Miguel Torruco Castellanos (1920–1956) was a Mexican

film actor An actor (masculine/gender-neutral), or actress (feminine), is a person who portrays a character in a production. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. ...

.Goble p.8 He was one of the stars of the

Golden Age of Mexican cinema The Golden Age of Mexican Cinema (Spanish: la Época de Oro del Cine Mexicano), spanning the 1930s to 1950s, was a prolific era during which Mexico emerged as the leading film producer in Latin America. Filmmakers during this period tackled themes ...

until his sudden death at the age of thirty six after falling off a horse. He was married to the actress

María Elena Marqués María Elena Marqués Rangel (14 December 1926 – 11 November 2008) was a Mexican actress and singer who was a star during the Golden Age of Mexican cinema in the 1940s and 1950s. Biography She was born on December 14, 1926, in Mexico City. She ...

, with whom he had two children, Marisela Torruco Marqués and

Miguel Torruco Marqués Miguel Torruco Marqués (born 19 September 1951) is an entrepreneur, academic and Mexican public official. He was the Secretary of Tourism of the Federal District from 2012 to 2017. In 2017, he became a Tourism Adviser of Andrés Manuel López ...

Selected filmography

* ''

Acapulco Acapulco de Juárez (), commonly called Acapulco ( , ; ), is a city and Port of Acapulco, major seaport in the Political divisions of Mexico, state of Guerrero on the Pacific Coast of Mexico, south of Mexico City. Located on a deep, semicirc ...

'' (1952) * '' The Naked Woman'' (1953) * '' Remember to Live'' (1953) * '' The River and Death'' (1954) * ''

When I Leave ''When I Leave'' (Spanish:''Cuando me vaya'') is a 1954 Mexican musical drama film directed by Tito Davison and starring Libertad Lamarque, Miguel Torruco and Prudencia Grifell. It portrays the life of the bolero composer María Grever.Irwin & Ri ...

'' (1954)

References

Bibliography

* Goble, Alan. ''The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film''. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.

External links

* 1920 births 1956 deaths Mexican male film actors Male actors from Chiapas {{Mexico-film-actor-stub