Axel Anderson was born Axel
Levy on December 11, 1929 in Berlin, Berlin, Germany. Anderson was born into a
Jewish family from their persecution during the Nazi period and fled to
Paraguay. Due to its unstable position they moved on to Argentina. At the
Teatro Aleman Independiente in the capital of Buenos Aires, Anderson began his
acting career. The troupe consisted of a group of exiles, and appeared in
fringe theaters around the city. In the 1950s, he moved with his own family
first to Colombia, where he spent a year in Bogotá and worked on stage, and later
on in the Dominican Republic. His critical attitude towards politics of the
dictator Trujillo forced him to flee again, this time to Puerto Rico.
In Puerto Rico, he received
first roles for to I Love Lucy ajar sitcom ‘¡Qué pareja!’, where he quickly
found success and developed into one of the leading television performers in
the country. Titles that are associated with him that are telenovela ‘Cuando
los hijos condenan’, one of the first features of the country, “Maruja” and numerous
other television titles such as ‘Flor de café’ (1967), ‘Tres hermanas para un
hombre’ (1968), ‘La gaviota’ (1969), ‘Mujeres sin hombre’ and ‘Marcela and
Marcelino’ (1970), ‘Para Elisa’ (1972) and ‘Por eso que llaman amor’ (1973).
These were followed by ‘Los cocorocos’ (1975/1980), ‘Espíritu burlón’ (1976), ‘Vidas
privadas’ (1977) and ‘El gran destape’ (1978).
At the beginning of the
1960s, Anderson founded with Carlos Montalbán, the "Teatro La
Mascara", where he also directed for many years.
Occasionally, Axel played
character roles in international film productions and one was as McNamara in
his lone Euro-western “Finger on the Trigger” (1965) starring Rory Calhoun.
Anderson died on December
16 2012, of cancer in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Today we remember Axel
Anderson on what would have been his 85th birthday.
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