Carlos Ancira

Attore

20 agosto 1929 — 10 agosto 1987 (57 anni)
He began his professional studies at the Escuela de Arte Teatral del Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes (INBA), in 1946, under the teachings of Clementina Otero, Enrique Ruelas, Earl Senett and Seki Sano. He excelled as an actor in numerous plays: Waiting for Godot, by Samuel Beckett; Poor People, by Dostoyevsky; The Diary of a Madman, by Gogol; with which he achieved a memorable dramatization and more than two thousand performances for nearly twenty-five years. He received awards and distinctions, among them, that of actor emeritus of the Moscow Academy of Theater and Performing Arts for his performance in The Diary of a Madman.

Carlos Ancira Negrete, actor and playwright, was one of the initiators of the "Theater of the Absurd" in the 1960s. His interest focuses on the values of a dehumanized society and the loneliness of the individual, thus reflecting the moral and psychological conflicts of a central character to whom the author gave all the dramatic force through the monologue, one of his most successful resources, which in turn led to a theatrical representation in which the essence of the work itself and the performer could be seen with greater effect, above the theatrical or scenographic space. He left unfinished a book he was preparing on his theatrical technique, and other plays unpublished.

Interested in all expressions of dramatic art, he participated in some two thousand television programs, in 50 cinematographic films, in innumerable radio broadcasts and in dubbing and photonovelas.

For 30 years he taught at the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, the Academia de Actores and other teaching centers. In the theater he was an author, adaptor, director and fundamentally an actor. His plays include: Nezahualcóyotl (1951), Después... nada (1954), Imágenes (1973), Pasto rojo, El mundo vacío and Cangrejos (not yet premiered).

With Gonzalo Martínez, he composed a 120-episode telenovela based on the life and work of Dostoevsky. He adapted for the stage a novel by Dostoevsky, another by Andreiev and several short stories by Chekhov and directed plays by these authors and by Armando Moock, Ugo Betti, Eugene O'Neill and Jesús R. Guerrero. His repertoire as an actor included some 300 plays. Married to actress Karina Duprez, he died in 1987 of a chronic illness.

Film e Serie su Plex

  • The Nativity
    The Nativity1986

Famoso per

  • I misteri dell'oltretomba
    I misteri dell'oltretomba1959
  • Santo and Blue Demon vs. the Monsters
    Santo and Blue Demon vs. the Monsters1970
  • La bara del vampiro
    La bara del vampiro1958
  • The Living Coffin
    The Living Coffin1959
  • Santo in la vendetta della mummia
    Santo in la vendetta della mummia1971
  • I misteri della magia nera
    I misteri della magia nera1958
  • Kid Tabaco
    Kid Tabaco1955
  • Madame Death
    Madame Death1969
  • La donna scorpione
    La donna scorpione1986
  • Los diablos del terror
    Los diablos del terror1959
  • La sangre enemiga
    La sangre enemiga1971
  • Jesus, Mary and Joseph
    Jesus, Mary and Joseph1972
  • El hambre nuestra de cada día
    El hambre nuestra de cada día1960
  • Violenti e selvaggi
    Violenti e selvaggi1958
  • Gang Leader
    Gang Leader1961
  • Del suelo no paso
    Del suelo no paso1959
  • El boxeador
    El boxeador1958

Filmografia

1986
La Alacrana · as Don Eliseo Mendieta
1986
The Nativity · as CaiaphasSu Plex
1985
Vivir Un Poco · as Abundacio
1977
Rina · as Leopoldo Miranda
1972
1972
Panic · as (segment "angustia")
1972
1971
1971
La sangre enemiga · as Dimas, The Blind Musician
1971
1971
El inolvidable Chucho el Roto · as Comandante Arjona
1970
1969
Madame Death · as Laor
1969
Todo por nada · as Almacenista
1969
1968
Fando and Lis · as Narrator
1966
Los mediocres · as Señor Martínez (segment "el Guajolote")
1964
La sonrisa de los pobres · as Antonio Fuentes
1963
The Paper Man · as Comisario
1962
La bandida · as Cliente Burdel
1962
La sangre de Nostradamus · as Police Chief
1961
1961
1961
1960
1959
1959
The Living Coffin · as Felipe
1959
Del suelo no paso · as Bandido
1959
1959
The Black Pit of Dr. M · as Elmer, The Orderly
1958
1958
The Vampire's Coffin · as Gerente Museo
1958
El boxeador · as Ronco
1957
Los salvajes · as Pepeto
1957
Captain David Grief · as Mendig
1955
1952
Los tres alegres compadres · as Agente Policía
1950
Lluvia roja · as Empleado Tienda