Person
Asdrúbal Meléndez
Acting · Born 1935-11-01 · Falcón, Venezuela
Biography
A schoolteacher, calligrapher, and theater, film, and television actor, he has an interest in other disciplines such as poetry, sculpture, and painting. He studied art at renowned institutions in the country and sculpture in Prague, Czech Republic. His artistic work can be seen in more than 60 feature films, the first of which was El cine soy yo (1977) by Luis Armando Roche. He has also worked as a set designer for various theatrical productions and Venezuelan films. As a poet, he has an important body of work published in magazines and newspapers.
Known for
El iluminado
1984
The Secret
1988
La clase
2007
Portable Country
Sacerdote
Manoa
1980
La bomba
1975
El Silbón
2011
Manuel
Manuel
Tokyo-Paraguaipoa
1996
Fiebre
1976
Filmography
- 2022Sons of the EarthAbuelo de Rafael
- 2020Monday or Tuesday, Never SundayEzequiel
- 2020Canción de las sombras
- 2017Cabrujas en el país del disimulo
- 2013Yotama se va volando
- 2011El Silbón
- 2011Una Mirada al Mar
- 2010Zamora, tierra y hombres libres
- 2007La clase
- 2005El caracazo
- 2000Manuela Sáenz
- 1998Coup at Daybreak
- 1997La voz del corazón
- 1996Tokyo-Paraguaipoa
- 1990Black RiverCarrera
- 1988A Very Old Man with Enormous WingsPelayo
- 1988The Secret
- 1987El señor de los LlanosSet Decoration
- 1986La Matanza de Santa Bárbara
- 1985OrianaSánchez
- 1984¡Diles que no me maten!Juvencio Nava
- 1984Cóctel de Camarones. En el Día de la Secretaria
- 1984El iluminado
- 1983The Compass Rose
- 1982The Wedding
- 1980Manoa
- 1979Portable CountrySacerdote
- 1979ManuelManuel
- 1979El crimen del penalista
- 1978Carmen
- 1978The Company Forgives a Moment of Madness
- 1977The Moving-Picture ManJacinto
- 1977Se llamaba SN
- 1976Fiebre
- 1975La bomba
- 1975Sacred and Obscene
- 1975El circo mágico
- 1974Chronicle of a Latin American Subversive
- 1966La ciudad que nos ve
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