Little Known Spaghetti Western Actors ~ Enrique Alvarez

 [These daily posts will cover little known actors or people that have appeared in more recent films and TV series. Various degrees of information that I was able to find will be given and anything that you can add would be appreciated.]

Enrique García Álvarez was a Spanish writer, film and television actor bornin Sama de Langreo, Asturias, Spain in 1896. He began his entertainment career in Argentina in 1914. He returned to Spain and directed a play in Madrid in 1919. In 1938, near the end of the Spanish Civil War, he fled to Paris, France, where he was helped by Maurice Chevalier and the Free Masons with whose help he went into exile in Mexico. There he would re-establish his acting career Enrique is first credited in Mexican cinema with “El Capitán Centellas” (1941), an adventure film directed by Ramón Pereda. It was the beginning of a career as a supporting actor in Mexican cinema that encompasses more than a hundred works. He would work with Cantinflas and Luis Buñuel in the latter's Mexican phase. He founded the magazine La Voz del Actor and received the Diosas de Plata award (from the Cinematographic Journalists of Mexico, PECIME) for his role in Buñuel's The Exterminating Angel (1962).

García Álvarez was married to actress Carmen Collado [1897-1981] and died of a heart attack on January 24, 1971, in Valencia, Spain his wife's hometown, where she was recovering from an eye operation.

His only Euro-western was in the Spanish, Mexican co-produced 1966 film “The Warriors of Pancho Villa”.

ALVAREZ, Enrique García (aka Enrique Garcia A., E. Garcia Alvarez, Enrique G. Alvarez, Enrique Garcia, E. García Álvarez, Enrique G. Álvarez) (Enrique García Álvarez) [1896, Sama de Langreo, Asturias, Spain – 1/24/1971, Valencia, Valencia, Spain (heart attack)] – writer, film, TV actor, married to actress Carmen Collado [1897-1981] (19??-1971). founded the magazine La Voz del Actor.

The Warriors of Pancho Villa – 1966