The protagonist of the famous series of The High Garriga and Fox, Enrique Tomás Delgado Jiménez, known artistically as Henry Darrow, died at the age of 87, as confirmed in the spokesman the writer Miluka Rivera.
“He died on Sunday and was using a wheelchair. He was struggling to walk, and in recent weeks he has weakened. He is survived by his wife, actress Lauren Levinson. He wrote the introduction to my book Puerto Rican Legacy in Hollywood: famous and forgotten; and in life it gave me a lot of support, “said Rivera, who said the actor suffered from Alzheimer’s and his death was attributed to natural causes.
“I initially gave myself five years to succeed in Hollywood because I had enrolled in the Pasadena Playhouse and had to become a technician. But since nothing happened, I came back and left for five years. But already when he went through the third round of 15, then it was that he changed everything, “Darrow said alive the spokesman when he came to St. John to found Screen ‘s Actor Guilg (SAG).
His father was born in Corozal and his mother in Joncs, but they emigrated to New York.
“I was born there, at 161, in Manhattan, at Colombia Presbyterian Hospital. My brother Dennis Delgado was born and raised here (in Puerto Rico). On my return to the island, I was given a scholarship from the University of Puerto Rico (UPR) to study theater in the United States, being a student of Political Science.I thought before joining the army and coming to Spain to work as a translator, but this did not happen. As an actor in Puerto Rico, I worked at the Teatro Tapia, in the musical Good News, with the Little Theater, and at the Teatro del UPR, with the late actor Juano Hernández, who had worked extensively on Broadway and in film. important films and he became my first coach, “he told the newspaper.
He explains that Hernandez had done Othello on off-Broadway and other quality plays and told him, “‘Your English is spanglish; it’s very New Yorker. You have to study theater in New York or you go to Hollywood.’
“I found a map and went to the Pasadena Playhouse. Well, as I said, being in my third set, 13 long years and nothing had passed. But in 1967 I did a play called Little Doctor, and he saw me the producer of Bonanza. I had changed my last name to Darrow for that time because if you had one like López or Prim, you were only going to make Mexican papers, and Latin parts, “he admitted then.
The irony is that by changing his last name, at nine months he was playing the role of Manolito Montoya in the television series High Garriga. In fact, it was the only program with characters from a Hispanic-Mexican family introduced to American television. Before that the most Hispanic thing that was seen was to Desi Arnaz in I Love Lucy and West Side Story in the cinema.
The actor starred in the 1983 series Fox and Son as Don Diego de la Vega, and in the 90’s version played Don Alejandro de la Vega. His filmography has 32 films and was featured as a guest artist on Star Trek: Voyager.
“His wife Lauren is heartbroken,” Rivera shared.