Carlos Luis Vasallo Tomé (born 18 October 1950 in

Valencia Valencia ( va, València) is the capital of the autonomous community of Valencia and the third-most populated municipality in Spain, with 791,413 inhabitants. It is also the capital of the province of the same name. The wider urban area al ...

) is a Spanish businessman and audiovisual producer resident in Miami.

Biography

Carlos Luis Vasallo Tomé was born on 18 October 1950 in Valencia, Spain. He was one of the eight children of the Spanish writer and also screenwriter Jesús Vasallo (1919–1993). His father was from

Ciudad Rodrigo Ciudad Rodrigo () is a small cathedral city in the province of Salamanca, in western Spain, with a population in 2016 of 12,896. It is also the seat of a judicial district. The site of Ciudad Rodrigo, perched atop a rocky rise on the right ban ...

( Castile and León), and her mother from Teixeiro ( Galicia). At 14, he settled in Madrid to work in theater and cinema. Soon he started producing, and moved to Mexico. He was married the Mexican actresses,

Tere Velázquez María de los Ángeles Teresa de Jesús Villar Dondé, better known as Tere Velázquez (; 8 March 1942 – 7 January 1998) was a Mexican actress. She appeared in 86 films and television shows between 1957 and 1996. She starred in the film ...

and Susana Dosamantes. Now, he lives in Miami.Carlos Vasallo Tomé – México y EEUU en Galicia exterior
/ref> Carlos Vasallo founded

VasalloVision VasalloVision was a small Spanish-language television network in the United States that catered to the Mexican audience. Most of its schedule consisted of films, '' lucha libre'', and children's programming. The network was made up of four statio ...

, and is the presidente and CEO of América CV Network, América TeVe, TeVeo, and Radio Caracol 1260 am. He is also the largest owner of Mexican movies, and in 2021 has sued Google and YouTube for playing his movies without permission.Google sued for 'pirating' Mexican movies on YouTube. Spanish producer Carlos Vasallo filed the lawsuit against the two Alphabet companies in Florida.
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Filmography

Actor

* Los guardiamarinas (1967) * Aquí mando yo (1967) * ¿Es usted el asesino? (1967) * Juicio de faldas (1969) * Golpe de mano (Explosión) (1970) * El diablo Cojuelo (1971) * Tirarse al monte (1971) * La cera virgen (1972) * Minutos después (1976)

Writer

* Manaos (1979) * La conquista de la tierra perdida (Conquest) (1983) * Goma-2 (1984) * Escuadrón: Counterforce (1988) * A puño limpio (1989) * Leyendas del Exilio (2017)

Director

* El día de los asesinos (1979) * El día del compadre (1983) * Gregorio Walerstein: El zar (2009)

References

External links

* 1950 births Miramax people People from Valencia 20th-century Spanish male actors Theatre managers and producers Spanish film producers Film studio executives Film production company founders Living people Spanish emigrants to Mexico {{Spain-business-bio-stub