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name: "Omar Valdés"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/omar-valdes"
fi1m_id: "omar-valdes"
imdb_id: "nm0883845"
tmdb_id: 1120690
roles: ["Actor"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-26T16:41:40.333571+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Omar Valdés

## Identity

Omar Valdés

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/omar-valdes
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** omar-valdes
- **IMDb ID:** nm0883845
- **TMDB ID:** 1120690
- **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0883845/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1120690

Actor. Born in Santiago de Cuba, Cuba.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Also known as:** Омар Вальдес
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0883845/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1120690

## Biography

Omar Valdés was a Cuban actor. Born in Havana in 1929, he worked as an accountant, IBM technician and typist before training as an actor. In 1955 he took a course at the Universidad de Oriente with Francisco Morín, followed by four years of study with Vicente Revuelta at Teatro Estudio. He performed in theatre in Oriente province before 1958 and then in Havana with groups including Prometeo, OCUJE, Conjunto Dramático Nacional, La Rueda, Taller Dramático Latinoamericano and Teatro Estudio.

His stage roles included productions of *La soprano calva*, *El alma buena de Se Chuan*, *La muerte de un viajante*, *Madre Coraje* and *Romeo y Julieta*. Valdés began his film career in 1964 and appeared in titles such as *Memories of Underdevelopment* (1968) as Pablo, *Hasta cierto punto* (1983) as Arturo and *La bella del Alhambra* (1989) as Federico. He also worked in television, notably in the series *Filomena Marturano*. A UNEAC prize for male acting is named after him. He died in 1999.

*Sources: cubacine.icaic.cu, imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Memories of Underdevelopment* (1968), Fi1m 84, as Pablo — [page](https://film.one/film/memories-of-underdevelopment.md)

## Complete filmography (12)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Banderas, the Tyrant* (1993), as Roque Cepeda
- *La bella del Alhambra* (1989), as Federico
- *Amor en campo minado* (1987), Actor
- *Up to a Certain Point* (1983), as Arturo
- *Melgar, el poeta insurgente* (1982), Actor
- *Woman, Man, City* (1978), Actor
- *One Day in November* (1976), as Dr. Mario
- *Mella* (1975), Actor
- *Memories of Underdevelopment* (1968), as Pablo — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/memories-of-underdevelopment.md)
- *Tulipa* (1967), Actor
- *El acoso* (1965), Actor
- *Transit* (1964), Actor

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