Manuel Salvador Ojeda Armenta (4 November 1940 – 11 August 2022) was a Mexican actor. Ojeda was one of the most active actors of

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and cinema in Mexico. He played the villain, Zolo, in the

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film '' Romancing the Stone''.

Career

Manuel Salvador Ojeda Armenta was born in

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. He studied acting at the "Instituto de Bellas Artes" ("Institute of Fine Arts") and started his career in theatre. He obtained roles in his first film in his mid-thirties and later participated in the first of his dozens of

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s with

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two years later. He also took the role of Jimmy in ''P.D. Tu gato ha muerto'', the Spanish-language production of ''

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'' in 1983. From 2005 to 2006, he was part of the cast of the telenovela '' Alborada''.

Filmography

Films

Television

Awards and nominations

TVyNovelas Awards

Premios El Heraldo de México

References

External links

Manuel Ojeda
at the Telenovela Database *

at the

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Ojeda, Manuel 1940 births 2022 deaths Best Actor Ariel Award winners Mexican male film actors Mexican male stage actors Mexican male telenovela actors People from La Paz, Baja California Sur