Pastor Serrador

Heriberto Pastor Serrador was a Cuban-born Argentine actor who lived and worked in Spain beginning in the early 1950s. Pastor Serrador was born in Camagüey, Cuba in 1919, the grandson of the actors Esteban Serrador and Josefina Marí. His father was the merchant Heriberto Pastor and his mother was the actress Teresa Serrador, the sister of Esteban, Juan, and Pepita Serrador. He was the first cousin of director Narciso Ibáñez Serrador. His childhood was spent in Argentina, where he began his career as an actor on the radio. He debuted in theater around 1935, and in 1938 he married the Argentine actress Amalia Britos, separating a few years later. From that union his first son would be born.

The pressures to which he was subjected by his activities as secretary of the Argentine Actors Association pushed him to move to Spain, where he married the actress Luisa Sala and took up residence in 1952. That year, he and his wife took part in the play Divorciémonos, and in 1954 he started a small company of his own, premiering the play El sabor del pecado.Serrador then resumed a prolific interpretive career, in theater, film, and television. On the big screen he starred in such titles as Al fin solos (1955) by José María Elorrieta (with whom he would work on 15 films), Manolo, guardia urbano (1956), The Violet Seller (1958), and Course Completed.

He also achieved great success on Spanish stages with the plays En El Escorial, cariño mío, Vidas cruzadas, La Sauvage (1953), El genio alegre (1954), Hoy es fiesta (1956), La ciudad sin Dios (1957), Juana de Lorena (1962), La señal del fuego (1962), Cita en Senlis (1963), La extraña noche de bodas (1963), Alarma (1964), A Midsummer Night's Dream (1964), Mayores con reparos (1966), Atrapar a un asesino (1968), El armario (1969), Por lo menos tres (1969), Olvida los tambores (1970), and Vivamos hoy (1979), the musicals Annie (1981) and The Sound of Music (1982), La pereza (1984), the revue Doña Mariquita de mi corazón (1985), Escuadra hacia la muerte (1989), and La visita que no tocó el timbre (1994).

Present on Televisión Española since the early days of the broadcast medium in Spain, Serrador was part of the cast of one of its first series, Palma y Don Jaime (1959–1960). In successive years he would portray dozens of characters on shows such as Estudio 1, Novela, Primera fila, La comedia musical española (1985), and Platos rotos (1986), the latter with his wife, which would be her last appearance before her sudden death.After Luisa Sala's death, he married María Teresa Alonso in 1987 and they had one son. He died on 16th December 2006.