Andrés García
Birthday: Born in 1941-05-24 in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Deathday: 2023-04-04
Andrés García was born on May 24, 1941, in the Dominican Republic before his family emigrated to Mexico and settled in Acapulco. While working on a boat in Acapulco, the actor was discovered by film producers, who invited him to participate in the film "Chanoc" when he was 25 years old. His gallantry made an impact in the show business of the 1960s. The actor had three children, Leonardo García and Andrés García, the result of his marriage to the American Sandra Vale; and Andrea García, whom he had with the actress María Fernanda Ampudia. He also was married to the actress Sonia Infante, from whom he divorced a few years after their marriage. His last marriage was to Margarita Portillo. In cinema, the actor stood out in more than 50 films, including "Pedro Navajas," "La Última Noche," "Toña Machetes," "Tintorera," "Hermelinda Linda," "El día de los Asesinos," "Carlos el Terrorista” and “Nora la Rebelde,” among many others. On television, García worked on telenovelas such as "El Privilegio de Amar," "Mujeres Engañadas," "Con Toda el Alma" and "El Cuerpo del Deseo."
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Mujeres engañadas
Character: Javier Duarte Cortés
Mujeres engañadas is a Mexican telenovela that was produced by Televisa and broadcast on El Canal de las Estrellas from October 25, 1999, to April 7, 2000. Produced by Emilio Larrosa, the novela stars Laura León and Andrés García as well as an ensemble cast and tells the story of four couples who live in the same apartment building....
El Cuerpo del Deseo
Character: Pedro José Donoso
El cuerpo del Deseo also known as Second Chance is a Spanish-language telenovela produced by Telemundo and Film in Florida. This limited-run series is about a man who comes back from the dead and discovers dark secrets about his beautiful widow. The first version of El cuerpo del Deseo was En Cuerpo Ajeno produced by RTI Colombia in 1992.This telenovela was aired in 25 countries around the world....
El Privilegio de Amar
Character: Andrés Duval
El Privilegio de Amar is a Mexican telenovela. It was produced by Televisa and broadcast on El Canal de las Estrellas from 27 July 1998 through 26 February 1999. Starring Adela Noriega, René Strickler, Helena Rojo and Andrés García with the participation of leading actor Enrique Rocha and Cynthia Klitbo as the evil Tamara, who is the main villain. The telenovela tells the story of a fashion designer, Luciana, who begins searching for the daughter she abandoned years earlier, unaware the girl is ...
La mujer prohibida
Character: Hernán Gallardo
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Tú o Nadie
Character: Antonio Lombardo
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Paloma
Character: Daniel Márquez Robles
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Las gemelas
Character: Leonardo
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Cuéntame cómo pasó
Character: Víctor Barquero
Recounts the experiences of a middle-class family, the Alcántaras, during the last years of the rule of Francisco Franco and the beginning of the Spanish Transition to democracy....
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Cyclone
Character: Andrés
An airplane goes down in the ocean during a storm and a few survivors find refuge on a small tour boat. Swept out to sea, these people slowly starve to death in the hot sun with barely any food or clean water. With no place to turn, the boat survivors resort to cannibalism to stay alive...that is ..until the rescue planes come to pick them up and the man eating sharks decide its time to eat as well....
Memorias de un Visitador Médico
Character: Jose de Lugo
A pharmaceutical salesman travels around the country and has sexual adventures in every place, but no woman really interests him. When returning from one of his travels, he is hit by a car and falls in love with the driver, but none of his tactics of conquest get results. Written by Anonymous...
Muchachas, muchachas, muchachas
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A group of college girls are traveling through Guanajuato, Mexico when their car suddenly breaks down. In an attempt to get a male passer-by to help them, the girls (led by the voluptuous Rosa Maria Vazquez) strip down to their bras and panties. At first, they are snubbed by a gay couple, but eventually the young women receive help from a local 'farm worker' (Dominican actor Andres Garcia). From here, the coeds are taken to a local town, where they are mistaken for a group of strippers. To tanta...
The Business of Hate
Character: Raymundo
An ambitious businessman searches for the perfect candidate to train and turn into a great boxing champion....
Los Asesinos
Character: Joseph Nelson
Starring Nick Adams in his final role, a lone cowboy rides into a small Western town that is besieged by a gang of hoodlums in search of treasure. The search leads to an all out war between the town bosses, a family of crooked ranchers and other unsavory characters. But when Shannon (Nick Adams) enters the picture, they may have met their match......
Super Colt 38
Character: Roy
Billy Hayes, the marshal, discovers that the bandit whom he has been pursuing so long, and who has for months been torching his county, is none other than an old friend from childhood. Upon being confronted with the truth, the friend draws his gun, and Billy is forced to kill him in justifiable defense. Overwhelmed by guilt, he renounces his office and swears to never use arms again. He rides off toward the town where he and his old friend grew up together. Upon arriving there, he soon becomes i...
El principio
Character: Luciano
Mexico is in the midst of Revolution when the protagonist returns after studying in Paris to find his native town in Chihuahua occupied by Francisco Villa’s revolutionary forces. He visits his deserted home and remembers people and events from his adolescence that provide glimpses of pre-Revolutionary society under dictatorship: his uncle, the chief of police; his sister’s involvement with a liberal political association; bathing with the girls from a local brothel; a labor strike that ended in ...
Adiós New York, adiós
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The lives of various Latin residents of New York City are depicted. A Puerto Rican family, two Mexicans, and their friends seek fortune without forgetting their roots and traditions....
You Will Die With The Sun (Suicide Motorcyclists)
Character: Carlos Rodríguez
Costa Rican feature film...
La risa alarga la vida y algo mas
Character:
Mexican feature film...
Mi nombre es Sergio, soy alcohólico
Character: Sergio
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Río de oro
Character: Rodolfo
Mexican feature film...
Carlos el terrorista
Character: Carlos
After assassinating his boss -- who just so happens to be an important underworld crime figure -- Carlos (Andres Garcia) turns to the one place he can think of to keep him safe: the CIA. But the top secret government organization inexplicably responds to the desperate man's plea for protection by kidnapping Carlos's family, holding them captive until he carries out their questionable demands. Alicia Encinas and Pablo Ferrel co-star....
Macabre Serenade
Character: Charles Beasley
Relatives of a recently deceased man meet at his eerie castle for a reading of the will. They encounter a sinister piano player who turns out to be a toy maker, and his toys are imbued with murderous intentions....
Tintorera: Killer Shark
Character: Miguel
Two shark hunters flirt with an attractive British lady while hunting down a large tiger shark terrorizing the Mexican East coast....
Bordello
Character: Pancho
Minister with four virgin daughters inherits a bordello. The land contains a silver mine and the corrupt sheriff tries to force them to leave....
The Bermuda Triangle
Character: Alan
The passengers and crew of a boat on a summer cruise in the Caribbean stray into the famed Bermuda Triangle and mysterious things start happening....
Puppet
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Lori Myers has no idea of the terrifying danger she attracts after accepting a gift from her husband Rick to celebrate their marriage. For the beautifully hand-crafted Russian puppet he buys in suburban New York contains a fortune in smuggled jewels from the fabled collection of the last Czar. Unknown to Rick, the Brighton Beach antique store is really a front for the deadly activities of the Russian Mafia. And Uilanov, their sadistic mob leader, wants the priceless treasure back in his possessi...
El justiciero
Character: Franco
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Encounters in the Deep
Character: Scott
An oceanographer diving in the Bermuda Triangle discovers an undersea world....
Peter Knife
Character: Pedro Navaja
Based on the international hit song, Pedro Navaja (Peter the Knife) is the story of the coolest, street smart hustler ever to walk the streets of Mexico City. The police are after him, his rivals are after him, and all the while the most beautiful women of Mexico are in the cup of his hand. - Written by Echo Bridge Home Entertainment...
Amigo
Character: Rudy
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Chanoc
Character: Chanoc
Chanoc, along with his godfather, Tsekub Baloyán, investigate a series of mysterious deaths linked to a gang that extracts uranium....
The Call of Sex
Character: Víctor
A man finds a woman that reminds him of his long lost love: his step-sister with whom he initiated his sex life. But he is married and his wife wants proof of the cheating to get a divorce....
El Cristo de plata
Character:
Mexican feature film...
Cuchillo
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After the 14th Ammendment to the US Constitution, everyone has rights - except the Native Americans. Cavalry Army General Boyd applies that by breaking past treaties with the Apaches, and suppressing them in the territory under his command. A young Apache - named Cuchillo/Knife, after the massacre of his tribe - is taught that he is the gods' send to protect his people. Brought up to be a great warrior, he will attempt to reason with Boyd, and then fight an uneven battle against the Blue Demons....
D.F./Distrito Federal
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Anthology film, six little anecdotes about life in the big city....
El trinquetero
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Card-shark risks getting caught cheating. Safe in his home town, he may turn over a new leaf... but his previous victims are still looking for him....
Chile Picante
Character: Raul the Art Painter (segment "La infidelidad")
A woman uses her husband's money to open a beauty parlor/spa... so she'll have a place to meet with her lover....
Dos de abajo
Character: Maestro Lupe
Two bozo construction workers discover a cache of 19th century gold coins while demolishing a building....
El cafre
Character: Camionero
Trucker accepts an assignment to haul an extremely dangerous load of explosives from Tijuana to Mexico City....
Entre compadres te veas
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After a year spent mourning his wife's death, a father and two sons cut loose for some wild living. Loose remake of Los Tres Alegres Compadres....
Las modelos de desnudos
Character: Betito
Three interlocking anecdotes about boy/girl stuff. Two gigolos make a bet to see which can boff an heiress first, a young artist tries to persuade his upper-class parents that his artist's-model fiance is a good choice for marriage, and a guy on the run from the mafia hides from them by cross-dressing....
Manaos
Character: Carmelo Sierra
At the beginning of this century some owners of rubber plantations in the Amazonas jungle convert a village into one big prison. But the inhabitants have other plans......
No One Will Love You Like I Do
Character:
A student-movement leftist becomes a nun and absorbs lots of deep, deep TV-movie spiritual lessons about God's glorious plan....
Pact with the Devil
Character:
A crazed doctor performs gruesome experiments in his search for a youth serum....
Solicito marido para engañar
Character: Fabián Conde Mariscal
Rich and misogynistic Fabián is determined to seduce married women, whom he literally undresses with his eyes due to a strange obsession. He also receives an inheritance from an aunt and announces that he will give part of it to his three cousins when they become widows. They harass him out of interest and he becomes Virginia's lover, and harasses Maura, who rejects him....
Lovers of the Lord of the Night
Character: Amparo's Lover
Venusita falls in love with the son of a wealthy family whose mother sends her son off to the United States in order to keep the two apart. Not to be rejected so easily, Venusita visits Saurina the sorceress who comes up with a spell that kills off the merchant and zaps the son back home, but Venusita's problems are far from over....
Suave cariño, muy suave
Character: Luis
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Cave of the Sharks
Character: Andres Montoya
When Andres and his partner are hired to recover some valuables from an airplane that went down in the Bermuda Triangle, they face not only human treachery but also the mysterious powers of an underwater civilization....
The Child and the Pope
Character: Carlos
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Carnada
Character:
A diver is hired to find a box of stolen diamonds that were lost during an air accident, having to deal with criminals and a killer shark in the process....
Mi fantasma y yo
Character:
A family of three moves to a haunted house. The couple's 10-year-old son runs into the ghost of the house but isn't scared. He tells the ghost that since his father is a writer of horror novels he lost fear of horror stories. The ghost then confides in the boy that he is a lonely ghost on account of the modern world focused on so many material priorities. Child and ghost become best friends, playing together, telling stories and helping the ghost pay his rent by scaring people every month....
Sangre en el Caribe
Character: Raúl
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Night Killer
Character:
A serial killer goes on a gory killing spree in this low-budget Mexican slasher....
The Death Rider
Character:
Horror with a western setting....
Demon Hunter
Character: Melquiades Franco
At the highest place in Tarahumaran mountain, a Shaman was brutally murdered. The investigation leads detective Aguilar to ask for help to a veterinarian and a priest, to find out that the crime is just the beginning of a series of brutal murders by a nahual (Wolfman)...
Paradise
Character: Lauro
Problems arise between the divers Román and Lauro when the former falls in love with a prostitute on the beaches of Acapulco....
Day of the Assassin
Character: Jerry Beltron
Treasure hunters from around the world race to Mexico after a Middle Eastern luxury yacht explodes, sending a Shah's fortune and mysterious document to the bottom of the ocean....
Una Gallina Muy Ponedora
Character:
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El siete vidas
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Roving gambler teams up with a small-town priest to break the bank at a local casino that's sucking the townspeople dry....
El sexo sentido
Character: Miguel Ángel Cuevas
About a nymphomaniac and an artist that constantly spies on her....
Aventuras de un caballo blanco y un niño
Character:
Frontier boy orphaned after a military actiion,, escapes with his horse into Mexico and has adventures....
Besos, Besos... y Más Besos
Character: Manuel Amézcua (segmento "Amor y Motocicleta)
Rom-com anthology movie with three anecdotes....
Minifaldas con espuelas
Character:
A 1969 film....
King of Texas
Character: Davis
In this re-imagining of Shakespear's King Lear, Patrick Stewart stars as John Lear, a Texas cattle baron, who, after dividing his wealth among his three daughters, is rejected by them....
La rebelion de las hijas
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Three young women are ready to marry, but their father inserts himself into the decision-making process....
El Macho Biónico
Character: Esteban Osuna
A well-known playboy (Andrés García), and his gay assistant (Roberto 'Flaco' Guzmán), are victims of a plane accident when their private jet crashes. In the accident, the millionaire suffers the mutilation of his penis, forcing him to travel to the United States and invest his fortune in a technological reconstruction of his male organ, thus becoming the first Bionic Male of Mexico....
Las Tentadoras
Character: Mago Victor
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La última noche
Character: Fabián
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Inseminación artificial
Character: Darío
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El día del compadre
Character: Pepe
The inhabitants of a condominium prepare to party and have a baile where various things happen caused by alcohol....
El giro, el pinto, y el colorado
Character:
Two young men visiting their hometown for a family celebration get caught up in another family's drama, including an honor killing and a lynching....
Las cabareteras
Character:
Power-struggles between gangsters over ownership/control of a strip club....
Juan el desalmado
Character:
Cowboy on a revenge trip gets caught up in the sadistic games of some black-hats and goes through a whole narrative cycle with them before discovering the identity of the people he was originally looking for....
Programado para morir
Character:
Mafia members go after a father and a son who know too much....
Los plomeros y las ficheras
Character:
A cop goes undercover as a mobster and gets a plumber involved in his mess. Meanwhile, a producer falls in love with a drag queen that isn't what she seems to be......
Muñecas de medianoche
Character: Self
Two young men go into hiding to escape from a contract killer; they put on women's clothing and hang around in bars....
Hermelinda Linda
Character: as self (cameo)
Live action feature based on the Mexican comic about the exploits of a witch living in the outskirts of 'Bondojia', when a ruthless small time politician tries to steal their land in order to build a luxurious condo....
El día de los albañiles 4
Character:
Just arriving from his town to the capital, Roberto asks for accommodation to his ambitious relatives. As he does not bring money, he is forced to work as a bricklayer in a construction in which he lives an endless number of dangerous adventures....
Tres amigos
Character:
Man accused of murder, and the dead man's daughter, try to find proof of the real murderer's identity....
The Night of the Falcon
Character: Anibal
A man and his godson fall in love with the same woman....
La amargura de mi raza
Character: Mario
An Afro–Latin man falls in love with a white woman and that brings social problems and opposition from her wealthy family....
La leyenda del tambor
Character: Juan Clussá
In June 1808, Napoleon's troops invade Spain. A boy named Isidro will beat his drum in the mountains of El Bruc, making the French army believe that thousands of armed men are waiting to confront them....
Toña Machetes
Character: José María
A woman adopts a child and discovers that she can love again despite facing a wicked man....
Sexo contra sexo
Character: The Late Husband
The engineer José Luis, husband of the fichera and dancer Estrella Raleigh, dies in a plane crash. During the burial, Estrella discovers that her husband was having an affair. It's quickly revealed that things are a bit more complicated than they initially appear....
There's Always a First Time
Character: Invitado a fiesta (segment "Isabel")
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