Abel Salazar (actor)

For other people with similar names, see Salazar (surname) and García (surname).

Abel Salazar García (24 September 1917 – 21 October 1995) was a Mexican actor, producer and director.^[1] He appeared in 70 films between 1941 and 1989. He was a son of Don García and his wife, and brother to Don Alfredo Salazar.

Abel Salazar
Salazar in El Coyote (1955)
Born	Abel Salazar García (1917-09-24)24 September 1917 Mexico City, Mexico
Died	21 October 1995(1995-10-21) (aged 78) Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico
Occupation(s)	Actor, film director
Years active	1941–1989
Spouse(s)	Rosita Arenas (1960-19??) Gloria Marín (31 May 1958–28 September 1960; divorced Alicia Cárdenas (1944-1950); 2 children

Personal life

After marriages to Alicia Cárdenas, daughter of former Mexican President Lazaro Cardenas,^[2] and Gloria Marín, he married, lastly, Rosita Arenas, who had been briefly married to Spanish actor Jaime de Mora y Aragón. Salazar and Arenas had a daughter, Rosa Salazar Arenas,^[3] a Mexican actress and screenwriter.^[4][5][6] and is a writer of the Mexican Spanish-language soap opera Llena de amor (English title: Fill me with love), produced by Televisa, that began airing in 2010.^[7] She co-authored Rituales Para El Amor, La Belleza y La Prosperidad (1998), with Pita Ojeda.^[8] He died of respiratory failure and Alzheimer's disease in 1995.^[9]

Selected filmography

• La casa del Rencor (1941)
• The League of Songs (1941)
• La Virgen morena (1942)
• Capullito de Alhelí (1944)
• The Three Garcias (1947)
• The Garcias Return (1947)
• Mi esposa busca novio (1947)
• The Prince of the Desert (1947)
• La Panchita (1948)
• Aunt Candela (1948)
• Two Pesos Left (1949)
• Me ha besado un hombre (1949)
• Una viuda sin sostén (1950)
• What Has That Woman Done to You? (1951)
• La Duquesa del Tepetate (1951)
• Canasta uruguaya (1951)
• From the Can-Can to the Mambo (1951)
• Seven Women (1953)
• Mañana cuando amanezca (1954)
• The Coyote (1955)
• El vampiro (1957)
• El hombre y el monstruo (1958)
• The White Renegade (1960)
• El mundo de los vampiros (The World Of The Vampires) (1961)
• The Curse of the Crying Woman (La maldición de la llorona) (1961)
• The Brainiac (El baron del terror) (1962)
• The Adolescents (1968) director
• Tres Mujeres en la Hoguera (1976)
• Ya Nunca Mas (Never Again) (1984) director—marks the film debut of Luis Miguel.^[10]