Yolanda Varela

Acting

Yolanda Varela

Born 1930-03-30 · Chihuahua, Chihuahua, Mexico

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 Berlin, Germany. She also co-starred with Daniel Gélin, Arturo de Córdova, Jorge Mistral, Manolo Fabregas, Ernesto Alonso, Pedro Vargas, Mauricio Garces, Pedro Vargas, Fernando Soler, Resortes, Clavillazo, German Valdez "Tintan", Enrique Rambal, Miguel Aceves Mejía, Joaquín Cordero, and many more Mexican celebrities. She met her husband, the film producer Fernando de Fuentes Reyes, while working for him on the movie Lo que le Paso a Sanson. She died on August 29, 2009 of natural causes.

Acting credits

Recuerdos de mi valle poster
5.7

Mexican movie

Recuerdos de mi valle

1946

No artwork available
6.3

No synopsis available yet.

Los hijos del divorcio

1958

El 7 leguas poster
7.9

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

El 7 leguas

1955

Una Movida Chueca poster
5.4

Experimental drug gives the ability to foretell the future.

Una Movida Chueca

1956

Dos tipos de cuidado poster
8.4

Jorge 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

¿Mujer... o fiera? poster
5.7

No synopsis available yet.

¿Mujer... o fiera?

1954

School for Buglars poster
7.7

The police plan to capture a killer by using a double that looks exactly as one of his victims.

School for Buglars

1958

The Boy and the Ball and the Hole in the Wall poster
6.4

Not 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

El derecho a la vida poster
6.7

Four interlocking stories about pregnancy all intersecting in an obstetrician's office.

El derecho a la vida

1959

La fuerza de los humildes poster
5.8

Unethical industrialist gets taken down by a combination of forces including labor activists and a kill-crazy tribal Indian.

La fuerza de los humildes

1955

Amor en la sombra poster
5.4

A 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

Departamento de soltero poster
7.0

Newlywed couple are jealous of each other's imagined infidelities.

Departamento de soltero

1971

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

Face of the Screaming Werewolf poster
4.2

A 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

Prefiero a tu papá poster
4.8

Theatre director macks on his sons' girlfriends.

Prefiero a tu papá

1952

La herida luminosa poster
6.2

Dr. 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

House of Terror poster
6.1

Casimiro, 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

Locos Peligrosos poster
5.5

A 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

Diana, René y El Tíbiri poster
6.3

Mexican feature film

Diana, René y El Tíbiri

1988

¡Viva la juventud! poster
6.3

Movie 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

Assassins of the Night poster
5.8

A 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

La sombra de Cruz Diablo poster
6.7

No synopsis available yet.

La sombra de Cruz Diablo

1955

La hermana blanca poster
6.2

A young woman believes her fiance has died, and she enters a convent.

La hermana blanca

1960

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