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Jesús Puente

Jesús Puente

Acting

Biography

Jesus Puente Alzaga (Madrid, December 18, 1930 - October 26, 2000) was a Spanish actor and TV presenter. He developed his acting career in all media, both in film and theater and television. He began to study medicine but left in fourth grade, due to its vocation for interpretation. He then began his theater career with works of Lope de Vega and Calderon. His career on stage has been full of successes. At the same time he made his debut in the world of radio, specifically in Radio Nacional de España. Throughout the 60s working as a voice actor, putting voice on numerous occasions to American actor James Stewart, among others. In 1957 he made his film debut. Present on television almost from the arrival of this medium to Spain, debuted in 1957 in Spanish Television. In 1990 he was hired by the chain Telecinco to present the contest “Su media naranja”.

Known For

Double Feature
5.5

Director José Luis Garci has turned his camera inward on filmmakers and screenwriters to portray them as so self-absorbed in the creative process that there is no other world, no other human relationship that can compete. As José (Adolfo Marsillach) and Federico (Jesus Puente) work together on a new screenplay, their interactions with their family (José's teen daughters, Federico's wife) disappear under the all-consuming task of creation. The daughters give up and go off on their own, and the wife joins a convent while Federico barely notices. And when the producer is interrupted by profound grief at the sudden death of his older son, he almost automatically returns to thinking about the film project when the funeral has ended. Garci honors many great directors at the beginning of this film, and the film continues to play out as an elaboration on this homage -- an illustration both of the dedication and the cost of filmmaking, no judgments given.

Double Feature

1984Movie