José Lifante

José Lifante

Nascimento : 1943-06-03, Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

História

José Lifante was born on June 3, 1943 in Barcelona (Catalonia) as José Ruiz Lifante. He is a spanish actor, known for The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988), Hard Times for Dracula (1976), Josefina (TV-series, 1979), Dagon (2001) and The Biggest Robbery Never Told (2002).

Perfil

José Lifante

Filmes

Berlanga!!
Self - Actor
How does the vision of the brilliant Spanish filmmaker Luis García Berlanga (1921-2010) remain relevant in a time whose popular culture has little to do with his own? Since to understand the secrets of an artist it is essential to know the person behind, his family, his friends, his collaborators, as well as prestigious filmmakers and actors trace a collective portrait of a creator as singular as he is universal.
Sanjulián: el poder de la ilustración
Francisco de Goya (voice) (uncredited)
An account, in his own words and those of his relatives, of the life and work of the brilliant Manuel Pérez-Sanjulián Clemente, one of the most important Spanish illustrators of all times.
Wild Session
Self - Actor
A walk through the golden age of Spanish exploitation cinema, from the sixties to the eighties; a low-budget cinema and great popular acceptance that exploited cinematographic fashions: westerns, horror movies, erotic comedies and thrillers about petty criminals.
Rebobinando
The Last Script
José Lifante
Actress Lone Fleming suffers terrible nightmares in which she is pursued by zombie Templars.
El Viaje Glauber
Ele mesmo
Em 1970, o cineasta brasileiro Glauber Rocha filmou na Espanha franquista o filme Cabezas Cortadas, uma história de decadência, poder e delírio protagonizada por um ditador latino-americano. El Viaje Glauber parte do fracasso de Cabezas Cortadas para reivindicar o filme e o cinema de Glauber Rocha.
Firme Usted Aquí
Matías
Spain. Faced with the progressive aging of the population and the dire economic situation, the Administration launches an assisted euthanasia campaign aimed at so-called -unproductive beings-. Keen to get their hands on the amount of money set for the substitution of the old man, the Arevalo family will try to get rid of Granddad unaware that he has plans of his own.
Lentejuelas de sangre
Himself
Antonio Gracia José (1942-2011), known as “Pierrot,” was a prominent member of the Barcelona art scene, a pioneer in the filmmaking of underground short films and Fantaterror movies, writer and playwright, magazine editor, movie poster painter, cartoonist and cabaret showman.
The Evil Faces of Víctor Israel
Himself
Hour-long documentary about distinctive-looking Spanish character actor Víctor Israel.
Rojo sangre
Camilo
The Biggest Robbery Never Told
El Gran Shazam
Lucas Santos, named El Santo is petty thief going continuously in and out of jail. Tired of small thefts, he aims to strike a blow that makes him famous and become the star of all media. His wife Lucia, a comprehensive and sweet woman, while awaiting the return of her husband, works as a stripper at a nightclub. Finally, Lucas gathers a band of petty thieves and decides to steal, from the National Museum of Art Reina Sofía, its most valuable painting: Picasso's Guernica.
Dagon
Hotel Receptionist
Baseado no Conto de H.P. Lovecraft. Dois jovens turistas, Bárbara e Paul, vão à procura de ajuda em uma pequena cidade chamada Imboca (Innsmouth), na costa de Galiza, na Espanha, depois que o barco em que estavam afundou. No entanto, os moradores da cidade não são amigáveis, nem mesmo humanos, com excessão de um bêbado chamado Ezequiel. Este último, diz a Paul como os habitantes da cidade derrubaram o cristianismo a favor do deus Dagon, que lhes trouxe riquezas do fundo do mar. Desde então, eles se tornaram obedientes à bela criatura Uxía. Estranhamente ela aparece a Paul em seus sonhos, e mesmo antes de se encontrarem, ela o salva da morte. No entanto, seus planos para ele e Bárbara desencadearão um horror além da imaginação.
Lázaro de Tormes
Clérigo
Operación Gónada
Cayetano Romero
The Dog in the Manger
Octavio
Diana, the Countess of Belflor, is an intelligent, impulsive woman in love with her secretary, Teodoro. He is engaged to Marcela, one of the countess's ladies in waiting. When the countess finds out about the engagement, driven by jealousy, she does everything possible to separate the lovers.
Los porretas
Don Porfirio
Gran Slalom
Director Hotel
A young officer of the Guardia Civil moves to a ski resort in the Pyrenees traveling on official business. On the way his car has a breakdown and he is picked up by a woman who is staying at the hotel. From this situation several adventures and tangles happen. Things get complicated as he must dress as a woman to avoid being surprised.
Sevilla Connection
El holandés (as José R. Lifante)
Aquí, el que no corre... vuela
Joyero
Lola, a member of a gang of crooks, is visited by a cousin who comes to work in a multinational.
El largo invierno
Funcionario
In 1939, Ramón was a young man, caught up in his Barcelona family's involvement on the Republic side in the brutal Spanish Civil War. He and his family fled into exile ahead of Franco's troops. Now it is many years later, and he has come back to see how his old homestead fared in the intervening years. The only person he can find who is able to remember those years clearly is his family's old butler Claudio.
Ni se te ocurra... (dejar de verla)
Portero de bar
As Aventuras do Barão Munchausen
Dr. Death
As fantásticas histórias do maior mentiroso de todos os tempos. Enquanto tenta escapar da morte, encontrar seus amigos e salvar a cidade do ataque dos turcos, o Barão relembra a aposta com o Califa, a visita à Lua, a dança com Afrodite, entre outras aventuras.
Birds of Prey
Governor (as Jose Linfante)
Vanessa, a television reporter covering a story of a farmer attacked by his chickens, discovers that this is not an isolated incident. Travelling to Spain with her cameraman Peter, the two discover the survivors of a town wiped out by the birds thirty years ago. Meanwhile, attacks continue as a child's birthday party ends in tragedy and doves devour a poultry farmer and his wife. Vanessa soon comes to the conclusion that the birds are organizing themselves against the ecological ravages of man, but time is running out as thousands of birds launch an attack against a train Vanessa is traveling on.
Birds of Prey
Governor
Vanessa, a television reporter covering a story of a farmer attacked by his chickens, discovers that this is not an isolated incident. Travelling to Spain with her cameraman Peter, the two discover the survivors of a town wiped out by the birds thirty years ago. Meanwhile, attacks continue as a child's birthday party ends in tragedy and doves devour a poultry farmer and his wife. Vanessa soon comes to the conclusion that the birds are organizing themselves against the ecological ravages of man, but time is running out as thousands of birds launch an attack against a train Vanessa is traveling on.
¡Esto es un atraco!
Carlos
A group of people are recruited by the brain of a band of robbers to commit the theft of some gold bars. Each character has a particular problem why he needs the money, but all are pretty sloppy.
Love Ravings
Chófer (segment "Delirio 1")
In this anthology film, a female actor cheats on her formerly famous husband, a married couple go to extremes, and an antiquarian falls for a young man.
La pantalla diabólica
The Chosen One
Presentador
La hoz y el Martínez
Traductor
O Traidor
Police Officer
Ex-gangster Willie Parker has betrayed his former "colleagues" and now lives in Spain where he thinks he can hide from their vengeance...
Scarab
Ocultista
Satanic Nazis gather to perform ancient rites for evil Egyptian gods in hopes of bringing one back from the dead. Actually, the revivified body belongs to a slain Nazi. Unfortunately, the soul is that of the vengeful diety. Terror ensues.
¡¡¡A tope!!!
Don Braulio
Madrid, 80 A couple, Juanjo and Rachel, threatening their relationship when Juanjo falls in love with another girl, Marta.
La loca historia de los tres mosqueteros
Mamón del Horreur
Agítese antes de usarla
Valduque
Mar brava
Don Santiago
Mingo, a kid whose father and brother have disappeared in shipwrecks, finds an amnesic man lying on the beach. Might he be St. Elmo?
Power Game
Y del seguro… líbranos, Señor!
Dr. Serrano (as José Ruiz Lifante)
Panic
Sergeant O'Brien
A scientist's experiment with a deadly bacteria goes awry and leaves him horribly deformed. The monstrous man then runs amok in his town.
El gran mogollón
Monseñor
La vida, el amor y la muerte
Divided into three grotesque stories of absurd humor that, as the title suggests, are based on life, love and death.
En busca del huevo perdido
Las aventuras de Enrique y Ana
El tío Stanley
Enrique is a gym teacher who along with his sister want to start a musical career with the support of their grandfather, a great scientist who wants to stop an evil despot from getting an artifact that would endanger the entire world.
Cuentos para una escapada
With the help of drawings and comic strips. brings together short films, on children's themes, in which rights that children and adults should enjoy are defended. For the first time, a whole series of important Spanish directors meet to make a children's film.
Vecinos
Representante
Luis and Aurora live in the outskirts of Madrid, his life is quiet and peaceful until it reaches Antonio, her new neighbor. Luis says that neighbors are classic bores who put loud music, no wave and always call at inopportune to ask for something. But Aurora considers friendly, helpful and willing to help where needed. Things get complicated when Antonio Aurora and strike up a friendly relationship.
National Heritage
Goyo
The monarchy has returned. The Leguineche, too.
Gay Club
Don Alfonso
A group of homosexual friends tries to set up a gay club in a town in Andalusia, meeting the opposition of the chief who will use all his resources to try to prevent it.
Pepe, no me des tormento
Atracador
Esperando a papá
Chocolate
Farmacéutico
Despido improcedente
Sacerdote (as José Ruiz Lifante)
Afraid to Go Out at Night
Bank President
A bank employee, shy and skittish, is falling into the web of fear of the events he sees around him and the crime wave that seems to invade the city.
La familia bien, gracias
(as Jose Ruiz Lifante)
Sequel to "The Great Family" and "Family and one more". A widower and the godfather of his 16 children, aged two, wistfully contemplate the past. The father was left alone in the family home, but loneliness overwhelms him so he decides to spend some time at home for each of their children, most of whom are married. But the experience ends up being disastrous.
Paco the Infallible
Le médecin
In Madrid of the 20's, many women were hired as wet nurses for middle class families. Milk is paid very well, so women are turning to the honest services of Paco, glazier by trade, which completes his monthly salary getting pregnant the clients who pay for it.
Companys, procés a Catalunya
Oficial
Los restos del ejército republicano cruzan la frontera francesa. Entre los exiliados Lluis Companys, presidente de la Generalitat catalana y Aguirre, presidente de Euskadi. Con la invasión de Francia por las tropas alemanas, termina violentamente el exilio de Companys. La Gestapo lo entrega, no respetando su carácter de refugiado político al gobierno de Franco. Conducido por el Conde de Mayalde es trasladado a Madrid y posteriormente a Barcelona. De las torturas políticas se pasa al ¿simulacro? de juicio y el Presidente es condenado a muerte. Con el fusilamiento, motivado por el odio y no por razones de seguridad, se trataba de cerrar un proceso de democratización y libertad que había adquirido sus expresiones más clarividentes en Cataluña.
¡Mi adúltero esposo! ('In Situ')
Botones (as José Ruiz Lifante)
La insólita y gloriosa hazaña del cipote de Archidona
Don Alfonso (as José Ruiz Lifante)
Tobi
Compañero de Marga
A story about a little boy who grows a pair of wings on his back, giving him the appearance of an angel. The boy draws the attention of his community including doctors, scientists and schoolmates. The wings are surgically removed but eventually they grow back.
Let's Go, Barbara
Andreu
Ana is Catalan, daughter of a bourgeois family and works in a studio in advertising. She is 38 years old and has only lived with her husband, with whom she has a relationship cold but accepted by both. Although his family is opposed, decides to leave her husband and takes a vacation with her daughter Barbara, of 12 years, in order to leave behind all the past and start a freer life, with fewer ties, less conventional.
At the Service of Spanish Womanhood
Cura (as José Ruiz Lifante)
A sexually dissatisfied woman is confronted with a man who is the victim of a puritanic education.
Borrasca
(as José Ruiz Lifante)
Der Tiefstapler
Sperber
The German ambassador to a small republic is expecting the visit of his Minister of Development. When the visit is called off, the Ambassador persuades two tourists to take over the role of Ambassador.
Butterfly on the Shoulder
le commissaire
On a stopover in Barcelona, Fériaud Roland discovers a corpse in the hotel room next door. He wakes up in a strange clinic without remembering who brought him there. The doctor insists he hallucinated, but it's not long before he obtains evidence that it wasn't a dream.
Vota a Gundisalvo
Aníbal Ocaña
Las locuras de Jane
An unstable young woman commits crazy actions both inside and outside the mental institution in which she lives.
Casa de citas
Luciano has been working in an important company for fifteen years without be rewarded for his efforts, his fidelity and submission. On the recommendation of a cousin, he acts as front man for the shameful business of his managers. They get it so far as to force him to marry the former mistress of one of the directors. Finally, because of a fire in the chalet where he lives and where they cook the dirty business of which he is not responsible for, Luciano ends up in jail for covering up and taking on some responsibilities that are not his, fulfilling his role of straw man until the end.
¡Susana quiere perder... eso!
Eduardo (as José Ruiz Lifante)
El fin de la inocencia
Eusebio
A student, expelled from school for her behaviour, moves into the house of her uncle, a man with sadistic tendencies.
¡Bruja, más que bruja!
Juez
A small provincial town lives under the caprices of Don Justin, the local cacique. This forces the young Mariana to marry him, taking advantage of the fact that her nephew Juan, the boyfriend of the girl, is far away from military service. Upon his return, Juan is mocked and goes to a witch to assist him in his revenge.
Foul Play
Inventor
A 1977 Spanish drama film directed by Juan Antonio Bardem that won the Golden Prize the 10th Moscow International Film Festival.
Till Divorce Us Do Part
Sacerdote
Miguel is a young Spanish naval engineer in love with an American student of History of Art. When she becomes pregnant, she decides that the easiest solution to her situation is to marry her civilly. However, in Spain in the 1970s, prior to the passage of the Divorce Law, the only way to do so is to apostatize the Catholic Church. For Miguel, a believing devotee, taking this step involves a deep inner conflict.
El bengador gusticiero y su pastelera madre
Don Mariano / El Bengador
El ladrido
Don José
María, la santa
Médico
Diego , the son of a prostitute stabs Maria , suddenly it begins to happen a number of miracles attributed to the intercession of the dead woman . Patients from all over town arrive to implore and consider her as a saint.
Beatriz
Rate
A child is witness to an assault on a monk by the gang of Lorenzo the Fifth. The monk escapes and takes refuge in the estate of Doña Carlota, a countess who lives with her son Juan and daughter Beatriz. Basilisa, the maid, conjures the devil to free her son from an irreversible illness, but to do so the evil must be transmitted to an innocent soul, and for that she chooses Beatriz. The child begins to be the victim of a possession, for which everyone blames the monk.
The Shameful Secret of a Good Boy
Cuando los maridos iban a la guerra
Alcaide (as José Ruiz Lifante)
La siesta
Jacinto
The seemingly peaceful life of a little village located in the Spanish Levant hides the most turbid and ardent passions. Calixto, a repairman of television antennas, is required by the fiery midwives to quench their sexual instincts.
Madrid, Costa Fleming
José Vicente de la Mora
Sexy comedy.
Spanish Fly
Pedro
British sex comedy. Sir Percy de Courcy accidentally turns some poor tasting wine into an aphrodisiac when his old school chum, Mike Scott arrives with a photographer and several gorgeous models.
Hard Times for Dracula
Drácula
Vampire comedy.
País S. A.
Hombre Forgiano (as José Ruiz Lifante)
A useless kidnapper tries to kdnap a rich industrialist.
Los inmorales
Robin Hood nunca muere
Abad
Strange Love of the Vampires
Vampire
The Book of Good Love
D. Pitas Payas (as José Luis Lifante)
The Killer of Dolls
Servent
A groundskeeper's son, who is mentally unstable due to childhood trauma, goes on a murdering spree where his perception of reality is distorted by imagining people as mannequins and vice versa.
Devil's Exorcist
The Man
Teresita, the only daughter to a wealthy couple, begins to be troubled by loud sounds and visions of a tall man in black walking towards her menacingly. Soon she becomes plagued by strange physical symptoms, visions of arms extending from the walls to grab at her...and sometimes she gets violent. A priest is called in to try and wrench the devil from her body.
Devil's Kiss
Charles
Former Countess Clair and Professor Gruber conduct occult research in castle basement of Count Victor, re-animating people to kill for them.
The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue
Martin
When a series of murders hit the remote English countryside, a detective suspects a pair of travelers when it is actually the work of the undead, jarred back to life by an experimental ultra-sonic radiation machine used by the Ministry of Agriculture to kill insects.
Green Inferno
Hamid
Green Inferno hits the heart of the Amazon for big action.
Aborto criminal
Cirujano
Barcelona Kill
Marido de Lola (uncredited)
Violent Blood Bath
An ageing judge's use of the death penalty comes back to haunt him.
Cake of Blood
El hombre (segment "La danza o las supervivencias afectivas")
Four part anthology horror film, with segments featuring witchcraft, ghosts, Frankenstein and his monster, and Romans battling Celtic vampires.
Cutting Heads
In a castle, somewhere in the Thirld World, Diaz is delirious, dreaming of the power he had in Eldorado, while oppressing the indians, workers and peasants. He is well aware of the menace his old victims represent, while a miracle-making shepherd fascinates and frightens him. Diaz finds a countrywoman, symbol of purity, and prepares a ceremony in his castle resembling his own funeral. - IMDb
Los atracadores
Policía (uncredited)
The film is divided into three parts: 'Restlessness', 'Violence' and 'Death', to explain the motivations, evolution and defeat of three young misfits from Barcelona who end up being robbers. The way of crime is an easy way for them: a boy and a worker without a job or benefit are induced by 'el Señorito', the son of a rich lawyer. Together they form a band. Hard and violent, the film is made with a clear intention of social criticism and research of realism, culminating in a final scene that raised quite controversial.
The Unsatisfied
Gamberro (uncredited)
A young woman is stabbed in a bar frequented by criminals and her boyfriend is arrested as the main suspect. However, when the girl finally dies, they assign the case to a commissioner, father of the detainee. He will discover that behind the crime is a dark network of blackmail and drugs.