Fernando Fernán Gómez

Fernando Fernán Gómez was born in 1921 in Lima, during a tour by his mother, the actress Carola Fernán-Gómez, and grew up in Spain, whose nationality he obtained only in 1984. Trained at the CNT's acting school during the Civil War, he made his stage debut in 1938, then his film debut in 1943. An actor in some two hundred films, he himself directed more than twenty-five feature films and wrote novels and plays. Elected to the Royal Spanish Academy, he died in Madrid in 2007.

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• CinemaLife Goes OnEl mundo sigueFernando Fernán Gómez · 1965Cinema