Ignacio López Tarso
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Ignacio López Tarso is a Mexican
actor of stage
, film
and television
. He is considered as one of the country's finest actors.
. His parents were Alfonso López Bermúdez and Ignacia López Herrera. He lived his childhood in several Mexican cities besides Mexico City, such as Veracruz
, Hermosillo
, Navojoa
and Guadalajara
, due his father’s job. His siblings are Alfonso and Marta.
When he was living in Guadalajara, his parents took him to see a play. He was 8 or 9 years old, and was so excited watching scenery and the performance of the actors. That first contact with the artistic world was engraved in his mind forever and it sealed his destiny in this way.
He also lived in Valle de Bravo
, Estado de México, and studied secondary school there. The economic problems of his parents kept him from attending high school. But a catholic priest helped him to join a seminary
to keep studying and it didn’t matter whether he had vocation or not to be a priest.
So that, he went to a seminary in Temascalcingo
, Estado de México, and later he joined a seminary in Mexico City. After his studies finished, he left the seminary due to a lack of interest in being a priest.
He did military service when he was 20 years old and did it in Querétaro
where he was in barracks by almost a year, although he also was in Veracruz and Monterrey
regiments. He reached the First Sergeant grade. After his militar service finished, a general told him that he would be a top soldier and gave him his support to attend Military School, but Ignacio left the army after thinking and noting that military career wasn’t his vocation, even though he liked the discipline.
. After few days working there, Ignacio was climbing orange tree, then he slept and fell down, seriously injuring his vertebral column. This accident caused his sad returning to Mexico without get his dream and with only 20 dollars in his bag. He continued his rehabilitation therapy in bed by almost a year in Mexico City.
After his recovery, Ignacio attended in 1949 the Dramatic Art Academy of the Palacio de Bellas Artes
in Mexico City.
He married Clara Aranda and both had three children: Susana, Gabriela and Juan Ignacio, who also become an actor, artistically well known as Juan Ignacio Aranda.
López Tarso also was politician and became a federal deputy
. He also had important jobs in various organizations and trade-unions related to the actor and cinematographic associations.
and Calderón de la Barca.
When Ignacio was in therapy on bed after that accident suffered in California, he had time reading books of poetry and theatre, especially a poetry book of Xavier Villaurrutia
. Ignacio was a fan of Villaurrutia. Some day, Ignacio knew that Villaurrutia was teaching theatre in Palacio de Bellas Artes. Then, when he recovered from the accident, he went to the Palacio to meet Villaurrutia and ask him an autograph.
Villaurrutia received him and invited him to hear his lessons. At first, Ignacio was a simply listener, but next days, Ignacio joined formally the theatre academy. That time, Ignacio was 24 years old.
Besides Villaurrutia, Ignacio López had other masters such as Salvador Novo
, Clementina Otero
, Celestino Gorostiza
, André Moreau, Seki Sano, Fernando Wagner
, Fernando Torre Lapham, among other ones.
His professional stage debut was in 1951, performing the play Born yesterday
by Garson Kanin
.
Ignacio López has performed plays of William Shakespeare
such as A Midsummer Night's Dream
, Macbeth
, Othello
and King Lear
. He also performed The Crucible
by Arthur Miller
. Other performed plays are: Oedipus the King
and Oedipus at Colonus
by Sophocles
, Hippolytus
by Euripides
, La Celestina
by Fernando de Rojas
, Cyrano de Bergerac
by Edmond Rostand
, The Miser
by Molière
, El villano en su rincón by Lope de Vega, The Mayor of Zalamea by Calderón de la Barca, Exit the king by Eugène Ionesco
, among other plays.
Ignacio López also has performed works made by authors such as Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Miguel de Cervantes
, Guillén de Castro, Hugo Argüelles, Emilio Carballido, Ramón María del Valle-Inclán and other writers.
Ignacio has performed more than one hundred plays throughout his career.
Perhaps his best film was Macario
(1959) directed by Roberto Gavaldón
. This film reflects Mexican culture about the death, especially about the Day of the Dead
, which is a Mexican tradition, unique in its kind. This picture won several Mexican and international awards.
Another worthy film of López Tarso was Rosa Blanca. This movie was filmed in 1961 and curiously was censured by political interests in that time, but it was released belatedly in 1972. This movie was directed by Roberto Gavaldón.
Other of his outstanding performances in movies were: Cri Cri, el grillito cantor (1963) directed by Tito Davison, The Paper Man
(1963) directed by Ismael Rodríguez, La vida inútil de Pito Pérez (1969) directed by Roberto Gavaldón, The prophet Mimi (1972) directed by José Estrada, Rapiña (1973) directed by Carlos Enrique Taboada, The bricklayers (1976) directed by Jorge Fons
, among other productions.
Ignacio López belongs to the Golden Age of Mexican cinema, and he has shared starring with actors such as Dolores del Río
,((Maria Felix)), Marga López
, Carlos López Moctezuma, Elsa Aguirre
, Luis Aguilar
, Katy Jurado
, Irasema Dilián
, Pedro Armendáriz
, Emilio “el indio” Fernández
, and other ones.
Ignacio has acted in half hundred films and appeared in documentaries and in one short subject.
s, mainly about Mexican Revolution
. He has released eight albums.
. Ignacio found inspiration with the history of Paul the Apostle, who was called “Paul of Tarsus” or “Saul (his Hebrew name) of Tarsus", because he was from a city called Tarsus
. “Tarsus” in Spanish is “Tarso”. Ignacio liked name "Tarso" and replaced "López López" with "Lopez Tarso".
López Tarso also got two Ariel nominations in 1974 and 1975, for The Prophet Mimi and Rapiña, respectively.
Mexican people
Mexican people refers to all persons from Mexico, a multiethnic country in North America, and/or who identify with the Mexican cultural and/or national identity....
actor of stage
Theatre
Theatre is a collaborative form of fine art that uses live performers to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place. The performers may communicate this experience to the audience through combinations of gesture, speech, song, music or dance...
, film
Film
A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...
and television
Television
Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...
. He is considered as one of the country's finest actors.
Early life
Ignacio López was born in Mexico CityMexico City
Mexico City is the Federal District , capital of Mexico and seat of the federal powers of the Mexican Union. It is a federal entity within Mexico which is not part of any one of the 31 Mexican states but belongs to the federation as a whole...
. His parents were Alfonso López Bermúdez and Ignacia López Herrera. He lived his childhood in several Mexican cities besides Mexico City, such as Veracruz
Veracruz, Veracruz
Veracruz, officially known as Heroica Veracruz, is a major port city and municipality on the Gulf of Mexico in the Mexican state of Veracruz. The city is located in the central part of the state. It is located along Federal Highway 140 from the state capital Xalapa, and is the state's most...
, Hermosillo
Hermosillo
Hermosillo is a city and municipality located centrally in the northwestern Mexican state of Sonora. It is the capital and main economic center for the state and region. It contains almost all of the state's manufacturing and has thirty percent of its population...
, Navojoa
Navojoa
Navojoa is the fifth-largest city in the northern Mexican state of Sonora and is situated in the southern part of Sonora, south of the state's border with the U.S. state of Arizona. It is the administrative seat of a large municipality, located in the Mayo River Valley.-History:The city name...
and Guadalajara
Guadalajara, Jalisco
Guadalajara is the capital of the Mexican state of Jalisco, and the seat of the municipality of Guadalajara. The city is located in the central region of Jalisco in the western-pacific area of Mexico. With a population of 1,564,514 it is Mexico's second most populous municipality...
, due his father’s job. His siblings are Alfonso and Marta.
When he was living in Guadalajara, his parents took him to see a play. He was 8 or 9 years old, and was so excited watching scenery and the performance of the actors. That first contact with the artistic world was engraved in his mind forever and it sealed his destiny in this way.
He also lived in Valle de Bravo
Valle de Bravo
Valle de Bravo is a town and municipality located in Mexico State, Mexico. It is located on the shore of Lake Avándaro, approximately 156 km southwest of Mexico City and west of Toluca on highways 15, 134 or 1...
, Estado de México, and studied secondary school there. The economic problems of his parents kept him from attending high school. But a catholic priest helped him to join a seminary
Seminary
A seminary, theological college, or divinity school is an institution of secondary or post-secondary education for educating students in theology, generally to prepare them for ordination as clergy or for other ministry...
to keep studying and it didn’t matter whether he had vocation or not to be a priest.
So that, he went to a seminary in Temascalcingo
Temascalcingo
Temascalcingo de José Maria Velasco is a town and seat of the municipality of Temascalcingo in the State of Mexico, Mexico. It is located in the northeast of the state. The temazcal was very common in Temascalcingo. The name Temascalcingo has its roots in Nahuatl. It means place of the little...
, Estado de México, and later he joined a seminary in Mexico City. After his studies finished, he left the seminary due to a lack of interest in being a priest.
He did military service when he was 20 years old and did it in Querétaro
Santiago de Querétaro
Santiago de Querétaro is the capital and largest city of the state of Querétaro, located in central Mexico. It is located 213 km northwest of Mexico City, 96 km southeast of San Miguel de Allende and 200 km south of San Luis Potosí...
where he was in barracks by almost a year, although he also was in Veracruz and Monterrey
Monterrey
Monterrey , is the capital city of the northeastern state of Nuevo León in the country of Mexico. The city is anchor to the third-largest metropolitan area in Mexico and is ranked as the ninth-largest city in the nation. Monterrey serves as a commercial center in the north of the country and is the...
regiments. He reached the First Sergeant grade. After his militar service finished, a general told him that he would be a top soldier and gave him his support to attend Military School, but Ignacio left the army after thinking and noting that military career wasn’t his vocation, even though he liked the discipline.
Personal life
He worked in Mexico City as a sales agent for a clothing company. After that job, he and some friends enrolled in a program jointly sponsored by Mexico and the United State allowing several migrants to work in the vineyards and orange fields in California (see Bracero program). Ignacio’s dream was to work in the United States for a time and then return to Mexico with his savings. So, he and his friends were working in an orange grove in Merced, CaliforniaMerced, California
Merced is a city in, and the county seat of, Merced County, California in the San Joaquin Valley of Northern California. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 78,958. Incorporated in 1889, Merced is a charter city that operates under a council-manager government...
. After few days working there, Ignacio was climbing orange tree, then he slept and fell down, seriously injuring his vertebral column. This accident caused his sad returning to Mexico without get his dream and with only 20 dollars in his bag. He continued his rehabilitation therapy in bed by almost a year in Mexico City.
After his recovery, Ignacio attended in 1949 the Dramatic Art Academy of the Palacio de Bellas Artes
Palacio de Bellas Artes
The Palacio de Bellas Artes is the most important cultural center in Mexico City as well as the rest of the country of Mexico...
in Mexico City.
He married Clara Aranda and both had three children: Susana, Gabriela and Juan Ignacio, who also become an actor, artistically well known as Juan Ignacio Aranda.
López Tarso also was politician and became a federal deputy
Chamber of Deputies of Mexico
The Chamber of Deputies is the lower house of the Congress of the Union, Mexico's bicameral legislature. The structure and responsibilities of both chambers of Congress are defined in Articles 50 to 70 of the current constitution.-Composition:The Chamber of Deputies is composed of one federal...
. He also had important jobs in various organizations and trade-unions related to the actor and cinematographic associations.
Theatre
His early experience in stage started when he was in the catholic seminary. There, a priest who came from United States organized a group to perform plays. Ignacio joined this group and also learned to read oral poetry and books of classical plays, especially plays of Lope de VegaLope de Vega
Félix Arturo Lope de Vega y Carpio was a Spanish playwright and poet. He was one of the key figures in the Spanish Golden Century Baroque literature...
and Calderón de la Barca.
When Ignacio was in therapy on bed after that accident suffered in California, he had time reading books of poetry and theatre, especially a poetry book of Xavier Villaurrutia
Xavier Villaurrutia
Xavier Villaurrutia y González was a Mexican poet and playwright, whose most famous works are the short theatrical dramas, called Autos profanos, compiled in the work Poesía y teatro completos published in 1953....
. Ignacio was a fan of Villaurrutia. Some day, Ignacio knew that Villaurrutia was teaching theatre in Palacio de Bellas Artes. Then, when he recovered from the accident, he went to the Palacio to meet Villaurrutia and ask him an autograph.
Villaurrutia received him and invited him to hear his lessons. At first, Ignacio was a simply listener, but next days, Ignacio joined formally the theatre academy. That time, Ignacio was 24 years old.
Besides Villaurrutia, Ignacio López had other masters such as Salvador Novo
Salvador Novo
Salvador Novo López was a Mexican writer, poet, playwright, translator, television presenter, entrepreneur, and the official chronicler of Mexico City, his birthplace and home. As a noted intellectual, he influenced popular perceptions of politics, media, the arts, and Mexican society in general...
, Clementina Otero
Clementina Otero
Clementina Otero de Barrios was a Mexican actress and belonged to the pioneers of Mexican avant-garde theater. She was the last living member of the Los Contemporáneos group....
, Celestino Gorostiza
Celestino Gorostiza
Celestino Gorostiza Alcalá was a Mexican theater and cine playwright, director and dramatist.- Biography :...
, André Moreau, Seki Sano, Fernando Wagner
Fernando Wagner
Fernando Wagner was a Mexican actor and film director. One of his most memorable roles was in the film La perla.-External links:* * * *...
, Fernando Torre Lapham, among other ones.
His professional stage debut was in 1951, performing the play Born yesterday
Born Yesterday
Born Yesterday is a play written by Garson Kanin which premiered on Broadway in 1946, starring Judy Holliday as Billie Dawn. The play was adapted intoa successful 1950 film of the same name.- Plot :...
by Garson Kanin
Garson Kanin
Garson Kanin was a prolific American writer and director of plays and films.-Film and stage career:...
.
Ignacio López has performed plays of William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon"...
such as A Midsummer Night's Dream
A Midsummer Night's Dream
A Midsummer Night's Dream is a play that was written by William Shakespeare. It is believed to have been written between 1590 and 1596. It portrays the events surrounding the marriage of the Duke of Athens, Theseus, and the Queen of the Amazons, Hippolyta...
, Macbeth
Macbeth
The Tragedy of Macbeth is a play by William Shakespeare about a regicide and its aftermath. It is Shakespeare's shortest tragedy and is believed to have been written sometime between 1603 and 1607...
, Othello
Othello
The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in approximately 1603, and based on the Italian short story "Un Capitano Moro" by Cinthio, a disciple of Boccaccio, first published in 1565...
and King Lear
King Lear
King Lear is a tragedy by William Shakespeare. The title character descends into madness after foolishly disposing of his estate between two of his three daughters based on their flattery, bringing tragic consequences for all. The play is based on the legend of Leir of Britain, a mythological...
. He also performed The Crucible
The Crucible
The Crucible is a 1952 play by the American playwright Arthur Miller. It is a dramatization of the Salem witch trials that took place in the Province of Massachusetts Bay during 1692 and 1693. Miller wrote the play as an allegory of McCarthyism, when the US government blacklisted accused communists...
by Arthur Miller
Arthur Miller
Arthur Asher Miller was an American playwright and essayist. He was a prominent figure in American theatre, writing dramas that include plays such as All My Sons , Death of a Salesman , The Crucible , and A View from the Bridge .Miller was often in the public eye,...
. Other performed plays are: Oedipus the King
Oedipus the King
Oedipus the King , also known by the Latin title Oedipus Rex, is an Athenian tragedy by Sophocles that was first performed c. 429 BCE. It was the second of Sophocles's three Theban plays to be produced, but it comes first in the internal chronology, followed by Oedipus at Colonus and then Antigone...
and Oedipus at Colonus
Oedipus at Colonus
Oedipus at Colonus is one of the three Theban plays of the Athenian tragedian Sophocles...
by Sophocles
Sophocles
Sophocles is one of three ancient Greek tragedians whose plays have survived. His first plays were written later than those of Aeschylus, and earlier than or contemporary with those of Euripides...
, Hippolytus
Hippolytus (play)
Hippolytus is an Ancient Greek tragedy by Euripides, based on the myth of Hippolytus, son of Theseus. The play was first produced for the City Dionysia of Athens in 428 BC and won first prize as part of a trilogy....
by Euripides
Euripides
Euripides was one of the three great tragedians of classical Athens, the other two being Aeschylus and Sophocles. Some ancient scholars attributed ninety-five plays to him but according to the Suda it was ninety-two at most...
, La Celestina
La Celestina
La Celestina , actually called Tragicomedia de Calisto y Melibea or Comedia de Calisto y Melibea, in English Tragicomedy of Calisto and Melibea), is a work composed entirely in dialogue published by Fernando de Rojas in 1499...
by Fernando de Rojas
Fernando de Rojas
Fernando de Rojas was a Spanish author about whom little information is known. He possibly attended the University of Salamanca. Although his family was of Jewish ancestry, they were conversos, or Jews who had converted to Christianity under pressure from the Spanish crown...
, Cyrano de Bergerac
Cyrano de Bergerac (play)
Cyrano de Bergerac is a play written in 1897 by Edmond Rostand. Although there was a real Cyrano de Bergerac, the play bears very scant resemblance to his life....
by Edmond Rostand
Edmond Rostand
Edmond Eugène Alexis Rostand was a French poet and dramatist. He is associated with neo-romanticism, and is best known for his play Cyrano de Bergerac. Rostand's romantic plays provided an alternative to the naturalistic theatre popular during the late nineteenth century...
, The Miser
The Miser
L'Avare is a 1668 five-act satirical comedy by French playwright Molière. Its title is usually translated as The Miser when the play is performed in English....
by Molière
Molière
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, known by his stage name Molière, was a French playwright and actor who is considered to be one of the greatest masters of comedy in Western literature...
, El villano en su rincón by Lope de Vega, The Mayor of Zalamea by Calderón de la Barca, Exit the king by Eugène Ionesco
Eugène Ionesco
Eugène Ionesco was a Romanian and French playwright and dramatist, and one of the foremost playwrights of the Theatre of the Absurd...
, among other plays.
Ignacio López also has performed works made by authors such as Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Miguel de Cervantes
Miguel de Cervantes
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra was a Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright. His magnum opus, Don Quixote, considered the first modern novel, is a classic of Western literature, and is regarded amongst the best works of fiction ever written...
, Guillén de Castro, Hugo Argüelles, Emilio Carballido, Ramón María del Valle-Inclán and other writers.
Ignacio has performed more than one hundred plays throughout his career.
Film
His first film was a movie called La desconocida (1954) directed by Chano Urueta. His role in this film was not important.Perhaps his best film was Macario
Macario
Macario is a 1960 Mexican drama film directed by Roberto Gavaldón and starring Ignacio López Tarso.It was the first Mexican film to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Film in a Foreign Language. It was also entered into the 1960 Cannes Film Festival...
(1959) directed by Roberto Gavaldón
Roberto Gavaldón
Roberto Gavaldón was a Mexican film director.Eight of Gavaldón's films were featured on the list 100 Best Movies of the Cinema of Mexico...
. This film reflects Mexican culture about the death, especially about the Day of the Dead
Day of the Dead
Day of the Dead is a Mexican holiday celebrated throughout Mexico and around the world in many cultures. The holiday focuses on gatherings of family and friends to pray for and remember friends and family members who have died. It is particularly celebrated in Mexico, where it attains the quality...
, which is a Mexican tradition, unique in its kind. This picture won several Mexican and international awards.
Another worthy film of López Tarso was Rosa Blanca. This movie was filmed in 1961 and curiously was censured by political interests in that time, but it was released belatedly in 1972. This movie was directed by Roberto Gavaldón.
Other of his outstanding performances in movies were: Cri Cri, el grillito cantor (1963) directed by Tito Davison, The Paper Man
The Paper Man (film)
The Paper Man is a 1963 Mexican drama film directed by Ismael Rodríguez. The film was selected as the Mexican entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 36th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.-Cast:* Ignacio López Tarso as Adán...
(1963) directed by Ismael Rodríguez, La vida inútil de Pito Pérez (1969) directed by Roberto Gavaldón, The prophet Mimi (1972) directed by José Estrada, Rapiña (1973) directed by Carlos Enrique Taboada, The bricklayers (1976) directed by Jorge Fons
Jorge Fons
Jorge Fons Pérez is a Mexican film director.He belongs to the first generation of film directors of the UNAM. His short film, Caridad , is still considered one of the best films in Mexican cinema...
, among other productions.
Ignacio López belongs to the Golden Age of Mexican cinema, and he has shared starring with actors such as Dolores del Río
Dolores del Río
Dolores del Río was a Mexican film actress. She was a star of Hollywood films during the silent era and in the Golden Age of Hollywood...
,((Maria Felix)), Marga López
Marga López
Marga López , born Catalina Margarita López Ramos, was an Argentine-born Mexican actress. Born in Argentina, she later acquired Mexican nationality.-Biography:...
, Carlos López Moctezuma, Elsa Aguirre
Elsa Aguirre
Elsa Irma Aguirre Juárez is a Mexican actress of the Golden Age of Mexican cinema. She is considered as one of the belle divas of the Cinema of Mexico. The actress Alma Rosa Aguirre is her sister.-Early life:...
, Luis Aguilar
Luis Aguilar
Luis Aguilar is an American soccer player who until recently played defense for the Montreal Impact of the USL First Division.- Career :...
, Katy Jurado
Katy Jurado
Katy Jurado , born María Cristina Estela Marcela Jurado García in Mexico, D.F., was a Mexican actress who had a successful film career both in Mexico and in Hollywood....
, Irasema Dilián
Irasema Dilián
Irasema Dilián - Biography:...
, Pedro Armendáriz
Pedro Armendáriz
Pedro Armendáriz was a Mexican actor of the cinema of Mexico and Hollywood.-Early life:Born Pedro Gregorio Armendáriz Hastings in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico to Pedro Armendáriz García-Conde and Adela Hastings . He was also the cousin of actress Gloria Marín...
, Emilio “el indio” Fernández
Emilio Fernández
Emilio "El Indio" Fernández was an actor, screenwriter and director of the cinema of Mexico. He is best known for his work as director of the film Maria Candelaria which won the Grand Prix at the 1946 Cannes Film Festival.-Early life:Fernández was born in Mineral del Hondo, Coahuila...
, and other ones.
Ignacio has acted in half hundred films and appeared in documentaries and in one short subject.
Other artistic areas
Ignacio López has appeared in more than twenty television series and has recorded albums where he recites poems and corridoCorrido
The corrido is a popular narrative song and poetry form, a ballad, of Mexico. The songs are often about oppression, history, daily life for peasants, and other socially important information. It is still a popular form today, and was widely popular during the Mexican Revolution and Nicaraguan...
s, mainly about Mexican Revolution
Mexican Revolution
The Mexican Revolution was a major armed struggle that started in 1910, with an uprising led by Francisco I. Madero against longtime autocrat Porfirio Díaz. The Revolution was characterized by several socialist, liberal, anarchist, populist, and agrarianist movements. Over time the Revolution...
. He has released eight albums.
Origin of the stage name
His master Xavier Villaurrutia advised Ignacio to replace his birth name with some more attractive stage nameStage name
A stage name, also called a showbiz name or screen name, is a pseudonym used by performers and entertainers such as actors, wrestlers, comedians, and musicians.-Motivation to use a stage name:...
. Ignacio found inspiration with the history of Paul the Apostle, who was called “Paul of Tarsus” or “Saul (his Hebrew name) of Tarsus", because he was from a city called Tarsus
Tarsus (city)
Tarsus is a historic city in south-central Turkey, 20 km inland from the Mediterranean Sea. It is part of the Adana-Mersin Metropolitan Area, the fourth-largest metropolitan area in Turkey with a population of 2.75 million...
. “Tarsus” in Spanish is “Tarso”. Ignacio liked name "Tarso" and replaced "López López" with "Lopez Tarso".
Awards
Ignacio López Tarso won many Mexican and internacional awards. The following are some of his most important won awards and recognitions:- Golden Gate Award (San Francisco International Film FestivalSan Francisco International Film FestivalSan Francisco International Film Festival is the oldest continuously running film festival in the Americas. Organized by the San Francisco Film Society, the International is held each spring for two weeks, presenting an average of 150 films from over 50 countries...
1960, United States) Best Actor for Macario. - Golden Gate Award (San Francisco International Film Festival 1963, United States) Best Actor for The Paper ManThe Paper Man (film)The Paper Man is a 1963 Mexican drama film directed by Ismael Rodríguez. The film was selected as the Mexican entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 36th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.-Cast:* Ignacio López Tarso as Adán...
. - Ariel AwardAriel AwardThe Ariel is the Mexican Academy of Film Award. It has been awarded annually since 1947. The award recognizes excellence in motion picture making, such as acting, directing and screenwriting in Mexican cinema. It is considered the most prestigious award in the Mexican movie industry.- History :The...
(Mexican Academy of Film, 1973, Mexico) Best Actor for Rosa Blanca. - Association of Latin Entertainment CriticsAssociation of Latin Entertainment CriticsThe Association of Latin Entertainment Critics is a nonprofit cultural organization founded on December 12, 1967. The organization has bestowed the LatinACE awards annually since May 25, 1969...
Award (2001, United States). - Hispanic Heritage Society Award (2006, United States).
- Ariel de Oro (Mexican Academy of Film, 2007, Mexico) for his lifetime achievement in the film industry. Shared award with the cinematographerCinematographerA cinematographer is one photographing with a motion picture camera . The title is generally equivalent to director of photography , used to designate a chief over the camera and lighting crews working on a film, responsible for achieving artistic and technical decisions related to the image...
Rosalío Solano.
López Tarso also got two Ariel nominations in 1974 and 1975, for The Prophet Mimi and Rapiña, respectively.
Filmography
- La desconocida (1954)
- Chilam Balam (1955)
- Felíz año, amor mío (1955)
- Vainilla, bronce y morir (Una mujer más) (1956)
- The Soldiers of Pancho Villa (La cucaracha) (1958)
- Empty star (La estrella vacía) (1958)
- Nazarín (1958)
- El hambre nuestra de cada día (1959)
- Ellas también son rebeldes (1959)
- MacarioMacarioMacario is a 1960 Mexican drama film directed by Roberto Gavaldón and starring Ignacio López Tarso.It was the first Mexican film to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Film in a Foreign Language. It was also entered into the 1960 Cannes Film Festival...
(1959) - Sonatas (Aventuras del Marqués de Bradomin) (1959)
- The guns of Juana Gallo (Juana Gallo) (1960)
- La sombra del caudillo (1960)
- Y Dios la llamó tierra (1960)
- My son, the hero (Los hermanos del hierro) (1961)
- Rosa BlancaRosa BlancaRosa Blanca is a 1961 Mexican film starred by Ignacio López Tarso.-Plot:An illiterate Indian lives an idyllic existence as a landowner on Mexico's Gulf Coast until the greed of a US oil company gets in the way. He is murdered and the lives of all those around him are destroyed as the company takes...
(1961) - Heart of a child (Corazón de niño) (1962)
- Días de otoño (1962)
- Furia en el edén (1962)
- The bandit (La bandida) (1962)
- Cri Cri, el grillito cantor (1963)
- The Paper Man (El hombre de papel)The Paper Man (film)The Paper Man is a 1963 Mexican drama film directed by Ismael Rodríguez. The film was selected as the Mexican entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 36th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.-Cast:* Ignacio López Tarso as Adán...
(1963) - Un hombre en la trampa (1963)
- The golden cockerel (El gallo de oro) (1964)
- Always Further On (Tarahumara) (1964)
- Pedro PáramoPedro Páramo (1967 film)Pedro Páramo is a 1967 Mexican drama film directed by Carlos Velo. It was entered into the 1967 Cannes Film Festival. It is based on the short novel of the same name.-Cast:* John Gavin - Pedro Páramo* Ignacio López Tarso - Fulgor Sedano...
(1966) - Las visitaciones del diablo (1967)
- Largo viaje hacia la muerte (L.S.D.) (1967)
- The door and the woman of the butcher (La puerta y la mujer del carnicero), episode: The woman of the butcher (1968)
- La trinchera (1968)
- La vida inútil de Pito Pérez (1969)
- La generala (1970)
- Cayó de la gloria el diablo (1971)
- The prophet Mimi (El profeta Mimí) (1972)
- En busca de un muro (1973)
- Rapiña (1973)
- Resigned for reasons of health (Renuncia por motivos de salud) (1975)
- La casta divina (1976)
- The BricklayersThe BricklayersThe Bricklayers is a 1976 Mexican drama film directed by Jorge Fons. It was entered into the 27th Berlin International Film Festival where it won the Silver Bear.-Cast:* Ignacio López Tarso - Don Jesus* Jaime Fernández - Perez Gomez...
(Los albañiles) (1976) - Los amantes fríos, episode: El soplador de vidrio (1977)
- The children of the Sanchez (Los hijos de Sánchez) (1977)
- Antonieta (1982)
- Toña Machetes (1983)
- Under the VolcanoUnder the Volcano (film)Under the Volcano is a 1984 film directed in Mexico by John Huston with Albert Finney, Jacqueline Bisset, Anthony Andrews and Katy Jurado heading the cast...
(Bajo el volcán) (1984) - The other (El otro) (1984)
- Astucia (1985)
- Muelle rojo (1987)
- Banderas, the tyrant (Tirano Banderas) (1993)
- Reclusorio, episode: Quiero quedarme en la cárcel (1995)
- Santo LuzbelSanto Luzbel-Plot:The movie takes place in present-day Mexico. The movie is about the misunderstanding between the Roman Catholics & mestizo versus the Nahuas. The main conflict in the film is between the Nahuas and everyone else on an ancient text, part in Nahuatl and part in Spanish, called the Colloquium of...
(1996) - Mar de AmorMar de amor__FORCETOC__Mar de Amor is a Spanish-language telenovela produced by Nathalie Lartilleux and stars Zuria Vega and Mario Cimarro and antagonistic Ninel Conde, Marcelo Córdoba and Manuel Landeta....
(2009/2010) - La fuerza del destinoLa fuerza del destinoLa Fuerza del Destino is a Mexican telenovela produced by Televisa under Rosy Ocampo. Sandra Echeverria, who is a Telemundo exclusive artist, temporarily joined Televisa as the protagonist of the telenovela as part of the Televisa - Telemundo artist exchange. David Zepeda also serves as the main...
(2011) - La que no podia amarLa que no podia amarLa Que No Podia Amar is a Mexican telenovela produced by José Alberto Castro for Televisa. The original story is written by Delia Fiallo and the adaptation made by Ximena Suarez. The show stars Ana Brenda Contreras, Jose Ron and Jorge Salinas as the main protagonist...
(2011)
External links
.- Estrellas del Cine Mexicano: Ignacio López Tarso. ITESM Database .