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Pedro Infante Jr., eldest son of Mexican actor Pedro Infante, died Wednesday in a California hospital from complications related to pneumonia. He was 59 years.

The actor and singer was hospitalized on February 22 due to pneumonia, which was complicated by a bacteria that invaded several organs, including a lung, kidney and stomach, according to the newspaper El Universal.


Infante Jr. acted in over 80 films, including "Rosita Alvírez, bloody fate" (1982), "The Death of the Dove" (1981), "The Night of the Ku-Klux-Klan" (1980) and "Dimas of Leon "(1979). His latest film, "Four months of freedom," was filmed in 1998.

The singer also was born in 1950. His mother is Lupita gullies, actress and dancer of the so-called Golden Age of Mexican cinema, which was next to the idol of Guamuchil in several films.


Although he devoted much of his life to cinema and Palenque singing in cities around Mexico and Central America and the United States, Infante Jr. came to study architecture.

He is survived by four children: Pamela, Paulina, Pedro and Lupita.


Pedro III, son of Infante Jr. said his father will be buried in the state of Querétaro to the north of the Mexican capital and the family is quiet as its parent "is now resting from time to suffer."

In an interview with News First telenoticiero said Tuesday, "in my father's birthday, I asked God if we are going to leave my father made us the miracle that was well and if it would not be well, better left to suffer. "


At the time of his death their lungs functioned only 20% said the son.