Celebrity Biographies
Pedro Weber ‘Chatanuga’
He was the highest representative of a genre that actually embarrasses Mexicans, the cinema of “files”, a euphemism for prostitutes, which gave rise to titles that do not seem to come from the same country that has given Alfonso Cuarón and Alejandro González Iñárritu. The comic actor Pedro Weber ‘Chatanuga’, highly appreciated by his compatriots, however, died on Monday, March 21, 2016, at the age of 82, due to heart and lung failure.
Born on November 27, 1933, in Ciudad Guzmán, a small town in the state of Jalisco, Pedro Weber was not exactly a ‘pelado’, a citizen of low social extraction, like the proud Cantinflas, but came from a family of upper class. tall of Lebanese origin. Still, he followed in the footsteps of his illustrious compatriot as a tent comic.
One day he asked some fellow musicians from his show what the name of the piece they had just played was called. They replied that it was “Chatanooga Choo Choo” by Glenn Miller , and from then on they began to know him as “Chatanuga”. Shortly after, he would make his film debut with Dos caballeros de espada (1964), a thriller by Carlos Enrique Taboada , one of the pioneers of Mexican terror.
But he established himself with the aforementioned ‘fichera cinema’, in titles such as La pulquería (1981), Los rateros (1989), Adiós, Lagunilla, adiós (1984), El cafre (1986) and El vampiro teporocho (1989), where He basically played humble mechanics or bricklayers who spent their days in brothels, in a macho, naughty type of cinema, full of naked women and risqué dialogues, which had a certain pull at the time. He got to work with the Spanish equivalents of him, Andrés Pajares and Fernando Esteso , on Yo hacié a Roque III .
When the genre went out of fashion, he took refuge in soap operas. She has participated in some that had a huge impact, such as Agujetas de color de rosa, El privilegio de amar and, more recently, Rebelde . He resisted retiring from the cinema, but was forced to do so due to health problems after shooting in 2014 In the last drink , a film with a nostalgic tone.