Casal, Gregorio

(Jesús Casillas)

(1935 - )

(occasionally billed as "Casals")

   slightly sinister-looking second lead, occasional leading man, and sometimes villain, who made his film debut in the late 1960s. In the early 1970s he played series hero "Chanoc" in several films (although he was second-billed to comedian Tin-Tan). He also directed several films in the 1980s. One of the Jalisco-born Casal's brothers is film director Jaime Casillas, for whom Casal worked in Chicano (1975), another is actor Mario Casillas, who can be seen with Gregorio in Las noches de paloma.