Acting
Carlos Ancira
Born 1929-08-20 · Mexico City, Mexico
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 He left unfinished a book he was preparing on his theatrical technique, and other plays unpublished.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.
Acting credits
7.1Third movie in "Life of Christ" trilogy.
Jesús, nuestro Señor
1971
4.9When Santo accompanies a troupe of archaeologists in the search for Aztec artifacts, they find the Mummy of an Aztec who leaves a warning to those who tamper with his resting place. The adventurers ignore the warning, and before long, the Mummy starts bumping them off one-by-one with his bow & arrow.
Santo in the Vengeance of the Mummy
1971
6.3Three interwoven stories where the characters experience deception, passion, love and rejection.
Tú, yo, nosotros
1972
6.8Fando and his partially paralysed lover Lis search for the mythical city of Tar.
Fando and Lis
1972
6.0A federal policeman arrives in a town ravaged by a cult of hooded men who leave a satanic face on their victims.
Los diablos del terror
1959
5.6Vampire hunters track down a vampire and attempt to steal the ashes from his coffin in order to stop him from reviving nightly.
The Blood of Nostradamus
1962
Five criminals are arrested after a bank-robbery. One escapes, and the police officer in charge of transporting them arrests a new person at random to cover up for his negligence.
Cinco en la cárcel
1968
6.9A deaf and mute vagabond finds a large denomination bill in a Mexico City dump, and while he tries to buy something with it, others try to con him into giving it away.
The Paper Man
1963
6.4A group of people suffering from mental retardation, blindness and physical malformations work in a traveling circus.
The Enemy Blood
1971
7.4Gunfighters kill all family members of farmer brothers Mario and Fernando Almada, after the tragic event, they seek revenge.
Todo Por Nada
1969
4.8A mad scientist teams with an evil, disfigured woman to kidnap and operate on young women to make her look beautiful again.
Madame Death
1969
5.6A cowboy and his sidekick meet a ranching family that is haunted by spirits and vampires.
The Living Coffin
1959
6.3Two doctors make a pact in which they swear that the first to die will return - if possible - to tell the other how to get a glimpse of the afterlife while still alive.
Black Pit of Dr. M
1959
6.6Bruno Halder a sinister scientist seeking revenge against his brother and niece is resurrected by Waldo his faithful sidekick. Besides his minions of zombies Halder enlists the help of Wolfman, Franquestain, a Vampire, a Mummy and a Cyclops. Once again the survival of mankind is put in the hands of Santo
Santo and Blue Demon Against the Monsters
1970
6.2Father and two sons raise hell at the county fair.
Los tres alegres compadres
1952
5.6Six hundred year old witch butts heads with a scholar over the possession of a rare ancient grimoire and then discovers that his daughter's fiance is the reincarnation of her first boyfriend.
Mysteries of Black Magic
1958
5.5After a criminal gang kidnaps a scientist with valuable information about nuclear weapons, an undercover agent named Jorge Rubio tries to infiltrate this gang in order to deal with the situation. The gang, however, quickly unmasks Rubio and uses both brainwashing and torture techniques on him. They also create a clone of Rubio, thus setting up a show-down battle between the two look-alikes.
Alerta, alta tension
1969
5.0During a lull in the Mexican Revolution when Francisco Madero became president and attempted to implement land reforms, two former revolutionaries are pitted against each other for the love of the same woman.
La Bandida
1963
Pedro, a wealthy Mexican landowner, is convinced he can get everything he wants with money and arrogance.
Los salvajes
1958
8.0Trophy wife of a crooked industrialist meets a philanthropic doctor and develops a social conscience. Mexican remake of Born Yesterday.
Our Daily Hunger
1960
7.1A mad scientist creates a remote-controlled monster and sends it to terrorize the city.
Orlak, the Hell of Frankenstein
1960
6.3No synopsis available yet.
Los mediocres
1966
5.6A man becomes more and more infatuated with his childhood sweetheart leading to a haunting encounter with horror.
Queen Doll
1972
4.0Those involved in the making of an amateur porn video end up getting slashed to death with a cane sword. It's up to the brave policewoman Eugenia aka The Scorpion (Maribel Guardia) to stop him.
The Female Scorpion
1986