Abel Salazar

• Name — Abel Salazar • Birth Name — Abel Salazar García • Born — 24 September 1917 • Birthplace — Mexico City, Mexico • Died — 21 October 1995 • Place of death — Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico • Occupation — Actor, film director • Years Active — 1941–1989 • Children — 3

After marriages to Alicia Cárdenas, daughter of former Mexican President Lazaro Cardenas, and Gloria Marín, he married, lastly, Rosita Arenas, who had been briefly married to Spanish actor Jaime de Mora y Aragón. Salazar and Arenas had a daughter, Rosa Salazar Arenas, a Mexican actress and screenwriter. and is a writer of the Mexican Spanish-language soap opera Llena de amor (English title: Fill me with love), produced by Televisa, that began airing in 2010. She co-authored Rituales Para El Amor, La Belleza y La Prosperidad (1998), with Pita Ojeda. He died of respiratory failure and Alzheimer's disease in 1995.

• La casa del Rencor (1941) • The League of Songs (1941) • La Virgen morena (1942) • Capullito de Alhelí (1944) • The Three Garcias (1947) • The Garcias Return (1947) • Mi esposa busca novio (1947) • The Prince of the Desert (1947) • La Panchita (1948) • Aunt Candela (1948) • Dos pesos dejada (1949) • Me ha besado un hombre (1949) • Una viuda sin sostén (1950) • What Has That Woman Done to You? (1951) • La Duquesa del Tepetate (1951) • Canasta uruguaya (1951) • From the Can-Can to the Mambo (1951) • Seven Women (1953) • Mañana cuando amanezca (1954) • The Coyote (1955) • El vampiro (1957) • El hombre y el monstruo (1958) • The White Renegade (1960) • El mundo de los vampiros (The World Of The Vampires) (1961) • The Curse of the Crying Woman (La maldición de la llorona) (1961) • The Brainiac (El baron del terror) (1962) • The Adolescents (1968) director • Tres Mujeres en la Hoguera (1976) • Ya Nunca Mas (Never Again) (1984) director—marks the film debut of Luis Miguel.