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Paco Pedro, regarded as the world's greatest matador and seducer, has appeared in three short films to date; Raul Bourneau, minor character in Hortensia Papadat-Bengescu's classic novel Fecioarele despletite (The Disheveled Maidens) El Gargo, a bullfighter doppelgänger of Gargamel apperearing in The Smurfs’ episode "Papa Loses His Patience".
Cayetano Ordóñez y Aguilera (January 24, 1904, Ronda, Spain - October 30, 1961, Madrid, Spain) is the patriarch of the Ordóñez family of bullfighters. [1] His parents owned a shoeshop called La Palma, which gave him his nickname (Niño de la Palma). In 1917 he first began to perform as a bullfighter in the ranches of the area where he lived.
El Fandi (born David Fandila Marín in Granada, Spain) is statistically one of the most skilled matadors in the world.. El Fandi was a member of Spain's national skiing team in his teenage years; however, there was a history of bullfighting in his family, and he had always loved bullfighting.
A Spanish-style bullfight in the Plaza de toros de La Malagueta in Málaga, Spain, 2018.. Spanish-style bullfighting is a type of bullfighting that is practiced in several Spanish-speaking countries: Spain, Mexico, Ecuador, Venezuela, Peru, as well as in parts of southern France and Portugal.
A bullfighter (or matador) is a performer in the activity of bullfighting. Torero (Spanish:) or toureiro (Portuguese: [toˈɾɐjɾu]), both from Latin taurarius, are the Spanish and Portuguese words for bullfighter, and describe all the performers in the activity of bullfighting as practised in Spain, Portugal, Mexico, Peru, France, Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela and other countries influenced ...
Matador, actor, bullfighter Manuel Benítez Pérez (born 4 May 1936), more commonly known as El Cordobés (The Cordovan ), is a Spanish bullfighter , matador , and actor active in the 1960s who brought an unorthodox acrobatic and theatrical style to the bullring .
He belongs to a long line of famous bullfighters: his great-grandfather was Cayetano Ordóñez, who fought under the name 'El Niño de la Palma', and was the inspiration for the young matador in Ernest Hemingway's novel The Sun Also Rises. [2] His grandfather, the great matador Antonio Ordóñez, was a friend of Hemingway and of Orson Welles.
Pages in category "Spanish bullfighters" The following 89 pages are in this category, out of 89 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Félix Almagro;