The actor Celso Bugallo, who received the Goya Award for Best Supporting Actor in 2005 for the film “The Sea Inside”, by Alejandro Amenábar, died in Pontevedra at the age of 78 and will be cremated this Sunday in the strictest privacy.
In Bugallo (Sanxenxo, Pontevedra, 1947), although he wanted to become a footballer, acting ended up taking him on another path.
He started in the 1970s in the theater, where he quickly made a name for himself thanks to his enormous talent within the independent groups Adefesio Teatro Estudio and Lope de Rueda.
Later he was founder and director of “JUBY” (Juventud Unida del Barrio de Yagüe), which won the National Prize for Theater Comedy in 1976 with “El retablo del flautista”, and at the end of that decade he was co-founder in Galicia of the Olimpo theater troupe.
It was not until the age of 52 that he made his big screen debut. He did it in 1999, with the help of director José Luis Cuerda, in the film “The Language of Butterflies”.
Shortly after, “Mondays in the Sun” (2002), by Fernando León de Aranoa; “The Carpenter’s Pencil” (2003), by Antón Reixa; “The Life That Waits for You” (2004), by Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón, and “The Inner Sea” (2004), with which he won the Goya for Best Supporting Role.
A true “scene stealer” of Spanish cinema, with his role as a corporal in the Civil Guard of a village in Castilla y León in the film “The Night of the Sunflowers” (2006, Jorge Sánchez-Cabezudo), he won the prize for best supporting role from the Circle of Cinematographic Writers of Spain.
“The Inner Island” (2009), “The Palm Trees in the Snow” (2015), “The Beach of the Drowned” (2015) and “The Good Boss” (2021), for which he was again nominated for the Goya, are other of his most notable cinematographic works.
We have also seen him in many television series, including “Mareas vivas”, “Rías Baixas”, “Periodistas”, “Paco’s Men”, “The Incident” and “Fariña”.
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