Tito Guízar

Tito Guízar
Federico Arturo Guízar Tolentino (8 April 1908 – 24 December 1999), known professionally as Tito Guízar, was a Mexican singer and actor. Along with Dolores del Río, Ramón Novarro and Lupe Vélez, as well as José Mojica, Guízar was among the few Mexicans who made history in the early years of Hollywood.
Career
In a career that spanned over seven decades, Guízar trained early as an opera singer and traveled to New York City in 1929 to record the songs of Agustín Lara.
In addition, Guízar performed both operatic and Mexican popular songs at Carnegie Hall, but he succeeded with his arrangements of popular Mexican and Spanish melodies such as Cielito Lindo, La Cucaracha (The Cockroach), Granada, and You Belong to My Heart (English version of Solamente una Vez). In 1936, his song "Allá en el Rancho Grande" ("There on the Big Ranch") launched the singing charro in Mexico after appearing in the film of the same name, succeeding as well in the United States.
Guízar made numerous television appearances, toured in most of Latin American countries, recorded a significant number of songs, and had his own radio show in Los Angeles, Tito Guízar y su Guitarra (Tito Guízar and his Guitar).
Films
He also appeared in dozens of films, including The Big Broadcast of 1938 (1938), Tropic Holiday (1938), St. Louis Blues (1939), The Llano Kid (1939), Brazil (1944), and The Gay Ranchero (1948), playing with such stars as Evelyn Keyes, Dorothy Lamour, Ray Milland, Ann Miller, Martha Raye, Roy Rogers, Mae West and Keenan Wynn. In the 1990s, he continued playing series parts in Mexican television.
Death
Guízar died from natural causes in San Antonio, Texas at the age of 91.
Partial filmography
Under the Pampas Moon (1935) - Café Singer
Allá en el Rancho Grande (There on the Big Ranch) (1936) - José Francisco Ruelas
Amapola del camino (1937) - Antonio Rosales
The Big Broadcast of 1938 (1938) - Specialty
Tropic Holiday (1938) - Ramón
Mis Dos Amores (My Two Loves) (1938) - Julio Bertolin
El trovador de la radio (1938) - Mario del Valle
St. Louis Blues (1939) - Rafael San Ramos
Bachelor Father (1939) - Carlos del Rio
The Llano Kid (1939) - Enrique Ibarra aka The Llano Kid
El rancho del pinar (1939) - Alberto Galindo
Allá en el Trópico (Back in the Tropics) (1940) - José Juan García
De México llegó el amor (1940) - Tito
Blondie Goes Latin (1941) - Manuel Rodríguez
Beautiful Michoacán (1943) - Ernesto
Amores de ayer (1944) - Tito
Brazil (1944) - Miguel Soares
Adiós, Mariquita linda (1944)
Marina (1945) - Jorge
'Como México no hay dos'! (1945)
Mexicana (1945) - 'Pepe' Villarreal
The Thrill of Brazil (1946) - Himself
On the Old Spanish Trail (1947) - Rico - aka The Gypsy
The Gay Ranchero (1948) - Nicci Lopez
El Gallero (1948) - Gabriel
En los Altos de Jalisco (In the Highlands of Jalisco) (1948) - Juan Chávez
Ahí viene Vidal Tenorio (1949)
De Tequila, su mezcal (1950) - Tito
Sindicato de telemirones (1954) - Luis Manrique
De ranchero a empresario (1954) - Tito
El plagiario (1955)
The Sin of Being a Woman (1955) - Javier Morales
Los hijos de Rancho Grande (1956) - José Francisco
Locura musical (1958) - Himself
Music and Money (1958)
Música en la noche (1958)
The Time and the Touch (1962) - Max
Allá en el rancho de las flores (1983)
Reclusorio (1997) - Tito Iriarte (segment "Eutanasia o asesinato")
La Usurpadora (1998) - Don Panchito
References
External links
Tito Guizar singing with the actress Alma Rosa Aguirre in the film El Pecado de Ser Mujer (The Sin of Being a Woman) on archive.org
Tito Guizar singing with orchestra on record albums archived on archive.org
Portrait of Tito Guízar and his family, wife Carmen and daughter Nina, Los Angeles, 1935. Los Angeles Times Photographic Archive (Collection 1429). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
Tito Guizar recordings at the Discography of American Historical Recordings.
1908 births
1999 deaths
20th-century American male actors
20th-century Mexican male actors
Male actors from Guadalajara, Jalisco
American male film actors
Golden Age of Mexican cinema
Mexican emigrants to the United States
Mexican male film actors
Singers from Guadalajara, Jalisco
20th-century Mexican male singers