The film and television industry is once again in mourning after learning of the death of actor Francisco Vidal at 82 years of age. According to the information that has emerged, the interpreter had been admitted to the HM Madrid hospital for several days, located in the Madrid neighborhood of Chamberí, until this Friday the sad news of his loss due to respiratory failure was known.
The actor’s remains have been transferred to the North Mortuary Funeraria Nuestra Señora de los Remedios, in Fuencarral, where the funeral chapel will be installed so that his loved ones can say goodbye to the artist. After the wake, his remains will be cremated this Saturday in the Madrid cemetery of Colmenar Viejo.
The actor, a native of Alicante, had no family, since his only sister died years ago in his homeland. For this reason, a close friend of the interpreter has been the one who has taken care of all the procedures after his death.
Professionally, Francisco Vidal managed to carve out an extensive career in the world of acting, participating in renowned projects, to the point of having no more and no less than 50 series and miniseries behind him. One of his first projects was Crónicas de un pueblo, the legendary Spanish Television series broadcast between 1971 and 1974.
One of his most recent projects and the one that many viewers will remember him for was The Secret of Puente Viejo. Vidal played the doctor Don Julián in the remembered Antena 3 daily series, starring Megan Montaner. But Atresmedia’s fiction was not the only one with which it won the public’s affection. Francisco Vidal also participated in La Señora, the Spanish Television series broadcast between 2008 and 2010 and starring Adriana Ugarte and Rodolfo Sancho. In this new fiction the artist once again played a doctor, Dr. Freire.
The actor also gave life to a multitude of episodic characters in different television series such as Central Hospital, Countdown, Brothers and Detectives, 7 Lives, The Commissioner, Tell Me How It Happened, Oh, Lord, Lord! or Blue Summer. In the seventh art, Vidal had the privilege of working with directors of the stature of Vicente Aranda, José Luis Garci, Guillermo del Toro and Fernando Fernán Gómez. In addition, the man from Alicante was also immersed in the world of theater, where he starred in the play La obsession, with which he won the National Theater Award.
