The actor Saturnino García was born on February 5, 1935 in the town of Bariones de la Vega, in the province of León.
As a teenager he moved to live, together with his family, to the municipality of Baracaldo, in the province of Vizcaya.
Before turning to acting, he worked as a laborer in metallurgy.
In 1986 he participated in the film “The trip to nowhere” by Fernando Fernán Gómez, which was followed by two others, also with prestigious directors, “Amantes” by Vicente Aranda, and “Todo por la pasta” by Enrique Urbizu. , with whom he would later work again in the feature film “How to be unhappy and enjoy it”.
His filmography is very extensive, having participated in a large number of films, many of them with some of the most prestigious directors of our film scene, such as Álex de la Iglesia, under whose orders he worked on “Acción mutatante” or El día de la Beast, Agustín Díaz Yanes in “Nobody will talk about us when we are dead”, Carlos Saura in “Goya in Bordeaux” or Miguel Bardem in The ugliest woman in the world.
In the rest of the titles in which he has participated, we also find others of great quality, films such as “Todo es mentira”, starring Penelope Cruz and Jordi Mollá, or “Boca a Boca”, with Javier Bardem leading the cast.
With the director Santiago Aguilar Alvear he has worked on the films Matías, a line judge ”and“ Justino, a murderer of the elderly ”. It should be noted that the latter was a great success for the actor, it has been the one that has given him the most popularity and allowed him to reap a large number of awards.
Thus, for his role in this film, he won the Goya Award for the best revelation performance, the Best Actor Award at the Valladolid Film Festival, the Best Actor Award at the Sitges International Film Festival and the Best Actor Award granted by The World of the Basque Country.
In 2006 the actor published an autobiography, entitled “From where and how to why”.