The actor Hector Altério (Buenos Aires, 1929) died this Saturday at the age of 96, as reported by his family in a press release released by Pentacion Espectáculos.
“It is with deep sorrow that we wish to inform you that today, December 13 in the morning, Héctor Alterio has left us. Gone peacefully after a long and full life devoted to her family and her art, being active professionally to this day. Rest in peace,” the statement said.
Héctor Alterio came on stage at a very young age and continued until the end of his lifewith a guided tour with the text a little storywith autobiographical connotations.
Alterio was one of the most significant artists of their generationboth in his native Argentina and in Spain, where he developed his career prolifically and where he was awarded the 2004 Honorary Goya from the Cinema Academy, of which he was a member.
He made his debut as an actor in 1948, with the play Suicide prohibited in springby Alejandro Casona, and, after completing his drama studies, creates the company Nuevo Teatrowith whom he worked on the revival of the Argentinian scene in the 1960s.
His fame as an actor, however, came through cinemawhere he made his debut alongside Alfredo Mathé in All the sun is bitter and where he participated in some of the best films of the new generation of Argentine filmmakers, such as Leopoldo Torre Nilsson, as reported by the Cinema Academy in a press release.
HE established in Spain in 1975when he had to leave Argentina – he was born into a family of Neapolitan emigrants – due to death threats, where he started again until winning the affection and applause of the public by collaborating with important figures of our cinema such as Jaime Chávarri, in To an unknown godwith which he won the Silver Shell at the San Sebastian Festival; The Cuenca crimeby Pilar Miró; either The nestthe legendary story of Jaime de Armiñán, nominated for an Oscar in 1980.
Despite establishing its residence in our country, Alterio has not stopped participating in many films in his native countrystarring in four of the first Argentine films nominated for the Hollywood Academy Awards: The truce (1974), Camille (1984), The official history (1985), which won the Oscar, and The bride’s son (2001).
His last work on the big screen was in 2015, Because of the mini, the quattro donne and a mucca depressaby the Italian Anna di Francisca and released in 2015, although it could also be seen in 2014 in Kamikazeby Alex Pina.
In 2004, he received the Honorary Goya at the hands of his children Ernesto and Malena Alterio, also renowned artists in cinema, theater and television in Spain and across the Atlantic, and four years later, in 2008, Argentina awarded him the Silver Condor for his cinematic career.
Already in 2023, the Kirchner Cultural Center in Buenos Aires offered a tribute in which a large group of Argentine film professionals participated, including Ricardo Darín.
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