Abel Salazar
Abel Salazar García (born September 24, 1917 in Mexico City , † October 21, 1995 in Cuernavaca ) was a Mexican actor , film director and film producer .
Life
Salazar began his acting career after various jobs as an archivist and bathroom furniture salesman as the comedian's second husband in Mexico City. He made his film debut in 1941 in La casa del rencor by Chano Urueta . His next film with the same director, a version of The Count of Monte Christo , will be a great success. Difficulties in the private relationship with his fiancé, actress Gloria Marín , who left him temporarily, led to a crisis that he was finally able to overcome in 1944, when success with Capullito de Alhelí sets in; other successful works such as Las cinco advertencias de Satanás (1945, by Fernando Soler ), Los tres García (1946, by Ismael Rodríguez ), Mi esposa busca novio (1947, by Carlos Orellana ), La Panchita (1948, by Emilio Gómez Muriel ) , Yo quiero ser hombre (1950, by René Cardona ), Una viuda sin sostén (1950, by Miguel M. Delgado ) and Canasta uruguaya (1952, again by René Cardona) followed. Then Salazar went to Spain, where he appeared in a considerable number of adventure films (such as El coyote from 1954, by Joaquín Luis Romero Marchent ) and especially horror films , some of which he also produced (such as El vampiro and El ataúd del vampiro (both 1957) directed by Fernando Méndez ), participated.
In 1960 he married the actress Rosita Arenas after lengthy legal disputes about his first marriage to Gloria Marín. Salazar remained active in his home country from the mid-1960s until the 1980s; He played his last role in the cinema for Arturo Ripstein , after which he was only seen twice in television series.
Between 1968 and 1988 Salazar was also responsible for fourteen films as a director.
Filmography (selection)
- 1942: La Virgen morena
- 1954: The Coyote (El coyote)
- 1954: The Coyote's Revenge (La justicia del Coyote)
- 1957: Vampiro (El vampiro)
- 1957: The Vampiro's Coffin (El ataud del vampiro)
Director
- 1974: The Bullfighters - The death song of the steel chains (Peor que los buitres)
Web links
- Abel Salazar in Internet Movie Database (English)
- Biography of Abel Salazar on cinemexicano.UNAM (spanish)
- further outline of his life (spanish)
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Salazar, Abel |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Salazar García, Abel (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Mexican actor, film director and film producer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 24, 1917 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mexico city |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 21, 1995 |
| Place of death | Cuernavaca |