Manuel Zarzo

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

Manuel López Zarza (Spanish: [manˈwel ˈlopeθ ˈθaɾθa]; 26 April 1932 – 16 or 17 June 2025), better known as Manuel Zarzo (Spanish: [ˈθaɾθo]), was a Spanish film actor. He appeared in more than 200 television and film works over his seven-decade long career.^[1]

Manuel Zarzo
Born	Manuel López Zarza (1932-04-26)26 April 1932 Madrid, Spain
Died	June 2025(2025-06-00) (aged 93) Pozuelo de Alarcón, Spain
Other names	Manolo Zarzo
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1951–2022

Zarzo made his film debut in Day by Day (1951).^[1] In 1960, the actor was clinically dead for two hours due to an injury received saving a woman from a fire.^[2]

Zarzo died in Pozuelo de Alarcón on the night of 16 to 17 June 2025, at the age of 93.^[1]

Selected filmography

• Day by Day (1951)
• Love in a Hot Climate (1954)
• Cursed Mountain (1954)
• The Fisher of Songs (1954)
• The Song of the Nightingale (1959)
• The Showgirl (1960)
• The Delinquents (1960)
• My Love Is Called Margarita (1961)
• The Balcony of the Moon (1962)
• Bullet in the Flesh (1964)
• Weeping for a Bandit (1964)
• Sheriff Won't Shoot (1965)
• The 317th Platoon (1965)
• Seven Golden Men (1965)
• Seven Golden Men Strike Again (1966)
• Seven Guns for the MacGregors (1966)
• Madamigella di Maupin (1966)
• Up the MacGregors! (1967)
• It's Your Move (1968)
• Train for Durango (1968)
• Will Our Heroes Be Able to Find Their Friend Who Has Mysteriously Disappeared in Africa? (1968)
• The Price of Power (1969)
• The Legend of Frenchie King (1971)
• Long Live Robin Hood (1971)
• My Dear Killer (1972)
• The Two Faces of Fear (1972)
• Counselor at Crime (1973)
• Ricco the Mean Machine (1973)
• Little Funny Guy (1973)
• Holy God, Here Comes the Passatore! (1973)
• Dick Turpin (1974)
• Zorrita Martinez (1975)
• Naked Therapy (1975)
• Unmarried Mothers (1975)
• Order to Kill (1975)
• Ambitious (1976)
• Saturday, Sunday and Friday (1979)
• Encounters in the Deep (1979)
• Nightmare City (1980)
• Old Shirt to New Jacket (1982)
• La colmena (1982)
• Stico (1985)
• Requiem for a Spanish Peasant (1985)
• The Bastard Brother of God (1986)
• The Color of the Clouds (1997)
• The Wolf (2004)
• Tiovivo c. 1950 (2004)
• Proyecto Dos (2008)