Carlos López Moctezuma

Carlos López Moctezuma Pineda ( born November 19, 1909 in Mexico City; † July 14, 1980 in Aguascalientes ) was a Mexican actor.

Life

Carlos López Moctezuma, the eleventh and youngest son of a high-ranking representative of the Mexican National Railway Company, visited some of the best schools in the country and received acting lessons with Fernando Soler. After stage experience, he completed his first film appearance in 1938 and developed in the course of his career lasting over 210 films to showcase villains of Mexican cinema. His final breakthrough came with his interpretations of the villainous landowner Sandoval in Rio Escondido in 1948 and Don Feliz in The Rebellion of the Hanged in 1954. Twice he sang Rodolfo Fierro, a lieutenant under Pancho Villa, who was played by Pedro Armendáriz.

Also, the theater he remained arrested; he led his own theater company, which specialized in pieces of foreign language authors. Since the beginning of the Mexican television could see López Moctezuma in the theater program.

López Moctezuma was after he had been nominated in 1946, 1949, 1953 and posthumously in 1982 with the Mexican Film Award, the Premio Ariel excellent.

Mid-1930s, he had met the actress Josefina Escobedo ( 1914-1997 ), whom he married and with whom he had two sons.

Filmography (selection)

External links and sources

• Carlos López Moctezuma at the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Biography (English)