Bernardo Romero Lozano (actor, 1909)

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Bernardo Romero Lozano (* 1909 in Buga / Valle del Cauca , † 1971 in Bogotá ) was a Colombian actor and director, radio and television pioneer.

Life

Romero Lozano went to Bogotá at a very young age to study piano at the Conservatory. After marrying actress Carmen de Lugo , he dropped out of training to find a job. In 1938 the President Eduardo Santos appointed him director of the Teatro Colón Bogotá .

With the establishment of Radio Nacional de Colombia in 1940, a group of authors developed around Hernando Vega Escobar who devoted themselves intensively to radio plays , and who Romero Lozano joined in 1943. Numerous pieces based on classic Colombian and international works were created, including pieces by young Colombian dramatists.

In 1946 Romero Lozano founded the first experimental theater group at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia . At the same time he worked as a speaker teacher for the politician Jorge Eliécer Gaitán . After founding Colombian television in 1954, he directed the first television play E1 niño del pantano , in which his wife, son Bernardo and actor Jaime Monsalve appeared.

The Argentine television director Fernando Gómez Agudelo became aware of him, and at his suggestion, an Argentine-Colombian group of actors came into being (with Pedro Martínez , Axel Anderson , Mary Carmen Gordon and Mabel Jaramillo , among others ), which subsequently realized numerous television and radio plays, including an adaptation of Kafka's " The Trial ".

Together with Romero Lozano - and for a time the Japanese Stanislawski student Seki Sano - until 1958 he ran the television game department of Colombian television. He then worked as an assessor and as an actor and author and adaptations.

In 1964 he took part in the sixth congress of the Federación Internacional de Artistas (FIA) in Mexico, at which the Premio Bernardo Romero Lozano was created in his honor . As a founding member, he was a defining figure of the Círculo Colombiano de Actores (CICA).

In 1971 he became the representative of the President of the Republic of Colombia on the board of directors of the Instituto Colombiano de Cultura (COLCULTURA). A few days before his death, the shooting of the film María , in which he worked as an actor, was completed under the direction of Tito Davison .

Romero Lozano wrote the drama Doña Inés vuelve al convento and the literary critical essay Lo que nos queda de Víctor Hugo .

Directional work for radio and television plays

  • Chonta , around 1950
  • Los heroes , around 1950
  • Estampas de la mistica tierra del Señor , 1952
  • Hazaña y romance de don Jose Solis Folch de Cardona , 1952
  • La historia del cafe , 1952
  • La muerte de un viajante , 1953
  • Lazaro No. 2 , 1953
  • Prometeo Encadenado , 1954
  • Tarde , 1954
  • Antes del desayuno , 1954
  • Edipo Rey , 1954
  • El niño del pantano , 1954
  • El Proceso , 1954
  • Arietta de farsa , 1955
  • Donde esta marcada la cruz , 1955
  • La sirena varada , 1955
  • La inocente , 1955
  • Gardenia no se va , 1955
  • El fenix y la tortola , 1955
  • Su primer cliente , 1955
  • Todos los hijos de Dios tienen alas , 1956
  • Sin puerto , 1956
  • Yo quiero una mujer asi , 1956
  • Hasta mañana si Dios quiere , 1956
  • La muerte de un viajante , 1956
  • Doctor Knock , 1956
  • El emperador Jones , 1957
  • El lando de seis caballos , 1957
  • Un dia en la gloria , 1957
  • La torta de cumpleaños , 1958
  • Las verdades de Don Juna , 1958
  • El rifle , 1958
  • Amanecer del exodo , 1959
  • El chonta , around 1960
  • Seis personajes en busca de autor , around 1960
  • Nuestra Natasha , 1963
  • Infame mentira , 1963
  • La ninfa constante , 1963
  • El mercader de Venecia , 1965
  • La Maria , 1965
  • La casa de Bernarda Alba , 1965
  • Hamlet , 1965
  • Arsenico y encaje antiguo , 1965
  • Doce mujeres del Calvario , 1965
  • Otelo , 1965
  • Los triturados , 1965
  • Macbeth , 1965
  • Lo que no fue , 1965
  • Romeo y Julieta , 1965
  • Topaze , 1965
  • A manera de cuento , 1966
  • El Apolo de Mersac , 1966
  • El melon y doña Endrina , 1966
  • La guardia cuidadosa , 1966
  • La tercera palabra , 1967
  • Espectros , 1967
  • Estafa de amor , 1971

Filmography as an actor

  • El Milagro de Sal
  • La ninfa constant
  • Canción en el alma
  • Edipo Rey
  • Estampas de la mística tierra del señor
  • Hazaña y romance de don José Solís Folch de Cardona
  • La sirena varada
  • Maria
  • Prometeo encadenado

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personal data
SURNAME Romero Lozano, Bernardo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Colombian actor and director, radio and television pioneer
DATE OF BIRTH 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Buga , Valle del Cauca
DATE OF DEATH 1971
Place of death Bogotá