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Tito Guízar

American actor

Summary

American actor

Field	Value
name	Tito Guízar
image	Tito Guizar in 1944.jpg
caption	Guízar in 1944
birth_name	Federico Arturo Guízar Tolentino
birth_date
birth_place	Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico
death_date
death_place	San Antonio, Texas, United States
resting_place	Panteón Jardín, Mexico City, Mexico
occupation	{{Flatlist
yearsactive	1923–1999
spouse
children	3
notable_works	Allá en el Rancho Grande

Singer
Actor

Federico Arturo Guízar Tolentino (; 8 April 1908 – 24 December 1999), known professionally as Tito Guízar, was a Mexican singer and actor. Along with Dolores del Río, Ramón Novarro and Lupe Vélez, as well as José Mojica, Guízar was among the few Mexicans who made history in the early years of Hollywood.

Career

In a career that spanned over seven decades, Guízar trained early as an opera singer and traveled to New York City in 1929 to record the songs of Agustín Lara.

In addition, Guízar performed both operatic and Mexican popular songs at Carnegie Hall, but he succeeded with his arrangements of popular Mexican and Spanish melodies such as Cielito Lindo, La Cucaracha (The Cockroach), Granada, and You Belong to My Heart (English version of Solamente una Vez). In 1936, his song "Allá en el Rancho Grande" ("There on the Big Ranch") launched the singing charro in Mexico after appearing in the film of the same name, succeeding as well in the United States.

Guízar made numerous television appearances, toured in most of Latin American countries, recorded a significant number of songs, and had his own radio show in Los Angeles, Tito Guízar y su Guitarra (Tito Guízar and his Guitar).

Films

He also appeared in dozens of films, including The Big Broadcast of 1938 (1938), Tropic Holiday (1938), St. Louis Blues (1939), The Llano Kid (1939), Brazil (1944), and The Gay Ranchero (1948), playing with such stars as Evelyn Keyes, Dorothy Lamour, Ray Milland, Ann Miller, Martha Raye, Roy Rogers, Mae West and Keenan Wynn. In the 1990s, he continued starring in series in Mexican television.

Death

Guizar died of respiratory failure (of natural causes) on December 24, 1999, in San Antonio, Texas. He was survived by his three children, Nina, Lillya, and Tito Jr.

Partial filmography

Under the Pampas Moon (1935) - Café Singer
Allá en el Rancho Grande (There on the Big Ranch) (1936) - José Francisco Ruelas
Poppy of the Road (1937) - Antonio Rosales
The Big Broadcast of 1938 (1938) - Specialty
Tropic Holiday (1938) - Ramón
Mis Dos Amores (My Two Loves) (1938) - Julio Bertolin
El trovador de la radio (1938) - Mario del Valle
St. Louis Blues (1939) - Rafael San Ramos
Bachelor Father (1939) - Carlos del Rio
- The Llano Kid* (1939) - Enrique Ibarra aka The Llano Kid
El rancho del pinar (1939) - Alberto Galindo
Allá en el Trópico (Back in the Tropics) (1940) - José Juan García
De México llegó el amor (1940) - Tito
Blondie Goes Latin (1941) - Manuel Rodríguez
Beautiful Michoacán (1943) - Ernesto
Amores de ayer (1944) - Tito
Brazil (1944) - Miguel Soares
Adiós, Mariquita linda (1944)
Marina (1945) - Jorge
'Como México no hay dos'! (1945)
Mexicana (1945) - 'Pepe' Villarreal
The Thrill of Brazil (1946) - Himself
On the Old Spanish Trail (1947) - Rico - aka The Gypsy
The Gay Ranchero (1948) - Nicci Lopez
El Gallero (1948) - Gabriel
En los Altos de Jalisco (In the Highlands of Jalisco) (1948) - Juan Chávez
Ahí viene Vidal Tenorio (1949)
De Tequila, su mezcal (1950) - Tito
Sindicato de telemirones (1954) - Luis Manrique
De ranchero a empresario (1954) - Tito
El plagiario (1955)
The Sin of Being a Woman (1955) - Javier Morales
Los hijos de Rancho Grande (1956) - José Francisco
Locura musical (1958) - Himself
Music and Money (1958)
Música en la noche (1958)
The Time and the Touch (1962) - Max
Allá en el rancho de las flores (1983)
Reclusorio (1997) - Tito Iriarte (segment "Eutanasia o asesinato")
Marimar (1994) - Papa Panco
Maria la del Barrio (1995) - Father Honorio
La Usurpadora (1998) - Don Panchito

References

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