Little Known Spaghetti Western actors ~ Ana De Sade

[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.]

Ana Luisa Trewartha Durán was born on June 3, 1952, in Mazatlán, Mexico. In 1973 the actress was part of the cast of the Mexican American co-production “La montaña sagrada”, directed by Alejandro Jodorowsky. In the film she played a prostitute. Her applauded performance in the film led her to join the cast of “I Escaped from Devil's Island” in September of that same year. Two years later she played Jacinta in the film “Don't You Hear the Dogs Bark?”, an adaptation of the story of the same name by Juan Rulfo directed by François Reichenbach. In 1976 she played Lucrecia in the film adaptation of La Celestina, simply titled “Celestina”, under the direction of Miguel Sabido.

After acting in a few films in the early 1980s such as “High Risk”, “Caveman”, and “The Triumph of a Man Called Horse”, Ana ventured into the Mexican erotic comedy genre, with appearances in productions such as “Las lupitas”, “El día de los albañiles”, and “Tres mexicanos ardientes”, where she shared a cast with well-known actors of the genre such as Alfonso Zayas, Luis de Alba, Gerardo Zepeda, Lina Santos and Alberto Rojas "El caballo". One of her last known performances was in the 1989 comedy “Mi compadre Capulina”, directed by Víctor Ugalde.

In all she a appeared in twenty-one films between 1973 and 1989.

She died in Mexico City, far from the artistic environment, at the age of 47, due to hypostatic pneumonia.

Under the stage name Ana De Sade, she appeared in two Euro-westerns: “Las mujeres de Jeremías” (Garden of Venus) as Ann Sanchez) in 1979 and “El triunfo de un hombre Hamado Caballo” (Triumphs of a Man Called Horse) as Redwing in 1982.

De SADE, Ana (aka Ana de Sade) (Ana Luisa Trewartha Durán) [6/3/1952, Mazatlán, Sinaloa, Mexico - 9/26/1999, Mexico City, Federal District, Mexico (hypostatic pneumonia)] – film actress.

Garden of Venus – 1979 (Ann Sanchez)

Triumphs of a Man Called Horse – 1982 (Redwing)