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]
