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Andrés García

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Andrés García
García in 2018
Born(1941-05-24)24 May 1941
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Died4 April 2023(2023-04-04) (aged 81)
Acapulco, Guerrero, Mexico
OccupationActor
Years active1963–2023

Andrés García García (24 May 1941 – 4 April 2023) was a Dominican-born Mexican actor. He emerged as a leading man in action and adventure films during the late 1960s and early 1970s, later becoming a popular star of telenovelas.[1][2] He was nominated for an Ariel Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in the film El principio [es] (1973), and won a Premios TVyNovelas for Best Actor for El Privilegio de Amar (1999).

Early life

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García was born in Santo Domingo in 1941, the son of Spanish Republican exiles Andrés García La Calle and Francisca García Acevedo.[3] His Basque father was a flying ace and squadron leader in the Republican Air Force during the Civil War.[4] During the 1950s, García's parents became disillusioned with the authoritarian regime of Rafael Leónidas Trujllo and emigrated to Mexico. García spent his youth in Acapulco, where he worked as a boatman and scuba diving instructor.[3]

Career

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Beginning in the late 1960s, García became a male sex symbol in Mexico and the rest of Latin America, participating in movies, telenovelas and photo-romance novels (magazine featuring photos of actors who create a story—a popular phenomenon across Latin America during the 1970s).[citation needed]

In 1985 García starred in Mexican telenovela Tú o nadie, with Lucía Mendez and Salvador Pineda. Tú o nadie became a major hit and led to García receiving many international offers.[citation needed] He accepted an offer to go to Puerto Rico in 1986, where he acted in the soap operas Amame, with Johanna Rosaly, and Escándalo, with Iris Chacón and Charytín. Escándalo flopped, and the number of episodes recorded for that soap opera was cut in half by the television channel.[citation needed]

In 2005, García participated in a reality show titled El Principe Azul (meaning Prince Charming, though it literally means The Blue Prince), a show geared toward finding his son, Leonardo a girlfriend. García began to flirt with the young women on the show, going as far as having an on-camera kiss with one of the contestants, making his son grow frustrated, and eventually leave the show. Two previously unknown men were then cast to participate in the show and try to conquer one of the ladies involved in it. In 2006, he starred in the soap opera El Cuerpo del Deseo, broadcast by Telemundo International. The script of this telenovela is about transmigration, the passing of a soul into another body after death, coinciding with García's beliefs on this subject.[citation needed]

Personal life

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Andres Garcia married Sonia Infante in 1980 and divorced in 1992. He also married Sandra Vale.[5]

García was also involved romantically, and remained friends, with Mexican model Carmen Campuzano and Puerto Rican singer Zeny, from the pop vocal duet Zeny & Zory.[citation needed]

Death

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García died on 4 April 2023 in Acapulco, Mexico from complications of cirrhosis at the age of 81.[6]

Filmography

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Stage

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  • "Juguetes Para el Matrimonio"
  • "Las Buenas Personas"
  • "Las Buenas Imagenes Publicas"
  • "Accidente Conyugal"
  • "Amor es"
  • "La Libelula"
  • "Las Locuras del Sexo"
  • "Un Loco Genial"
  • "Las Mentiras Blancas y la Comedia Negra"
  • "Me Dicen Pedro, el Hombre de la Navaja"

References

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  1. ↑ Tinoco, Armando (5 April 2023). "Andrés García Dies: Mexican-Dominican Telenovela Actor & 'Chanoc' Star Was 81". Deadline. Retrieved 6 May 2026.
  2. ↑ Habib, Yamily (5 April 2023). "Moments That Remind Us That Andrés García Was, Undoubtedly, the 'Galán de la Telenovela'". we are Mitú. 100% American & Latino. Retrieved 6 May 2026.
  3. 1 2 "Andrés García: Mis años en RD fueron muy felices". Mis años en República Dominicana fueron los más felices de mi vida, lo que más recuerdo son mis visitas a Boca Chica, Haina y mis tardes en el Malecón.
  4. ↑ Notable personalities of the Spanish republic - SBHAC
  5. ↑ "All about Sandra Vale, actor Andrés García's first wife". 8 September 2023.
  6. ↑ "Muere Andrés García tras su lucha contra la cirrosis hepática". Yahoo! News. 5 April 2023. Retrieved 5 April 2023.
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