La raza
by santisolar | created - 04 Aug 2021 | updated - 07 Feb 2022 | Public
1. Carlos Enrique Taboada
Writer | Veneno para las hadas
Carlos Enrique Taboada was born on July 18, 1929 in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico. He was a writer and director, known for Poison for the Fairies (1986), La guerra santa (1979) and La telaraña (1986). He was married to María del Rocío Amezquita. He died on April 15, 1997 in Mexico ...
2. Luis Estrada
Writer | El infierno
Luis Estrada was born on January 17, 1962 in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico. He is a writer and director, known for his films that openly criticize the Mexican political system and the controversial issues that revolve around it, like El Infierno (2010), La Ley de Herodes (1999) and La ...
3. Salvador Sánchez
Actor | Collateral Damage
Salvador Sánchez was born on October 28, 1943 in Tehuacán, Puebla, Mexico. He is an actor and director, known for Collateral Damage (2002), The Mexican (2001) and Palabra de mujer (2007).
4. Alfonso Cuarón
Producer | Gravity
Alfonso Cuarón Orozco was born on November 28th 1961 in Mexico City, Mexico. From an early age, he yearned to be either a film director or an astronaut. However, he did not want to enter the army, so he settled for directing. He didn't receive his first camera until his twelfth birthday, and then ...
5. 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.
6. Ernesto Gómez Cruz
Actor | El imperio de la fortuna
Ernesto Gómez Cruz was born on November 7, 1933 in Veracruz, Veracruz, Mexico. He was an actor, known for The Realm of Fortune (1986), Midaq Alley (1995) and The Crime of Padre Amaro (2002). He died on April 6, 2024 in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico.
7. Daniel Giménez Cacho
Actor | Bardo, falsa crónica de unas cuantas verdades
Daniel Giménez-Cacho was born on May 15, 1961, in Madrid, Spain. He is a Mexican actor and director, Ariel award winner, who has starred in several Mexican films such as 'Solo con tu pareja' (1991), 'Cronos' (1993), 'Midaq Alley' (1995) and 'Arráncame la Vida' (2008), among others. He is also known...
8. Gael García Bernal
Actor | Mozart in the Jungle
Gael García Bernal was born in Guadalajara to Patricia Bernal, an actress/model & José Ángel García, an actor/director. His stepfather's cinematographer Sergio Yazbek. He began his acting career as a child, working w/ his parents in a variety of plays. At 14, he starred in a soap opera called El ...
9. Fernando de Fuentes
Writer | Allá en el Rancho Grande
Director of two classic films of Mexican Cinema, Compadre Mendoza, El (1933) and ¡Vámonos con Pancho Villa! (1935), De Fuentes began his career as second assistant director in Santa (1931), the first "talkie" produced in Mexico. His technical abilities promoted him to direct Anónimo, El (1932). De ...
10. María Félix
Actress | Enamorada
Doubtlessly the most famous Mexican movie star, María Félix created a larger-than-life character: herself. La Doña, as the star was known after the character of her 1943 movie Doña Bárbara, starred in 47 movies, most of them forgettable except for her presence in them. More a star than an actress, ...
11. 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 ...
12. 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), Maria Candelaria (1944) and The Young and the Damned (1950). He died on April 27, 1997 in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico.
13. Mimí Derba
Actress | En defensa propia
Althought most of her career was before the cameras, Mimí Derba is better remembered as the first woman director in Mexico (and perhaps in Latin America). On 1917, when Mexican screens were filled by italian melodramas of "divas", Derba organized one of the very first Mexican production companies: ...
14. Sarah Minter
Director | Alma punk
Sarah Minter is known for Alma punk (1991), Nadie es inocente: 20 años después (2010) and La mitad del camino (1994).
15. Tatiana Huezo
Director | El eco
Tatiana Huezo was born on January 9, 1972 in San Salvador, El Salvador. She is a director and cinematographer, known for The Echo (2023), Prayers for the Stolen (2021) and El lugar más pequeño (2011).
16. Rubén Gámez
Cinematographer | Tequila
Rubén Gámez was born on December 8, 1928 in Cananea, Sonora, Mexico. He was a cinematographer and director, known for Tequila (1992), Los murmullos (1976) and The Secret Formula (1965). He died on October 3, 2002 in Ozumba, Estado de Mexico, Mexico.
17. Luis Alcoriza
Writer | Presagio
Luis Alcoriza was born on September 5, 1918 in Badajoz, Extremadura, Spain. He was a writer and director, known for Presagio (1974), Mecánica nacional (1971) and Tlayucan (1962). He was married to Janet Alcoriza. He died on December 3, 1992 in Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico.
18. Felipe Cazals
Director | El año de la peste
Felipe Cazals was born on July 28, 1937 in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico. He was a director and writer, known for The Year of the Plague (1979), Las vueltas del citrillo (2005) and Canoa: A Shameful Memory (1976). He was married to Rosa Eugenia Báez de Cazals. He died on October 16, 2021 in...
19. Arturo Ripstein
Director | Principio y fin
Arturo Ripstein began his career as assistant director (unbilled) of Luis Buñuel in Ángel exterminador, El (1962). His father, Alfredo Ripstein, Jr. produced his first film, a western written by Gabriel García Márquez titled Tiempo de morir (1965). Ripstein filmography is very praised in Mexico and...
20. Juan Carlos Rulfo
Director | En el hoyo
Juan Carlos Rulfo was born on January 24, 1964 in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico. He is a director and producer, known for En el hoyo (2006), Those Who Remain (2008) and Del olvido al no me acuerdo (1999). He is married to Valentina Leduc Navarro. They have one child.
21. Nicolás Echevarría
Director | Eco de la montaña
Nicolás Echevarría was born on August 18, 1947 in Tepic, Nayarit, Mexico. He is a director and cinematographer, known for Eco de la montaña (2014), Cabeza de Vaca (1991) and Teshuinada, semana santa Tarahumara (1979).
22. Jorge Fons
Director | El Callejón de los Milagros
Fons studied film production in the Universitary Center of Film Studies at National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), belonging to the very first generation of Mexican directors who studied to become filmmakers. His short film Caridad (1973) -part of the trilogy Fe Esperanza y Caridad (1973)-...
23. Carlos Reygadas
Producer | Stellet Licht
Carlos Reygadas was born on October 10, 1971 in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico. He is a producer and director, known for Silent Light (2007), Japan (2002) and Post Tenebras Lux (2012). He is married to Natalia López.
24. Álex Phillips Jr.
Camera_department | Total Recall
Álex Phillips Jr. was born on January 11, 1935 in Mexico, Distrito Federal, Mexico. He was a cinematographer and actor, known for Total Recall (1990), Foxtrot (1976) and Zapata (1970). He died on February 12, 2007 in Mexico City, Mexico.
25. Alonso Ruizpalacios
Writer | Güeros
Alonso Ruizpalacios was born on September 11, 1978 in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico. He is a writer and director, known for Gueros (2014), A Cop Movie (2021) and Museo (2018).
26. Guillermo del Toro
Writer | El laberinto del fauno
Guillermo del Toro was born October 9, 1964 in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. Raised by his Catholic grandmother, del Toro developed an interest in filmmaking in his early teens. Later, he learned about makeup and effects from the legendary Dick Smith (The Exorcist (1973)) and worked on making his ...
Tell Your Friends