# Carlos Cámara

Cárlos Cámara Lázaro (9 January 1934 – 24 February 2016) was a Dominican actor of Spanish descent.

## Biography

Cámara was born to a family of artists. He migrated to Venezuela where he married the actress Lolita Cámara. with whom he had three children: the actors Carlos Cámara Jr., Víctor Cámara and Elisa Parejo. The marriage ended in divorce. He later remarried in Mexico and had another daughter, Norma Cámara.
He moved to Mexico in the late 1960s, where he worked in television, cinema and theatre, at that time Carlos got the Mexican nationality. He mostly played antagonist roles.
Cámara died on 24 February 2016. He was 82.

## Filmography
### Films

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1970 | Las chicas malas del Padre Méndez | | Debut film |
| 1970 | Fallaste corazón | | |
| 1972 | Una mujer honesta | | |
| 1973 | El monasterio de los buitres | | |
| 1974 | Conserje en condominio | Jorge | |
| 1974 | En busca de un muro | Eisenstein | |
| 1975 | Aventuras de un caballo blanco y un niño | | |
| 1976 | Supervivientes de los Andes | | |
| 1979 | La guerra santa | Padre Soler | |
| 1981 | La leyenda de Rodrígo | | |
| 1985 | Masacre en el río Tula | El Che | |
| 1990 | Y tú.. quién eres? | | |
| 1990 | La guerra contra las drogas | | |
| 1992 | Gata por liebre | Otto | |
| 1997 | Una luz en la oscuridad | | |
| 2009 | Sabel Redemption | Mikail Tazzer | |

### Television

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1960 | La rival | | Television debut |
| 1961 | La otra | Álvaro | |
| 1961 | Hacia la luz | | |
| 1964 | San Martín de Porres | | |
| 1967 | Doña Bárbara | El Socio | |
| 1969 | Pablo y Alicia | | |
| 1969 | Cadenas de angustia | | |
| 1970 | La Gata | El Tilico | |
| 1971 | Lucía Sombra | Dr. Pablo Orazabal | |
| 1971 | El amor tiene cara de mujer | Alfredo Bustamante | |
| 1972 | El carruaje | | |
| 1978-1979 | Viviana | Don Jesús | |
| 1979 | Los ricos también lloran | Fernando | |
| 1979 | El cielo es para todos | | |
| 1980 | Espejismo | Román | |
| 1980 | Winnetou le mescalero | Mortimer | |
| 1981-1982 | Infamia | Inspector Carmona | |
| 1982 | Vanessa | Dr. Servín | |
| 1982 | Por amor | Rosendo | |
| 1983-1984 | La fiera | Lorenzo Martínez Bustamante | |
| 1984 | Principessa | Máximo | |
| 1985 | Juana Iris | Nicolás Miranda | |
| 1986-1987 | Cuna de lobos | Reynaldo Gutiérrez | |
| 1988-1989 | El extraño retorno de Diana Salazar | Luther Henrich / Franz Webber | |
| 1989-1990 | Carrusel | Dr. Reynaldo | |
| 1991-1992 | Al filo de la muerte | Luigi Valenti | |
| 1992-1993 | Mágica juventud | Ezequiel | |
| 1995 | Bajo un mismo rostro | Carlos Gorostiaga | |
| 1996 | La antorcha encendida | José Antonio Tirado | |
| 1997 | El alma no tiene color | Humberto Roldán | |
| 1998 | La mentira | Don José "Pepe" Díez | |
| 1998-1999 | Soñadoras | Federico Marconi | |
| 2000 | Siempre te amaré | Lic. Sandoval | |
| 2001 | La intrusa | Rodrigo Junquera #2 | |
| 2003 | Amor real | Ramón Márquez | |
| 2004 | Rubí | José Luis Bermúdez | |
| 2005-2006 | Peregrina | Eliseo Alcocer | |
| 2006-2007 | La fea más bella | Fausto Domenzaín | |
| 2009-2010 | Hasta que el dinero nos separe | Lic. Francisco Beltrán | |
| 2012 | La rosa de Guadalupe | | 3 episodes |

## Awards and nominations
### TVyNovelas Awards

| Year | Category | Soap opera | Result |
| 2004 | Best Leading Actor | Amor real | Won |