Francisco Aramis Delgado Cruz

Actor in Cuban theater, television, and film.

He belongs to the catalog of the Artistic Agency of Performing Arts ACTUAR. He was born in Havana on April 25, 1942. He began his artistic career in amateur groups of the Ministry of the Revolutionary Armed Forces MINFAR and the Youth Brigade until 1962, when he joined the Rita Montaner theatrical group as a professional.

In 1968 he moved to the group Los Doce and in 1969 to Teatro Estudio, where he remained until 1983, the year he began with the group Buscón directed by José Antonio Rodríguez. Since 1963 to the present he has belonged to the Agency of Performing Arts of the Ministry of Culture.

He has received numerous specialized courses, among which stand out acting seminars with Adela Escartín, Vicente and Raquel Revuelta, J. Valencia and José Antonio Rodríguez.

Also important in his professional training were work under the direction of Czech theater artist Lubos Pistorius and training in Moscow with director Liubimov of the Taganka group.

His career as a theater actor has been fruitful and successful: he has performed in more than 80 works from the best of Cuban and universal theater, directed by our most prestigious theater artists. Television has made him a very popular and beloved actor thanks to his notable performances in telenovelas such as Magdalena, Entre mamparas, Si me pudieras querer and Las huérfanas de la Obrapía, among many others.

His presence in Cuban cinema has also been notable since 1965 when he acted in the film Soy Cuba, a Cuban-Soviet co-production, directed by Mikhail Kalatozov. He has acted in Bulgaria, USSR, East Germany, West Germany, Spain, Portugal, Venezuela and Brazil.

Among his most important works for the stage are "Abdala" (1960, Clara Noriega); "La gata sobre los rieles" (1969, Ignacio Gutiérrez); "Las Impuras" (1970, Armando Suárez del Villar); "El perro del hortelano" (1971, Vicente Revuelta); "Doña Rosita, la soltera" (1980, Raquel Revuelta); "Ciclo de Teatro Clásico Cubano" (1981, Armando Suárez del Villar); "Ni un sí ni un no" (1982, Abelardo Estorino), "Buscón busca un Otelo" (1985, José Antonio Rodríguez) and "Cómicos para Hamlet" (1988, José Antonio Rodríguez).

Impressions about his career in theater.
Theater fascinates me. It was on the stage where I trained as a professional actor. It is work that takes time and preparation, but it tells you whether or not you have what it takes to be an actor, because there are things one doesn't know well until one tries them. Theater squeezes a person to get the most out of them and that is why I am very grateful for it.

My last performance in theater was in Puerto Rico, where I was part of the cast of Coribante to perform the work La última tentación de Cristo, an experience that gave me a great deal.

Work in Cuban television
On television he has vast experience in different genres such as adventures, police serials, telenovelas; his performances in "Magdalena" (telenovela of 90 chapters, Silvano Suárez, 1990); "El año que viene" (telenovela of 200 chapters, Héctor Quintero, 1993); "Día y noche" (police serial); "Las huérfanas de la Obra Pía" and "El príncipe de los zorros", among others, are remembered.

Filmography
1964 Soy Cuba (Cuba-USSR). Dir. Mikhail Kalatozov.

1965 Vuelo 134 . Dir. José Antonio Jorge.

1966 La muerte de un burócrata. Dir. Tomás Gutiérrez Alea.

1967 Tulipa. Dir. Manuel Octavio Gómez.

1968 Lucía. Dir. Humberto Solás.

1969 La primera carga al machete. Dir. Manuel Octavio Gómez.

1981 Leyenda. Dir. Rogelio París y Jorge Fraga.

1985 Baraguá. Dir. José Massip.

1987 Te llamarás Inocencia. Dir. Teresa Ordoqui.

1993 Habanera (Spain-Cuba). Dir. Tony Verdaguer.

1995 Pon tu pensamiento en mí. Dir. Arturo Sotto.

1996 Los tercermundanos (France-Cuba). Dir. Eric Civanyan.

1997 Hasta la Victoria Siempre (Argentina - Cuba). Dir. Juan C. Desanzo.

Rumbera (Italy-Cuba). Dir. Piero Vivarelly.

El rey de los desesperados (Italy-Cuba). Dir. Gerard Marx.

Mambí (Spain-Cuba). Dir. Santiago y Teodoro Ríos.

Amor Vertical. Dir. Arturo Sotto.

1998. Caribe (Argentine film shot in Cuba).

La vida es silbar. Dir. Fernando Pérez.

1999. Cuba (Spain-Cuba). Dir. Pedro Carvajal.

Aramís Delgado, his television work.

199? Sin remedio (International Film and TV School-EICTV).

La dama galante (International Film and TV School-EICTV).

Suicidio (International Film and TV School-EICTV).

Polvo de estrellas (International Film and TV School-EICTV).

Venganza (International Film and TV School-EICTV).

2005. Mi Caballero de París. Dir. Consuelo Ramírez.

2006. La Pared. Dir. Alejandro Gil.

2007. La noche de los inocentes. Dir. Arturo Sotto.

2010. Chamaco. Dir. Juan Carlos Cremata Malberti.

Awards and recognitions achieved
He was recipient of the Acting Award 1982 at the Havana Theater Festival.

Distinction for National Culture, awarded by the Council of State of the Republic of Cuba. 1990. Baltasar.

Award for best male performance in theater.

Contest of the Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba. Havana, 1982.

Buscón busca un Otelo

Award for best male performance.

Theater Festival of Camagüey. 1986.

Hamlet

Special mention for television performance.

Contest of the Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba. Havana, 1990.

Las huérfanas de la Obrapía

Award for best male performance on T.V.

Contest of the Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba. Havana, 2001.

Distinction "Raúl Gómez García" awarded by the Ministry of Culture.

ACTUAR Award for Life's Work, awarded by the Artistic Agency of Performing Arts ACTUAR 2016

National Theater Award 2022

Events
He has participated in national and international events: FITEI Festival 1985, Lisbon, Portugal and Berlin Festival 1985, Berlin, German Democratic Republic and at the Brazilian Theater Festival, held in Brasilia, 1988, as a member of the cast of Teatro Buscón; and at the XV International Festival of Contemporary Theater. Badajoz, Spain, 1992, among other events.