Cañedo, Roberto

(Robert Cañedo Ramírez - some sources list Martínez)

(1918-1998)

   Distinguished-looking actor who rose from extra to leading man, then prolonged his career by switching to character roles. Cañedo, born in Guadalajara in 1918, made his film debut in 1938, but labored as an extra and bit player until the mid-1940s when he began to receive larger roles. He amassed literally hundreds of film and TV credits, despite health problems which disrupted his career several times (a heart attack in 1967, a broken knee in 1994). Cañedo won the Best Actor Ariel for Pueblerina (1948), and was also nominated for his work in Crimen y castigo (1950). He received the lifetime "Ariel de Oro" in 1997. He and his wife had six children, two of whom are actors. Cañedo died on 16 June 1998 of respiratory problems and heart failure.