Juan Orol

Acting · Directing · Production · Writing

Born August 4, 1897, Lalín, Pontevedra, Galicia, Spain

Juan Rogelio García García, better known as Juan Orol, was a Mexican-Spanish actor, producer, screenwriter and film director. He was known as The King of the Mexican Film noir. He was also known as The Involuntary Surrealist. He was a pioneer of the Mexican cinema's first talkies and one of the main promoters of the Rumberas film in the Golden Age of Mexican cinema. His films have been described as cult films.

Filmography

• 2019Olmedo: El rey de la risa
• 1981Ni modo... así somos
• 1979Adriana del Rio, actriz
• 1979El tren de la muerte — Director
• 1975Mexico De Noche
• 1972El fantástico mundo de los hippies — Larry, Director, Writer, Producer
• 1968Historia de un gángster — Tony Florino, Producer, Director, Writer
• 1968Organización criminal — Director, Producer, Writer
• 1966Antesala de la silla eléctrica — Director, Writer, Producer
• 1966Contrabandistas del Caribe — Writer, Director, Producer
• 1966Pasiones infernales — Producer, Writer, Director
• 1965La virgen de la calle — Director, Producer, Writer
• 1964La maldición de mi raza — Director, Writer, Producer
• 1963Mi Borinquen querido — Writer, Director, Producer
• 1963Sangre en la barranca — Director
• 1962La tórtola del Ajusco — Writer, Producer, Director
• 1962Under the Cover of Night — Jack, Director, Writer
• 1960Thaimí, la hija del pescador — Director, Writer, Producer
• 1958El farol de la ventana — Director
• 1958Plazos traicioneros — Writer, Producer, Director
• 1958Secretaria peligrosa — Director
• 1957La mesera del café del puerto — Director, Producer, Writer
• 1957Quiéreme con música — Producer
• 1957Te odio y te quiero — Producer, Director
• 1957Zonga, el ángel diabólico — Director, Producer, Writer
• 1956Under the influence of fear — Tony Carpio, Director, Writer, Producer
• 1954El sindicato del crimen — Director, Writer, Producer
• 1954Sandra, the Woman of Fire — Director, Writer, Producer
• 1953The Goddess of Tahiti — Director, Producer, Writer
• 1951Hombres sin alma — Writer, Director, Producer
• 1951Madre querida — Producer, Director, Writer
• 1951Perdición de mujeres — Rizo, Director, Writer, Producer
• 1951Que idiotas son los hombres — Director, Producer
• 1951The Hell of the Poor — Producer, Director, Writer
• 1950Cabaret Shanghai — Tony, Writer, Producer, Director
• 1950Wild Love — Director, Producer, Writer
• 1949El charro del arrabal — Director, Writer, Producer
• 1948El Reino de los Gángsters — Director, Writer, Producer
• 1948Tania, the Beautiful Wild Girl — Producer, Writer, Director
• 1947El amor de mi bohío — Pablo Mendizabal, Writer, Producer, Director
• 1947Gangsters Versus Cowboys — Johnny Carmenta, Producer, Director, Writer
• 1946Embrujo antillano — Assistant Director, Producer, Writer
• 1946Pasiones tormentosas — Producer, Director, Writer
• 1946Una mujer de Oriente — Director, Writer, Producer
• 1945Los misterios del hampa — Director, Story, Adaptation, Producer, Songs
• 1944Cruel destino — Director, Writer, Producer
• 1940Siboney — Gastón de Montero, Director, Producer, Writer
• 1937El derecho y el deber — Director
• 1937Eterna mártir — Narrator, Director, Editor, Writer, Producer
• 1937Honrarás a tus padres — Juan de Calvacanti, Director, Producer
• 1936El calvario de una esposa — Pepe Luis, Producer, Writer, Director
• 1935Beloved Mother — Director, Producer, Writer
• 1934Venganza suprema — Julián Landeros, Producer, Co-Director, Story, Adaptation
• 1927El sendero gris — Co-Director