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person_profile-Carlos Ancira

Carlos Ancira Died at age: 57

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Carlos Ancira

Date of Birth:

Aug 20, 1929

Country of birth:

Mexico

Died:

Aug 10, 1987

Biography of

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 He left unfinished a book he was preparing on his theatrical technique, and other plays unpublished.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.

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Carlos Ancira

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Filmography of

Carlos Ancira

Found 26 Movies in total

The Female Scorpion

Don Eliseo Mendieta ( Actor )

... 1986

... 1972

Tú, yo, nosotros

Carlos ( Actor )

... 1972

Panic

(segment "Angustia") ( Actor )

... 1972

Jesús, María y José

Caifás ( Actor )

... 1972

Santo in the Vengeance of the Mummy

Prof. Jiménez ( Actor )

... 1971

The Enemy Blood

Dimas, the Blind Musician ( Actor )

... 1971

Jesús, nuestro Señor

Caifás ( Actor )

... 1971

... 1970

Fando and Lis

Narrator ( Actor )

... 1970

Madame Death

Laor ( Actor )

... 1969

Everything In Vain

Almacenista ( Actor )

... 1969

Alerta, alta tension

Cero ( Actor )

... 1969

The Paper Man

Comisario ( Actor )

... 1963

La Bandida

Cliente burdel ( Actor )

... 1963

... 1961

The Blood of Nostradamus

Police Chief ( Actor )

... 1961

... 1960

Our Daily Hunger

Quique ( Actor )

... 1960

The Living Coffin

Felipe ( Actor )

... 1959

Del suelo no paso

Bandido ( Actor )

... 1959

... 1959

Black Pit of Dr. M

Elmer, the orderly ( Actor )

... 1959

... 1959

Mysteries of Black Magic

Kerobal ( Actor )

... 1958

... 1955