Macario — Macario Character Profile

About Macario

A poor Indigenous woodcutter living in Colonial Mexico. He refuses to share a turkey with the Devil or God but shares it with Death, earning miraculous healing water. Macario becomes a wealthy healer, is arrested for heresy, cures the Viceroy's son, witnesses his life candle being snuffed, flees, and dies peacefully in the woods.

Macario — Character Profile

Character Facts

Played by

Ignacio López Tarso

Appears in

Macario (1960)

Role

Protagonist

Relationships (9)

• Macario — Narrative Antagonist — La muerte (Enrique Lucero)

  Figure who ultimately brings about Macario's fate

• Macario — Social Witness — Verdugo infartado (Luis Aceves Castañeda)

  Executioner who witnesses Macario's healing powers

• Macario — Professional Indirect Client — Virreina (Consuelo Frank)

  The Viceroy's wife indirectly employs Macario through her husband

• Macario — Professional Client — Virrey (Eduardo Fajardo)

  Viceroy who hires Macario to heal his son

• Macario — Conflict Refused — Don Ramiro (Mario Alberto Rodríguez)

  Refuses to share turkey with God

• Macario — Conflict Adversary — El Demonio (José Gálvez)

  Refuses to share turkey with the Devil

• Macario — Alliance Friend — La muerte (Enrique Lucero)

  Unusual friendship formed after sharing turkey

• Macario — Family Child — Chona (Celia Tejeda)

  Macario's child who falls into a well

• Macario — Family Husband — Esposa de Macario (Pina Pellicer)

  Married couple with children

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More characters from Macario

• Esposa de Macario (Pina Pellicer)
• La muerte (Enrique Lucero)
• Don Ramiro (Mario Alberto Rodríguez)
• Inquisidor (uncredited) (Miguel Arenas)
• El Demonio (José Gálvez)
• Enviado de la inquisicion (uncredited) (Manuel Dondé)
• Señora recomendando caldo de zopilote. (uncredited) (Leonor Gómez)
• Vecina de Macario (uncredited) (Enedina Díaz de León)
• Vecina de Macario (uncredited) (Queta Carrasco)
• Don Alfredo, panadero (uncredited) (Alfredo Wally Barrón)
• Viuda (uncredited) (Alicia del Lago)
• Nieto de abuelo enfermo (uncredited) (Felipe de Flores)