Alba de América (1951)

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Director

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Juan de Orduña

Storyline

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The story of Cristóbal Colón's tribulations to get financial support for a maritime expedition which should have provided a new commercial route to the Far East but discovered America instead. (from IMDb)

Cast

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• Credited
• Uncredited
• Unidentified

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Cast

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Actors credited in the Spanish version, in credit order.

Antonio Vilar
as Cristóbal Colón (Christopher Columbus)

María Martín
(credited as "Mery Martín")
as Beatriz

José Suárez
as King Fernando the Catholic

Virgilio Teixeira
as Pedro de Arana

Manuel Luna
as Isaac

Eduardo Fajardo
as Gastón Armagnac

Jesús Tordesillas
as Brother Juan Pérez del Pulgar

Ana María Custodio
as Beatriz, mother of Beatriz

José Marco Davó
as Martín Alonso Pinzón

Ernesto Vilches
as Cabrero

Alberto Romea
as Cardinal Mendoza

Nicolás D. Perchicot
as Brother Antonio de Marchena

Fernando Sancho
as Pedro Salcedo

Francisco Pierrá
as Member of the committee

Arturo Marín
as Pedro Vázquez de la Frontera

Antonio Casas
as Juan de la Cosa

Faustino Bretaño
as Messenger who kneels

José Jaspe
as Crew member

Vicente Soler
as Count of Quintanilla

Carlos Díaz de Mendoza
as Member of the committee

Alfonso Candel
as Member of the committee

Joaquín Puyol
as Brother Hernando

Miguel Pastor Mata
as Crier

Félix Dafauce
as Villamarín

Francisco Hernández
as Physicist from Palma

José Sepúlveda
as Cristóbal Sarniento

Francisco Arenzana
as Francisco Arias

Ramón Elías
as Member of the committee

Rafael Arcos
as Messenger of the King

Francisco Bernal
as Innkeeper

Luis Torrecilla
(credited as "Luis S. Torrecilla")
Unidentified

Jacinto San Emeterio
as Gonzalo de Córdoba

Domingo Rivas
as Duke of Medina

Gary Land
Unidentified

Antonio Almorós
(credited as "Antonio Almorox")
as Vicente Yáñez Pinzón

Benito Cobeña
as Member of the committee

Manrique Gil
as Banker

Pablo Álvarez Rubio
Unidentified

Teófilo Palou
as Secretary of the crown

Rafael Calvo Revilla
as Secretary of the crown

Manuel Aguilera
as Secretary of the crown

César Guzmán
Unidentified

Luis Rivera
Unidentified

Carmen Capdepont
Unidentified

José María Labernié
(credited as "José María Lavernie")
as Nobleman

Francisco Maroto
Unidentified

Luis Fernández
Unidentified

José Riesgo
as Juan Sanchez

Luisa Díaz de Velasco
Unidentified

Rafael Cortés
as Nobleman

y los niños

Pedro Conejero
Unidentified

Francisco Rodríguez
Unidentified

y la colaboración especial de

Amparo Rivelles
as Queen Isabel

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Uncredited actors

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"The Penguin"
as Palace guard

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Unidentified actors

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Unidentified credited actors

• Pablo Álvarez Rubio - Identified, but not matched
• Carmen Capdepont - She has no other known roles. It's hard to say who the 2 remaining unidentified actresses could be since there are no remaining female speaking roles or even any women who are seen at all prominently.
• Luisa Díaz de Velasco - She has 6 credits on IMDb, none listed with roles. See the comment for Capdepont above.
• Luis Fernández - IMDb lists 9 credits spread between 1951-1991. The only one listed with a role dates from 1990, so there is no chance of identifying him in a role from 39 years earlier, if indeed it is even the same actor.
• César Guzmán - He has 11 credits listed on IMDb, of which 3 are listed with roles. I searched 2 of these (the 3rd I didn't find a copy of), but I was unable to find the named roles in either film - both also contain other known actors listed with roles by IMDb who are never called by name in the films.
• Gary Land - He has 7 credits listed on IMDb, but the only one where he is listed with a role I was not able to find the character he should play. Sooner or later I will be making a topic for one of the other films where he is listed as appearing uncredited, Confidential Report, so he may possibly be identifiable then.
• Francisco Maroto - He has one other credit on IMDb, with no role.
• Luis Rivera - Identified, but not matched
• Luis Torrecilla - Identified, but not matched
  Child actors
  The 2 credited child actors are missing from the film's IMDb page. I would assume they are the actors playing the son of Columbus at different ages, since there are no other roles of "children" anywhere else in the film, though it seems a bit strange they would credit the actor playing the role as a teenager as a "child".
• Pedro Conejero - He has one credit on IMDb, Cuento de hadas, from the same year, but it is impossible to find. If this film could be found then we could maybe identify both the child actors by process of deduction.
• Francisco Rodríguez - IMDb lists at least 50 profiles under this name or variations thereof, but with him not listed on the film's profile it is impossible to know which of these, if any, he could be. I checked them as best I could, but could not find any actors of this name who were active in the early 50's.

Presumably one of the 2 credited child actors

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Unidentified actors

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This is presumably one of the 2 credited child actors

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I've got about as far as I can with the identifications of the unidentified actors. Of those remaining there are 4 who I have identified, but have not been able to satisfactorily match.

Pablo Álvarez Rubio
My best bet would be the actor in 66/67 (below), but I'm far from certain

José María Labernié
I don't see any obvious matches.

Luis Rivera
We've already been through the identifying process with Rivera in the topic for Fulano y Mengano. Possibly the actor below, but I'm not at all certain.

Luis Torrecilla
The actor below could be a possibility, but again I'm not at all certain, but of the 4 actors here this is the one I think the most likely match

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I did wonder if this could maybe be a young Rafael Hernández?

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Credited actor José María Labernié identified and added, he'll be getting a topic sooner or later