
Acting
José María Linares Rivas
Born — Died
1901-03-17 — 1955-04-13
Place of birth
Madrid, Spain
Known for
Acting
Credits
60 titles
José María Linares-Rivas (17 March 1901 - 13 April 1955) was a Spanish actor. He appeared in more than seventy films from 1933 to 1955.
Known for
7.3A bizarre black comedy about a man whose overwhelming ambition in life is to be a renowned serial killer of women, and will stop at nothing to achieve it - but not everything goes according to plan...
The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz
1955
6.0A widow remarries... and then her missing-presumed-dead first husband reappears.
Los amores de una viuda
1949
4.6Four anecdotes involving a mink coat in display in a shop window.
Historia de un abrigo de mink
1955
4.3A cabaret dancer helps an injured man, and the two fall in love, unaware that together they will face a tragedy.
Port of Temptation
1951
6.2Working-class boy, pampered rich girl. She thinks their love is strong enough to overcome all the class issues; he knows better, but he decides to give it a whirl anyway. It ends badly for everyone.
Donde nacen los pobres
1950
6.7Favored son of a wealthy rural family forced to go into hiding after killing someone in a duel.
El Charro del Cristo
1949
Film credits
1950s · 45 titles
7.3A bizarre black comedy about a man whose overwhelming ambition in life is to be a renowned serial killer of women, and will stop at nothing to achieve it - but not everything goes according to plan...
The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz
1955
4.6Four anecdotes involving a mink coat in display in a shop window.
Historia de un abrigo de mink
1955
4.3A cabaret dancer helps an injured man, and the two fall in love, unaware that together they will face a tragedy.
Port of Temptation
1951
6.2Working-class boy, pampered rich girl. She thinks their love is strong enough to overcome all the class issues; he knows better, but he decides to give it a whirl anyway. It ends badly for everyone.
Donde nacen los pobres
1950
6.5Did Rodolfo just marry a serial murderess?
La gota de sangre
1950
8.1The life of Jesus from the beginning of his ministry, his miracles, the Sermon on the Mount and his death on the cross.
The Martyr of Calvary
1952
5.7A beautiful cabaret dancer falls in love with a sailor who promises to return and marry her. Trouble ensues.
In the Flesh
1951
6.4To conquer the beautiful vedette Rosita, journalist Tin Tan is subject to her whims. Fired along with his friend Narciso from the newspaper they worked, Tin Tan trying to sell a movie plot. A woman looking to buy it and Tin Tan will visit her in a gloomy mansion where a mess is unleashed.
Me traes de un ala
1953
6.2Based on Ladislas Fodor's "Stranger on the Stairs". A loved triangle composed by a cynical entrepreneur, a loan manager, and a seductive secretary will lead to a criminal plot in Cuba.
A Stranger on the Stairs
1955
6.5Alberto Robles, a young doctor, is faced with the decision to surrender to a life full of comforts and luxuries or to continue dedicating himself body and soul to serving those who need it most.
Soledad's Shawl
1952
6.9In Santiago de Cuba in the early 1950s, history begins. A young woman of high society becomes pregnant with a false love, her father orders his black maid (Dolores) to kill the baby (Alberto), but she flees to Havana where Alberto becomes a renowned doctor.
El derecho de nacer
1952
4.7Three married couples gather to celebrate the eighteenth anniversary of their marriage mourning the absence of a friend who was best man at all three weddings.
The Three Perfect Wives
1953
6.8Melodrama based on the homonymous novel by the Spanish writer José María Carretero Novillo (El Caballero Audaz), which tells a romantic story about a pair of lovers who endure great suffering in their attempt to be together.
La virgen desnuda
1950
7.8Cultural differences cause tensions in an international marriage.
Dos mundos y un amor
1954
5.5A story of passion and deceit, where love overcomes the misfortunes and finally triumphs.
El gran autor
1954
5.8Police detective and his plucky girl-reporter fiancée go after the gang that committed a train robbery.
El misterio del carro express
1953
6.0Negro Es Mi Color (literally translates to "Black Is My Color"), the 1951 Tito Davison Mexican racial musical melodrama (about a light-skinned Mexican woman with dark-skinned parents who passes as "white"; a Mexican version of "Imitation of Life")
Black Is My Color
1951
5.8Dreamer father wants son to become a bullfighter, and daughter to become a singer, so they become instant millionares, although their talent is not apparently there.
Yo quiero ser tonta
1950
7.1A woman, after committing a murder, flees into a church, confessing her life story to a priest.
Doña Diabla
1950
6.0Set in the Balkans, this story concerns a bored journalist, Nora who is ordered by her boss to follow up a mysterious advertisement placed by Dr Ling. Ling turns out to be a misshapen creature who, rejected by his peers, has become the stereotypical mad scientist, here specializing in plastic surgery. He falls in love with Nora but fearing she will betray him he resuscitates a young man who committed suicide, Ariel by transplanting a new brain into him, and order him to fetch Nora so that he can kill her.
The Revived Monster
1953
5.7Noirish drama about a drug trafficker and his girlfriends.
Love, how bad you are!
1953
5.5Two women are installed in the cabin of a ship that was already occupied by two gentlemen.
Música, mujeres y amor
1952
6.0Dead man's will reveals he had three wives.
My Three Merry Widows
1953
5.8A dancer is accused of killing a businessman. When her husband finds out, he decides to take her kid away from her.
Noche de perdición
1951
5.3A man sells his wife, and takes care of street women turning them into ladies to sell to rich men.
El vendedor de muñecas
1955
6.5The film is based on real events, from a case investigated by Detective Valente Quintana.
El mensaje de la muerte
1953
5.8A young singer falls madly in love with a man, with whom she forms a family. Problems, however, are not long in coming when she receives unfair accusations.
Huellas del pasado
1950
6.7No synopsis available yet.
Tale of a Heart
1951
4.8An unlikely friendship develops when respectable Doña Nena spends her days looking out her window across the street to the sex workers who spend their nights there. One night, she helps helps Alicia one of the girls, escape a police raid and spend several nights painting her portrait.
Una mujer en la calle
1955
5.7A man gives his testimony to a doctor, believing he hears the voice of his deceased wife, Diana.
El cuarto cerrado
1952
6.0A woman accused of murder refuses to defend herself in any way, in order to avoid tarnishing the family name and the reputation of her long-lost son.
La mujer X
1955
6.2Masked avenger rights wrongs in his home town. Second of four in a series.
La justicia del lobo
1952
6.2No synopsis available yet.
El pecado de quererte
1950
6.3No synopsis available yet.
El jugador
1953
5.8As he rises through the ranks of the police department, a young officer gets more deeply involved in manipulating gang activity for personal gain.
Ley fuga
1954
6.7Divorced woman has to deal with blowback from the fact that her second marriage is only a civil union and not a church wedding. Meanwhile, her young-adult son is falling in love with a divorcee of his own, and faing severe opposition from his father over his choice of partners..
Un divorcio
1953
6.7Concert pianist unjustly convicted of espionage. On release, he hooks up with a terminally-ill ballerina.
El valor de vivir
1954
6.2A young woman who has seen better (and richer) days wants to marry a rich man because she is used to the luxuries that she no longer has.
Acapulco
1952
5.2A dizzy rich woman buys their horse, and three rubes get involved in the problems and intrigues brewing in her household.
Yo también soy de Jalisco
1950
6.6Marcos is an arrogant jai-alai player who seduces and discards women until he himself becomes the object of a cunning revenge.
Night Falls
1952
6.0The film tells the intense countdown of a woman sentenced to death.
Cuatro horas antes de morir
1953
5.6Wealthy libertine tries to seduce another man's mistress by threatening to send him to jail if she doesn't put out. Blowback from his sleazy behavior affects five other people; everybody suffers. Enormously.
Lodo y Armiño
1951
6.3Woman becomes a prostitute so her writer BF can concentrate on his art instead of working for a living.
De carne somos
1955
6.7Mentally-ill woman went over the edge 15 years earlier, as a result of family traumas and the disappearance of her daughter. Now, present day, evil relatives are trying to take control of money she's inherited...
La loca
1952
6.0Shady promoter hires a new boy for his boxing stable, but the young champ won't go along with his boss'es scams and machinations.
El último round
1953
1940s · 7 titles
6.0A widow remarries... and then her missing-presumed-dead first husband reappears.
Los amores de una viuda
1949
6.7Favored son of a wealthy rural family forced to go into hiding after killing someone in a duel.
El Charro del Cristo
1949
6.3No synopsis available yet.
La mujer del otro
1948
4.5In Ciudad Juárez, a prostitute decides to go straight when her drug-dealer lover is trapped. She marries a rich man, but a pimp from her past reappears unexpectedly.
Back Streets of Juarez
1947
6.0A physician launches his own investigation into a gang of opium traffickers, while a mother who lost her son to the drug vows revenge against those who led him into that world.
Cita con la muerte
1949
6.0A snake-charmer falls in love with a circus trapeze artist who trains her and has her debut in this discipline.
La venenosa
1949
6.7Outsider comes to visit a remote village as a representative of an oil company. Once there, he discovers that the man who owns the land he's interested in has a daughter who's identical to a bad, troubled woman from his bad, troubled past.
La hermana impura
1948
1930s · 7 titles
6.2After a society lady abandons him for a cad, a sensitive young painter becomes a monk. But when his former beloved is later destitute with an illegitimate child, will he now be able to help her?
La Dolorosa
1934
5.8In order to save her marriage, the famous soprano Marta Vélez decides to retire from the stage.
Who Loves Me?
1936
6.0Wicked man seduces an innocent country girl into a life of degradation and nightclubs.
It Happened in Havana
1938
4.8The young Candelas, seduced and abandoned by Arturo, an unscrupulous womanizer, meets two soldiers, Tiburcio and Angelillo, who, in order to help the girl out of her predicament, organize a musical recital to raise money.
Guard! Alert!
1937
4.0No synopsis available yet.
Madrid se divorcia
1934
A young woman is seduced by an evil doctor and then sent to a brothel to be sexually exploited.
Destino de mujer
1934
8.0No synopsis available yet.
El negro que tenía el alma blanca
1934

