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The manner in which Fernando Rey entered the film industry will not appear in a career guidance manual anytime soon because, unusually for a screen actor, he was trying to disappear.
The son of a general in the republican army during the Spanish civil war, Rey had fought against Franco, been captured and imprisoned but managed to escape. He hid in Madrid for six months waiting out the end of the conflict, emerging to find his father sentenced to death – later commuted to life imprisonment – and his mother and sister practically destitute.
