Marcelo Chávez was born on March 13, 1911 in Tampico Alto, Veracruz, Mexico. He was an actor and writer, known for Three and a Half Musketeers (1957), The Phantom of the Operetta (1960) and Summer Hotel (1944). He was previously married to Elvira Lodi and Ernestina Montes de Oca. He died on February 14, 1970 in Mexico, Distrito Federal, Mexico.