Mexicanos en Hollywood
by algari | created - 17 Sep 2021 | updated - 7 months ago | Public
1. Claudio Brook
Actor | El ángel exterminador
Claudio Brook was born on August 28, 1927 in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico. He was an actor, known for The Exterminating Angel (1962), Licence to Kill (1989) and Simon of the Desert (1965). He was married to Mercedes Pascual, Alicia Bonet and Eugenia Avendaño. He died on October 18, 1995 in...
2. Armando Silvestre
Actor | Two Mules for Sister Sara
Armando Silvestre was born on January 28, 1926 in San Diego, California, USA. He is an actor, known for Two Mules for Sister Sara (1970), Night of the Bloody Apes (1969) and The Bat Woman (1968).
3. Jorge Luke
Actor | Clear and Present Danger
Jorge Luke was born in Mexico City. His career started with a movie called "There's always a first time" where he was a day player but soon after he caught the eyes of Mexican Directors and Producers and had an uninterrupted acting career as a leading man in film and television for over three ...
4. Pancho Córdova
Actor | The Long Goodbye
Pancho Córdova was born on August 17, 1916 in Pichucalco, Chiapas, Mexico. He was an actor and writer, known for The Long Goodbye (1973), El águila descalza (1971) and Two Mules for Sister Sara (1970). He died on March 7, 1990 in Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico.
5. José Chávez
Actor | Romancing the Stone
José Chávez was born on June 12, 1916 in Torreon, Coahuila, Mexico. He was an actor, known for Romancing the Stone (1984), The Wild Bunch (1969) and Guns for San Sebastian (1968). He was married to María del Carmen Benitez. He died on July 12, 1988 in Mexico D.F., Mexico.
6. José Torvay
Actor | The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
José Torvay was born on January 28, 1909 in Durango, Mexico. He was an actor, known for The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948), Two Mules for Sister Sara (1970) and My Outlaw Brother (1951). He was married to Ofelia Carranza Silva. He died on March 19, 1972 in Mexico, Distrito Federal, Mexico.
7. Jorge Russek
Actor | Licence to Kill
Jorge Russek was born on January 4, 1932 in Guaymas, Sonora, Mexico. He was an actor, known for Licence to Kill (1989), The Wild Bunch (1969) and Missing (1982). He was married to Julia Elvira Sánchez de Aparicio. He died on July 30, 1998 in Mexico, Distrito Federal, Mexico.
8. Enrique Lucero
Actor | The Wild Bunch
Enrique Lucero was born on October 9, 1917 in Chihuahua, Chihuahua, Mexico. He was an actor, known for The Wild Bunch (1969), The Magnificent Seven (1960) and The Long Goodbye (1973). He was married to Margarita Escalante Gutiérrez. He died on May 9, 1989 in Mexico, Distrito Federal, Mexico.
9. Isela Vega
Actress | Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
Isela Vega was born in Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico on November 5, 1939. The young beauty was named Princess of the 1957 Carnaval in Hermosillo, and parlayed that into work as a model. She also had some success as a singer before turning to acting. (Her composition "Bennie's Song" was used in Bring ...
10. Kate del Castillo
Actress | The Book of Life
Mexican actress Kate del Castillo broke through in America as a result of her award-winning performance in the hit Fox Searchlight/Weinstein movie Under the Same Moon (2007), which is to date the highest-grossing Spanish-language theatrical release in U.S. history.
Kate starred as "Queen of the ...
11. Bruno Bichir
Actor | El Callejón de los Milagros
Bruno Bichir is one of the most talented actors working in current Mexican cinema, theater and television. He comes directly from a family of artists, where all of its five members (his parents and his two older brothers) are as well highly recognized actors and directors. Bruno has worked with ...
12. Elsa Cárdenas
Actress | Giant
Prolific Mexican leading actress, born Elsa Cardenas Renteria in Tijuana to Victor Cardenas and Hortencia Renteria. On screen from 1954, Elsa has acted in numerous Mexican films and telenovelas. Her first international exposure was through the independently produced movie The Brave One (1956), shot...
13. Pedro Armendáriz
Actor | From Russia with Love
Born in Mexican revolution times, Pedro Armendáriz was the first child of Mexican Pedro Armendáriz García-Conde and American Adele Hastings. He was raised in Churubusco, then a suburb of Mexico City, before the family traveled to Laredo, Texas. They lived there until 1921, the year Armendáriz' ...
14. Miguel Inclán
Actor | Los olvidados
Miguel Inclan was a popular villain of Mexican cinema from the 1930s into the 1950s, although he also had some sympathetic roles, notably as the kindly policeman in Salón México (1949) and several appearances as Benito Juárez. Inclán came from a theatrical family and started out ...
15. Paola Núñez
Actress | Resident Evil
Paola Núñez started acting when she was 12 years old. Seven years later she moved from her tiny town of Tecate, to Mexico City to begin her acting career. There she graduated from the acting school CEFAC.
She immediately began working on day-time television serials, in commercial theater and feature...
16. Eduardo López Rojas
Actor | La mujer de Benjamín
Eduardo López Rojas was born in 1937 in New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for La mujer de Benjamín (1991), Letters from Marusia (1975) and My Family/Mi familia (1995). He died on September 2, 1999 in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico.
17. Manuel Garcia-Rulfo
Actor | The Magnificent Seven
Manuel Garcia-Rulfo is the star of Netflix series "The Lincoln Lawyer." Born in Mexico, Garcia-Rulfo studied in the U.S. and found his passion in acting. After returning to Mexico and appearing in television and film there, he returned to the US and made his feature debut in Carl Franklin's "Bless ...
18. Katy Jurado
Actress | High Noon
Katy Jurado was born María Cristina Estela Jurado García into a wealthy family on January 16, 1924. Her early years were spent amid luxury until her family's lands were confiscated by the federal government for redistribution to the landless peasantry. Despite the loss of property, the matriarch of...
19. Carlos Navarro
Actor | Doña Perfecta
Carlos Navarro was born on February 24, 1921 in Mexico, D.F., Mexico. He was an actor, known for Doña Perfecta (1951), Corazón salvaje (1956) and No quiero lágrimas (1967). He died on February 12, 1969 in Mexico D.F., Mexico.
20. Pedro Damián
Actor | Showtime
Pedro Damián studied Communications and Children's Pedagogy, specialising later in Theatre Pedagogy at Anne Scheer Children's Theatre in London, England. Actor, director, poet, pedagogue and author, Damián has written and published the books: 'El día en que se invento la muerte' (The day on which '...
21. Alfonso Bedoya
Actor | The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Mexican character actor who achieved his greatest success in U.S. films. He was born in Mexico city, living in numerous places throughout the country. He received a private education in Houston, Texas as a teenager, but dropped out and roamed about doing an assortment of jobs. His family, however, ...
22. Tito Guízar
Actor | Allá en el Rancho Grande
Federico Arturo Guízar Tolentino was born on April 8, 1908, in Guadalajara, Mexico. Over the objections of his father, he trained early as a singer and, as such, was sent to New York in 1929 to record the songs of Agustín Lara. While there he had a radio show, "Tito Guízar y su Guitar", and studied...
23. Arturo de Córdova
Actor | En la palma de tu mano
Entering the Mexican film industry in the 1930s, it didn't take Arturo de Córdova long to become a major star, specializing in action and adventure films. At the height of his popularity he was beckoned to Hollywood in an attempt to make him a "Latin lover" type in the mold of Ricardo Montalban, ...
24. Carlos Riquelme
Actor | En la tormenta
Carlos Riquelme studied law and philosophy, but turned to acting and made his stage debut in the mid-1930s. His first screen appearance followed in 1938. Riquelme's meek looks somewhat typecast him as clerks and doctors in his earlier pictures, but from time to time he was given change-of-pace ...
25. Manolo Fábregas
Actor | Two Mules for Sister Sara
Manolo Fábregas was born on July 15, 1921 in Vigo, Spain. He was an actor and director, known for Two Mules for Sister Sara (1970), Mecánica nacional (1971) and La casa de la Troya (1948). He was married to Rafaela Salinas. He died on February 4, 1996 in Mexico City, Mexico.
26. Gabriel Figueroa
Cinematographer | La perla
Gabriel Figueroa was born on April 24, 1907 in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico. He was a cinematographer, known for The Pearl (1947), The Young and the Damned (1950) and Maria Candelaria (1944). He died on April 27, 1997 in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico.
27. Emilio Fernández
Writer | La perla
Emilio "El Indio" Fernandez Romo is the most famous person in the history of Mexican movies. For an era he symbolized Mexico due to his violent machismo, rooted in the Revolution of 1910-17, and because of his staunch commitment to Mexican cultural nationalism. Born to a Mexican (Mestizo) father ...
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