Andrés García García (24 May 1941 – 4 April 2023) was a Dominican-born Mexican actor. He emerged as a leading man in action and adventure films during the late 1960s and early 1970s, later becoming a popular star of telenovelas. He was nominated for an Ariel Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in the film El principio (1973), and won a Premios TVyNovelas for Best Actor for El Privilegio de Amar (1999).
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Early life
García was born in Santo Domingo in 1941, the son of Spanish Republican exiles Andrés García La Calle and Francisca García Acevedo. His Basque father was a flying ace and squadron leader in the Republican Air Force during the Civil War. During the 1950s, García's parents became disillusioned with the authoritarian regime of Rafael Leónidas Trujllo and emigrated to Mexico. García spent his youth in Acapulco, where he worked as a boatman and scuba diving instructor.
Career
Beginning in the late 1960s, García became a male sex symbol in Mexico and the rest of Latin America, participating in movies, telenovelas and photo-romance novels (magazine featuring photos of actors who create a story—a popular phenomenon across Latin America during the 1970s).
In 1985 García starred in Mexican telenovela Tú o nadie, with Lucía Mendez and Salvador Pineda. Tú o nadie became a major hit and led to García receiving many international offers. He accepted an offer to go to Puerto Rico in 1986, where he acted in the soap operas Amame, with Johanna Rosaly, and Escándalo, with Iris Chacón and Charytín. Escándalo flopped, and the number of episodes recorded for that soap opera was cut in half by the television channel.
In 2005, García participated in a reality show titled El Principe Azul (meaning Prince Charming, though it literally means The Blue Prince), a show geared toward finding his son, Leonardo a girlfriend. García began to flirt with the young women on the show, going as far as having an on-camera kiss with one of the contestants, making his son grow frustrated, and eventually leave the show. Two previously unknown men were then cast to participate in the show and try to conquer one of the ladies involved in it. In 2006, he starred in the soap opera El Cuerpo del Deseo, broadcast by Telemundo International. The script of this telenovela is about transmigration, the passing of a soul into another body after death, coinciding with García's beliefs on this subject.
Personal life
Andres Garcia married Sonia Infante in 1980 and divorced in 1992. He also married Sandra Vale.
García was also involved romantically, and remained friends, with Mexican model Carmen Campuzano and Puerto Rican singer Zeny, from the pop vocal duet Zeny & Zory.
Death
García died on 4 April 2023 in Acapulco, Mexico from complications of cirrhosis at the age of 81.
Filmography
2007: El Pantera .... Rubio Barrios (2007–2008)
2002: Hospital Central (2002–2007)
2005: El cuerpo del deseo .... Pedro Jose Donoso
2005: La última noche .... Fabián
2004: El Cristo de plata
2002: King of Texas .... Davis
2002: Detras del paraíso
1999-2000: Mujeres engañadas .... Javier Duarte (1999–2000)
1999: Puppet .... Gandolier
1998-1999: El Privilegio De Amar .... Andrés Duval (husband of Luciana and father of Victor Manuel) (1998–1999)
1997: Noi siamo angeli ... a.k.a. "We Are Angels"
1996: Los matones de mi pueblo
1996: Con toda el alma .... Daniel Linares
1995: Morir mil muertes
1995: El tigre Murrieta
1994: El justiciero
1994: El jinete de acero .... Pedro Grande
1992: Perros de presa ... a.k.a. Los fugitivos (Mexico)
1991: La mujer prohibida .... Hernán Gallardo
1990: Sueño y despertar de Aurelio Marítimo
Stage
"Juguetes Para el Matrimonio"
"Las Buenas Personas"
"Las Buenas Imagenes Publicas"
"Accidente Conyugal"
"Amor es"
"La Libelula"
"Las Locuras del Sexo"
"Un Loco Genial"
"Las Mentiras Blancas y la Comedia Negra"
"Me Dicen Pedro, el Hombre de la Navaja"
