Tela de araña (1963)

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French title: Comme s'il en pleuvait
Spanish title note: The poster, and IMDb, list the title as La Tela de araña, but in the Spanish credits it is simply "Tela de araña"

Director

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José Luis Monter

Storyline

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Down on his luck writer Eddie Ross comes to the aid of a young woman seemingly being accosted on the street. His heroism nets Eddie a job with an odd underground figure known only as Martinez. The boss gives Eddie enough money to rent an apartment, buy new clothes and get a pet chimp. The down side of the job is that Eddie finds himself becoming an enforcer for Martinez's blackmailing schemes. Teaming up with the young lady he saved earlier, Eddie sets out to to find out what hold Martinez has over her. (Adapted from IMDb)

Cast

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• Credited
• Uncredited A-Z
• Unidentified

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Cast

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Actors credited in the Spanish version, in credit order.

The French credits omit many of the actors from the Spanish credits, but add one additional French actor, listed below.

Eddie Constantine
as Eddie Ross

Elisa Montés
as Esperanza de la Vega

José Nieto
as Don Álvaro, aka "Martinez"

Silvia Solar
as Rosa

Jacinto San Emeterio
as Alberto Coll

Adriano Domínguez
as Pinto

José Villasante
as Ignacio Lado

Carmen Porcel
as Señora Gomez

Pedro Rodríguez de Quevedo
(credited as "Pedro R. de Quevedo")
as The Private detective

María Baus
Unidentified

Rafael Corés
as Police officer

Ángel Calero
as Hotel manager

Juan Cortés
as Man with the factory plans

Ángela Rhu
as Maid at Osiris detective agency

Manuel Castiñeiras
as Member of the heist team

Joaquín Bergía
as Witness to the street brawl

Teófilo Palou
as Señor Pascual

Ada Tauler
(credited as "Adela Tauler")
as Margarita

Rafael Ibáñez
Unidentified

Ricardo Rubinstein
(presumed to be credited as "Hugo Ricardo")
as Member of the heist team

Concha Cañizares
Unidentified

Agustín Bescós
as The Go-between

Ramón Centenero
(credited as "Ramon Centero")
as Detective

Ernesto Palazón
Unidentified

Enrique Núñez
as Agent showing the house

Victoria Quintana
Unidentified

Ángel Menéndez
as Detective

Agustín Zaragoza
as "The Gardener"

Antonio Tapia
Unidentified

Victoriano López
Unidentified

Antonio Cuenca
Unidentified

Presentacion Palacios
Unidentified

Y la colaboración especial de

Carlota Bilbao
as The Party hostess

María Silva
(credited as "Maria Sylva" in the French credits)
as The girl from the nightclub

Mayra Rey
as Lolita

French credits only

Henri Cogan
as The Mugger

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Uncredited actors A-Z

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Victor Castilla
as Don Álvaro henchman

Faustino Cornejo
as Party guest

Manuel de Agustina
as Party guest

Juan Martínez
as 1. Nightclub customer
as 2. Party guest

Antonio Orengo
as Party guest

Juan Antonio Peral
as Thug in street brawl

Antonio Pica
as Lolita's companion in the nightclub

Montserrat Prous
as Maid at Don Álvaro's office
It seems strange that she would be uncredited when Ángela Rhu is credited in an identical role, so I suspect she may be credited under another name. maybe "María Baus"?

Juana Ramírez
as Party guest

Felipe Urmeneta
as Leader of the 2nd group of thugs

"Fantasma"
as 1. Nightclub customer
as 2. Party guest

"Lavender Lady"
as Party guest

"Roca's Twin"
as Party guest

"Squashy"
as Guard

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Unidentified actors

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Unidentified credited actors

• María Baus - She has one credit on IMDb from 1954 without role.
• Concha Cañizares - She has one credit on IMDb without role.
• Antonio Cuenca - He has 9 credits on IMDb spread between 1964-1990, none with roles.
• Rafael Ibáñez - He's proved elusive so far. We currently also have him unidentified in the topic for Gritos en la noche. He has 19 credits listed on IMDb, one of which has very recently added a role. Based on that ID I thought we may have him found in Gritos en la noche, however the actor who seemed to be the same is nowhere to be seen in this film, so he remains a mystery. I will soon be posting a topic for another film where he is credited along with Hugo Ricardo (below), All'ombra di una colt (1965), so maybe that will help finding both of them.
• Victoriano López - There is one actor with this name on IMDb, who has 2 credits from 1968 and 1978, neither with roles.
• Presentacion Palacios - She has 2 credits on IMDb, neither with roles from which she could be identified.
• Ernesto Palazón - He has 6 credits on IMDb, none with roles.
• Victoria Quintana - She has no listing on IMDb, so presumably no other credited roles
• Antonio Tapia - The only actor with this name on IMDb who seemed like it could be the same person has one credit with no role from 1954.

The actress here only appears behind the Spanish opening credits and is not present in the French version

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Unidentified actors

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The obligatory scene-stealing animal actor

[carlos]

By any chance do you have Hugo Ricardo identified in All'ombra di una colt, or indeed in anything else? He's included in the more extensive Spanish credits, which also include some of the actors listed as uncredited on SWDb as well as a number of others who are not there.

At first glance I only see one guy in both. The shooter of the carnival, next to Guillermo Méndez, is same one in 78, 90, 93 etc. In both Hugo Ricardo and Rafael Ibáñez are credited. I don't see our guy in my pics in the films Rafael Ibáñez is credited. The shooter I have pegged as Ricardo Rubinstein, I wonder if Hugo Ricardo is the same actor?

66 - Antonio Pica
101, 102 - Faustino Cornejo, who's credited in Tres hombres buenos.

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By any chance do you have Hugo Ricardo identified in All'ombra di una colt, or indeed in anything else? He's included in the more extensive Spanish credits, which also include some of the actors listed as uncredited on SWDb as well as a number of others who are not there.

At first glance I only see one guy in both. The shooter of the carnival, next to Guillermo Méndez, is same one in 78, 90, 93 etc. In both Hugo Ricardo and Rafael Ibáñez are credited. I don't see our guy in my pics in the films Rafael Ibáñez is credited. The shooter I have pegged as Ricardo Rubinstein, I wonder if Hugo Ricardo is the same actor?
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66 - Antonio Pica
101, 102 - Faustino Cornejo, who's credited in Tres hombres buenos.

For Rafael Ibáñez, the ID has recently appeared on IMDb that he plays the jailer in Le tre spade di Zorro (1963), though obviously no clue as to how that ID was reached. That would be the guy below.

I did think this could be the same actor below playing a barman in Gritos en la noche, but I don't see anyone who seems at all like these roles in Tela de araña. I haven't got far enough into All'ombra di una colt to search for him so far.

One actor from All'ombra di una colt who I wondered about is this one who shoots Conrado San Martin at the start of the film, but unfortunately you don't see his face clearer than this.

Could he maybe be this guy, who is one of the few who must certainly be credited? I'm not entirely convinced.

Thanks for Pica and Cornejo, I'll add them later (or more likely tomorrow)

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By any chance do you have Hugo Ricardo identified in All'ombra di una colt, or indeed in anything else? He's included in the more extensive Spanish credits, which also include some of the actors listed as uncredited on SWDb as well as a number of others who are not there.

At first glance I only see one guy in both. The shooter of the carnival, next to Guillermo Méndez, is same one in 78, 90, 93 etc. In both Hugo Ricardo and Rafael Ibáñez are credited. I don't see our guy in my pics in the films Rafael Ibáñez is credited. The shooter I have pegged as Ricardo Rubinstein, I wonder if Hugo Ricardo is the same actor?

Seeing them side by side I'm not certain. the hair is certainly very similar, but I'm struggling to match the faces

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101, 102 - Faustino Cornejo, who's credited in Tres hombres buenos.

Regarding Faustino Cornejo, I assume this is the guy you're referring to (there is another guy in the background in both pics)

If so then I think the ID for Cornejo in Gritos en la noche, below, is incorrect - which, since this is also the shot used by SWDb on his profile page, means that is also incorrect.

The actor you have identified as Cornejo seems much more like this guy from Gritos en la noche, so if the party guest is Cornejo then I think this must be too

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The actor playing the thug on the left seems very like the wrestler below from Santo contra el doctor Muerte, no idea who he is though, but from the Santo role it would seem likely he was a professional wrestler who also doubled as an actor/stuntman (or vice-versa)