Lupita Tovar Net Worth
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Lupita Tovar (born July 27, 1910) is a Mexican American actress, best known for her starring role in the 1931 Spanish language version of Dracula, filmed in Los Angeles by Universal Pictures at night using the same sets as the Bela Lugosi version, but with a different cast and director.Although she herself apparently did not make any silent films, with her earliest films released by Fox Film Corporation in the Fox Movietone sound-on-film system, some may have been released in silent versions for theaters not yet equipped for sound.
| # | Fact |
|---|---|
| 1 | She died on November 12, 2016, the day after her daughter Susan Kohner's 80th birthday. |
| 2 | She and her daughter Susan Kohner both starred in films that the Library of Congress selected for preservation in the National Film Registry in 2015: Tovar in Dracula (1931) and Kohner in Imitation of Life (1959). |
| 3 | She was born in Mexico of a Mexican father and an Irish mother. |
| 4 | She acted in the first Mexican talkie film, Santa (1932). |
| 5 | Mother-in-law of Mercedes Martinez. |
| 6 | Interviewed in Tom Weaver's book "Attack of the Monster Movie Makers" (McFarland & Co., 1994). |
| 7 | Grandmother of Paul Weitz and Chris Weitz |
| 8 | Mother of Pancho Kohner and Susan Kohner |
Actress
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Invitation Playhouse: Mind Over Murder | 1952 | TV Series | |
| The Crime Doctor's Courage | 1945 | Dolores Bragga | |
| Miguel Strogoff | 1944 | Nadia Fedorova | |
| Gun to Gun | 1944 | Short | Dolores Diego |
| Resurrección | 1943 | María | |
| Two Gun Sheriff | 1941 | Nita | |
| The Westerner | 1940 | Teresita (uncredited) | |
| Green Hell | 1940 | Native Girl | |
| South of the Border | 1939 | Dolores Mendoza | |
| Tropic Fury | 1939 | Maria Scipio | |
| The Fighting Gringo | 1939 | Anita del Campo | |
| María | 1938 | María | |
| El rosario de Amozoc | 1938 | Rosario | |
| Blockade | 1938 | Cabaret Girl | |
| El capitan Tormenta | 1936 | Magda | |
| Marihuana | 1936/II | Irene Heredia | |
| The Invader | 1936 | Lupita Melez | |
| Alas sobre El Chaco | 1935 | Teresa | |
| Broken Lives | 1935 | Marcela | |
| Santa | 1932 | Santa | |
| Border Law | 1931 | Tonita | |
| East of Borneo | 1931 | Neila | |
| El Tenorio del harem | 1931 | Fátima | |
| Yankee Don | 1931 | ||
| Carne de cabaret | 1931 | Drothy O'Neil | |
| Drácula | 1931 | Eva | |
| Estamos en París | 1931 | Short | |
| La voluntad del muerto | 1930 | Anita | |
| The Cock-Eyed World | 1929 | Bit Part (uncredited) | |
| The Black Watch | 1929 | Bit Part (uncredited) | |
| Joy Street | 1929 | ||
| The Veiled Woman | 1929 | Young Girl |
Soundtrack
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Border Law | 1931 | performer: "Adios Amigo" - uncredited |
Miscellaneous
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Universal Horror | 1998 | TV Movie documentary source: stills - as Lupita Tovar Kohner |
Self
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cinema's Exiles: From Hitler to Hollywood | 2009 | TV Movie documentary | Herself - Interviewee (as Lupita Kohner) |
| Hedy Lamarr: Secrets of a Hollywood Star | 2006 | Documentary | Herself (as Lupita Kohner) |
| The Bronze Screen: 100 Years of the Latino Image in American Cinema | 2002 | Documentary | Herself |
| I Used to Be in Pictures | 2000 | Documentary | Herself |
| The Road to Dracula | 1999 | Video documentary short | Herself (as Lupita Tovar Kohner) |
| Universal Horror | 1998 | TV Movie documentary | Herself / interview |
| Biography | 1993 | TV Series documentary | Herself |
| Memoria del cine mexicano | 1993 | Documentary | Herself |
Archive Footage
Won Awards
| Year | Award | Ceremony | Nomination | Movie |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | Special Golden Ariel | Ariel Awards, Mexico | ||
| 1999 | Eyegore Award | Eyegore Awards |
Known for movies
Drácula (1931)
as Eva
Santa (1932)
as Santa
Carne de cabaret (1931)
as Drothy O'Neil
María (1938)
as María
