Eduardo Alcaraz
Born
Alfredo Vergara Morales

(1915-04-13)13 April 1915
Santiago, Chile
Died18 April 1987(1987-04-18) (aged 72)
Mexico City, Mexico
OccupationActor

Alfredo Vergara Morales (13 April 1915 – 18 April 1987), best known by the stage name Eduardo Alcaraz, was a Chilean-Mexican actor. Born in Santiago, he was based in Mexico since 1951. He appeared in films such as Escuela de rateros (1958) alongside Pedro Infante.[1] He also worked as voice actor in many movies and cartoons.

In 1949, while working at Radio Quito in Ecuador, he participated in an adaptation of The War of the Worlds, similar to how Orson Welles had done a decade earlier in the United States. Alcaraz was in charge of the script of this new version, which like Welles's version represented the events narrated as if it were a true transmission. When it was revealed that it was a fictional story, a crowd made their way to the El Comercio newspaper building, where the radio worked, and set it on fire. Six people died.[2][3][4]

Selected filmography

Film

Television

References

  1. ^ Monsiváis, p. 259
  2. ^ Gonzalez, Alcides. "¿Sabías que en Ecuador se hizo una versión de La guerra de los mundos de O. Welles?" [Did you know that a version of The War of the Worlds of O. Welles was made in Ecuador?]. VIX (in Spanish).
  3. ^ "'Y con ustedes... la radio en Quito'" ['And with you ... the radio in Quito']. El Comercio (in Spanish). 22 February 2010.
  4. ^ "La Voz de la Capital" [The Voice of the Capital]. El Comercio (in Spanish). 17 August 2014.

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