Birthday:
11-14-1912
Deathday:
03-21-1985 (72 years)
Birthplace:
Chillán, Biobío, Chile
Biography
Tito Davison (14 November 1912 – 21 March 1985) was a Chilean-born Mexican film director and screenwriter. He directed 60 films between 1937 and 1982.
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Corazón salvaje
Director
event 1968 star_border 4.3
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Calculating Aime sends her sister Monica to distract a love-struck smuggler, Juan del Diablo, when he threatens to reveal their affair to Aime's new rich husband. They are discovered alone together and to save Monica's virtue, Juan del Diablo promises to marry Monica.
The Big Cube
Director
event 1969 star_border 4.4
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A young woman and her drug addict boyfriend plot to drive the woman's stepmother insane with LSD in a plot to secure an inheritance.
La barca de oro
Adaptation
event 1947 star_border 6
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Ranch-heiress chooses a husband.
Cape Horn
Director
event 1956 star_border 6
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The whaling captain, Antonio Grez, meets in a bar in the port of Valparaiso a very beautiful woman who lives haunted by the tragic premonition that fate will give her a violent death. Grez takes command of a whaler bound for Cape Horn and Antarctica. In Punta Arenas, the owner of the whaling company embarks on together with his fiancee, who is none other than the mysterious woman with whom Grez has fallen in love. The final route of the ship is the 'Land of Desolation', a place on which there is a curse and everyone knows that, for centuries, is has been fulfilled inexorably.
Nunca es tarde para amar
Director
event 1953 star_border 5.3
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A widowed doctor with a sick child marries a famous singer unpremeditatedly, running at first everything fine until she begins to long for his former life and scenic successes representing the only reason for existence.
Yo quiero ser artista
Director
event 1958 star_border 5.6
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The Postman Adalberto is involved by chance in the filming of a scene, which gives the film director the idea of including him as an actor, but without his knowledge.
The Barracks
Writer
event 1945 star_border 6.9
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The film chronicles the adventures of a peasant family of the late nineteenth century to push through his work with the opposition and hatred of the rest of the villagers.
The Kneeling Goddess
Screenplay
event 1947 star_border 6.6
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Businessman Antonio is carrying on an affair with Raquel, who wants him to divorce his wife Elena. He purchases for Elena as an anniversary gift a statue – the titular Kneeling Goddess – which, unbeknownst to him, features Raquel as the model. Antonio marries Raquel after Elena dies under suspicious circumstances — but not everything is what it seems.
La Diana cazadora
Director
event 1957 star_border 4.3
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A great love story based on the idea and development of the famous monument that decorating Mexico City.
The Devil Is a Woman
Director
event 1950 star_border 7.1
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A woman, after committing a murder, flees into a church, confessing her life story to a priest.
Golden Wedding
Writer
event 1956 star_border 5.3
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On their anniversary, a lomg-married couple reminisce about the history of their marriage
Curvas peligrosas
Director
event 1950 star_border 5
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Mexican feature film
Música en la noche
Director
event 1958 star_border 5
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An ingenious actor has an idea of making musical numbers without a dialogue when he arrives with a violin and a ladder.
May God Forgive Me
Director
event 1948 star_border 5.6
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Lena, a beautiful and mysteriously sinister refugee haunted by her past, is chased into the arms of a rich, unsuspecting industrialist not for love, but for information.
Dueña y señora
Director
event 1948 star_border 6
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After his wife dies, the master of the house can... maybe... acknowledge that he had children with the houseekeeper. But will he?
Cuando me vaya
Screenplay
event 1954 star_border 6
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Fictionalized version of the life of songwriter Maria Grever.
Cri Cri el Grillito Cantor
Director
event 1963 star_border 7.9
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Biography of the famous composer of children's music Gabilondo Soler. Starts from his childhood, when he worked as a pastor and grandmother tried to teach him to play the piano. Later he went to the city to study music theory and began writing his first songs.
Te Sigo Esperando
Director
event 1952 star_border 6
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Romantic melodrama
Black Is My Color
Director
event 1951 star_border 5.2
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Negro Es Mi Color (literally translates to "Black Is My Color"), the 1951 Tito Davison Mexican racial musical melodrama (about a light-skinned Mexican woman with dark-skinned parents who passes as "white"; a Mexican version of "Imitation of Life")
La mujer que yo amé
Director
event 1950 star_border 5.5
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A musician is injured and threatened for defending a girl and decides to go to the capital, where fame and success achieved. She is glad to know that he has succeeded, however, has become a street prostitute prone to paralysis. Finally one day he takes courage and decides to look for, since it has become invalid again ...
La mujer que no tuvo infancia
Director
event 1957 star_border 5.5
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Borderline mentally-ill woman with neurotic compulsion to behave like a child and the psychiatrist who looooves her.
Isla para dos
Director
event 1959 star_border 5.3
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Middle-aged painter and young musician fall hard for each other while on vacation. Then she discovers he's married.
Amor en la sombra
Director
event 1960 star_border 5.4
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A daughter who idolizes her father discovers, just before he dies, that he was leading a double life and had a hidden lover.
The Case of the Wee Murdered Woman
Director
event 1955 star_border 6
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Ghosts and premonitions; a married woman discovers the true love of her life while being plagued with supernatural phenomena relating to her imminent murder. It's a comedy.
La furia del ring
Director
event 1961 star_border 5
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Wrestling melodrama.
El amor tiene cara de mujer
Director
event 1973 star_border 5
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The owner of a beauty salon and her employees discuss their lives and their struggles to get ahead in life.
Natacha
Director
event 1971 star_border 5
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Story of a timid provincial girl Natacha Cervantes, who moves to the capital and enters to work like a maid in the house of the Pereira Family where she falls in love with the rich boy Raul Pereira.
El Buen Mozo
Writer
event 1946 star_border 5.5
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Unscrupulous cad sleeps his way to the top of belle epoque Paris society.
María
Director
event 1972 star_border 6.7
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Romance melodrama set in 19th century Colombia.
Mujeres sin mañana
Director
event 1951 star_border 5.5
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Loosely-plotted melodrama about five "hostesses" and the owners of a waterfront nightclub.
La dulce enemiga
Director
event 1957 star_border 5
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The story of a femme fatale whose adventures are narrated in flashbacks by the ghosts of her former lovers.
¡Ay qué rechula es Puebla!
Writer
event 1946 star_border 5
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Two charros from Hacienda A come a-courtin' to hacienda B, owned by a friend of their father's. Also a horse-race.
La edad de la inocencia
Director
event 1962 star_border 6.8
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A poor little girl slips in a circus one day and sees a puppets' show. Later she returns to the empty circus looking for a fairy she was fascinated by.
El valor de vivir
Director
event 1954 star_border 5
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Concert pianist unjustly convicted of espionage. On release, he hooks up with a terminally-ill ballerina.
El ministro y yo
Screenplay
event 1976 star_border 6.8
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Mateo Melgarejo is a notary public and scribe for the illiterate people of Santo Domingo, a neighborhood north of Mexico City's Zócalo. A squatter friend asks for his help in negotiating with the land census bureau to regularize a land title. After a great deal of frustration with the government bureaucracy, he writes a letter to the cabinet minister, earning an audience with him. The minister hires Melgarejo to reform the bureau, and the appointee proceeds to lecture the officials on their duties in a democratic society. At the end, he gives up the post, returning to Santo Domingo to help its poor residents.
Canción del alma
Director
event 1964 star_border 5
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Life in a theatre-people hotel, mostly focusing on a singer and her young-adult daughter who just graduated from an expensive private school.
Úpa en apuros
Editor
event 1942 star_border 6
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Upa en apuros is a 1942 Argentine short animated colour film created by Dante Quinterno. At the 1943 Argentine Film Critics Association Awards, Quinterno won the Special Prize (Premio especial) for the film due to it being the first animated colour film in Argentine cinema.
Te quiero
Director
event 1979 star_border 5.5
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Claudia is a young executive who works with her father in a successful company. When Claudia’s father finds out that his daughter suffers from a serious illness, he plans a trip to the Caribbean Sea so that she can enjoy the last days of her life and he even hires a young man to keep her company without her knowing it.
Sabrás que te quiero
Screenplay
event 1958 star_border 5
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Famous singer becomes desperate to figure out which of three women helped to launch his early career with anonymous mentoring and support.
The Jungle of Fire
Screenplay
event 1945 star_border 6
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A beautiful woman awakens passions in the workers of a camp deep in the jungle.. Venice Film Festival 1947
Midnight
Director
event 1949 star_border 5
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A villain has his cronies kidnap a teacher and pretends to be him, teaching in a hidden town.
La hermana blanca
Director
event 1960 star_border 5.6
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A young woman believes her fiance has died, and she enters a convent.
The Great Victory
Story
event 1981 star_border 3.4
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The adventures and misadventures the popular singer Rigo Tovar, his relationships, trips and unparalleled successes
La guerra es un buen negocio
Director
event 1982 star_border 5
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Comatose little village gets rich overnight selling minerals to arms manufacturers.
Las de Barranco
Director
event 1938
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A drama that revolves around the speculations made by a widow woman taking advantage of the sympathies aroused by one of her three unmarried daughters.
La Guelaguetza (ofrenda oaxaquena)
Director
event 1961
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Casi un sueño
Director
event 1943 star_border 2
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The romance between a young musician and a girl who dreams of happiness.
En el viejo Buenos Aires
Writer
event 1942 star_border 5
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The romance between an actress and a young man provokes the rejection of the class to which he belongs.
Murió el sargento Laprida
Director
event 1937
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A corporal and sergeant in the fire service fight over a woman.
Hay que educar a Niní
Writer
event 1940 star_border 6.8
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A young woman pretends to be the daughter of a financier and enters a rich girls' college, where she commits a thousand mischiefs.
Las canciones unidas
Director
event 1960 star_border 5.5
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Film clips of songs by performers from around the world.
Music of Always
Director
event 1958 star_border 6.8
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Producer, director and projectionist watch an assortment of musical numbers and brainstorm about framing narrative that could contain them all.
Prisionera del pasado
Director
event 1954 star_border 4.6
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Romance between a flamenco singer performing in Mexico and a gov't soldier during the Mexican Revolution.
A Mulatto Named Martín
Director
event 1975 star_border 5
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A young mulatto finds himself with burning desires to serve God in colonial Peru. In a time during which slavery is in its peak, he struggles to show to slaves, priests and nobility that kindness, compassion and love has no boundaries.
The Fungi Man
Writer
event 1976 star_border 5.1
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Racial conflicts, love triangles and the awakening of passion will lead to disaster for a decadent aristocratic family in the newly independent Mexico.
El socio
Writer
event 1946 star_border 5.5
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A former singer, determined to succeed in business, comes up with a partner and just believing their existence. In the end, wake up ...
Impaciencia del corazón
Director
event 1960 star_border 5.3
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Young army officer gets involved with two sisters; one of them's a chronic invalid and her family has protected and sheltered her from all possible harm with such smothering care that she's a spoiled, petulant bag of temper tantrums. She forms a big ol' crush on the dashing lieutenant, and everyone involved goes completely nuts and makes an infinite number of bad decisions in the wake of her pouting and her crying jags and her passive-aggressive crap.
El burócrata González
Director
event 1964 star_border 5
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The head of a plumbing and electrical workshop is a victim of bureaucracy in public offices and is unable to pay his debts, so his workshop is closed. With a lot of luck he manages to get a repair job in the house of a minister, then he enters to work in a ministry, also becoming a bureaucrat. Taking advantage of his friendship with the minister, he is promoted to become chief archivist, but he realizes the routine that is filling the job and resigns.
Locos de verano
Director
event 1942 star_border 5
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The vicissitudes of the members of a Buenos Aires family facing their economic bankruptcy and the attitude of each one of them in the emergency.
Beyond Pipilco
Director
event 1965
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Following the death of the mayor, an electoral campaign begins in the fictional town of Huevinco to choose a successor. A comedy-like set of situations unfolds, creating a story centred on comedian Manolo González.
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