Acting

Carlos Baena

Carlos Baena was an extraordinary artist. Although he had had a part in a Mexican film when he was 22 years old, 1956 was a significant year: he had been studying drama in Madrid for five years, and he appeared in a big film production, Robert Rossen's "Alexander, the Great", first film version of the life of the ancient king of Macedon, filmed in Spain, and starring Richard Burton. By the time the film was released, he had returned to Mexico, where he became a prominent actor, starring in Alberto Gout's "Adán y Eva", also from 1956. Baena was also a theater director and a playwright. He directed big production of classics by Spanish writers, as Calderón de la Barca's tragedy "La vida es sueño" and Federico García Lorca's "La casa de Bernarda de Alba". Theater was his true love. He was a leading man in Mexican cinema, alternating with popular actors, such as Pedro Armendáriz, Ninón Sevilla, Marga López, Wolf Ruvinskis and Martha Mijares, but although he was in constant demand he left movies after completing 20 features, and relocated in the state of Nuevo León. Baena continued performing and directing theater, but he was also interested in art. He was a good friend of Miró, Tamayo and Dalí, and by the 70's he was a full-time artist and became a professor of Art at the Institute of Higher Technology of Monterrey, along with Giancarlo Von Nacher and Diamant Mihaloglou. He was also interested in art in general and communications, he worked with Louis Martin, Gerardo Garza Fausti and Ivan Mihaloglou at the School of Communication from the University of Monterrey, in the late 1980s and became involved in radio, producing radio programs on classical music. In his last years, Carlos Baena had a weekly television program in Channel 28, in the state of Nuevo León, about music, theater, culture and the bohemian life, and published his poems. Biography by: ArtConnoisseurs

Acting credits

6.1

An engrossing spectacle set in the 4th-century BC, in which Alexander of Greece leads his troops forth, conquering all of the known world, in the belief that the Greek way of thinking will bring enlightenment to people. The son of the barbaric and ruthless King Philip of Macedonia, Alexander achieved glory in his short but remarkable life.

Alexander the Great

1956

4.5

No synopsis available yet.

Mujeres de fuego

1958

6.0

"Problem drama" examining the pros and cons of euthanasia.

Mi madre es Culpable

1960

6.3

Young woman is sorta trapped into working as a bar-girl because of her unwitting complicity in a murder. Meanwhile, the tough broad who owns the bar faces problems of her own, mostly centered around a philandering boyfriend and an over-ambitious adopted daughter.

Tragic Cabaret

1957

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5.8

Frivolous young society woman gains depth and maturity through contact with the director of an orphanage and his wards.

Cuentan de una mujer

1959

5.0

Romantic rivalries and violence on a tropical island.

Sand kisses

1959

4.4

Adam and Eve are placed by God in Paradise, but because of the world-infamous sin they committed, God decides to teach them a lesson.

Adam and Eve

1956

6.6

Timid, browbeaten salaryman becomes famous author overnight.

Gutierritos

1959

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5.6

Pedro, a wealthy Mexican landowner, is convinced he can get everything he wants with money and arrogance.

Los salvajes

1958

6.3

Mexican feature film

Los amantes

1956

5.4

Showbiz family is stressed when wife gets sick and husband starts paying attention to costar.

Una canción a la vírgen

1949

5.4

First of four in series about Robin Hood-type social-justice criminal. Elaborate heist scenarios.

Chucho el Roto

1960

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5.7

No synopsis available yet.

La tórtola del Ajusco

1962

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6.0

Man wants to dump wife for a new girlfriend; all three end up weekending in Acapulco together along with a gentleman the wife meets enroute, and all four explore the possibility of forming new relationships.