Gustavo Rojo

{{short description|Uruguayan actor}}

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{{Infobox person

| name = Gustavo Rojo

| image = Festival de Cine de San Sebastián (82 de 110) - Fondo Marín-Kutxa Fototeka (cropped).jpg

| caption = Rojo in 1955

| birth_name = Gustavo Rojo Pinto

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1924|9|5|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Montevideo, Uruguay

| death_date = {{Death date and age|2017|4|22|1923|9|5|df=yes}}

| death_place = Mexico City, Mexico

| occupation = Actor
Film producer

| yearsactive = 1938–2017

| spouse = {{plainlist|

  • {{marriage|Mercedes Castellanos|1943|1954|reason=died}}
  • {{marriage|Erika Remberg|1959|1967|reason=divorce}}
  • {{marriage|Carmela Stein|1975}}

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| children = Alejandra, Enrique, Juan Carlos
Ana Patricia Rojo{{cite web|url=https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=es&u=https://www.excelsior.com.mx/funcion/2017/04/23/1159223&prev=search|title=Google Translate|website=translate.google.com|date=23 April 2017 |access-date=25 August 2018}}

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Gustavo Rojo Pinto (5 September 1924 – 22 April 2017) was a Uruguayan-Mexican actor.

Life and career

Gustavo Rojo was born on 5 September 1924 on a German ship in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.{{Cite web|url=http://archivo.eluniversal.com.mx/espectaculos/2014/gustavo-rojo-70-anos-trayectoria--987949.html |title=El Universal - Espectáculos - Gustavo Rojo, 70 años de trayectoria |access-date=24 April 2017 |work=eluniversal}} His mother was the prominent Spanish author Mercedes Pinto, who emigrated to Uruguay for political reasons. His two older siblings, Pituka de Foronda and Ruben Rojo, also became actors. In the late 1920s, Mercedes wrote a play and Gustavo made his theater debut. Gustavo's screen debut came as a child actor in the 1938 Cuban film Ahora seremos felices, in which his older sister Pituka had a starring role. In the 1940s, the family moved to Mexico, where Rojo worked steadily throughout the 1940s.{{cite web|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/72285707|title=Rojo Emerges As Latest 'Latin Lover'|publisher=The Morning Herald|date=9 September 1959|access-date=9 February 2017|page=2}}

In 1947, he made his Hollywood debut in the film Tarzan and the Mermaids, which starred Johnny Weissmuller and Brenda Joyce.

Rojo was engaged to Austrian actress Erika Remberg in 1958.{{cite web|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/14669960|title=John Forsythe Stars With Italian Beauty|publisher=Anderson Bulletin Daily|date=5 September 1958|access-date=9 February 2017|page=6}} He died on 22 April 2017 at the age of 93.[https://www.terra.com.mx/entretenimiento/muere-el-actor-gustavo-rojo,ae3fa5f74de20eb1a8df1be47a732984yecdv3u5.html Muere el actor Gustavo Rojo] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170518235703/https://www.terra.com.mx/entretenimiento/muere-el-actor-gustavo-rojo,ae3fa5f74de20eb1a8df1be47a732984yecdv3u5.html |date=18 May 2017 }} {{in lang|es}}

Selected filmography

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  • Straightaway, episode "The Racer and the Lady" as Salamanca (1961)

References

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