Biographical Dictionary of Mexican Film Performers

ALVARADO, CROX

(Cruz Pío Socorro Alvarado Bolado)
(date of birth variously given as 1910, 1911, 1913 or 1915?-1984)
Costa Rican born actor, came to Mexico and got work as an extra in the late 1930s. Had a brief period of stardom as a leading man from the mid-40s through the early 1950s, then quickly dropped into second leads and character roles until his death of a heart attack in 1984.