Mauricio Garces Biography

QUICK FACTS
Real name Mauricio Férez Yázbek
Nationality Mexico
Birth December 16, 1926 (Tamaulipas – Mexico)
Death February 27, 1989 (Mexico City – Mexico)
BIOGRAPHY
Mauricio Férez Yázbek, better known as Mauricio Garcés , was a Mexican actor, born on December 16, 1926, in Tampico, Tamaulipas, Mexico. From a Lebanese family, Mauricio moved, at the age of six, with his family to Mexico City, where they met the businessman and actor Antonio Badú, with whom they formed a long friendship. He began a career in chemical sciences, but had to leave school to work and bring money to his family. He worked in various jobs, until his uncle, photographer Tufic Yázbek, helped Mauricio enter the entertainment industry. Helped by another uncle, the producer José Yázbek, Mauricio debuted in a small role in the film La muerte enamorado (1951), where he took the last name of Garcés, considering the letter G as a good omen, since his idols Clark Gable had it. Gary Cooper and Cary Grant. Although his first roles, in film and theater, were focused on the dramatic or suspense genre. Mauricio made his time as the autumnal heartthrob, elegant and somewhat worldly, in films whose themes were closer to comedy, where he achieved his first great success in Don Juan 67 (1967), a role that represented a kind of alter ego in the life of the actor. artist. Among his most notable comedies are Marriage is Like the Devil (1967), Click, Model Photographer (1968), Bachelor’s Department (1969), Ladies’ Dressmaker (1969), The Sinvergüenza (1971), The Three Perfect Marrieds (1973), The Indian is not to blame (1979), among others. Despite his image as a conquering gallant, Garcés was a shy and withdrawn man, single for most of his life. The actor died on February 27, 1989, due to emphysema, developed by his addiction to tobacco.