RIP Hector Suarez

Leading actor Héctor Suárez died at the age of 81

Lopez-Dorigo Digital

June 2, 2020

Héctor Suárez Gomís confirmed the death of his father, the lead actor Héctor Suárez on social networks

In a statement issued by his widow Zara Calderón and his sons Héctor Suárez Gomís, Julieta Suárez Gomís, Rodrigo Suárez Calderón and Isabella Suárez Calderón, it was indicated that in a few more days they would talk to the media, after “processing his passing”.

After the news of the death of the leading actor was released at the age of 81, several artists and public figures have expressed their condolences to the family.

With emblematic characters such as "Tránsito", which he played in “El mil usos” (1981), "El No hay" and "Doña Soyla", in the weekly program "¿Qué pasa?" and “El negro Tomás”, in “Puro loco”, respectively, Héctor Suárez gave evidence of the experience he acquired in theater, film and television, a means of expression in which he had a presence, sometimes simultaneously, in addition to the successful ones Cabaret seasons that he performed in the most important nightclubs.

His beginnings were in the 1960s, when he made his way into television productions such as "Un hijo cayó del cielo" and "Chucherías", alongside actors such as Ángel Garasa, Héctor Lechuga , Leonorilda Ochoa and Alejandro Suárez.

Throughout the 1960s, Héctor Suárez also made important film appearances in titles such as La maldición de oro , directed by Jaime Salvador , in 1965; Lanza tus penas al viento, under the direction of Julián Soler, in 1966, he gave life to the character of “Alejandro” and in 1969 he starred in the film No se mande, profe, alongside Enrique Guzmán, Hilda Aguirre and Sara García.

“Pantaleón Requejo”, in  Ambición Sangrienta,  from  1968; “Sargento Margarito”, in La marcha de Zacatecas  and “Marcelino”, in El Ángel, both from 1969 and Armodio Horcasitas, in Para servir a usted, from 1971, were some of the characters and film titles with which Suárez finished his first decade of experience and with which he began the seventies, respectively, a decade that offered him leading roles in such as those he made in Diamantes, oro y amorDiamonds  and De qué color es el viento, both released in 1973.

By 1972, the film Mecánica Nacional, directed by Luis Alcoriza, came into the life of Héctor Suárez, in which the actor gave life to “Gregorio-Goyo”, and acted alongside Manolo Fábregas, Lucha Villa, Sara García, Alma Muriel, among others.

It was with México, México, ra ra ra , directed by Gustavo Alatriste, in 1976, that Suárez developed various characters and shared film sets with Patricia Reyes Spíndola, Leticia Perdigon and Ernesto Gómez Cruz; That participation was followed by the role of "Pancho", in El Buscabullas, in the same year, his performance in ¡Oye Salomé!, and the character of El Mobil Oil, in the film Picardy Mexicana, starring Mexican singer Vicente Fernández, both from 1978.

Although his career in the sixties and seventies was consistent, for the eighties Héctor Suárez was consolidated thanks to characters such as “El mil usos” and the ingenuity and originality that he printed in the television series “¿Qué nos pasa?”, But before those projects that made him famous and catapulted him as one of the greatest figures in comedy in Mexico, the actor showed his interpretive range in the film productions Como México no hay dos and  Lagunilla, mi barrio,  from 1981; Valentín Lazaña  y Lagunilla 2, in1982.

That decade became a stage of sequels in the cinema that recreated, in many of its productions, the social problems of the marginalized classes; later titles such as El rey de la vicinity (1985) came to Suárez's career . 

Health problems in recent years

In recent years, Héctor Suárez had embarked on starring in the plays La Señora de su Casa ,  Los Locos Suárez  and La Señora Presidenta, however, due to bladder cancer that was detected on September 4. In 2015, he began to bill the histrion, shocking the media in June 2019.

On May 3, 2020, amid confinement due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Héctor Suárez decided to debut on the TikTok platform with a character he called “Don Sebas”; With only nine publications, the actor had more than 140,000 followers and more than 254,000 “likes”.

In his productions, he stood out for a humor similar to the one he used in his program "¿Qué nos pasa?”, While he told jokes in two ways and fostered "drunk" situations.

Héctor Suárez Hernández died this Tuesday, June 2, at the age of 81, after spending a few days in the hospital.

SUAREZ, Hector (Héctor Suárez Hernández)

Born: 10/21/1938, Mexico City, Federal District, Mexico

Died; 6/2/2020, Mexico City, Federal District, Mexico

Hector Suarez’s westerns – actor:

The Curse of Gold – 1965 (Macario)

El asalto – 1965 (Macario)

Para todos hay – 1965

Pistoleros del oeste - 1965

Gatillo Veloz – 1966 (Don Cirio)

Martin Romero El rapido – 1966

Ambieion sangrienta – 1968 (Pentaleon Requejo)

El buscabullas – 1976 (Pancho)