Jump to content

Mario Ernesto Sánchez

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mario Ernesto Sánchez
Born(1947-01-10)10 January 1947
Died10 April 2025(2025-04-10) (aged 78)
Miami, Florida, U.S.

Mario Ernesto Sánchez (10 January 1947 – 10 April 2025) was a Cuban-American actor who founded Teatro Avante, a Hispanic theatre, in 1979 in Florida. He played various bit parts on Miami Vice and in Hollywood movies, including Invasion U.S.A. (1985) and The Specialist (1994).

Sánchez was born in in San Antonio de las Vegas, in Cuba. He went to the United States as a teenager, at 15, during the Operation Pedro Pan. Among his various roles, he appeared in 5 episodes of Miami Vice (as a limo driver), the film Miami Vice (2006) (as a different character), and the classic British sitcom Only Fools and Horses as a Colombian drug baron.

Sánchez died in Miami on 10 April 2025, at the age of 78.[1]

References

[edit]
[edit]