
Birthday:
01-01-1941
Deathday:
01-01-2007 (66 years)
Birthplace:
Mieres, Asturias, Spain
Biography
Luis Ramón Menéndez Velasco was an actor.
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In the Land of Light Feet
event1982 star_border 5
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During his vacations, 12-year-old Manuel travels by train with his mother to the Sierra Tarahumara to spend a few days with his father, who works in the mountains with the indigenous people protecting nature. Manuel befriends Jesus, who takes him to his town and teaches him the customs of his own. Both children discover illegal loggers.
Rattlesnake
Act like Minister
event1977 star_border 5.6
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A filmmaker is commissioned to film a documentary on the social reality of the Lacandon people in the state of Chiapas. As he enters the harsh living conditions of this indigenous community, his social conscience forces him to confront his superiors, who threaten to destroy his material.
The Sheriff's Strange Son
Act like Fiscal
event1986 star_border 5.9
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In a small western town, a father obliges a doctor to separate two conjoined twins in a very hazardous operation. One of the children dies but years after seems to have survived as his brother's second personality.
The Year of the Plague
Act like Dr. Miguel Garzón Riera
event1978 star_border 5.1
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A terrible disease is found in a Mexican town. A doctor tries to alert the authorities when he discovers its epidemic nature. No one listen to him and soon after the disease spreads. The government tries to control the information in order to prevent panic.
The Hex 2: Messengers of Hell
event1986 star_border 4.5
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Raul Araiza's chilling Spanish-language supernatural thriller tells the tale of two powerful beings, one good and one evil incarnate, fighting for control of Earth--and of a beautiful woman.
The Cubs
Act like Fotógrafo
event1973 star_border 5
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After having his genitals brutally mutilated during childhood, a man must face prejudice and himself.
El Payo: Un Hombre Contra el Mundo
Act like Sargento
event1972 star_border 5
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Series western, adaptation of a popular comic-book.
Carta a un Niño
event1981 star_border 5
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Mexican feature film
Emiliano Zapata
event1970 star_border 5.9
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This is the story of a man, Emiliano Zapata, and of a revolution, the Mexican Revolution.
Morir de madrugada
event1980 star_border 5.2
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A successful lawyer has his life shattered when his beautiful wife is found murdered. An investigation reveals she was lying to him and leading a double life... but who killed her?
Crónica íntima
event1979 star_border 5
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Mexican feature film
It's my Life
Act like Teniente
event1982 star_border 5.3
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Alberto Aguilera arrives from Ciudad Juárez to the capital to pursue a career in music, but in the midst of confusion he is accused of stealing and is sent to prison
Three Stories of Love
event1978
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Three people live in the same building: An anxious teenager, a girl who wants to be kidnapped by a prince, and a maid who wants to explore eroticism.
Life Sentence
Act like Bank employee
event1979 star_border 6.6
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After being released from jail, "Tarzan" Lira seeks to rebuild his life as a bank employee. Unfortunately, it might not be as easy as he thinks.
El último triunfo
event1989 star_border 5
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Mexican feature film
Cinco mil dolares de recompensa
event1974 star_border 5.3
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A gunfighter is appointed sheriff of a town that is terrorized by a gang of criminals.
Un macho en la casa de citas
event1982 star_border 4
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The owner of a brothel is murdered and the police send her twin brother to investigate the crime and find her murderer. The brother will have to impersonate her to achieve this.
Drizzle
event1978 star_border 7
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Returning from a business trip, a man meets some peasants who arouse fears in him.
The Encounter of a Lonely Man
Act like Redactor-Jefe
event1974 star_border 5.5
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Alberto is a journalist who remembers an event 15 years ago, when his friend Gabriel saved a girl from a fire suffering third-degree burns. When he tells the story to his friends, one of them asks him to write it with realism, so Alberto comes back to his old town to meet Gabriel again.
El Brazo de Oro
Act like Sr. Rice
event1979 star_border 6.3
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Timothy Leach moves in to an abandoned farm house with his wife. On the way a man befriends Timothy with the intention to pass Marlene to him (A golden arm brace that gives who ever wears it dead eye shooting accuracy). A group of bandits notice them and see them as easy prey. they rob them of goods and supplies. on another trip the bandits seeing Mrs. Leach all alone assault her. as she lays on the ground the man who befriended Timothy strangles her. when Timothy arrives he blames the bandits and gives him Marlene and hands him a gun he is reluctant as he has never shot a gun before, but soon discovers it possesses incredible powers which uses nerves impulses to hit the target every time. Timothy is afraid but he also wants to avenge the life of his wife. even if he has to take them all on.
The Invasion of the Dead
Act like Helicopter Pilot
event1973 star_border 5
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Professor Bruno Volpi spots some strange paintings on a cliff. He sends for Professor Zovek to help him discover its meaning. Zovek uses his powers to figure the writings are a warning that a cosmic tragedy is going to happen. Their fears prove to be true when a fire ball falls from the skies causing the ressurrection of the dead as zombies, craving for human flesh.
Por mis pistolas
Act like Johnny
event1968 star_border 7.7
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Fidencio Borer, an apothecary in a village on the northern border of Mexico, discovers some old title of a mine in Arizona and decides to claim them. Trying to cross the border is a border guard intercepted by exaggerating in the line of duty. On the way is captured by a tribe of Apaches and is about to be burned alive, but thanks to the Great Head Horse Lying having toothache and learns that the prisoner it can heal, ordered his release on the condition that the cure. Fidencio would take the wheel and gets the eternal friendship of the Chief apache.
El patrullero 777
Act like El Johnny
event1978 star_border 7.8
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Follows Diogenes as he goes about his day as a police officer. He's prone to do things the right way, surrounded by a pretty much corrupt & citizen distant police department, & always resolves his duties with a personal method.
The Bricklayers
Act like Dávila, policía
event1976 star_border 6.4
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When a worker is found murdered on the construction side, the investigation swiftly turns from things criminal to the political circumstances surrounding the building itself. Widespread corruption and neglect by the builder himself are seen to have brought the situation about. Much of the movie is filmed using hand-held cameras, and the majority of the dialogue is in the difficult-to-understand and very slangy Spanish dialect of Mexico City's bricklayers.
Longitud de Guerra
Act like Cap. Genaro Chacón
event1976 star_border 5.2
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Based on the novel Tomochic by Heriberto Frías; tells the story of the rebellion of the inhabitants of the village of Tomochi, Chihuahua, against the government of Porfirio Diaz in 1891. Mexico's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1976.
Living Is What Matters
Act like Gregorio
event1987 star_border 5.4
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A drifter named Candelario asks to spend the night at the hacienda of Don Lazaro. Once there, he gets the offer to stay and work as a laborer with a fixed salary. Over time, Candelario is gaining the confidence of his employer, and becomes indispensable. The situation will change radically when Don Lazarus discovers that Candelario is having a love affair with his wife.
El Fiscal De Hierro 3
event1992 star_border 5
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Mario Almada returns as "el fiscal de hierro", in this entry his family is kidnapped by gang leader Ramona Pineda.
Dune
Act like Kinet (uncredited)
event1984 star_border 6.2
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In the year 10,191, the most precious substance in the universe is the spice Melange. The spice extends life. The spice expands consciousness. The spice is vital to space travel. The spice exists on only one planet in the entire universe, the vast desert planet Arrakis, also known as Dune. Its native inhabitants, the Fremen, have long held a prophecy that a man would come, a messiah who would lead them to true freedom.
Violent Stories
Act like Hombre casado
event1985 star_border 5.7
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Five surreal short stories make up this Mexican anthology film.
Memoriales perdidos
event1985 star_border 5
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In the 16th century, an envoy from the pope and the king of Spain arrives in New Spain to deal with the case of Augustinian Alonso, in a state of autism by ingesting herbs given to him by the native Tlacuilo Camistli, who has been accused of sorcery. The envoy speaks with him and asks for the grass and ingesting it can communicate with Alonso, who contemplates in an internal vision a shining light that reflects the divine goodness. The envoy gets a dagger to Camistli and he takes his life. The envoy destroys the memorials he would send to Europe and decides to stay.
Cananea
Act like Minero compadre
event1978 star_border 5.6
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Based on a true story in the American owned Cananea mine. It depicts how the owner profits while the Mexican workers struggle to survive and are exploited for their labour.
Anyway, Juan is Your Name
event1976 star_border 5
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Analytical view of one of the least reported conflicts of national cinema: the Cristero movement that developed in the regions of western Mexico between 1926 and 1929, highlighting the inability to be faithful to both the Church and the State.
Mistery
Act like Camera director
event1980 star_border 6.3
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A soap opera actor is mixed in a real drama very similar to what he represents in his work.
The Apple of Discord
event1968 star_border 5
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A man convinces two friends to rob and kill a landowner.
El secreto del texano
event1965 star_border 5
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Mexican feature film
Madame X
Act like Luis
event1981 star_border 6.5
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Thrown out of her home by a jealous husband, a woman sinks into degradation. Twenty years later, she is charged with killing a man bent on harming her daughter. The daughter, unaware of who the woman is, takes the assignment to defend her in court.
El regreso del carro rojo
Act like Jack
event1984 star_border 5
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Mexican feature film
Territorio sin ley
event1984 star_border 5
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Mexican feature film
Cuartelazo
Act like Venustiano Carranza
event1977 star_border 5.2
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Narration of one of the bloodiest episodes of the Mexican national history, The Tragic Ten, beginning when General Victoriano Huerta sent to kill President Francisco I. Madero, Vice President José María Pino Suárez and Senator Belisario Dominguez. The film recreates the moment of the execution at the hands of Huerta and his accomplices Bernardo Reyes, Félix Díaz and Manuel Mondragón.
Those Years
Act like Gen. Santiago Vidaurri
event1974 star_border 5.5
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President Juárez fights against the conservatives, who have ordered an emperor to be brought from France to govern Mexico
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