Actor Celso Bugallo, Goya Award winner for ‘The Sea Inside’, dies at 78 | Cinema: premieres and evaluations | EUROtoday

The Pontevedra actor Celso Bugallo Aguiar, died this Saturday in Pontevedra. Born in Vilalonga (Sanxenxo), he would have turned 79 on January 1st. Bugallo had an extended theatrical profession, however it was not till he was 52 that he made his movie debut beneath the path of José Luis Cuerda in The language of butterflies. At that second he started to make up for misplaced time within the audiovisual subject, and his profession has closed with greater than fifty jobs in movie and sequence: final yr he launched the miniseries The Asunta case and the horror film Rocafort Station.

Since then he grew to become one of many hardest working secondary actors in Spanish cinema because of titles equivalent to Mondays within the solar, by Fernando León de Aranoa, and The life that awaits youby Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón. With Alejandro Amenábar he received his first Goya award for greatest supporting actor with out to sea, by enjoying the brother of Ramón Sampedro, and with Fernando León he repeated it a number of instances and achieved a second candidacy for the Goya with The good boss.

After his movie debut with Cuerda, his look in Lena (2001) and chapters of sequence equivalent to Journalists, Spring tides y Galicia exprés, It was León de Aranoa who made Bugallo obtain a sure reputation, for his painful position as Amador in Mondays within the solar. Bugallo tailored the character to his persona, austere and easy, and that gave flight to the position.

His Galician nature and his ease in drawing these dry and bitter characters, who hid tumultuous pasts and important burdens inside them, opened the door to filming in his autonomous group as The carpenter’s pencil or different components of northern Spain equivalent to The life that awaits you, by Gutiérrez Aragón.

Interestingly, Bugallo didn’t develop in northwestern Spain. His household had emigrated from Galicia when he was a baby, to the Basque Country, first, after which to Logroño. In Bilbao Celso Bugallo noticed Rebel with out a trigger and determined to be an actor, captivated by the efficiency of James Dean. In Logroño he constructed his profession on stage.

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