Manuel Zarzo

{{Short description|Spanish actor (1932–2025)}}

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{{family name hatnote|López|Zarza|lang=Spanish}}

{{Infobox person

| image =

| name =

| birth_name = Manuel López Zarza

| other_names = Manolo Zarzo

| birth_date = {{birth date|1932|4|26|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Madrid, Spain

| death_date = {{Death date and age|2025|06||1932|4|26|df=yes}}

| death_place = Pozuelo de Alarcón, Spain

| occupation = Actor

| yearsactive = 1951–2022

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Manuel López Zarza ({{IPA|es|manˈwel ˈlopeθ ˈθaɾθa|lang}}; 26 April 1932 – 16 or 17 June 2025), better known as Manuel Zarzo ({{IPA|es|ˈθaɾθo|lang}}), was a Spanish film actor. He appeared in more than 200 television and film works over his 7-decade long career.{{Cite web|url=https://kinotico.es/actualidad/2025-06-17/muere-manolo-zarzo-eterno-secundario-cine-teatro-y-television-93-anos|website=Kinótico|title=Muere Manolo Zarzo, eterno secundario del cine, teatro y la televisión, a los 93 años|date=17 June 2025|first=Daniel|last=Mantilla}}

Zarzo made his film debut in Day by Day (1951). In 1960, the actor was clinically dead for two hours due to an injury received saving a woman from a fire.{{Cite web |last=Román |first=Manuel |date=2015-04-25 |title=La acción heroica que casi mató a Manolo Zarzo |url=https://www.libertaddigital.com/chic/corazon/2015-04-25/cuando-manolo-zarzo-casi-murio-por-salvar-a-una-chica-de-un-incendio-1276546414/ |access-date=2024-11-05 |website=Chic |language=es-ES}}

Zarzo died in Pozuelo de Alarcón in the night of 16 to 17 June 2025, at the age of 93.