Paco Martínez Soria

Known for ActingBorn 1902-12-18Died 1982-02-26Tarazona, Zaragoza, Aragón, Spain

Although he was born in Tarazona, he was only five when his family moved to Barcelona, where he went to school. He worked as a clerk and then as a salesperson. At the same time he participated in performances of local theatre groups in Gràcia. During the Spanish Civil War he left his work and focused on theatre as an amateur actor. In 1938 he debuted in Teatro Fontalba with the theatre company of Rafael López Somoza with the work Antonio pasó el infierno (Antonio goes to hell). Two years later he founded his own theatre company with which he worked during the 1940s from Teatro Urquinaona and in the 1950s from Talía theatre. In 1934 he collaborated as an extra in the black and white comedy Sereno with director Ignacio F. Iquino. He continued working with Iquino in eleven more films. He got his first leading role in 1938 in the comedy Paquete, el fotógrafo público número uno (Paquete, the number one public photographer). He continued playing supporting roles in many films until 1944 when he returned to theatre as an actor and entrepreneur. His name achieved some fame between 1942 and 1944, when he was named director and first actor in the theatre company of Teatro de la Zarzuela. He returned to cinema in the rolesstudd in 1950s. In 1965 he was very successful with the film La ciudad no es para mí (The city is not for me) directed by Pedro Lazaga. From that moment on, his screen character as an affectionate country bumpkin did not cease to appear in films until his death with his friend Pedro Lazaga.Read more

Movies & web series

Su desconsolada esposa

Souls in Danger

Paquete, el fotógrafo público número uno

Diego Corrientes

Fantasía española

La danza del corazón

Al margen de la ley

Sendas marcadas

El hombre de los muñecos

Viviendo al revés

El precio de la risa

El difunto es un vivo

La tía de Carlos

La ciudad no es para mí

Deliciosamente tontos

¡Se armó el belén!

¿Qué hacemos con los hijos?

Lawless Mountain

Old Man Made in Spain

Estoy hecho un chaval

¡Vaya par de gemelos!

El abuelo tiene un plan

Don erre que erre

El alegre divorciado

Es peligroso casarse a los 60

El padre de la criatura

Boda accidentada

Alma de Dios

El difunto es un vivo

Hay que educar a papá

Hen Pecked

Veraneo en España

El turismo es un gran invento

Un enredo de familia