Chete Lera

Ramón Mariano Fernández Lera (1949–2022), better known as Chete Lera, was a Spanish actor. With a long on-screen career in addition to a stage career, he featured in films such as The Red Squirrel, Secrets of the Heart, Familia, Barrio, Open Your Eyes, Flores de otro mundo, and Full Moon. Prior to acting he was an aeronautic engineer, pilot, bank teller and studied psychology. He began a career as a stage actor in the late 1970s, including his performance in the Eduardo Fuentes-directed stage play Cabaret Castizo (premiered in Madrid on 5 January 1993), portraying a sheriff making a parody out of authoritarian Madrid city councillor Ángel Matanzo; Matanzo's attempts to bring down the play eventually prompted his own sacking from the municipal government board. One of his most well known film credits was that of the psychiatrist in Alejandro Amenábar's Abre los ojos.

He died on 19 May 2022, age 72, in the wake of a car accident in Rincón de la Victoria. He was the single occupant of a vehicle that went off the road and fell down a 50-metre steep slope, landing on a plantation.

Filmography

Film Year Title Role Notes 1991 Todo por la pasta (Anything for Bread) Jefe Portugueses Feature film debut 1997 Familia Ventura 1997 Secretos del corazón (Secrets of the Heart) Ricardo 1997 Abre los ojos (Open Your Eyes) Antonio Barrio Comisario 1999 Extraños (Strangers) Marcos Flores de otro mundo (Flowers from Another World) Alfonso 2000 Plenilunio (Plenilune) Ferreras 2002 El alquimista impaciente (The Impatient Alchemist) Luis Dávila 2002 Smoking Room Puig 2003 El misterio Galíndez (The Galíndez File) 2007 Concursante (The Contestant) Edmundo Figueroa 2007 El niño de barro (The Mud Boy) Dr. Soria 2007 Tocar el cielo (Touch the Sky) Pedro 2009 Filomeno 2012 Todo es silencio (All Is Silence) Rumbo

Television Year Title Role Notes 2017 El ministerio del tiempo Marqués de Comillas Guest. Episode: "Tiempo de esclavos" 2018 Mira lo que has hecho Ramón Recurring. Season 1

Accolades

Year Award Category Work Result 2002 5th Málaga Film Festival Silver Biznaga for Best Actor Smoking Room 2005 3rd Mestre Mateo Awards Best Supporting Actor La promesa 2008 6th Mestre Mateo Awards Best Actor The Mud Boy Best Supporting Actor The Contestant 2009 7th Mestre Mateo Awards Best Actor Os mortos van á presa