Alfonso Arau
11 Jan 1932 (92 years old) in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
Alfonso Arau Incháustegui (born 11 January 1932) is a Mexican filmmaker, actor, and singer. He worked as an actor and director in both Mexican and Hollywood productions for over 40 years, before his international breakthrough with the 1992 film Like Water for Chocolate, based on his wife Laura Esquivel's novel of the same name. His other films include A Walk in the Clouds (1995), Picking Up the Pieces (2000), The Magnificent Ambersons (2002), and Zapata: El sueño del héroe (2004). He is a five-time Ariel Award winner, including Best Director for Like Water for Chocolate, and a BAFTA nominee.
Known For
Credits
- 2018 · Drunk Angry Idiot as Ernesto Pino
- 2017 · Coco as Papá Julio Rivera (voice)
- 2012 · I Heart Shakey as Raoul
- 2007 · The Dead One as Tezcatlipoca (voice)
- 2005 · Ni Muy, Muy... ni Tan, Tan... simplemente Tin Tan as Himself
- 2004 · Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade as (archive footage)
- 2000 · Picking Up the Pieces as Dr. Amado
- 2000 · Committed as Grampy
- 1992 · Polvora En La Piel as
- 1991 · Camino largo a Tijuana as
- 1988 · Where the Hell's That Gold?!!? as Indio
- 1988 · Stones for Ibarra as Chuy Santos
- 1987 · Walker as Raousset
- 1986 · ¡Three Amigos! as El Guapo
- 1985 · 227 as
- 1984 · Miami Vice as
- 1984 · Romancing the Stone as Juan
- 1982 · El día que murió Pedro Infante as Anselmo
- 1981 · Mojado Power as Nato Solís
- 1980 · Used Cars as Manuel
- 1975 · Tivoli as Tiliches
- 1975 · Posse as Pepe
- 1974 · Inspector Calzonzin as Calzonzín
- 1972 · El rincón de las vírgenes as Lucas Lucatero
- 1972 · Run, Cougar, Run as Etio
- 1972 · Aunt Isabel's Garden as
- 1971 · El águila descalza as Poncho / Jonathan Eaglepass / Mascalzzone
- 1971 · Scandalous John as Paco
- 1970 · El Topo as Bandit 1
- 1970 · Paradise as El Perro
- 1970 · The Useless Life of Pito Pérez as
- 1970 · Jóvenes de la Zona Rosa as
- 1970 · Tres amigos as
- 1969 · The Wild Bunch as Herrera
- 1969 · El aviso inoportuno as
- 1968 · Operación carambola as Capulina's Aid #1
- 1967 · Pedro Paramo as 'Saltaperico'
- 1965 · There Are No Thieves in This Village as Agente viajero
- 1962 · ...And Your Love Too as Alfredo
- 1960 · Los pistolocos as
- 1958 · Trip to the Moon as Carlos Vera
- 1956 · New faces as
- 1955 · Gunsmoke as Mando
- 1951 · Hallmark Hall of Fame as Chuy Santos