Julio Alemán

Acting

Julio Alemán

Born 1933-11-30 · Morelia, Michoacan, Mexico

Julio Méndez Alemán (November 29, 1933 – April 11, 2012) was a Mexican actor. Alemán was born in Morelia, Michoacán. After studying to be an agronomical engineer, he turned to show business. His first film was El Zarco in 1957. During the late 1960s and early 1970s, he was the MC of the Mexican version of the Italianchildren's puppet show Topo Gigio. Alemán appeared in more than 151 films and was elected, for a period, chairman of the Mexican actors' union, the Asociación Nacional de Actores (National Actors' Association). Alemán died in Mexico City on April 11, 2012. He had been diagnosed with lung cancer. His remains were cremated and a memorial service was held on April 12, 2012, in Mexico City.

Acting credits

Amor perdóname poster
5.7

Businessman Carlos meets Ana María in a Mexico City nightclub. He escorts her home, and makes a date for the next day. Ana María is actually a prostitute whose pimp, Arturo, thinks Carlos would be a good client, and urges her to be nice to him. They fall in love, and Carlos proposes marriage to her, indicating he must return to Puerto Rico soon.

Amor perdóname

1967

Impaciencia del corazón poster
5.8

Young army officer gets involved with two sisters; one of them's a chronic invalid and her family has protected and sheltered her from all possible harm with such smothering care that she's a spoiled, petulant bag of temper tantrums. She forms a big ol' crush on the dashing lieutenant, and everyone involved goes completely nuts and makes an infinite number of bad decisions in the wake of her pouting and her crying jags and her passive-aggressive crap.

Impaciencia del corazón

1960

El arte de engañar poster
4.8

Gigolo and his girlfriend scam off married women; he seduces them, she photographs them in bed together and blackmails them afterwards. Things eventually go south.

El arte de engañar

1972

The White Widow poster
6.2

The story of a woman who, when forced to marry a man she does not love, remains a virgin. Her husbands die until she knows the true love of her life.

The White Widow

1970

Corazón salvaje poster
4.7

Calculating Aime sends her sister Monica to distract a love-struck smuggler, Juan del Diablo, when he threatens to reveal their affair to Aime's new rich husband. They are discovered alone together and to save Monica's virtue, Juan del Diablo promises to marry Monica.

Corazón salvaje

1968

The Curse of Nostradamus poster
5.4

An aristocratic vampire swears an oath to kill the enemies who killed his father. In order to terrify them even further, he warns each one when he is coming for them.

The Curse of Nostradamus

1961

Los inocentes poster
6.7

Three party-animal cowboys are hired by a dying man to bring his daughter to meet him.

Los inocentes

1961

La trinchera poster
6.5

No synopsis available yet.

La trinchera

1969

No artwork available
NR

Modesta arrives in Mexico City to chase acting dreams, but a slick “producer” remakes her into “Yvonne” and tries to sell her to the wealthy, until she rebels and forces him to choose between ambition and love.

Yvonne

1969

Deportados poster
6.7

Desperation drives Raul & two friends to leave Mexico in search of a better life in the United States. Raul accepts the hardships of being undocumented in the United States for the sake of supporting the wife and son he left behind.

Deportados

1977

La perra poster
5.9

Bad woman conspires with young lover to kill her mature husband.

La perra

1967

Tampico poster
6.2

No synopsis available yet.

Tampico

1972

Mi héroe poster
5.7

No synopsis available yet.

Mi héroe

1965

Inseminación artificial poster
5.5

Armando doesn't tell his wife Alícia that he is estranged. As it happens, she is looking for both herself and the man she wants to marry, and between the two of them the relationship is destroyed.

Inseminación artificial

1984

Patsy My Love poster
5.3

Written by future Nobel-prize winner Gabriel García Márquez, this is the story of Patsy, a wealthy debutante with an acute sense of living and boundless curiosity. She falls in love with an older man (Julio Alemán) whom is married and mediocre, and thus learns the hard way about unhappiness, marring her rose colored world.

Patsy My Love

1969

The Angels of Puebla poster
6.3

An angel who is three good deeds short of earning his wings chooses the city of Puebla to carry out her mission.

The Angels of Puebla

1968

Yaqui poster
5.6

A young Yaqui man fights against intolerant townspeople.

Yaqui

1969

No artwork available
5.7

No synopsis available yet.

Río salvaje

1971

Prohibido amar en Nueva York poster
6.0

Janet is a young girl who arrives to New York attracted by the offers of a pseudo movie producer to make her a movie star. Soon enough, she finds out his true intentions.

Prohibido amar en Nueva York

1984

Tiempo para amar poster
7.5

No synopsis available yet.

Tiempo para amar

1980

The Green Wall poster
5.8

A young couple forsakes their urban existence for life in the exciting but dangerous Peruvian jungle.

The Green Wall

1970

No artwork available
5.7

No synopsis available yet.

Cuando el poder es cabron

2000

No artwork available
6.0

A middle-aged professor, disillusioned with his life and struggling through a midlife crisis, becomes infatuated with a much younger woman named Emma.

Felicidad

1957

No artwork available
5.7

No synopsis available yet.

Tirando a matar

1961