Cuco Sánchez

Actor

May 4, 1921 (79 years)

† October 6, 2000

Tamaulipas, Mexico

Biography

José del Refugio Sánchez Saldaña (3 May 1921, in Altamira, Tamaulipas – 6 October 2000, in Mexico City) better known as Cuco Sanchez was a Mexican singer and songwriter who wrote dozens of hits.

Filmography

6.4

La Cucaracha

Cantante / soldatul cântăreț

The Mexican Revolution serves as a backdrop to a torrid love triangle composed of three freedom fighters: a colonel, a widow, and a fiery female soldier.

6.3

Paloma herida

Trovador

Paloma is a young blonde indigenous woman who arrives in a coastal town and goes to the local cantina to murder Danilo Zeta in cold blood. But the young woman is captured and, upon being tried in the public square of Puerto San José, she refuses to speak. In prison, after giving birth to a child, Judge Justo and her wife Amalia encourage her to tell them her past.

5.6

Por qué peca la mujer

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.

5.8

Fallaste corazón

Ugly-duckling older guy falls in love with a beautiful young woman. Offering her a marriage of convenience, to give her baby a father, might be a way to win her affection... Ya think?

6.9

The Paper Man

Himself

A deaf and mute vagabond finds a large denomination bill in a Mexico City dump, and while he tries to buy something with it, others try to con him into giving it away.

6.2

El revólver sangriento

Cuco

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

5.4

Socios para la aventura

Young nightclub performer, down on her luck, falls in with a portrait-cartoonist who works the streets and a terminally-ill singer-songwriter and goes to live on their houseboat. They consider doing a crime.

5.4

The Revenge of the Shadow

A shadowy adversary emerges, forcing The Scarlet Fox into a dangerous game of wits, swords, and courage in this action-packed adventure.

5.6

Duelo en El Dorado

Saloon-owner's a hard guy and none too law-abiding; his twelve year old son comes to live with him and he starts changing his ways... but his past is likely to catch up with him.

6.3

Born to Love

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7.0

El burócrata González

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.