Pablito Calvo
Year Title Role
1955 Marcelino pan y vino Marcelino
1956 Uncle Hyacynth Pepote
1957 The Man Who Wagged His Tail Filipo
1958 Totò e Marcellino Marcellino Merini
1960 Juanito Juanito
1961 Alerta en el cielo Miguelito Ramos
1962 Dos años de vacaciones Brian
1963 Barcos de papel
Filmography
Pablito Calvo (real name Pablo Calvo Hidalgo) (16 March 1948 - 1 February 2000) was a Spanish child actor. After the international success of Marcelino, pan y vino, where he won a Cannes Film Festival award (1955), he became Spain's most famous child actor. He did five more films including Mi tío Jacinto (1956) and Un ángel pasó por Brooklyn (1957), even Toto and Marcellino (1958) in Italy, with Totò. Retired from acting at the age of 16 to become an industrial engineer later, he worked in tourism and promoting buildings in Torrevieja. Calvo sang in a few films, but his singing voice was always dubbed on screen, in Spain by a woman, Matilde F. Vilariño. He died on 1 February 2000 from a brain aneurysm at aged 51.