Miguel Pedregosa Memoriam

The ecijano Miguel Pedregosa remembered in the "In Memoriam" of the Goya Awards

The master of arms Miguel Pedregosa, a native of Écija, died in August 2024 and has been remembered in the In Memoriam of the 39th edition of the Goya Awards held in Granada.

Ecija Web

9/2/2025

The In Memoriam of the Goya Awards, is the moment of the gala that is intended to remember people from different professions, linked to the world of cinema and who have died in the last year. Actors and actresses, directors, producers, makeup artists or chamber performers, are some of the professionals remembered in this edition and among them the Ecijano Miguel Pedregosa, master of weapons who died in 2024.

Miguel Pedregosa died on August 30, 2024. He was a renowned professional and throughout his career worked in over 500 films. It is considered one of the pioneers in Spain in working in major international productions, and proof of this are titles such as La Misión, Conan el Bárbaro, Rambo, Papillon, Marco Antonio and Cleopatra or The Bournen Ultimatum. Spanish productions such as Los Otros, La casa de los Espíritus, Mar in or Carmen -which was filmed in part in Écija-, are some of the degrees in which he demonstrated his mastery.

This Ecijan was more than a master of weapons, he was considered a master teacher, and this earned him several recognitions, among them the one offered by the Film Academy in November 2023, would be one of the last times he could be seen in public.

A master of weapons in the cinema is the head of the specialists, the people who are responsible for coordinating the work between the protagonists and the specialists, and this was the work of Miguel Pedregosa.

A life of cinema

On the occasion of the tribute of the academy, at ecijaweb.com there was a tour of the life of Miguel Pedregosa, a review that he himself carried out in an interview that same year in which he recognized that he arrived at the cinema thanks to the horses “I was born in Écija, where the horse dominates and everyone rides since childhood. We had the facility to ride because my father was a military cavalryman,” Pedregosa recalls. When moving to Madrid, opportunities arrived in the cinema, a sector that has changed a lot in these six decades. Local News Écija

Transiting through the falls of Iguazu – “no one else has done it before or after” – the departure of horse cars from a train, a house that had to take down on it, falls to the Red Sea where there were sharks ... are many risky anecdotes throughout its trajectory, where sometimes it came to work in up to three productions simultaneously, combined film and television. An example of this are the series The Commissioner and the Gran Prix program, with the heifer – “everything that the contestants did I tried it before so that nothing will happen to them”

About the profession today

“Today, specialists are better prepared and specialized. Before you did everything: high jump, horse fall, car drop... Now it is much safer, before it had to be done and already. You were hurt more because there were many more accidents”, compares Pedregosa who, when he started in this profession, did not even appear as specialists in the credits and accredited them as artistic distribution.

It was highlighted in this interview that Spanish specialists have always been very well considered, “especially in horse films, from El Cid. They have always been a point above foreign specialists because the mastery of horses in Spain is different from the whole world,” he boasted.

Miguel Pedrogosa was a reference until the end. When I was retired, I was still the teacher to consult doubts "It's weird the week that a master of arms doesn't call me to ask me how I would do such a thing and I tell you,”He said a few months before his passing.

In Memoriam

The last tribute and memory that has been had with Miguel Pedregosa has been during the 39 gala of the Goya Awards that have been held in Granada. In the section In Memoriam, in which he reminds the professionals who have died in the last year, the figure of the Ecijan Miguel Pedregosa has been highlighted.

Spaghetti Western Filmography:

The Savage Guns – 1961 (Ortega henchman) [stunts]

Billy the Kid – 1963 [stunts]

Gunfight at High Noon – 1963 [stunts]

Gunfight at Red Sands – 1963 [stunts]

Gunmen of the Rio Grande – 1964 [stunts]

The Last Tomahawk – 1964 [stunts]

Minnesota Clay – 1964 [stunts]

Seven from Texas – 1964 [stunts]

Dollars for a Fast Gun – 1965 [stunts]

A Pistol for Ringo – 1965 [Sancho henchman] [stunts]

The Relentless Four – 1965 (Anders’ ranch hand) [also stunts]

The Return of Ringo – 1965 [stunts]

7 Guns for the Mac Gregors – 1965 [stunts]

Vengeance Ranch - 1965

The Big Gundown – 1966 [stunts]

God Forgives... I Don’t! – 1966 [stunts]

The Hellbenders – 1966 [stunts]

Johnny Yuma – 1966 [stunts]

The Man from Nowhere – 1966 [stunts]

A Taste for Killing – 1966 [stunts]

The Ugly Ones – 1966 [stunts]

Any Gun Can Play – 1967 [stunts]

A Man, a Colt – 1967 [stunts]

Villa Rides! – 1967 (Villa guerilla) [stunts]

Dead Men Don’t Count! – 1968 [stunts]

Duel in the Eclipse – 1968 [stunts]

Guns of the Magnificent 7 – 1968 [stunts]

I Came, I Saw, I Shot – 1968 [stunts]

I Want Him Dead – 1968 [stunts]

Kill Them All and Come Back Alone – 1968 [stunts]

The Mercenary – 1968 [stunts]

Shalako – 1968 [stunts]

El Condor – 1969 [stunts]

Land Raiders – 1969 [stunts]

Sabata – 1969 [stunts]

Sundance Cassidy and Butch the Kid – 1969 [stunts]

Cannon for Cordoba – 1970 [stunts]

‘Doc’ – 1970 [stunts]

Hannie Caulder – 1970 [stunts]

Sabata the Killer – 1970 [stunts]

They Call Me Trinity – 1970 [stunts]

Catlow – 1971 [stunts]

Chato’s Land – 1971 [stunts]

The Deserter - 1971

Raise Your Hands Dead Man, You’re Under Arrest – 1971 [stunts]

What Am I Doing in the Middle of the Revolution? – 1971 [stunts]

Massacre at Fort Holman – 1972 [stunts]

The Sting of the West – 1972 (Branch)

Chino – 1973 [stunts]

The Man Called Noon – 1973 [stunts]

4 of the Apocalypse… - 1974 [stunts]

Zorro – 1975 [stunts]

The New Zorro (TV) – 1990-1993 [stunts]

Tomorrow I Could be Dead – 2012 [himself]