Abel Salazar (actor)
Mexican actor (1917-1995)
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Abel Salazar García (24 September 1917 – 21 October 1995) was a Mexican actor, producer and director.[1] He appeared in 70 films between 1941 and 1989.
24 September 1917
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| Born | Abel Salazar García 24 September 1917 Mexico City, Mexico |
| Died | 21 October 1995 (aged 78) Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico |
| Occupations | Actor, film director |
| Years active | 1941–1989 |
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| Children | 3 |
Personal life
After marriages to Alicia Cárdenas, daughter of former Mexican President Lazaro Cardenas,[2] and Gloria Marín, he married, lastly, Rosita Arenas, who had been briefly married to Spanish actor Jaime de Mora y Aragón. Salazar and Arenas had a daughter, Rosa Salazar Arenas,[3] a Mexican actress and screenwriter.[4][5][6] and is a writer of the Mexican Spanish-language soap opera Llena de amor (English title: Fill me with love), produced by Televisa, that began airing in 2010.[7] She co-authored Rituales Para El Amor, La Belleza y La Prosperidad (1998), with Pita Ojeda.[8] He died of respiratory failure and Alzheimer's disease in 1995.[9]
Selected filmography
- La casa del Rencor (1941)
- The League of Songs (1941)
- La Virgen morena (1942)
- Capullito de Alhelí (1944)
- The Three Garcias (1947)
- The Garcias Return (1947)
- Mi esposa busca novio (1947)
- The Prince of the Desert (1947)
- La Panchita (1948)
- Aunt Candela (1948)
- Dos pesos dejada (1949)
- Me ha besado un hombre (1949)
- Una viuda sin sostén (1950)
- What Has That Woman Done to You? (1951)
- La Duquesa del Tepetate (1951)
- Canasta uruguaya (1951)
- From the Can-Can to the Mambo (1951)
- Seven Women (1953)
- Mañana cuando amanezca (1954)
- The Coyote (1955)
- El vampiro (1957)
- El hombre y el monstruo (1958)
- The White Renegade (1960)
- El mundo de los vampiros (The World Of The Vampires) (1961)
- The Curse of the Crying Woman (La maldición de la llorona) (1961)
- The Brainiac (El baron del terror) (1962)
- The Adolescents (1968) director
- Tres Mujeres en la Hoguera (1976)
- Ya Nunca Mas (Never Again) (1984) director—marks the film debut of Luis Miguel.[10]