Chilean actor and stagehand based in Cali. He started in the world of theater as a vagabond and spontaneous that got into everywhere. He did not tread the boards as an actor, but he did help to place them, as he worked as a painter during the construction of the Municipal Theater of Cali. A theater company that visited the city, in which he worked, served to initiate him as a stagehand and over the years he was the best in the trade. Thus he became an expert at lowering and raising the curtain. In 1921 he participated as a stagehand during the filming of María, the first feature film made in Colombia directed by Máximo Calvo and Alfredo del Diestro, a film based on the novel of the same name by Jorge Isaacs. In 1941 he participated in the film Flores del Valle, by Spanish filmmaker Máximo Calvo. The film was the first feature film with sound produced in Colombia. More than 40 years woul…
