Lilia Guízar

Lilia Guízar
Lilia Guízar in the 1960s
Born
Lilia Guízar Noriega

(1938-12-20) 20 December 1938
Los Angeles, California, United States
CitizenshipAmerican
Mexican
OccupationsActress
Singer
Years active1956–1965
Spouse
Ramón Inclán
(m. 1965; died 2018)
ParentTito Guízar (father)
FamilyManolo Noriega (maternal grandfather)
Musical career
GenresBolero
Pop
Ranchera
Tropical music
InstrumentsVocals

Lilia Guízar Noriega (born 20 December 1938) is a Mexican-American actress and singer.

Early life

Lilia Guízar Noriega was born on 20 December 1938 in Los Angeles, California, daughter of Mexican actor and singer Tito Guízar and Nanette Noriega, who was the daughter of Spanish actor Manolo Noriega.[1]

Career

Following in his dad's footsteps, she began an acting career in 1956, debuting in the last year of the Golden Age of Mexican Cinema with the films Caras nuevas and Los hijos de Rancho Grande, working with her father in the latter. She later appeared in productions such as La locura del Rock & Roll (1957), El diario de mi madre (1958), ¡Paso a la juventud..! (1958), El sordo (1959), Bendito entre las mujeres (1959), La tijera de oro (1960), El dolor de pagar la renta (1960) and her final film, El detective genial (1965), a Mexican-Colombian project.[2][3]

Internationally, she worked in the United States with the film The Sun Also Rises (1957), the episode "Duncan's Reef" of the series Captain David Grief (1958), and the TV shows The Chevy Show (1960) and Toast of the Town (1961).[4]

She also pursued a brief singing career in the late 1950s and mid 1960s, performing bolero, pop, ranchera and tropical music songs in various parts of the world, including the United States, South America, Europe and Japan. During her musical career, she formed a duet with her father, for which she was occasionally known as Leia Guízar, and they recorded two versions of a same album together, The Singing Guizars in 1959 and El gran dueto: Lilia y Tito Guízar in 1960, for which they sang songs of various genres.[5][6] Other of their works included collaborations in the albums México and Tributo a María Grever, both from 1965.[7] That same year, she married journalist and composer Ramón Inclán, with whom she had children, thus retiring from the entertainment media to care for her family, in addition to move to Los Angeles. Spending their life together, Inclán died in 2018.[1]

Discography

  • The singing Guizars (1959)
  • El gran dueto: Lilia y Tito Guízar (1960)
  • México (1965)
  • Tributo a María Grever (1965)

Filmography

Film

Television

References

  1. ^ a b "Ramón Inclán Aguilar". SACM/Sociedad de Autores y Compositores de México (in Mexican Spanish). Retrieved 1 March 2026.
  2. ^ "Lilia Guízar". MUBI (in Spanish). Retrieved 1 March 2026.
  3. ^ "Lilia Guízar". Filmaffinity (in Mexican Spanish). Retrieved 1 March 2026.
  4. ^ "Lilia Guízar Movies List". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 1 March 2026.
  5. ^ "The Singing Guizars". Internet Archive (in Mexican Spanish). 1959. Retrieved 1 March 2026.
  6. ^ "Lilia* Y Tito Guizar – El Gran Dueto". Discogs (in Spanish). Retrieved 1 March 2026.
  7. ^ "Various – Mexico!". Discogs (in Spanish). Retrieved 1 March 2026.