RIP Gastón Santos

 

Gastón Santos Pue, Mexican bullfighter and film actor, dies

Originally from San Luis Potosí, he was one of the main exponents of the art of bullfighting and earned him to participate in several feature films.

Milenio

By Víctor Hugo Durán

1/17/2024

 

The bullfighter and film actor Gastón Santos Pue, one of the main bullfighters in the history of bullfighting in Mexico in the last century,died this Wednesday at the age of 92. Family members announced the death of the native of the municipality of Tamuín, in the state of San Luis Potosí and located west of Tampico.

An expert in this art, whose modality on horseback is part of the bullfights, he participated in several running of the bulls in Mexico, Spain and Portugal. There were more than 1,348 bullfights where he participated from the first time, he took the alternative in 1954, to dedicate himself in his retirement to the breeding and training of Lusitanian horses.

Son of Gonzalo N. Santos, the governor of Potosí, in the 1950s he decided to travel to Portugal to learn about the management of the species in a bullring. When he learned this art, he received the alternative on September 2, 1954, in Campo Pequeno Square in Lisbon. A year later, he had his first meeting with the fans of the then Federal District in Plaza México.

His poise and charisma opened up the opportunity for him to participate in the cinema where there are 12 feature films between 1957 and 1971. After signing a contract with Alameda Films, several were in the Mexican Western genre, such as "The Poisoned Arrow", "The Devils of Terror", "A Bullet Is My Witness" or "The Silent", the latter alongside Luis Aguilar and Emilio "El Indio" Fernández.

Sometime later he left acting to devote himself completely to continue with the rejoneo, which he left in the eighties, although he managed to be part of posters in the Plaza "Las Ventas" in Madrid as well as in the Feria de San Marcos.

He dedicated himself full-time to his ranch "La Jarrilla" in Tamuín, with a time based in Coatzacoalcos, in the south of Veracruz.

His son of the same name dedicated himself years later to rejoneo, to reach places such as Mexico and Spain, as well as sharing an alternative with Pablo Hermoso de Mendoza, considered the greatest exponent in the world.

SANTOS, Gaston (Gastón Santos Pue)

Born: 7/12/1931, Tamuín, San Luis Potosí, Mexico

Died: 1/17/2024, San Luis Potosi, Mexico

 

Gaston Santos’ westerns – actor:

La flecha envenenada - 1957 (Gastón)

El pantano de las animas - 1957 (Gastón)

El potro salvaje – 1958 (Gastón)

El Grito de la muerte (The Living Coffin) – 1959 (Gastón)

Los Diablos Del Terror (Night Riders) – 1959 (Gastón)

Una bala es mi testigo – 1960 (The Stranger)

El indomable - 1966 (Roberto Larios)

El Silencioso – 1967 (Martin)

Bang bang al hoyo – 1971 (townsman)