Fame aside, Antonio Casas is above all a career actor known to audiences from a long list of titles rather than from one. Steady employment, rather than one breakout, gives the career its shape. 'The Good, the Bad and the Ugly' is the entry that tends to open any account of the career. Another entry worth naming is 'Tristana'.
Antonio Casas
70 years (Nov 11, 1911 – Feb 14, 1982)A Coruña, Galicia, Spain
95 Movies2 Series
Fame aside, Antonio Casas is above all a career actor known to audiences from a long list of titles rather than from one. Steady employment, rather than one breakout, gives the career its shape. 'The Good, the Bad and the Ugly' is the entry that tends to open any account of the career. Another entry worth naming is 'Tristana'.
Antonio Casas (11 November 1911 - 14 February 1982) was a Spanish footballer turned film actor who appeared in film between 1941 and his death in 1982.
Casas originally began as a footballer for Atlético Madrid, but entered film in 1941 and made nearly 170 appearances in film and TV between then and 1982. He appeared in A Pistol for Ringo in 1965 and Sergio Leone's Spaghetti Western The Good, the Bad and the Ugly in 1966. One of his best-known roles was in Luis Buñuel's Tristana.