RIP Hector Ortega

Mexican actor Héctor Ortega dies at 81

Diaro de Morelos

This June 3 in the afternoon, it was reported through the Twitter account of @ andactores, that the Mexican actor  Héctor  Ortega  died at the age of 81.

In addition, several colleagues and theater and television actors released the news of his death and expressed their sadness at the loss of the actor.

Héctor Ortega Gómez born in Mexico City on January 12, 1939, his career spanned film, theater and television and included his participation in various projects as a director and screenwriter.

He appeared in more than 40 films, such as Thow, The Legend of a Mask, Santa Sangre and The Sacred Mountain -of Alejandro Jodorowsky-, The Barefoot Eagle and Calzóncin Inspector -ded by Alfonso Arau-, The Corner of the Virgins and Not You, It's Me, and worked by the hand of great directors such as Ignacio retes y Alfonso Arau The performer participated in more than twenty soap operas and series and a lot of theatrical works that he also disseminated to popular audiences as a work of promoting culture.

Studied at the Teatro Estudio and the Centro Universitario de Teatro of the National Autonomous University of Mexico, took the theater to prisons, schools and ejidos through outreach projects such as the National Popular With works such as The Principality. In the last productions in which she participated were The daughter of the cannibal and the soap operas Hijas de la luna, Por Ella soy Eva, Simply Maria, The Privilege of Love and Alegrijes and Rebukes.

Among his most recognizable plays are The Egg of Columbus, Ay Cuauhtémoc, do not crack! and The Accidental Death of an anarchist. Demanied figures such as Manuel "Loco" Valdés, Héctor Lechuga and Alejandro Suárez in the play Insalada de locos; he also directed Fernando Luján, Susana Alexander, and Héctor Suárez, who died yesterday, in the play Silencio: Crazy.

Figures such as Lucero, Carmen Salinas and Adal Ramones have been among the first to express their dismay at the death of the actor.

"I remember it so fondly... Great actor I was lucky enough to work with, he directed me on our soap opera Chispita. Rest in peace dear Hector Ortega," Lucero shared; "With great sorrow I communicate to the artistic family and the cultural world the sensitive passing of the great actor Don Héctor Ortega. Those of us who knew him and had the pleasure of working with him and knowing his friends, we're going to miss him! DESCANSE IN PEACE: HÉCTOR ORTEGA", was the feeling of the actor Jorge Ortiz de Pinedo.

The actor Eduardo Spain recognized the worth of histrion, with whom he worked in theatrical workshops: "Me whole with sadness from the departure of my dear teacher Héctor Ortega, who directed us many yesterdays ago in: "The Merchant of Venice" of: William Shakespeare and whom I met teaching us in workshops on humor. Very dear and admired. Q.E.P.D. Life Flies!"

Héctor Ortega alternated with Héctor Suárez, who died a day earlier, in the emblematic program of satire and social criticism since the comedy What is wrong with us?

ORTEGA, Héctor (Héctor Ortega Gómez)

Born: 1/12/1930, Mexico City, Federal District, Mexico

Died: 6/3/2020, Mexico

Héctor Ortega’s western – actor;

Cinco mil dolares recompense - 1974