Acting

Rodrigo Puebla

Born March 13, 1929 · San Diego de La Union, Guanajuato, Mexico

Died January 15, 1993 · aged 63

Rodrigo Puebla was born in San Diego de La Union, Guanajuato, Mexico, on March 13, 1929, and grew up in a modest environment. His life was marked by perseverance and sacrifice to achieve his dream of becoming an actor. Before becoming an actor, he worked in various occupations to support his family. Puebla was a recognized actor in the theatrical and television world in Latin America. His legacy a…

Known For

Romancing the Stone

Romancing the Stone · 1984

Romancing the Stone

MovieRomanceComedy

Though she can spin wild tales of passionate romance, novelist Joan Wilder has no life of her own. Then one day adventure comes her way in the form of a mysterious package. It turns out that the parcel is the ransom she'll need to free her abducted sister, so Joan flies to South America to hand it over. But she gets on the wrong bus and winds up hopelessly stranded in the jungle.

Picardía mexicana

Picardía mexicana · 1978

Picardía mexicana

An academic tags along among a crew of rowdy delivery-truck drivers, taking notes on their colorful and idiomatic use of language.

The Magnificent One

The Magnificent One · 1973

The Magnificent One

MovieComedyRomance

A writer of pulpy book series in which he's the hero and his beautiful English roommate is the love interest attempts to finish his new book in time at the publisher's demand.

El Norte

El Norte · 1983

MovieAdventureDrama

Brother and sister Enrique and Rosa flee persecution at home in Guatemala and journey north, through Mexico and on to the United States, with the dream of starting a new life.

La Chèvre

La Chèvre · 1981

MovieComedyCrime

When the boss' unlucky daughter is missing in South America, Campana is sent to watch the boss' most unlucky employee who is sent as a private detective in hopes he can duplicate the daughter's mistakes.

Ruby Cairo

Ruby Cairo · 1992

MovieMysteryThriller

Baseball cards and a food-aid worker help a woman follow her shady husband's money trail around the world.

Traición

Traición · 1991

Life Sentence

Life Sentence · 1979

MovieCrimeDrama

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.

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Romancing the Stone

Romancing the Stone · 1984

Romancing the Stone

MovieRomanceComedy

Though she can spin wild tales of passionate romance, novelist Joan Wilder has no life of her own. Then one day adventure comes her way in the form of a mysterious package. It turns out that the parcel is the ransom she'll need to free her abducted sister, so Joan flies to South America to hand it over. But she gets on the wrong bus and winds up hopelessly stranded in the jungle.

Bad Hombre

Picardía mexicana

Picardía mexicana · 1978

Picardía mexicana

An academic tags along among a crew of rowdy delivery-truck drivers, taking notes on their colorful and idiomatic use of language.

The Magnificent One

The Magnificent One · 1973

The Magnificent One

MovieComedyRomance

A writer of pulpy book series in which he's the hero and his beautiful English roommate is the love interest attempts to finish his new book in time at the publisher's demand.

Benson

El Norte

El Norte · 1983

MovieAdventureDrama

Brother and sister Enrique and Rosa flee persecution at home in Guatemala and journey north, through Mexico and on to the United States, with the dream of starting a new life.

El Puma the Soldier

La Chèvre

La Chèvre · 1981

MovieComedyCrime

When the boss' unlucky daughter is missing in South America, Campana is sent to watch the boss' most unlucky employee who is sent as a private detective in hopes he can duplicate the daughter's mistakes.

Club's doorman (uncredited)

Ruby Cairo

Ruby Cairo · 1992

MovieMysteryThriller

Baseball cards and a food-aid worker help a woman follow her shady husband's money trail around the world.

Bank Teller #1

Traición

Traición · 1991

Life Sentence

Life Sentence · 1979

MovieCrimeDrama

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.

Cotorra

It's my Life

It's my Life · 1982

MovieDramaMusic

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.

Preso

The Cursed Twelve

The Cursed Twelve · 1974

The Cursed Twelve

MovieWesternDrama

Escaping after a heist, bank-robbers run afoul of an ex bounty hunter with whom they have back story.

Canoa: A Shameful Memory

Canoa: A Shameful Memory · 1976

Canoa: A Shameful Memory

MovieHistoryCrime

A group of students arrives in a small town during a hiking expedition. Once there, the local priest accuses them of being communist agitators on the run from an army crack-down against student demonstrations in nearby Mexico City and rallies the townsfolk to lynch them. Based on a true story.

Pedro

Return to Aztlán

Return to Aztlán · 1990

Return to Aztlán

MovieDramaHistory

When King Motecuzoma dies in 1468, a drought sets upon the Mexicas' land. The younger Motecuzoma sends a retinue to collect tributes from the peasants and make an offering to Coatlicue at Aztlán, the home of their ancestors. The peasant Ollin finds a discarded tribute and makes his own journey to Aztlán to appease his rulers.

Pedro Páramo, el hombre de la Media Luna

Pedro Páramo, el hombre de la Media Luna · 1978

Pedro Páramo, el hombre de la Media Luna

MovieDramaFantasy

Juan Preciado, son of Pedro Páramo, goes to Comala to claim his inheritance; but when he arrives he finds an abandoned and sinister town, inhabited by mysterious voices and whispers…

Tilicuate

Cazador De Asesinos

Cazador De Asesinos · 1983

Cazador De Asesinos

MovieCrimeAction

A retired police officer looks for revenge after his family is attacked by a gang of criminals.

Los Caciques

Los Caciques · 1975

A bad man holds the power of life and death over the inhabitants of a village... for no apparent reason... and he's fond of torturing them, tying them to crosses and leaving them to die. A cowboy with necromantic powers comes along and leads a rebellion to overthrow that reign of terror.

El Carretonero

El Payo: Un Hombre Contra el Mundo

El Payo: Un Hombre Contra el Mundo · 1972

El Payo: Un Hombre Contra el Mundo

MovieActionDrama

Series western, adaptation of a popular comic-book.

El carretonero

Longitud de Guerra

Longitud de Guerra · 1976

Longitud de Guerra

MovieThrillerAction

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.

Chabolé

Mundo mágico

Mundo mágico · 1983

MovieDramaRomance

Anthology movie that presents 3 stories about romance.

Those Years

Those Years · 1974

MovieDramaHistory

President Juárez fights against the conservatives, who have ordered an emperor to be brought from France to govern Mexico

Gen. Tomás Mejía

Island of Lost Souls

Island of Lost Souls · 1974

Island of Lost Souls

Rene Cardona directs the film version of Jose Leon Sanchez's best-selling novel, which relates the author's 20 years of imprisonment on an island ruled by brutality. When a sadistic man declares himself the boss of an island pueblo, an innocent husband and wife become the victims of his selfish rule. Once the evil man's deeds reach the authorities on the mainland, however, he sinks further into madness and declares "his" island its own republic.

El Quelite

El Quelite · 1970

MovieComedyDrama

Agapito, leader of the revolutionary movement of his state, comes to a town, kills all the federales, and gets a girl who was promised to him for his heroic deeds.

(uncredited)

Devil's Mountain

Devil's Mountain · 1975

Devil's Mountain

Adaptation of cowboy comic-book El Payo, #2 in a series.

El Carretonero

El elegido

El elegido · 1977

MovieDramaThriller

A guy is peer-pressured, despite his reluctance, to play the role of Christ in a local production of the Passion Play.

Valentin

El águila descalza

El águila descalza · 1971

El águila descalza

MovieDramaComedy

Shmuck makes a superhero costume, rides his bike to crime scenes. He gets involved with something big involving US capitalists taking over local Mexican businesses.

Moctezuma, paciente Manicomio

American Playhouse

American Playhouse · 1982

American Playhouse

SeriesDramaComedy

American Playhouse is an anthology television series periodically broadcast by Public Broadcasting Service in the United States.

El Puma the Soldier

The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents

The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents · 1985

The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents

SeriesDramaMystery

The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents is an American anthology series that aired on NBC from 1985 to 1986, and on the USA Network from 1987 to 1989. The series is an updated re-imagining of the classic 1955 series Alfred Hitchcock Presents.

Indio