Humberto Almazán

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Humberto Almazán (born February 16, 1924 in Mexico City ) is a Mexican actor and Catholic priest.

Life

Almazán began in 1941 at the University of Mexico an architecture -Studies he broke However, in 1945, to go to an acting school. He made his film debut with an appearance in Roberto Gavaldón's Corazones de México in 1944, and made his stage debut as Puck in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream . When his wife, an orphan, died of complications during pregnancy in their wedding year 1950, Almazán finished his acting studies and went to Italy. By the early 1960s he played in almost twenty films, including alongside Pedro Armendáriz in a trilogy about Pancho Villa and that of Chucho el Roto . In addition to María Félix he was seen in La Cucaracha in 1959; His most important performance, however, he delivered in the leading role of Benito Juárez in El joven Juárez , directed by Emilio Gómez Muriel in 1954. In 1955 he was awarded the Mexican film prize Premio Ariel .

In 1962 Almazán, who had been taking religious breaks in a monastery in Peru and at the Catholic seminary in Montréal since 1960 , turned completely to theology and was ordained a Catholic priest in 1966. In the following years he used his experience as an actor in a new field of activity: in 1969 he played a Catholic priest in the western The Challenge ; another four films followed by 1992.

His church duties led Almazán to Rome, Indonesia and Spain, where he mostly worked in hospital wards. He has lived near Huelva in Spain since the 1990s , where he mainly works with HIV- infected young children.

Filmography (selection)

  • 1945: Corazones de México
  • 1954: The river and death (El rio y la muerte)
  • 1959: Devil General Pancho Villa (Pancho Villy y la Valentina)
  • 1959: Pancho Villa - victory and betrayal (Cuando ¡Viva Villa…! Es la muerte)
  • 1971: The Challenge (Rain for a Dusty Summer)
  • 1992: Pushed to the Limit

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Almazán's biography on the Creighton University website ( Memento from July 28, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Almazan, Humberto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Mexican actor and Catholic priest
DATE OF BIRTH February 16, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Mexico city