Chano Urueta

Directing · Acting · Writing · Production

Born February 24, 1904, Chihuahua - Mexico

Santiago Eduardo Urueta Sierra Rodríguez (Mineral de Cusihuiriachi, Chihuahua, Mexico, February 24, 1895-Mexico City, March 23, 1979), better known as Chano Urueta, was a film director, actor and writer who stood out since the first half of the 1930s as one of the most gifted adapters of great works of universal literature.

Filmography

• 1974Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia — Manchot
• 1974Guns and Guts — Fray José
• 1974La Choca — Don Pomposo
• 1974Los leones del ring — Director
• 1974Los leones del ring contra la Cosa Nostra — Director
• 1974Once Upon a Scoundrel
• 1973Tu camino y el mio — Director
• 1972Kaliman, the Incredible Man — Tabor Tagore
• 1972The Incredible Professor Zovek — Writer
• 1972The Wrath of God — Antonio
• 1971Furias bajo el cielo
• 1971The Fearmaker — Pastor
• 1970Dos esposas en mi cama
• 1970El capitán Mantarraya
• 1970El hermano Capulina
• 1970El pueblo del terror
• 1970Emiliano Zapata
• 1969Super Colt 38
• 1969The Butcher’s Wife — Priest, Director
• 1969The Door and the Butcher's Wife — Cura (segment "La mujer del carnicero"), Director
• 1969The Wild Bunch — Don Jose
• 1969Todo Por Nada — Nicolás
• 1968Blue Demon vs. the Diabolical Women — Director, Writer
• 1968Blue Demon vs. the Infernal Brains — Director
• 1968El as de oros — Director
• 1967Chanoc — Tsekub Baloyán
• 1966Alma grande — Director
• 1966Blue Demon vs. the Satanic Power — Director
• 1966Los gavilanes negros — Director
• 1965Blue Demon — Director
• 1965Especialista en chamacas — Director
• 1964Cinco asesinos esperan — Director
• 1964El ciclón de Jalisco — Director
• 1964El robo al tren correo — Director
• 1964Lupe Balazos — Director
• 1963La muerte en el desfiladero — Director
• 1963Los chacales — Director
• 1963The Living Head — Director
• 1962Camino de la horca — Director
• 1962El asaltacaminos — Director
• 1962Pilotos de la muerte — Director
• 1962The Brainiac — Director
• 1962The Witch's Mirror — Director
• 1961El hombre de la ametralladora — Director
• 1961Guantes de oro — Director
• 1961Tres Romeos y una Julieta — Director
• 1960Bala Perdida — Director
• 1960El torneo de la muerte — Director
• 1960Herencia trágica — Director
• 1960Las canciones unidas — Director
• 1960Los tigres del ring — Director
• 1960Luciano Romero — Director
• 1960Revolver en guardia — Director
• 1960Una bala es mi testigo — Director
• 1959Cuando se quiere se quiere — Director
• 1959Del suelo no paso — Director
• 1959Los hermanos Diablo — Director
• 1959No soy monedita de oro — Director
• 1958El jinete negro — Director
• 1957Assassins of the Night — Story
• 1957Diabolical Kidnapping — Director
• 1957El ratón — Director, Writer
• 1957Furias desatadas — Director
• 1957The Head of Pancho Villa — Director
• 1957The Headless Rider — Director
• 1957The Mark of Satan — Director
• 1956Serenata en México — Director
• 1956The Illegitimate — Director
• 1955El seductor — Director
• 1955El túnel 6 — Director
• 1955El vendedor de muñecas — Director
• 1955La rival — Director
• 1954La desconocida — Director
• 1954La perversa — Director, Adaptation
• 1954Por qué ya no me quieres — Director, Screenplay
• 1954Se solicitan modelos — Director, Writer
• 1954The Witch — Director, Adaptation
• 1953Love Me Because I Die — Director
• 1953The Magnificent Beast — Director, Writer
• 1953The Revived Monster — Director, Screenplay
• 1952El cuarto cerrado — Director
• 1952Mi campeón — Director
• 1952Música, mujeres y amor — Director
• 1951From Can-Can to Mambo — Writer, Director
• 1951La estatua de carne — Director, Writer
• 1951Manos de seda — Director, Writer
• 1951Peregrina — Director
• 1951Serenata en Acapulco — Director, Writer
• 1950El desalmado — Director, Writer
• 1950La gota de sangre — Producer, Writer, Director
• 1950Mi preferida — Director
• 1950To the Sound of the Mambo — Director
• 1949Dos almas en el mundo — Director
• 1949El abandonado — Director
• 1949No me quieras tanto... — Director, Adaptation
• 1949Rayito de luna — Screenplay, Director, Adaptation
• 1949The Grand Champion — Director, Adaptation
• 1949Ventarrón — Director, Writer
• 1949Yo maté a Juan Charrasqueado — Director, Writer
• 1948An Adventure in the Night — Writer
• 1948De pecado en pecado — Director
• 1948El deseo — Director, Adaptation, Screenplay
• 1948En los altos de Jalisco — Director
• 1948La carne manda — Director
• 1948La feria de Jalisco — Director
• 1948La norteña de mis amores — Director
• 1948La santa del barrio — Director
• 1948Se la llevó el Remington — Director, Writer
• 1948Si Adelita se fuera con otro — Director
• 1947Mujer — Director
• 1946El puente del castigo — Story, Adaptation
• 1946El superhombre — Director
• 1946La noche y tú — Director
• 1945Camino de Sacramento — Director
• 1945El recuerdo de aquella noche — Director, Writer
• 1944El camino de los gatos — Director, Screenplay
• 1944El corsario negro — Director, Screenplay
• 1944Viva Mi Desgracia — Screenplay
• 1943Ave sin nido — Director
• 1943Guadalajara — Director
• 1943No matarás — Director, Adaptation, Screenplay
• 1942El conde de Montecristo — Director, Adaptation
• 1942El misterioso señor Marquina — Director
• 1941La liga de las canciones — Director
• 1940The Underdogs — Director, Writer
• 1940¡Que viene mi marido! — Director, Adaptation
• 1939The Night of the Mayans — Director, Writer
• 1939The Sign of Death — Director, Screenplay
• 1939Una luz en mi camino
• 1938Canción del alma — Director
• 1938Hombres del mar — Writer, Director
• 1938María — Director, Writer
• 1937Jalisco nunca pierde — Director
• 1937Mi candidato — Director
• 1935Clemencia — Director
• 1934Desecration — Director
• 1934El escándalo — Director
• 1934Enemigos — Director
• 1934Una mujer en venta — Director
• 1928El destino — Director