A funeral chapel has been set up at the Teatro Español, where a large photograph of the actor seated on a terrace reading a newspaper has been placed, with the accompaniment of the music of ”Caminito”, which he so loved. His mortal remains will later be cremated at the Almudena cemetery. A large number of personalities from the cultural community joined Fernan- Gomez’s widow Emma Cohen and son Fernando at the Teatro Español. Raphael, Pilar Bardem, Juan Diego Botto, Aitana Sanchez Gijon, Pedro Olea, and Jose Luis Borau were among the first to arrive in the early morning. Fernan-Gomez was given many awards as one of the best professionals in all arenas of Spanish culture: film-maker, script-writer, novelist, play-write, academic, essayist and, above all, actor. In 1995, he was awarded the Principe de Asturias Prize for Arts and sometime later became the first and only actor to be a member of the Real Academia of the Spanish Language, in which he occupied the "capital B" seat. He worked with some of the most renowned directors of his time, including Edgar Neville (Domingo de carnaval -1945, The Last Horse -1950), Luis Saenz de Heredia (El destino se disculpa, Bambu -1945), Bardem and Berlanga (That Happy Couple -1953), Carlos Saura (Ana and the Wolves -1973, Mama Turns 100 -1979), Victor Erice (The Spirit of the Beehive -1973) or Jose Luis Cuerda (On Earth as It Is in Heaven -1995, Butterfly’s Tongue -1999). He was also The Grandfather (1998) under Jose Luis Garci. He worked with Pedro Almodovar in All About My Mother (1999), and Antonio Hernandez, doing a magnificent performance in The City of No Limits (2002).
His last film debut was in Mia Sarah (2006), by Gustavo Ron, in which he played the ghost of the grandfather of an orphaned brother and sister.