José Gálvez

Acting

José Gálvez

Born — Died

1931-03-19 — 1978-08-09

Place of birth

Bucaramanga, Santander, Colombia

Known for

Acting

Credits

62 titles

José Manuel Gálvez Velandia (March 19, 1931 - August 9, 1978), known as José Gálvez, was a Colombian-born actor who worked in Mexico in films, plays, television, and also did voice-over work starting from the 1960s.

Known for

Extraño en su pueblo poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Extraño en su pueblo

1973

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

Your Excellency poster
8.1

Lopitos, who is horribly inefficient but quick-witted, is invited (because of the current ambassador's superstition about 13 sitting down to a meal) to a banquet attended by the ambassadors of both superpowers. After the news of a series of coups d'état in Los Cocos arrives throughout the meal, Lopitos becomes the official ambassador. At a summit of world leaders, the representatives of the two world superpowers court the allegiances of third-world diplomats to tilt the balance of global power in their favor. The last diplomat to remain unaligned, Lopitos instead harangues the superpowers for infringing on the rights of developing countries to self determination, talking to them with his point of view as a citizen not as ambassador because he arranged his demise as ambassador one day before his speech.

Your Excellency

1967

Dr. Satan poster
5.4

Dr. Satan, a mad scientist and sorceror, plans to take over the world. In order to do so, he wakes up three zombie slaves from the dead and attempts to make a deal with the devil. He sends his zombie servants to do harm to anyone who stands in his way. Will anyone be able to stop him?

Dr. Satan

1966

El golfo poster
6.3

Tired of the monotony of her work, Mary O'Hara, executive of an important American company, travels to Acapulco for a few days in search of love and adventure. On the beach, her high hopes fade, since she only meets unscrupulous playboys. She declines all offers she gets until she meets Pancho el Golfo, a young man who makes a living as he can.

El golfo

1969

Estrategia matrimonio poster
7.2

Pragmatic young woman plots out her flirtations with five rich, eligible bachelors to play to the weaknesses of each one. Then she has to pick one for keeps.

Estrategia matrimonio

1967

Film credits

1970s · 24 titles

La mujer de oro poster
6.0

Heist movie: bank teller develops an elaborate game plan to lift money from the vault where she works.

La mujer de oro

1970

Why Was I Born a Woman? poster
8.2

A family gathers to celebrate Mother's Day, that day a woman discuss many problems about her woman condition; husband, children and grandchildren will hear she tired and overwhelmed silenced by submission and obedience. Analysis of the family and gender roles.

Why Was I Born a Woman?

1970

El cuerpazo del delito poster
5.3

Anthology film: three "sophisticated" rom-com scenarios.

El cuerpazo del delito

1970

Omen poster
5.0

While attending the birth of Isabel, the wife of foreigner Felipe, Mama Santos predicts that "something terrible is going to happen in the town." From this omen, calamities will torment the locals.

Omen

1974

La muerte de un gallero poster
6.3

Dramatization of a popular '70s corrido.

La muerte de un gallero

1977

El vals sin fin poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

El vals sin fin

1972

End of the Party poster
5.4

A motorcycle gang goes to a mansion where a party is being held and joy turns into tragedy.

End of the Party

1972

The Incredible Professor Zovek poster
5.8

Escape-artist-mentalist-martial-arts superhero vs. mad scientist and monsters.

The Incredible Professor Zovek

1972

Gang Riders of Death poster
4.3

Rich man who owns an island sanctuary is involved in some shady business. Meanwhile, his daughter... and also meanwhile, the tribe of hippies that are racing around on dune buggies...

Gang Riders of Death

1972

Cool Dad poster
6.1

Fiftyish head of household tries to hang onto his fun-loving youth while imposing his most rigid value judgements on his young-adult children.

Cool Dad

1971

El derecho de los pobres poster
6.5

Kids in an Ecuadorian slum have a benevolent doctor who tries to help them forward in life. Also they play soccer.

El derecho de los pobres

1973

Cateto a babor poster
5.6

Miguel Cañete is a village man who is called up by the Navy to do military service, but he lives alone with his little brother and doesn't know where to leave him...

Cateto a babor

1970

Benjamín Argumedo el rebelde poster
6.2

Biopic about a General in the Mexican Revolution. Sequel: Persecucion y muerte de Benjamin Argumedo.

Benjamín Argumedo el rebelde

1979

The Business of Hate poster
5.8

An ambitious businessman searches for the perfect candidate to train and turn into a great boxing champion.

The Business of Hate

1972

El águila descalza poster
5.8

Shmuck makes a superhero costume, rides his bike to crime scenes. He gets involved with something big involving US capitalists taking over local Mexican businesses.

El águila descalza

1971

Celestina poster
6.0

An adaptation of the tragicomedy "Calisto y Melibea", attributed to Fernando de Rojas.

Celestina

1976

Prohibido poster
6.3

Two young adults, brother and sister, discover that both were adopted, and they start to develop grown-up feelings toward each other. Is this the worst, most perverse thing to ever happen? Opinions differ.

Prohibido

1970

Longitud de Guerra poster
5.9

Based on the novel Tomochic by Heriberto Frías; tells the story of the rebellion of the inhabitants of the village of Tomochi, Chihuahua, against the government of Porfirio Diaz in 1891. Mexico's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1976.

Longitud de Guerra

1976

Rosario poster
5.7

Rosario and Carlos, husbands, are part of a theater company. In a scene of jealousy, she should shoot and kill him. Carlos has had an affair with Zulma, another acriz of the company. On opening day, in the final scene, Rosario accidentally kills her husband. Someone change the gun ...

Rosario

1971

Apolinar poster
6.3

Tancredo, a poor man, is in love with a rich girl, who does not return his feelings. One day when she is bathing in a river, a flood sweeps her away and Tancredo is unable to save her. Mad with grief, he steals the sun. The gods call Apolinar to restore light to the earth, but he is obstructed by the magician of darkness, until by means of a telescope he is able to send a bag of light to Tancredo, now grown old. Tancredo goes to the seashore and opens the bag of light as an offering to his beloved, whereupon the sun returns to the earth.

Apolinar

1972

Aguilas de acero poster
5.6

Two Air force pilots are best friends in that competitive, always picking fights with each other way.

Aguilas de acero

1971

Panic poster
5.3

Three tales of horror, isolation and insanity set in Mexico.

Panic

1972

Misión cumplida poster
6.7

No synopsis available yet.

Misión cumplida

1970

La mentira poster
6.4

A man, torn inside by two passions, falls for the woman against whom he sought revenge, believing her to be responsible for the death of his brother.

La mentira

1970

1960s · 29 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

Your Excellency poster
8.1

Lopitos, who is horribly inefficient but quick-witted, is invited (because of the current ambassador's superstition about 13 sitting down to a meal) to a banquet attended by the ambassadors of both superpowers. After the news of a series of coups d'état in Los Cocos arrives throughout the meal, Lopitos becomes the official ambassador. At a summit of world leaders, the representatives of the two world superpowers court the allegiances of third-world diplomats to tilt the balance of global power in their favor. The last diplomat to remain unaligned, Lopitos instead harangues the superpowers for infringing on the rights of developing countries to self determination, talking to them with his point of view as a citizen not as ambassador because he arranged his demise as ambassador one day before his speech.

Your Excellency

1967

Dr. Satan poster
5.4

Dr. Satan, a mad scientist and sorceror, plans to take over the world. In order to do so, he wakes up three zombie slaves from the dead and attempts to make a deal with the devil. He sends his zombie servants to do harm to anyone who stands in his way. Will anyone be able to stop him?

Dr. Satan

1966

El golfo poster
6.3

Tired of the monotony of her work, Mary O'Hara, executive of an important American company, travels to Acapulco for a few days in search of love and adventure. On the beach, her high hopes fade, since she only meets unscrupulous playboys. She declines all offers she gets until she meets Pancho el Golfo, a young man who makes a living as he can.

El golfo

1969

Estrategia matrimonio poster
7.2

Pragmatic young woman plots out her flirtations with five rich, eligible bachelors to play to the weaknesses of each one. Then she has to pick one for keeps.

Estrategia matrimonio

1967

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

Love & Sex (Sappho 1963) poster
5.5

Independently-wealthy woman tries to break free of repressive, conservative cultural constraints.

Love & Sex (Sappho 1963)

1964

Savage Sunday poster
4.7

Repressed middle-aged Catholic gets into a troublesome relationship with the prostitute next door and her little boy.

Savage Sunday

1967

El norteño poster
6.7

Lawman on horseback cracks a case involving stolen gold bullion, the title to a mine, an evil twin and a plucky pre-adolescent boy. First in a series.

El norteño

1963

El juicio de Arcadio poster
6.7

Mexican feature film

El juicio de Arcadio

1965

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

A Trap for a Corpse poster
4.3

Following their mother’s passing, two brothers plot to claim the inheritance left in their stepfather’s care, but life has a way of turning things around.

A Trap for a Corpse

1969

Passport to Death poster
6.0

The Secret Agent Lafargue locates the evil Professor Marcus headquarters, who with the help of Dr. Bellini and an android of his invention, plan to conquer the world. Lafargue is discovered and severely injured, so he is unable to remember where it is the basis of Marcus or what their plan. To resolve this situation the authorities call the Agent Zero team.

Passport to Death

1968

History of a Scoundrel poster
6.3

A woman betrayed by a man falls into despair and kills him. What fate will the jury decide for her?

History of a Scoundrel

1964

Semáforo en rojo poster
NR

A gang of professional thieves plans how to rob the jewelry store in Bogotá and escape, not imagining that death surrounds them and all because of a red light.

Semáforo en rojo

1964

I Killed a Man poster
6.3

A mature woman looks for a judge to hand over after having murdered a man and recounts everything that happened. Sequel to "Historia de un canalla".

I Killed a Man

1964

Neutron vs. the Maniac poster
5.2

Neutron, a wrestler/superhero, investigates a series of murders at a sanitarium.

Neutron vs. the Maniac

1965

Sangre en Rio Bravo poster
5.8

Foreign mining concern resorts to illegal tactics to buy up land; two brothers are orphaned and dispossessed and they become outlaws in revenge.

Sangre en Rio Bravo

1966

Vuelve el Norteño poster
5.8

Two rival gangs of outlaws are terrorizing a small town; el Comandante and his sidekicks pit them against each other and pick up the pieces.

Vuelve el Norteño

1964

Sor Ye-yé poster
5.1

Maria is a young orphan who lives with her wealthy aunt. Maria sings in a cocktail bar with his friends, who form a rock band, and enjoy the night with them. One of his friends, Ernesto, is in love with her, though she does not seem to feel the same about him. In fact, multiple existential doubts and feel a strange emptiness in his life suddenly drive to enter a convent as a novice, breaking Ernestos' heart. However, with her cheerlul character, open and rebellious, not appear to conform to life in the cloister, and especially have problems with the novices director , who often punished for trying to take the right path. In the convent, which also functions as children's hospital, she meets a doctor with which it takes quite right for the contrast between his two characters, but his way with love and mutual respect.

Sor Ye-yé

1968

Seis días para morir poster
6.7

Public health thriller: rabies in Mexico City.

Seis días para morir

1967

Marcelo y María poster
5.6

Late 16th century: two Azteca teens are very much in love, but older folks have designs on each of them. This can't end well...

Marcelo y María

1966

Planetary Giants poster
4.2

Daniel Wolf, scientist with a brand new rocket ship and a girlfriend/secretary is sent to 'the planet of the eternal night' to fight the guy who has threatened earth. He is supposed to go alone, but his assistant sneaks in the ship somehow, along with two other guys.

Planetary Giants

1966

No artwork available
4.7

No synopsis available yet.

Amor de adolescente

1965

Santa poster
5.4

A young and innocent girl is betrayed by the man whom she loves and has to become a prostitute because her family rejects her.

Santa

1969

No artwork available
6.0

Young-adult movie about a crew of 8 or 10 upper-middle-class boys and girls -- mostly about the romance between two of them.

Nosotros los jóvenes

1966

No artwork available
5.2

Wandering cowboy stops to help a widow out against the man who killed her husband.

El indomable

1966

No artwork available
5.6

After the US annexation of Texas, a landowner from Guanajuato faces problems from bigoted new neighbors.

El último mexicano

1960

Flor marchita poster
6.2

Adult seduces and abandons a teenaged girl, she has a baby. Fifteen years later...

Flor marchita

1969

1950s · 5 titles

Series credits

Behind the camera