Fernando Fernán-Gómez

Argentine-born Spanish actor, screenwriter, film director, theatre director, novelist, anarcho-syndicalist and lifelong anarchist, born. He attended a CNT-organised Escuela de Actores (Actors College) in Madrid during the Revolution and was involved with the CNT-AIT for the rest of his life. He directed 30 or so films and acted in over 200, including Pedro Almodóvar's 'Todo Sobre mi Madre' (All About My Mother; 1999); José Luis Cuerda's 'La Lengua de las Mariposas' (Butterfly's Tongue; 1999) and Víctor Erice's 'El Espíritu de la Colmena' (The Spirit of the Beehive; 1973). He also wrote the play 'Las Bicicletas son Para el Verano' (Bicycles Are for the Summer) in 1984 (and released as a popular film in the same year, directed by Jaime Chávarri), which deals with the effects of the Spanish Civil War on citizens of Madrid.