Luis Aguilar

Acting

Luis Aguilar

Born — Died

1918-01-29 — 1997-10-24

Place of birth

Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico

Known for

Acting

Credits

63 titles

Luis Aguilar Manzo (1918 - 1997) was a Mexican film and television actor and singer of the Golden Age of Mexican cinema. He was also known as El Gallo Giro, and was noted for his performances in films as El 7 leguas (1955) and El látigo negro (1958). Aguilar was born in Hermosillo, Sonora. He was given his first leading role in the film Sota, Caballo y Rey (1944). He had two daughters (Anna Luisa and Martha Fernanda Aguilar) from his first marriage and one son (Luis Aguilar Doblado) from his second marriage with actress Rosario Galvez. He died on the night of October 23–24, 1997 during his sleep.

Known for

Bajo un Mismo Rostro poster
5.5

After the murder of her father and brother, Irene Saldivar travels to Greece. There she meets and falls in love with entrepreneur Alexis Theodorakis. Carlos is the administrator of Irene's fortune and cooperates with Alejandro in a rotten and corrupt business where he marries rich women, kills them, and obtains their fortune. When Carlos finds out about Irene's marriage to Alexis, he formulates a plan to kill Alexis and obtain his fortune. During Irene and Alexis' honeymoon, Carlos' plan succeeds when the boat Alexis travels in explodes. A desperate and pregnant Irene returns to Mexico, where she falls in love with Dr. Diego Covarrubias. However, Irene is forced to leave him for the sake of her friend Carolina, since Carolina loves him and has cancer. Since Alejandro isn't able to win Irene's love, Alejandro gets in her life and forces her to marry him or risk losing her son - all of this as part of another plan Carlos formulated so he and Alejandro plot Irene's death in another fatal catastrophe.

Bajo un Mismo Rostro

1995

Capricho poster
7.0

Story about a woman that is unhappily married and with two daughters. She constantly reprimands Cristina and baby Raquel. What the people around her don't know is that Raquel is not her husband's daughter as everyone believes. Raquel is Eugenia and León's daughter. She has always loved him, not her husband. That is the reason she's always angry at Cristina.

Capricho

1993

Muchachita poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Muchachita

1985

Alto poder poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Alto poder

1992

The Infernal Machine Gun poster
4.4

Mexican action movie about a demonic gun.

The Infernal Machine Gun

1991

El pozo poster
5.9

Widowed farmer remarries so his children will have a mother. But then...

El pozo

1965

Film credits

1990s · 8 titles

1980s · 2 titles

1960s · 19 titles

El pozo poster
5.9

Widowed farmer remarries so his children will have a mother. But then...

El pozo

1965

Atrás de las nubes poster
5.7

All it says in my notes is "Like 'Juan Sin Miedo', only with soldiers." So... Army officer seeks revenge for... something...

Atrás de las nubes

1962

Los expatriados poster
6.5

The film, which is an ode to Rafael Hernández's song "Lamento borincano", is a social commentary of the political and social policies of the 40's and 50's which led to the abandonment of what was seen by many as the "pure", "virtuous" life of the finca (farm) for the "corrupting" influence of urban centers like San Juan and New York City.

Los expatriados

1963

La Chamuscada - Tierra Y Libertad poster
6.8

A sharecropper and his daughter, a swarthy beauty, flee from the hacienda on which they live and join the Mexican Revolution.

La Chamuscada - Tierra Y Libertad

1969

El halcón solitario poster
6.2

Chief of police fakes his death and returns as a masked avenger. On horseback. And stuff.

El halcón solitario

1964

Mi noche de bodas poster
5.8

Afther their wedding ceremony, Fernanda and Cosme Martínez go to a luxury hotel to consummate. They receive there some gifts and they find one fabulous diamant bracalet with a note for Fernanda thanking her for unfforgetable nights. Cosme feel jelause and Fernanda offended and during their wedding night they go from one place to another to find out the misunderstanding.

Mi noche de bodas

1961

Yo no me caso compadre poster
5.8

Two ranch owners promised their offspring would marry. The intended refused and switched places with their respective servants. They don't discover their real identities till they marry.

Yo no me caso compadre

1960

Los dos apóstoles poster
5.8

Two boys and two girls hook up at the big festival in a neighboring town. Once they get back home they have to deal with their families' plans for them, which may not include their new sweethearts.

Los dos apóstoles

1966

Un par de sinvergüenzas poster
5.5

Itinerant cowboy learns that his horse can talk. Horse ends up giving him singing-lessons... and...

Un par de sinvergüenzas

1964

The Paper Man poster
6.9

A deaf and mute vagabond finds a large denomination bill in a Mexico City dump, and while he tries to buy something with it, others try to con him into giving it away.

The Paper Man

1963

No artwork available
NR

A Puerto Rican goes to New York to seek his fortune.

Mr. Dólar

1964

No artwork available
4.5

Three masked horsemen vs. crooked saloon-owner and his henchdudes.

Los gavilanes negros

1966

El comandante Furia poster
4.8

No synopsis available yet.

El comandante Furia

1966

México de mi corazón poster
7.8

Two Mexican-American gals in LA win a vacation in Mexico City in a talent show.

México de mi corazón

1964

No artwork available
5.8

Mistaken identities, courtship woes, invalidated marriages, and sombreros de charro.

Dicen que soy hombre malo

1960

Agarrando parejo poster
5.5

Two young ladies hire bodyguards. Romance blooms.

Agarrando parejo

1964

Gallo corriente, gallo valiente poster
6.5

Two ranchers arrive in a small town to sell their horses. Along the way, they encounter an orphan boy fleeing from his abusive guardian and decide to take him back to their village in the hope of finding him a new family.

Gallo corriente, gallo valiente

1966

Los hermanos Muerte poster
5.6

Woman swears to avenge her brother's murder.. Then she falls in love with the murderer, before discovering that he's the one.

Los hermanos Muerte

1965

El fugitivo poster
5.6

Drifter returns to his home town for revenge, but he get caught up in the town's interpersonal dramas.

El fugitivo

1966

1950s · 24 titles

Oh Pain, Little Pain, Pain! poster
5.5

Carmela is a Gypsy singer who sells lottery tickets. She meets two penniless Mexican brothers and they buy a ticket between the three: if it is awarded, could share the prize and go to Mexico, they to return to their homeland and her for bullfighter boyfriend whom has no news. The fate accompanies them, but, on reaching Mexico, her boyfriend rejects her. This way, she ends up acting in a cafe where reaps many successes.

Oh Pain, Little Pain, Pain!

1953

¿Qué te ha dado esa mujer? poster
8.2

This musical comedy tells the story of two men whose friendship (whose beginning is told in "A toda máquina") is affected by assumptions love triangles and misunderstandings between the two, however, the value of that friendship overcomes all difficulties.

¿Qué te ha dado esa mujer?

1951

Cuando tú me quieras poster
6.3

A shoe-clerk's aunt and uncle send him to a remote fishing village to retrieve a distant cousin and bring her back to the bosom of the family.

Cuando tú me quieras

1951

The Scarlet Fox in The Phantom Stagecoach poster
5.0

The Scarlet Fox races against time to stop a mysterious phantom coach and protect the innocent in this thrilling anthology-style adventure.

The Scarlet Fox in The Phantom Stagecoach

1959

Por qué peca la mujer poster
5.6

Working-class girl-next--door type is seduced into a high-glam lifestyle when an oily promoter helps launch her as a nightclub singer; she throws over her decent-simple-guy boyfriend and loses her moral compass.

Por qué peca la mujer

1952

No me olvides nunca poster
6.0

Publicist on a movie set invents a romance between two stars, and then they start getting all mushy for real. But one of them's married, uh-oh.

No me olvides nunca

1956

Full Spead Ahead poster
8.4

A drifter lands a job as an officer in México City's elite motorcycle police unit and gets home with a mate of this unit. The mate is in love with a girl, but he and she are always making jealous to each other. The drifter and the mate get involved themselves in a fight to become the winner of conquering ladies and performing unit acrobatic tricks, interfering with their friendship and profession.

Full Spead Ahead

1951

No artwork available
6.2

Two brothers butt heads: one's a gadabout charro playboy and the other's a priest.

Hay ángeles con espuelas

1957

Blessed Among Women poster
6.6

Two male cousins inherit a ranch occupied by three female cousins and their separatist aunt.

Blessed Among Women

1959

Yo fui novio de Rosita Alvírez poster
4.2

Saloon singer creates conflict between several potential boyfriends.

Yo fui novio de Rosita Alvírez

1955

No artwork available
5.6

No synopsis available yet.

Grítenme piedras del campo

1957

Yo quiero ser artista poster
6.4

The Postman Adalberto is involved by chance in the filming of a scene, which gives the film director the idea of including him as an actor, but without his knowledge.

Yo quiero ser artista

1958

Return of the Monster poster
6.4

Mad scientist is trying to transplant the soul of an animated, talking skeleton into a living body. Also, there's a monster. Number three of three in Zorro Escarlata series.

Return of the Monster

1958

El 7 leguas poster
7.9

Horse-trader gets absorbed into Pancho Villa's battalions, becomes a spy.

El 7 leguas

1955

La hija del ministro poster
6.5

A young bureaucrat's career takes off when it's believed he's keeping company with the daughter of a higher-ranking official.

La hija del ministro

1952

The Head of Pancho Villa poster
5.8

Rival factions struggle over a box that was entrusted by Pancho Villa to several members of his higher command. Second of three films in series "El jinete sin cabeza."

The Head of Pancho Villa

1957

Nadie muere dos veces poster
5.6

Big-league criminal escapes from jail, tracks down his ex-wife at a seaside resort. She kills him in self-defense, and then a guy who looks exactly like him comes along. Massive complications!

Nadie muere dos veces

1953

No artwork available
5.8

No synopsis available yet.

Estampida

1959

Al diablo las mujeres poster
6.0

Rosa, a mayor, faces pressure from her police chief father to imprison her cousins. After a kidnapping and tampering with vaccines, Rosa realizes politics isn't for women.

Al diablo las mujeres

1955

Capitán de Rurales poster
7.0

Idealistic young police officer deals with corruption in local government.

Capitán de Rurales

1951

Los solterones poster
6.2

Pop, Bro and Sis all take a vow never to (re)marry after Mom walks out on them.

Los solterones

1953

The Headless Rider poster
5.2

A mute phantom hero takes on skull-masked killers, a disembodied living hand and a corpse that won't stay in its grave. This is the first in a trilogy of horror/western hybrids that also includes the films La marca de Satanás ("The Mark of Satan") and La cabeza de Pancho Villa ("The Head of Pancho Villa").

The Headless Rider

1957

Los bandidos de Río Frío poster
5.8

Luis Aguilar heads the cast in this story of a band of outlaws whose exploits are more fun than negligible.

Los bandidos de Río Frío

1956

El señor gobernador poster
6.0

Newly-elected state governor is challenged by his responsibilities.

El señor gobernador

1951

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