Asdrúbal Meléndez

Biography

A schoolteacher, calligrapher, and theater, film, and television actor, he has an interest in other disciplines such as poetry, sculpture, and painting. He studied art at renowned institutions in the country and sculpture in Prague, Czech Republic. His artistic work can be seen in more than 60 feature films, the first of which was El cine soy yo (1977) by Luis Armando Roche. He has also worked as a set designer for various theatrical productions and Venezuelan films. As a poet, he has an important body of work published in magazines and newspapers.

Known For

The Compass Rose

Oriana

Tokyo-Paraguaipoa

Coup at Daybreak

Zamora, tierra y hombres libres

The Company Forgives a Moment of Madness

A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings

Chronicle of a Latin American Subversive

All Movies (38)

• Sons of the Earth2022 · as Abuelo de Rafael
• Monday or Tuesday, Never Sunday2020 · as Ezequiel
• Canción de las sombras2020
• Cabrujas en el país del disimulo2017
• Yotama se va volando2013
• El Silbón2011
• Una Mirada al Mar2011
• Zamora, tierra y hombres libres2010
• La clase2007
• El caracazo2005
• Manuela Sáenz2000
• Coup at Daybreak1998
• La voz del corazón1997
• Tokyo-Paraguaipoa1996
• Black River1990 · as Carrera
• A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings1988 · as Pelayo
• The Secret1988
• La Matanza de Santa Bárbara1986
• Oriana1985 · as Sánchez
• ¡Diles que no me maten!1984 · as Juvencio Nava
• Cóctel de Camarones. En el Día de la Secretaria1984
• El iluminado1984
• The Compass Rose1983
• The Wedding1982
• Manoa1980
• Portable Country1979 · as Sacerdote
• Manuel1979 · as Manuel
• El crimen del penalista1979
• Carmen1978
• The Company Forgives a Moment of Madness1978
• The Moving-Picture Man1977 · as Jacinto
• Se llamaba SN1977
• Fiebre1976
• La bomba1975
• Sacred and Obscene1975
• El circo mágico1975
• Chronicle of a Latin American Subversive1974
• La ciudad que nos ve1966