Edmundo Rivera Álvarez (Born on November 7, 1998 in Puerto Rico - Died on November 7, 1998 in Aguas Buenas, Puerto Rico) he is a strong man, who stood out as: announcer, actor, television producer, playwright and comedian in Puerto Rico.

His career began to take shape at the Central Superior School of Santurce^[1] where he showed his interest in literature.

Some time later he ventured as a playwright, writing more than twenty plays that include El camino del silencio^[2] "The Path of Silence", Éxodo del jíbaro "Exodus of the Jíbaro" and Destrucción del manglar "Destruction of the Mangrove".

With the piece El cielo se rindió al amanecer "Heaven surrendered at dawn," he participated in the Sixth Puerto Rican Theater Festival of the Institute of Puerto Rican Culture.

With this drama, he garnered numerous distinctions and applause from specialized criticism.

During the 1950s, he began working on television when it began as a new media in Puerto Rico.

That way Alvarez became one of the pioneers of the small screen when working as a melodramas director.

In most of these, which were more than 50, he participated as director and actor.

One of his best remembered characters was Rafael Junco, a role he played in the remembered soap opera El derecho de nacer^[3] "The right to be born."

At that time he also worked for several programs sponsored by the Colgate-Palmolive company.

In one of the best moments of his career, he directed and acted for different channels a total of nine novels daily.

This fact made him the highest paid actor of that time.

Another event that distinguished him, between the 1960s and 1970s, was his foray into the world of cinema.

For the seventh art he worked in films such as Arocho y Clemente^[4] "Arocho and Clemente", El hombre esperado con los pies descalzos "The Expected Man with Barefoot" and Belén, la del traje blanco "Bethlehem, the one in the white suit".

He also worked in more than 10 American films and was part of the renowned guild of Hollywood SAG actors^[5]. Some of the films he made for American cinema were "Counterplot^[6]", "Fiend of Dope Island^[7]", "Creature from the Haunted Sea^[8]" and "The Possession of Joel Delanay^[9]". In them he played important roles with artists such as Shirley MacLaine and Puerto Rican José Ferrer.

In Puerto Rico he maintained for many years his own Academy of Dramatic Arts.

There were his disciples figures such as Gladys Rodríguez, José Reymundí, Luis Daniel Rivera, Marylin Pupo, Erick Pérez and others.

In the 1980s, he worked at Gamavision^[10] and on the program called Cuqui that was then broadcasting WAPA-TV^[11], now known as Puerto Rico's Televicentro. On the other hand, he was supervisor of the Actors Academy of TV, which was administered by Ralphie Rodríguez.

In life he presented a proposal to several channels, including Channel 6, to take into consideration his miniseries El poder de los malvados "The power of the wicked".

It became a kind of oasis that momentarily calmed the problem that Puerto Rican actors were displaced by artists from abroad.

The miniseries featured a cast of leading Puerto Rican actors led by Luis Daniel Rivera, Lucy Boscana, Esther Mari and Iris Martínez. Artists such as Ivonne Goderich, Amneris Morales and Raúl Rosado also participated.

Outside of his regular job, he gives acting courses, voluntarily, to the prisoners of the Bayamón Regional Prison with whom he would later found a theater company.

He died on November 7, 1998 at 91 years of age due to Respiratory failure, died in poverty and isolated. Only his animals accompanied him in a modest residence in the Jagüeyes neighborhood of Aguas Buenas, Puerto Rico.