Guillermo Gil was born in 1943 in Tehuacan, Puebla, Mexico as Juan Guillermo Sánchez Bolaños. He was an actor, known for La casa al final de la calle (1989), Sin remitente (1995) and El misterio del Trinidad (2003). He was married to Silvia Estela Cardoso Orozco. He died on May 29, 2008 in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico.