Acting

Alicia del Lago

Born — Died

1935-01-11 — 2015-07-13

Place of birth

Patzcuaro, Michoacan, Mexico

Known for

Acting

Credits

29 titles

Alicia del Lago was born on January 11, 1935 in Patzcuaro, Michoacan, Mexico. She was an actress.

Known for

American Playhouse poster
6.6

American Playhouse is an anthology television series periodically broadcast by Public Broadcasting Service in the United States.

American Playhouse

1982

Macario poster
8.7

Poor, hungry peasant Macario longs for just one good meal on the Day of the Dead. After his wife cooks a turkey for him, he meets three apparitions, the Devil, God, and Death. Each asks him to share his turkey, but he refuses all except Death. In return, Death gives him a bottle of water which will heal any illness. Soon, Macario is more wealthy than the village doctor, which draws the attention of the feared Inquisition.

Macario

1960

Canoa: A Shameful Memory poster
7.9

A group of students arrives in a small town during a hiking expedition. Once there, the local priest accuses them of being communist agitators on the run from an army crack-down against student demonstrations in nearby Mexico City and rallies the townsfolk to lynch them. Based on a true story.

Canoa: A Shameful Memory

1975

The Children of Sanchez poster
6.5

Hall Bartlett directs the rural drama The Children of Sanchez, based on the tome The Children of Sanchez: Autobiography of a Mexican Family written by Oscar Lewis in the '60s. Anthony Quinn stars as the widowed Jesus Sanchez, a poor farmer struggling to provide for his family in Mexico City. Also starring Lupita Ferrer as Consuelo and Stathis Giallelis as Roberto. This is the last film in the 50-year career of international star Dolores del Rio, who plays the Grandma. Jazz-pop performer Chuck Mangione was nominated for a Golden Globe and won a Grammy award for his original musical score.

The Children of Sanchez

1978

Tizoc poster
7.6

An Indian arouses envy for his expertise in hunting animals without ruining their skins, for his wisdom and his kindness.

Tizoc

1957

Pobre, pero honrada poster
6.0

Beloved Mexican screen star La India Maria portrays a poor but honorable woman who causes a stir around town when she decides to become a witch doctor in this classic comedy from director Fernando Cortes. When the real medical practitioner in town discovers that there's a new shaman around, the comic trouble that follows is sure to keep viewers in stitches.

Pobre, pero honrada

1973

Film credits

1990s · 6 titles

1970s · 11 titles

Canoa: A Shameful Memory poster
7.9

A group of students arrives in a small town during a hiking expedition. Once there, the local priest accuses them of being communist agitators on the run from an army crack-down against student demonstrations in nearby Mexico City and rallies the townsfolk to lynch them. Based on a true story.

Canoa: A Shameful Memory

1975

The Children of Sanchez poster
6.5

Hall Bartlett directs the rural drama The Children of Sanchez, based on the tome The Children of Sanchez: Autobiography of a Mexican Family written by Oscar Lewis in the '60s. Anthony Quinn stars as the widowed Jesus Sanchez, a poor farmer struggling to provide for his family in Mexico City. Also starring Lupita Ferrer as Consuelo and Stathis Giallelis as Roberto. This is the last film in the 50-year career of international star Dolores del Rio, who plays the Grandma. Jazz-pop performer Chuck Mangione was nominated for a Golden Globe and won a Grammy award for his original musical score.

The Children of Sanchez

1978

Pobre, pero honrada poster
6.0

Beloved Mexican screen star La India Maria portrays a poor but honorable woman who causes a stir around town when she decides to become a witch doctor in this classic comedy from director Fernando Cortes. When the real medical practitioner in town discovers that there's a new shaman around, the comic trouble that follows is sure to keep viewers in stitches.

Pobre, pero honrada

1973

El valle de los miserables poster
4.3

In 1909, former judge Cristóbal Zamarripa owns Valle Nacional, a tobacco plantation where he exploits workers with the support of the tyrant Porfirio Díaz, who sends him political prisoners as slaves. The others are lured with the promise of high wages, but end up owing everything to the company store. All are tortured, raped, or killed when they protest. Another landowner whose brother was killed by Zamarripa and who falls in love with one of his daughters is going to be punished, but he flees and becomes a revolutionary.

El valle de los miserables

1975

El rediezcubrimiento de México poster
5.6

No synopsis available yet.

El rediezcubrimiento de México

1979

Tonta tonta, pero no tanto poster
7.8

María Nicolasa Cruz, an illiterate young Mazahua woman, travels to Mexico City in search of a better life, only to be swept into a chain of misunderstandings and conspiracies that make her an unlikely suspect in thefts and murders.

Tonta tonta, pero no tanto

1972

Letters from Marusia poster
5.6

Chronicle of the repression that a foreign company exerts on the miners of a small nitrate town in Chile, whose workers decide to claim their most essential rights. A reflection of the historic union struggles in the northern Chile that ended with terrible repressive acts.

Letters from Marusia

1975

El elegido poster
7.1

A guy is peer-pressured, despite his reluctance, to play the role of Christ in a local production of the Passion Play.

El elegido

1977

Once Upon a Scoundrel poster
5.4

After falling for Alicia, greedy and powerful Mexican landowner Carlos has her fiancé thrown in prison on a bogus charge. To trick Carlos into releasing her man, Alicia teams up with her Aunt Delfina and tries to convince Carlos that he's a ghost.

Once Upon a Scoundrel

1974

The House in the South poster
6.0

Indian village experiences forced relocation; their experience is paralleled by that of other groups dating back to the 18th century.

The House in the South

1976

Cananea poster
6.1

Based on a true story in the American owned Cananea mine. It depicts how the owner profits while the Mexican workers struggle to survive and are exploited for their labour.

Cananea

1978

1960s · 4 titles

1950s · 5 titles

Series credits