After the international success of
Marcelino, pan y vino, where he won a
Cannes Film Festival award (1955), he became Spain's most famous child actor. He did five more films including
Mi tío Jacinto (1956),
Un ángel pasó por Brooklyn (1957), and
Toto and Marcellino (1958) in
Italy, with
Totò. Retired from acting at the age of 16 to become an
industrial engineer later, he worked in tourism and promoting buildings in
Torrevieja. Calvo sang in a few films, but his singing voice was always dubbed on screen in Spain by a woman named
Matilde F. Vilariño. Calvo married Juana Olmedo in 1976. They had one son. He died on 1 February 2000 from a
brain aneurysm at the age of 51. ==Filmography==