Salvador Sánchez
Birthday: 1943-10-28
Place of Birth: Tehuacan, Puebla, Mexico
Biography: Alfredo Salvador Sánchez Bolaños (born October 28th, 1943) is a Mexican actor and director. He was one of the most relevant actors among those who renewed the list of interpreters of Mexican cinema at the beginning of the seventies. Since then, he has stood out in films such as The devil fell from glory (Cayó de la gloria el diablo, .1971), The bump (La choca, 1973), The heist (El apando, 1975), Canoa (1975), Las Poquianchis (1976), Los albañiles (1976), Under the shrapnel (Bajo la metralla, 1983), Motel (1983), Journey to Paradise (1985), Going for a nut (1986), Fire Angel (1991), Lady at night (1993), Leap into the void (1994), Natural death (1996) , Only once (2000) and Herod's law (2000). He directed Pedro Páramo in 1981. Deserving of various distinctions for his acting work in film, including two Diosas de Plata, he has also developed an outstanding theatrical career and has participated repeatedly on television.
Movies
¡Que viva México!
After his grandfather's death, a man travels with his wife and kids to his hometown, where chaos ens...
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Amor que mata
Diego is a young musician who lives the terrible death of his uncle to AIDS. While in his deep depre...
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Emiliano Zapata
This is the story of a man, Emiliano Zapata, and of a revolution, the Mexican Revolution....
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Cayó de la gloria el diablo
Subsistence-economy slum guy who sells used newsprint for a living breaks into showbiz with an inadv...
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Caminando pasos... caminando
In a community of the Matlatzinca ethnic group, a teacher tries to integrate the inhabitants into th...
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1938: When Mexico Recovered Its Oil
A chronicle of the Mexican oil expropriation in 1938 through the eyes of President Lazaro Cardenas a...
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One Man’s War
Anthony Hopkins plays an English medical doctor living with his family in Paraguay and treating the ...
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Pedro Páramo
The third film version of the popular Mexican novel, about a wayfarer who travels to a mysterious ar...
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Jóvenes delincuentes
A group of young people lives in a world of drugs and crime, they wanna be free....
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Ángel de fuego
The young trapeze artist Alma is part of the show of a miserable traveling circus. In an act of desp...
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Maria of My Heart
Héctor and María meet again after eight years of not seeing each other. She works as a magician in c...
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Difficult Days
Two shareholder brothers close several factories due to economic problems, except for their chemical...
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File of Attempted Murder
Tells the story behind an assassination attempt perpetrated in 1897, by a dipsomaniac man, against t...
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Under the Shrapnel
A guerrilla commando tries to kidnap a politician. In the attempt, several policemen and a guerrille...
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Drizzle
Returning from a business trip, a man meets some peasants who arouse fears in him....
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Motel
The discovery of the mutilated body of a wealthy woman leads a detective to an isolated motel....
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Between Shadows
In an attempt to solve their marriage problems, Eric and Mari take a trip to the Mexican southeast, ...
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La Choca
A smuggler lives far from civilization, in a hut in the jungle with his wife, La Choca, his son and ...
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The Beast
Pipo, Pau and Mau, three youngsters who spend their time shooting video pranks, visit a distant town...
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Old Gringo
A writer forms a triangle with a schoolmarm and a Mexican general on the run....
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El jardín de la paz
An American's couple who live peaceful and quiet in their summer house in Cuernavaca, Mexico, see ho...
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Crimen y castigo
Adaptation of Dostoyevsky's novel about a student who plans a conceptual murder and then butts heads...
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La yegua colorada
Landowner counts on his super-champeen race-horse to help him win back the hacienda he was swindled ...
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Diplomatic Immunity
Cole Hickel, a Marine, pursues his daughter's killer when he is allowed to go back to Paraguay becau...
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Mujer de cabaret
Alicia Conde is famous and successful cabaret singer is going to marry Octavio and quit her career. ...
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La Generala
During the Mexican Revolution, a hardened and rich lady landowner is overtaken by the violence of th...
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Aventuras de un caballo blanco y un niño
Frontier boy orphaned after a military actiion,, escapes with his horse into Mexico and has adventur...
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Kill Me Because I'm Dying!!!
Tin Tan falls in love with a young woman who does not love him, but when he wins the lottery she cha...
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Dama de Noche
Bruno, a novelist with no luck goes to call for help from his love always sofia, who is in Veracruz ...
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No One Will Love You Like I Do
A student-movement leftist becomes a nun and absorbs lots of deep, deep TV-movie spiritual lessons a...
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Abuelita de Bakman
A novelist cannot create new and original stories, his wife suggests that he go out and write about ...
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A Breakfast Chronicle
A view of the end-of-the-century Mexican family. A father who comes back home after a long absence, ...
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Tequila, historia de una pasión
Tequila in Mexico, 1940s: Honor and dignity come first here. The town is protecting a certain secret...
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De muerte natural
Four women get mad at a bakery while they recall their lives at their neighborhood....
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Sobre el arco iris
A man buys a video camera and goes to Berlin adopting a new identity: Ludwig. Fascinated by the magi...
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Jack's Law
Jack Santos is a retired undercover vice cop whose world is suddenly torn apart by the murder of his...
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The Exorcist
Ophelia, a young nun recently arriving in the town of San Ramon, is forced to perform an exorcism on...
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Under the Volcano
Against a background of war breaking out in Europe and the Mexican fiesta Day of Death, we are taken...
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The Food of Fear
The story unfolds in an underclass neighborhood of Mexico City, a place where a unique troupe featur...
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Frida Still Life
This film is a chronicle of painter Frida Kahlo, and her encounter with the personalities of her tim...
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The House in the South
Indian village experiences forced relocation; their experience is paralleled by that of other groups...
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His Most Serene Highness
This historical drama depicts the waning days of the life of Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, who waged ...
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Letters from Marusia
Chronicle of the repression that a foreign company exerts on the miners of a small nitrate town in C...
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Canoa: A Shameful Memory
A group of students arrives in a small town during a hiking expedition. Once there, the local priest...
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The Mexican
Jerry Welbach, a reluctant bagman, has been given two ultimatums: The first is from his mob boss to ...
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Acorazado
Silverio Palacios, 40, a failed union worker from Veracruz, decides to turn his life around. Tired o...
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Salvador
In 1980, an American journalist covering the Salvadoran Civil War becomes entangled with both the le...
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Octagon and Mascara Sagrada in Fight to the Death
Heroic Mexican wrestler duo Octagon and Mascara Sagrado take on a bevvy of sexy female catburglars l...
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Octagon and Atlantis, the rematch
A Colombian gangster buys modern weapons to re-sell them to guerrillas of various countries, under t...
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The Heist
In Mexico City's infamous Lecumberri prison, three drug-addicted convicts celebrate getting drugs fr...
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Herod's Law
In the 1940s, a small Mexican town has seen its last three mayors assassinated in rapid succession. ...
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El Infierno
After being deported back to Mexico, a man has no choice but to join the vicious drug cartel that ha...
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Charm School
Defiant 18-year-old Adela León pushes her father and an unbending headmistress to the limit in this ...
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The Eve
Aging politicians who have faded from the public eye hold a cocktail party to celebrate one friend's...
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Viaje al paraíso
Family plans for a quiet weekend at the beach, but everything goes wrong....
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Perseguida
A journalist Lorena and her friend photographer Raul decide to try to take an interview from influen...
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¿Y si Platicamos de Agosto?
It tells the story of two young people who, in the context of the 1968 student movement, awaken to l...
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Curandero
Manuel is desperate to save his wife from death. A mysterious man appears to him one day at church, ...
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The Bricklayers
When a worker is found murdered on the construction side, the investigation swiftly turns from thing...
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The Mexican Ninja
A criminal organization hires some ninjas to steal the formula for a new drug, described as cheaper ...
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Zapata en Chinameca
Urbino Martínez, on his deathbed, regrets his wrongdoing after betraying Emiliano Zapata....
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The Perfect Dictatorship
TV MX, the most powerful Mexican Television Corporation, discloses a scandalous story involving Gove...
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The Recourse to the Method
Set in the early 1900s, this film charts the rule of a Latin American dictator as he moves from bein...
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The Voice of a Dream
At a pivotal moment in her singing career, Rocío discovers that her mother is ill and that her final...
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Una buena forma de morir
After his wife is murdered by gang members, a man must take revenge....
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The Mongolian Conspiracy
1963, the Soviet Union intercepts a rumour that China pretends to assassinate the president of the U...
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Do You Hear the Dogs Barking?
Carrying his son on his back, a man travels from place to place looking for a doctor to treat the si...
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El elegido
A guy is peer-pressured, despite his reluctance, to play the role of Christ in a local production of...
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Las Poquianchis
During the mid-1970s, in the Mexican state of Guanajuato, authorities discover a clandestine burial ...
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Collateral Damage
Firefighter Gordon Brewer is plunged into the complex and dangerous world of international terrorism...
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Angel River
It's love on the old frontier in this western adventure set in Arizona in the 1870s. It centers on a...
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Imperio de los Malditos
On the day of his first communion, the boy Honorato is orphaned because the mafia murders his parent...
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Anyway, Juan is Your Name
Analytical view of one of the least reported conflicts of national cinema: the Cristero movement tha...
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El hijo de Lamberto Quintero
Lamberto Quintero is assassinated and his son intends to avenge him following in his footsteps. The ...
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The Master of Ballantrae
Adult brothers compete for pateral affection and for control of the family estate....
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Those Years
President Juárez fights against the conservatives, who have ordered an emperor to be brought from Fr...
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Puras mentiras
Life is giving Benito the best stories for his first work without knowing what the end of this love ...
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