Cause of death Lung cancer Role Actress Name Angelines Fernandez | Years active 1955–1992 Occupation Actress Children Paloma Fernandez | |
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Full Name Maria de los Angeles Fernandez Abad Parents Manuela Abad, Jose Fernandez Movies and TV shows Similar People Ramon Valdes, Ruben Aguirre, Raul \'Chato\' Padilla, Edgar Vivar, Horacio Gomez Bolanos Died March 25 , 1994 ( Aged 72 ) , Cuauhtemoc, D.F. , Mexico City , Mexico | ||
La muerte de angelines fernandez la bruja del 71
María de los Ángeles "Angelines" Fernández Abad (9 July 1922 – 25 March 1994) was a Spanish-born Mexican actress of film and television. She is best remembered for playing Doña Clotilde "La Bruja del 71" in the Televisa sitcom El Chavo del Ocho.
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- La muerte de angelines fernandez la bruja del 71
- Career
- Death
- Television
- Telenovelas
- Dona clotilde angelines fern ndez em cantinflas
- Filmography
- References
Career
She made her acting debut in the musical comedy Carlo Monte en Monte Carlo in Isabela Garcés' theatre company in Madrid. She flew to Mexico in 1947 in fear for her life due to her support for the Spanish Maquis. During the Spanish Civil War, young Fernández was supportive of the Republican faction. She would remain in Mexico for the rest of her life, except for international tours and a short stint in Cuba during the late 1940s. In 1950, she returned to Mexico permanently.
Angelines Fernández starred in fourteen films, including the classic El esqueleto de la señora Morales (1960). In 1964, she took the supporting role of Sara, the nemesis of Cantinflas's character Padre Sebastián, in El padrecito. She starred in Cadenas de amor at the age of 27, and other telenovelas in the 1960s with the second to last one in 1970. It was not until she was hired in 1973 to play "La Bruja del 71" in El Chavo del Ocho that she cemented her status as a legend. She got that job when she asked her personal friend, Ramón Valdés, if he knew of any acting jobs she might be able to do.
She also participated in Chespirito's other show, El Chapulín Colorado, years later. Ironically, it was with El Chavo del Ocho and El Chapulín Colorado that she achieved fame in her native Spain. The two Chespirito productions became wide international hits, reaching virtually every country in the Americas and also other, non-Spanish speaking, countries as well. The shows are still shown with re-runs in many countries. In 1974, she participated in her last telenovela and her last film and concentrated her work around Chespirito productions.
After the shows ended in 1979, she continued playing "La Bruja" on the hour-long Chespirito and on public tours. Starting later in the 1980s, she began playing Ignacia Fernández "Doña Nachita", a second regular character on Chespirito, the gossipy neighbor in the Los caquitos sketches. She remained on the show until 1992.
Death
An acknowledged tobacco smoker, she died in 1994 from a tobacco related cancer (sources mention it being throat cancer without giving further details). She is buried at the Mausoleos del Ángel in Mexico City.
Television
Telenovelas
