Calle de Manuel Luna
It remembers Manuel Luna Baños (1898-1958), a Sevillian stage and film actor, a familiar face on Spanish screens in the 1930s and 1940s.
Manuel Luna Baños was born in Seville in 1898 and stepped onto a stage while still almost a child. By eighteen he was being paid to act, part of the theatre companies that toured Spain before the cinema claimed his face.
And it claimed him soon. Florián Rey cast him in two of the greatest hits of Republican cinema, Nobleza baturra (1935) and Morena Clara (1936), sharing the bill with Imperio Argentina. Audiences recognised him at once: he played hard-faced leading men, men of few smiles beneath whom he let feeling show. Through the 1940s he strung together comedies, historical dramas and adventures until he became one of the most recognisable faces of Spanish cinema of the day.
Calle de Manuel Luna runs just over three hundred metres in Cuatro Caminos, stitching Bravo Murillo to Infanta Mercedes. A plaque bearing his name recalls him at balcony height.