
Birthday:
09-24-1917
Deathday:
10-21-1995 (78 years)
Birthplace:
Mexico City, Mexico
Biography
Abel Salazar García (24 September 1917 – 21 October 1995) was a Mexican actor, producer and director. He appeared in 70 films between 1941 and 1989.
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The Living Head
Act like Inspector Toledo
event1963 star_border 6.3
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A group of archaeologists break into the tomb of an ancient Aztec general, arousing the warrior's head and sending his undead servant out to take revenge on the careless scientists.
The Brainiac
Act like Baron Vitelius d'Estera
event1962 star_border 5.4
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In 1661 Mexico, the Baron Vitelius of Astara is sentenced to be burned alive by the Holy Inquisition of Mexico for witchcraft, necromancy, and other crimes. As he dies, the Baron swears vengeance against the descendants of the Inquisitors. 300 years later, a comet that was passing overhead on the night of the Baron's execution returns to earth, bringing with it the Baron in the form of a horrible, brain-eating monster that terrorizes the Inquisitor's descendants
The Coyote
Act like El Coyote
event1955 star_border 5.9
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California, 1848. An invading army has defeated the few opposing forces and the territory has become part of the United States. Don César de Echagüe, an old gentleman, begs his son César to return from Europe, confident that he will know how to confront the oppressor.
The Curse of the Crying Woman
Act like Jaime
event1963 star_border 6.8
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A young woman inherits a mansion, only to discover that it is haunted by witches and evil spirits.
Vuelven los García
Act like José Luis García
event1947 star_border 5.5
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Ruled by a tough grandma, the Garcías are three charro cousins who fall in love with young American-born Lupita and fight for her love until grandma quiets them.
The Three Garcías
Act like José Luis García
event1947 star_border 7.9
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Ruled by a tough grandma, the Garcías are three charro cousins who fall in love with young American-born Lupita and fight for her love until grandma quiets them.
Black Pit of Dr. M
event1959 star_border 6.3
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Two doctors make a pact in which they swear that the first to die will return - if possible - to tell the other how to get a glimpse of the afterlife while still alive.
The Vampire
Act like Dr. Enríquez
event1957 star_border 6.7
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A pretty young Mexican girl returns to her hometown to make funeral arrangements for her beloved aunt, who has just died. Soon she begins to hear disturbing stories about the town being infested by vampires, and she eventually begins to suspect that her remaining aunt and the mysterious next-door neighbor may be involved.
La miel se fue de la luna
Act like Pablo
event1952 star_border 6
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Dr. Pablo, something womanizer, going to marry with Mini and cheats África, singer and his lover, telling her to wait while she is on tour in Cuba. With her, he poses as a friend industrial, Ricardo and his intention is not to see her again. While Africa is out he marries Mini, which proves to be terribly jealous. Complications ensue when Africa returns to Mexico and start searching for the fake Richard. By chance a friend of Mini will be in a beauty salon and this ensures she can take to "Ricardo" because is "a friend of her husband". A typical sitcom with a blistering pace.
The Vampire's Coffin
Act like Dr. Enrique Saldivar
event1958 star_border 6.6
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In Sierra Negra, graverobbers Barraza and Mendoza steal the coffin of Count Karol de Lavud, before heading to a hospital. Barraza sees a medallion upon the coffin's opening and demands more money from Mendoza. Meanwhile, Marta González, recovering from traumatic events, works as a nurse with Dr. Saldívar. When Barraza removes the wooden stake in order to steal Lavud's medallion, the vampire returns to life and begins a crime spree, hunting down Marta to marry her.
El conde de Montecristo
Act like Alberto de Morcef
event1942 star_border 5.3
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Adaptation of Dumas' swashbuckler classic.
Como yo te quería
event1945 star_border 5
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Romantic comedy/drama.
The Man and the Monster
Act like Ricardo Souto
event1959 star_border 5.7
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A failed pianist sells his soul to the devil in return for his becoming the greatest musician in the world. The catch: every time he plays he turns into a horrible monster.
Dos pesos dejada
event1949 star_border 7.1
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Comedy/melodrama: player runs out on his pregnant girlfriend, and her mother's boyfriend steps in to set matters straight.
Laura's Sin
Act like José
event1949 star_border 5.5
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Young woman breaks her engagement to be married when an opportunity for stardom comes her way.
La Panchita
event1949 star_border 5.5
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Flirty young farmgirl has five or six suitors to choose between.
La duquesa del Tepetate
event1951 star_border 5.3
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Romantic comedy.
From Can-Can to Mambo
Act like Roberto
event1951 star_border 5.7
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Young man convinces his conservative uncle that trendy modern stuff is fun.
Ella, Lucifer y yo
event1953 star_border 2.7
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Playboy uses satanic powers to score with the babes.
Café de chinos
event1949 star_border 5.5
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Naive Chinese immigrant has feelings for a young woman of loose morals whom he hires at his restaurant.
The Case of the Wee Murdered Woman
Act like Lorenzo
event1955 star_border 6
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Ghosts and premonitions; a married woman discovers the true love of her life while being plagued with supernatural phenomena relating to her imminent murder. It's a comedy.
La visita que no tocó el timbre
Act like Pablo Villanova
event1954 star_border 6.4
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Two underachieving brothers take responsibility for an abandoned baby.
El renegado blanco
event1960 star_border 5
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Cowboy comedy turns serious and adventure-y in the middle. Sequel to Los hermanos diablo.
The Ghost falls in Love
event1953 star_border 5
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A romance between a woman and a ghost.
Cucurrucucú Paloma
event1965 star_border 5.5
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Biography of a fictional ranchera singer whose career trajectory seems to parallel that of the actress performing the role.
El indomable
event1966 star_border 4.5
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Wandering cowboy stops to help a widow out against the man who killed her husband.
Necesito un marido
event1955 star_border 5
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After being stood up at the altar, a young heiress hires a burglar to pose as her husband to help her save face.
Yo quiero ser hombre
event1950 star_border 5.8
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In order to come into a large inheritance, young Divina must marry her cousin Pablo. Her aunt, Milagros, hatches a plan to disguise themselves as a maid and her nephew in order to get to know him better.
Las cinco advertencias de Satanás
event1945 star_border 4.3
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Satan plays a trick on two roues, telling them five things that are predestined to happen to them, but leaving out some crucial details. Then he sits back and laughs as they struggle against their preordained situations.
La morena de mi copla
event1946 star_border 5
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In Cordoba, Spain, a girl singer and her mother are falsely accused of stealing a donkey. They are saved by a famous painter who becomes infatuated with the girl and asks her to be his model for a painting. Things get complicated when a Mexican bullfighter arrives in town and falls for the same girl.
El marido de mi novia
Act like Paco
event1951 star_border 6
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Raquel's life is turned upside down when a terrible accident results in the death of her child and the confinement of her husband to a wheelchair. Without any way to support her and her disabled husband, Raquel turns to a life of crime and partners with a petty thief named Paco who falls in love with her.
Vuelva el sábado
event1951 star_border 5.3
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Young woman loses her secretarial job, so she tries to become a bill-collector.
Yo fui una callejera
event1952 star_border 5.5
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Teenaged slum-girl falls into show-biz by accident and rises to the tuxedos-and-furs class. Gangster drama and heartbreak, so she goes back to her own social class at the end, even though other options were available to her.
The Coyote's Justice
Act like El Coyote
event1956 star_border 5.1
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California, 1840s. Wealthy landowner César de Echagüe, secretly acting as El Coyote, the legendary masked hero, continues his fight against the injustices and abuses suffered by the Hispanic population at the hands of the US Army.
Donde nacen los pobres
event1950 star_border 5.3
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Working-class boy, pampered rich girl. She thinks their love is strong enough to overcome all the class issues; he knows better, but he decides to give it a whirl anyway. It ends badly for everyone.
La casa del rencor
Act like Esposo de Laura
event1941 star_border 5
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A 1941 film directed by Gilberto Martínez Solares.
El otro
Act like Sr. Heredia
event1986 star_border 4.4
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A novelist travels to the country to learn the problems of a friend's shy son and runs into an intruder.
Los hermanos Diablo
event1959 star_border 5.8
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The three Diablo brothers are effete dandies who love chamber music and afternoon tea... but they also love brawling and whoring and all that wild west stuff. They inherit a ranch, and all hell breaks loose when they go to take ownership of it.
La vírgen morena
event1942 star_border 5.8
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Intensifying skirmishes between a brutally oppressive conquistador imperialist and the last holdouts of Aztec resistance... and meanwhile, miraculous visitations of The Virgin Mary to two of the downtrodden and conquered indigenous peons.
Cadetes de la naval
event1945 star_border 5.5
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Two young men go through military training, then enlist to fight in WWII
Me ha besado un hombre
event1944 star_border 5.6
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Spanish refugee could only get across the border using fake documents that belonged to her brother and now she's stuck with the male identity...
The Force of Desire
Act like Ricardo
event1955 star_border 4.6
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Wicked girl uses nude modeling as a way to seduce a wealthy painter into marriage, while still trying to keep an artschool stud piece on the side.
Los tres amores de Lola
event1956 star_border 5.3
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Flamenco artist in Mexico draws attention from three suitors.
Canasta Uruguaya
Act like Pablo
event1951 star_border 5
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Screwball comedy about country girl who inherits a fortune.
Hay un niño en su futuro
event1952 star_border 5
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Wacky rich woman subjects her husband, servants and friends to a series of elaborate masquerades, remodeling her house and wardrobe every couple of days to represent different historical eras or cultural milieux. Today she's Marie Antoinette, tomorrow she may be Pancho Villa's common-law wife or a nun.
Menores de edad
Act like Absalón Rojas
event1951 star_border 6
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Late-teens girl is trapped into masquerading as a 12 year old. Wacky complications.
No te ofendas, Beatriz
event1953 star_border 5.5
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Young couple looks for a way to wiggle out of the marriage their parents have arranged for them.
Nadie muere dos veces
Act like Raúl García / Ricardo
event1953 star_border 4.9
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Big-league criminal escapes from jail, tracks down his ex-wife at a seaside resort. She kills him in self-defense, and then a guy who looks exactly like him comes along. Massive complications!
Pistoleros del oeste
event1965 star_border 5
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Timid city-boy hires two cowboy roughnecks to help him get out of an arranged marriage.
Por qué peca la mujer
Act like Don Héctor
event1952 star_border 5.3
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Working-class girl-next--door type is seduced into a high-glam lifestyle when an oily promoter helps launch her as a nightclub singer; she throws over her decent-simple-guy boyfriend and loses her moral compass.
Tres hermanos
event1943 star_border 5
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The three sons of a Mexican family emigrated to USA end up fighting in WWII.
Tropicana
event1957 star_border 5
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Behind-the-scenes at a famous nightclub's floor-show. Those wacky choreographers and hotel managers!
Venganza Apache
event1960 star_border 5
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Three good guys vs a bad dude who sells weapons to the Apaches and provokes a range war between US Cavalry and a splinter group of tribesmen, breaking the standing treaty between their tribe and the invaders. Sequel to Los Hermanos Diablo.
Vive como sea
event1952 star_border 5
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A rich uncle thinks he's married with children, so a young gadabout recruits all his friends to pass themselves off as his wife, inlaws and children.
Serenata en México
event1956 star_border 5
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Mariachi with dual vocalists is broken up by a promoter who wants one of them as a solo act.
Paula
event1969 star_border 5
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The story of a young woman falling for an older man.
Yo quiero ser mala
event1950 star_border 6.3
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In this Romantic-Comedy from Director Rene Cardona, Actress Maria Elena Marques plays a hard-living woman named Leticia, who suffers from a recently broken heart after being deceived by her ex-boyfriend. Soured on anything to do with love and while drinking away her sorrows, she sets out to marry the very first man she sees. This man just happens to be a nice guy named Roberto, (Abel Salazar). Although the pair's mutual attraction to each other is obvious, Roberto has no idea what he is in for, and he soon proposes. Not long after the marriage, Leticia starts to take advantage of both Roberto and her new Father-in-Law (played by Oscar Pulido), who shows kindness towards the girl. Predictably, marital bliss soon turns into discord, and the couple agree to divorce after a year passes. Their love-hate relationship and pending break-up provides a perfect backdrop for several comedic situations before the two realize that they are actually in love.
Siete mujeres
event1953 star_border 5
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Mexican feature film
Mi segunda madre
Act like Rafael (1 ep.)
event1989 star_border 6.7
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The story tells the story of Diana (Maria Sortè), a highly successful fashion designer married to an unreliable and lying man, Giacomo, and of Gianluca (Enrique Novi), a widower with a 10-year-old girl, Arianna. Diana, after discovering that Giacomo has another wife and two children, Davide and Chicco, abandons him, and leaves for a cruise with her friend Gloria. On the ship he meets Gianluca in the company of Viviana, who is actually staying with him for money. The meeting between Gianluca and Diana is one of those that are not forgotten and, what seemed only physical attraction, turns into true love. Diana is introduced by Gianluca to her daughter and immediately wins her sympathy.
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