About

Known credits:
32
Birthday:
1929-08-20
Place of birth:
Mexico City, Mexico
Website:
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Carlos Ancira

Overview

He began his professional studies at the Escuela de Arte Teatral del Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes (INBA), in 1946, under the teachings of Clementina Otero, Enrique Ruelas, Earl Senett and Seki Sano. He excelled as an actor in numerous plays: Waiting for Godot, by Samuel Beckett; Poor People, by Dostoyevsky; The Diary of a Madman, by Gogol; with which he achieved a memorable dramatization and more than two thousand performances for nearly twenty-five years. He received awards and distinctions, among them, that of actor emeritus of the Moscow Academy of Theater and Performing Arts for his performance in The Diary of a Madman.

Carlos Ancira Negrete, actor and playwright, was one of the initiators of the "Theater of the Absurd" in the 1960s. His interest focuses on the values of a dehumanized society and the loneliness of the individual, thus reflecting the moral and psychological conflicts of a central character to whom the author gave all the dramatic force through the monologue, one of his most successful resources, which in turn led to a theatrical representation in which the essence of the work itself and the performer could be seen with greater effect, above the theatrical or scenographic space. He left unfinished a book he was preparing on his theatrical technique, and other plays unpublished.

Interested in all expressions of dramatic art, he participated in some two thousand television programs, in 50 cinematographic films, in innumerable radio broadcasts and in dubbing and photonovelas.

For 30 years he taught at the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, the Academia de Actores and other teaching centers. In the theater he was an author, adaptor, director and fundamentally an actor. His plays include: Nezahualcóyotl (1951), Después... nada (1954), Imágenes (1973), Pasto rojo, El mundo vacío and Cangrejos (not yet premiered).

With Gonzalo Martínez, he composed a 120-episode telenovela based on the life and work of Dostoevsky. He adapted for the stage a novel by Dostoevsky, another by Andreiev and several short stories by Chekhov and directed plays by these authors and by Armando Moock, Ugo Betti, Eugene O'Neill and Jesús R. Guerrero. His repertoire as an actor included some 300 plays. Married to actress Karina Duprez, he died in 1987 of a chronic illness.

Known for

Acting

1986 The Female Scorpion Actor Don Eliseo Mendieta 58
Average
1986 El camino secreto Actor Santiago Guzmán/Fausto Guillén/Mario Genovés N/A
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1972 Queen Doll Actor 58
Average
1972 Tú, yo, nosotros Actor Carlos 58
Average
1972 Panic Actor (segment "Angustia") 59
Average
1972 Jesús, María y José Actor Caifás 59
Average
1971 Santo in the Vengeance of the Mummy Actor Prof. Jiménez 58
Average
1971 The Enemy Blood Actor Dimas, the Blind Musician 59
Average
1971 Jesús, nuestro Señor Actor Caifás 59
Average
1970 Santo and Blue Demon Against the Monsters Actor Bruno Halder 59
Average
1970 Fando and Lis Actor Narrator 60
Fair
1969 Madame Death Actor Laor 58
Average
1969 Everything In Vain Actor Almacenista 59
Average
1969 Alerta, alta tension Actor Cero 59
Average
1968 Cinco en la cárcel Actor 59
Average
1968 Ensayo de una noche de bodas Actor 59
Average
1966 Los mediocres Actor Señor Martínez (segment "El Guajolote") 59
Average
1963 The Paper Man Actor Comisario 59
Average
1963 La Bandida Actor Cliente burdel 58
Average
1962 La entrega de Chucho el Roto Actor 59
Average
1961 La furia del ring Actor 59
Average
1961 The Blood of Nostradamus Actor Police Chief 59
Average
1960 Orlak, the Hell of Frankenstein Actor Eric 59
Average
1960 Our Daily Hunger Actor Quique 59
Average
1959 The Living Coffin Actor Felipe 58
Average
1959 Del suelo no paso Actor Bandido 58
Average
1959 Los diablos del terror Actor 58
Average
1959 Black Pit of Dr. M Actor Elmer, the orderly 58
Average
1959 El pandillero Actor 59
Average
1958 Mysteries of Black Magic Actor Kerobal 58
Average
1958 Los salvajes Actor Pepeto 59
Average
1955 Kid Tabaco Actor 59
Average