Antonio Raxel

Antonio Salazar Alejos (13 April 1922 – 25 November 1999), professionally known as Antonio Raxel, was a Mexican actor. He was also a dubbing actor for TV shows, movies, and animation.

Raxel was born in Chiapa de Corzo in Chiapas. Raxel studied his career at the National Institute of Fine Arts under the tutelage of master Japanese Seki Sano. While here Raxel participated in 85 plays.

He started working in professional theater companies, primarily the Maria Tereza Montoya, Anita Blanch and Enrique Rambal.

His film career began in 1950, in supporting roles and he became a star next to stars of the golden age Mexican cinema, participating in at least 250 tapes.

By 1952 he entered television through soap operas such as "Teresa".

His biggest hits were La Familia Barrett, Sexteto, where he performed alongside Chula Prieto, and La idiota, next to Vilma Gonzalez.

Antonio Raxel’s distinctive voice was featured in various projects in film as well as TV and dubbing of the period. He appeared with comedy and suspense actors in such films as Santo y Blue Demon contra Drácula y el Hombre Lobo (Santo and Blue Demon vs. Dracula and the Wolfman).

He won the Virginia Fabregas award in 1974 for his work.

For several decades he participated heavily in Mexican cinema with great success, and in the 80's he featured in supporting and main roles in the movies categories of "files" and "puns" as well as in films alongside Luis de Alba of Chelo Gomez.

He did various jobs in dubbing including with the Audiomaster studio of the dubbing company Televisa, with laboratories in Los Angeles in the U.S. In 1982, during his stay with the company in that city, he alternated between different roles such as Mandrake (the cartoon) and Defenders of the Earth. He was also narrator of the anime series, Robotech, Voltron and Mazinger, which combined for the first time duo sync dubbing with a female actress to impersonate the Baron Ashler of Mazinger in his masculine role. He worked alongside dubbing novices such as Jesus Barrero and Juan Alfonso Carralero in this role.

Antonio Raxel died in Mexico City on November 25, 1999.