Alberto Candeau
Alberto Candeau (October 11, 1910 - January 22, 1990) was a famous Uruguayan actor and writer. Biography. Candeau was born in the Ciudad Vieja neighborhood of Montevideo, spending his childhood and adolescence in the Reducto neighborhood. His beginnings as a theater actor were within the cast of Carlos Brussa. In 1947 he joined the founding group of the , and remained a cast member until the day of his death, being one of its most important actors and directors. Acting & Directing. Candeau was also a celebrated theater actor, earning him multiple awards from the Circle of Critics, the Association of  Theater Critics of Uruguay and the . In Uruguay and Buenos Aires, his interpretation of Galileo Galilei is still remembered. In the cinema he participated in the Uruguayan films "The Little Hero of the Arroyo de Oro" and "Ladrón de Sueños" and the Argentines "El Candida" and "Bloody Pleasure". Candeau also had incursions into the radio theater and television. He was also a prolific theater director, staging seventeen shows between 1955 and 1985, of which sixteen were shown through the , and one to El Galpón. Of these works, the "Villa de Gardel" by Víctor Manuel Leites, "Processed 1040" by Juan Carlos  Patron and "Awakens and sings" by Clifford Odets stand out. He also chaired the Bertolt Brecht House in Montevideo, through which he disseminated Brecht's works in different rooms in Uruguay. Books. In 1980 he wrote the novel "Every night is a premiere", co-authored with , about his experiences as an actor and theater director. He was also the author, in collaboration with , of two musical works: "Do the street" and "Prontuariado" with music by Eduardo Etchegoncelhay. Political Activism. Between 1987 and 1989, Candeau joined the "National Commission Pro Referendum", constituted to revoke the "Expiry Law of the Punitive Pretension  of the State", enacted in December 1986 to prevent the prosecution of crimes committed during the military dictatorship in his country ( 1973-1985).