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Filmmaker · Mexico

Alberto Isaac

Died in 1998

Alberto Isaac was born in Mexico City on 18 March 1923. A freestyle swimmer, he represented Mexico at the Olympic Games in London in 1948 and in Helsinki in 1952. A cartoonist and journalist, he long ran the entertainment column of the daily Esto. He turned to directing in the mid-sixties and made a dozen feature films. The first director of the Mexican Institute of Cinematography, created in 1983, he left it in 1986 and died in Mexico City on 9 January 1998.

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