QUICK FACTS
Activities Artistic director, Costumes
Real name Marcelo Chávez Herrera “El carnal”
Nationality Mexico
Birth March 13, 1911 (Veracruz – Mexico)
Death February 14, 1970
BIOGRAPHY
The actor, Marcelo Chávez Herrera, was born on March 13, 1911 in Tampico Alto , Veracruz, Mexico. He was one of the figures of the golden age of Mexican cinema. At a very early age he showed interest in music and comedy. He met Germán Valdés “Tin Tan” in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua. Since then they were a duo in many comedy presentations and films, which led the public to call them “carnal” and, as a consequence, these two personalities ended up becoming best friends.
Chávez worked with great comedians such as Mario Moreno “Cantinflas” and Don Catrino. In 1943 he debuted on the big screen with the film Maravilla del toreo, and that same year he participated in the film Canto a las Américas. He participated again with his great friend, Germán Valdés “Tin Tan”, in films such as The Mark of the Skunk, The Three and a Half Musketeers, Dizzy Sinbad, The Troublemaker, What Happened to Samson and The Thousand and One Nights.
Marcelo Chávez died at the age of 58, on February 14, 1970, in Mexico City, due to a stroke.
