From ‘The Sea Inside’ to “Mondays in the Sun”, the best films of Celso Bugallo

The actor Celso Bugallo, who received the Goya Award in 2005 for the film ‘The Sea Inside’, by Alejandro Amenábar, has died in Pontevedra at the age of 78 and will be cremated this Sunday in the strictest privacy, reports Efe. In Bugallo (Sanxenxo, Pontevedra, 1947), although he wanted to be a footballer, acting ended up taking him on another path.

He began in the 70s in the theater, where he soon made a name for himself thanks to his enormous talent within the independent groups Adefesio Teatro Estudio and Lope de Rueda. Later he was founder and director of ‘JUBY’ (Juventud Unida del Barrio de Yagüe), which won the National Theater Comedy Award in 1976 with ‘El retablo del flautista’, and at the end of that decade he was co-founder in Galicia of the Olimpo theater group. It was not until he was 52 when he made his debut on the big screen. He did it in 1999, with the help of director José Luis Cuerda, in the film ‘The Language of the Butterflies’.

Shortly after came ‘Mondays in the Sun’ (2002), by Fernando León de Aranoa; ‘The carpenter’s pencil’ (2003), by Antón Reixa; ‘The life that awaits you’ (2004), by Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón, and ‘The Sea Inside’ (2004), with which he won the Goya for best supporting actor. A true ‘scene-stealer’ of Spanish cinema, with his role as the corporal of the Civil Guard of a village in Castilla y León in the film ‘The Night of the Sunflowers’ (2006, Jorge Sánchez-Cabezudo) he won the award for best supporting actor from the Circle of Cinematographic Writers of Spain.

‘The Inner Island’ (2009)‘Palm trees in the snow’ (2015), ‘The beach of the drowned’ (2015) and ‘The good boss’ (2021), for which he was nominated for the Goya again, These are some of his most notable works in film. We also saw him in numerous television series, among them ‘Mareas vivas’, ‘Rías Baixas’, ‘Periodistas’, ‘Paco’s men’, ‘The incident’ or ‘Fariña’. AND