Andrés García

For other people named Andrés García, see Andrés García (disambiguation).
In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is García and the second or maternal family name is García.

Andrés García
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 served as a scuba diving instructor in Acapulco.[1] At the time of his death, he was one of the last surviving stars from the Golden Age of Mexican cinema.

Career

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García was born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic to Spanish parents and later relocated to Mexico.[1] He was the son of Spanish exiles from the Spanish Civil War who received refuge in the country during the regime of Rafael Leónidas Trujillo. His father was a Spanish Republican combat aviator named Andrés García La Calle.[2]

García emigrated to Mexico, where he obtained Mexican nationality and pursued a career in show business. During the late 1960s and early 1970s, he became a sex symbol in Mexico and the rest of Latin America, participating in movies, Spanish language soap operas 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 and death

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In September 2003, García made one of his several appearances on Cristina, the Spanish-language talk show hosted by Cristina Saralegui, to defend entertainers against paparazzi. He participated in over 50 different projects, including film, theater, soap opera and photo-opera work.[citation needed]

Andres Garcia married Sonia Infante in 1980 and divorced in 1992. He also married Sandra Vale.[3]

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]

García died on 4 April 2023, at the age of 81.[4]

Andres was survived by Andres Garcia Jr., Andrea Garcia, and Leonardo Garcia. Andres Jr.[citation needed]

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. ^ a b "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.
  2. ^ Notable personalities of the Spanish republic - SBHAC
  3. ^ "All about Sandra Vale, actor Andrés García's first wife". 8 September 2023.
  4. ^ "Muere Andrés García tras su lucha contra la cirrosis hepática". Yahoo! News. 5 April 2023. Retrieved 5 April 2023.
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