Gilberto Forero

Biography

Chilean actor and stagehand based in Cali. He started in the world of theater as a vagabond and spontaneous that got into everywhere. He did not tread the boards as an actor, but he did help to place them, as he worked as a painter during the construction of the Municipal Theater of Cali. A theater company that visited the city, in which he worked, served to initiate him as a stagehand and over the years he was the best in the trade. Thus he became an expert at lowering and raising the curtain. In 1921 he participated as a stagehand during the filming of María, the first feature film made in …