Juan Margallo

{{Short description|Spanish actor (1940–2025)}}

{{Family name hatnote|Margallo|Rivera|lang=Spanish}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2025}}

{{Infobox person

| name = Juan Margallo

| birth_name = Juan Francisco Margallo Rivera

| image = JuanMargallo.jpg

| caption = Margallo in 2002

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1940|9|24|df=y}}

| birth_place = Cáceres, Spain

| death_date = {{Death date and age|2025|3|2|1940|9|24|df=y}}

| death_place = Madrid, Spain

| alma_mater = RESAD

| occupation = {{flatlist|

  • Actor
  • theater director
  • dramaturge}}

| years_active = 1963–2023

| spouse = {{marriage|Petra Martínez|1968}}

| children = 2

}}

Juan Francisco Margallo Rivera (24 September 1940 – 2 March 2025) was a Spanish actor, theatre director and dramaturge.

Margallo was considered one of the main actors in Spanish theater.{{sfn|Trancón|2006|p=271}}{{cite book |first=Manuel |last=Gómez García |title=Diccionario del teatro |year=1997 |publisher=Ediciones Akal |isbn=8446008270 |location=Madrid |pages=206–207 |language=es}}

Life and career

He worked with Miguel Narros, Luis Escobar Kirkpatrick and José Tamayo.{{sfn|Trancón|2006|p=343-348}} In 1976, he played Woyzeck, by Georg Büchner, and La sangre y la ceniza, by Alfonso Sastre.{{sfn|Trancón|2006|p=363}} He was awarded the prestigious national award 'Premio Nacional de Teatro 2022'.{{cite news |title=Petra Martínez y Juan Margallo, galardonados con el Premio Nacional de Teatro 2022 |url=https://www.tercerainformacion.es/articulo/cultura/24/09/2022/petra-martinez-y-juan-margallo-galardonadoscon-el-premio-nacional-de-teatro-2022/}}

In 2011, he founded with his spouse, Petra Martínez, the Uroc Teatro, which received the Medalla de Oro al Mérito en las Bellas Artes.{{cite web |url=http://www.casareal.es/ES/Actividades/Paginas/actividades_actividades_detalle.aspx?data=11742 |title=Entrega de las Medallas de Oro al Mérito en las Bellas Artes 2011 |access-date=20 January 2012 |date=24 November 2011 |language=es |work=Casa de Su Majestad el Rey de España |author=Juan Carlos I of Spain |author-link=Juan Carlos I of Spain |editor-last=de Borbón |editor-first=Felipe |editor-link=Felipe de Borbón |location=Palacio Real de El Pardo. Madrid}}

Margallo died from complications of a fall in Madrid, on 2 March 2025, at the age of 84.{{Cite web|website=Las Provincias|date=2 March 2025|url=https://www.lasprovincias.es/culturas/muere-juan-margallo-anos-referente-teatro-independiente-20250302114101-ntrc.html|title=Muere Juan Margallo a los 84 años, referente del teatro independiente en España|first=Miguel|last=Lorenci}}[https://elpais.com/cultura/2025-03-02/muere-juan-margallo-a-los-84-anos-referente-del-teatro-independiente-en-espana.html Muere Juan Margallo a los 84 años, referente del teatro independiente en España] {{in lang|es}}

Filmography

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Television series

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  • Teatro de siempre (1966–1967)
  • Los paladines (1972)
  • Estudio 1 (1970–1973) as Alberto / Juan Blaise
  • Noche de teatro (1974)
  • Cuentos y leyendas (1974)
  • Cuentopos (1975) as Mimos
  • Las aventuras del hada Rebeca (1976)
  • El teatro (1977) as Corchete 1º
  • Barrio Sésamo (1979–1980) as Nisi
  • Les chevaux du soleil (1980) as Kossaïri
  • Ocúpate de Amelia (1984–1985) as Bibichon
  • Gatos en el tejado (1988)
  • El mundo de Juan Lobón (1989) as Peña
  • La forja de un rebelde (1990) as Manzanares
  • Andalucía, un siglo de fascinación (1996) as productor
  • Querido maestro (1998)
  • Ellas son así (1999)
  • Petra Delicado (1999) as padre de Luz
  • Ana y los 7 (2004)
  • Hospital Central (2005) as Damián
  • Cuéntame cómo pasó (2009) as Ignacio
  • Hispania, la leyenda (2010–2011)
  • El don de Alba (2013)
  • Apaches (2017) as marido de Rosa

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References

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Bibliography

  • {{Cite book |last=Trancón |first=Santiago |title=Castañuela 70: Esto era España, señores |year=2006 |publisher=Rama Lama |isbn=9788493430740 |location=Madrid |language=es |oclc=892201393}}