José Sancho
José Asunción Martínez Sancho (11 November 1944 – 3 March 2013) was a Spanish actor. Over a period of fifty years he appeared extensively in Spanish television and films. He was perhaps best known internationally for his roles in Pedro Almodóvar's films Live Flesh and Talk to Her.
Private life
Sancho was born in Manises, Valencia in 1944. He married and divorced twice the singer Maria Jimenez (with whom he had a son named Alejandro) and, after his second divorce with Jimenez, he married journalist Reyes Monforte, from 2006 until the death of the actor in 2013.
He was a cousin of the Spanish Socialist Party politician Antoni Asuncion.
Career
Sancho's first film role was when he was aged just four in Si te hubieses casado conmigo (If you had been married to me)(1948), directed by Viktor Tourjansky. He became popular thanks to his role as The Student, in the TVE series, Curro Jiménez (1977–1978), directed by Pilar Miró, Mario Camus, Antonio Drove, Rafael Romero Marchent, Francisco Rovira Beleta and others.