Enrique Riveros Fernandez (1906â€"1954), was a Chilean actor who
worked primarily in films in France, most notably with directors Jean
Renoir and Jean Cocteau, before retiring from the screen and moving
back to Chile to raise his children.Riveros was born in San Fernando,
Chile, the eldest son of prominent businessman Enrique Riveros and
Mrs. Hortensia Fernández Prado. As a teenager he traveled to Paris in
1922 to study agronomy, but promptly and against his family's wishes,
became involved in the Parisian art world and avant-garde film scene
of the era, mingling with: Picasso, ManRay, Gertrude Stein, Coco
Chanel, Luis Buñuel, Lee Miller, the Viscount de Noailles, among
others, that formed the social circle that unfolded for ten years and
where he developed his acting career.Enrique Riveros worked in Europe
as a leading man in more than fifteen films, which include
Spökbaronen directed by Gustaf Edgren (1927), Majestät schneidet
Bubiköpfe directed by Ragnar Hyltén-Cavallius (1928), Le tournoi
dans la cite (1928) and Le bled (1929), directed by Jean Renoir,
obtaining the latter film the award of the French Government at the
time. In 1930, Riveros appeared as the protagonist of The Blood of a
Poet, the first film by the artist and French intellectual Jean
Cocteau, this avant-garde film is considered one of the highlights of
surrealism. Some of his other roles of the decade were works in films
by: Alberto Cavalcanti, Dans une île perdue (1931), À mi-chemin du
ciel (1931) and Wine Cellars (1930) directed by Benito Perojo, with
the actress and singer Concha Piquer as co-star and Nicole et sa vertu
(1932) by Rene Hervil, among others. Before the outbreak of World War
II, Enrique Riveros returned to Chile, where he worked on a couple of
film projects and starred in the film El hombre que se llevaron (1946)
by Jorge "Coke" Delano, with the role of defendant Alberto Rivero
received the prize for Best Actor National Film. Riveros died in 1954,
leaving a legacy all but forgotten.His fame and success were so bright
at the time, continuously contained in the European film magazine
covers, being a gallant comparable with Rudolph Valentino. Rivero
transcended fame so much in his native Chile, that in 1927 the
newspaper El Mercurio sent a correspondent to interview him in Paris.
worked primarily in films in France, most notably with directors Jean
Renoir and Jean Cocteau, before retiring from the screen and moving
back to Chile to raise his children.Riveros was born in San Fernando,
Chile, the eldest son of prominent businessman Enrique Riveros and
Mrs. Hortensia Fernández Prado. As a teenager he traveled to Paris in
1922 to study agronomy, but promptly and against his family's wishes,
became involved in the Parisian art world and avant-garde film scene
of the era, mingling with: Picasso, ManRay, Gertrude Stein, Coco
Chanel, Luis Buñuel, Lee Miller, the Viscount de Noailles, among
others, that formed the social circle that unfolded for ten years and
where he developed his acting career.Enrique Riveros worked in Europe
as a leading man in more than fifteen films, which include
Spökbaronen directed by Gustaf Edgren (1927), Majestät schneidet
Bubiköpfe directed by Ragnar Hyltén-Cavallius (1928), Le tournoi
dans la cite (1928) and Le bled (1929), directed by Jean Renoir,
obtaining the latter film the award of the French Government at the
time. In 1930, Riveros appeared as the protagonist of The Blood of a
Poet, the first film by the artist and French intellectual Jean
Cocteau, this avant-garde film is considered one of the highlights of
surrealism. Some of his other roles of the decade were works in films
by: Alberto Cavalcanti, Dans une île perdue (1931), À mi-chemin du
ciel (1931) and Wine Cellars (1930) directed by Benito Perojo, with
the actress and singer Concha Piquer as co-star and Nicole et sa vertu
(1932) by Rene Hervil, among others. Before the outbreak of World War
II, Enrique Riveros returned to Chile, where he worked on a couple of
film projects and starred in the film El hombre que se llevaron (1946)
by Jorge "Coke" Delano, with the role of defendant Alberto Rivero
received the prize for Best Actor National Film. Riveros died in 1954,
leaving a legacy all but forgotten.His fame and success were so bright
at the time, continuously contained in the European film magazine
covers, being a gallant comparable with Rudolph Valentino. Rivero
transcended fame so much in his native Chile, that in 1927 the
newspaper El Mercurio sent a correspondent to interview him in Paris.
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