The renowned actor from the golden age of cinema was hospitalized due to pneumonia and intestinal occlusion and his health prognosis was delicate; This Saturday his death of him was confirmed.
López Tarso was admitted on March 3 to a hospital in Mexico City where he was in intermediate therapy due to intestinal occlusion and pneumonia.
Born on January 15, 1925, Ignacio López López —his real name— changed his name to López Tarso at the suggestion of the writer Xavier Villaurrutia, when the actor began his career in the theater.
Before coming to the theater, López Tarso worked as a sales agent, but to improve his economic situation he decided to go to California to work as a bracero in the grape and orange harvest, where he had an accident that almost left him paralyzed. Back in Mexico City, already recovered, in 1949 he decided to study theater at the National Institute of Fine Arts, where Villaurrutia gave him classes.
López Tarso began a solid theatrical career in 1951 that included stagings of classic works by Shakespeare, Moliére or Sophocles, as well as works by Gogol or Arthur Miller, as well as works by the Spanish José Zorrilla, Calderón de la Barca and Lope de Vega. . López Tarso represented dozens of plays and established himself as a great theater actor.
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