The Ministry of Culture made a posthumous tribute to the actor on Monday Hector Bonilla for his extensive career in film, theater and television.
The tribute was made by the hand of the National Institute of Fine Arts and Literature (Inbal) at the Palace of Fine Arts of the Mexico City.
His legacy does not end with his departure. He was an exceptional actor, playwright, director, producer, manager, union leader, but above all he was a teacher of his trade and an example of life for several generations”, expressed Alejandra Frausto, Secretary of Culture.
Among those attending the event were his children, Fernando and Sergio, as well as his wife Sofía Álvarez.
Hector Bonilla He died on Friday, November 25, after several years of fighting kidney cancer.
Born in 1939 in Mexico City, Bonilla had time to develop his acting skills in TV soapstelevision series or movies, but he also worked as a director, producer and even a musician.
I study in the National School of Theater of the National Institute of Fine Arts of Mexico (INBA), where he developed the acting talent that would lead him to participate in more than 30 films and as many soap operas.
At 80 years old and despite suffering from kidney cancer since the beginning of 2019, he continued to practice his profession until his last days and received the award this year Golden Ariel that grants the Mexican Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences (ACC).
This award, the highest award given by the film industry of Mexicowas the finishing touch to a stellar career that Bonilla catapulted internationally with “Red Dawn” (1990), a film that narrates the student movement and the massacre of tlatelolcoin Mexico City, on October 2, 1968.
Another of the works that gave him great recognition was the play “¡Viva los muertos!”, in which the Mexican government implemented a program that offered free tickets to illiterate and low-class children.
If we are strict, the only real school of acting that exists is the theater. If you have two months of rehearsal and then the time that the performance lasts, you will do better each time. But in the cinema… 15 takes? That’s nothing,” he explained. Bonilla in a tribute paid to him by the Ministry of Culture and the National Institute of Fine Arts (INBA) on August 14, 2019.
With his full name Héctor Hermilo Bonilla Rebentun, the actor was married to the Mexican actress Socorro Bonilla between 1976 and 1983, and later, in 1985, he married Sofía Álvarez, also an actress, voice actor and storyteller, with whom he lived until the end of his days. .
With information from López-Dóriga Digital