Fernando Fernán Gomez | Born in Peru and conquered Spain: the story of the actor and film …

According to the criteria of Know more He was born in Lima in 1921, on August 28, when his mother, the actress Carola Fernández Gómez, was touring South America with the María Guerrero theater company. Little was the time that our lands kept this son and grandson of actors, who returned to Madrid at the age of three. In the Spanish capital, Fernando Fernán-Gómez He began to study Philosophy and Letters, but his vocation and interest in theater led him to the stage at a very young age. During the Civil War he studied acting, and at the end he made his professional debut in the company of Laura Pinillos, the famous star of the musical magazine. There he met Enrique Jardiel Poncela, who in 1940 offered him his first opportunity as a supporting actor in the play “Eloísa is under an almond tree”. In the cinema, his acting debut was marked by the film “Cristina Guzmán” (1943), by Gonzalo Delgrás, with which he began a prolific career of more than one hundred and fifty feature films. “A portrait” (1976). Director: Jesús García de Dueñas. And is that Fernan-Gomez It exemplifies a tradition of cinema, theater and television that dialogues…
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