Ricardo Enrique Almirante Segredo

Outstanding television actor. With a solid artistic career, he dedicated 56 years to art in cinema, radio, television, and theater.

He was born in Havana in the heart of a middle-class family. He had a normal childhood and youth without economic concerns and never thought about becoming an artist. In the neighborhood where he grew up there was a very good gym and he trained in various sports. From there came the first Central American and Pan American champions. He practiced sports from age 11, wrestling, weightlifting, boxing. That was the world in which he moved and he also studied, primary school, secondary school... While in high school, he visits his aunt who had a business and had asked him for help with the store's books. He studied commerce and worked in the store's accounting, but without pressure. He did it as entertainment, it was not a strict working life.

A few blocks from his neighborhood, on San Lázaro between Águila and Crespo, was the radio station Radio Habana Cuba Cadena Azul, one of the first in the country for its reach and programming at that time, and very close to the house lived many artists from it. In the building across the street, Carlos Badías and Santiago García Ortega resided; in the one next door, Paul Díaz, also nearby Juan José Castellanos, the narrator of La novela del aire. And next to it was the Teatro Patronato. Many encouraged him to start as an artist. But he was not decided because he thought he did not have the conditions.
Career

He began his artistic career at Cadena Oriental de Radio. In 1954, he joined Channel 4 of television and in 1957 he moved to CMQ. Subsequently, he joined the prestigious Teatro Estudio group where he played important roles in works such as A Streetcar Named Desire, Don Gil de las Calzas Verdes, and Mother Courage. He participated in numerous children's and youth series, and in telenovelas. He was an actor of great popularity in Cuba.
On Television

In 1954, he was hired by channel 4. There he starred in Samarkán, written by Sergio Doré and directed by Sirio Soto.

Also live he performed El jinete Materva and his assistant Salutary. Then came Historias del puerto, a police drama that was also directed by Sirio Soto, everything was live.

In 1963 he was founder of the Aventuras space on channel 6 of Cuban Television with active participation in which are found, Sandokan, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Robin Hood, and many more.

He was in the first Teatro ICR together with Raquel Revuelta and Enrique Santiesteban, with The Sweet Bird of Youth, by Tennessee Williams, directed by Roberto Garriga.

He emerged as an actor first on radio, then on television, as an extra or secondary character, until becoming a leading man, and later, systematic protagonist in the space of youth adventure series.

In more than fifty years of existence of Cuban television, since its founding, many of the dramatic spaces counted with the mark of Enrique Almirante. He participated in memorable Television Theater spaces.

This was the medium that marked, to a greater degree his work, he dedicated more time to it and played diametrically different roles, with the best satisfactions.

Police spaces of television such as En silencio ha tenido que ser, El regreso de David, Julito el pecador, En la frontera del deber, Para empezar a vivir, counted with his presence.

Regarding cinema, his first film would be the one made by ICAIC, Historia de la Revolución, and he would continue with El bautizo, Mella and Lidia y Clodomira, these last two by Enrique Pineda Barnet. In cinema, he was in films such as Jíbaro, El bautizo, Mella, Aquella larga noche, and Río Negro. He also filmed movies in Peru, Mexico, Venezuela, and Colombia. He made several films with foreign directors, one of them El misterio Galíndez, by Gerardo Herrero (Spain).

At the time of his death, he held the position of Director of the Caricato artistic representation agency, work that he developed until his strength allowed it.

He maintained his artistic work in a sustained way with excellent quality and professionalism fundamentally in leading roles.

He represented Cuba in Cultural Days in Europe. He was an Honorary Member of UNEAC. Recipient of high Cuban distinctions such as the Replica of the Machete Mambí of Generalísimo Máximo Gómez. He was decorated with the Distinction for National Culture and obtained the National Television Prize 2006.

Awards granted: 2001. Medal "Alejo Carpentier" - 2006. National Television Prize.

Film Participation
1958
Cerebro del mal. Dir. Joselito Rodríguez.
Nuestro hombre en La Habana. Dir. Carol Reed.
1962
Historias de la Revolución. Dir. Tomás Gutiérrez Alea.
1967
El bautizo. Dir. Roberto Fandiño.
Los tres soldados.
El huésped. Dir. Eduardo Manet.
1975
Mella. Dir. Enrique Pineda.
1977
Río Negro. Dir. Manuel Pérez.
1979
Aquella larga noche. Dir. Enrique Pineda.
1981
Cecilia. Dir. Humberto Solás.
1984
Una luz en la horca.
Jíbaro. Dir. Daniel Díaz.
Tupac Amaru (Perú-Cuba). Dir. Federico García.
1985
Tiempo de morir (Colombia-Cuba). Dir. Jorge Alí Triana.
1986
El socio de Dios (Perú). Dir. Federico García.
1991
Mascaró, el cazador americano. Dir. Constante (Rapi) Diego.
1997
Zafiros, locura azul. Dir. Manuel Herrera.
2000
Paco Chevrolet (Italia). Dir. Guido Giansoldati.
Pata Negra (España-Cuba). Dir. Luis Oliveros.
2001
Soñando con Julia (Estados Unidos).
2002
El misterio de Galíndez (España). Dir. Gerardo Herrero.
2003
El soñador (Cuba-Italia). Dir. Angelo Rizo.
2005
La Rosa de Francia (Cuba-España). Dir. Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón.
Radio

From his experience at Cadena Oriental de Radio, throughout the entire 1950s until the early 70s, he did a lot of radio work in different spaces. But what marked him the most was the character of Kazán, the hunter, who was on the air for six years. He was directed by Carlos Paulín until it ended. Impossible to forget the Rodolfo of Los tres Villalobos, in its final stage.

At the time of his death, on September 30, 2007, his last work was being broadcast on Cuban TV, the character of Sabicú in the novel ¡Oh la Habana!