Little Known Spaghetti Western actors ~ Pilar Delgado

[These daily posts will cover little known actors or people that have appeared in more recent films and TV series. Various degrees of information that I was able to find will be given and anything that you can add would be appreciated.]

Pilar Delgado Navarro was born in 1933 in Casas de Alcanar, Tarragona. At a very young age she was already playing important roles in her parents' traveling theater company. In the 1950s, on one of their tours of Aragon, in Albalate del Arzobispo (Teruel), she met Alfonso Zapater Gil, with whom she went with to Madrid and formed the group “El Corral de la Pacheca,” with Lola Gaos, Gerardo Malla, and Fernando Cebrián. Delgado and Gil would eventually marry and had five children together. Pilar returned to Zaragoza in the 1960s, where she performed with the “Agrupación Artística Aragonesa,” and attended the gatherings at the Café Niké. In 1970 she founded her own traveling company, “La Taguara,” a Venezuelan-sounding name, with which she toured all of Aragon and achieved great success with “Aragon for Everyone” and “The Ballad of the Three Innocents.”. In 1986, she joined the “Teatro de la Ribera” and performed works by Lorca, Goldoni, and Brecht. She was a passionate, confident actress with an excellent voice and great professionalism. In 1993, she was named an adopted daughter of Zaragoza. A street in the Santa Isabel neighborhood is named after her, running from Calle Norte to Tomás Ostáriz and perpendicular to the street named after her husband, Alfonso Zapatar.

Pilar died in Zaragosa in 1997 at the age of 64

Pilar Delgado’s only Euro-western was in “Oro vil” (Dirty Gold) in 1941.

DELGADO, Pilar (Pilar Delgado Navarro) [1933, Casas de Alcanar, Tarragona – 1997, Zaragosa, Spain] – theater, film actress, married to journalist Alfonso Zapater Gil [1932-2007], mother of five children, founded La Taguara Theater Company.

Dirty Gold – 1941