Fernando Sancho


Fernando Sancho Les was a Spanish actor.

Biography

He was born in Zaragoza, in Aragon, Spain on 7 January 1916 and died at Hospital Militar Gómez Ulla in Madrid on 31 July 1990 from a liver failure during or following surgery to remove a malignant tumor in the pancreas. He was interred in Madrid.
Fernando Sancho fought in the spanish Civil War on the rebel side, being wounded several times and achieving the rank of lieutenant in the Legion.

Career

He was often typecast as a Mexican bandit in spaghetti westerns, including The Big Gundown, A Pistol for Ringo and Return of Ringo, Arizona Colt, Minnesota Clay, and Sartana.
He also appeared in a number of Spanish horror movies in the 1960s and 1970s. One of his better known horror parts was the role of a corrupt small-town mayor in El Ataque de los Muertos sin Ojos.
Another notable horror film was Orloff and the Invisible Man, directed by Pierre Chevalier and starring Howard Vernon, an unofficial continuation of the Dr. Orloff saga begun by Jess Franco in The Awful Dr. Orloff.
He turned up briefly in the epic film Lawrence of Arabia playing the Turkish sergeant who arrests T. E. Lawrence in Deraa. He appeared in five Greek war movies ; three of these involved World War II and the other two involved the Greek War of Independence and the resistance of Souliotes against Ali Pasha.
Sancho had a prolific career and remained active in films up to his death.

Awards

He won the Medallas del Círculo de Escritores Cinematográficos for La guerrilla in 1972, and in 1980 for all his career.

Selected filmography