Pilar Velázquez
Madrid-born actress of some fifty films, a familiar face of Italian genre cinema and the spaghetti western.
María del Pilar Velázquez Llorente
Pilar Velázquez was born in Madrid on 13 February 1946 and made her stage debut in 1964 at the Teatro Español in the drama Caminos de Damasco.
Between 1966 and 1977 she starred in about fifty film and television productions, and was especially active in Italian genre cinema, above all the spaghetti western. In 1979 she married the Spanish singer and actor Miguel Gallardo.
How the name is written
Velázquez in Spain; Italian credits of the period sometimes dropped the accent.
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