Jorge Rivero

Rivero was raised in Mexico City and proved to be an excellent athlete, excelling in track, jai alai, and water polo. At an early age, he became a bodybuilder and has used weightlifting to maintain his physique throughout his life. In 1960, he graduated from Colegio Universitario Mexicano with a degree in chemical engineering, and then he became an actor.

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For Rivero's first film, he was cast in René Cardona's movie The Invisible Assassin (1965){{Cite web|url=https://www.jwayne.com/2002/03/14/body-of-work-jorge-rivero-king-of-the-real-mexican-cinema/|title=Body of Work – Jorge Rivero, king of the real Mexican cinema – JWAYNE.com|date=15 March 2002 |language=en-US|access-date=2019-10-06}} {{Cite book |last=Greene |first=Doyle |url=https://www.google.pt/books/edition/Mexploitation_Cinema/ci1zBgAAQBAJ?hl=fr&gbpv=1&dq=El+asesino+invisible+cardona&pg=PA180&printsec=frontcover |title=Mexploitation Cinema: A Critical History of Mexican Vampire, Wrestler, Ape-Man and Similar Films, 1957-1977 |date=2015-01-28 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=978-1-4766-0072-7 |language=en}}where he wears a mask throughout the film. His breakthrough role came in El Mexicano (1966; directed by René Cardona), making him a star overnight in Mexico. This movie was followed by Pistoleros de la frontera (1967). He appeared in wrestling films with Santo in Operación 67 (1967) and El Tesoro de Moctezuma (1968).

Rivero's most notorious role came in The Sin of Adam and Eve ({{Lang|es|El pecado de Adán y Eva}}) (1969),{{Citation|title=The Sin of Adam and Eve (1969)|url=https://letterboxd.com/film/the-sin-of-adam-and-eve/|language=en|access-date=2019-10-06}} in which Rivero and American costar Candy Wilson appear nude throughout most of the film.{{cite book|last=Young|first=R. G. |title=The encyclopedia of fantastic film: Ali Baba to Zombies |pages=915|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QoJ4jTghUPYC&q=%22The+Sin+of+Adam+and+Eve%22+Rivero&pg=PT922 | isbn=978-1-55783-269-6 | year=2000 | publisher=Applause}} By 1970, Rivero had offers from Hollywood and acted in the big-budget films Soldier Blue (1970; with Candice Bergen and Donald Pleasence),{{cite book|last=Aleiss|first=Angela |title=Making the White Man's Indian: Native Americans and Hollywood Movies |pages=[https://archive.org/details/makingwhitemansi00alei/page/127 127]|url=https://archive.org/details/makingwhitemansi00alei |url-access=registration|quote=Soldier Blue Rivero Bergen.| isbn=978-0-275-98396-3 | year=2005 | publisher=Praeger}} Rio Lobo (1970; with John Wayne and Jennifer O'Neill) and The Last Hard Men (1976; with Charlton Heston and James Coburn). Afterward, Rivero continued to act in Mexican, Italian and U.S. productions, including appearances in Lucio Fulci's 1983 fantasy film Conquest and the all-star action film Counterforce in 1988.

In 1996, Rivero acted in the film Werewolf with Richard Lynch and Joe Estevez.{{Citation|title=Werewolf|url=https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/Werewolf|access-date=2019-10-06}}

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• Neutron Traps the Invisible Killers (1965)
• Pedro Páramo (1967)
• Operation 67 (1967)
• The Sin of Adam and Eve (1969)
• La hermana dinamita (1969)
• Soldier Blue (1970)
• Rio Lobo (1970)
• Bellas de noche (1975)
• The Last Hard Men (1976)
• Confesiones de una adolescente
• Centennial (TV, 1978)
• Carnival Nights (1978)
• Manaos (1979)
• Midnight Dolls (1979)
• Day of the Assassin (1979)
• The Loving Ones (1979)
• The Pulque Tavern (1981)
• Priest of Love (1981)
• Hit Man (1982)
• The Popcorn Chronicles (2014)
• Conquest (1983)
• {{Interlanguage link multi|Macchina per uccidere 2|it|3=Macchina per uccidere 2|lt=Goma-2}} (1984)
• Killing Machine (1984)
• Counterforce (1988)
• Werewolf (1996)

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