Luis Aguilar

Actor

January 29, 1918 (79 years)

† October 24, 1997

Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico

Biography

Luis Aguilar Manzo (1918 - 1997) was a Mexican film and television actor and singer of the Golden Age of Mexican cinema. He was also known as El Gallo Giro, and was noted for his performances in films as El 7 leguas (1955) and El látigo negro (1958). Aguilar was born in Hermosillo, Sonora. He was given his first leading role in the film Sota, Caballo y Rey (1944). He had two daughters (Anna Luisa and Martha Fernanda Aguilar) from his first marriage and one son (Luis Aguilar Doblado) from his se…

Filmography

5.5

Bajo un Mismo Rostro

Padre Tomás

After the murder of her father and brother, Irene Saldivar travels to Greece. There she meets and falls in love with entrepreneur Alexis Theodorakis. Carlos is the administrator of Irene's fortune and cooperates with Alejandro in a rotten and corrupt business where he marries rich women, kills them, and obtains their fortune. When Carlos finds out about Irene's marriage to Alexis, he formulates a plan to kill Alexis and obtain his fortune. During Irene and Alexis' honeymoon, Carlos' plan succeeds when the boat Alexis travels in explodes. A desperate and pregnant Irene returns to Mexico, where she falls in love with Dr. Diego Covarrubias. However, Irene is forced to leave him for the sake of her friend Carolina, since Carolina loves him and has cancer. Since Alejandro isn't able to win Irene's love, Alejandro gets in her life and forces her to marry him or risk losing her son - all of this as part of another plan Carlos formulated so he and Alejandro plot Irene's death in another fatal catastrophe.

7.0

Capricho

Don Jesús Tamayo

Story about a woman that is unhappily married and with two daughters. She constantly reprimands Cristina and baby Raquel. What the people around her don't know is that Raquel is not her husband's daughter as everyone believes. Raquel is Eugenia and León's daughter. She has always loved him, not her husband. That is the reason she's always angry at Cristina.

6.5

Los expatriados

Luis Valdés, el licenciado

The film, which is an ode to Rafael Hernández's song "Lamento borincano", is a social commentary of the political and social policies of the 40's and 50's which led to the abandonment of what was seen by many as the "pure", "virtuous" life of the finca (farm) for the "corrupting" influence of urban centers like San Juan and New York City.

6.6

El mariachi canta

Lucas

Rivalry and romance between the leaders of a male mariachi band and a female one.

5.7

Atrás de las nubes

Luis

All it says in my notes is "Like 'Juan Sin Miedo', only with soldiers." So... Army officer seeks revenge for... something...

8.4

Full Spead Ahead

Luis Macías

A drifter lands a job as an officer in México City's elite motorcycle police unit and gets home with a mate of this unit. The mate is in love with a girl, but he and she are always making jealous to each other. The drifter and the mate get involved themselves in a fight to become the winner of conquering ladies and performing unit acrobatic tricks, interfering with their friendship and profession.

5.4

Soul of Steel

Luciano Gallardo / Luis Gallardo

Inspired by Alexander Dumas's novel The Corsican Brothers, Alma de Acero presents a delightful spin on the classic story of twin brothers (both played by Luis Aguilar) and their contrasting lives. As a singer in a nightclub, one brother has chosen a life of peaceful simplicity; the other, however, has chosen a troublesome lifestyle that leads to numerous run-ins with the law, forcing the vocalist to risk his own life to save his sibling.

9.0

Muchachita

Gabriel Landeros

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6.8

El ausente

Young man returns to his childhood home-town, planning to git the people that killed his father.

6.0

Alto poder

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5.6

Por qué peca la mujer

Marcelo

Working-class girl-next--door type is seduced into a high-glam lifestyle when an oily promoter helps launch her as a nightclub singer; she throws over her decent-simple-guy boyfriend and loses her moral compass.

6.2

El revólver sangriento

Juan Chávez

Follows an "unlucky" gun across the paths of five owners.

5.8

Mi noche de bodas

Pedro

Afther their wedding ceremony, Fernanda and Cosme Martínez go to a luxury hotel to consummate. They receive there some gifts and they find one fabulous diamant bracalet with a note for Fernanda thanking her for unfforgetable nights. Cosme feel jelause and Fernanda offended and during their wedding night they go from one place to another to find out the misunderstanding.

6.6

Perdida

This film traces the unbelievable true story of the Calderón family, who built grand movie palaces in Mexico and the U.S., employing thousands to produce incomparable, hugely successful, and often reprehensible populist-genre films that were utterly and uniquely Mexican.

6.0

México de mis amores

Anthology of clips from classic-era Mexican films, with reality-footage of elderly actors discussing their memories of the period.

7.8

México de mi corazón

Two Mexican-American gals in LA win a vacation in Mexico City in a talent show.

6.8

El último chinaco

1880s-1890s rural adventure on horseback.

7.9

El 7 leguas

Rodolfo, el Cancionero

Horse-trader gets absorbed into Pancho Villa's battalions, becomes a spy.

6.9

La norteña de mis amores

Child whose father was murdered grows up and seeks revenge, also falling in love with a new victim of the same bad guy.

5.8

Se la llevó el Remington

El Remington

While tracking down the three men that killed his father, a notorious bad-ass commits other misdeeds, seemingly based on his desire to wreck as many lives as possible. Doesn't really have anything to do with the historical figure known as Remington, though they used his name for the character here.