a friend of the protagonist and fellow prisoner Pasqualino Settebellezze, chooses a gruesome suicide, rather than spend another day in a Nazi concentration camp. Rey won Best Actor award at 1977 Cannes Film Festival for his performance in Elisa, vida mía. In 1988 he again won the best actor award in the San Sebastián International Film Festival, this time for his performance in two films: Francisco Regueiro's Diario de invierno and Antonio Isasi-Isasmendi's El Aire de un Crimen (The Hint of a Crime). Fernando Rey was also awarded the gold medal of the Spanish Movie Arts and Sciences Academy. Personal life and death In 1960, Rey married the Argentine actress Mabel Karr. They had a son, Fernando Casado Campolongo. In 1992 he became chairman of the Academia de las Artes y las Ciencias Cinematográficas de España succeeding Antonio Giménez-Rico. He died of bladder cancer in Madrid on 9 March 1994. He was survived by his wife, who died on 1 May 2001 at Hospital Ramon Cajal from a generalized infection. On 25 September 2018 their son Fernando Casado confirmed she died from a sharp mediastinitis during the filming of a tv series named El Secreto. Selected filmography See also Cinema of Spain References Bibliography External links 1917 births 1994 deaths 20th-century Spanish male actors Best Actor Goya Award winners Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor winners Deaths from bladder cancer Deaths from cancer in Spain Expatriate male actors in the United States Male Spaghetti Western actors Male actors from Galicia (Spain) People from A Coruña Spanish male film actors Spanish expatriates in the United States