Eduardo López Rojas

Acting

Eduardo López Rojas

Born 1937-05-03 · New York, New York, USA

Eduardo López Rojas was born in 1937 in New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for La mujer de Benjamín (1991), La ley de Herodes (1999) and Reed, México insurgente (1973). He died on September 2, 1999 in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico.

Acting credits

My Family poster
7.4

Traces over three generations an immigrant family's trials, tribulations, tragedies, and triumphs. Maria and Jose, the first generation, come to Los Angeles, meet, marry, face deportation all in the 1930s. They establish their family in East L.A., and their children Chucho, Paco, Memo, Irene, Toni, and Jimmy deal with youth culture and the L.A. police in the '50s. As the second generation become adults in the '60s, the focus shifts to Jimmy, his marriage to Isabel (a Salvadorian refugee), their son, and Jimmy's journey to becoming a responsible parent.

My Family

1995

Días de combate poster
5.3

A novice private detective is on the trail of a serial strangler in Mexico City.

Días de combate

1994

Herod's Law poster
8.0

In the 1940s, a small Mexican town has seen its last three mayors assassinated in rapid succession. A naive janitor is recruited to become the new mayor, and he believes he will modernize the little town and usher in a reign of peace. But the system corrupts him very quickly, and he takes to abusing his power while associating with an unscrupulous assortment of opportunists, hypocrites and criminals.

Herod's Law

1999

Apuntes poster
6.7

Recounts the union struggle of taxi drivers supported by the Communist Party.

Apuntes

1976

El profe poster
8.0

Mario Moreno portrays a professor in this movie. A small town in the middle of no where requests the school Mario Moreno is working in for a teacher. He ends up going to give the town a hand. When he arrives he comes to know the corrupt leaders who through out the movie try to make him leave. Although he is being harassed you can see how much he cares for the kids and their circumstances. He deals with problems by using his hilarious comments.

El profe

1971

Romero poster
7.0

Romero is a compelling and deeply moving look at the life of Archbishop Oscar Romero of El Salvador, who made the ultimate sacrifice in a passionate stand against social injustice and oppression in his county. This film chronicles the transformation of Romero from an apolitical, complacent priest to a committed leader of the Salvadoran people.

Romero

1989

Tú, yo, nosotros poster
6.3

Three interwoven stories where the characters experience deception, passion, love and rejection.

Tú, yo, nosotros

1972

The Outsiders poster
8.1

A couple on the verge of getting married gets mixed up with a gang of thugs in this routine crime drama that underscores the Socio-economic disparity in the Mexican culture. The upper-class couple rides along with outsiders who go club-hopping and resort to petty thievery. After their adventure, the couple questions whether or not they are right for each other.

The Outsiders

1967

Red Menace poster
6.5

A female doctor uses the body of a young playboy to insert him the brain of his teacher, an eminent physician who she loves, in order to perpetuate his life. But something goes wrong and this broken Jesus with superhuman strength escapes and hides to avoid showing his deformity. Disguised with a wrestler's mask and cape, circumstances lead him to undertake a heroic journey.

Red Menace

1985

Meridiano 100 poster
5.8

The task of some guerrillas is to try to foment the conscience among peasants of a town, but their attempts will be tragically restricted.

Meridiano 100

1976

Highway Patrolman poster
6.4

A naïve rookie in the Mexican highway patrol must adapt in order to survive as he contends with widespread corruption, dangerous drug runners and the consequences of his often morally gray actions.

Highway Patrolman

1991

Gaby: A True Story poster
6.5

The life of Gaby Brimmer, a girl physically handicapped, who finally gets her goals of study and triumph.

Gaby: A True Story

1987

Mission Kill poster
4.9

An ex-Green Beret visits one of his army buddies, and finds himself involved in his friend's scheme to smuggle arms into a turbulent South American country.

Mission Kill

1986

Death and the Compass poster
5.9

In a totalitarian future, in a nightmare metropolis, inhabited only by criminals and police, Erik Lonnrot, a gifted detective, investigates a series of strange murders and disappearances that seem to implicate a insane crime lord. (Re-released in 1996 as a feature film, 86 minutes.)

Death and the Compass

1992

Reed: Insurgent Mexico poster
6.0

A dramatization of John Reed's newspaper accounts of the Mexican Revolution. Considered the first real film in Mexican cinema to be made on the Mexican Revolution.

Reed: Insurgent Mexico

1972

¡Maten a Chinto! poster
6.8

Based on real events during Christmas of 1944 in the Pacific coast port city of Manzanillo. Hotel manager Chinto loses his temper and assaults "Inés," the homosexual cook. Inés complains to the police, but when several patrolmen come to arrest Chinto, he pulls a pistol and shoots them. The authorities soon lay seige to the hotel; Chinto's employees, follow his orders without question and assist him in barricading the hotel's doors and windows.

¡Maten a Chinto!

1990

La maceta poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

La maceta

2002

Jory poster
7.4

Jory is a fifteen-year-old boy who joins a horse-drive after his father is killed by a drunkard. The drive's leader and a likable cowhand take the boy under their wing, and find that tragedy has taught him how to take care of himself better than anyone could expect.

Jory

1973

River of Gold poster
10.0

A pair of beach bums wind up in Acapulco, where they get involved in a search for a beautiful woman and a sunken treasure.

River of Gold

1971

The Realm of Fortune poster
5.3

Poor Dionisio finds himself as recipient of the good fortune, but soon he forgets that everything that goes up also has to go down, and that in the depressing nothingness of his town it is easy to die.

The Realm of Fortune

1986

El extensionista poster
5.7

No synopsis available yet.

El extensionista

1991

Pretextos poster
5.7

Mexican feature film

Pretextos

1987

Story of a Girl Alone poster
6.6

A chronicle of the different reactions of a girl when she finds that her boyfriend decides to end their relationship.

Story of a Girl Alone

1971

Letters from Marusia poster
5.6

Chronicle of the repression that a foreign company exerts on the miners of a small nitrate town in Chile, whose workers decide to claim their most essential rights. A reflection of the historic union struggles in the northern Chile that ended with terrible repressive acts.

Letters from Marusia

1975