Emma Cohen

Actress

November 20, 1946 (69 years)

† July 10, 2016

Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalunya, Spain

Biography

Emmanuela Beltrán Rahola (21 November 1946 – 11 July 2016) better known as Emma Cohen was a Spanish actress, director, producer, and writer. She appeared in many Spanish language films. She portrayed Gallina Caponata in Barrio Sésamo, a counterpart to Big Bird in the Spanish version of Sesame Street. Emma Cohen was married to actor Fernando Fernán Gómez until his death in 2007. She died on 11 July 2016, aged 69, after a battle against cancer. Trained in theater, her first contact with acting t…

Filmography

7.3

Curro Jiménez

Concha

Curro Jiménez was a successful Spanish TV series that aired on TVE1 from 22 December 1976 to 1979. Its main theme was Andalusian "bandolerismo" in the 19th century, located in the Ronda mountains. The main characters were four bandits, Curro Jiménez

7.2

El pícaro

Manuela

In 17th-century Spain, Lucas Trapaza is a lazy liar and con artist who does everything he can to live off others.

7.2

Celedonio y yo somos así

Araceli Palomeque

Daniel has as the only fortune a stud bull named Celedonio, which he rents for living.

6.2

The Cannibal Man

Paula

A young man, Marco, working as a butcher, accidentally kills a taxi driver. His girlfriend Paula wants to go to the police so he has to kill her too. He then has to kill his brother, his brother’s fiancée and his father, who have become suspicious. He gets rid of the bodies by taking them to a slaughter house.

5.3

Cry, Onion!

Mary Ann

Onion Jack has bought a piece of land on which to settle, but the property is still in possession of the orphans of the original owner and is coveted by the local oil baron.

5.9

Count Dracula

Vampire Woman (uncredited)

A faithful adaptation of the classic tale portrays Dracula as an old man who grows younger whenever he dines on the blood of young maidens.

6.5

Cut-Throats Nine

Cathy Brown

A group of ruthless convicts is led to prison through an inhospitable mountain range by a small cavalry detachment commanded by Sergeant Brown, who is accompanied by his young and beautiful daughter.

7.5

Voyage to Nowhere

Sor Martirio

The Iniesta-Galván family is a theatre company that goes from town to town offering its performances. Over the years, its members will have to adapt to changes and make decisions, like that of whether or not to continue performing. One day, unexpectedly, a son that he has fathered on his travels presents himself to Carlos Galván.

4.3

The Apolitical Man

Alicia

Enrique Tolosa is a boss administrator of a small company which employs 50 workers. There never has gotten into politics, has made himself stood professionally and created a family and no one has asked opinion on how would be the destiny of their country. The story begins whenheI first asked to give their vote at the polls for the election of political parties. With the decision to vote is faced with doubt and decides to investigate on their own to know which political trends that are managed as possible, is the one he goes to his temperament.

5.6

The Legend of Frenchie King

Virginie

Outlaw sisters in the old West inherit a ranch and try to settle down and develop relationships with neighboring family of lots of brothers.

N/A

Gatos en el Tejado

Sole

This is the story of Manolo Beltra, a mid-aged, unbelieving foul-mouthed but cherished. He is a TV presenter, famous for his participation in a program called "El humor es algo maravilloso". With life more or less settled, a series of events will break this situation and he will have to rethink his way of thinking and deal with his existence.

5.7

Horror Rises from the Tomb

Elvire

In Medieval France a warlock is beheaded and his wife is tortured and executed. Hundreds of years later, an isolated group of people discover his head buried on their property. Soon it comes back to life, possessing people and using them to commit sacrifices and to search for the rest of his body.

5.0

The Earl of Montecristo

Television adaptation of the literary classic by Alexandre Dumas. After being unjustly arrested and convicted of treason, Edmundo Dantés manages to escape from the Château d'If prison after 14 years of captivity. During his stay in this place, another prisoner of Italian origin, Abbe Faria, entrusted him with the secret of a treasure. When Edmundo manages to find it and dig it up, he decides to start a revenge against those who ruined his life, for which he assumes the identity of the powerful Count of Monte Cristo.

5.9

The Dumbfounded King

Duquesa Vda. del Maestrazgo

Spain, under Philip IV (1621-1665). The film is based on a novel by Gonzalo Torrente Ballester. The King is stunned to see the naked body of Marfisa, the most beautiful prostitute of the town and Court. After that, he also wants to see the Queen naked. However, the King, despite the opposition and the scandal of the Church, will not stop until he reaches his wishes.

6.2

Vampir Cuadecuc

Self

An atmospheric essay, which is an alternative version of Count Dracula, a film directed by Jess Franco in 1970; a ghostly narration between fiction and reality.

6.4

The Grandfather

Vicenta, la alcaldesa

After his son dies, an elderly man comes back to Spain from the US and hopes to find out which of his granddaughters is true, and which one is bastard.

4.5

Tuset Street

Mariona

Barcelona 1967. The pop culture revolution. Jordi (Patrick Bauchau) is a rich playboy who runs around with a bunch of high-end hippies, smoking, drinking, dancing and daydreaming about Tuset Street, an effort to develop a popular street in the newer section of Barcelona after the models of Haight Ashbury Street in San Francisco and Carnaby Street in London. Jordi and his gang represent the new Barcelona, wealthy, artificial and striving for imported sophistication. On the older side of the city is El Paralelo, the theater district. At El Molino, one of its many music halls, performs Violeta (Sara Montiel), a showgirl in the old style tradition who supplements her singing income with prostitution. Somehow Violeta represents the old values, the "real world" living along side an artificial creation such as Tuset.

5.2

The Other Side of the Mirror

Ana Olivera / Annette Whitman

A nightclub singer is haunted by the ghost of her late father. The dead man summons her through a mirror, forcing her to commit a series of violent crimes.

4.5

Vuelve, querida Nati

Mercedes

Doña Nati, the owner of a house of prostitutes, takes a little vacation to attend his niece's first communion in the village. She is accompanied on the trip by three of his pupils: Barbara, Mercedes and Eva who pretend to be her friends. But soon, men realize what they are and begin to try to flirt with them. Doña Nati makes a splendid gift to the people and thus wins the favor of its inhabitants.

3.5

Seduction Squad

Martine

After witnessing and accidentally helping several thugs get away with a heist, the women rooming together notice through their telescope that the stolen loot is in the apartment right across the street. They plan their own burglary of the already stolen loot.