Pablito Calvo

Who was Pablito Calvo?

Pablito Calvo was a Spanish child actor. After the international success of Marcelino, pan y vino, where he won a Cannes Film Festival award, he became Spain's most famous child actor. He did five more films, even in Italy, with Totò.

Retired from acting at the age of 16 to become an industrial engineer later, he worked in tourism and promoting buildings in Torrevieja. Calvo sang in a few films, but his singing voice was always dubbed on screen, in Spain by a woman, Matilde F. Vilariño.