RIP: Actor Reynaldo Miravalles dies at 93

Cuban actor Reynaldo Miravalles died in Havana at age 93

Havana, October 31 (EFE) .- The Cuban actor Reynaldo Miravalles , star of films like "The Twelve Chairs " and " The man Maisinicú " died today in Havana at 93 " victim of complications arising from several conditions "reports the official daily Granma."

Although settled in Miami several years ago, he never lost the bond with Cuba and starred here his latest film, 'Esther somewhere' in a memorable duet with Enrique Molina , " the information published on the website of Granma.

Born in Havana in 1923, Miravalles debuted in 1944 with the Cuban radio comedy program "The voice of the bus allies" and later participated in the radial-first series and then televising of Republican Cuba "The Great Court".In 1951 he jumped to the television medium in which he played hundreds of characters, but the most popular was the Guajiro (peasant) Melesio, and already in 1957 got his first film role in the Venezuelan film "Papa Lepe".

After the triumph of the Revolution, he participated in some of the most prominent bands in the sixties in Cuba and embodied a milkman humble is involved in the insurrection in "The wounded," one of the three parts of " stories of the Revolution "(1960), by Tomas Gutierrez Alea.

Among the following decades participated in Cuban films as "The young rebel" (1961), "The Twelve Chairs" (1962), "A Cuban struggle against demons" (1971), "The man Maisinicú" (1973), " survivors "(1978)," Mr. President "(1983) or" the birds swinging the shotgun "(1985).

Emigrated to the US since the mid-nineties, Miravalles played a veteran CIA agent, along with Saffron Burrows and Harvey Keitel in the Spanish film Gerardo Herrera "The Galindez Mystery," based on the novel by Manuel Vazquez Montalban.

He also worked on "Closeness" (2008), Rolando Diaz, who is about the life of Cuban immigrants in Miami, and his latest work "Esther somewhere" (2012), for which he won numerous awards, which starred in Havana under the direction of Gerardo Chijona.

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