Name Romualdo Tirado | Role Actor | |
Died October 17, 1963, Los Angeles, California, United States Movies Verbena Tragica, The Trial of Mary Dugan Similar People Edgar Neville, Charles Lamont, Gregorio Martinez Sierra, Marcel De Sano, Carlos F Borcosque | ||
Romualdo Tirado, aka Romualdo Tirado Pozo, (September 3, 1880 – October 17, 1963) was a stage actor and theatre impresario with a prolific career in Spanish language films produced in Hollywood during the advent of film talkies.
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Early life
Romualdo Tirado was born in Quintanar de la Orden (Spain) on September 3, 1880. Orphaned from an early age, Romualdo began working as a child entertainer for the Juan Bosch Compania Infantil, touring Spain and Latin America.
Latin America
During his stay in Argentina, Romualdo met Spanish stage actress Matilde Linan (1881 - 1971), who was part of a Spanish operetta company she had joined with sister Filomena Linan. Romualdo toured with the Linan sisters and married Matilde in Guayaquil (Ecuador). He moved to Mexico where he worked in live entertainment. In 1917, he joined actress Maria Caballe in El Amor Que Huye (1917), directed by Carlos Martinez de Arredondo.
Los Angeles
In 1919, Romualdo arrived in Los Angeles with his family and a troupe of actors with which he produced live entertainment for local Spanish language audiences. He began renting local movie theaters to present his shows, including El Capitol Theatre and the Teatro Mexico, where he worked in collaboration with Mexican Musical Director E. Gonzalez Jimenez. The theater impresario produced repertoire that included opera and zarzuela on to the presentation of Spanish language vaudeville and plays written by renowned international authors, as well as local.
Hollywood cinema
Next to actor Jose Pena Pepet, Romualdo is one of the most prolific actors to work in Hollywood produced Spanish language films following the advent of film talkies, also known as the Hispanic Cinema period.
Dubbing
In 1938, Romualdo worked in the Spanish version of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs for Argentinean audiences by dubbing into Spanish the character of Doc.