José Luis Jiménez

Acting

José Luis Jiménez

Born — Died

1900-01-01 — 1978-03-13

Place of birth

Mexico

Known for

Acting

Credits

39 titles

José Luis Jiménez was born in 1900 in Mexico. He was an actor.

Known for

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

The Night My Dad Saved Christmas poster
5.6

What would happen if, one year, Santa Claus was forced to cancel his Christmas Eve appointment with the world’s children?A few days before Christmas, the famously cheerful and magical giver of gifts has an accident on his sleigh, right in the middle of Madrid. He ends up in hospital, which is where he’ll have to stay until after Christmas. Fortunately, the guy he’s sharing a room with at the hospital, Salva, is willing to step in and take on his all-important Christmas work. But it won’t be easy… the Christmas countdown clock is ticking and Salva has to find the reindeer, learn to fly the sleigh and, the most difficult part of all… learn to be a good person.

The Night My Dad Saved Christmas

2023

The Shadow of the Tyrant poster
7.0

In 1920s Mexico, the candidates being chosen to succeed the current president, El Caudillo, find themselves at his mercy as he will resort to anything to accomplish his will, including kidnapping, betrayal, and murder.

The Shadow of the Tyrant

1960

San Francisco de Asís poster
6.2

Historical drama on the life of the medieval Italian saint, Francis of Assisi.

San Francisco de Asís

1944

The Crows are Grieving poster
6.3

The family of a dying man celebrates his wake while the man is still alive, showing their darker, selfish ambitions and trying to take the best part of the inheritance.

The Crows are Grieving

1965

El amor de María Isabel poster
7.1

Follow up to Maria Isabel. Newly wed to a rich man, Maria Isabel must still struggle with being branded as a lowly maid and endure the scorn of her adoptive daughter and the infidelity of her husband.

El amor de María Isabel

1968

Film credits

1960s · 17 titles

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

The Shadow of the Tyrant poster
7.0

In 1920s Mexico, the candidates being chosen to succeed the current president, El Caudillo, find themselves at his mercy as he will resort to anything to accomplish his will, including kidnapping, betrayal, and murder.

The Shadow of the Tyrant

1960

The Crows are Grieving poster
6.3

The family of a dying man celebrates his wake while the man is still alive, showing their darker, selfish ambitions and trying to take the best part of the inheritance.

The Crows are Grieving

1965

El amor de María Isabel poster
7.1

Follow up to Maria Isabel. Newly wed to a rich man, Maria Isabel must still struggle with being branded as a lowly maid and endure the scorn of her adoptive daughter and the infidelity of her husband.

El amor de María Isabel

1968

Santo in the Wax Museum poster
4.9

El Santo, the masked Mexican wrestler, investigates a series of kidnappings. He discovers that the mysterious Doctor Caroll is using the victims as part of his experiments to develop an army of monsters. Naturally, El Santo is able to overcome them all - with wrestling!

Santo in the Wax Museum

1963

Miracles Weaver poster
6.0

Arnulfo is a man weaving baskets. Remedios has given birth in front of the house of a woman and her aid, but the village is spread the word that the child born as a child God and an atheist would think exploit to their advantage the "miracle ".

Miracles Weaver

1962

La estrella vacía poster
6.6

Mourners share their memories of a dead film-star at her wake, a la Citizen Kane. Only melodrama.

La estrella vacía

1960

The Unknown Cowboy poster
6.2

The Sheriff of a small town, in his search of a robber bank, gets to another city, working undercover. There, he tooks the place of man recently killed, and falls in love with his widow.

The Unknown Cowboy

1967

La maestra inolvidable poster
5.5

Idealistic young teacher takes a post in a small, backwoods town and dedicates her life to schooling the village's children.

La maestra inolvidable

1969

The Macabre Footprint poster
5.7

(Sequel to El Rostro Infernal.) Count Brankovan, a vampire, returns from the dead to avenge himself himself on some humans who previously had been bugging him.

The Macabre Footprint

1963

Then God Named It Earth poster
5.7

During the Mexican Agrarian Reform, an engineer travels to a town to distribute the land of the landowners among the peasants.

Then God Named It Earth

1961

La edad de la inocencia poster
6.9

A poor little girl slips in a circus one day and sees a puppets' show. Later she returns to the empty circus looking for a fairy she was fascinated by.

La edad de la inocencia

1962

No artwork available
6.2

After being arrested the two adorable grannies spend some time in jail and then stand trial for the robberies they've committed.

The Trial of the Vivanco Ladies

1961

Spiritism poster
4.7

Satan gives a woman three wishes in this version of the classic tale, "The Monkey's Paw."

Spiritism

1962

The Incredible Face of Dr. B. poster
5.6

Investigating a series of kidnappings leads a police inspector to confront a scientist trying to gain immortality.

The Incredible Face of Dr. B.

1963

Teresa poster
7.2

Teresa is a beautiful and intelligent young woman, desperately seeking to leave the grinding poverty of the neighborhood where she lives.

Teresa

1961

Quinceañera poster
7.2

María Antonia, Beatriz and Leonor are three classmates who are anxiously awaiting the celebration of their 15th birthday. However, each of them will have to cope with their complicated personal situation.

Quinceañera

1960

1950s · 11 titles

The Vampire poster
6.8

A pretty young Mexican girl returns to her hometown to make funeral arrangements for her beloved aunt, who has just died. Soon she begins to hear disturbing stories about the town being infested by vampires, and she eventually begins to suspect that her remaining aunt and the mysterious next-door neighbor may be involved.

The Vampire

1957

Después de la tormenta poster
6.8

This Mexican melodrama may have been released above the border as After the Storm. The principal characters are a pair of twin lighthouse keepers. They try their best to live together with their wives under the same roof, but the delicate balance is shattered when one of the brothers falls in love with his sister-in-law. When one twin is lost during a storm, the other assumes his identity, with the expected romantic complications. If Despues de la Termenta sounds familiar, it is because the screenplay was inspired by the 1946 Bette Davis vehicle A Stolen Life.

Después de la tormenta

1955

El caso de una adolescente poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

El caso de una adolescente

1958

Who are our daughters with? poster
6.9

The 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

El vestido de novia poster
6.2

A young professional hires a sex-worker to pass as his wife in a situation that requires him to seem married. Later they think about getting married for reals... but mostly they just recite monologues to each other.

El vestido de novia

1959

Hipólito, el de Santa poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Hipólito, el de Santa

1950

Historia de un amor poster
5.7

Elena (Libertad Lamarque), already a star, falls madly in love with Roberto. They make it to the altar. Elena and Roberto adopt a baby. The years go by and everything is happiness in the couple’s life—until one day the girl’s grandfather appears.

Historia de un amor

1956

El seductor poster
5.6

A young artist's affair with a married woman destroys her family. Twenty-odd years later, her two daughters fall into his orbit.

El seductor

1955

The Vivanco Ladies poster
7.0

Two women of lesser descent are dedicated to stealing to support their brother's daughter.

The Vivanco Ladies

1959

The Illegitimate poster
4.5

Family melodrama: manipulative parents ruin lives with their meddling.

The Illegitimate

1956

Over the Waves poster
6.1

The life of the musician Juventino Rosas, who despite his talent lived an existence of misfortune and poverty.

Over the Waves

1950

1940s · 7 titles