 |
| Actor Jorge Rivero at his Hollywood Hills Home. |
Even though he has retired from movies and the entertainment
industry, Mexico’s biggest movie star Jorge Rivero says
he still keeps an eye on Hollywood from
his home nestled up above the city in Hollywood Hills. The 75-year-old actor
starred in some 150 movies from the 1960’s to 1990’s. He starred in films
featuring John Wayne and Charlton Heston in
Hollywood. In Europe, he was directed by legendary writer/ producer/director Lucio Fulci, where
he admitted he enjoyed it more there than in the USA.
 |
Examiner Writer George McQuade with Actor
Jorge Rivero at his Hollywood Hills, CA.
Rivero, a handsome and muscular Mexican
leading man ironically, in his first film he played a masked wrestler and his
face was never shown. He became a sex symbol and a major box-office star.
Later, he was called by Hollywood to star with John Wayne inHoward Hawks's
Rio Lobo (1970). Since the 1980s he has worked only
occasionally in Mexican films and soap operas -- he has resided Southern
California for more than three decades -- and appears in international
productions, sometimes billed as
"George Rivero." |
 |
| Jorge Rivero, actor who made 150 films in Europe, Mexico and Hollywood. |
During the 1970’s, way before Antonio
Banderas, Gael García
Bernal and others defined Latino actors, Rivero was a film hit
during the days when Mexico was putting out 200 films a year. In Europe, his
powerful, buff physique at six feet high attracted leading ladies all over the
world like Spanish sex
symbols Sandra Mozarowsky and Ana Obregon. The film
superstar also worked with superstars like Miss Europe’s Pia Giancaro and Daniel Giordano during
the height of his career in the 70s.
I sat down with this legendary actor at his
home to get an update and learn what's missing in Hollywood today. (MORE)
MAYO PR - "We don't guarantee media, we just get it!"
