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Cris Huerta

Crisanto Huerta Brieva (26 January 1935 – 28 November 2004), better known as Cris Huerta, was a Portuguese-Spanish actor. He was known mainly for his roles in spaghetti western films of the 1960s and 1970s. He was sometimes credited as Chris Huerta.

Born in Lisbon, Huerta grew up in Madrid and he studied economics before giving up studies in favor of an acting career. He was one of the busiest character actors of the 1960s and 1970s and worked his way up from uncredited bit parts to leading roles even if usually in low budget films. The portly, bearded and bald actor appeared in more than 100 films, mainly , splitting his time between leading roles as the sympathetic sidekick of the hero and character roles such as Mexican bandits, bartenders and sleazy businessmen. Declined the spaghetti western genre, after 1977 he significantly slowed his activities. One of his last roles was in Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet's The City of Lost Children (1995).

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