Mauricio Garces

Mauricio Feres Yazbek (Tampico, Tamaulipas, December 16, 1926-Mexico City, February 27, 1989), known as Mauricio Garcés, was an actor and Mexican comedian. He is remembered for his impersonations of a seductive, mature and sophisticated high society gallant in several films in which he participated.

Biography and career

Mauricio Feres Yazbek was born on December 16, 1926 in Tampico, Tamaulipas, Mexico, being the son of José Feres N. and Mahiba Yazbek de Feres, both of Lebanese origin. The number is unknown, but he had siblings, among them the photographer Edmundo Feres Yazbek. When he was six years old, his family moved and took him with them to Mexico City. When he grew up, he began studying chemical sciences at university, but had to abandon his studies in order to help his family cover household expenses. He worked various jobs until his uncle, photographer Tufic Yazbek, helped him enter the artistic world.

His career as an actor had the support of another uncle, the producer José Yázbek, who included him in the cast of Death in Love (1950), a comedy starring Miroslava Stern and Fernando Fernández. From that film on, Mauricio adopted the stage name Garcés because he considered that the letter G could bring him good luck and turn him into a star of the caliber of his idols Clark Gable, Gary Cooper and Cary Grant.

Initially his career was focused on the dramatic and suspense genre, playing serious versions of leading men in films such as The Empty Star or television series such as Gutierritos and he had his own television series Pondscitation. Likewise, he did theater in works such as Private Lives, No Me Manden Flores and Vidita Negra (which he would later film on film), La Blue Moonand others.

The comic version of the character of the autumnal, elegant and worldly heartthrob that made him famous was developed throughout these stages of his career as he played similar roles on several occasions in films whose themes became increasingly lighter and funny. This character is finally fully developed in Don Juan 67. At the beginning of the seventies, he ventured into television in the program La Hora De Mauricio Garcés (1970). The following year on channel 8, he starred in the program Los Solteros alongside Jóse Galvez. In 1978 he starred in the film No Porque La Culpa El Indio alongside Chucho Salinas and Yolanda Liévana and also starred in the theater in the play Hola Charly alongside Claudia Islas. In 1980 he returned to the character of Don Juan with the film El Sátiro alongside Alberto Rojas the horse and Patricia Rivera; That same year he also began to work with Manuel Valdés in the program El Show del Loco Valdés and the following year they took over from Verónica Castro in hosting the program Noche a Noche .

Deterioration of health and death

Losing his voice and with problems in his left eye, for which he underwent eye surgery, he began to lose the pace of work to which he was accustomed, so in his last years he only made some sporadic appearances on programs television as it was in the broadcast Beauty Salon. Her situation would worsen when she was left in financial ruin after wasting most of her money on gambling, this activity being one of her hobbies..

On February 27, 1989, at the age of 62, he was found dead in the bedroom of his apartment located in Mexico City. The newspapers of the time reported that an autopsy had been performed, which showed that The cause of his death was due to cardiac arrest resulting from pulmonary emphysema that had been diagnosed some time ago and which was a result of his life as a smoker. He was buried with his parents in the French Pantheon of Piety, also located in the city.

Personal life

Garcés spent his entire life single, without ever wanting to get married or having a girlfriend, in addition to being a person who liked to dress up a lot, calling himself very withdrawn and shy, and living with his mother to this day. in which she died. These were reasons for his sexual preferences to be questioned at a time when Mexico thought that these were reasons for a man to be homosexual. Although what was mentioned would be an emphasis to think that the actor was gay, rumors arose that He was in love with the actress Silvia Pinal, and in words spoken by him he commented that he never wanted to get married because no woman or marriage he knew had inspired him to do so. However, regarding his alleged homosexuality, it is said that he had an affair with the president of Mexico Manuel Ávila Camacho, and another with the Spanish-Mexican actor Enrique Rambal. The latter died of a heart attack in 1971, and one story says that he died in the bed where Garcés was sleeping, with Lucy Gallardo, Rambal's wife, who witnessed this. His brother Edmundo Feres Yazbek said that these statements were a lie., but the reality is that the truth about this was never revealed because the artist never spoke openly about his sexuality, with what was previously mentioned remaining a mystery from which over time the idea of having been a "secret that would arise" would emerge. was taken to the grave.

Filmography

Movies

• My ghost and I (1986)....
• The Satiro (1980).... Mauritius Abud
• It's not the Indian's fault. (1978)....
• The perfect three married (1973)....
• With love of death (1972).... Incidental appearance
• The other woman (1972).... Antonio
• All the sins of the world (1971... Roberto/Juanjo Martínez/José/Marcelino/Raúl/los gemelos Martínez: Martín y el pornograph (coproduction with Argentina)
• Black widow (1971... Enrique Naraud
• There are angels without wings (1971)... man bent on how to conquer women (special action) (cameo)
• The scoundrel (1971... Roberto Laserna
• How to catch a Don Juan (Money is afraid) (1970).... Juan Quesada (coproduction with Spain)
• The Cover of the Crime (1970).... Dandy (episode "The Rebel")
• Fray Don Juan (1970).... Cura Juan/Juan Garcés, playboy
• Click, model photographer (1970).... Mauritius
• Take me with you (1969). Mauritius Feres Yázbek or Garcés
• Wait for me in Siberia. (1969). Mario Esfarcies
• Single Department (1969). Mauritius Machinandiarena
• Modisto de señoras (1969). Maurice
• The inns (1968).
• 24 hours of pleasure (1968).... Mauritius Saldívar (coproduction with Ecuador)
• The inopportune warning (1968).... himself (special action)
• The spoiled servant (1968).... Pablo Namnum
• The bed (1968).... Charlie (co-production with Argentina)
• The beasts (1968).... Sebastian, alias Maurice Lafayette
• Bromas, S.A. (1967).... Alberto/Rogelio Naveda (co-production with Peru)
• Love and stuff (1967).... (episode "You will be mine")
• Marriage is like the devil (1967).... Raúl Alvarez
• The wedding day (1967).... Raúl Alvarez
• A new way of loving (1967).... Alberto Méndez de la Corcuera Díaz Morales de Calderón y Colina
• Women, women, women (1967).... Javier (episode "The Implant")
• Don Juan 67 (1966).... Mauritius
• Married (1966).... Felipe (coproduction with Spain)
• Just for you. (1966).... Doctor Millán
• Throw your sorrows into the wind (1966).... Marcelo Galán
• Cold in spring (1966).... Mauritius (episode "The Bombon")
• Forgive me my life (1965).... Mauritius
• Napoleon (1964).... Raúl
• Mexico of my heart (Two Mexicans in Mexico) (1964).... Mauritius Sandoval
• Black (1963).... Carlos (coproduction with Spain)
• The living head (The Eye of Death) (1963).... Ácatl/Roberto
• Tooth of clothing (1962).... Arturo Rendón
• The Baron of Terror (1962).... doctor.
• I'm married! (1962).... Marcelo Montiel
• The Man of the Millennium (1961).... Joel Monteros
• Almost married (1961).... Martín Herrera
• The Black Horse (1960).... Elias "The Miscellaneous"
• The Bronco Reynosa (1960).... Hermenegildo "El Bronco" Reynosa
• Lovely heart (1960).... Mauritius Rebollo
• The world of vampires (1960).... Rodolfo Sabre
• Where are you, sweetheart? (1960).... Alberto
• Women deceived (1960).... Ricardo Beltrán
• The fanfarers (1960).... Mauritius
• The slippery (1959).... Paul
• The cryona (1959).... Felipe
• A bullet is my witness. (1959).... Juan Valverde
• Revenge apache (1959).... Juan
• The white renegade (1959).... Juan
• The Devil Brothers (1959).... Juan
• The empty star (1958).... Manuel Jiménez
• The young man in the cart (1958).... Morales
• While the body holds (1958).... Carlos
• When Villa is alive, it is death (1958).... Journalist
• Get me your body. (1958).... Gabriel Jiménez, director of orchestra
• Cums of the league (1957).... Juanito
• Radio patrol (1951).... Sebastián
• Whenever you want me (1951).... Esteban
• For wanting a woman (1951).... Antonio Ramírez
• The governor (1951).... Gerardo
• Death in love (1951).... Doctor.

Soap operas

• Gutierritos (1966).... Jorge Contreras
• Gutierritos (1958).... Jorge Contreras