Huracan Ramirez was originally a fictitious character invented for a 1952 Mexican wrestling movie (entitled "HURACAN RAMIREZ"). In the film, a young Mexican (whose father is a professional wrestler) decides to follow in his dad's footsteps by adopting the secret identity of Huracan Ramirez, a masked luchador, and fighting 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 in the ring as Huracan Ramirez until 1959, when he tired of the gig and was replaced by the film's producers by wrestler David Garcia. Garcia wrestled in the ring wearing the Huracan Ramirez costume for more than 30 years, and played the Huracan Ramirez role in all of the later movie sequels. He was also a very close personal friend of El Santo (who was Mexico's all-time greatest masked wrestler). In fact, when Santo died in 1984, David Garcia was one of Santo's pall bearers. A total of seven Huracan Ramirez movies were made in all (most in the 1960's/ 1970's), although the films tended to focus on a myriad of secondary characters, dramatic situations and musical numbers, and never really gave Huracan Ramirez a lot to do in the films from a heroic standpoint. (Article submitted by Frank Verzyl)

Filmography includes:

• "HURRICANE RAMIREZ" (1952)
• "THE MYSTERY OF HURRICANE RAMIREZ" (1962)
• "THE SON OF HURRICANE RAMIREZ" (1966)
• "THE REVENGE OF HURRICANE RAMIREZ" (1967)
• "HURRICANE RAMIREZ AND THE BLACK NUN" (1973)
• "DE SANGRE CHICANA" (aka "OF CHICANA BLOOD") (1974)
• "HURRICANE RAMIREZ VS. THE TERRORISTS" (1989)

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