Enrique Zambrano

If we think of a biopic about calm and smiling actor Enrique Zambrano, several moments occurred: from when he saw the light for the first time in the twenties, until when he died in the sixties. He was born with a character that later became the beautiful serenity that made him. He died leaving an orphan-hood and widowhood to a family to which he gave a promising future. We can refer to his life story as that of a tree.

It could open on July 5, 1920 in Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico, where a family receives their newborn child with brown eyes, black hair and cupid-shaped lips saw the light for the first time. The parents of the Zambrano-Echeverría family named their baby Enrique Jesús, which meant, if we merged these names, "The Lord of the house and of salvation." With the passage of time, the little lord of the house, as we have said previously, became a handsome gentleman. But he got his artistic opportunity at the age of 23 in the cinema, something that would change his life forever and that led him to be part of the wonderful world of popular culture in the rest of it.

The year was 1943. A very young Enrique Zambrano, set foot on the art world with the right foot, when he filmed his first film, María Candelaria, later released in 1944. And the rest is history. His most famous film was the 1950s disaster horror classic The Black Scorpion (1957), in which he played Cayetano, a linesman killed by a truck.