Emma Penella
Manuela Ruiz Penella known as Emma Penella (Madrid, March 2, 1931 - Ibidem, August 27, 2007) was a Spanish film, theater and television actress.
Daughter of the politician Ramón Ruiz Alonso and Magdalena Penella Silva, granddaughter of the composer Manuel Penella Moreno, great-granddaughter of the also musician Manuel Penella Raga, sister of the also actresses Elisa Montés (1934) and Terele Pávez (1939-2017). She married film producer Emiliano Piedra with whom she had three daughters: Emma, Lola and Emiliana. She was also the aunt of the actress Emma Ozores (daughter of her sister Elisa Montés and the actor Antonio Ozores).
Actress of marked personality and prestige since the 1950s, she triumphed in cinema thanks to films such as Luis García Berlanga's El verdugo (The Executioner) and maintained intense theatrical activity. She renewed her popularity in her later years participating in the television series Aquí no hay quien viva (2003-2006) and La que se avecina (2007).
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 5.195 |
| Birthday | 1930-03-02 |
| Place of Birth | Madrid, Spain |
| Also Known As | Manuela Ruiz Penella, Эмма Пенелла, |
1963
The Executioner
7.567/163
An undertaker gets married to an old executioner's daughter and, although he doesn't like it, must continue the profession of his father-in-law after...
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The Executioner
1964
Golden Goddess of Rio Beni
8.5/1
An aviator of a commercial line disappears in the Brazilian jungle. Two friends organize an expedition to find him. As if there were not enough danger...
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Golden Goddess of Rio Beni
1986
El amor brujo
6.977/22
In a Gypsy village, the fathers of Candela and José promise their children to each other. Years later, the unfaithful José marries Candela but while d...
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El amor brujo
1963
Carta a una mujer
5.3/3
Flora and Carlos have a marriage of convenience. Realizing that she did not love him, Carlos joined the Blue Division and soon disappeared in Russia....
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Carta a una mujer
1963
Alegre juventud
6/1
Luis, Julio, Miguel and Carlos are four young men who, moved by a strong religious vocation, have left behind family, friends, work and a love of yout...
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Alegre juventud
1954
Comedians
5.7/6
Ana Ruiz, a young actress who works in a traveling theater company, plays only minor roles, but she hopes to succeed and prefers the success to the lo...
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Comedians
1953
Hanging meat
5.3/6
On the XIX Century in Sierra Morena in Serranía de Ronda spread bandits thant cause panic in the cities robbing and killing travellers.
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Hanging meat
1960
Un ángel tuvo la culpa
6/1
Claudio is a kind mand who works as cashier in a company for several years. Whe he finds closed the bank where he has to deposit a millon of pesetas,...
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Un ángel tuvo la culpa
1962
El amor de los amores
4.7/3
Felipe Crespo, because of their anarchist ideology, Barcelona fleeing persecution for justice. Starving, he reaches the manor house and asks for prote...
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El amor de los amores
1952
The Eyes Leave a Trace
6.2/6
Martin, a frustrated lawyer who sells perfumes, is reunited with Robert, an old, bright fellow student, and falls in love with his wife. One night Rob...
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The Eyes Leave a Trace
1955
El guardián del paraíso
0/0
A serene mind a person is in a coffee some of their experiences: the story of a poet who gives shelter, a nun who takes off to find a drug habits in t...
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El guardián del paraíso
1966
Lola, espejo oscuro
1/1
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Lola, espejo oscuro
1964
La hora incógnita
5/5
In a small Spanish town, is expected to explode a nuclear bomb to ten at night. All neighbors leave, except for thirteen people who are gathered in th...
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La hora incógnita
1955
Red Fish
6.5/11
Ivón, a chorus girl, and Hugo, a failed writer, arrive at a seaside hotel on a stormy night, along with Carlos, Hugo's 19-year-old son. When they deci...
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Red Fish
1956
Fedra, the Devil's Daughter
6.778/9
Estrella, a wild young woman, is lusted after by every man and therefore hated by the female community.
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Fedra, the Devil's Daughter
1974
The Regent's wife
4.3/3
Adapted from the novel of the same name by Clarín, which narrates the difficulties of Ana Ozores to adapt to the sordidness of life in Vetusta, a prov...
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The Regent's wife
1957
The Shadow Battalion
5/3
Dreams, hopes and passions of the inhabitants of a populous and humble tenement in Madrid. Among them, an inventor who invents always what is already...
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The Shadow Battalion
1970
Fortunata y Jacinta
5/1
Shows the unfailing love of two women for the same man, one as his mistress, the other as his wife. The lives of these characters intertwine and are d...
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Fortunata y Jacinta
1985
Our Father
4.6/9
The story of a Spanish Cardinal who is told he only has one more year to live. He decides to return to his hometown, after an absence of 30 years, to...
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Our Father
1987
The Tobacconist of Vallecas
6.4/50
Leandro, an unemployed mason and his friend, Tocho, attempt to rob a tobacconist in the Vallecas district of Madrid, but Mrs. Justa, the tobacconist,...
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The Tobacconist of Vallecas
1966
The Search
5.6/11
Manuel Jacques Perrin is a young man from the country who tries to make it in Madrid in this somber melodrama. He struggles to survive in the unforgiv...
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The Search
1992
El Quijote de Miguel de Cervantes
8.5/15
Miniseries version of the first half of Cervantes' famous novel.
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El Quijote de Miguel de Cervantes
1959
De espaldas a la puerta
6.5/2
Inspector Simón and Inspector Arévalo investigate the stabbing of a nightclub employee.
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De espaldas a la puerta
1964
Badmen of the West
0/0
I Brutos arrive in the town of Fresno during a gunfight and mistakenly think it is a celebration of their arrival and start shooting their guns and ki...
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Badmen of the West
1965
Black Humor
2/1
A unique black comedy consisting of three episodes on the same theme: death. In a circus, trapeze artist Wilma is going to get rid of a rival during a...
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Black Humor
1957
Un marido de ida y vuelta
4/4
Adaptation of the eponymous play of Jardiel Poncela. A husband dominated by his overbearing wife dies victim of a heart attack the day she forces him...
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Un marido de ida y vuelta
1952
Doña Francisquita
6.6/7
Francisquita secretly loves Fernando, but he is in love with the beautiful and fickle Aurora.
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Doña Francisquita
1963
La cuarta ventana
0/0
One day, three young seamstresses who love nightlife and fun, upon returning to the house they share, find a seriously injured girl in the bathroom.
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La cuarta ventana
1971
First Surrender
3.7/3
Giallo about a man plotting to kill his wife for her money.
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First Surrender
1953
¡Che, qué loco!
0/0
A bankrupt man tries to marry a millionaire woman, which triggers a whole series of misunderstandings.
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¡Che, qué loco!
2000
Pídele cuentas al rey
5.1/7
Fidel, an Asturian miner, after the closure of the mine where he works, decides to walk to Madrid with his family, to ask the king why the Constitutio...
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Pídele cuentas al rey
1991
El crimen de Don Benito
3.7/3
July 18, 1902. A woman and her daughter are brutally murdered in the Extremaduran town of Don Benito. Everybody knows the depraved town boss was respo...
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El crimen de Don Benito
1961
Scano Boa
0/0
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Scano Boa
1955
Tres hombres van a morir
0/0
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Tres hombres van a morir
2003
Bulgarian Lovers
5.6/23
Graying Spaniard Daniel has a healthy budget for indulging in the finer things in life. Daniel's favorite luxury is playing sponsor to younger men ami...
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Bulgarian Lovers
1952
Aimless boat
0/0
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Aimless boat
1952
Truhanes de honor
0/0
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Truhanes de honor
1990
Doblones de a ocho
0/0
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Doblones de a ocho
2021
FFG, el último gran conversador
8.1/8
Fernando Fernán Gómez (1921-2007), actor, writer, playwright and film director, was for decades one of the most important figures in Spanish culture....
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FFG, el último gran conversador
1960
Sentencia contra una mujer
0/0
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Sentencia contra una mujer
1954
La patrouille des sables
5/1
Three adventurers, Pierre, an engineer, Mailard, an escaped convict and Luis, a guitarist, are in search of gold in the Sahara. They happen to be capt...
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La patrouille des sables
1988
Viento de cólera
2/1
Two soldiers accompanied by two women enter the Baztán valley on horseback. They are deserters from the army of the Indies who are fleeing to Italy. T...
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