Actor Juan Antonio Quintana dies at 83

The actor

, known for his performance in television series such as 'Ana y los Siete', 'Hospital Central' and more recently in 'El Ministerio del Tiempo', has died this Tuesday at the age of 83 in a residence in Valladolid, according to family sources.

Theater, film and television actor,

was born in Zaragoza in 1939, where he forged a vocation for the stage channeled since he was 17 years old with his debut at the University of Zaragoza with the work "The Lesson", by Eugène Ionesco.

At the University of Zaragoza, where he studied Philosophy and Letters, he also forged himself as an actor for eight years, culminating in his participation in the staging of "Fuenteovejuna", by Lope de Vega, directed by Alberto Castilla at the National University Theater in Madrid.

The work won the Grand Prize at the World Theater Festival held in Nancy (France) and two years later, in 1966, he undertook his first production with "El Sí de las Niñas", by Leandro Fernández de Moratín.

It was the accolade to a career that continued in Valladolid, where he established his residence since 1968, created in 1970 the Corral de Comedias de Valladolid -his first theater company- and married in 1974 the painter and set designer Mery Maroto, who died in 2019 and with whom he had a daughter, the actress Lucía Quintana.

Later, he taught at several institutes but he did not neglect a vocation that led him in 1976 to the creation of the Theater Classroom of the University of Valladolid, where actors such as Diego Martín, Eva Hache, Carlos Domingo, his daughter Lucía Quintana and even the current mayor of Valladolid, Óscar Puente, during his time as an amateur.

But it was after his retirement when, by dedicating himself to film and television, he gained popularity and national dimension through memorable roles such as that of the endearing grandfather in the series "Ana and the seven" (2002-2005) or that of Basilio in "Love in troubled times" (2011).

Television multiplied her popularity in series where she showed off her talent: "Hands on" and Petra Delicado (1999), "The Commissioner" (2001), "Without tits there is no paradise" (2009), "The Golden Girls" (2010) and "The ministry of time" (2016) with his interpretation of Santiago Ramón y Cajal (2016).

That year, in August and at the end of the performance of "Los Manrique con la Reina", he announced in Madrigal de las Altas Torres (Ávila) that he was suffering from Parkinson's disease.

In 2019 his wife passed away and during the pandemic he contracted the coronavirus twice.

Juan Antonio Quintana was honored in 2000 at the Calderón Theater in Valladolid and a seat at the Zorrilla Theater bears the name of an actor who left his mark on the cinema in films such as "Mamá es boba" (1997), "Nobody's life" ( 2002), "GAL" (2006) and "The blind sunflowers" (2008).

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