Juan Carlos I, the last King of Spain reigned from 1975 until his abdication in 2014. Juan Carlos Alfonso Víctor María de Borbón y Borbón-Dos Sicilias was born on January 5, 1938 in Rome, Lazio, Italy, during his family's exile. Expected to continue Franco's legacy, Juan Carlos, however, soon after his accession introduced reforms to dismantle the Francoist regime and begin the Spanish transition to democracy. This led to the approval of the Spanish Constitution of 1978 in a referendum, which re-established a constitutional monarchy. In 1981, Juan Carlos played a major role in preventing a coup that attempted to revert Spain to Francoist government in the King's name. In 2008, he was considered the most popular leader in all Ibero-America.

Filmography

• Juan Carlos: Downfall of the King
• Sofía y la vida real
• Felicidades, Letizia
• Saving the King
• Franco. La vida del Dictador en color
• 2014Juan Carlos I, mi historia
• 2013Espagne. Le crepuscule d'un Roi
• 2000Juan Carlos I: 25 años de reinado

Appearances as themselves (26)

• 2026Imprevisible, inevitable: un trajecte del metro a la Dana de València — Self (archive footage)
• 2025LS83 — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
• 202425 anys d'emocions. 25 anys de Circuit — Self (archive footage)
• Kimeres — Self (archive footage)
• Los Borbones: Una familia real — Self
• The Sagrada Familia — Self (archive footage)
• 2021The Replacement — Self (archive footage)
• 2020Leonor. El futuro de la monarquía renovada — Himself
• 2019Generalísimo, la vida de Franco en color — Self (archive footage)
• 2017Catalonia: Spain on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown — Self (archive footage)
• Dani&Flo con Lara Álvarez — Self
• 2017Magnicidios Poe — Himself (archive footage)
• 2016Juan Carlos, King of Spain — Himself
• 2014Operación Palace — Himself (archive footage)
• 2010A Day in the Life — Self (archive footage)
• 30 for 30 — Self (archive footage)
• 2006De Madrid a la Luna — Self (archive footage)
• 200525 jaar Beatrix — Self
• 2005El Calentito — Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
• 1999Flowers From Another World — Self (Archive Footage)
• 1993Marathon — Self
• 1992Barcelona '92 Olympic Games Inauguration Ceremony — Self
• 1983Después de… Primera parte: no se os puede dejar solos — Self (archive footage)
• 1983Después de… Segunda parte: atado y bien atado — Self (archive footage)
• 1971Flame of Persia — Self
• La sombra del elefante — Himself (archive footage)