Gustavo Rojo

Gustavo Rojo Pinto (5 September 1923 – 22 April 2017) was a Uruguayan film actor and producer. He appeared in more than 160 films and television shows between 1938 and 2016. He is the father of Ana Patricia Rojo.

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Rojo and the second or maternal family name is Pinto.
Gustavo Rojo
Born
Gustavo Rojo Pinto

(1923-09-05)5 September 1923
Montevideo, Uruguay
Died22 April 2017(2017-04-22) (aged 93)
Mexico City, Mexico
OccupationActor
Film producer
Years active1938–2017
Spouse(s)
Mercedes Castellanos
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(m. 1943; died 1954)​

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(m. 1959; div. 1967)​

Carmela Stein
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(m. 1975)​
ChildrenAlejandra, Enrique, Juan Carlos
Ana Patricia Rojo[1]

Life and career

Gustavo Rojo was born on 5 September 1923 on a German ship in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.[2] 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.[3]

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.[4] He died on 22 April 2017 at the age of 93.[5]

Selected filmography

Film
  • Ahora seremos felices (1938) as Radio Station boy #1 (uncredited)
  • Mis hijos (1944) as Luis
  • Murallas de pasión (1944)
  • Amok (1944)
  • Una canción en la noche (1945)
  • Corazones de México (1945)
  • Mamá Inés (1946)
  • Las colegialas (1946) as Gabriel Solórzano
  • El último amor de Goya (1946)
  • A Insaciável (1947) as Mario
  • Todo un caballero (1947) as Carlos Alcalde
  • Tarzan and the Mermaids (1948) as Tiko
  • Courtesan (1948)
  • Barrio de pasiones (1948)
  • Una mujer con pasado (1949) as Federico de Medina
  • Cuando los padres se quedan solos (1949) as Fernando
  • Eterna agonía (1949) as Humberto
  • Cuando baja la marea (1949)
  • Café de chinos (1949) as Enrique
  • The Great Madcap (1949) as Eduardo de la Mata
  • La virgen desnuda (1950)
  • Un grito en la noche (1950)
  • El sol sale para todos (1950)
  • Te besaré en la boca (1950)
  • Yo quiero ser tonta (1950) as Juan
  • La reina del mambo (1951) as Luis
  • El grito de la carne (1951) as Roberto
  • Doña Clarines (1951) as Miguel Castañeda / Luis
  • Red Fury (1951) as Ramón Stevens
  • Stronghold (1951)
  • Cerca del cielo (1951)
  • The Evil Forest (1951) as Parsifal
  • From Madrid to Heaven (1952) as Pablo Iriarte
  • Younger Brother (1953)
  • Los que no deben nacer (1953)
  • Under the Sky of Spain (1953)
  • Borrasca en las almas (1954) as Rogelio del Moral
  • La sobrina del señor cura (1954) as Bernabé
  • Tehuantepec (1954)
  • The Island Princess (1954) as Bentejui
  • Angels of the Street (1954)
  • La lupa (1955) as Carlos Iriarte
  • La mujer ajena (1955)
  • Alexander the Great (1956) as Cleitus the Black
  • Engaged to Death (1957) as Pietro
  • Action of the Tiger (1957) as Henri Malvoisie
  • La guerra empieza en Cuba (1957) as Capitán Javier Romero
  • Desnúdate, Lucrecia (1958) as Nicolás de la Fuente
  • Secretaria peligrosa (1958)
  • Il romanzo di un giovane povero (1958) as Massimo
  • La tirana (1958) as Vizconde de Acarí / Conde de San Esteban del Río
  • Parque de Madrid (1959)
  • It Started with a Kiss (1959) as Antonio Soriano
  • María de la O (1959) as Don Luís Suárez
  • S.O.S., abuelita (1959)
  • The Miracle (1959) as Cordoba
  • Juicio final (1960)
  • Schön ist die Liebe am Königssee (1961) as Ronald Twiss
  • La grande vallata (1961)
  • El amor empieza en sábado (1961) as Mr. White
  • Schlagerrevue 1962 (1961) as Ferdinand Sander
  • Julius Caesar Against the Pirates (1962) as Julius Caesar
  • Il capitano di ferro (1962) as Furio
  • Murder in Rio (1963) as Dumont
  • The Secret of Dr. Mabuse (1964) as Mario Monta
  • Der Chef wünscht keine Zeugen (1964) as Armand de Guedez
  • Old Shatterhand (1964) as Corporal Bush
  • The Treasure of the Aztecs (1965) as Teniente Potoca
  • Genghis Khan (1965) as Altan
  • The Pyramid of the Sun God (1965) as Teniente Potoca
  • Wild Kurdistan (1965) as Ahmed El Corda
  • El marqués (1965) as Director of the Casino
  • Kingdom of the Silver Lion (1965) as Ahmed El Corda
  • Come to the Blue Adriatic (1966) as Sr. Hernandez
  • Europa canta (1966) as Chief Big Vulture
  • Seven Vengeful Women (1966) as Gus Macintosh
  • Django Does Not Forgive (1966)
  • Kitosh: The Man Who Came From The North (1967) as José
  • A Witch Without a Broom (1967) as Caius
  • The Fickle Finger of Fate (1967) as Estrala
  • The Christmas Kid (1967) as Mayor Louis Carillo
  • Spy Today, Die Tomorrow (1967) as Peppino
  • The Vengeance of Pancho Villa (1967) as General Urbina
  • Ragan (1968) as Velludo
  • Madigan's Millions (1968) as Lt. Arco
  • Battle of the Last Panzer (1969)
  • The Valley of Gwangi (1969) as Carlos dos Orsos
  • A Bullet for Sandoval (1969) as Guadalupano
  • El niño y el potro (Más allá de río Miño) (1969) as Andrés
  • Land Raiders (1970) as Juantez
  • El Condor (1970) as Colonel Anguinaldo
  • El último día de la guerra (1970) as Pvt. Hawk
  • El hombre que vino del odio (1971)
  • Natacha (1971) as Raúl
  • Gracia y el forastero (1974)
  • Hermanos de sangre (1974)
  • Divorcio a la andaluza (1975)
  • El compadre más padre (1976)
  • El látigo (1978)
  • Cuando tejen las arañas (1979) as Padre de Laura
  • Reventon en Acapulco (1982)
  • La golfa del barrio (1982)
  • Corrupción (1984) as Dr. Antonio Arenas
  • De puro relajo (1986)
  • Solicito marido para engañar (1988) as Ángel
  • Sabor a mí (1988)
  • Venganza juvenil (1988)
  • El cornudo soy yo (1989)
  • Fuera de la ley (1998)

Telenovelas

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

References
  1. "Google Translate". translate.google.com. Retrieved 25 August 2018.
  2. "El Universal - Espectáculos - Gustavo Rojo, 70 años de trayectoria". eluniversal. Retrieved 24 April 2017.
  3. "Rojo Emerges As Latest 'Latin Lover'". The Morning Herald. 9 September 1959. p. 2. Retrieved 9 February 2017.
  4. "John Forsythe Stars With Italian Beauty". Anderson Bulletin Daily. 5 September 1958. p. 6. Retrieved 9 February 2017.
  5. Muere el actor Gustavo Rojo (in Spanish)
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