Tony Alvarez (actor)
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Tony Alvarez was a Spanish
born actor resident in Australia
.
He is probably best remembered for his on-going role as Dr Tony Garcia in the long running Australian soap opera
The Young Doctors
. He appeared in the role from 1977 until 1979. His character was a love interest of characters Lisa Brooks and Tania Livingstone in the serial.
After leaving The Young Doctors Alvarez starred on the stage in Evita and toured the UK with Ronnie Corbett
in Cabaret. Alvarez was also a singer, and around the early 1980s he released a cover of Talking In My Sleep.
He also had a brief guest role in television serial Prisoner
in 1983 playing a man, also named Tony, revealed to be a vicious rapist. He followed this with a six month stint as a fiery Spanish servant in drama series Carson's Law
in 1984.
After Carson's Law, Alvarez worked in the US on the series General Hospital
and The Bold And The Beautiful
.
During Alvarez' career, he worked alongside Antonio Banderas
and subsequently discovered they were born in the same town.
Alvarez was diagnosed with cancer and died in Sydney at age 40 not far from the Mitchell Street studios where he first shot to fame in The Young Doctors
.
Spain
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born actor resident in Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
.
He is probably best remembered for his on-going role as Dr Tony Garcia in the long running Australian soap opera
Soap opera
A soap opera, sometimes called "soap" for short, is an ongoing, episodic work of dramatic fiction presented in serial format on radio or as television programming. The name soap opera stems from the original dramatic serials broadcast on radio that had soap manufacturers, such as Procter & Gamble,...
The Young Doctors
The Young Doctors
The Young Doctors is an Australian early evening soap opera. The series was set in the fictional Albert Memorial hospital and primarily concerned with romances between younger members of the hospital staff, screened on the Nine Network from Monday, 8 November 1976 until Wednesday, 30 March...
. He appeared in the role from 1977 until 1979. His character was a love interest of characters Lisa Brooks and Tania Livingstone in the serial.
After leaving The Young Doctors Alvarez starred on the stage in Evita and toured the UK with Ronnie Corbett
Ronnie Corbett
Ronald Balfour "Ronnie" Corbett, OBE is a Scottish actor and comedian of Scottish and English parentage who had a long association with Ronnie Barker in the British television comedy series The Two Ronnies...
in Cabaret. Alvarez was also a singer, and around the early 1980s he released a cover of Talking In My Sleep.
He also had a brief guest role in television serial Prisoner
Prisoner (TV series)
Prisoner is an Australian television soap opera which was set in the Wentworth Detention Centre, a fictional women's prison. The series was produced by the Reg Grundy Organisation and ran on Network Ten for 692 episodes from 27 February 1979 to 11 December 1986.The series was inspired by the 1970s...
in 1983 playing a man, also named Tony, revealed to be a vicious rapist. He followed this with a six month stint as a fiery Spanish servant in drama series Carson's Law
Carson's Law
Carson's Law is an Australian television series made by Crawford Productions for the Ten Network between 1983 and 1984. The series was a period piece set in the 1920s and starred Lorraine Bayly as progressive solicitor Jennifer Carson...
in 1984.
After Carson's Law, Alvarez worked in the US on the series General Hospital
General Hospital
General Hospital is an American daytime television drama that is credited by the Guinness Book of World Records as the longest-running American soap opera currently in production and the third longest running drama in television in American history after Guiding Light and As the World Turns....
and The Bold And The Beautiful
The Bold and the Beautiful
The Bold and the Beautiful is an American television soap opera created by William J. Bell and Lee Phillip Bell for CBS Daytime. It premiered on March 23, 1987....
.
During Alvarez' career, he worked alongside Antonio Banderas
Antonio Banderas
José Antonio Domínguez Banderas , better known as Antonio Banderas, is a Spanish film actor, film director, film producer and singer...
and subsequently discovered they were born in the same town.
Alvarez was diagnosed with cancer and died in Sydney at age 40 not far from the Mitchell Street studios where he first shot to fame in The Young Doctors
The Young Doctors
The Young Doctors is an Australian early evening soap opera. The series was set in the fictional Albert Memorial hospital and primarily concerned with romances between younger members of the hospital staff, screened on the Nine Network from Monday, 8 November 1976 until Wednesday, 30 March...
.