
Acting
Yolanda Varela
Born — Died
1930-03-30 — 2009-08-29
Place of birth
Chihuahua, Chihuahua, Mexico
Known for
Acting
Credits
34 titles
Yolanda Varela (March 30, 1930 - August 29, 2009) was one of the greatest Mexican actresses of the golden age of the Mexican Cinema. She was born on March 30, 1930. She started in the business at a very young age. She studied ballet in the National Institute of the Performing Arts. Yolanda Varela was the leading actress in many Mexican films and some Spanish/Mexican co-productions. Among her most important films are, Dos tipos de cuidado (1953) alongside Golden Age-idols Pedro Infante and Jorge Negrete, Llamas Contra el Viento and El Niño y el Muro (1965), the film was about the segregation and violence situation in Western Europe, it was directed by Ismael Rodriguez and filmed in East Berl…
Known for
8.4Jorge Bueno and Pedro Malo are best friends who consider giving up their womanizing ways when they each fall in love. As fate would have it, Pedro Malo unexpectedly marries Jorge Bueno's girlfriend, and the conflict between the former buddies begins.
Dos tipos de cuidado
1953
4.2A scientist experimenting with past lives finds a reincarnated Aztec who can lead him to lost treasure—and to a creature that should remain lost. (Composed of footage from two unrelated Mexican horror films, LA CASA DEL TERROR and LA MOMIA AZTECA, plus new American-made footage.)
Face of the Screaming Werewolf
1965
5.8Unethical industrialist gets taken down by a combination of forces including labor activists and a kill-crazy tribal Indian.
La fuerza de los humildes
1955
5.7Mexican movie
Recuerdos de mi valle
1946
5.8A man orders an enemy to be killed, but the order is not carried out. Filled with rage, he murders the thug and pursues his rival.
Assassins of the Night
1957
5.4A daughter who idolizes her father discovers, just before he dies, that he was leading a double life and had a hidden lover.
Amor en la sombra
1960
Film credits
1980s · 1 titles
1970s · 1 titles
1960s · 6 titles
4.2A scientist experimenting with past lives finds a reincarnated Aztec who can lead him to lost treasure—and to a creature that should remain lost. (Composed of footage from two unrelated Mexican horror films, LA CASA DEL TERROR and LA MOMIA AZTECA, plus new American-made footage.)
Face of the Screaming Werewolf
1965
5.4A daughter who idolizes her father discovers, just before he dies, that he was leading a double life and had a hidden lover.
Amor en la sombra
1960
6.1Casimiro, night watchman at a wax museum of horrors, is even more sleepy than his usual laziness makes him - because his boss, the Professor, is secretly draining blood from him while he dozes to use in experiments in raising the dead. These haven't worked so far, and the bodies have been waxened and placed on display in the museum to cover his crimes. His big chance seems to come, however, when he learns that the mummified body of a modern man has been found in an Egyptian sarcophagus. The professor and his two henchmen steal the body and take it back to his lab - where the experiment flops again.
House of Terror
1960
6.4Not realizing the dangers he is facing, Young Dieter will do anything to get his ball back after it was thrown over the Berlin wall by a ruthless guar
The Boy and the Ball and the Hole in the Wall
1965
Three Black Angels (Spanish: Tres angelitos negros) is a 1960 Mexican comedy film directed by Fernando Cortés and starring Miguel Aceves Mejía, Yolanda Varela and Pedro Vargas.
Three Black Angels
1960
6.2A young woman believes her fiance has died, and she enters a convent.
La hermana blanca
1960
1950s · 24 titles
8.4Jorge Bueno and Pedro Malo are best friends who consider giving up their womanizing ways when they each fall in love. As fate would have it, Pedro Malo unexpectedly marries Jorge Bueno's girlfriend, and the conflict between the former buddies begins.
Dos tipos de cuidado
1953
5.8Unethical industrialist gets taken down by a combination of forces including labor activists and a kill-crazy tribal Indian.
La fuerza de los humildes
1955
5.8A man orders an enemy to be killed, but the order is not carried out. Filled with rage, he murders the thug and pursues his rival.
Assassins of the Night
1957
5.7No synopsis available yet.
¿Mujer... o fiera?
1954
6.4The 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
6.3No synopsis available yet.
Los hijos del divorcio
1958
6.7Four interlocking stories about pregnancy all intersecting in an obstetrician's office.
El derecho a la vida
1959
7.9Horse-trader gets absorbed into Pancho Villa's battalions, becomes a spy.
El 7 leguas
1955
6.0Rosa, 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
7.2Comedic retelling of the events around the biblical character: Samson.
Lo que le pasó a Sansón
1955
6.0In Guanajuato, a piano teacher delays her marriage to an engineer not to let her younger sisters alone. As he is love with her voice, he is mistaken for a sister whom he marries. The teacher then goes to the capital. There she becomes part of a family of young students, who believe she is the mistress of his father, so she suffers the scorn and reproach. Over the years the parents die and she renounces to the inheritance they leave her.
Remember to Live
1953
6.9The story of a group of young people and the problems they face in modern society slowly begins to decline, due to family disintegration and loss of values.
Who are our daughters with?
1956
6.3Mexican feature film
Los amantes
1956
4.8Theatre director macks on his sons' girlfriends.
Prefiero a tu papá
1952
7.7The police plan to capture a killer by using a double that looks exactly as one of his victims.
School for Buglars
1958
5.5A cellist and a pianist, along with the daughter of the owner of a musical home, form a classical trio. A television producer challenges confronting the modern equipment. Accept and so begin a new career in popular music, so despises his former employer, thus limiting the affair between his daughter and one of them.
Locos Peligrosos
1957
6.7No synopsis available yet.
La sombra de Cruz Diablo
1955
6.3Movie based on the classic student football competition between UNAM pumas and the Polytechnic donkeys that were popular at that time. A mechanic is mistaken for the best player in the Polytechnic, while in the Unam a student discovers a formula for superpowers to play football. Both compete for the love of a rookie and to win the students classic.
¡Viva la juventud!
1956
6.5Middle-aged painter and young musician fall hard for each other while on vacation. Then she discovers he's married.
Isla para dos
1959
6.2Dr. Henry Mills a very renowned cardiac specialist, disagrees with his wife, because of their religious beliefs, and more particularly because it encourages his son Ernesto to follow the priesthood. Mills is unfaithful to his wife, Isabel. She knows her husband's betrayal, and he secretly decides to separate, without sharing the marital bed, but keeping a secret from society.
La herida luminosa
1956
6.0Three young women all find the deepest and abidingest and truest of true forever loves during a one-week vacation.
Llamas contra el viento
1956
5.4Experimental drug gives the ability to foretell the future.
Una Movida Chueca
1956
6.0Philandering husband drives wife to the brink of suicide.
La torre de marfil
1958
6.9Jack-of-all-trades interferes in his neighbors' lives, then has to set everything straight.
El sultán descalzo
1956



