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Chete Lera
Born
Ramón Mariano Fernández Lera

30 November 1949
A Estrada, Spain
Died19 May 2022 (aged 72)
Rincón de la Victoria, Spain
OccupationActor

Ramón Mariano Fernández Lera (30 November 1949 – 19 May 2022), better known as Chete Lera, was a Spanish actor. With a long film and television career in addition to a stage career, he featured in films such as The Red Squirrel, Secrets of the Heart, Familia, Barrio, Open Your Eyes, Flores de otro mundo, and Plenilunio.[1]

Biography

Ramón Mariano Fernández Lera was born in 1949 in A Estrada, Province of Pontevedra, raised for most of his childhood in Corcubión and then moved to Madrid.[2] Prior to acting he was aeronautic engineer, pilot, bank teller and studied psychology.[3] He began a career as a stage actor in the late 1970s,[4] including his performance in the Eduardo Fuente-directed stage play Cabaret Castizo (premiered in Madrid on 5 January 1993), portraying a sheriff making a parody out of authoritarian Madrid city councillor Ángel Matanzo; Matanzo's attempts to bring down the play eventually prompted his own sacking from the municipal government board.[5][6][7][8][9][10] One of his most well known film credits was that of the psychiatrist in Alejandro Amenábar's Abre los ojos.[11]

He won the Silver Biznaga for Best Actor in the 2002 Málaga Film Festival together with the rest of the cast of Smoking Room.[11]

His television work include performances in Los ladrones van a la oficina, Médico de familia or Cuéntame cómo pasó.[1] His last television work was his performance as Ramón in Mira lo que has hecho.[11][12]

He died on 19 May 2022, age 72, in the wake of a car accident in Rincón de la Victoria.[11][1]

Filmography

Film
Year Title Role Notes Ref
1997 Familia Ventura [13]
1997 Secretos del corazón (Secrets of the Heart) Ricardo [14]
1997 Abre los ojos (Open Your Eyes) Antonio [15]
1998 Barrio Comisario [16]
1999 Flores de otro mundo [es] Alfonso [17]
2002 El alquimista impaciente (The Impatient Alchemist) Luis Dávila [18]
2002 Smoking Room Puig [19]
2003 El misterio Galíndez (The Galíndez File) [20]
Television
Year Title Role Notes Ref
2017 El ministerio del tiempo Marqués de Comillas Guest. Episode: "Tiempo de esclavos" [21]

References

  1. ^ a b c Sánchez, Nacho (20 May 2022). "Muere el actor Chete Lera en un accidente de tráfico en Málaga". El País.
  2. ^ Docampo, Lois (28 April 2013). ""Con el teatro encontré algo que me llenaba espiritualmente y que me daba de comer"". Faro de Vigo.
  3. ^ Vallejo, Eduardo (18 June 2014). ""¿El teatro cambia cosas? Rotundamente, sí"". AISGE.
  4. ^ "O Festival de Cans premiará a Chete Lera con su 'Pedigree de Honra'". El Progreso. 27 March 2008.
  5. ^ "Matanzo precinta mañana el teatro Alfil en plena representación de Cabaret Castizo". ABC.
  6. ^ "Fallece el exconcejal del PP Ángel Matanzo". Madridiario. 6 March 2017.
  7. ^ Vilches de Frutos, María Francisca (1995). "La temporada teatral española 1992–1993". Anales de la literatura española contemporánea. 20 (3). Society of Spanish & Spanish-American Studies: 464. ISSN 0272-1635. JSTOR 27741276.
  8. ^ Davison, Phil (26 January 1993). "Out of Spain: Sheriff comes off second best in an artistic shootout". The Independent.
  9. ^ Torres, Rosana (28 January 1993). "La obra que parodia a Matanzo prorroga dos meses sus representaciones". El País.
  10. ^ Medialdea, Sara (6 March 2017). "Muere el exconcejal popular en el Ayuntamiento de Madrid Ángel Matanzo". ABC.
  11. ^ a b c d Rus, Oscar (20 May 2022). "Muere el actor Chete Lera a los 72 años en un accidente de tráfico". abcplay – via ABC.
  12. ^ "Mira lo que has hecho: historia, personajes y lo que debes saber de la nueva serie española de Antena 3". La Prensa. 28 February 2018.
  13. ^ Caparrós Lera 2005, p. 72.
  14. ^ Caparrós Lera 2005, pp. 88–89.
  15. ^ Caparrós Lera 2005, p. 80.
  16. ^ Caparrós Lera, José María (2005). La Pantalla Popular. El cine español durante el Gobierno de la derecha (1996-2003). Tres Cantos: Ediciones Akal. p. 113. ISBN 9788446024149.
  17. ^ Caparrós Lera 2005, p. 129.
  18. ^ Abril, José María (2002). "El alquimista impaciente, o la cara amable de la guardia civil". Filmhistoria. 12 (3). Universidad de Barcelona.
  19. ^ López-Aguilera, Ana M. (2012). "Reseña de la película Smoking room (2002)"". Theses, Dissertations, Student Research: Modern Languages and Literatures. 12.
  20. ^ Caparrós Lera 2005, p. 244.
  21. ^ "'El Ministerio del Tiempo' se despide este jueves hasta después del verano". Bluper. 5 July 2017 – via El Español.
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