Andrés García (born May 24, 1941) is a Dominican-born Mexican actor. He has formerly served as a scuba diving instructor in Acapulco.
Career
García was born and raised in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. He is the son of Spanish exiles from the
Spanish Civil War
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who received refuge in the country during the regime of Rafael Leónidas Trujillo. His father was a Spanish Republican combat aviator named
Andrés García La Calle
Andrés García La Calle (February 4, 1909 – April 8, 1975) (sometimes Lacalle, but his real name was Andrés García Calle) was the squadron leader of the 1st fighter squadron of the Spanish Republic and later Commander of all the fighter ...
.Notable personalities of the Spanish republic - SBHAC /ref>
Garcia emigrated to Mexico, where he obtained Mexican nationality and pursued a career in show business. During the late 1960s and early 1970s, he became a sex symbol in Mexico and the rest of Latin America, participating in movies, Spanish soap operas and photo-romance novels (magazine featuring photos of actors who create a story—a popular phenomenon across Latin America during the 1970s).
In 1985 García participated in ''
Tú o nadie
''Tú o nadie'' (English: ''You or no one'') is a Mexican telenovela directed by José Rendón and produced by Ernesto Alonso for Televisa and broadcast by El Canal de las Estrellas in 1985.Lucía Mendez and
Salvador Pineda
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. ''Tú o nadie'' became a major hit and helped García to receive many international offers. He accepted an offer to go to Puerto Rico in 1986, where he acted in the soap operas ''Amame'', with Johanna Rosaly, and ''Escándalo'', with
Iris Chacón
Iris Belia Chacón Tapia (born March 7, 1950 in San Juan, Puerto Rico) is a Puerto Rican dancer, singer, actress, and entertainer. She enjoys great popularity in Puerto Rico (where she had a weekly variety show for more than a decade) and in o ...
and Charytín. ''Escándalo'' flopped, and the number of episodes recorded for that soap opera was cut in half by the television channel.
Personal life
In September 2003, he made one of his several appearances on ''Cristina'', the Spanish-language talk show hosted by
Cristina Saralegui
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, to defend entertainers against
paparazzi
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. García has participated in over 50 different projects, including film, theater, soap opera and photo-opera work.
García has also been involved romantically, and remains friends, with Mexican model Carmen Campuzano and Puerto Rican singer Zeny, from the pop vocal duet Zeny & Zory.
In 2005, García participated in a
reality show
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titled ''El Principe Azul'' (''Blue Prince''), a show geared toward finding his other son,
Leonardo
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People
Notable people with the name include:
* Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519), Italian Renaissance scientist ...
. García began to flirt with the young women on the show, going as far as having an on camera kiss with one of the contestants, making his son grow frustrated, and eventually, he left the show. Two previously unknown men were then cast to participate in the show and try to conquer one of the ladies involved in it. In 2006, he starred in the soap opera ''
El Cuerpo del Deseo
''El cuerpo del deseo'' (literally: ''The Body of Desire''), is a Spanish-language telenovela produced by Telemundo and filmed in Florida. This limited-run series is about a man who comes back from the dead and discovers dark secrets about his be ...
'', broadcast by Telemundo International. The script of this
telenovela
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is about transmigration, the passing of a soul into another body after death, coinciding with García's beliefs on this subject.
Filmography
*2007: ''
El Pantera
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'' .... Rubio Barrios (2007–2008)
*2002: ''
Hospital Central
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'' (2002–2007)
*2005: ''
El cuerpo del deseo
''El cuerpo del deseo'' (literally: ''The Body of Desire''), is a Spanish-language telenovela produced by Telemundo and filmed in Florida. This limited-run series is about a man who comes back from the dead and discovers dark secrets about his be ...
King of Texas
''King of Texas'' is a 2002 American Western (genre), Western television film based on William Shakespeare's ''King Lear'' and directed by Uli Edel.
Plot
The film takes the plot of William Shakespeare's ''King Lear'' and places it in the Repub ...
Mujeres engañadas
''Mujeres engañadas'' (English: ''Deceived Women'') is a Mexican telenovela produced by Emilio Larrosa for Televisa in 1999-2000. The telenovela tells the story of four couples who live in the same apartment building.
On Monday, October 25, 19 ...
'' .... Javier Duarte (1999-2000)
*1999: ''
Puppet
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El magnate
''El magnate'', is an American telenovela created and produced by Telemundo and Ángel del Cerro in 1990.
Cast
* Ruddy Rodríguez as Teresa / María Fernández
* Andrés García as Gonzalo Santillán
* Salvador Pineda as Rodrigo Valverde
* L ...
Río de oro
Río de Oro (Spanish for "Gold River"; , ''wādī-að-ðahab'', often transliterated as ''Oued Edhahab'') was, with Saguia el-Hamra, one of the two territories that formed the Spanish province of Spanish Sahara after 1969; it had been taken as ...
Tú o nadie
''Tú o nadie'' (English: ''You or no one'') is a Mexican telenovela directed by José Rendón and produced by Ernesto Alonso for Televisa and broadcast by El Canal de las Estrellas in 1985.Pedro Navaja
"Pedro Navaja" ( en, Peter Blade) is a salsa song written and performed by Rubén Blades from the 1978 collaboration with Willie Colón, '' Siembra'', about a criminal of the same name. ''Navaja'' means "knife" or "razor blade" in Spanish. Inspi ...
'' .... Pedro Navaja
*1983: ''
Dos de abajo
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DOS may also refer to:
Computing
* Data over signalling (DoS), multiplexing data onto a signalling channel
* Denial-of-service attack (DoS), an attack on a communicat ...
Day of the Assassin
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Cyclone
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Ana del aire
''Ana del aire'' is a Mexican telenovela produced by Ernesto Alonso for Canal de las Estrellas in 1974. Starring Angélica María and Fernando Allende.
Plot
Ana is a flight attendant who lives with Andrea, who believes it is his mother who i ...
Nadie te querrá como yo
''Nadie te querrá como yo'' ("No One Will Love You Like Me") is a 1972 Mexican film.
It stars Hilda Aguirre as Isabel Carrasco, Andrés García as Javier, Gloria Marín as Señora Carrasco, Isabel's mother, and Sara García
Sara García Hid ...
El carruaje
EL, El or el may refer to:
Religion
* El (deity), a Semitic word for "God"
People
* EL (rapper) (born 1983), stage name of Elorm Adablah, a Ghanaian rapper and sound engineer
* El DeBarge, music artist
* El Franco Lee (1949–2016), American po ...
House of Evil
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* "Juguetes Para el Matrimonio"
* "Las Buenas Personas"
* "Las Buenas Imagenes Publicas"
* "Accidente Conyugal"
* "Amor es"
* "La Libelula"
* "Las Locuras del Sexo"
* "Un Loco Genial"
* "Las Mentiras Blancas y la Comedia Negra"
* "Me Dicen Pedro, el Hombre de la Navaja"