Asdrúbal Meléndez

Asdrúbal Meléndez (89)

1935-11-01 | Falcón, Venezuela

A schoolteacher, calligrapher, and theater, film, and television actor, he has an interest in other disciplines such as poetry, sculpture, and painting. He studied art at renowned institutions in the country and sculpture in Prague, Czech Republic. His artistic work can be seen in more than 60 feature films, the first of which was El cine soy yo (1977) by Luis Armando Roche. He has also worked as a set designer for various theatrical productions and Venezuelan films. As a poet, he has an important body of work published in magazines and newspapers.

On Movies

  • Sons of the Earth
  • Monday or Tuesday, Never Sunday
  • Yotama se va volando
  • Una Mirada al Mar
  • Zamora, tierra y hombres libres
  • El caracazo
  • Coup at Daybreak
  • Tokyo-Paraguaipoa
  • Black River
  • A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings
  • La Matanza de Santa Bárbara
  • Oriana
  • Cóctel de Camarones. En el Día de la Secretaria
  • El iluminado
  • The Compass Rose
  • The Wedding
  • Manoa
  • Portable Country
  • Manuel
  • El crimen del penalista
  • Carmen
  • The Company Forgives a Moment of Madness
  • The Moving-Picture Man
  • Se llamaba SN
  • Sacred and Obscene
  • El circo mágico
  • Chronicle of a Latin American Subversive

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