Ignacio López Tarso
Birthday: Born in 1925-01-15 in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
Deathday: 2023-03-11
Ignacio López López (b. 15 January 1925 – 11 March 2023), better known as Ignacio López Tarso, was a Mexican actor of stage, film and television. He acted in about 50 films and appeared in documentaries and in one short feature. In 1973 he was given the Ariel Award for Best Actor for Rosa Blanca, and the Ariel de Oro lifetime achievement award in 2007. He was honored multiple times at the TVyNovelas Awards. At the time of his death, he was the oldest living actor and one of the last surviving stars from the Golden Age of Mexican cinema.
TV Credits
Imperio de Cristal
Character: César Lombardo
Imperio de Cristal is a Mexican telenovela that aired on Televisa in 1994 with 124-episode from the plot to the main cast it was officially first launched on Monday, 29 August 1994 & ceased transmission on Friday, 17 February 1995 was aired runtime of 45-minutes with commercial on weekday at 21:00 to 22:00 CST/22:00 to 23:00 MST/23:00 to 00:00 PST....
Conversando con Cristina Pacheco
Character: Self
...
Amores Con Trampa
Character: Porfirio
Los Carmona viven en el campo y su vida cambiará radicalmente cuando el gobierno les expropia su terreno y se mudan a la ciudad. En su nueva casa se encontrarán con la adinerada familia Velasco con quienes tendrán muchas aventuras. "The Carmona live in the countryside and their life will change radically when the government expropriates their land and they move to the city. In their new home they will meet the wealthy Velasco family with whom they will have many adventures."...
Peregrina
Character: Baltasar
...
Navidad sin Fin
Character: Rodito
...
Ángela
Character: Feliciano Villanueva
Angela is a Mexican telenovela, which was produced by Televisa and broadcast on Canal de las Estrellas in 1998. The series was first debuted on May 17, 1999 on Univision in the United States, replacing that year's hit La Mentira, and ended on September 9, 1999, being replaced by Tres Mujeres. It aired a second and a third time on Galavisión on March 15, 2000 and May 8, 2001, and ended a second and a third time on July 1, 2000 and August 24, 2001. It aired a fourth time back to Univision's late n...
La casa en la playa
Character: Don Ángel Villarreal Cueto
...
El Encanto del Águila
Character: Porfirio Díaz
A detailed dramatization of historical events during the time of the Revolution in Mexico. Using never-before-known historical documents, details about what happened during the period from 1910 to 1928 are revealed....
De Pocas Pocas Pulgas
Character: Don Julián Montes
...
Esmeralda
Character: Melesio
Esmeralda is a telenovela that was released by Televisa in 1997. It is a remake of a 1970 Venezuelan telenovela of that same name, and was itself remade in Brazil in 2004. Another version is Topacio from Venezuela in 1984. One of the most famous telenovela all the time....
Corazón Indomable
Character: Ramiro Olivares
Corazón indomable is a Mexican telenovela produced by Nathalie Lartilleux for Televisa. It is a remake of Marimar, produced in 1994, and starring Thalía and Eduardo Capetillo. Ana Brenda Contreras and Daniel Arenas star as the protagonists, while Ingrid Martz, Elizabeth Álvarez, Carlos de la Mota and René Strickler star as the antagonists....
Camila
Character: Don Genaro
This page refers to the 1998 soap opera. For the 1984 Argentinian movie see Camila. Camila is a Mexican romantic drama telenovela produced by and originally broadcast on Televisa in 1998. It is a remake of Viviana, a Mexican telenovela from 1978. It starred Bibi Gaytán, Eduardo Capetillo, and Adamari López and is the story of a simple country girl brought to the big city, but abandoned when her new husband bigamously marries his employer's daughter....
¡Vivan los niños!
Character: Ignacio Robles
¡Vivan los niños! is a Mexican telenovela for children that premiered in 2002. It ran for 155 episodes and finished in 2003. The opening, Vivan los niños, was recorded by the Latin pop group OV7. One of its closing themes, also entitled Vivan los niños, was performed by Cuban-American singer and songwriter Ana Cristina. The show is a version of the Argentinian telenovela "Jacinta Pichimahuida, la maestra que no se olvida". The series starred Andrea Legarreta as 2nd grade teacher Lupita Gómez. A...
Mar de Amor
Character: El Mojarras
Mar de Amor is a Spanish-language telenovela produced by Nathalie Lartilleux with protagonists Zuria Vega, Mario Cimarro and Mariana Seoane and antagonists Ninel Conde, Marcelo Córdoba and Manuel Landeta. This is a remake of the 1978 Venezuelan telenovela María del Mar....
Atrévete a Olvidarme
Character: Gonzalo Rivas
Atrévete a Olvidarme is a short-lived Mexican telenovela. Running for only one month in 2001, the program starred Adriana Fonseca and Jorge Salinas....
Las Lunas del Auditorio
Character: Self
...
el gato animado televisa
Character: papa noel
...
Movie Credits
Wolves Aren't Meant For The Circus
Character: Don Cristóbal
After an all-nighter, Ricardo gets to his apartment only to find his family ready to have an intervention for him. His struggle with addiction is the least of his problems in this peculiar event where he faces his drug dealer, a prostitute and the worst company of all: his family....
Veneno
Character:
...
Nazarin
Character: Thief in church
After hiding a murderer, a Catholic priest is forced into self-exile and decides to embark on a pilgrimage through the Mexican countryside....
Under the Volcano
Character: Dr. Vigil
Against a background of war breaking out in Europe and the Mexican fiesta Day of Death, we are taken through one day in the life of Geoffrey Firmin, a British consul living in alcoholic disrepair and obscurity in a small southern Mexican town in 1939. The consul's self-destructive behaviour, perhaps a metaphor for a menaced civilization, is a source of perplexity and sadness to his nomadic, idealistic half-brother, Hugh, and his ex-wife, Yvonne, who has returned with hopes of healing Geoffrey an...
Antonieta
Character: Vargas
Anna is a psychologist undertaking research about famous suicidal women. She takes a specific interest in the case of Antonieta Rivas Mercado, who killed herself in 1931 in the Cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris....
The Useless Life of Pito Pérez
Character: Pito Pérez
A man goes on a trip and then returns to his village pretending that everything went well for him....
Looking for a Wall
Character: José Clemente Orozco
The life of the Mexican muralist José Clemente Orozco and his quest to create a career in New York....
La Bandida
Character: Anselmo
During a lull in the Mexican Revolution when Francisco Madero became president and attempted to implement land reforms, two former revolutionaries are pitted against each other for the love of the same woman....
La Cucaracha
Character: Trinidad
The Mexican Revolution serves as a backdrop to a torrid love triangle composed of three freedom fighters: a colonel, a widow, and a fiery female soldier....
Macario
Character: Macario
Poor, hungry peasant Macario longs for just one good meal on the Day of the Dead. After his wife cooks a turkey for him, he meets three apparitions, the Devil, God, and Death. Each asks him to share his turkey, but he refuses all except Death. In return, Death gives him a bottle of water which will heal any illness. Soon, Macario is more wealthy than the village doctor, which draws the attention of the feared Inquisition....
The Paper Man
Character: Adán
A deaf and mute vagabond finds a large denomination bill in a Mexico City dump, and while he tries to buy something with it, others try to con him into giving it away....
Sonatas
Character: Jefe de guerrilleros
In the fall of 1824 Javier Montenegro, Bradomin Marquis is spared death hanging by Captain Casares, and in return, the Marquis agrees to help him escape to America. Adaptation of "Sonata de Otoño" and "Sonata de Estío" of Ramón María del Valle-Inclan, which included elements Bardem later works of the author....
Morenita, El Escandalo
Character: Santiago
Desperate to save his family from death threats by a notorious drug dealer, Mateo Cruz steals the venerated image of the Virgin of Guadalupe causing pandemonium throughout Mexico....
Cri Cri el Grillito Cantor
Character: Francisco Gabilondo Soler 'Cri-Cri'
Biography of the famous composer of children's music Gabilondo Soler. Starts from his childhood, when he worked as a pastor and grandmother tried to teach him to play the piano. Later he went to the city to study music theory and began writing his first songs....
The Golden Cockerel
Character: Dionisio Pinzón
A poor, but very lucky man in the cock fighting, is hired by a rich man, but both are in love with the same woman...
Rapine
Character: Porfirio
Two humble indigenous woodcutters discover the wreckage of a plane that has crashed at the top of the mountains and decide to steal the belongings of all the occupants killed in the accident....
La trinchera
Character:
...
Notes from Under the Volcano
Character: Self
A behind-the-scenes documentary on the making of John Huston's "Under the Volcano" (1984)....
The Waterwheel
Character: Old Man
In a small town, time stops for a father who has lost his son....
The Prophet Mimi
Character: Ángel Peñafiel, Mimi
Childhood trauma and religious repression causes little boy to grow up and murder ....
The Bricklayers
Character: Don Jesus
When a worker is found murdered on the construction side, the investigation swiftly turns from things criminal to the political circumstances surrounding the building itself. Widespread corruption and neglect by the builder himself are seen to have brought the situation about. Much of the movie is filmed using hand-held cameras, and the majority of the dialogue is in the difficult-to-understand and very slangy Spanish dialect of Mexico City's bricklayers....
The Shadow of the Tyrant
Character: General Hilario Jiménez
In 1920s Mexico, the candidates being chosen to succeed the current president, El Caudillo, find themselves at his mercy as he will resort to anything to accomplish his will, including kidnapping, betrayal, and murder....
La casta divina
Character: Don Wilfrido
Chronicle Caste War in Yucatan held in the nineteenth century, where the land and the people were the property of the landowners, who called themselves " divine caste ". On one hand, General Salvador Alvarado organized the revolution; on the other, the landowners hire Colonel Ortiz Argumedo to organized the defense of their autonomy. Don Wilfrido, one of the masters, do not hesitate to send his son to fight to maintain their wealth and privileges....
Happy Year, My Love
Character:
Man and woman have a couple of one-night-stands spread out over 15 or 20 years....
Autumn Days
Character: Albino
Luisa is a small-town girl who works in the bakery of the widower Don Albino. Luisa dreams of marrying and loves children. Just as Don Albino shows interest in her, Luisa announces that she will marry soon with Carlos, the driver of a rich house whom she met recently......
Reclusorio
Character: Viejo (segment "Quiero quedarme en la carcel")
The human and divine justice are exposed through five real life stories related to the legal processes of a prison. The cases presented are: "I want to stay in jail", "Blood between women", "The raped prostitute", "The kidnapped policeman", and "Euthanasia or murder?"...
Saint Lucifer
Character: Father Leopoldo Santos Higareda
A conflict arises between the people of the town and the local priest when they have to decide how to represent certain biblical episode....
Our Daily Hunger
Character: Pablo
Trophy wife of a crooked industrialist meets a philanthropic doctor and develops a social conscience. Mexican remake of Born Yesterday....
Pedro Paramo
Character: Fulgor Sedano
When his mother Dolores dies, Juan Preciado, son of Pedro Páramo, goes to Comala to claim his inheritance; but when he arrives he finds an abandoned and sinister place, inhabited by mysterious voices and whispers…...
La estrella vacía
Character: Luis Arvide
Mourners share their memories of a dead film-star at her wake, a la Citizen Kane. Only melodrama....
Cayó de la gloria el diablo
Character: Don Eme (Emeterio Sánchez)
Subsistence-economy slum guy who sells used newsprint for a living breaks into showbiz with an inadvertantly-comical fire-eater act. The novelty of him wears off very quickly, and then......
Astucia
Character: Don Polo
Historical melodrama on horseback, 1840s or so in central Mexico. Pulpy, Zorro-ish......
Los amantes frios
Character:
Three-fer anthology of black-humor sex-n-death anecdotes....
La desconocida
Character:
...
Buenos días, Ignacio
Character:
...
The Devil's Visitations
Character: Felix Estrella
A young architect returns from Europe to live in the house of his uncles and cousins, where someone pretends to be the Devil....
Resigned for Reasons of Health
Character: Gustavo Sánchez Campero
A mid-level government bureaucrat is forced to think hard about his ideas on governmental corruption and his own integrity....
A Long Journey Toward Death
Character: Dr. David
Juan is subjected to shock treatment in the hands of Dr. David, and apparently is able to resume a "normal" life. He and his wife María make dolls in a workshop attached to their apartment in New York. However, John does not heal and he starts looking for the nurses to murder them....
Un hombre en la trampa
Character:
Odyssey of a man involved in a criminal activity, which leads him to his moral and material failure....
Tras Nazarin: Following Nazarin
Character: Self
"Nazarín is a Quixote of the priesthood " "Among the films I have made in Mexico, Nazarin is one that I prefer." "As inexplicable as the accidents that set it off, our imagination is a crucial privilege."...
Vanilla, Bronze and to Die
Character: Ricardo Castillo
A beautiful woman, fatally ill of the heart, is torn between the love of a poor sculptor and a forced marriage with the sadistic son of a millionaire....
¿Y ahora qué, señor fiscal?
Character:
Working-class dude grows up surrounded with petty delinquency and ghetto temptations; he marries a rich girl and faces the disapproval of her parents. Then the young couple plans a crime......
The Door and The Butcher's Wife
Character: Melitón Torres (segment "La mujer del carnicero")
A movie divided in two segments, the first "La puerta" (The Door) is about a high society gathering in which a door inside the mansion leads to a bizarre corridor where a naked and menacing human figure appears. The second "La mujer del carnicero" (The Butcher's Wife) is set during the Mexican revolution and is about horrifying hallucinations felt by a lieutenant after committing a murder....
Codicia mortal
Character:
Drug dealer tries to force local subsistance farmers to sell their land to him. The village's "good" rich guy eventually gets around to helping them mount a resistance....
Love Your Neighbor
Character: (voice)
This film tells several short stories that end up lapsing in the emergency room of a hospital, because it is dedicated to nurses. Cantinflas appears at the end of the film playing the role of Luis, a man who has five daughters and looks forward to a boy, but fate plays a trick and the child dies at birth, but history gives a nice twist and a message of hope....
La Generala
Character: Rosauro Márquez
During the Mexican Revolution, a hardened and rich lady landowner is overtaken by the violence of the times. Losing her land and house, she falls in love with a revolutionary leader that is killed by a sadistic and corrupt federal officer. She takes the revolutionary flag and leads a rampage of violence and destruction....
Corazón de niño
Character:
The story tells us about an old teacher from the town, who upon knowing he was going to die, entrusts his sixth-grade class to a colleague who had also been his student. Asking him to help them so that they could survive....
My Son, the Hero
Character: Gunslinger
Northern Mexico, early 20th century. Reynaldo del Hierro is murdered while riding with his sons Reynaldo and Martín, whose mother instills in them the need for revenge....
Tarahumara (Further and farther)
Character: Raúl
An anthropologist goes to the mountains to study the problems of the indigenous people and finds out that they are being dispossessed of their lands....
El otro
Character: Sr. Tabares
A novelist travels to the country to learn the problems of a friend's shy son and runs into an intruder....
The White Rose
Character: Jacinto Yáñes
An international oil company comes into conflict with a Mexican ranch owner who refuses to sell his land, resorting to a devious scheme to try to take over the property....
Juana Gallo
Character: Pioquinto
Peasant woman leads a regiment during the final days of the Mexican Revolution. Also, romantic entanglements....
Más sabe el Diablo por Viejo
Character: Joselito
Teo, a young and struggling actor, disguises himself as a 79 year old man to take advantage from the benefits of a retirement home, while also trying to sort out his personal and love life....
Muelle rojo
Character:
Three episodes from the "history" of organized labor in the harbors of Tampico, 1912 to modern-times....
Banderas, the Tyrant
Character: Coronel de la Gándara
In Santa Fe de Tierra Firme, an imaginary Latin American country, the indigenous dictator Santos Banderas rules with an iron fist. A group of rebels trying to seize power by force while some liberals try a change of government legally....
Taken Identity
Character: Don Jesus
Felino, his girlfriend and his two friends, have their film rejected from every film festival, so they decide to submit it as major filmmaker Tomas Guevara latest film....
The Children of Sanchez
Character: Ignacio
Hall Bartlett directs the rural drama The Children of Sanchez, based on the tome The Children of Sanchez: Autobiography of a Mexican Family written by Oscar Lewis in the '60s. Anthony Quinn stars as the widowed Jesus Sanchez, a poor farmer struggling to provide for his family in Mexico City. Also starring Lupita Ferrer as Consuelo and Stathis Giallelis as Roberto. This is the last film in the 50-year career of international star Dolores del Rio, who plays the Grandma. Jazz-pop performer Chuck Ma...
Toña Machetes
Character:
A woman adopts a child and discovers that she can love again despite facing a wicked man....
Then God Named It Earth
Character: Efrén Domínguez
During the Mexican Agrarian Reform, an engineer travels to a town to distribute the land of the landowners among the peasants....
One Hundred Years with Juan Rulfo
Character: Self
This documentary explores key moments in the life of writer Juan Rulfo, with artists such as Werner Herzog and Eduardo Galeano reflecting on his work....