Abel Salazar (actor)
Abel Salazar García ( * September 24, 1917 in Mexico City; † October 21, 1995 in Cuernavaca ) was a Mexican actor, film director and film producer.
Life
Salazar began his career after various interpretive positions as archivist and bathroom furniture retailers as second husband of comedians in Mexico City. In the film, he made his debut in 1941 in La casa del rencor Chano Urueta. Direct his next film with the same director, a version of The Count of Monte Cristo, is a great success. Difficulties in the private relationship with his fiancée, fellow actress Gloria Marín, who temporarily leaves him, however, led to a crisis that he could finally overcome in 1944, when with Capullito de Alhelí adjusts itself success; more successful works such as Las cinco de advertencias Satanás (1945, Fernando Soler ), Los tres García (1946, Ismael Rodríguez ), Mi esposa busca novio (1947, Carlos Orellana ), La Panchita (1948, by Emilio Gómez Muriel ), Me ha besado un hombre (1949, by René Cardona ), Una viuda sin sostén (1950, by Miguel M. Delgado ) followed, and Canasta uruguaya (1952, again by René Cardona ). Then Salazar went to Spain, where he worked in a considerable length of number of adventure films ( such as El coyote from 1954, Joaquín Luis Romero Marchent ) and especially horror films, some of which he also produced ( as El vampiro and El ataúd del vampiro (both 1957) by Fernando Méndez staged ) participated.
In 1960 he married actress Rosita Arenas after lengthy legal battles to get his first marriage to Gloria Marín. Salazar remained, since the mid-1960s back in his home country until the 1980s, active; he played his last role in the cinema for Arturo Ripstein, and he was only seen twice in television series.
Between 1968 and 1988, Salazar was also responsible for fourteen films as director.