Actor
Luis Mariano
August 13, 1914 · 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.
Often works with
Jean Tissier
5 titles together
Candide or The Optimism in the 20th Century, La belle de Cadix, Springtime in Paris
Fernando Sancho
4 titles together
La belle de Cadix, Andalusia, The Adventurer of Seville
Gaston Orbal
4 titles together
I Love Only You, Four Days in Paris, Love in Jamaica
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Carmen Sevilla
4 titles together
La belle de Cadix, Imperial Violets, Andalusia
Louis de Funès
3 titles together
Candide or The Optimism in the 20th Century, Not Any Weekend for Our Love, I Love Only You
Arlette Poirier
3 titles together
Serenade of Texas, Andalusia, El sueño de Andalucía
Full filmography · 23
Les Pieds dans le plâtre
as The farmer
1965
Candide or The Optimism in the 20th Century
as Un dictateur sud américain / South American Dictator
1960
Serenade of Texas
as Jacques Gardel
1958
Love in Jamaica
as Manoël Martinez
1957
Springtime in Paris
as (uncredited)
1957
The Singer from Mexico
as Miguel Morano / Vincent Etchebar
1957
Four Days in Paris
as Mario
1955
Napoleon
as Garat
19556.3The Little Czar
as Luis Mariano / Aljoscha
1954
The Adventurer of Seville
as Fígaro
1954
La belle de Cadix
as Carlos
1953
Imperial Violets
as Juan de Ayala
1952