Ignacio López Tarso
Born: 1925-01-15 in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
Died: 2023-03-11
Known For: Acting
Biography
Ignacio López López (b. 15 January 1925 – 11 March 2023), better known as Ignacio López Tarso, was a Mexican actor of stage, film and television. He acted in about 50 films and appeared in documentaries and in one short feature. In 1973 he was given the Ariel Award for Best Actor for Rosa Blanca, and the Ariel de Oro lifetime achievement award in 2007. He was honored multiple times at the TVyNovelas Awards. At the time of his death, he was the oldest living actor and one of the last surviving stars from the Golden Age of Mexican cinema.
Filmography
2025
- Curandero as El Curandero
2021
- Wolves Aren't Meant For The Circus as Don Cristóbal
- Buenos días, Ignacio
2020
- Taken Identity as Don Jesus
2018
- Más sabe el Diablo por Viejo as Joselito
2017
2015
- Loves with Trap as Porfirio
- Tras Nazarin: Following Nazarin as Self
2013
- Wild at Heart as Ramiro Olivares
- The Waterwheel as Old Man
2011
- El Encanto del Águila as Porfirio Díaz
2009
- Curse by the Sea as El Mojarras
- Morenita: el escándalo as Santiago
2005
- Peregrina as Baltasar
2003
- De Pocas Pocas Pulgas as Don Julián Montes
2002
- ¡Vivan los niños! as Ignacio Robles
- Las Lunas del Auditorio as Self
- Veneno
2001
- Atrévete a Olvidarme as Gonzalo Rivas
- Navidad sin Fin as Rodito
- el gato animado televisa as papa noel
2000
- La casa en la playa as Don Ángel Villarreal Cueto
1997
- Conversando con Cristina Pacheco as Self
- Reclusorio as Viejo (segment "Quiero quedarme en la carcel")
- Saint Lucifer as Father Leopoldo Santos Higareda
1996
- Esmeralda as Melesio
1994
- Crystal Empire as César Lombardo
1993
- Banderas, the Tyrant as Coronel de la Gándara
1991
1987
- Senda de gloria as General Eduardo Álvarez
- Muelle rojo
1985
1984
- Under the Volcano as Dr. Vigil
- Notes from Under the Volcano as Self
1982
- Antonieta as Vargas
- Viva México y sus corridos
1981
- El Derecho de Nacer as Don Rafael del Junco
1980
1979
- Amor prohibido as Arturo Galvan
1978
1977
- La casta divina as Don Wilfrido
- ¿Y ahora qué, señor fiscal?
1976
- The Bricklayers as Don Jesus
- Resigned for Reasons of Health as Gustavo Sánchez Campero
1975
- Rapine as Porfirio
1974
- Looking for a Wall as José Clemente Orozco
1973
- The Prophet Mimi as Ángel Peñafiel, Mimi
1972
- Rosa blanca as Jacinto Yáñes
- Cayó de la gloria el diablo as Don Eme (Emeterio Sánchez)
1971
- La Generala as Rosauro Márquez
1970
- The Useless Life of Pito Pérez as Pito Pérez
1969
- The Door and the Butcher's Wife as Melitón Torres (segment "La mujer del carnicero")
- La trinchera
- The Butcher’s Wife as Melitón Torres
1968
- The Devil's Visitations as Felix Estrella
- A Long Journey Toward Death as Dr. David
1967
- Pedro Paramo as Fulgor Sedano
1965
1964
- The Golden Cockerel as Dionisio Pinzón
- Furia en el Edén as Ing. José Argos
1963
- Cri-Cri the Singing little cricket as Francisco Gabilondo Soler 'Cri-Cri'
- Autumn Days as Albino
- The Paper Man as Adán
- La Bandida as Anselmo
- Heart of a Child as Prof. Ezequiel Almeyda
1961
- My Son, the Hero as Gunslinger
- Juana Gallo as Pioquinto
- Then God Named It Earth as Efrén Domínguez
- Ellas también son rebeldes as Dr. Gabriel Renteria
1960
- Macario as Macario
- The Shadow of the Tyrant as General Hilario Jiménez
- Our Daily Hunger as Pablo
- La estrella vacía as Luis Arvide
1959
- Nazarín as Thief in church
- La Cucaracha as Trinidad
- Sonatas as Jefe de guerrilleros
1958
- Love Your Neighbor as (voice)
1957
- Vanilla, Bronze and to Die as Ricardo Castillo
- Happy Year, My Love