Tomás Picó

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{{short description|Spanish actor and theater director}}

{{Infobox person

| name = Tomás Picó

| birth_name = Tomás Picó Hormeño

| birth_date = {{birth date|df=y|1940|01|16}}

| birth_place = Cáceres, Extremadura

| death_date = {{death date and age|df=y|2013|03|29|1940|01|16}}

| death_place = Tarifa, Cádiz

| occupation = Actor and theater director

}}

Tomás Picó Hormeño (16 January 1940 – 29 March 2013) was a Spanish actor and theater director known for La gran familia and Canción de juventud (1962).{{cite news |url=https://www.lavanguardia.com/vida/20190328/461306723268/efemerides-de-manana-29-de-marzo-de-2019.html |title=Efemérides de mañana, 29 de marzo de 2019 |date=28 March 2019 |access-date=12 September 2019 |newspaper=La Vanguardia |language=es}}

Son of an architect,{{cite news |url=http://www.artezblai.com/artezblai/fallece-tomas-pico-actor-en-la-gran-familia-y-hombre-comprometido-con-el-teatro-social.html |title=Fallece Tomás Picó, actor en 'La gran familia' y hombre comprometido con el teatro social |date=2 April 2013 |access-date=12 September 2019 |work=Artezblai |language=es}} he was born on 16 January 1940 in Cáceres and began his film career in the early 1960s.{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LQKhAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA297 |title=Obituaries in the Performing Arts, 2013 |first=Harris M. |last=Lentz III |publisher=McFarland Publishing |date=16 May 2014 |page=297 |isbn=9780786476657}} He made his debut at Teatro Eslava and he worked along Lina Morgan.{{cite news |url=https://elpais.com/cultura/2013/04/02/actualidad/1364928571_141999.html |title=Tomás Picó, un actor que supo reinventarse |first=Rosana |last=Torres |date=2 April 2013 |access-date=12 September 2019 |newspaper=El País |language=es |publisher=Prisa}} He played George in Case of the Scorpion's Tale (1971), starring Evelyne Stewart.{{cite news |url=https://thedigitalbits.com/item/case-of-the-scorpions-tale-se-brd |title=Case of the Scorpion's Tale, The: Special Edition (Blu-Ray Review) |first=David |last=Steigman |date=16 July 2018 |access-date=12 September 2019 |work=The Digital Bits}} He appeared in Al Andalus, el camino del sol (1988), by Jaime Oriol and Antonio Tarruella.{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/elcineespanoldel0000capa_n4q9 |url-access=registration |title=El cine español de la democracia: de la muerte de Franco al "cambio" socialista (1975–1989) |first=José María |last=Caparrós Lera |publisher=Anthropos Editorial |year=1992 |page=[https://archive.org/details/elcineespanoldel0000capa_n4q9/page/360 360] |isbn=9788476583128}}

In 2009 he was diagnosed with a lymphoma,{{cite news |url=https://www.lasprovincias.es/v/20130402/culturas/fallece-tomas-pico-actor-20130402.html |title=Fallece Tomás Picó, actor de 'La gran familia' |author=EFE |author-link=EFE |date=2 April 2013 |access-date=12 September 2019 |newspaper=Las Provincias |language=es |publisher=Vocento}} and died four years later on 29 March 2013 at the age of 73 in Tarifa, Cádiz.{{cite news |url=https://www.abc.es/cultura/cine/20130401/abci-muere-tomas-pico-201304011707.html |title=Fallece, a los 73 años, el actor y director Tomás Picó |date=1 April 2013 |access-date=12 September 2019 |newspaper=ABC |language=es}}