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.
Salvador Sánchez Biography / Wiki
| Name | Salvador Sánchez |
| Also Know | |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Tehuacan, Puebla, Mexico |
| Date of Birth | October 28, 1943 |
| Age(as in 2023 Feb) | 79 |
| Deathday |
Salvador Sánchez Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Do You Hear the Dogs Barking? | Juan Dolores | 1975-09-25 | Carrying his son on his back, a man travels from place to place looking for a doctor to treat the sick boy. As they journey, the indio father tells th… |
| Drizzle | IndÃgena | 1978-06-29 | Returning from a business trip, a man meets some peasants who arouse fears in him…. |
| Between Shadows | Narciso | 2015-01-22 | In an attempt to solve their marriage problems, Eric and Mari take a trip to the Mexican southeast, but she disappears under mysterious circumstances…. |
| Motel of Death | 1990-01-01 | Murders take place in and around a hotel. Debuted on Mexican TV…. | |
| With Fear in the Veins | José | 1990-12-24 | Compilation tape of Hora Marcada episodes…. |
| Angel River | Toral | 1988-03-01 | It’s love on the old frontier in this western adventure set in Arizona in the 1870s. It centers on a beautiful, young blonde girl whose peaceful life … |
| La madre | 1979-01-01 | Mexican feature film… | |
| Pedro Páramo | 1981-01-01 | The third film version of the popular Mexican novel, about a wayfarer who travels to a mysterious arid village, to meet the father who long ago abando… | |
| Motel | Julián Vargas, Detective | 1984-03-29 | The discovery of the mutilated body of a wealthy woman leads a detective to an isolated motel…. |
| The House in the South | 1976-06-17 | Indian village experiences forced relocation; their experience is paralleled by that of other groups dating back to the 18th century…. | |
| Canoa: A Shameful Memory | Witness | 1976-03-04 | 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 … |
| The Voice of a Dream | Apolonio | 2018-05-25 | At a pivotal moment in her singing career, RocÃo discovers that her mother is ill and that her final wish is to meet with her again before she dies. … |
| Imperio de los malditos | 1992-08-28 | On the day of his first communion, the boy Honorato is orphaned because the mafia murders his parents. Before dying, the father recommends that the so… | |
| Maria of My Heart | Chava | 1979-05-17 | Héctor and MarÃa meet again after eight years of not seeing each other. She works as a magician in cabarets and he robs houses. MarÃa convinces Hé… |
| Letters from Marusia | Sebastián | 1975-12-26 | Chronicle of the repression that a foreign company exerts on the miners of a small nitrate town in Chile, whose workers decide to claim their most ess… |
| Loving Ghosts | 1994-02-28 | … | |
| Viaje al paraÃso | Bulmador | 1985-09-08 | Family plans for a quiet weekend at the beach, but everything goes wrong…. |
| Under the Shrapnel | Tomas | 1983-11-17 | A guerrilla commando tries to kidnap a politician. In the attempt, several policemen and a guerrillero die. By chance the head of the kidnappers meets… |
| Frida Still Life | David Alfaro Siqueiros | 1986-03-13 | This film is a chronicle of painter Frida Kahlo, and her encounter with the personalities of her time. Despite being confied to a wheelchair as a resu… |
| Perseguida | Commander German Paino | 1991-01-01 | A journalist Lorena and her friend photographer Raul decide to try to take an interview from influential politician Hermenegildo Parra. After several … |
| The Bricklayers | Chapo Ãlvarez | 1976-12-23 | When a worker is found murdered on the construction side, the investigation swiftly turns from things criminal to the political circumstances surround… |
| Ojitos mentirosos | 1999-01-01 | … | |
| Octagon and Atlantis, the rematch | 1992-03-20 | A Colombian gangster buys modern weapons to re-sell them to guerrillas of various countries, under the patronage of the Mafia. Interpol is after Galla… | |
| Acorazado | Alacran | 2010-10-22 | Silverio Palacios, 40, a failed union worker from Veracruz, decides to turn his life around. Tired of earning his money panhandling in the streets, he… |
| The Mexican Ninja | 1991-05-30 | A criminal organization hires some ninjas to steal the formula for a new drug, described as cheaper and more powerful than cocaine. As it turns out, t… | |
| The Recourse to the Method | 1978-06-06 | Set in the early 1900s, this film charts the rule of a Latin American dictator as he moves from being a charming despot to a tyrannical ruler before h… | |
| El hijo de Lamberto Quintero | 1990-11-15 | Lamberto Quintero is assassinated and his son intends to avenge him following in his footsteps. The pair of father and son, Antonio Aguilar and Pepe A… | |
| File of Attempted Murder | Antonio Villacencio | 2010-08-27 | Tells the story behind an assassination attempt perpetrated in 1897, by a dipsomaniac man, against the President of the Mexican Republic, General Porf… |
| La Choca | Audias | 1974-09-05 | A smuggler lives far from civilization, in a hut in the jungle with his wife, La Choca, his son and his sister-in-law Flor. One day some men arrive, w… |
| The Exorcist | Señor Ramirez | 2022-11-02 | Ophelia, a young nun recently arriving in the town of San Ramon, is forced to perform an exorcism on a pregnant woman in danger of dying. Just when sh… |
| El alimento del miedo | 1994-01-01 | The story unfolds in an underclass neighborhood of Mexico City, a place where a unique troupe features a circus act, led by Don Ramón (López Moctezu… | |
| El Infierno | El Padrino | 2010-09-03 | Benjamin Garcia, Benny is deported from the United States. Back home and against a bleak picture, Benny gets involved in the drug business, in which h… |
| Zapata en Chinameca | 1987-02-15 | … | |
| Las Poquianchis | Reportero | 1976-11-17 | In the middle 70’s in the mexican state of Guanajuato, authorities discover a clandestine burial ground, the corpses were from murdered prostitutes. T… |
| Anyway, Juan is Your Name | 1976-12-22 | Analytical view of one of the least reported conflicts of national cinema: the Cristero movement that developed in the regions of western Mexico betwe… | |
| Angel of Fire | Rito | 1991-01-02 | In a miserable circus, a young trapeze artist seduces her father, gets pregnant and decides to have her baby, so she leaves the circus and joins a gro… |
| Esa mi Irene | 1975-01-01 | A 43 minutes short film filmed in Mexico in 1975… | |
| Octagon and Mascara Sagrada in Fight to the Death | Himself | 1992-11-20 | Heroic Mexican wrestler duo Octagon and Mascara Sagrado take on a bevvy of sexy female catburglars led by Lina Santos… |
| Una buena forma de morir | 1994-11-11 | After his wife is murdered by gang members, a man must take revenge…. | |
| El elegido | Don Liserio | 1977-01-13 | A guy is peer-pressured, despite his reluctance, to play the role of Christ in a local production of the Passion Play…. |
| The Master of Ballantrae | El Chueco | 1974-03-13 | Adult brothers compete for pateral affection and for control of the family estate…. |
| Amor que mata | Don Raúl | 1994-01-01 | Diego is a young musician who lives the terrible death of his uncle to AIDS. While in his deep depresion he meets Gabriela, which brings back a smile … |
| Charm School | Monseñor | 2007-03-09 | Defiant 18-year-old Adela León pushes her father and an unbending headmistress to the limit in this delicious comedy…. |
| Caminando pasos… caminando | 1977-04-10 | Directed by Federico Weingartshofer… | |
| Cayó de la gloria el diablo | Charro cantor / SolÃs | 1972-05-11 | Subsistence-economy slum guy who sells used newsprint for a living breaks into showbiz with an inadvertantly-comical fire-eater act. The novelty of hi… |
| The Mexican | Gunsmith | 2001-03-01 | Jerry Welbach, a reluctant bagman, has been given two ultimatums: The first is from his mob boss to travel to Mexico and retrieve a priceless antique … |
| Difficult Days | Diputado Gabriel Aguirre | 1988-07-07 | Two shareholder brothers close several factories due to economic problems, except for their chemical plants…. |
| His Most Serene Highness | 2000-08-17 | This historical drama depicts the waning days of the life of Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, who waged a war against the United States that ultimately co… | |
| The Perfect Dictatorship | Hombre X | 2014-10-16 | TV MX, the most powerful Mexican Television Corporation, discloses a scandalous story involving Governor Carmelo Vargas in serious crimes and illicit … |
| The Mongolian Conspiracy | Señor Liu | 2019-04-18 | 1963, the Soviet Union intercepts a rumour that China pretends to assassinate the president of the US in his visit to Mexico. Filiberto Garcia, a loca… |
| Under the Volcano | Chief of Stockyards | 1984-06-12 | Against a background of war breaking out in Europe and the Mexican fiesta Day of Death, we are taken through one day in the life of Geoffrey Firmin, a… |
| One Man’s War | RamÃrez | 1991-04-20 | Anthony Hopkins plays an English medical doctor living with his family in Paraguay and treating the poor people from the surroundings, who has his lif… |
| Jóvenes delincuentes | 1991-04-18 | A group of young people lives in a world of drugs and crime, they wanna be free…. | |
| The Heist | Albino | 1976-08-05 | In Mexico City’s infamous Lecumberri prison, three drug-addicted convicts celebrate getting drugs from one of their the mothers. They are found out an… |
| Salvador | Human Rights Leader | 1986-04-23 | Set in the 1980s, an American journalist covering the Salvadoran Civil War becomes entangled with both the leftist guerrilla groups and the right-wing… |
| Fuera de la ley | 1998-05-08 | Four raw stories about justice and law…. | |
| Herod’s Law | Pek | 1999-11-09 | Mexico, 1949. The fable of a janitor turned Mayor on a little town lost in the Mexican desert, who gradually realizes how far his new acquainted power… |
| 1938: When the Oil was Ours | Peasant | 2022-12-31 | A chronicle of the Mexican oil expropriation in 1938 through the eyes of President Lazaro Cardenas and journalist Alberto Miranda…. |
| El vals sin fin | 1972-11-30 | … | |
| Las asesinas del panadero | 1989-01-01 | Mexican feature film… | |
| Those Years | Gen. Melchor Ocampo | 1974-03-21 | President Juárez fights against the conservatives, who have ordered an emperor to be brought from France to govern Mexico… |
| ¡Que Viva México! | Notario / Don Florencio | 2023-03-23 | After his grandfather’s death, a man travels with his wife and kids to his hometown, where chaos ensues with his relatives over the inheritance…. |
| Emiliano Zapata | 1970-11-20 | This is the story of a man, Emiliano Zapata, and of a revolution, the Mexican Revolution…. | |
| Collateral Damage | Peddler | 2002-02-06 | Firefighter Gordon Brewer is plunged into the complex and dangerous world of international terrorism after he loses his wife and child in a bombing cr… |
Salvador Sánchez Directing Movies
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Pedro Páramo | Director | 1981-01-01 | The third film version of the popular Mexican novel, about a wayfarer who travels to a mysterious arid village, to meet the father who long ago abando… |
| Director | Huracán is a Mexican telenovela shown in Mexico from October 13, 1997 to March 27, 1998, starring with the late Jorge Russek, Fernando Balzaretti, an… | ||
| Director | Porque el Amor Manda is a 2012 Mexican telenovela produced by Juan Osorio for Televisa. It is a remake of the Colombian telenovela El secretario, prod… | ||
| Director | Cómplices al Rescate is a Mexican telenovela starring Belinda as two twins who were separated at birth…. | ||
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