The actor and producer Arquímedes Rivero, known as “the czar of soap operas,” died.

Cuban actor and television and radio producer Archimedes Rivero, who was behind popular Venezuelan soap operas that earned him recognition as the “telenovela czar”, died this Thursday at the age of 91 in Miami (Florida), according to local media.

Rivero was born on April 30, 1930 in Pinar del Río, in western Cuba, where he took his first steps as a radio drama actor.

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At the end of the 1940s he moved to Havana to work in radio dramatizations at RHC Cadena Azul, according to Journal of the Americas, of Miami.

Then, he expanded the newspaper, he was the gallant who accompanied the famous Cuban actress Gina Cabrera, founder of television on the island, on CMQ Radio.

Also in Cuba he belonged to the cast of The daytime event, a program where Celia Cruz acted and sang verses.

As a young man, Rivero became part of the cast of The three villalobos, a very popular adventure series that emerged on Cuban radio in 1943 and was on the air for more than 20 years.

After settling in Venezuela in 1954, Rivero was hired by Radio Rumbo, where he participated in the famous radio soap opera Martín Valiente, the godson of death, among other works that made history in Venezuelan radio, reviews for his part the Miami Herald.

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In 1969, already in his role as producer, he was hired by Radio Caracas Television, where he produced such successful telenovelas as The usurper, Doménica Montero and La indomitable.

After moving to Miami “several decades ago”, according to the same medium, as a producer he put his master hand in co-productions of Fonovideo and Venevision What The woman of my life, and In love.

“The czar of the Venezuelan telenovela Don Arquímedes Rivero has passed away. Goodbye Martín Valiente. See you soon, friend. You will be missed Arquímedes Rivero,” Venezuelan actor Franklin Virgüez wrote on Instagram.

“Many of us are actors who owe part of our careers to this Cuban who came to Venezuela in the 1950s and to stay in our country to love him infinitely. Thank you,” added the actor.

For its part, in an obituary on his YouTube channel, MundoUR pointed to Rivero as “a key figure in the history of the telenovela in Venezuela” and described him as “the czar” of this genre. (I)