Luis Mariano
Actor
Born August 13, 1914 in Irún, Guipúzcoa, Spain
Luis Mariano Eusebio González García (13 August 1914 – 14 July 1970), also known as Luis Mariano, was a popular tenor of Spanish origin who achieved celebrity in 1946 with "La belle de Cadix" ("The Beautiful Lady of Cadix") an operetta by Francis Lopez. He appeared in the 1954 film Adventures of the Barber of Seville and Le Chanteur de Mexico (1957) and became popular in France as well as his native Spain. Luis Mariano was born in Irun, Spain on 13 August 1914, the son of a garagiste and taxi-driver and showed interest in singing as a child. His family moved to France at the start of the Spanish Civil War and settled in Bordeaux where he studied at the Conservatoire, and also sang in cabarets.
Filmography
Champs-Elysées
Self (archive footage)
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Self (archive footage)
Les Pieds dans le plâtre
The farmer
Candide or The Optimism in the 20th Century
Un dictateur sud américain / South American Dictator
Discorama
Self
Serenade of Texas
Jacques Gardel
Love in Jamaica
Manoël Martinez
Springtime in Paris
(uncredited)
The Singer from Mexico
Miguel Morano / Vincent Etchebar
Four Days in Paris
Mario
Napoleon
Garat
The Adventurer of Seville
Fígaro
La belle de Cadix
Carlos
Imperial Violets
Juan de Ayala
Paris Still Sings!
Self
Rendezvous in Grenada
Marco Da Costa
El sueño de Andalucía
Juanito Var
Andalusia
Juanito Var
Not Any Weekend for Our Love
Franck Reno
I Love Only You
Don Renaldo
Fandango
José
The Ed Sullivan Show
Self
Secret Cargo
José
History of Singing
Gino Fabretti
L'Escalier sans fin
Singer
Le Chant de l'exilé
un jeune Basque
Ramuntcho
(singing voice)