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El centauro del norte (1962)
Character: N/A
A Villista girl and a Huertista boy -- can their love cross ideological lines and heal a trembling nation?
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Las cuatro milpas (1937)
Character: N/A
Bad dude tries to make time with a good dude's fiancée. When he can't get anywhere with her, he and his sidekick frame the good dude for a murder and a bunch of thefts.
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Viva Jalisco que es mi tierra (1961)
Character: Don José
Mom doesn't approve of her son's fiancée, so she schemes a scheme to throw him together with a woman she likes better. It involves him leaving town to become a bullfighter, and...
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No matarás (1937)
Character: Antonio Guerra
Antonio Guerra is an unemployed Spanish immigrant in the USA. His brother and mother in Spain haven't heard about him for many years or even receive a letter. But one day, his brother receives a letter from him, telling that things are going well. But the reality is other. Antonio is passing a hard time in New Yor City, suffering the Years of Depression as many out of workers. One day, Antonio meets a nice Cuban seller, who invites him to eat at his poor house. The seller advices Antonio to visit a man, who has contacts and could help him to find a job. Nevertheless, Antonio is send with the leader of a group of gangsters, dedicated to the illegal traffic of alcohol. Antonio is offered a work of dealer, but he won't do anything out of the law.
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Festín de buitres (1949)
Character: Ernesto del Valle
When the father of the struggling painter Ernesto passes away, he is left in misery. The banker Julián, a friend of the deceased, intends to help Ernesto: he appoints him as his secretary and takes him to live in his house. There, Ernesto meets Teodora, Julián's wife. People gossip about a supposed love affair between Ernesto and Teodora, who go together, without Julián, to see the opera The Thieving Magpie at the Principal Theater.
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Amor audaz (1930)
Character: N/A
Malatroff, head of an international gang of jewel thieves, pressures Lucy Stavrin to pose as a countess and become friendly with the Corbetts, a nouveau-riche American couple residing on the Costa Azul.
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El primo Basilio (1935)
Character: Basilio
Luisa, who is actually happily married, begins an affair with her cousin while her husband is away.
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La dama atrevida (1931)
Character: Jack Norton
A blackmailer falls in love with his female victim. Alternate-language version of The Lady Who Dared (1930).
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El Crimen de Media Noche (1936)
Character: David Graham
A newly hired police chief vows to clean up a notoriously corrupt police department. When he is murdered, investigators find that there is no shortage of suspects, most of them being fellow cops. Alternate language version of MIDNIGHT PHANTOM (1935)
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El Diablo del Mar (1935)
Character: El Capitan
A ship disappears without trace. What happened to the crew? Years later there's news of possible survivors and soon a rescue team is setting sail. Eventually they discover a young man living on a remote island and they ask him to leave with them. He refuses, so they abduct him. But he gets his revenge and guides them into the lair of the devil of the deep. Alternate language version of THE SEA FIEND (1935)
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El gavilán (1940)
Character: José Antonio González - El Gavilán
A 1940 film directed by Ramón Pereda.
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Arsenio Lupin (1947)
Character: Arsenio Lupin
Arsenio Lupin is an audacious Parisian thief who mocks the police, especially Inspector Ganimard, but turns over most of his ill-gotten gains to charity. One night, he attends a party disguised as a newspaper writer who also mocks Ganimard; the next morning, the host's wife and a male guest are found murdered, and Ganimard arrives to solve the crime. A Mexican version of the Arsene Lupin character, with Sherlock Holmes tossed in as a cameo at the end.
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La noche del pecado (1933)
Character: Alberto
La noche del pecado is a Mexican and North American co-production directed by Miguel Contreras Torres with Ernesto Vilches, Ramón Pereda, Medea de Novara and produced by Contreras Torres in 1933.
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Payasadas de la vida (1934)
Character: N/A
A love-drama conflict about a young man of high social standing who falls in love with a circus girl and meets strong parental opposition. Played at the 'Teatro Campoamor' in New York City in March of 1935.
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Acapulqueña (1959)
Character: N/A
Gloria sells dolls in benefit of UNICEF and is interested in putting on an international show. In a hotel in Acapulco the ranchero Javier, the Muslims Mustafa and Ali, the Brazilian Mr. Carioca and the charro José Lorenzo meet to carry out the project. Among the men there will be a series of entanglements to dispute the love of the young woman.
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Romance en Puerto Rico (1962)
Character: Yacht Captain
Rosina is frustrated by her engagement to millionaire John Johnson III, a fussy, domineering, control freak. The night before her wedding, she goes out dancing with her maid María, María's husband Tomás, and their friend Gordillo. When Rosina learns Gordillo is a sailor on the yacht owned by Mexican film star José María Beltrán, she decides to stow away and sail to Mexico to be with her grandmother.
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Contrabando (1932)
Character: N/A
Contrabando is an adventure film. The film tells of the millionaire Hernández who smuggles weapons from the United States into Mexico. He does this because he is planning an uprising. The hotel attendant Carlos is informed of this. Hernández and his troops are defeated by the army. Carlos is acquitted and can marry his lover Lolita. The film Contrabando was shot in locations on the border with the United States, such as Tijuana, Ensenada and Playas de Rosarito. It was shot in Spanish and in English under the title Contraband. The role of Lolita was cast for the English version with Dorothy Sebastian. Contrabando's plot was inspired by an actual 1929 rebellion led by José Gonzalo Escobar.
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México lindo (1938)
Character: Manuel Morales
The film of the thousand dancers, of the enchanting songs, of the sets that are splurge of luxury and beauty.
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Rocambole (1946)
Character: Rocambole
Convict breaks out of jail to undo aristocratic crimes involving a fortune in jewels, a servant wrongfully accused of theft, and a dispossessed young heiress.
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El baúl macabro (1936)
Character: Dr. Maximiliano Renan
A crazed scientist tries to keep his terminally ill wife alive by transfusing into her the blood of young women he murders.
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Carne de Cabaret (1931)
Character: Bradley Carlton
This is the Spanish-language version of Ten Cents a Dance (1931), shot concurrently with a different cast but the same director, Christy Cabanne (as "Wiliam Cabana"), and also Mexican director Eduardo Arozamena.
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La Llorona (1933)
Character: Dr. Ricardo de Acuna / Capitán Diego de Acuna
Llorona is a figure unique to Mexican folklore -- the wailing spirit of a woman who lost or killed her child and now returns to seek revenge and haunt the living. With its framing story and flashback structure, this film sets forth a couple of variations of the story.
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Cruz Diablo (1934)
Character: Diego de la Barrera, Conde de Luna
16th-century swashbuckler; evil nobleman usurps another man's title and properties and forces his daughter to marry a political ally. But Cruz Diablo will have revenge!
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