Pereda, Ramón

(Ramón Pereda Saro)

(1897-1986)

   born in Santander, Spain, Ramón Pereda came to Mexico as a young man and appeared in silent films, then starred in a number of Hollywood Spanish-language films in the early sound era. He returned to Mexico in the early '30s. Pereda played a mature leading man - often opposite his wife, Adriana Lamar - in a significant number of films of the 1930s and 1940s, most of which he also produced (he also directed from time to time). In 1946, Lamar died during production of one of the films. Pereda took several years off, but returned to production in the late 1940s when he married María Antonieta Pons. In later years, he mostly confined his acting to supporting roles in some of his wife's pictures.