{{Short description|Colombian actor (1939–2015)}} {{family name hatnote|Ramírez|Mateus|lang=Spanish}} {{Infobox person | name = Frank Ramírez | image = Frank Ramírez Mateus.jpg | alt = | caption = | birth_name = Frank Augusto Ramírez Mateus | birth_date = {{Birth date|1939|2|12|df=y}}<ref>{{cite news|title=Murió el actor Frank Ramírez, ícono de la televisión colombiana|url=http://www.semana.com/cultura/articulo/murio-el-actor-frank-ramirez/418426-3|accessdate=9 March 2015|work=Semana|date=19 February 2015|language=Spanish}}</ref><!-- do not change, see talk page --> | birth_place = Aguazul, Casanare, Colombia | death_date = {{Death date and age|2015|2|19|1939|2|12|df=y}} | death_place = Marly, Bogotá, Colombia | nationality = | other_names = | occupation = Actor | years_active = 1968–2015 | known_for = | notable_works = }} '''Frank Augusto Ramírez Mateus''' (12 February 1939 – 19 February 2015) was a Colombian actor and television director, playing roles in various series, both American and Colombian.
==Biography== Ramírez was the son of Jorge Ismael Ramírez Rojas, pharmacist<ref>{{Cite web |date=2021-09-09 |title="Colombia, Bogotá, Burial Permits, 1960-1991", database, Jorge Ismael Ramirez in entry for Cecilia Mateus de Ramirez, 1977. |url=https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:4MBP-KM6Z |website=FamilySearch}}</ref> and member of the Colombian Liberal Party,<ref>{{Cite web |title=En el refugio del ermitaño |url=https://www.kienyke.com/historias/en-el-refugio-del-ermitano |access-date=2022-09-29 |website=KienyKe |language=es}}</ref> and Cecilia Mateus Rico.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2021-09-09 |title="Colombia, Bogotá, Burial Permits, 1960-1991", database, Cecilia Mateus de Ramirez, 1977. |url=https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:4MBP-KM3Z?from=lynx1UIV8&treeref=GNWV-F36 |website=FamilySearch}}</ref> Ramírez studied at the Escuela Nacional de Arte Dramático in Bogotá, but left for the United States in 1964, studying under Actors Studio tutelage.<ref>{{cite news|title=Falleció el legendario actor colombiano Frank Ramírez|url=http://www.diariolasamericas.com/4942_portada-vida-y-artes/2961319_fallecio-legendario-actor-colombiano-frank-ramirez.html|accessdate=22 February 2015|work=Diario Las Américas|date=19 February 2015|language=Spanish}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|language=Spanish|title=La trayectoria de Frank Ramírez, el actor que dejó huella en la televisión colombiana|url=http://www.elpais.com.co/elpais/entretenimiento/noticias/quien-era-frank-ramirez-actor-tiene-luto-television-colombiana|accessdate=22 February 2015|work=El País|date=20 February 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924051250/http://www.elpais.com.co/elpais/entretenimiento/noticias/quien-era-frank-ramirez-actor-tiene-luto-television-colombiana|archive-date=24 September 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref> While in the U.S., he took on roles in series such as ''Barnaby Jones'', ''Lou Grant'', and ''The Flying Nun''.
After returning to Colombia, he appeared in the films ''Cóndores no entierran todos los días'' (1984), ''La estrategia del caracol'' (1993), and the telenovela ''La Saga, Negocio de Familia'' (2004). Ramírez's last role was the Colombian version of Héctor Salamanca in ''Metástasis'', a Spanish-language remake of ''Breaking Bad''.<ref>{{cite news|title=Muere actor colombiano Frank Ramírez, quien trabajó en Hollywood|url=http://www.emol.com/noticias/magazine/2015/02/19/704460/muere-actor-colombiano-frank-ramirez-quien-trabajo-en-hollywood.html|accessdate=22 February 2015|work=El Mercurio|agency=Agence France Presse|date=19 February 2015|language=Spanish}}</ref> He died at age 76, at ''Clínica Marly'', of Parkinson's disease, in 2015.
==Filmography== A partial filmography follows.
=== Television === * ''The Flying Nun'' (1968) "The Crooked Convent" (S2E2) * ''The Mary Tyler Moore Show'' (1971) "He's No Heavy...He's My Brother" (S02, E03) * ''Gunsmoke'' (1973) "Whelan's Men" (S18E20) as Breed * ''Pecados Capitales'' (2003) * ''La Saga, Negocio de Familia'' (2004) * ''En los tacones de Eva'' (2006) as Jesús Mejía * ''Metástasis'' (2014) as Héctor Salamanca
=== Film === * ''Smith!'' (1968) * ''The Sacketts'' (1979) * ''A Man of Principle'' (1984) * ''Cóndores no entierran todos los días'' (1984) * ''Técnicas de duelo'' (1988) * ''Milagro en Roma'' (1988) * ''María Cano'' (1990) * ''Río Negro'' (1991) * ''The Strategy of the Snail'' (1993) * ''Águilas no cazan moscas'' (1994)
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==External links== *{{IMDb name|0709236}} {{Authority control}}
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