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Fernando Sancho

{{Short description|Spanish actor (1916–1990)}}

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{{family name hatnote|Sancho|Les|lang=Spanish}}

{{Infobox person

| name = Fernando Sancho

| image = Festival de Cine de San Sebastián (24 de 110) - Fondo Marín-Kutxa Fototeka.jpg

| caption = Fernando Sancho in 1970 at the Festival de San Sebastián

| birth_name = Fernando Sancho Les

| birth_date = {{birth date|1916|01|07|df=y}}

| birth_place = Zaragoza, Spain

| death_date = {{death date and age|1990|07|31|1916|01|07|df=y}}

| death_place = Madrid, Spain

| nationality = Spanish

| occupation = Actor

| yearsactive = 1941-1990

}}

Fernando Sancho Les (7 January 1916 – 31 July 1990) was a Spanish actor.

Biography

He was born in Zaragoza, in Aragon, Spain on 7 January 1916 and died at Hospital Militar Gómez Ulla in Madrid on 31 July 1990 from a liver failure during or following surgery to remove a malignant tumor in the pancreas.{{cite news |url=https://elpais.com/diario/1990/08/01/cultura/649461608_850215.html |title=El actor Fernando Sancho muere a los 72 años |newspaper=El País |location=Madrid |date=1 August 1990 |access-date=22 September 2019 |language=es |publisher=Prisa}} He was interred in Madrid.{{cite encyclopedia |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vpwqAQAAIAAJ&q=Muere+Fernando+Sancho |title=Fernando Sancho |encyclopedia=Enciclopedia del cine español: cronología |volume=1 |first1=Pascual |last1=Cebollada |first2=Luis |last2=Rubio Gil |publisher=Ediciones del Serbal |year=1996 |page=50 |isbn=9788476281642}}

Fernando Sancho fought in the Spanish Civil War on the rebel side, being wounded several times and achieving the rank of lieutenant in the Legion.

Career

He was often typecast as a Mexican bandit in Spaghetti Westerns, including The Big Gundown (directed by Sergio Sollima), A Pistol for Ringo and Return of Ringo (directed by Duccio Tessari), Arizona Colt (directed by Michele Lupo), Minnesota Clay (directed by Sergio Corbucci), and Sartana (directed by Gianfranco Parolini).

He also appeared in a number of Spanish horror movies in the 1960s and 1970s. One of his better known horror parts was the role of a corrupt small-town mayor in Return of the Blind Dead (El ataque de los muertos sin ojos), directed by Amando de Ossorio.{{cn|date=June 2020}}

Another notable horror film was Orloff and the Invisible Man (1971), directed by Pierre Chevalier and starring Howard Vernon, an unofficial continuation of the Dr. Orloff saga begun by Jess Franco in The Awful Dr. Orloff (1962).

He turned up briefly in the epic film Lawrence of Arabia playing the Turkish sergeant who arrests T. E. Lawrence in Deraa. He appeared in five Greek war movies (1970-73); three of these involved World War II (i.e., Battle of Crete, Greek Resistance, Fort Roupel) and the other two involved the Greek War of Independence and the resistance of Souliotes against Ali Pasha.{{cn|date=June 2020}}

Sancho had a prolific career and remained active in films up to his death.{{cn|date=June 2020}}

Awards

He won the Medallas del Círculo de Escritores Cinematográficos for La guerrilla in 1972,{{cite web |title=Premios del CEC a la producción española de 1972 |url=http://www.cinecec.com/EDITOR/premios/palmares/1972.htm |work=Círculo de Escritores Cinematográficos |access-date=2 December 2018 |year=1972 |language=es |archive-date=25 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210225093132/http://www.cinecec.com/EDITOR/premios/palmares/1972.htm |url-status=dead }} and in 1980 for all his career.{{cite web |title=Premios del CEC a la producción española de 1980 |url=http://www.cinecec.com/EDITOR/premios/palmares/1980.htm |work=Círculo de Escritores Cinematográficos |access-date=24 March 2019 |year=1980 |language=es |archive-date=8 December 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211208160714/http://www.cinecec.com/EDITOR/premios/palmares/1980.htm |url-status=dead }}

Selected filmography

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Category:1916 births

Category:1990 deaths

Category:Male actors from Zaragoza

Category:Spanish male film actors

Category:Male Spaghetti Western actors

Category:20th-century Spanish male actors

Category:Deaths from pancreatic cancer in Spain