The actor Ernesto Gómez Cruz died at the age of 90, after an outstanding career of almost 200 productions in Mexican cinema and television, although he lived his last years amid health problems and melancholy.
His death was announced this April 6 by the National Association of Actors, the National Association of Interpreters (ANDI) also dedicated a message to the actor in films such as Los Caifanes (1967), Herod’s Law (1999), El Infierno ( 2010), The Crime of Father Amaro (2002), The Alley of Miracles (1995) and Canoa (1976).
“ANDI Mexico announces the sensitive death of interpreter partner Ernesto Gómez Cruz. Actor with extensive experience in theater, film and television. He has more than 150 films in his filmography. We send our deepest condolences to his family and friends,” he wrote in X said instance.
The UNAM Film Library highlighted: “Farewell to the great Caifán, Ernesto Gómez Cruz. The multi-award-winning actor will be remembered… In 2003 he received the FilmotecaUNAM Medal for his artistic sensitivity. Rest in peace”.
What did Ernesto Gómez Cruz die from?
The causes of the actor’s death have not been revealed, but a few years ago, in 2015, he spoke about his health problems.
That year, during a conversation with Notimex, the actor from Veracruz said that doctors had diagnosed him with a normal degenerative process for his age: every day he lost visual and hearing acuity, which did not prevent him from continuing to work.
“I will continue standing as long as destiny does not tell me that I should no longer continue, I will continue with the desire to give my best, as long as I have strength, enough sight and hearing to work, I will continue looking for opportunities with high spirits to continue.” being Ernesto Gómez Cruz.”
At that time he received financial support from Carmen Salinas, who even supported him with groceries. That year he was also recognized at the Lunas del Auditorio 2017 for his career:
“It injects me with strength and life to go out and wait for new opportunities, because this is how it is… I don’t need anything, what I did is already done and I am delighted to do it. “I want to die on stage.”
What happened to Ernesto Gómez Cruz?
By 2019, at 85 years old, Ernesto Gómez Cruz moved away from what he loved most: the stage.
Between 2017 and 2016 he had several roles on television: My adorable curse, The candidate and Until I met you. According to IMDb, her last credits were in 2018, in five episodes of the series Por amar sin ley and in La Prima. Then, nothing more.
“I live in a terrible and crushing loneliness, which has me waiting for the end of my days, although if something new arises I will gladly be one of the first to sign up, although at this rate I only wait for death, that is sure to come.” the interpreter explained to Notimex in 2019.
Gómez Cruz mentioned that the loss of memory and visual faculties already prevented him from retaining dialogues and going about his daily life, he had even looked for Juan Osorio: “I looked for him to see if he had any work, but I have waited hours and I have not found him ”.
He was working as Retirement Secretary of the National Association of Actors (ANDA), “as a union official at least I spend the hours watching people pass by and I prefer to be like this than at home in absolute solitude.”
After working all her life, she felt like she was in her beginnings in acting: “With nothing, because when I go home I see that it is no longer mine, now it belongs to my daughters. That’s why I live alone, renting a small room and without a penny in the bag.”
For that moment, he expected the end of his life: “Leaving and not returning, of course, when God deems it convenient. I’m going on a long tour and I’m not coming back. “It bothers me to remember old times, I better live in the moment.”
He lived his days without wanting to talk about the past, from time to time he watched Los Caifanes, but he did not like to think about what was, at that time of the film alongside Juan Ibáñez, Enrique Álvarez Félix, Óscar Chávez, Sergio Jiménez, Eduardo López Rojas and Carlos Monsiváis.
In 2019, he also went to the red carpet at the Ariel Awards and commented to Ventaneando and said that he felt very poor health: “they would be my last presentations, I think, without being too negative… I have to take advantage of these moments because I no longer He is the Gómez Cruz of years ago. “I already enjoyed my time, just waiting for the moment.”
After those statements, little was known about the actor until the day of his death, rumors circulated about an Alzheimer’s diagnosis, although it was not confirmed.
In an interview with Sale el sol in 2019, his son Raymundo Gómez stated that the actor lived abandoned by his sisters: “His mind is declining, he is upset, he is looking for what he likes, work. He worries me that he will die of sadness, he is going out like a candle.”
The actor spoke with said program at that time and mentioned that he had gone out for a walk at night and did not know how to return home and mentioned that his children did visit him and he got along well with everyone: “when they can, they visit me, I don’t force them.” ”.
