Ricardo Palacios
Born: 1940-03-03 in Reinosa, Cantabria, Spain
Died: 2015-02-11
Known For: Acting
Biography
Ricardo López-Nuño Díez, better known as Ricardo Palacios, was a Spanish actor, film director and screenwriter. Born in Reinosa (Cantabria), Palacios graduated from the Official Film School in Madrid as an actor and director. He debuted in the 1961 TV series Poly. He participated in about 150 films and television series, being mainly active in the Spaghetti Western genre, and he was also a recurring presence in films directed by Jesús Franco. In 1987, Palacios made his directorial debut with the comedy film ¡Biba la Banda!, starring Alfredo Landa, and in 1997 he directed the TV-series La Banda de Pérez. After spending over a month in hospital with heart problems, Ricardo died on 11 February 2015 of heart failure.
Filmography
2015
- Spanish Western as Self - Actor & Director
2012
- Contra el tiempo as Self
2002
- The Green March as Perales
1991
- Crónicas urbanas ... (Director)
1989
- The Return of the Musketeers as Big Lackey
- Hot Blood as Néstor
- Going Down in Morocco as Naturista
- The Things of Love
- I'm the One You're Looking For as Morboso
1988
- Monster Dog as Sheriff Morrison
1987
- ¡Biba la banda!
- Lute: Forge On or Die as Empleador
- Trapped Women as Colonel
- The Impeccable Sinner as Anibal
- Crystalstone as Fruit Vendor
1986
- Fury in the Tropics as Colonel Blanco
- Lulú de noche as Propietario Jazz Bar
- Sida, la peste del siglo XX
- Alone Against Terror as Dr. Orgaf
1985
- La Huella del Crimen as Ayudante de Hinojosa
- Star Knight as Guardián
- Tex and the Lord of the Deep as Fat Whisky Seller (uncredited)
- Café, coca y puro as D. Antonio
- Dirty Game in Casablanca as Papa Yul
- Jarabo as Ayudante Hinojosa
1984
- L'Homme de Suez as Mohamed Saïd
- The Ark of the Sun God as Mohammed
- La de Troya en el Palmar as El Exquisito
- Lonely Road as Raden
1983
- Black Venus as Monsieur Lambert (uncredited)
- The Blues of Pop Street as Narrator (voice, uncredited)
- Y del seguro… líbranos, Señor! as Butragueño
- Las autonosuyas as Rafa
- USA, violación y venganza as Theo Mancini
1982
- My Pussy is the Best ... (Director)
- Buscando a Perico as Siniestra
- Fredy el croupier as El Calvo
1981
- Car Crash as Eli Wronsky
- Comin' at Ya! as Polk
- Night of the Werewolf as First Graverobber
- Tú estás loco Briones as Rodolfo
- A Tied Blasé as Cholo
- Safari erótico
1980
- The Beasts' Carnival as Don Carmelo, the priest
- Who Is That Splashing in the Mediterranean?
- Spoiled Children as Abogado
- The Cantabrians as Gurco
1979
- The House on Garibaldi Street as Dani
- Seven Days in January as (uncredited)
- The adventures of Pinín and his friends as Capitán Prendes
- La fierecilla domada as Sly
- Son of Superbug as Capitano
1978
- Estimado Sr. juez... as Gabriel Sánchez Morales
1977
- Journey to the Centre of the Earth as Train Ticket Collector
- Uno del millón de muertos
- The Black Pearl as Merchant
- Del amor y de la muerte
- Widows' Nest
- Chely
1976
- Soldier of Fortune as (uncredited)
- The People Who Own the Dark as Dr. Robertson
- A la Legión le gustan las mujeres… y a las mujeres, les gusta la Legión as El Pemán
- What Changed Charley Farthing? as Greek Captain
- Beyond Desire as Patrón
1975
- Take a Hard Ride as Calvera
- The Great Adventure as Joe - Barkeeper
- Valley of the Dancing Widows as Coach Wagon Driver (uncredited)
1974
- The Stranger and the Gunfighter as Calico
- Pasqualino Cammarata... capitano di fregata
- Whisky and Ghosts as Capo messicano
- Ten Killers from Afar as Rompemanos
- Dick Turpin as Moscarda
1973
- The Man Called Noon as Brakeman
- Fat Brothers of Trinity as Ray Wesley
1972
- Los Paladines
- Fabulous Trinity as Ray Wesley alias Panzio Trinidad
- Nada menos que todo un hombre as Socio del casino
1971
- Red Sun as Pogo (uncredited)
- Graf Luckner as Jonas
- Delusions of Grandeur as Cook (uncredited)
- The Horsemen as Ghulam (uncredited)
- Bad Man's River as Mexican Soldier
- Captain Apache as Sergeant
- Socrates as Critone
- El sobre verde as Carromoto
- Conquest as Antolikan
1970
- El Condor as Chief Bandit
- Las secretas intenciones as Hombre en centro comercial
1969
- Antoñito vuelve a casa
- El gran amante as The Make-up Artist
- El último día de la humanidad
- Satan's Profile as Lyne
1968
- The Blood of Fu Manchu as Sancho Lopez
- Run, Man, Run as Mexican Officer With Dynamite
- 1001 Nights as Mamet
- Ragan as Flower
- Los diablos rojos
1967
- Day of Anger as Bowie Cantina Owner
- Le avventure e gli amori di Miguel Cervantes as Sancho
- Soy leyenda as Fat Man
- Historia de la frivolidad as Fan #2
- The Vengeance of Pancho Villa as Pancho Villa
- Dynamite Joe as El Sol
- The Desperate Ones
- Kitosch, the Man Who Came from the North
1966
- The Good, the Bad and the Ugly as Barista a Socorro (uncredited)
- Tales to Keep You Awake
- Return of the Seven as Jailer
- A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum as Marcus Lycus's Eunuch (uncredited)
- The Ugly Ones
- La Sonrisa
- Attack of the Robots as Hermes
1965
- For a Few Dollars More as Tucumcari Saloon Keeper (uncredited)
- Doctor Zhivago as Extra (uncredited)
- Diálogos de la paz as Fotógrafo