Pulgarcito (actor)

Pulgarcito
Pulgarcito in Santa Claus (1959)
Born	Cesáreo Quezadas Cubillas (1950-12-18) December 18, 1950 Mexico City, Mexico

Cesáreo Quezadas Cubillas (born 18 December 1950) is a Mexican actor. He took the stage name of Pulgarcito from the film of the same name in which he debuted in 1957. During the 1960s he achieved worldwide fame for acting in many films. However, in 2005, he was sentenced twenty years in prison for sexually abusing his own daughter.

Biography

Cesáreo Quezadas made his film debut at the age of seven in a film by René Cardona called Pulgarcito in the reissue of the famous story of the Brothers Grimm. Due to the success of his interpretation and already known with the nickname of Pulgarcito he starred in many films by Cardona and brothers Miguel M. Delgado and Agustín P. Delgado, generally in the role of a rogue boy, orphaned and needy, with an angelic and sarcastic look impudence. In 1961, film director Luis Lucia took him to Spain to star, along with Marisol, the film An Angel Has Arrived, which supposes the cusp of his career. Following the classic pattern of other children artists, in the mid-60's Quesazas saw his cinematographic career begin to decline as he loses the childish candor that characterized him, even so, in 1966 stars in two other films Duel of gunmen and The False Heir with Joselito.

His later films saw the total decadence with very secondary roles and even mere cameos, causing Pulgarcito to fall into a spiral of delinquency that led him to perpetrate a robbery the 20 January 1971. Almost at the end of the day, with the face covered by a woolen balaclava and carrying a gun, Quezadas entered unnoticed a shoe store El Taconazo and to the cry of "This is an assault!" surprised the clerk, who at that moment faints. Believing that she was dead, Quezadas was arrested and taken to the Federal District Attorney's Office, where he was interrogated and confessed his crime.

Once rehabilitated and together with his first wife, Beatriz, he set up a printing company. From this first marriage are his four children César, Marisol, Mariana, and Beatriz. Later he maintains an affair with his secretary, Claudia, and his wife files a voluntary divorce suit accusing him of adultery. From his second marriage are his sons Gridley and Guillermo, but their relationship with Claudia would be stormy and this, designer and photographer, ends up discovering a video of Quezadas sexually abusing his daughter Mariana. On 30 April 2005, a judge in the city of Mérida, Yucatán sentenced him to twenty years in prison and he is still, as of August 2017 in El Cereso de Yucatán.