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- Miss Spear was crowned Miss Venezuela in 2004 and was 4th runner-up in the 2005 Miss Universe Pageant. Prior to competing in beauty pageants, Miss Spear bachelor's degree in theater from the University of Central Florida. Miss Spear went on to become one of the most popular and successful soap opera stars. She married Henry Berry in June 2008 and welcomed daughter Maya in October 2008. They divorced in March 2010. Miss Spear and Mr. Berry were killed during a robbery when their car broke down in Puerto Cabello, near Caracas. The couple were there on vacation. Daughter Maya was injured but survived the attack. Spear's death triggered a wave of anger on social media directed at the populist government's poor record on crime. Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro lamented her death on a live television broadcast.
- Alexander Milic was born on 13 April 1947. He was an actor, known for Jericho (1991), Black River (1990) and Caribe (1990). He died on 5 March 1995 in Caracas, Venezuela.
- Luis Abreu was born on 5 May 1947 in Venezuela. He was an actor, known for Catatumbo (1981), La señorita Elena (1967) and La Zulianita (1977). He was married to Haydee Ascanio, María Teresa Parra and Giselle Blondet. He died on 22 March 2015 in Caracas, Venezuela.
- Actress
Gorgeous and sensuous well-built brunette stunner Bonnie Dee Wilson was born in 1947 in San Antonio, Texas. Bonnie gave birth to a daughter in 1967. She both graced the cover and did a nude pictorial as a Pet of the Month in the November, 1975 issue of "Penthouse" magazine. Wilson did a follow-up nude pictorial in the October, 1977 issue of the same popular men's magazine. Bonnie Dee Wilson's only film appearance was an uncredited bit part as an imperial brothel worker in the infamous orgy sequence in the notorious "Caligula."- Antonieta Colón was born on 7 January 1938 in Santa Teresa de Tocuyo, Lara, Venezuela. She was an actress, known for Disparen a matar (1990), La boda (1982) and Bodas de papel (1979). She died on 20 April 2024 in Caracas, Venezuela.
- Martha Piñango was born on 19 November 1958 in La Guaira, Vargas, Venezuela. She was an actress, known for Federrrico (1982). She was married to Ricardo Gruber. She died on 4 April 1999 in Caracas, Venezuela.
- Actor
- Stunts
- Writer
Jeff Moldovan was born on 22 April 1953. He was an actor and writer, known for The Punisher (2004), Miami Vice (2006) and Passenger 57 (1992). He died on 22 August 2013 in Caracas, Venezuela.- Mayra Alejandra was born on 7 May 1958 in Caracas, Venezuela. She was an actress, known for Leonela (1983), Manón (1986) and Mariela, Mariela (1977). She died on 17 April 2014 in Caracas, Venezuela.
- Nancy González was born on 13 May 1952 in Caracas, Venezuela. She was an actress, known for Atrévete (1986), Leonela (1983) and Rosangelica (1993). She died on 14 February 2024 in Caracas, Venezuela.
- Miguel Alcántara was born on 2 November 1956 in Carupano, Sucre, Venezuela. He was an actor, known for La muchacha del circo (1988), La mujer prohibida (1991) and Atrévete (1986). He died on 31 March 2001 in Caracas, Venezuela.
- Manuel Escolano was born on 26 May 1948 in Spain. He was an actor, known for Ilusiones (1995), Si me miran tus ojos (2010) and Mujer secreta (1999). He was married to Puli Gamboa. He died on 10 August 2023 in Caracas, Venezuela.
- Charles Barry was born on 22 August 1922 in Caracas, Venezuela. He was an actor, known for Muñequita (1980), Estefanía (1979) and Leonela (1983). He was married to Ligia Lezama. He died on 20 August 2000 in Isla Margarita, Estado Nueva Esparta, Venezuela.
- Héctor Mayerston was born on 19 September 1932 in La Victoria, Aragua, Venezuela. He was an actor, known for El vividor (1977), Amaneció de golpe (1998) and El regreso de Sabina (1980). He died on 9 November 1999 in Caracas, Venezuela.
- Director
- Actor
Reinaldo Lancaster was born on 6 October 1948 in Caracas, Venezuela. He was a director and actor, known for Caribe (1990), La revancha (1989) and Dulce ilusión (1993). He was married to Virginia Vera. He died on 20 April 1996 in Caracas, Venezuela.- Oscar Martínez was born on 23 August 1936 in Calabozo, Guárico, Venezuela. He was an actor, known for Hacia la luz (1961), Renzo, el gitano (1966) and El mulato (1968). He was married to María Teresa Chacín. He died on 28 August 1978 in Puerto La Cruz, Anzoátegui, Venezuela.
- Carlos Olivier was born on 26 January 1952 in Caracas, Venezuela. He was an actor, known for Hay amores que matan (2000), Me llamo Julián, te quiero (1972) and Amor de papel (1993). He died on 22 January 2007 in Caracas, Venezuela.
- Writer
- Director
- Make-Up Department
Haydee Ascanio was born on 16 December 1943 in Caracas, Venezuela. She was a writer and director, known for Unas son de amor (1987), Llovizna (1997) and Rosa de la calle (1982). She was married to Guillermo Carrasco. She died on 8 March 2005 in Venezuela.- Actor
- Composer
- Soundtrack
Agustín Irusta was born on 28 August 1902 in Rosario, Santa Fé, Argentina. He was an actor and composer, known for La guitarra de Gardel (1949), Buenos Aires a la vista (1950) and Boliche (1933). He died on 24 April 1987 in Caracas, Venezuela.- Ricardo Gruber was born on 5 November 1952 in Caracas, Venezuela. He was an actor, known for Pura sangre (1994), La pasion de Teresa (1987) and Carissima (2001). He was married to Martha Piñango. He died on 21 May 2021 in Caracas, Venezuela.
- Edmundo Valdemar was born on 8 May 1930 in Ciudad Bolívar, Bolívar, Venezuela. He was an actor, known for Papalepe (1957), La hija del dolor (1969) and La italianita (1973). He died on 15 June 1976 in Caracas, Venezuela.
- Esperanza Magaz was born on 24 February 1922 in Havana, Cuba. She was an actress, known for La Zulianita (1977), La revancha (1989) and Diana Carolina (1984). She was married to Guillermo Navas Fernández. She died on 6 May 2013 in Caracas, Venezuela.
- Guillermo Ferrán was born on 6 April 1935 in Montevideo, Uruguay. He was an actor, known for Under Siege (1980), Pura sangre (1994) and Sabel (1978). He died in 2014 in Caracas, Venezuela.
- Martín Lantigua was born on 14 May 1932 in Canary Islands, Spain. He was an actor, known for Mariana de la noche (1975), María del Mar (1978) and La Zulianita (1977). He died on 8 September 2013 in Caracas, Venezuela.
- Alberto Marín was born on 18 January 1948 in Caracas, Venezuela. He was an actor, known for Sonia (1978), La hija de Juana Crespo (1977) and La italianita (1973). He died on 22 October 2004 in Caracas, Venezuela.
- Director
- Writer
- Producer
Román Chalbaud was born on 10 October 1931 in Mérida, Venezuela. He was a director and writer, known for Pandemonium, the Hell's Capital City (1997), El pez que fuma (1977) and El caracazo (2005). He died on 12 September 2023 in Caracas, Venezuela.- Liliana Durán was born on 2 May 1932 in Alicante, Spain. She was an actress, known for Estefanía (1979), La sustituta (1989) and Muñequita (1980). She died on 23 August 2006 in Caracas, Venezuela.
- Amalia Pérez Díaz was born on 15 June 1923 in Valparaíso, Chile. She was an actress, known for El engaño (1968), La inolvidable (1996) and Carmen querida (1990). She was married to Manuel Enrique Pérez Díaz. She died on 26 December 2003 in Caracas, Venezuela.
- Actor
- Soundtrack
Daniel Alvarado was born on 12 August 1949 in Maracaibo, Zulia, Venezuela. He was an actor, known for Nude with Oranges (1996), La revancha (1989) and Amantes de Luna Llena (2000). He was married to Emma Rabbe and Carmen Julia Álvarez. He died on 8 July 2020 in Caracas, Venezuela.- Juan Frankis was born on 3 November 1937 in Caracas, Venezuela. He was an actor, known for La inolvidable (1996), Leonela (1983) and La loba (1973). He died on 23 September 2010 in Caracas, Venezuela.
- Music Department
- Soundtrack
Luis Guillermo González was born on 10 February 1932 in Caracas, Venezuela. He is known for Leonela (1983), Atrévete (1986) and El engaño (1989). He died on 26 September 1990 in Caracas, Venezuela.- Carlos Márquez was born on 19 April 1926 in Guanoco, Sucre, Venezuela. He was an actor, known for La indomable (1972), Topacio (1984) and Raquel (1973). He was married to Dolores Beltran, Adilia Castillo and Juana Sujo. He died on 26 March 2016 in Caracas, Venezuela.
- Bárbara Teyde was born on 13 April 1942 in Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain. She was an actress, known for El engaño (1968), Por amarte tanto (1993) and La indomable (1972). She was married to Jorge Palacios. She died on 10 September 2008 in Caracas, Venezuela.
- Cristina Fontana was born in 1919 in Venezuela. She was an actress, known for Raquel (1973), Sacrificio de mujer (1972) and Esmeralda (1970). She died in 2016 in Caracas, Venezuela.
- Actress
- Writer
Doris Wells, whose birth name is Doris Buonafina, was born in Caripito, a little oil town of Monagas State, Venezuela on October 28th, 1941, being the youngest of six children. At 15 years old, and coinciding with the migration of her family to Caracas, Doris became a student of the Juana Sujo's School of Theater, created by this famous Venezuelan (born Argentinean) actress. Doris became one of her best pupils not only for her beauty but also her unquestionable talent. Doris would graduate in 1960 with many other actors that would be big stars in the Venezuelan TV in 60's and 70's, like José Bardina, José Luis Silva and Ivonne Attas (later Mrs. Attas made a successful career as politician). As an anecdotal note, this was the last class that Juana Sujo was the teacher because she died of cancer in 1961. The debut of Doris Wells in television was in the polemic Venezuelan TV series "Se necesita una amiga" released in 1961 (where the plots were based in true stories), but her first great role was the merciless and vile Reina Montero in the successful Telenovela (soap opera) "Historia de tres hermanas" (1964) where she messed to her sisters (Eva Blanco and Eva Moreno) for blame of one of the gallants of the story (Raúl Amundaray). This soap opera, by the way, was the first in these country whose episodes were 60 minutes in duration, and not 30 minutes as were they made until this time. Doris always played the role of the villain, not only as the evil of the story, but also the feared and respected woman until 1972, when she starred in the soap opera Sacrificio de mujer (with Edmundo Arias) in the role of the patient Regina Carbonell. Another soap opera that would confirm this new role of heroine was Raquel (1973-74) with Raúl Amundaray, which was one of the first Venezuelan soap operas known outside of its frontiers. Soon after, Doris announced that she wouldn't film soap operas again (due, among other things, to the fact that she didn't like the weak plots and characters of these productions) to be devoted to historical series and theaters. However, this retirement would not last long, because the polemic and successful Venezuelan playwright José Ignacio Cabrujas (who was a close friend of Doris Wells) wrote for her the main character of La señora de Cárdenas (1977). This soap opera (starring also with Miguelángel Landa) tells the story about a married woman of middle class with a daughter that discovers that her husband deceives her and at last she decides to divorce him. La señora de Cárdenas was a big hit because, for the first time in a Venezuelan soap opera, the plot is not the typical romantic soap operas (a young couple, singles, from different social classes and always with a happy end) and it inaugurated in Venezuela a new well-known style of dramatic production with the name of "Telenovela cultural" (cultural soap opera) that would be in vogue at the end of 70's and it was supported by other writers like Fausto Verdial and Julio César Mármol, among many other people. This new phase of the career of Doris Wells had her definitive consecration in the soap opera La fiera (released in 1978), which was a free adaptation of Dostoyevsky's "The Brothers Karamazow", in which Doris played the role of Isabel Blanco a.k.a. "la catirrusia" (the ruddy) who becomes the apple of the discord among the main characters (José Bardina and Carlos Márquez who is, by the way, Juana Sujo's widower) and it obtained an immense success. As a curious note, this soap opera was rerun in Venezuela in 1987 and it obtained much more rating respect than its debut (and in fact, the Isabel Blanco's character was considered the best role of Doris Wells' career). After La fiera, Doris Wells announced her definitive retirement from soap operas and she debuted as writer and producer with the TV movie Porcelana (1981),in which she played a successful and single manager that has to confront the "Crisis of the 40's" and Derrota final (1982) where she was a guerilla fighter. It is also in this time that Doris starred in the Venezuelan movies Ana, pasión de dos mundos (1982), La casa de agua (1983), and Oriana (1985), which would consecrate it worldwide. She also had to face in the real life a situation worthy of some of her soap operas: her only husband's sudden death (at the time that they had filed for divorce), the wealthy Venezuelan lawyer William Risquez Iribarren, with whom she had three children (Marielba, Xavier and Verónica), after which Doris would return (shortly) to television in 1986 as a TV Host of one Contest Show. Soon after, Doris Wells began to suffer a strange illness called Foil's Syndrome (a strange illness that attacks to the liver and the lungs by a virus, whose origin is unknown and before her ten cases were known in the world) and finally, Mrs. Wells died at September 20th, 1988 almost one month before she turned 47 years old. So, Venezuela lost one of its most gracious, talented, beautiful and admired actresses who always knew to live a quite exemplary life, without scandals or gossip. Without a doubt, she should be seen as a good example of professionalism for the new generations of actors, not only Venezuelans but of any other country.- Rebeca González was born on 30 August 1951 in Caracas, Venezuela. She was an actress, known for El hombre de hierro (1985), La otra (1973) and El regreso (1976). She died on 29 October 2019 in Caracas, Venezuela.
- Orángel Delfín was born on 25 January 1933 in Los Teques, Venezuela. He was an actor and director, known for Una muchacha llamada Milagros (1973), La revancha (1989) and Soledad (1969). He was married to María Luz Torrenova. He died on 13 October 2001 in Barquisimeto, Venezuela.
- Mahuampi Acosta was born in 1930 in Guárico, Venezuela. She was an actress, known for Estefanía (1979), La hija de Juana Crespo (1977) and Leonela (1983). She died on 15 January 1993 in Caracas, Venezuela.
- José Oliva was born on 23 September 1933 in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. He was an actor, known for Una muchacha llamada Milagros (1973), Me llamo Julián, te quiero (1972) and Calypso (1999). He died on 3 September 2007 in Caracas, Venezuela.
- Adilia Castillo was born on 26 August 1933 in Apureña de El Yagual, Venezuela. She was an actress, known for Los bárbaros del norte (1962), Martín Santos el llanero (1962) and Doña Bárbara (1958). She died on 7 March 2014 in Caracas, Venezuela.
- She was one of the great actresses and big stars of Venezuela, performing for radio, TV, theater and cinema. She started in Mexican films and later became director Román Chalbaud's favorite actress, appearing in most of his films.
- Producer
- Director
- Additional Crew
Joaquín Riviera was a producer and director, known for Miss Venezuela 2002 (2002), Guerra de los sexos (2000) and Festival Internacional de la Orquídea (1982). He died on 22 April 2013 in Caracas, Venezuela.- Lourdes Valera was born on 15 June 1963 in Caracas, Venezuela. She was an actress, known for Cristal (1985), El país de las mujeres (1998) and 13 segundos (2007). She was married to Luis Alberto Lamata. She died on 2 May 2012 in Caracas, Venezuela.
- Arturo Calderón was born on 8 February 1928 in Boconó, Trujillo, Venezuela. He was an actor, known for La trepadora (1975), Sonia (1978) and Estefanía (1979). He died on 24 August 1989 in Caracas, Venezuela.
- Actor
- Special Effects
Arturo Maitin was born on 4 October 1954 in Caracas, Venezuela. He was an actor, known for Savana - Sesso e diamanti (1978), Under Siege (1980) and Soy un delincuente (1976). He died on 10 August 2021 in Los Teques, Miranda, Venezuela.- Actor
Grey Eckel was born in 1934. He was an actor. He died on 2 March 2013 in Maracaibo, Venezuela.- Julián Pacheco was an actor, known for El malvado Carabel (1962), El reportero (1968) and Dos gallos en palenque (1960). He died on 11 March 2015 in Caracas, Venezuela.
- Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías (28 July 1954 - 5 March 2013) was a Venezuelan politician who was president of Venezuela from 1999 until his death in 2013, except for a brief period in 2002. Chávez was also leader of the Fifth Republic Movement political party from its foundation in 1997 until 2007, when it merged with several other parties to form the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), which he led until 2012.
- Hilda Carrero was born on 26 December 1951 in Caracas, Venezuela. She was an actress, known for María del Mar (1978), Patrulla 88 (1977) and Julia (1984). She died on 28 January 2002 in Caracas, Venezuela.
- Actor
- Soundtrack
José Antonio Bordell was born on 16 November 1961 in Caracas, Venezuela. He was an actor, known for Mujercitas (1999), El pecado de una madre (1982) and Kassandra (1992). He died on 1 July 2017 in Caucagua, Miranda, Venezuela.- Adelaida Torrente was born on 23 March 1912 in A Coruña, Galicia, Spain. She was an actress, known for The Pink Pussy: Where Sin Lives (1964), Mily (1973) and El pequeño milagro (1964). She was married to Juan Álvarez. She died on 26 March 1976 in Caracas, Venezuela.