Manuel Valdes (actor)

Fernando Manuel Alfonso Gómez Valdés y Castillo (Juárez City, Chihuahua, January 29, 1931-Mexico City, August 28, 2020), known as Crazy Valdés, was a Mexican actor and comedian.

Biography and career

The Valdés brothers with Paco Malgesto (from left to right): Ramón, Antonio, Malgesto, Germán, Guadalupe, Armando, (behind, left to right) Cristóbal, and Manuel, in 1958.

Manuel Gómez Valdés Castillo was born in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico in 1931. His parents were Rafael Antonio Luis Alfonso Gómez de Valdés y Angellini, a customs agent and son of an Italian-American mother, and Guadalupe Castillo, a homemaker. All the children of the marriage had their own nickname, and thus, Manuel was called "Crazy" Valdés. His brothers Germán Valdés, Ramón Valdés and Antonio Valdés, were also actors and comedians.

He was known for his peculiar personality on and off camera, which stood out for giving him a touch of humor, mischief, and to some extent breaking established conventions in the media in which he had the opportunity to participate. He was related to the actress Verónica Castro, a relationship from which the singer Christian Castro was born, the same with whom Manuel Valdés had a distant relationship. He was a close friend of the also comedian and actor Sergio Corona with whom he had a friendly rivalry for a classic game of Mexican soccer where Manuel represented Club América and Sergio Corona represented Club Deportivo Guadalajara.

Personal life

His program El show del Loco Valdés was censored in 1974 by the government of Luis Echeverría Álvarez, this because in one of the sketches of his show he referred to Benito Juárez as «Bomberito Juárez » and Margarita Maza, as «Manguerita Maza». The program went off the air.

On November 23, 1948, when he was barely eighteen years old, he married Yolanda Peña Elorriaga, who in turn was seventeen. With her he fathered five children: Manuel, Jorge, Fernando, Norma and Alejandro, who were not close to him him because Valdés distanced himself from Yolanda, without legitimately divorcing her, in order to have other love relationships and be able to father seven other children with four different women.

In the sixties he had two romances and one marriage:

• The first was with Rosa María Bojalil, a woman with whom she had Marcos Valdés, her sixth son.

• The second with Raquel Vázquez, procreating Oscar. From this love he highlighted the fact that Sergio Corona, friend and friend of Valdés, also begat a baby with Vázquez. This story was revealed by his son Marcos Valdés.

• Finally he met Arcelia Larrañaga, with whom he married and remained for more than fifty years, until death separated them after she died in 2018 because of alzheimer. From their union they gave birth to Francisco, Arcelia, Pedro and Michelle Valdés.

Although it seemed that the actor had found love stability with Larrañaga, his fame as a womanizer did not end there, and his last adventure in love was with Veronica Castro. The couple was highly controversial at the time due to the age difference, since she was about 20 years old and he was 40, and to this was added the pregnancy conceived between them, when Valdés was married to Larrañaga. This son they had together was the singer Cristian Castro, with whom the The comedian took a somewhat complex approach because his mother did not want to reveal his father's identity, and it took some time for the two to finally meet and form a father-son connection.

Death

She passed away on August 28, 2020 at the age of 89, due to brain cancer and complications of pancreatic cancer that were detected in 2017.

Filmography

Dubbing

• 2002, Peter Pan: The Return to Never Ever Country, Captain Garfio
• 2005, Buza Caperuza! The real story, Lobo Feroz
• 2007, La legend de la Nahuala, Lorenzo Villavicencio
• 2011, Buza Caperuza 2, Lobo Feroz
• 2015, El Principito, El aviador
• 2015, Canina Selection, Lobo Perreda
• 2020, Animaniacs, Wakko Warner. Episode: "Whodunut" (only for a moment) Season 1, chap. 8

TV Shows

• Varieties of half day (1954-1957)
• Operation Ja Ja (1966)
• Locos Salad (1970-1973)
• The Loco Valdés Show (1972-1974)
• Midnight varieties (1977)
• The Crazy Hour (1982-1986)
• Women, cases of real life (1999-2006)
• The North Heroes (2010)
• Brothers and detectives (2010)
• As the saying goes (2012)

Movies

• Little pigs (1949)
• Oh, love, how you put me! (1951)
• I need money. (1952)
• Passionate (1952)
• Ambitious (1953)
• The unknown mariachi (1953)
• It's never too late to love (1953)
• You bring me a wing (1953)
• Star without light (1953)
• What happened to Samson (1955)
• The widows of the cha cha cha (1955)
• La Faraona (1956)
• The sparkling window (1956)
• Pensión de artistas (1956)
• House of perdition (1956)
• The living room (1956)
• The cheater (1956)
• Ladies' Club (1956)
• The three musketeers and a half (1957)
• Dangerous animals (1957)
• Cycling champion (1957)
• A thousand and a night (1958)
• Music of always (1958)
• Journey to the moon (1958)
• Two ghosts and a girl (1959)
• Each who his music (1959)
• Fairs of Mexico (1959)
• The ghost of the opera (1960)
• Youth dangers (1960)
• Queen poker (1960)
• Bedroom for ladies (1960)
• The red caperucita (film) (1960)
• The Sisters Karambazo (1960)
• The supermacho (1960)
• Two fools and a madman (1961)
• Madness of terror (1961)
• Caperucita and his three friends (1961)
• Who are our madmen with? (1961)
• Little Riding and Thumbing Against Monsters (1962)
• The black tiger (1962)
• At the pace of twist (1962)
• Frankenstein, the vampire and company (1962)
• The swordsmen of the queen (1964)
• The burial ghosts (1965)
• Tintansón Crusoe (1965)
• Bromas, S.A. (1967)
• Panther women (1967)
• Detectives or Thieves (Two Innocent Agents) (1967)
• Bikinis and rock (1972)
• Captain Mantarraya (1973)
• Time and time (1975)
• Midnight dolls (1979)
• The affectionate (1979)
• The tempters (1980)
• The pulqueria (1981)
• The polishing 2 (1982)
• The vedettes (1983)
• The devil walks between the fichers - The pulqueria 3 (1984)
• Two Care Tips (1989)
• The naco bar (1989)
• Not so little. (1989)
• The Nahuala Legend (2007)
• Tin Tan, a documentary by Francesco Taboada Tabone (2010)
• Antonio, Diana and her family:Back to the future (2013) Doctor Chiflado

Soap Operas

• I will always love you (2000) - Pancho Serrano
• Live the children! (2002) - Polidoro
• Between love and hatred (2002) - Rigoberto "Rigo" Alarcón
• Amy, the blue backpack girl. (2004) - Marcelo Álvarez
• Dare to dream (2009) - Spirit of Christmas
• Rafaela (2011) - Braulio

Theater

• Peter Pan or the kid who didn't want to be big- With Olivia Bucio (1981)
• Pure stories of Grandpa - Under the production of Gerardo Quiroz (2010-2011)
• The comic book (with the Mascabrothers)
• Don Juan Tenorio (with Paco Stanley)
• Aeroplanes (With Ignacio López Tarso and alternating functions with Sergio Corona)
• Divas forever (With the communicator Shanik Berman and the vedettes Lyn May, Grace Renat, Princess Yamal and Wanda Seux).