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Revision as of 01:03, 19 November 2012
Huracán Ramírez was a fictitious character invented for the 1952 Mexican Lucha film of the same name. In the film a young Mexican, whose father is a professional wrestler, decides to follow in his father's footsteps by adopting the secret identity of Huracán Ramírez, a masked luchador, and he fights in the ring in spite of his father's wishes to the contrary.
Although actor David Silva played the role of the young man in the film, the masked wrestler scenes were played by real-life luchador Eduardo Bonada. Following the film's release, Bonada continued to wrestle as Huracan Ramirez in the ring in real life until 1959, when he tired of the gig and was replaced by the film's producers by 43-year-old wrestler Daniel García.
García wrestled as Huracán Ramírez for more than 30 years, and played the role in all of the movie sequels that followed (with the exception of "Huracan Ramirez Vs. The Terrorists"). Garcia was the creator of the Huracanrana, a move that has become a signature move of several Lucha Libre wrestlers.[1] Daniel García was a very close personal friend of El Santo, and when Santo died in 1984, Daniel Garcia was one of the Silver-Masked Man's pall bearers. Garcia died on November 1, 2006 at the age of 80. The iconic mask is now worn by Huracán Ramírez Jr, who is not related to Garcia.
Filmography
A total of eight "Huracán Ramírez" movies were made in all, although the films tended to focus more on dramatic subplots and musical numbers, and never really gave the Huracán Ramírez character a lot to do in the films from a heroic standpoint. Eduardo Bonada played the masked Huracan only in the first film, and Daniel Garcia played the masked Huracan in all of the other films (with the exception of the very last film made in 1989).
- Huracán Ramírez (Hurricane Ramirez) (1952) starring Eduardo Bonada as the masked Huracan
- El Misterio de Huracán Ramírez The Mystery of Hurricane Ramirez (1962) introducing Daniel Garcia as the masked Huracan
- El Hijo de Huracán Ramírez (The Son of Hurricane Ramirez) (1966)
- La Venganza de Huracán Ramírez (The Revenge of Hurricane Ramirez) (1967)
- Huracán Ramírez y la Monjita Negra (Hurricane Ramirez and the Black Nun) (1973)
- De Sangre Chicana (Of Chicano Blood) (1974)
- El Torito Puños de Oro (1979) Daniel Garcia's last film
- Hurricane Ramirez Vs. the Terrorists (1989) (Note* - A different wrestler played the masked Huracan in this later movie)
In 2007 "Huracán Ramírez Jr" appeared in the film Mil Mascaras vs. the Aztec Mummy (also known as Mil Mascaras: Resurrection)),[2] which screened internationally to positive reviews. Huracan Jr. is not related to any of the wrestlers who played Huracan Ramirez in the original movies.[3][4]
In wrestling
- Finishing moves
- Huracanrana - innovated