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Known For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1947-09-15

Place of Birth

Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Eusebio Poncela

Biography

Eusebio Poncela  (September 15, 1947 - August 27, 2025) was a Spanish actor. His debut on stage was with"Mariana Pineda". In 1969 appears on screen for first time in "Fuenteovejuna", but his first notable role was the protagonist of the Spanish cult movie Arrebato (1979), directed by Iván Zulueta. Another hit was TVE miniserie Los gozos y las sombras (1985). He was the protagonist of La ley del deseo by Pedro Almodóvar. He came back to cinema with Martín (Hache), by Adolfo Aristarain. Another films: Tuno negro (2001) and Remake (2006); or Intacto, by Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, with Max von Sydow. Description above from the Wikipedia article Eusebio Poncela, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

Known for

Dani&Flo con Lara Álvarez

Dani&Flo con Lara Álvarez

The Ministry of Time

The Ministry of Time

A soldier from the 15th century, a university student from the 19th century and a nurse from the present join the secret 'Department of Time', a secret department within the Spanish government with the ability to travel through time. Their mission is prevent changes in history.

Isabel

Isabel

Charting the life of Isabella I of Castile, one of the most important women in Spain’s history, Isabel follows her passionate story from childhood to being crowned Queen. From her political struggles within King Henry IV's court to her wedding to Ferdinand of Aragon, the drama encapsulates the passions, emotions and sacrifices of a woman who refused to just be a figurehead and whose outlook was ahead of her time.

Curro Jiménez

Curro Jiménez

Curro Jiménez was a successful Spanish TV series that aired on TVE1 from 22 December 1976 to 1979. Its main theme was Andalusian "bandolerismo" in the 19th century, located in the Ronda mountains. The main characters were four bandits, Curro Jiménez

The Tribute

The Tribute

The story follows Adolfo Novak, a powerful family patriarch, whose 80th birthday celebration uncovers decades of secrets, betrayals, loyalties, and a thirst for revenge.

El accidente

El accidente

Operation Ogre

Operation Ogre

Spain, 1973. Dictator Francisco Franco has ruled the country since 1939 with an iron fist; but he is now a very old and sick man. The future of the weakened regime is in danger. Admiral Carrero Blanco is his natural successor. The Basque terrorist gang ETA decides that he must die to prevent the dictatorship from continuing.

Carlos, rey emperador

Carlos, rey emperador

As the life of Charles of Habsburg is told since his arrival to Spain, it can be seen how the heir to the crowns of Germany, Burgundy, the Netherlands, the Free County, Artois, Nevers and Rethel, of the territories of the Crown of Aragon and its related Italian territories, and of the territories of the Catholic Monarchs in Castile, North Africa and the Americas, matures as a statesman and gets stronger in face of menaces around him and good and bad advice from his counselors.

800 Bullets

800 Bullets

Almería, Tabernas desert, Spain, 2002. Texas Hollywood is a dilapidated and dusty town where Western movies have not been shot for decades. Julián Torralba and his partners, veteran film stuntmen, survive there, recreating pathetic action scenes for the pleasure of the few foreign tourists who visit the isolated region.

Werther

Werther

This adaptation of Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther offers a chilly and remote view of love and its passions. The setting is changed to Spain, and Werther (Eusebio Poncela) has taken a job tutoring the son of an estranged husband and wife. The boy's mother is a surgeon and therefore a rather uncommon woman for her society. She and Werther gradually become romantically involved, and his feelings for her begin to run much deeper than is apparent on the surface.

Querido Fotogramas

Querido Fotogramas

The 70th anniversary of the “Fotogramas” magazine comes in the shape of a sentimental voyage through the history of Spanish cinema thanks to a mosaic of voices represented by people who make films, those who write them and those who consume them. The documentary pays tribute to the readers of “Fotogramas” helped by the leading figures of Spanish cinema, who will read to the camera the most representative letters received at its offices in the history of the magazine.

Una historia

Una historia

Los Gozos y las Sombras

Los Gozos y las Sombras

Separación matrimonial

Separación matrimonial

Viento del pueblo: Miguel Hernández

Viento del pueblo: Miguel Hernández

The life and tragical death of the young Spanish poet Miguel Hernández.