Sergio Calderón(1945-2023)
- Actor
Sergio Calderón has worked as a professional actor since 1970. Following his studies at the Instituto Andrés Soler of the Asociación Nacional de Actores in Mexico, he was chosen for his first film, Bridge in the Jungle, based on B. Traven's novel, and starring legendary director/actor John Huston. Thirteen years later, Calderón worked with Huston again, this time under Huston's direction as one of the sinister murderers in the classic Under the Volcano with Albert Finney and Jacqueline Bisset. In television in this same period, he played the guest stars Malavida Valdése and El Cajón in both of the two season-initial double episodes of the very popular series "The A-Team" with George Peppard and Mr. T.
But principally he is well-respected and widely recognized for all of his long career of some fifty films. Calderón has worked with other outstanding directors besides Huston: Sergio Leone, Ron Howard, Luis Puenzo, R. Mann and many others. Since beginning his career he has worked with actors such as Anthony Quinn (Children of Sánchez), Peter Falk and Alan Arkin (The In-Laws), Robert Mitchum, James Coburn and Rod Steiger (Duck, you Sucker!), Gerard Depardieu and Pierre Richard (Le Chevre) and Gregory Peck, Jane Fonda and Jimmy Smits (Old Gringo).
He is perhaps most well known for his role as the first alien, Head on a Stick, in the original blockbuster Men in Black, starring Tommy Lee Jones and Will Smith. He co-starred with Jones again - along with Cate Blanchett and Aaron Eckhart - in The Missing, and played Captain Villanueva, the Spanish pirate lord in Pirates of the Caribbean 3: At World's End. He also appeared in Little Fockers, the comedy starring Robert DeNiro, Ben Stiller, and Barbra Streisand.
But principally he is well-respected and widely recognized for all of his long career of some fifty films. Calderón has worked with other outstanding directors besides Huston: Sergio Leone, Ron Howard, Luis Puenzo, R. Mann and many others. Since beginning his career he has worked with actors such as Anthony Quinn (Children of Sánchez), Peter Falk and Alan Arkin (The In-Laws), Robert Mitchum, James Coburn and Rod Steiger (Duck, you Sucker!), Gerard Depardieu and Pierre Richard (Le Chevre) and Gregory Peck, Jane Fonda and Jimmy Smits (Old Gringo).
He is perhaps most well known for his role as the first alien, Head on a Stick, in the original blockbuster Men in Black, starring Tommy Lee Jones and Will Smith. He co-starred with Jones again - along with Cate Blanchett and Aaron Eckhart - in The Missing, and played Captain Villanueva, the Spanish pirate lord in Pirates of the Caribbean 3: At World's End. He also appeared in Little Fockers, the comedy starring Robert DeNiro, Ben Stiller, and Barbra Streisand.
