Jorge Rivera López (19 March 1930 – 5 September 2024) was an Argentine television and film actor.[1]

Jorge Rivera López
Rivera López in 1974
Born(1930-03-19)19 March 1930
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Died5 September 2024(2024-09-05) (aged 94)
OccupationActor
Years active1958–2024
SpouseMaría Elina Rúas (?–2016)
Children2

Life and career

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Jorge Rivera López was born on 19 March 1930.[2] During the 1980s military dictatorship, López, along with Luis Brandoni, Roberto Cossa, Osvaldo Dragún, and Pepe Soriano, accompanied by Nobel Peace Prize winner (1980) Adolfo Esquivel and writer Ernesto Sábato, formed a group called Teatro Abierto (Open Theater) in an attempt to reinvent independent theater separated from government propaganda and approval. Despite threats, they opened with the declaration that they were against dictatorship and government intervention in the arts.[3] On the opening night, Rivera López read the “Declaration of the Principles” claiming for all the participants their right to freedom of opinion and expression.[4] Three works per day were presented for a full week in the Tabaris Theatre, to an estimated audience of 25,000. The movement continued to perform, despite government disapproval, until the return to democracy and, for several years afterwards, presented works critical of the abuses of the dictatorship.[3] Rivera López died on 5 September 2024, at the age of 90.[5]

Works

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Theater

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Film

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Television

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  • Historia de jóvenes (Series TV), 1959
  • El ABC del amor (episode "Noche terrible") (1967) – Ricardo
  • Esta noche... miedo (Series TV), 1970
  • La única noche (Series TV), 1985
  • La elegida (Agustín-Series TV), 1992
  • Micaela (Antonio-Series TV), 1992
  • Chiquititas (Ramiro Morán-Series TV), 1995
  • La mujer del presidente (Series TV), 1999
  • Don Juan y Su Bella Dama (Francisco-Series TV), 2008
  • El elegido (Tomás-Series TV), 2011

References

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  1. ^ "Jorge Rivera López" (in Spanish). Buenos Aires, Argentina: Cine Nacional. Retrieved 28 August 2015.
  2. ^ LocucionAR. "¡Feliz cumple, Jorge Rivera López!". UACDRA (in European Spanish). Retrieved 6 September 2024.
  3. ^ a b Lawrence, Luis Chesney (January 2000). "El Teatro Abierto Argentino: Un Caso de Teatro Popular de Resistencia Cultural" (in Spanish). Caracas, Venezuela: Dramateatro Revista Digital. Archived from the original on 10 February 2007. Retrieved 28 August 2015.
  4. ^ Graham-Jones, Jean (2000). Exorcising history : Argentine theater under dictatorship. Lewisburg, Pennsylvania: Bucknell University Press. pp. 92–93. ISBN 978-0-838-75424-5. Retrieved 28 August 2015.
  5. ^ Clarín, Redacción (6 September 2024). "Murió el actor Jorge Rivera López, recordado por sus personajes en La Mary y Chiquititas". Clarín (in Spanish). Retrieved 6 September 2024.
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