Ernesto Alonso (February 28, 1917 – August 7, 2007) was a Mexican
producer,
director
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,
cinematographer
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and actor. He was nicknamed "''El Señor Telenovela''" ("Mr. Soap Opera") because most of his work centered on
telenovela
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s known around the world.
Acting career
Ernesto began his career as an uncredited extra in ''
La Zandunga'' (1938), a movie starring
Lupe Vélez
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Vélez began her career as a performer in Mexican ...
. He then appeared in 1939's "
Papacito Lindo". His popularity grew as he starred in many films of the 1940s, including "La Gallina Culeca", "Historia de una gran Amor", "El Padre Morelas", "El Jorobado", "La Corte del Faraon", "Marina", "El Gallero", and "El Precio de la Gloria" in which he starred with his brother
Alfonso Ramírez Alonso.
He made another series of films throughout the 1950s, including as the narrator of ''
Los Olvidados
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Produ ...
'' (1950) and the lead in ''
Ensayo de un crimen'' (1955), both directed by
Luis Buñuel
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. However, it wasn't until the 1960s that Ernesto began appearing in telenovelas. His first was "
Cartas de amor" (1960) which also starred another rising star
Angélica María
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. Ernesto from there on only came out in
telenovelas
A telenovela is a type of a television serial drama or soap opera produced primarily in Latin America. The word combines ''tele'' (for "television") and ''novela'' (meaning "novel"). Similar drama genres around the world include ''teleserye'' (P ...
including "Leyendas de Mexico" opposite
Jacqueline Andere
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Life and career
Andere was born in a Jewish family located Mexico City on August 20 1938. Her appearances in telenovelas began with 1960's '' Vida por Vid ...
, with whom he worked a lot in both films and telenovelas. Alonso's most memorable performance was as Enrique de Martino in the 1983 telenovela ''
El Maleficio
''El maleficio'' (English: ''The Curse'') is a Mexican telenovela directed by Raúl Araiza produced by Ernesto Alonso for Televisa in 1983. The telenovela was so successful in 1983 that a sequel was made under the title of '' El maleficio 2: Los ...
'' in which he played a devil-like character. His last acting appearance was in the telenovela ''
Entre el Amor y el Odio
''Entre el Amor y el Odio'' (English: ''Between Love and Hatred'') is a Mexican telenovela produced by Salvador Mejía Alejandre for Televisa in 2002. It is based on the radionovela ''Cadena de odio'' by Hilda Morales de Allouis. It aired on Cana ...
'' (2002) in which he played Father Abad. Ernesto only made one film between those years, 1986's ''El Maleficio II''.
Directing and producing career
Ernesto directing, produced and even starred in his own
telenovelas
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sometimes. 1960's "
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" was his first job as a director and he even produced it, but his first producing job was "
Cuidado con el Angel" that very same year. Ernesto then made many memorable telenovelas including "
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", "
La Cobarde
''La cobarde'' (English title:''The craven'') is a Mexican telenovela produced by Televisa and transmitted by Telesistema Mexicano.
Cast
* María Rivas
*Julio Alemán
*Prudencia Grifell
*Anita Blanch
*Virginia Manzano
*Ramón Bugarini
*Jorg ...
", both of which he directed, produced and starred in. His last job as a director was the series "Cumbres Borrascosas" (1979) which was a telenovela version of an
Emily Brontë
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novel. Ernesto then went to continue his career has a
producer, producing twenty-five telenovelas throughout the 1980s, nine throughout the 1990s, and four in the 2000s. His last producing work being the telenovela "
Barrera de Amor" which starred
Yadhira Carrillo
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Early career
Yadhira Carrillo was chosen Nuestra Belleza Aguascalientes
Mexicana Universal Aguascalientes (until 2016 called Nuestra Belleza Aguasca ...
and
Raquel Olmedo
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. Ernesto was awarded the
Special Golden Ariel
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* ''Specia ...
at the
Ariel Awards
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in 2006 for his amazing career and contributions.
Death
Ernesto Alonso died at the age of 90 at his home in
Mexico City
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.
Being kept in a hospital, sources say he knew he was passing, and that he wanted to spend his last moments in his home. In the end Ernesto Alonso acted in sixty-three films, directed forty-three films and
telenovelas
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, but he would be most remembered for producing 158 telenovelas throughout his long career.
Selected filmography
* ''
The White Monk
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'' (1945)
* ''
Tragic Wedding
''Tragic Wedding'' (Spanish:''Bodas trágicas'') is a 1946 Mexican drama film directed by Gilberto Martínez Solares and starring Roberto Silva, Miroslava and Ernesto Alonso.Berumen p.339 The film's sets were designed by the art director Jorge ...
'' (1946)
* ''
Everybody's Woman
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'' (1946)
* ''
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'' (1949)
References
External links
*
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Legacy
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Legacy or legacies may refer ...
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1917 births
2007 deaths
Mexican male telenovela actors
Mexican male television actors
Mexican male film actors
Mexican telenovela directors
Mexican telenovela producers
20th-century Mexican male actors
21st-century Mexican male actors
Golden Ariel Award winners
People from Aguascalientes