The Spaniard was considered by his peers to be one of the most handsome men in the business, one of the characteristics that made him successful in Mexican movies and soap operas
Jorge Mistral took his own life at the best moment of his career as a soap opera actor (Photo: Facebook/Mexican Golden Cinema)
During the Golden Age of Mexican cinema Jorge Mistral became one of the favorite actors nationwide, he was admired for hisbeauty and talent when acting. Being one of the most important actors on the big and small screen, no one expected that the end of his days would come by his own hands, because he took his own life at the age of 51.
Jorge Mistral was born in Valencia, Spain, where he began his career as a theater actor while studying at university. From the beginning, he had leading roles, because his manly features made him stand out among his colleagues.
It didn’t take long for him to catch the attention of film producers, who began to offer him substantial and promising contracts to enter the seventh art. The first company he signed with was Cifesa , which at that time was one of the most important Spanish production companies .
Jorge jumped from theater to cinema with great success (Photo: INAH)
During her first years on the big screen, she made films like The call of the sea, Angela is like that, Open sea and White Mission, which were not very popular at the time, but marked the beginning of a successful film career.
By then, Jorge had not abandoned the theater, but even the films in which he had participated had further boosted his career on stage. This is how he arrived in Mexico at the end of the 50s, with a theatrical tour that took him to travel through Latin America.
Arrived in Aztec lands, he became in one of the favorite faces of that time thanks to the movie The right to be born, a film that managed to catapult his fame in Mexico during his golden years.
Mistral He was described by his film companions as one of the most handsome performers of the time (Photo: Facebook/Cine de Oro Mexicano)
Some of his most acclaimed appearances in the country were in < b>Camellia, together with María Félix ; Desirable, next to Dolores del Río; The white sister, together with Yolanda Varela; The right to be born, together to Gloria Marín, among many others.
In the midst of a very successful career as a leading man in movies and as the main character in soap operas, in 1969 was diagnosed with duodenal cancer, but he decided to hide this from almost all his friends, colleagues, even his wife, Olga Marchetti.
Mistral’s future was not encouraging from the beginning, which is why he decided fight the disease alone, hiding it from most of the people around him, except for Víctor Alcocer, one of his companions at the time of his death.
Jorge decided to work even when the pain caused him to writhe on the floor of his dressing room (Photo: Facebook /Cineteca Nacional)
According to what Víctor revealed, Jorge often had to lock himself in the dressing rooms due to the pain caused by cancer. His only way to counter them was with vodka and painkillers, but it was never enough.
Months before his death, the Spaniard began to lose his appetite, something extremely rare for him, who liked to remember his native country through food. Little by little, he stopped eating the same amount of food that he used to eat, so he lost significant weight, something that would also have affected his health.
Jorge was aware of how more and more ailments were accumulating, so, despite the dreams he had of being able to succeed as a film producerand businessman, he made a drastic decision to stop his pain, but also his life.
The Spaniard committed suicide in the middle of the recordings of “Los Hermanos Coraje”, a telenovela for which they had to find his replacement (Photo: SIC Gob)
On April 21, 1972 inside his residence in the nepano neighborhood, the actor put an end to his sorrows while his wife slept peacefully. Without having shown signs of depression or despair, Jorge took his own life with a bullet.
At 51 years old, Mistral left behind dozens of unfinished projects, several soap operas without a protagonist and doubts that marked the lives of his loved ones, who found out about his cancer until days after his death.