Manuel Noriega

Biography

Manuel Noriega was a Spanish-born Mexican stage and film actor, screenwriter, and director who pioneered silent film in the early 1900s. He transitioned to talkies in the 1930s, starring in nearly two hundred sound films, including "Pepita Jiménez" (1946), for which he earned an Ariel Award nomination. Noriega's work spanned multiple countries, including Spain, Mexico, Cuba, and the United States, before his death from a gastric ulcer in Mexico City in 1961.