Carlos Cámara(1934-2016)

Carlos Francisco Cámara Lázaro was a Mexican actor who was born in Dominican Republic in 1934. He migrated from Dominican Republic to Venezuela in the 1950's. Early the 1960's, Carlos began his career as actor in Venezuelan telenovelas, the first one was "La rival" (1960), his next works were in "La otra" and "Hacia la luz", both in 1961. In 1964, Carlos worked in the Mexican telenovela "San Martín de Porres", the same year he went back to Venezuela and acted in "Amor sin fronteras". Cámara first leading role was in "El alma no tiene color" (1966). In 1967, he played a supporting role in "Doña Bárbara". His second lead role was in "El milagro de Lourdes" (1968), then that same year he starred "María Mercé, la chinita". In 1969, starred in "Pablo y Alicia", time later he moved to Mexico, where he starred his fifth and last telenovela: "Cadenas de angustia". Carlos got the Mexican nacionality and keep working on television playing a villain in La gata (1970), he also acted in his first film titled "Las chicas malas del padre Méndez", the same year he worked in the film "Fallaste corazón". In 1971, he got a supporting role in the telenovela "El amor tiene cara de mujer". The producer Ernesto Alonso gave to Carlos an important role in the telenovela "El carruaje" (1972). The next years, Carlos acted in films as "Una mujer honesta" (1972), "El monasterio de los buitres" (1973), "Conserje en condominio" (1974), "En busca de un muro" (1974), "Aventuras de un caballo blanco y un niño" (1975) and "Supervivientes de los Andes" (1976). In 1978, he back to the television, working as villain in "Viviana" (1978) alongside Lucía Méndez. In 1979, he played Fernando, a villain role in "Los ricos también lloran", alongside Verónica Castro; that same year he acted in the telenovela "El cielo es para todos" and in the film "La guerra santa". In 1980, Cámara worked in the series "Winnetou le mescalero", a French-Mexican co-production. His next work was in "Espejismo", a telenovela starred by Fanny Cano. In 1981, acted in "La leyenda de Rodrigo", a drama film and in "Infamia", a telenovela. In 1982 he played a villain in "Vanessa" and time later he got a supporting role in "Por amor". Carlos kept working in villain roles in telenovelas as "La fiera" (1983), "El extraño retorno de Diana Salazar" (1988), "Al filo de la muerte" (1991), "Bajo un mismo rostro" (1995), "El alma no tiene color" (1997), "Soñadoras" (1998), "Amor real" (2003) and "Rubí" (2004). In supporting roles, Cámara acted in "Principessa" (1984), "Juana Iris" (1985), "Cuna de lobos" (1986), "Mágica juventud" (1992), "La antorcha encendida" (1996), "La mentira" (1998), "Siempre te amaré" (2000), "La intrusa" (2001), "Peregrina" (2005), "La fea más bella" (2006) and "Hasta que el dinero nos separé" (2009). In films he also acted in "Masacre en el río Tula" (1985), "Y tú... ¿quién eres" (1990), "La guerra contra las drogas" (1990), "Gata por liebre" (1992) and "Sabel Redemption" (2009). Carlos television work includes three episodes of the TV series "La rosa de Guadalupe", this was his last work in 2012. Cámara died in February, 2016 in Mexico City.