Death Place Matching "Spain" (Sorted by Popularity Ascending)
1. Tyrone Power
Actor | Witness for the Prosecution
Tyrone Power was one of the great romantic swashbuckling stars of the mid-twentieth century, and the third Tyrone Power of four in a famed acting dynasty reaching back to the eighteenth century. His great-grandfather was the first Tyrone Power (1795-1841), a famed Irish comedian. His father, known ...
2. Denholm Elliott
Actor | A Room with a View
Denholm entered RADA at the age of 17 but dropped out after a year having hated every minute being there, He joined the RAF in 1940 and trained as a gunner/radio operator and was shot down over Germany in 1942, In the POW camp he and his fellow prisoners staged various productions in a theatre ...
3. George Sanders
Actor | All About Eve
George Sanders was born of English parents in St. Petersburg, Russia. He worked in a Birmingham textile mill, in the tobacco business and as a writer in advertising. He entered show business in London as a chorus boy, going from there to cabaret, radio and theatrical understudy. His film debut, in ...
4. Dennis Waterman
Actor | New Tricks
Dennis Waterman was born on February 24, 1948 in Clapham, London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for New Tricks (2003), Sweeney 2 (1978) and Sweeney! (1977). He was previously married to Pam Flint, Rula Lenska, Patricia Maynard and Penny Dixon. He died on May 8, 2022 in Spain.
5. Bing Crosby
Actor | White Christmas
Bing Crosby was born Harry Lillis Crosby, Jr. in Tacoma, Washington, the fourth of seven children of Catherine (Harrigan) and Harry Lincoln Crosby, a brewery bookkeeper. He was of English and Irish descent. Crosby studied law at Gonzaga University in Spokane but was more interested in playing the ...
6. Stanley Baker
Actor | Zulu
Stanley Baker was unusual star material to emerge during the Fifties - when impossibly handsome and engagingly romantic leading men were almost de rigueur. Baker was forged from a rougher mould. His was good-looking, but his features were angular, taut, austere and unwelcoming. His screen persona ...
7. Silvana Mangano
Actress | Dune
Silvana Mangano was born on April 21, 1930 in Rome, Italy and was raised in poverty during World War II. She trained as a dancer for seven years and supported herself as a model. In 1946, at age 16, she won the Miss Rome beauty pageant and through this, she obtained role in a Maria Della Costa film...
8. Roy Kinnear
Actor | Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
After his schooling in Edinburgh, the British character actor Roy Kinnear attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. Following national service, Kinnear appeared on stage, radio, and television in Scotland before becoming a household name in Britain in the early 1960s as one of the ...
9. Jesús Franco
Writer | Der Teufel kam aus Akasava
He was only six years old when he started composing music under the protection of his brother Enrique. After the Spanish Civil War he was able to continue his studies at the Real Conservatorio de Madrid, where he finished piano and harmony. Being a Bachelor of Law and an easy-read novel writer (...
10. Lina Romay
Actress | La comtesse noire
Stunningly comely and slinky brunette Lina Romay rates highly as one of the boldest, most sensuous, and enticing actresses to have appeared with tremendous frequency in a large volume of European horror and exploitation features made from the early 1970s to the early 21st century.
Romay was born ...
11. Mark Stevens
Actor | The Dark Corner
Mark Stevens, a good-looking, second-tier star during the 1940s and 1950s, was born Richard William Stevens in Cleveland, Ohio, on December 13, 1916 (the dates in reference books seem to vary between 1915-20). Of Scottish and English heritage, the freckle-faced boy with the reddish hair had a ...
12. Sara Montiel
Actress | La violetera
Sara Montiel was born in the village of Campo de Criptana, province of Ciudad Real, in the region of Castille-La Mancha, Spain. Her parents were Isidoro Abad, a peasant, and Maria Vicenta Fernández, a door-to-door beautician. The future star was christened Maria Antonia Alejandra Abad Fernández. ...
13. Carlos Saura
Writer | Cría cuervos
Spanish director, writer, producer (2 films) and actor (2 films). His interest in cinema started when he was very young. His mother, who was a pianist, instilled in him the liking for music, and his brother, Antonio, who was a painter, the passion for art. When he was an teenager he started to ...
14. Madeleine Carroll
Actress | The 39 Steps
The original ash-blonde "iceberg maiden", Madeleine Carroll was a knowing beauty with a confident air, the epitome of poise and "breeding". Not only did she have looks and allure in abundance, but she had intellectual heft to go with them, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts from Birmingham ...
15. Fernando Rey
Actor | Tristana
Fernando Rey, the great Spanish movie actor primarily known in the United States for his role as "Frog One" in The French Connection (1971) and its sequel, was born Fernando Casado D'Arambillet on September 20 1917, in A Coruña, Galicia, Spain, the son of Colonel Casado Veiga. Originally, the young...
16. Lucia Bosè
Actress | La signora senza camelie
Lucia Bosè was born on January 28, 1931 in Milan, Lombardy, Italy. She was an actress, known for The Lady Without Camelias (1953), Story of a Love Affair (1950) and Death of a Cyclist (1955). She was previously married to Luis Miguel Dominguín. She died on March 23, 2020 in Segovia, Segovia, ...
17. Guy Hamilton
Director | Live and Let Die
Typically British stiff-upper-lip war dramas and action adventure laced with moments of sophisticated comedy were Guy Hamilton's trademark. The son of a British diplomat, he spent most of his youth with his family in France, seemingly destined to be groomed for a career in the diplomatic service. ...
18. Andree Melly
Actress | The Horror of It All
Andree Melly was born on September 15, 1932 in Liverpool, England, UK. She was an actress, known for The Horror of It All (1964), ITV Television Playhouse (1955) and The Brides of Dracula (1960). She was previously married to Oscar Quitak. She died on January 31, 2020 in St Eulalia, Ibiza, Spain.
19. Henry Beckman
Actor | Marnie
Henry Beckman was born on November 26, 1921 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. He was an actor, known for Marnie (1964), Blood & Guts (1978) and The Brood (1979). He was previously married to Hillary Beckman and Cheryl Maxwell. He died on June 17, 2008 in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.
20. Madeleine Lebeau
Actress | Casablanca
Madeleine Lebeau was born on June 10, 1923 in Antony, Seine [now Hauts-de-Seine], France. She was an actress, known for Casablanca (1942), 8½ (1963) and Gentleman Jim (1942). She was previously married to Tullio Pinelli and Marcel Dalio. She died on May 1, 2016 in Estepona, Malaga, Spain.
21. Laura Valenzuela
Actress | Españolas en París
Laura Valenzuela was born on February 18, 1931 in Seville, Andalusia, Spain. She was an actress, known for Españolas en París (1971), Madame (1961) and Cyrano et d'Artagnan (1964). She was previously married to José Luis Dibildos. She died on March 17, 2023 in Madrid, Comunidad de ...
22. Al Matthews
Actor | Aliens
Folk singer and musical performer who worked professionally while living in England. He later turned to acting, but continues to write and sing. Matthews is noted for having made two significant historical firsts. While on combat duty during the Vietnam War, Matthews became the first black Marine ...
23. James Hayter
Actor | Oliver!
The son of a police superintendent in India, the character actor James Hayter was educated in Scotland, where he was urged into acting by his headmaster. After one year (1924-5) at the Royal Academy of the Dramatic Arts in London, he performed in repertory theater, eventually appearing in The West ...
24. Paul Naschy
Actor | El retorno del Hombre Lobo
Paul Naschy reigns supreme as the true king of Spanish horror cinema. He was born Jacinto Molina Alvarez on September 6, 1934, in Madrid, Spain. His father ran a successful fur business. Naschy grew up during the Spanish Civil War, and sought escape from the real-life horrors around him in ...
25. Sirpa Lane
Actress | Le notti segrete di Lucrezia Borgia
Sirpa Lane was born in 1952 in Turku, Finland. She was an actress, known for The Secret Nights of Lucrezia Borgia (1982) and Papaya: Love Goddess of the Cannibals (1978). She died in 1999 in Formentera, Balearic Islands, Spain.
26. Faye Emerson
Actress | Between Two Worlds
Synonymous with chic, the ever-fashionable Faye Emerson certainly qualified as one of the "first ladies" of TV glamour. Bedecked in sweeping, rather low-cut gowns and expensive, dangling jewelry, she was a highly poised and stylish presence on the small screen during its exciting "Golden Age". An ...
27. Bigas Luna
Writer | Jamón Jamón
Bigas Luna was born on March 19, 1946 in Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. He was a writer and director, known for Jamón, Jamón (1992), The Chambermaid on the Titanic (1997) and Caniche (1979). He was previously married to Celia Orós. He died on April 6, 2013 in La Riera de Gaià...
28. Craig Hill
Actor | All About Eve
Craig Hill was born on March 5, 1926 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was an actor, known for All About Eve (1950), The Black Shield of Falworth (1954) and The Bloodstained Shadow (1978). He was previously married to Teresa Gimpera. He died on April 21, 2014 in Barcelona, Spain.
29. Mike Reid
Actor | Snatch
Mike Reid was born on January 19, 1940 in Hackney, London, England, UK. He was an actor and producer, known for Snatch (2000), EastEnders (1985) and Doctor Who: Dimensions in Time (1993). He was previously married to Shirley Collins and Sheila A Axe. He died on July 29, 2007 in Marbella, Spain.
30. Ann Smyrner
Actress | Reptilicus
Ann Smyrner was born on November 3, 1934 in Frederiksberg, Denmark. She was an actress, known for Reptilicus (1961), Kommissar X - Drei gelbe Katzen (1966) and Holiday in St. Tropez (1964). She died on August 29, 2016 in Benalmadena, Andalusia, Spain.
31. Jean Negulesco
Director | Boy on a Dolphin
Jean Negulesco made his reputation as a director of both polished, popular entertainments as well as critically acclaimed dramatic pictures in the 1940s and 1950s. Born in Craiova, Romania, he left home at age 12, ending up in Paris. He earned some money washing dishes, which paid for his art ...
32. Cilla Black
Soundtrack | Last Night in Soho
Cilla Black was born on May 27, 1943 in Liverpool, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Last Night in Soho (2021), Hellboy (2019) and Cilla (1968). She was previously married to Bobby Willis. She died on August 1, 2015 in Estepona, Spain.
33. Vivi Bach
Actress | Holiday in St. Tropez
Vivi Bach was born on September 3, 1939 in Copenhagen, Denmark. She was an actress and writer, known for Holiday in St. Tropez (1964), Die Post geht ab (1962) and Soldaterkammerater rykker ud (1959). She was previously married to Dietmar Schönherr and Heinz Sebeck. She died on April 22, 2013 in ...
34. Salvador Dalí
Art Department | Spellbound
Surrealist-turned-catholic painter Dalí worked on various movies as well. While a member of the French surrealist group, he co-wrote An Andalusian Dog (1929) and L'Age d'Or (1930) with Luis Buñuel. The latter may have marked the beginning of a long-lasting quarrel with the surrealists when Dalí did ...
35. Patty Shepard
Actress | Descanse en piezas
Strikingly comely brunette Patty Shepard was born in 1945 in Greenville, South Carolina. The daughter of a U.S. Air Force official, Patty moved to Spain when she was only 18 years old. After becoming popular as a model in a series of TV commercials, the lovely Ms. Shepard embarked on an acting ...
36. José Luis Cuerda
Director | Los girasoles ciegos
José Luis Cuerda was born on February 18, 1947 in Albacete, Albacete, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain. He was a director and writer, known for The Blind Sunflowers (2008), Butterfly (1999) and The Others (2001). He died on February 4, 2020 in Madrid, Madrid, Spain.
37. Luis García Berlanga
Writer | Plácido
Berlanga commenced his studies in Valencia in1928, although in 1929 his family sent him and his brother Fernando (due to a lung disease) to the Beau-soleil hospital school in Switzerland. In 1930, he returned to the San José School in Valencia where he stayed until 1931, the year in which the ...
38. Fernando Fernán Gómez
Actor | El abuelo
Spanish actor and director of cinema and theater. Son of the actress Carola Fernán Gómez. When he was three years old he comes back to Spain from Argentina. He has written comedies, novels and poem books. He plays a wide repertoire of roles from comedy to drama.
39. Barbara Murray
Actress | Tales from the Crypt
A self-assured and stylish actress, Barbara Murray was born into a showbusiness family, the daughter of actors and granddaughter of professional ballroom dancers. She was first thrust into the limelight as a six-year-old, dancing in the family variety act. Murray and her mother were evacuated to ...
40. Aldo Sambrell
Actor | Per qualche dollaro in più
Prolific, versatile, and ubiquitous character actor Aldo Sambrell was featured in over 140 international motion pictures in a remarkably long, varied, and illustrious career that spanned four and a half decades. Swarthy and burly, usually sporting a thick mustache, and often projecting an air of ...
41. Pilar Bardem
Actress | Carne trémula
Pilar Bardem was born on March 14, 1939 in Seville, Seville, Andalucía, Spain. She was an actress, known for Live Flesh (1997), Nobody Will Speak of Us When We're Dead (1995) and María querida (2004). She was previously married to José Carlos Encinas Doussinague. She died on July 17, 2021 in...
42. Ricardo Montez
Actor | Mind Your Language
Ricardo Montez was born on September 20, 1923 in Gibraltar. He was an actor and writer, known for Mind Your Language (1977), Mamma Mia! (2008) and The Avengers (1961). He was previously married to Orovida Hatchwell. He died on October 26, 2010 in Marbella, Spain.
43. Nico
Soundtrack | Allegiant
Model and singer Nico was born in Cologne, Germany in 1938. She was a part of the Andy Warhol "scene" in the 1960s. A member of The Velvet Underground experimental rock band (with John Cale), circa 1967, she made several solo albums during the 1970s. A heroin addict for the latter part of her life,...
44. Al Mulock
Actor | Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo
Al Mulock was born on June 30, 1925 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He was an actor, known for The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966), The Hellbenders (1967) and Pickup Alley (1957). He was previously married to Catherine Ellison and Steffi Henderson. He died in May 1968 in Guadix, Spain.
45. Alfredo Landa
Actor | El crack
He abandoned his studies of law for the universitary theater. His debut in cinema was in 1962. During the 60's and 70's he participates mainly in not very good comedies. But in the 80's he has revealed as one of the best spanish actors with films like The Holy Innocents (1984) or The Enchanted ...
46. Chus Lampreave
Actress | Mujeres al borde de un ataque de "nervios"
Chus Lampreave was born on December 11, 1930 in Madrid, Madrid, Spain. She was an actress and writer, known for Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988), Volver (2006) and Belle Epoque (1992). She was previously married to Eusebio Moreno de los Ríos. She died on April 4, 2016 in Almería, ...
47. Verónica Forqué
Actress | Kika
Verónica Forqué was born on December 1, 1955 in Madrid, Madrid, Spain. She was an actress, known for Kika (1993), What Have I Done to Deserve This? (1984) and Eva y Adán, agencia matrimonial (1990). She was previously married to Manuel Iborra. She died on December 13, 2021 in Madrid, Madrid,...
48. José Ramón Larraz
Director | Symptoms
José Ramón Larraz was born on February 7, 1929 in Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. He was a director and writer, known for Symptoms (1974), Whirlpool (1970) and Vampyres (1974). He died on September 3, 2013 in Málaga, Málaga, Andalucía, Spain.
49. Frederick Jaeger
Actor | Department S
Frederick was educated in Germany and France. He came to England in 1939 and took up acting at the suggestion of his English headmaster. He attended the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London between 1946 and 1948 and started his stage career at preston Rep in 1949. Many rep seasons in ...
50. Emma Cohen
Actress | Novela
Emma Cohen was born on November 21, 1946 in Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. She was an actress and writer, known for Novela (1963), Al otro lado del espejo (1973) and Pierna creciente, falda menguante (1970). She was previously married to Fernando Fernán Gómez. She died on July 11, 2016 in ...