrid to make it big.
The Sin
1972
A nun falls in love with her patient, who happens to be a communist..
El apartamento de la tentación
1971
Three couples switch partners in a complex combination of their members, and they will end up together in an apartment..
Two Males for Alexa
1971
Curd Jurgens as the betrayed husband is incredibly expressive and believable; Rosabla Neri, as the philandering Alexa, delivers her usual thoughtful performance and, in doing so, makes her potentially cardboard cut-out character multi-dimensional, and Juan Luis Galiardo, as Alexa'a heartthrob Pierre, also cares enough about his craft that he avoids the trappings of a potentially stereotypical character and, like Neri, makes him real and full of depth.
Coqueluche
1970
Después de los nueve meses
1970