Biography
Manuel Ojeda was a Mexican actor. He was born on 4 November 1940 in La Paz, Baja California Sur, and died on 11 August 2022 in Mexico City.
Ojeda studied acting at the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes and began his career in theatre before moving into film and television in the mid-1970s. He appeared in hundreds of films and dozens of telenovelas.
He played the villain Zolo in the Hollywood film Romancing the Stone (1984). On television he portrayed Porfirio Díaz in El vuelo del águila (1994) and Emiliano Zapata in Senda de gloria (1987). He also appeared in the anthology series Hora marcada (1988).
