Valentín Trujillo

Actor

March 28, 1951 (55 years)

† May 4, 2006

Atotonilco, Jalisco, Mexico

Biography

Valentin Trujillo Gazcón (28 March 1951 – 4 May 2006) was a Mexican actor, writer and director. His career spanned 48 years, where he appeared in over 140 films and directed 20 films. Trujillo was born on March 28, 1951 in a show business family as his grandfather was film producer Valentín Gazcón and his uncle was actor Gilberto Gazcón. He made his film debut as a baby. Trujillo initially studied law at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). He never completed his studies, choosing ins…

Filmography

9.0

Juana Iris

Bernardo de la Riva

Juana Iris is a Mexican telenovela from 1985, starring Victoria Ruffo and Valentín Trujillo.

7.0

Mañana Será Otro Día

Roberto Lorenzana

The title "Manana Sera Otro Dia" is the name of a Mexican telenovela. It began in 1976, with principal actors Jacqueline Andere and Eduardo Fajardo. The title in English means "Tomorrow will be another day", similar to Scarlett O'Hara's famous lines, optimistic of future victory, in the 1939 film Gone with the Wind. In the Spanish title, the accented word "será" is pronounced as "say-Rah" but often the word for day is not accented. The telenovela's runtime was 30 minutes, and it had 253 episodes. The TV series was produced in Mexico by Televisa S.A. de C.V. Viewers' reactions to the show have been highly favorable.

5.3

Violación

Pepe Garrido

In Mexico City, a woman is raped every 9 minutes. This film details some of the legal and social problems in the country and how it's often difficult for women to find justice. Awarded Best Film by Mexican Cinema Journalists and nominated for three Ariel Awards.

6.7

The Death of a Stallion

When a dedicated jockey finds that the local politicians are not to be trusted and begins to feel his romance with a beautiful woman slowly slipping away, his last-ditch effort to risk it all for his trusted horse Palomo shows that sometimes animals are truly man's best friend.

6.9

El Extra

Chevo, hermano de Rosa

Cantinflas is a man who hangs around the studios and helps anyone who needs his advice while at the same time envisioning his own versions of how certain scenes should be shot. Both angles provide ample opportunities for very witty, subtle barbs at the foibles of the industry.

6.8

El ausente

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

5.8

El hijo del palenque

Man is murdered in a cockfighting dispute at the exact moment that his son is being born. The son grows up to avenge him.

5.5

El valiente vive... hasta que el cobarde quiere

The arrival of a new school-teacher to a small town triggers various large and small upheavals, including the Police Chief's total meltdown into raging psychosis.

5.6

Rage

Jose

Small-town doctor bitten by rabid dog, races the clock to get to the city and receive treatment.

5.5

En Peligro De Muerte

Victor

Nina is a reporter who works in a Latin American country at war when she finds herself trapped in the line of fire and hires a mercenary pilot named Victor to help her escape the place, but the plane is attacked and the journalist and pilot have to parachute off the plane. They fall into the sea but with a life raft they make it to the jungle, where they have to coexist and she learns to survive.

4.7

Carroña

Horseback drama set in Mexico just before the Revolution.

6.5

El Ansia de matar

El mayor

This is a true story. Kicho and Maria come to Mexico looking for a better life but Maria gets killed by the guerrilla before she gets to sign the papers at the border. Kicho promises himself he will get revenge one day. At the same time a family of four gets kidnapped during a hunting trip by the same "red beret" guy who commands the guerrilla and left the father thinking hes dead. He is an experienced hunter and with Kichos help, who knows the woods very well, track down the guerrilla to rescue the rest of the family.

6.3

El Desconocido

Disenfranchised drifter finds a home, working on a young orphan woman's ranch.

7.9

Perro callejero

Perro

An abandoned child steals to survive and has problems when he decides to steal from the priest who helps him.

5.2

Mi fantasma y yo

A family of three moves to a haunted house. The couple's 10-year-old son runs into the ghost of the house but isn't scared. He tells the ghost that since his father is a writer of horror novels he lost fear of horror stories. The ghost then confides in the boy that he is a lonely ghost on account of the modern world focused on so many material priorities. Child and ghost become best friends, playing together, telling stories and helping the ghost pay his rent by scaring people every month.

4.5

¿Y ahora qué, señor fiscal?

José

Working-class dude grows up surrounded with petty delinquency and ghetto temptations; he marries a rich girl and faces the disapproval of her parents. Then the young couple plans a crime...

5.8

Atrapados

Perro

A wild police officer attempts to rescue a child from the hands of kidnappers.

5.3

The Last Escape

An elderly escape artist fails in his act and is fired from the theater. He and his grandchildren Magela and Pablo then perform magic acts in parks.

7.3

Perro callejero 2

Perro

After serving his three-year sentence, Perro, who was only visited by Father Maromas, returns to his old environment. There, Chava recruits him back into drug trafficking.

7.2

Mexicano Hasta Las Cachas

Mauro

Mauro is your typical deep-heart Mexican man, a merrymaker always ready to sing a song and turn difficulties into a laugh. He's married, has a friend named Hilario, and a girlfriend named Rita, and a girlfriend named Carmen, and a girlfriend named Petra, and other unnamed girlfriends. His life was already troubled with jealous girlfriends fighting each other, when one of his lovers decides to kidnap his baby child from the cradle, to kill him. All turns to the good, in the end.