Biography
Prolific Mexican actor with more than 100 films in his filmography. His first intention was to be a painter. However, life would take him on other paths and his incursion into the world of the arts would be as an architect, a career he studied at the suggestion of a cousin just out of school, given his interest in painting, and from which he graduated from the National Autonomous University of Mexico in 1954. Shortly after, he dedicated himself to promoting crafts with artists such as Manuel Felguérez and Felipe Ehrenberg, one of his first assistants. With Felguérez he devised a different line of ceramics and with Ehrenberg he invented a technique for painting on amate paper, which he later taught to indigenous people in the facilities of his café-gallery La Amargura, located on the street of the same name in the San Ángel neighborhood. As a painter he only mounted one exhibition, although every day he drew and made caricatures from the news in the newspapers: "One ends up with more or less possibilities of doing what one wanted, although, as Picasso said, at this age is when one has more desire to do things; I feel that one understands them better, knows better what one wants t…
Movies & TV Shows
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A Wonderful World (2006) — Sacerdote
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La última noche (2005) — Don Cecilio
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The Mansion of Madness (1973) — Dr. Maillard
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The Bees (1978) — Representative at the United Nations - U.S.S.R.
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Las Poquianchis (1976) — Reportero (uncredited)
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Cabeza de Vaca (1991) — Man in armor
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I Murder Seriously (2002) — Don Eulalio
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I Escaped from Devil's Island (1973) — Pelliserre
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The Heist (1976) — Preso del suéter amarillo
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Nora's Will (2008) — Rabbi Jacowitz
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Compassionate Sex (2000) — Vendedor de colmado
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Foxtrot (1976) — Captain
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The Aztec Karate Fighter (1976) — Fritz Kartoffel
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Lucía, Lucía (2003) — Old Wehner
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Letters from Marusia (1975) — Engineer
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Love, Pain and Vice Versa (2008) — Paciente anciano
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Frida Still Life (1986) — Leon Trotsky
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Naufragio (1978) — Marino III
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Reed: Insurgent Mexico (1972) — Antonio Swafeyta
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The Queen of the Night (1994) — Serge
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If I Never See You Again (1997) — Gonzalo
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Maria of My Heart (1979) — Esposo de madrina
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Aunt Isabel's Garden (1972)
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What Do You Think? (1986)
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Bandidos (1991) — Sacerdote
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Viva San Isidro! (1995) — Don Cayetano
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Sea of Dreams (2006) — Glass blower
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La casta divina (1977) — Arzobispo de Yucatán
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Esmeralda Comes by Night (1997) — Priest in hospital
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Sex Education In Brief Lessons (1997)
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The Humiliated (1986)
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En Defensa Propia (1978)
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My Mexican Shivah (2007) — Rubinstein
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The Prophet Mimi (1973) — Don Paco
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The Diabolical (1977) — Dueño de la tienda
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The Coming of the King Olmos (1975)
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El viaje (1977)
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Cómodas mensualidades (1992)
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El Viaje de la Nonna (2008) — Public Notary
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Those Years (1974) — Von Thun