
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
5.7Businessman 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
5.8Young 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
4.8Gigolo 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
6.2The 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
4.7Calculating 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
5.4An 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
6.7Three party-animal cowboys are hired by a dying man to bring his daughter to meet him.
Los inocentes
1961
6.5No synopsis available yet.
La trinchera
1969
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
6.7Desperation 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
5.9Bad woman conspires with young lover to kill her mature husband.
La perra
1967
6.2No synopsis available yet.
Tampico
1972
5.7No synopsis available yet.
Mi héroe
1965
5.5Armando 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
5.3Written 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
6.3An 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
5.6A young Yaqui man fights against intolerant townspeople.
Yaqui
1969
No synopsis available yet.
Río salvaje
1971
6.0Janet 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
7.5No synopsis available yet.
Tiempo para amar
1980
5.8A young couple forsakes their urban existence for life in the exciting but dangerous Peruvian jungle.
The Green Wall
1970
No synopsis available yet.
Cuando el poder es cabron
2000
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 synopsis available yet.
Tirando a matar
1961