Gustavo Rojo
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Gustavo Rojo | |
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| Born | Gustavo Rojo Pinto 5 September 1923 Montevideo, Uruguay |
| Died | 22 April 2017 (aged 93) Mexico City, Mexico |
| Occupation(s) | Actor Film producer |
| Years active | 1938–2017 |
| Spouses | Mercedes Castellanos
(m. 1943; died 1954)Carmela Stein (m. 1975) |
| Children | Alejandra, Enrique, Juan Carlos Ana Patricia Rojo[1] |
Gustavo Rojo Pinto (5 September 1923 – 22 April 2017) was a Uruguayan-Mexican actor.
Life and career
Gustavo Rojo was born on 5 September 1923 on a German ship in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.Ruben Rojo, also became actors. In the late 1920s, Mercedes wrote a play and Gustavo made his theater debut. Gustavo's screen debut came as a child actor in the 1938 Cuban film Ahora seremos felices, in which his older sister Pituka had a starring role. In the 1940s, the family moved to Mexico, where Rojo worked steadily throughout the 1940s.[3]
In 1947, he made his Hollywood debut in the film Tarzan and the Mermaids, which starred Johnny Weissmuller and Brenda Joyce.
Rojo was engaged to Austrian actress Erika Remberg in 1958.[4] He died on 22 April 2017 at the age of 93.[5]
Selected filmography
Film
- Ahora seremos felices (1938) as Radio Station boy #1 (uncredited)
- Mis hijos (1944) as Luis
- Murallas de pasión (1944)
- Amok (1944)
- Una canción en la noche (1945)
- Corazones de México (1945)
- Mamá Inés (1946)
- Las colegialas (1946) as Gabriel Solórzano
- El último amor de Goya (1946)
- A Insaciável (1947) as Mario
- Todo un caballero (1947) as Carlos Alcalde
- Tarzan and the Mermaids (1948) as Tiko
- Courtesan (1948)
- Barrio de pasiones (1948)
- Una mujer con pasado (1949) as Federico de Medina
- Cuando los padres se quedan solos (1949) as Fernando
- Eterna agonía (1949) as Humberto
- Cuando baja la marea (1949)
- Café de chinos (1949) as Enrique
- The Great Madcap (1949) as Eduardo de la Mata
- La virgen desnuda (1950)
- Un grito en la noche (1950)
- El sol sale para todos (1950)
- Te besaré en la boca (1950)
- Yo quiero ser tonta (1950) as Juan
- La reina del mambo (1951) as Luis
- El grito de la carne (1951) as Roberto
- Doña Clarines (1951) as Miguel Castañeda / Luis
- Red Fury (1951) as Ramón Stevens
- Stronghold(1951)
- Cerca del cielo (1951)
- The Evil Forest (1951) as Parsifal
- From Madrid to Heaven (1952) as Pablo Iriarte
- Younger Brother (1953)
- Los que no deben nacer (1953)
- Under the Sky of Spain (1953)
- Borrasca en las almas (1954) as Rogelio del Moral
- La sobrina del señor cura (1954) as Bernabé
- Tehuantepec (1954)
- The Island Princess (1954) as Bentejui
- Angels of the Street (1954)
- La lupa (1955) as Carlos Iriarte
- La mujer ajena (1955)
- Alexander the Great (1956) as Cleitus the Black
- Engaged to Death (1957) as Pietro
- Action of the Tiger (1957) as Henri Malvoisie
- La guerra empieza en Cuba (1957) as Capitán Javier Romero
- Desnúdate, Lucrecia (1958) as Nicolás de la Fuente
- Secretaria peligrosa (1958)
- Il romanzo di un giovane povero (1958) as Massimo
- La tirana (1958) as Vizconde de Acarí / Conde de San Esteban del Río
- Parque de Madrid (1959)
- It Started with a Kiss (1959) as Antonio Soriano
- María de la O (1959) as Don Luís Suárez
- S.O.S., abuelita (1959)
- The Miracle (1959) as Cordoba
- Juicio final (1960)
- Schön ist die Liebe am Königssee (1961) as Ronald Twiss
- La grande vallata (1961)
- El amor empieza en sábado (1961) as Mr. White
- Schlagerrevue 1962 (1961) as Ferdinand Sander
- Julius Caesar Against the Pirates (1962) as Julius Caesar
- Il capitano di ferro (1962) as Furio
- Murder in Rio (1963) as Dumont
- The Secret of Dr. Mabuse (1964) as Mario Monta
- No Survivors, Please (1964) as Armand de Guedez
- Old Shatterhand (1964) as Corporal Bush
- The Treasure of the Aztecs (1965) as Teniente Potoca
- Genghis Khan (1965) as Altan
- The Pyramid of the Sun God (1965) as Teniente Potoca
- Wild Kurdistan (1965) as Ahmed El Corda
- El marqués (1965) as Director of the Casino
- Kingdom of the Silver Lion (1965) as Ahmed El Corda
- Come to the Blue Adriatic (1966) as Sr. Hernandez
- Europa canta (1966) as Chief Big Vulture
- Seven Vengeful Women (1966) as Gus Macintosh
- Django Does Not Forgive (1966)
- Kitosh: The Man Who Came From The North (1967) as José
- A Witch Without a Broom (1967) as Caius
- The Fickle Finger of Fate (1967) as Estrala
- The Christmas Kid (1967) as Mayor Louis Carillo
- Spy Today, Die Tomorrow (1967) as Peppino
- The Vengeance of Pancho Villa (1967) as General Urbina
- Ragan (1968) as Velludo
- Madigan's Millions (1968) as Lt. Arco
- Battle of the Last Panzer (1969)
- The Valley of Gwangi (1969) as Carlos dos Orsos
- A Bullet for Sandoval (1969) as Guadalupano
- El niño y el potro (Más allá de río Miño) (1969) as Andrés
- Land Raiders (1970) as Juantez
- El Condor (1970) as Colonel Anguinaldo
- El último día de la guerra (1970) as Pvt. Hawk
- El hombre que vino del odio (1971)
- Natacha (1971) as Raúl
- Gracia y el forastero (1974)
- Hermanos de sangre (1974)
- Divorcio a la andaluza (1975)
- El compadre más padre (1976)
- El látigo (1978)
- Cuando tejen las arañas (1979) as Padre de Laura
- Reventon en Acapulco (1982)
- La golfa del barrio (1982)
- Corrupción (1984) as Dr. Antonio Arenas
- De puro relajo (1986)
- Solicito marido para engañar (1988) as Ángel
- Sabor a mí (1988)
- Venganza juvenil (1988)
- El cornudo soy yo (1989)
- Fuera de la ley (1998)
Telenovelas
- No creo en los hombres (1969) as Roberto
- Natacha (1970-1971) (Perú) as Raúl Pereyra
- El amor tiene cara de mujer (1971) as Cristián
- ¿Quién? (1973)
- Muñeca (1974) as Padre Félix
- Mundo de juguete (1974-1977) as Carlos
- La tierra (1974-1975)
- Marcha nupcial (1977) as Esteban
- Una mujer (1978) as Manuel
- La divina Sarah (1980) as Richepin
- Lágrimas de amor (1980) as Germán
- Secreto de confesión (1980) as Jorge
- Una limosna de amor (1981) as Rolando
- Mañana es primavera (1982) as Alfredo Serrano
- Sí, mi amor (1984) as Sr. Edward Williams
- Pobre señorita Limantour (1987)
- Rosa salvaje (1987-1988) as Padre Manuel de la Huerta
- María Mercedes (1992-1993) as Dr. Pérez
- Si Dios me quita la vida (1995) as Don Jesús Sánchez Amaro
- Confidente de secundaria (1996) as Miramontes
- Mi querida Isabel (1996-1997) as Joaquín
- Esmeralda (1997) as Bernardo Pérez-Montalvo
- Sin ti (1997-1998) as Don Nicolás Rubio-Castillo
- Salud, dinero y amor (1997) as Federico Montiel
- Soñadoras (1998-1999) as Don Alfredo Guzmán
- Alma rebelde (1999) as Octavio Fuentes Cano
- Cuento de Navidad (1999) as Mariano
- Carita de ángel (2000-2001) as Padre Cosme
- Por un beso (2000) as Lic. Carlos Guillén
- La intrusa(2001) as Víctor Rivadeneyra
- Cómplices al rescate(2002) as Dr. Federico Rueda
- Apuesta por un amor (2004-2005) as Lic. Leonardo de la Rosa
- Destilando amor(2007) as Néstor Videgaray
- Al diablo con los guapos (2007-2008) as Ernesto Robledo
- Mañana es para siempre (2008-2009) as Obispo
- Corazón salvaje (2009-2010) as Alberto Villarreal
- Triunfo del amor (2010-2011) as Padre Jerónimo
- Abismo de pasión (2012) as Obispo
- Qué pobres tan ricos (2013-2014) as Aureliano Ruizpalacios
- Un camino hacia el destino (2016) as Don Fernando
Television series
- Straightaway, episode "The Racer and the Lady" as Salamanca (1961)
References
- ^ "Google Translate". translate.google.com. 23 April 2017. Retrieved 25 August 2018.
- ^ "El Universal - Espectáculos - Gustavo Rojo, 70 años de trayectoria". eluniversal. Retrieved 24 April 2017.
- The Morning Herald. 9 September 1959. p. 2. Retrieved 9 February 2017.
- ^ "John Forsythe Stars With Italian Beauty". Anderson Bulletin Daily. 5 September 1958. p. 6. Retrieved 9 February 2017.
- ^ Muere el actor Gustavo Rojo Archived 18 May 2017 at the Wayback Machine (in Spanish)
External links
- Gustavo Rojo at IMDb
- Gustavo Rojo at AllMovie
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