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Leap to Fame

Leap to Fame1959

★9.0115 minDramaHistory

The story of doctor Santiago Ramón y Cajal, who adapting Golgi's silver staining method enabled the visualization of the real structure of the central nervous system, based on individual cells, the neurons. For which both were bestowed the Nobel prize in 1906.

Director

León Klimovsky

Writer

Vicente Escrivá Manuel Pombo Angulo Ramón D. Faraldo

Score

Isidro B. Maiztegui

Stars

Adolfo Marsillach Julia Caba Alba Rafael Bardem

Cast41

Adolfo Marsillach
as Santiago Ramón y Cajal
Julia Caba Alba
as Old woman on train
Rafael Bardem
as Professor Casas
Asunción Sancho
as Silvería
Mario Morales
as Antonio Rivas
Isabel de Pomés
as Mother
José Marco Davó
as Don Justo
M
María del Valle
Á
Ángel Luis Álvarez
as Santiago (young)
M
Miguel Ángel Rodríguez
as Pedro (young)
E
Estrella Martínez
as Enriqueta
E
Elías Rodríguez
as Tomás
Matilde Muñoz Sampedro
as Animal seller
José Riesgo
F
Francisco Masana
Ángel Álvarez
as Photographer
Ángel Calero
as Priest
J
José Luis Torrado
L
Luciano Díaz
as Farmer
José Sepúlveda
as Shoe salesman
M
María Jesús Lara
P
Pilar Cano
Manuel Peiró
as Pedro (adult)
Joaquín Bergía
as Orderly
Goyo Lebrero
as Pet shop assistant
José Manuel Martín
as Cholera patient
Julio Sanjuán
as Scientist
Rufino Inglés
as Committee Member 1
J
Juan Manuel San Juan
as Committee Member 2
Carlos Mendy
as Dr Ferrán
Manuel Arbó
as Cholera patient's husband
L
Luis Rivera
as Showman
C
Carmen Esbrí
Enrique Ávila
L
Luis Gario
Juan Cazalilla
as Butler
A
Antonio Alfonso Vidal
as Professor Skelliger
Domingo Rivas
Luis María Lasala
as Congress Employee
Antonio Molino Rojo
as (uncredited)
A
Antonio Vela
as (uncredited)

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