Spanish cinema is full of leading men. Nevertheless, heartthrob, soccer goalkeeper, bellboy, boxer and elevator operator There is only one, and it is Ignacio Fernández Sánchez. However, as he said that his name sounded “not very artistic”, he chose Tony, and used the other paternal surname, Blanc, to which he added a suggestive ‘Le’ in front, for that of being unique.
And it was so unique that even came into the world in the Prado Museum, in the eyes of Velázquez, Murillo or Zurbarán, as he himself recounted in an interview in 1993: “I was born in the Prado Museum in Madrid, in Goya’s tapestries”. His father was a security guard at the museum and, that day, his mother, “in a state of good hope”, went to visit his father and his water broke. And that is how Tony Leblanc was born, who would be 100 years old this Saturday.
Tony LeBlanc made more than 100 movies, and his whole life was linked to the cinema, of which had to retire after an accident. “You have to do your best and laugh, even if you don’t feel like it,” she said in an interview.
In 1994, the actor then received the Goya de Honor from the hands of Berlanga. “I haven’t made films for 11 years and, suddenly, the Academy pulls out a Goya of Honor from its sleeve and hands it to me,” he said when collecting the award.
Neither Berlanga nor Mercero managed to convince him to return to the cinema. Santiago Segura did it at the end of the 90s, with a special collaboration in Torrente. “My laughter is from the people and for the people,” she said on one occasion. And now the town, 100 years later, still remembers her laugh.
Source: Lasexta
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