Peter Gonzales Falcon, the Texas-based actor who starred as a younger Federico Fellini within the famed director’s semi-autobiographical 1972 movie Roma, has died. He was 75.
The actor’s passing was confirmed by his buddy Aurelio Montemayor, who shared information of the loss of life on his Facebook page. Gonzales Falcon was discovered lifeless at his residence Tuesday, August 22, in La Pryor, Texas, by authorities known as there for a security examine.
“My buddy, Peter, is now not with us. I met him throughout my film-craze days within the 60s & 70s. A Chicano who had a serious position in a Fellini movie! I used to be mesmerized by European movies of that interval, from France, Italy and even Sweden. Roma was entrancing,” Montemayor wrote.
“We had reconnected a number of years again and I had been giving him suggestions on a movie script-in-development after which the Pandemic hit and I misplaced monitor of him. Then right this moment his sister known as…He grew up in La Pryor and that’s the place his life journey ended.”
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Gonzales Falcon obtained his performing break in 1969 with a bit half in Viva Max, a satirical comedy about retaking the Alamo. He was then tapped by Fellini to play the youthful model of himself within the documentary-style movie Roma, the place he portrayed the director in the course of the Nineteen Thirties and Forties whereas dwelling in Rome.
In a 2018 interview, Gonzales Falcon shared that his agent had work in different Italian movies lined up for him after Roma, however a loss of life within the household pressured him to return residence to Texas.
He would go on to work as a mannequin for a yr in London earlier than showing in a number of movies in Mexico. He additionally had a one-episode position in a 1974 episode of the TV collection Police Woman and starred within the 1977 TV film Secrets and techniques.
His different credit embrace The Finish (1978), Heartbreaker (1983), and the 1986 CBS TV movie Houston: The Legend of Texas. He additionally performed a police chief in Gregory Nava’s Texas-set Bordertown (2007) alongside Jennifer Lopez and Martin Sheen.
Extra not too long ago, Gonzales Falcon performed an Italian chef in Tiramisu for Two (2016) and appeared within the horror movie Dis (2018).
He’s survived by his daughters, Ariana and Talula, and sister Maria.
