A Puerto Rican actor, poet, writer, playwright, and film director, who entered the film industry at the age of fourteen. He began acting on radio and stage when he was only fourteen. He then began working in television in 1954, and shortly thereafter, developed his writing skills...Read more for television with the soap opera La maid malcriada in 1965. While his first film was Dios los cría in 1979, the film industry in Puerto Rico developed, and his third film, Lo que le pasó a Santiago in 1989, received an Academy Award nomination for Best Foreign Language Film in 1990.
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A Puerto Rican actor, poet, writer, playwright, and film director, who entered the film industry at the age of fourteen. He began acting on radio and stage when he was only...Read more fourteen. He then began working in television in 1954, and shortly thereafter, developed his writing skills for television with the soap opera La maid malcriada in 1965. While his first film was Dios los cría in 1979, the film industry in Puerto Rico developed, and his third film, Lo que le pasó a Santiago in 1989, received an Academy Award nomination for Best Foreign Language Film in 1990.