Andrés García has had serious health problems in recent years. He was diagnosed with cirrhosis of the liver, and his body was increasingly exhausted. On the Sunday before his death, doctors administered a blood transfusion in the hope that it would improve his condition. The procedure did not help, and the information about the death on Tuesday was confirmed by the actor’s widow, Margarita Portillo, reports
Andres Garcia is dead. This is the legend of Mexican telenovelas
Andrés García was born on May 24, 1941 in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. His parents are Spanish, and his father was an air force captain who received asylum in the Dominican Republic after the Spanish Civil War. From there, the family had to flee in turn from the local regime. When Andres was little, they moved to Mexico.
Before becoming a popular actor, García worked as a diving instructor in Acapulco. The film producers spotted Andrés García on a boat when he was in his twenties. In the 1960s and 1970s, he intensively began to develop his career in show business. His first major hit was the action movie “Chanoc”, in which he starred as a 25-year-old. After recording a dozen or so films, he started working in television and became a soap opera star. He also appeared in photo-romances very popular in Latin American countries – these were magazines with photos of actors describing various more or less made-up love stories. Thanks to this, García gained the status of a sex icon of the time.
The breakthrough role for him was in the 1985 film “Tú o nadie”. Lucía Mendez and Salvador Pineda played there with García, and the production turned out to be a great hit. After the premiere, numerous job offers from abroad began to flow in – the actor decided to accept the one from Puerto Rico. He went there in 1986 and appeared in the soap operas “Amame” and “Escándalo”. He has participated in over 70 films and 25 soap operas, and also tried his hand at the theater. In 1999, he received TVyNovelas and Califa de Oro awards for the main role in the telenovela “El privilegio de amar”. In 2020, after retiring from acting, he founded the YouTube channel Andrés García TV.
He was married four times. In 1967, he married Sandra Vale – together they had two sons – also actors Leonardo García and Andrés García Jr. In 1974, he became involved with Fernanda Ampudia, and their daughter Andrea García became a TV presenter and actress. In the 1980s, García married Sonia Infante, and after his last divorce, he became involved in 2013 with Margarita Portillo.
Source: Gazeta
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