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Birthday: Aug 20, 1929
Place of Birth: Mexico City, Mexico

Carlos Ancira

He began his professional studies at the Escuela de Arte Teatral del Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes (INBA), in 1946, under the teachings of Clementina Otero, Enrique Ruelas, Earl Senett and Seki Sano. He excelled as an actor in numerous plays: Waiting for Godot, by Samuel Beckett; Poor People, by Dostoyevsky; The Diary of a Madman, by Gogol; with which he achieved a memorable dramatization and more than two thousand performances for nearly twenty-five years. He received awards and distinctions, among them, that of actor emeritus of the Moscow Academy of Theater and Performing Arts for his performance in The Diary of a Madman. Carlos Ancira Negrete, actor and playwright, was one of the initiators of the "Theater of the Absurd" in the 1960s. His interest focuses on the values of a dehumanized society and the loneliness of the individual, thus reflecting the moral and psychological conflicts of a central character to whom the author gave all the dramatic force through the monologue, one of his most successful resources, which in turn led to a theatrical representation in which the essence of the work itself and the performer could be seen with greater effect, above the theatrical or scenographic space. He left unfinished a book he was preparing on his theatrical technique, and other plays unpublished. Interested in all expressions of dramatic art, he participated in some two thousand television programs, in 50 cinematographic films, in innumerable radio broadcasts and in dubbing and photonovelas. For 30 years he taught at the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, the Academia de Actores and other teaching centers. In the theater he was an author, adaptor, director and fundamentally an actor. His plays include: Nezahualcóyotl (1951), Después... nada (1954), Imágenes (1973), Pasto rojo, El mundo vacío and Cangrejos (not yet premiered). With Gonzalo Martínez, he composed a 120-episode telenovela based on the life and work of Dostoevsky. He adapted for the stage a novel by Dostoevsky, another by Andreiev and several short stories by Chekhov and directed plays by these authors and by Armando Moock, Ugo Betti, Eugene O'Neill and Jesús R. Guerrero. His repertoire as an actor included some 300 plays. Married to actress Karina Duprez, he died in 1987 of a chronic illness.

Filmography
Movie Cast Year
Orlak, the Hell of Frankenstein Eric 1960
The Blood of Nostradamus Police Chief 1961
Santo and Blue Demon Against the Monsters Bruno Halder 1970
Santo in the Vengeance of the Mummy Prof. Jiménez 1971
La Bandida Cliente burdel 1963
Black Pit of Dr. M Elmer, the orderly 1959
Jesús, María y José Caifás 1972
Everything In Vain Almacenista 1969
Kid Tabaco 1955
Ensayo de una noche de bodas 1968
Queen Doll 1972
Los salvajes Pepeto 1958
The Living Coffin Felipe 1959
Panic (segment "Angustia") 1972
Los diablos del terror 1959
La furia del ring 1961
Cinco en la cárcel 1968
Alerta, alta tension Cero 1969
La entrega de Chucho el Roto 1962
Tú, yo, nosotros Carlos 1972
Madame Death Laor 1969
The Paper Man Comisario 1963
The Female Scorpion Don Eliseo Mendieta 1986
Jesús, nuestro Señor Caifás 1971
El pandillero 1959
Mysteries of Black Magic Kerobal 1958
Del suelo no paso Bandido 1959
The Enemy Blood Dimas, the Blind Musician 1971
Fando and Lis Narrator 1970
Los mediocres Señor Martínez (segment "El Guajolote") 1966
Our Daily Hunger Quique 1960
Series Cast Year
El camino secreto Santiago Guzmán/Fausto Guillén/Mario Genovés 1986
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