Pablito Calvo

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Calvo and the second or maternal family name is Hidalgo.

Pablito Calvo
Pablito Calvo (right)
Born	Pablo Calvo Hidalgo (1948-03-16)16 March 1948 Madrid, Spain
Died	1 February 2000(2000-02-01) (aged 51) Alicante, Spain
Years active	1955–1963

Pablo Calvo Hidalgo (16 March 1948 – 1 February 2000), better known as Pablito Calvo, was a Spanish child actor.

Biography

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), Un ángel pasó por Brooklyn (1957),^[1] and 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.^[2] 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 the age of 51.^[3]

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
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		(final film role)

References

1. Román, Manuel (1 February 2015). "Hace 15 años que murió Pablito Calvo". Libertad Digital (in Spanish). Retrieved 22 February 2019.
2. "Fallece el actor Pablito Calvo, protagonista de "Marcelino, pan y vino"". El Mundo (in Spanish). 2 February 2000. Retrieved 22 February 2019.
3. "Pablo Calvo, el niño de 'Marcelino, pan y vino', muere a los 50 años". El País (in Spanish). Prisa. 3 February 2000. Retrieved 22 February 2019.

Bibliography

• Holmstrom, John. The Moving Picture Boy: An International Encyclopaedia from 1895 to 1995, Norwich, Michael Russell, 1996, p. 264-265.

See also

• Joselito
• Marisol

External links

• Pablito Calvo at IMDb