Julio Manuel García Bastida, better known as Julio Alcázar (A Coruña, Spain; May 29 1943), is an actor and director.^[1]

He was born in Ángel Rebollo Street in La Torre neighbourhood, in the Galician province of La Coruña.

The eldest of four brothers (Julio, José, Teresa and Sara) is the son of Antonia Bastida de García and Julio García García, a cloth and coruña salesman.

Both of them emigrated to Venezuela and settled in Caracas in the 1950's.

He shared with his sister Teresa the taste for music and at the age of 13 he registered in the choir of Education and Rest Taste that both maintain when they arrive in Caracas where they participate in the Choir of the Galician Brotherhood.

Alcazar formed with some friends of the corner of Velazquez a trio with which they presented themselves in a professional way in celebrations and events.

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When he was seventeen years old, in 1960, Alcázar made his theatre debut in the Hermandad Gallega at the proposal of Luis de Santiago, from A Coruña, founder of the first theatre group in the centre, called Grupo Valle Inclán with the play La casa de la troya by Alejandro Pérez Lugín.

This would be the first collaboration with Luis de Santiago, director with whom Alcazar would work on several occasions.

During that decade, he founded the Rosalía de Castro Theatre Group and developed part of his work for cinema and theatre.

The small screen is his home:

and the telenovelas broadcast halfway around the world (Colombia, Costa Rica, Chile, Ecuador, United States, Panama, Peru, Puerto Rico, Santo Domingo, Italy, Spain, Balkan countries and Russia) that give him popularity.

At the end of 1990, he founded La Peña Deportivista de Venezuela, a social group that represents the fans of Real Deportivo de La Coruña, being its president during its first years of activity.

In 2009, he devoted himself to teaching, training new acting talents who wanted to develop in theatre, television and cinema.

He has received numerous awards throughout his career, in addition to the ACRIM (Association of Critics of Miami) and ACCA (Association of Art Critics and Commentators of Miami) awards as the most outstanding Spanish-speaking actor.