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During the 1980s military dictatorship, López, along with Luis Brandoni, Roberto Cossa, Osvaldo Dragún, and Pepe Soriano, accompanied by Nobel Peace Prize winner (1980) Adolfo Esquivel and writer Ernesto Sábato, formed a group called Teatro Abierto (Open Theater) in an attempt to reinvent independent theater separated from government propaganda and approval.

From 1981 he was one of the protagonists of the Open Theatre Movement , a cultural reaction against the military dictatorship that had a wide influence on the population.

In 1959, he participated in the program Historia de Jóvenes broadcast by Channel 7, which received the Martín Fierro Award of that year in the soap opera category. 3.

In 1980 he won the Molière and Estrella de Mar Awards.

During the civil-military dictatorship he remained at the head of the Argentine Actors Association, the only national union that was not intervened by the military. During those years he was able to act in independent theater with his company.

He was a member of the cast of the Comedia Nacional under the direction of Orestes Caviglia .

Jorge Rivera Lopez has acted in more than sixty plays, including Facundo en la Ciudadela by Vicent Barbieri, Murder in the Cathedral by T. S. Eliot, The Twins by Plautus and The Superman Man by Bernard Shaw .

He acted in more than 60 plays, and in cinema he acted in La fiaca , La Patagonia rebelde , Momentos ladrónes , Cómplices and Triángulo de cuatro and in all the films of director Rodolfo Kuhn.

Jorge Rivera López was an Argentine television and film actor.

Jorge Rivera López graduated from the National School of Dramatic Arts in 1952.