Enrique Lucero

Mexican film actor

Enrique Lucero
Born	(1920-10-09)October 9, 1920 Chihuahua City, Chihuahua, Mexico
Died	May 9, 1989(1989-05-09) (aged 68) Mexico City, Mexico-
Nationality	Mexican
Occupation	Actor
Spouse	Margarita Escalante Gutiérrez

Enrique Lucero (October 9, 1920 – May 9, 1989) was a Mexican actor who appeared in over 120 film roles.^[1]^[2] He was nominated for the Ariel Award for Best Actor for his role in the film Canoa: A Shameful Memory (1976).

Biography

Lucero was born in October 1920 in Chihuahua City, Chihuahua.^[3] He made his debut in the 1949 Argentinian film La historia del tango.

He is widely-known for his role as Death in the 1960 Macario,^[2] which was the first Mexican film to be nominated for an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film^[4] and is widely regarded by critics and audiences as one of the greatest Mexican films ever made.

He appeared in dozens of both major and minor roles in over 100 films, working with many of the major figures in Mexican cinema, including Cantinflas, Luis Buñuel and René Cardona. He was nominated for the 1976 Ariel Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of Fray Enrique Meza Pérez, the lead perpetrator of the San Miguel Canoa Massacre, in Canoa: A Shameful Memory.

Lucero also appeared in American productions, mostly Westerns and action films shot in Mexico, including The Magnificent Seven (1960), Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), Two Mules for Sister Sara (1970), Sidney Poitier's directorial debut Buck and the Preacher (1972), The Long Goodbye (1973), Eagle's Wing (1979), and Under Fire (1983). He was a favorite of director Sam Peckinpah, who cast him in Major Dundee (1965), The Wild Bunch (1969) and Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974). He played Geronimo in the 1979 miniseries Mr. Horn.

Lucero was married to Margarita Escalante Gutiérrez. He died in Mexico City on May 9, 1988, at the age of 68.

Selected filmography

La historia del tango (1949) − Ángel Villalva Jr.
La voz de mi ciudad (1953)
The Road of Life (1956) − Lic. José Gutiérrez
Sierra Baron (1958) − Anselmo
Villa!! (1958) − Tenorio
Pistolas de oro (1959)
The Little Savage (1959) − Bit Role (uncredited)
Beyond All Limits (1959)
Sonatas (1959) − Militar prisionero
Bendito entre las mujeres (1959) − (uncredited)
La Fièvre Monte à El Pao (1959) − Vila (uncredited)
Macario (1960) − La muerte
Simitrio (1960) − Papá de Simitrio (uncredited)
¡Viva la soldadera! (1960) − (uncredited)
The Magnificent Seven (1960) − Villager #1
Rosa Blanca (1961) − Blas Urrutia
Paraíso escondido (1962)
La noche del jueves (1962) − Julio
El tejedor de milagros (1962) − Arnulfo
The Bloody Vampire (1962) − Lazaro
The Extra (1962) − Actor, sacerdote azteca
Tiburoneros (1963) − Rubén
La invasión de los vampiros (1963) − Lázaro
Corazón de niño (1963) − Maestro Robles
El beso de ultratumba (1963) − El vagabundo
The Curse of the Crying Woman (1963) − Dr. Daniel Jaramillo
Cri Cri el grillito cantor (1963) − Don Cosme
Una cara para escapar (1963)
El revólver sangriento (1964) − Pedro
The Golden Cockerel (1964) − El Chinaco
Love Has Many Faces (1965) − Lt. Riccardo Andrade
Major Dundee (1965) − Doctor Aguilar
Always Further On (1965) − Brujo Owiruane
Pistoleros del oeste (1965)
Los sheriffs de la frontera (1965)
Pacto de sangre (1966)
Tarzan and the Valley of Gold (1966) − Perez
Los mediocres (1966) − Arcadio Buendia (segment "Las Cucarachas")
El indomable (1966)
Retablos de la Guadalupana (1967)
Rocambole contra la secta del escorpión (1967) − Emir Hassan Ali
La carcachita (1967)
Traitors of San Angel (1967) − Rodriguez
The Bandits (1967) − (uncredited)
Guns for San Sebastian (1968) − Renaldo
Le Rapace (1968) − El Bosco
Valentín de la Sierra (1968)
El caballo Bayo (1969)
The Wild Bunch (1969) − Ignacio
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) − Guard in the 1st Bolivian Bank (uncredited)
Shark! (1969) − Inspector Barok
Estafa de amor (1970)
El despertar del lobo (1970) − Vidente oriental
Two Mules for Sister Sara (1970) − 3rd American
La vida inútil de Pito Pérez (1970)
Los amores de Chucho el Roto (1970)
Emiliano Zapata (1970) − Jesús Guajardo
The Bridge in the Jungle (1971) − Perez
Eye for an Eye (1971) − Lobo
Something Big (1971) − Indian spy
Santo contra los cazadores de cabezas (1971) − Husca
Buck and the Preacher (1972) − Indian Chief
The Revengers (1972) − (uncredited)
La Scoumoune (1972) − Le Mexicain / Migli
The Long Goodbye (1973) − Jefe
Those Years (1973) − Juan Nepomuceno Almonte
Renzo, el gitano (1973)
I Escaped from Devil's Island (1973) − Esteban
Presagio (1974) − Héctor
La muerte de Pancho Villa (1974)
Peregrina (1974) − Hermengildo Rodríguez
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974) − Esteban
Mary, Mary, Bloody Mary (1975) − Lieutenant Pons
The House in the South (1975) − Ramón
Las fuerzas vivas (1975) − Mateo
Canoa (1976) − El señor cura
The Return of a Man Called Horse (1976) − Raven
La virgen de Guadalupe (1976) − Tío Bernardino
Las poquianchis (1976) − Capitán
Maten al león (1977) − Vicepresidente Cardona
El viaje (1977) − Enrique Jiménez
Los de abajo (1978)
The Children of Sanchez (1978)
Ratero (1979) − Gallo
La guerra santa (1979) − Rutilo Sandoval
Guyana: Crime of the Century (1979) − Commune member
Eagle's Wing (1979) − The Sharman
Mr. Horn (1979 − Geronimo
A paso de cojo (1980)
The Octagon (1980) − One Armed Man
Green Ice (1981) − Lucho the Coffee Grower
Ángel del barrio (1981) − Patada (Kick)
Un hombre llamado el diablo (1983)
Under Fire (1983) − Prison Priest
Todo un hombre (1983) − Juvencio
The Evil That Men Do (1984) − Aristos
Little Treasure (1985) − Priest
La revancha (1985)
El trailer asesino (1986)
Murieron a la mitad del rio (1986)
El tres de copas (1986)
Al filo de la ley: Misión rescate (1986) − Comandante
Gaby: A True Story (1987) − Minister of Education
The Last Tunnel (1987) − Juan Penagos
Treasure of the Moon Goddess (1987) − Tupak
Los confines (1989) − Tanilo
El jinete de la divina providencia (1989)
Mi pistola y tus esposas (1989) − (final film role)

References

^ "Enrique Lucero". Turner Classic Movies. Retrieved December 17, 2021.
^ ^a ^b "Enrique Lucero, el actor que "dio vida" a la muerte más famosa del cine mexicano en el filme "Macario"". PECIME (in Spanish). Retrieved 2023-06-04.
^ SensaCine.com.mx. "Enrique Lucero". SensaCine.com.mx (in Mexican Spanish). Retrieved 2023-06-04.
^ "The 33rd Academy Awards (1961) Nominee and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved 2011-10-29.