Dolphin, oranhel

Oranhel José Rodriguez Farias was born on January 25, 1933 in Los Tekes, Miranda , into a military family. Oranhel is the third of five children in the family. His childhood and youth passed in El Tokuyo (Lara state), where the future actor was brought up in the family of his father’s sister and her husband, the famous businessman El Peduio Pedro Pérez Leal. Oranhel’s mother died when he was very young.

During his studies, he played and sang in the school theater. He did not finish his studies at the Lyceum because of the terrible earthquake that almost destroyed El Tokuyo on August 6, 1950.

In 1950, at the insistence of his father, he entered the Institute of Officers of the National Guard in Caracas .

In 1954 , having abandoned this elite institute, he decided to become an actor and, having passed tests on the RCTV channel, got a role in the first Venezuelan telenovela “Camay”. A great help to him then was rendered by the already popular at that time actor Rafael Briceño.

From 1955 to 1957 he studied at the School of Acting Juan Suho, and in 1957 he made his debut as a theater actor.

In the same 1957 he received a supporting role in the drama directed by Roman Chalbo “Cain Adolescente”.

In the years 1960–70, Oranhel Dolphin, one of the most popular and popular actors in Venezuela, was known as a playwright and television presenter.

From 1959 to 1964 he worked as a TV presenter on Channel 5 of the State Television of Venezuela, and from 1964 to 1989 (intermittently) on the Venezolana De Television channel he played in telenovelas, television films and television shows.

As a director, he worked mainly in the theater, and in 1975 he directed the telenovela “Girl named Milagros” for Venevison, which became one of the most popular Venezuelan telenovelas of the 70s.

He became famous as a performer of negative roles in telenovelas, for example , in the telenovela Esmeralda in 1971 he played the crazy doctor Marcos Malaver, whose role brought Dolphin popularity no less than that of the main actor - Jose Bardina.

From 1989 to 1996, on the Venevision channel, he played in 5 telenovelas and several television films, and gained the most popularity after playing the role of the villain don Fernando Maldonado in the telenovela “ Revenge ”.

In September 1996, Dolphin left the profession due to illness.

In 1998 he was awarded the highest award awarded to actors - the Order of Francisco Fajardo I degree.

In the last years of his life, the actor had serious health problems due to heart surgery. In 1999 he moved to a Catholic shelter for the elderly Barkisimeto. There, in Barquisimeto, he worked in small programs on the radio.

Oranhel Dolphin died on October 13, 2001 at the age of 68 from lung disease (respiratory failure).

Theater

• 1957 - Claude Henri Puget’s play “Perhaps Judas” ( Spanish: Un tal Judas );
• 1957 - a play by Jerome Lawrence and Robert Lee “You will inherit the wind” ( Spanish: Heredaras el viento );
• 1957 - Paul Vanderberg’s play “Spell” ( Spanish: Evocasion );
• 1957 - Arthur Miller’s play “View from the Bridge” ( Spanish: Panorama desde el puente );
• 1957 - a play by Patrick Hamilton “The Loop” ( Spanish: La Soga );
• 1958 - a play by William Shakespeare “Waiting for Zuro” ( Spanish: Esperando al Zuro );
• 1958 - Roman Chalbo’s play “Requiem for Eclipse” ( Spanish: Réquiem para un eclipse );
• 1958 - Victor Hugo's play “Hernani” ( Spanish: Hernani );
• 1959 - William Shakespeare's play Hamlet ( Spanish: Hamlet );
• 1959 - William Shakespeare's play Othello ( Spanish: Otelo );
• 1959 - play by Alfonso Sastre "On the Net" ( Spanish: En la red ) - director;
• 1959 - the play "King Oedipus" ( Spanish: Edipo Rey );
• 1961 - William Shakespeare's play The Tempest ( Spanish: La Tempestad );
• 1973 - the play "Mirage" ( Spanish: Espejismj ) - actor and director;

• The pseudonym "Dolphin" was taken in honor of the father of the actor, whose name was Dolphin Rodriguez.
• The first wife of Oranhel Delfin was the Spanish actress Marilus Torrenova - his fellow student at the Juana Suho School, the second - Amelia Roman (1931-2001), a Venezuelan actress popular in the years 60-70.
• In his youth, Dolphin performed and as a singer, however, he released only one musical album “Canta Platicando” (1961)
• In 1971, Oranhel Dolphin was awarded the Actor of the Year Award for his role as Simon Bolivar in the television show Preludio a Carabobo.
• During filming in the telenovela "Revenge", the actor was severely beaten by bandits who attacked a taxi in which Dolphin returned from the filming. The taxi driver was killed, and Dolphin himself was in a coma for several days.

• Dolphin, Oranhel on the Internet Movie Database