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Rafael Aviña

I confess that one of the films that left a deep impression on my childhood was the adventures La Sombra Vengadora (1954) composed of four feature films directed in 1954 by Rafael Baledón and which I saw on our Admiral television set in black and white around 1967. La mano negra and his henchmen kidnap a scientist, who has discovered a formula to produce heroic synthetic drugs, and murder one of his colleagues with the help of Zombie, a puma. The scientist's daughter and his students face the criminals with the help of a luchador wearing a black cape, dark tights with a white line zigzagging over his left leg, and a black mask crossed by a white lightning bolt called La Sombra.

The main character of that saga was Armando Silvestre Carrascosa, who passed away this week. Despite his imposing and athletic body, the wrestler under the mask was played by Fernando Osés and the character of the gallant disciple of the scientist was the actor born in San Diego California 98 years ago. Silvestre, before turning to acting under the guidance of Seki Sano, was a bullfighter, a car driver and was successful in horseback riding, diving, golf, and boat racing. A sort of “man of action”, he was called u