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Evaristo Márquez

{{short description|Colombian actor and herdsman}}

{{Infobox person

| name = Evaristo Márquez

| image = Dio Serpente Evaristo Márquez.png

| alt =

| caption = Evaristo Márquez in Il dio serpente (1970)

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1939|8|23}}

| birth_place = San Basilio de Palenque, Colombia

| death_date={{Death date and age|2013|6|15|1939|8|23}}

| death_place = Cartagena, Colombia

| nationality = Colombian

| other_names =

| known_for = Role as José Dolores in Burn!

| occupation = Actor

}}

Evaristo Márquez (August 23, 1939 – June 15, 2013), was a Colombian actor and herdsman best known for his role as José Dolores{{Cite web |last=Ebert |first=Roger |date=April 13, 1969 |title=Pontecorvo: 'We Trust the Face of Brando' |url=http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19690413/PEOPLE/41008001 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050323192106/http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19690413/PEOPLE/41008001 |archive-date=2005-03-23 |website=Chicago Sun-Times |via=RogerEbert.com}} in the film Burn!,Canby, Vincent. [https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?_r=1&res=9E02E6D9103CE132A05751C2A9669D946190D6CF "The Screen: Marlon Brando and Black Revolution"], The New York Times, New York, October 22, 1970. Retrieved 2010-09-16{{Cite news |last=Scott |first=A. o |date=2004-09-19 |title=Third World Revolution as a Product of Italian Design |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/19/movies/third-world-revolution-as-a-product-of-italian-design.html |access-date=2022-10-07 |issn=0362-4331}}Williams, John W. [http://www.principia.edu/users/els/departments/poli_sci/film_politics/burncuba.htm "Portraying Revolution: A Comparison of Burn and Cuba"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110725011833/http://www.principia.edu/users/els/departments/poli_sci/film_politics/burncuba.htm|date=2011-07-25}}, Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, 1996. acting alongside Marlon Brando under the direction of Gillo Pontecorvo.

Biography

Before his involvement with Pontecorvo he was a herdsman and illiterate.Stone, A. Alan. [http://bostonreview.net/BR29.2/stone.html "Last Battle"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101027172317/http://bostonreview.net/BR29.2/stone.html |date=2010-10-27 }}, Boston Review, Boston, April 2004. Retrieved 2010-09-16 Márquez appeared in three more movies during the 1970s.Hunter, Stephen. [https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34231-2004Oct14.html "'Queimada': Revolution In Perpetual Motion"], The Washington Post, Washington, Friday October 15, 2004; Page C04. Retrieved 2010-09-19 With the decline of his film career, Márquez returned to work as a herdsman{{Cite web |title=El Universal |url=https://www.eluniversal.com.co/ |access-date=2022-10-07 |website=www.eluniversal.com.co |language=ES-es}}

Of his experience with Brando, Márquez said "he never made me feel inferior to him, he regarded me as a brother", and "indeed, there was no one like Brando; that way of changing the expression of his face, of his eyes; even more, he was a brave man."[http://www.eluniversal.com.co/v2/sincelejo/sociales/40-anos-despues-de-la-quemada]{{dead link|date=November 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}[http://actualidad.hemeracomunicar.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=8484:santiago-cruz-hoyos&catid=60:cultura&Itemid=115 "El escudero de Marlon Brando"]{{Dead link|date=December 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}, November 23, 2009. Retrieved 2010-11-19

In 2008 Márquez appeared in Chimbumbe,[http://www.festicinecartagena.org/en/detail.cfm?id_pelicula=375 "FICCI"], Cartagena Film Festival. short film shown at the Cartagena Film Festival.

In August 2010 Márquez appeared in El Tambor Magico,{{cite news | url=http://www.eltiempo.com/archivo/documento/CMS-7873860 | title=Niños de San Basilio de Palenque graban sus sueños en cortometraje | work=El Tiempo | date=21 August 2010 | accessdate=13 December 2013 | language=Spanish}} a short film made by San Basilio de Palenque children.

He lived in San Basilio de Palenque, Colombia. Marquez died at a hospital in Cartagena, Colombia on June 15, 2013. He was 73.{{Cite web|url=http://www.elheraldo.co/region/bolivar/fallecio-evaristo-marquez-actor-palenquero-que-compartio-pantalla-con-marlon-brando-114132|title = Falleció Evaristo Márquez, actor palenquero que compartió pantalla con Marlon Brando}}{{Cite web |last=Heraldo |first=El |title=Falleció Evaristo Márquez, actor palenquero que compartió pantalla con Marlon Brando |url=https://www.elheraldo.co/region/bolivar/fallecio-evaristo-marquez-actor-palenquero-que-compartio-pantalla-con-marlon-brando-114132 |access-date=2022-10-07 |website=EL HERALDO |language=es}}

Filmography

=Film=

  • El Tambor Magico (2010)
  • Chimbumbe (2008)
  • Mulato (1974)
  • Cumbia (1973)
  • Arde (1971)
  • Il dio serpente (1970)
  • Burn! (1969) as José Dolores

References

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External links

  • {{IMDb name|0617304}}
  • {{Rotten Tomatoes person|evaristo-marquez}}
  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20100926174818/http://www.filmforum.org/films/burn.html Burn!] at Film Forum
  • [https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:i5y8gTnlZvsJ:www.leeds.ac.uk/italian/staff/staffpubl/06-cinema_of_pontecorvo-o'leary-srivastava.pdf+gillo+pontecorvo+burn!&hl=iw&gl=il&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESgF_ZO5J2gHcT3t48Ts6A7ZVCH3i34Abi2uW2EmUJFeMWzBz0e5CpP4N_nQxbRp_P2l5WNXWHt6fKRx5hHxILC0qdxmM50s9RaFfUH8X4bTG5OBogldQDd97AUjXyXBGdtn0sfC&sig=AHIEtbSSnBr2I75uPa9iafGi_8pNcugp4w/ Violence and the wretched: The cinema of Gillo Pontecorbo]

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Category:20th-century Colombian male actors

Category:21st-century Colombian male actors

Category:Colombian male film actors