Antonio Casas

Casas in the The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)

Antonio Casas (11 November 1911 A Coruña, Galicia – 14 February 1982 Madrid, Spain) was a Spanish footballer turned film actor who appeared in film between 1941 and his death in 1982.

Casas originally began as a footballer for Atlético Madrid, but entered film in 1941 and made nearly 170 appearances in film and TV between then and 1982. He appeared in A Pistol for Ringo in 1965 and Sergio Leone's Spaghetti Western the The Good, the Bad and the Ugly in 1966, a film that has consistently been voted one of the greatest of all time. One of his best known roles was in Luis Buñuel's Tristana.

In the early 1970s he worked in television but returned to film after 1975 until his death.

Selected filmography

List of acting performances in film

Year	Title	Role
1942	Goyescas	Paquiro
	The Wheel of Life	Javier
1943	A Famous Gentleman	Uncredited
1951	Dawn of America	Juan de la Cosa
	The Lioness of Castille	Juan de Padilla
1960	Juanito	President Meza
	The Revolt of the Slaves	Terulio
1962	Accident 703	Uncredited
1963	Nunca pasa nada	Enrique
	The Secret of the Black Widow	Bronsfield
1964	Sound of Horror	Professor Andre
1965	Assassination in Rome	Uncredited
	A Pistol for Ringo	Major Clyde
	Crimen de doble filo	Comisario Ignacio Ruiz
	The Dictator's Guns	Uncredited
	The Return of Ringo	Sheriff
1966	Fantasia 3	Neptuno
	The Good, the Bad and the Ugly	Stevens
	Kiss Kiss...Bang Bang	Professor Padereski
	The Texican	Frank Brady
1967	Master Stroke	Colonel Jenkins
1969	Kidnapping! Paga o uccidiamo tuo figlio	Un Bandito
	The Price of Power	Mr. Willer
	Sundance and the Kid	Barnds
1970	Churchill's Leopards	La Tulipe
	Tristana	Don Cosme
1971	Boulevard du Rhum	Wilkinson
	El bosque del lobo	Abad
1972	Pancho Villa	General Goyo
1973	Nadie oyó gritar	Oscar

External links

• Antonio Casas at the Internet Movie Database