"Gustavo \u00C1lvaro Rodr\u00EDguez"@en . . "1947-02-19Z"^^ . . "2014-04-02Z"^^ . . . "2013Z"^^ . "2014Z"^^ . "Venezuelan actor" . "1973Z"^^ . . "Gustavo Rodr\u00EDguez (February 19, 1947 \u2013 April 2, 2014) was a Venezuelan film, stage and television actor.Handsome, rugged, versatile and charismatic character actor Gustavo Rodr\u00EDguez was born in Ciudad Bol\u00EDvar, the capital city of Venezuela's southeastern Bol\u00EDvar state.Rodr\u00EDguez initially became an avid film fan in his childhood days, as he often explained that Orson Welles' classic Citizen Kane (1941) made an especially strong impression on him as a young man.In a career that spanned more than 40 years, Rodr\u00EDguez was able to play the most dissimilar of characters, from royalist caudillo Jos\u00E9 Tom\u00E1s Boves, tango singer Carlos Gardel, philosopher Karl Marx, and Venezuelan president R\u00F3mulo Betancourt, to the lead role in William Shakespeare's Hamlet and King Lear, while appearing in over more than 50 playwrights, 40 telenovelas and 18 films.Following college graduation, Rodr\u00EDguez moved to Caracas to attend Central University of Venezuela, where he acted in school plays before obtaining a Bachelor of Arts degree. "@en . "1947Z"^^ . . "Gustavo Rodr\u00EDguez"@en . . . "Rodr\u00EDguez, Gustavo"@en .