Ignacio López Tarso

Acting

Ignacio López Tarso

Born — Died

1925-01-15 — 2023-03-11

Place of birth

Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico

Known for

Acting

Credits

80 titles

Ignacio López López (b. 15 January 1925 – 11 March 2023), better known as Ignacio López Tarso, was a Mexican actor of stage, film and television. He acted in about 50 films and appeared in documentaries and in one short feature. In 1973 he was given the Ariel Award for Best Actor for Rosa Blanca, and the Ariel de Oro lifetime achievement award in 2007. He was honored multiple times at the TVyNovelas Awards. At the time of his death, he was the oldest living actor and one of the last surviving stars from the Golden Age of Mexican cinema.

Known for

Wild at Heart poster
7.8

Mistreated by the Narváez family, the poor and innocent Maricruz is humiliated, abandoned, and imprisoned, losing everything. Upon discovering her true origins, she transforms into a wealthy and powerful woman. Driven by grief and the loss of her father, she vows revenge against everyone who made her suffer.

Wild at Heart

2013

Conversando con Cristina Pacheco poster
5.5

No synopsis available yet.

Conversando con Cristina Pacheco

1997

Curse by the Sea poster
7.9

Mar de Amor is a Spanish-language telenovela produced by Nathalie Lartilleux with protagonists Zuria Vega, Mario Cimarro and Mariana Seoane and antagonists Ninel Conde, Marcelo Córdoba and Manuel Landeta. This is a remake of the 1978 Venezuelan telenovela María del Mar.

Curse by the Sea

2009

Esmeralda poster
7.3

Esmeralda is a telenovela that was released by Televisa in 1997. It is a remake of a 1970 Venezuelan telenovela of that same name, and was itself remade in Brazil in 2004. Another version is Topacio from Venezuela in 1984. One of the most famous telenovela all the time.

Esmeralda

1996

¡Vivan los niños! poster
7.8

¡Vivan los niños! is a Mexican telenovela for children that premiered in 2002. It ran for 155 episodes and finished in 2003. The opening, Vivan los niños, was recorded by the Latin pop group OV7. One of its closing themes, also entitled Vivan los niños, was performed by Cuban-American singer and songwriter Ana Cristina. The show is a version of the Argentinian telenovela "Jacinta Pichimahuida, la maestra que no se olvida". The series starred Andrea Legarreta as 2nd grade teacher Lupita Gómez. After the series ended, Andrea became the long-time host of the morning talk show Hoy. On July 12, 2012, in celebration of Andrea's birthday, the producers of Hoy reunited her with the young actors who played her students on the series.

¡Vivan los niños!

2002

Ángela poster
7.5

Angela is a Mexican telenovela, which was produced by Televisa and broadcast on Canal de las Estrellas in 1998. The series was first debuted on May 17, 1999 on Univision in the United States, replacing that year's hit La Mentira, and ended on September 9, 1999, being replaced by Tres Mujeres. It aired a second and a third time on Galavisión on March 15, 2000 and May 8, 2001, and ended a second and a third time on July 1, 2000 and August 24, 2001. It aired a fourth time back to Univision's late night "Grandes Historias" lineup, aired on October 28, 2003, and ended on February 27, 2004. It aired a fifth time on TeleFutura on September 18, 2006, and ended on January 8, 2007. This telenovela contained 78 episodes.

Ángela

1998

Film credits

1980s · 9 titles

Under the Volcano poster
6.6

Against a background of war breaking out in Europe and the Mexican fiesta Day of Death, we are taken through one day in the life of Geoffrey Firmin, a British consul living in alcoholic disrepair and obscurity in a small southern Mexican town in 1939. The consul's self-destructive behaviour, perhaps a metaphor for a menaced civilization, is a source of perplexity and sadness to his nomadic, idealistic half-brother, Hugh, and his ex-wife, Yvonne, who has returned with hopes of healing Geoffrey and their broken marriage.

Under the Volcano

1984

Antonieta poster
5.3

Anna is a psychologist undertaking research about famous suicidal women. She takes a specific interest in the case of Antonieta Rivas Mercado, who killed herself in 1931 in the Cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris.

Antonieta

1982

Toña Machetes poster
6.6

A woman adopts a child and discovers that she can love again despite facing a wicked man.

Toña Machetes

1985

Notes from Under the Volcano poster
9.0

A behind-the-scenes documentary on the making of John Huston's "Under the Volcano" (1984).

Notes from Under the Volcano

1984

Astucia poster
6.3

A landowner known as Bulldog seeks to take over a ranch, but is opposed by the Brotherhood of the Blade, a group of tobacco smugglers made up of skilled horsemen who operated during the turbulent times of General Antonio López de Santa Anna.

Astucia

1986

No artwork available
6.7

No synopsis available yet.

Corrupción oficial

1980

Muelle rojo poster
6.2

Three episodes from the "history" of organized labor in the harbors of Tampico, 1912 to modern-times.

Muelle rojo

1987

Viva México y sus corridos poster
5.4

Song/action clips from 8 or 12 movies that starred Antonio Aguilar as historical figures, with an onscreen narrator who splains things.

Viva México y sus corridos

1982

El otro poster
4.9

A novelist travels to the country to learn the problems of a friend's shy son and runs into an intruder.

El otro

1986

1970s · 12 titles

Rapine poster
7.2

Two humble indigenous woodcutters discover the wreckage of a plane that has crashed at the top of the mountains and decide to steal the belongings of all the occupants killed in the accident.

Rapine

1975

The Children of Sanchez poster
6.5

Hall Bartlett directs the rural drama The Children of Sanchez, based on the tome The Children of Sanchez: Autobiography of a Mexican Family written by Oscar Lewis in the '60s. Anthony Quinn stars as the widowed Jesus Sanchez, a poor farmer struggling to provide for his family in Mexico City. Also starring Lupita Ferrer as Consuelo and Stathis Giallelis as Roberto. This is the last film in the 50-year career of international star Dolores del Rio, who plays the Grandma. Jazz-pop performer Chuck Mangione was nominated for a Golden Globe and won a Grammy award for his original musical score.

The Children of Sanchez

1978

Los hijos de Sanchez poster
NR

The Sanchez clan have seen the worst of times, but they have survived by sticking together. When Sanchez's oldest daughter Consuelo plans to build a life of her own, the family and Sanchez face an enormous challenge.

Los hijos de Sanchez

1978

Looking for a Wall poster
6.0

The life of the Mexican muralist José Clemente Orozco and his quest to create a career in New York.

Looking for a Wall

1974

The Useless Life of Pito Pérez poster
5.8

A man goes on a trip and then returns to his village pretending that everything went well for him.

The Useless Life of Pito Pérez

1970

Cayó de la gloria el diablo poster
6.8

Subsistence-economy slum guy who sells used newsprint for a living breaks into showbiz with an inadvertantly-comical fire-eater act. The novelty of him wears off very quickly, and then...

Cayó de la gloria el diablo

1972

La Generala poster
5.5

During the Mexican Revolution, a hardened and rich lady landowner is overtaken by the violence of the times. Losing her land and house, she falls in love with a revolutionary leader that is killed by a sadistic and corrupt federal officer. She takes the revolutionary flag and leads a rampage of violence and destruction.

La Generala

1971

¿Y ahora qué, señor fiscal? poster
4.5

Working-class dude grows up surrounded with petty delinquency and ghetto temptations; he marries a rich girl and faces the disapproval of her parents. Then the young couple plans a crime...

¿Y ahora qué, señor fiscal?

1977

The Prophet Mimi poster
6.8

Childhood trauma and religious repression causes a little boy to grow up into a murderer.

The Prophet Mimi

1973

Resigned for Reasons of Health poster
6.8

A mid-level government bureaucrat is forced to think hard about his ideas on governmental corruption and his own integrity.

Resigned for Reasons of Health

1976

La casta divina poster
6.7

Chronicle Caste War in Yucatan held in the nineteenth century, where the land and the people were the property of the landowners, who called themselves " divine caste ". On one hand, General Salvador Alvarado organized the revolution; on the other, the landowners hire Colonel Ortiz Argumedo to organized the defense of their autonomy. Don Wilfrido, one of the masters, do not hesitate to send his son to fight to maintain their wealth and privileges.

La casta divina

1977

The Bricklayers poster
6.6

When a worker is found murdered on the construction side, the investigation swiftly turns from things criminal to the political circumstances surrounding the building itself. Widespread corruption and neglect by the builder himself are seen to have brought the situation about. Much of the movie is filmed using hand-held cameras, and the majority of the dialogue is in the difficult-to-understand and very slangy Spanish dialect of Mexico City's bricklayers.

The Bricklayers

1976

1960s · 22 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

Cri-Cri the Singing little cricket poster
8.1

Biography of the famous composer of children's music Gabilondo Soler. Starts from his childhood, when he worked as a pastor and grandmother tried to teach him to play the piano. Later he went to the city to study music theory and began writing his first songs.

Cri-Cri the Singing little cricket

1963

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

La trinchera poster
6.5

No synopsis available yet.

La trinchera

1969

Tarahumara (Further and farther) poster
6.0

A worker of the Mexican Indigenist Institute tries to help the Tarahumara Indians to protect and keep their lands, but he must face corrupt landowners and politicians.

Tarahumara (Further and farther)

1965

The Paper Man poster
6.9

A deaf and mute vagabond finds a large denomination bill in a Mexico City dump, and while he tries to buy something with it, others try to con him into giving it away.

The Paper Man

1963

My Son, the Hero poster
8.0

Northern Mexico, early 20th century. Reynaldo del Hierro is murdered while riding with his sons Reynaldo and Martín, whose mother instills in them the need for revenge.

My Son, the Hero

1961

Pedro Paramo poster
7.2

When his mother Dolores dies, Juan Preciado, son of Pedro Páramo, goes to Comala to claim his inheritance; but when he arrives he finds an abandoned and sinister place, inhabited by mysterious voices and whispers…

Pedro Paramo

1967

The Golden Cockerel poster
7.1

A poor, but very lucky man in the cock fighting business, is hired by a rich man, but both are in love with the same woman.

The Golden Cockerel

1964

No artwork available
4.5

The discovery of a young woman murdered in her car triggers unrelated problems among a diverse group of people.

Ellas también son rebeldes

1961

Autumn Days poster
7.1

Luisa is a small-town girl who works in the bakery of the widower Don Albino. Luisa dreams of marrying and loves children. Just as Don Albino shows interest in her, Luisa announces that she will marry soon with Carlos, the driver of a rich house whom she met recently...

Autumn Days

1963

Un hombre en la trampa poster
5.8

Odyssey of a man involved in a criminal activity, which leads him to his moral and material failure.

Un hombre en la trampa

1965

A Long Journey Toward Death poster
5.6

Juan is subjected to shock treatment in the hands of Dr. David, and apparently is able to resume a "normal" life. He and his wife María make dolls in a workshop attached to their apartment in New York. However, John does not heal and he starts looking for the nurses to murder them.

A Long Journey Toward Death

1968

Our Daily Hunger poster
8.0

Trophy wife of a crooked industrialist meets a philanthropic doctor and develops a social conscience. Mexican remake of Born Yesterday.

Our Daily Hunger

1960

La Bandida poster
5.0

During a lull in the Mexican Revolution when Francisco Madero became president and attempted to implement land reforms, two former revolutionaries are pitted against each other for the love of the same woman.

La Bandida

1963

No artwork available
NR

During the Mexican Revolution, a butcher is forced to hide stolen train gold, but his wife pushes him into murder to keep it. Sparking guilt, paranoia, and a trap that tightens around them.

The Butcher’s Wife

1969

Juana Gallo poster
6.7

Peasant woman leads a regiment during the final days of the Mexican Revolution. Also, romantic entanglements.

Juana Gallo

1961

The Devil's Visitations poster
6.2

A young architect returns from Europe to live in the house of his uncles and cousins, where someone pretends to be the Devil.

The Devil's Visitations

1968

No artwork available
6.3

No synopsis available yet.

Furia en el Edén

1964

The White Rose poster
7.3

An international oil company comes into conflict with a Mexican ranch owner who refuses to sell his land, resorting to a devious scheme to try to take over the property.

The White Rose

1961

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 Door and the Butcher's Wife poster
7.4

A movie divided in two segments, the first "La puerta" (The Door) is about a high society gathering in which a door inside the mansion leads to a bizarre corridor where a naked and menacing human figure appears. The second "La mujer del carnicero" (The Butcher's Wife) is set during the Mexican revolution and is about horrifying hallucinations felt by a lieutenant after committing a murder.

The Door and the Butcher's Wife

1969

1950s · 6 titles

Series credits

Wild at Heart poster
7.8

Mistreated by the Narváez family, the poor and innocent Maricruz is humiliated, abandoned, and imprisoned, losing everything. Upon discovering her true origins, she transforms into a wealthy and powerful woman. Driven by grief and the loss of her father, she vows revenge against everyone who made her suffer.

Wild at Heart

2013

Conversando con Cristina Pacheco poster
5.5

No synopsis available yet.

Conversando con Cristina Pacheco

1997

Curse by the Sea poster
7.9

Mar de Amor is a Spanish-language telenovela produced by Nathalie Lartilleux with protagonists Zuria Vega, Mario Cimarro and Mariana Seoane and antagonists Ninel Conde, Marcelo Córdoba and Manuel Landeta. This is a remake of the 1978 Venezuelan telenovela María del Mar.

Curse by the Sea

2009

Esmeralda poster
7.3

Esmeralda is a telenovela that was released by Televisa in 1997. It is a remake of a 1970 Venezuelan telenovela of that same name, and was itself remade in Brazil in 2004. Another version is Topacio from Venezuela in 1984. One of the most famous telenovela all the time.

Esmeralda

1996

¡Vivan los niños! poster
7.8

¡Vivan los niños! is a Mexican telenovela for children that premiered in 2002. It ran for 155 episodes and finished in 2003. The opening, Vivan los niños, was recorded by the Latin pop group OV7. One of its closing themes, also entitled Vivan los niños, was performed by Cuban-American singer and songwriter Ana Cristina. The show is a version of the Argentinian telenovela "Jacinta Pichimahuida, la maestra que no se olvida". The series starred Andrea Legarreta as 2nd grade teacher Lupita Gómez. After the series ended, Andrea became the long-time host of the morning talk show Hoy. On July 12, 2012, in celebration of Andrea's birthday, the producers of Hoy reunited her with the young actors who played her students on the series.

¡Vivan los niños!

2002

Ángela poster
7.5

Angela is a Mexican telenovela, which was produced by Televisa and broadcast on Canal de las Estrellas in 1998. The series was first debuted on May 17, 1999 on Univision in the United States, replacing that year's hit La Mentira, and ended on September 9, 1999, being replaced by Tres Mujeres. It aired a second and a third time on Galavisión on March 15, 2000 and May 8, 2001, and ended a second and a third time on July 1, 2000 and August 24, 2001. It aired a fourth time back to Univision's late night "Grandes Historias" lineup, aired on October 28, 2003, and ended on February 27, 2004. It aired a fifth time on TeleFutura on September 18, 2006, and ended on January 8, 2007. This telenovela contained 78 episodes.

Ángela

1998

El Derecho de Nacer poster
8.2

A young woman visits Dr. Alberto Limonta seeking an abortion because she does not want to have the child, but the doctor attempts to dissuade her by telling her a story. It is the story of the Del Junco family—one of the wealthiest in the city of Veracruz—comprising Don Rafael, the strict patriarch; his devoted wife, Clemencia; and their daughters, María Elena and Matilde, who are in the care of their Black nanny, María Dolores.

El Derecho de Nacer

1981

La casa en la playa poster
8.5

La casa en la playa is a Mexican telenovela produced by Yuri Breña and Pinkye Morris for Televisa and originally broadcast on Canal de las Estrellas from April 10 to July 7, 2000. The story follows the wealthy Villarreal family after the death of its patriarch, whose final wishes ignite conflicts over inheritance, power, and loyalty. As hidden secrets and old rivalries emerge, the family becomes entangled in a web of love, betrayal, ambition, and revenge.

La casa en la playa

2000

Amor prohibido poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Amor prohibido

1979

Peregrina poster
5.7

Peregrina is a Mexican telenovela produced by Nathalie Lartilleux for Televisa and originally broadcast on Canal de las Estrellas from November 14, 2005, to March 31, 2006. It is a remake of the 1973 Venezuelan telenovela of the same name, created by Delia Fiallo. The story follows Peregrina, a young gypsy woman who works as a dancer in a traveling circus with her grandmother. After arriving in a coastal town, she meets Rodolfo, and the two fall in love, unaware that a dark secret from their past connects them. As family secrets, ambition, and betrayal emerge, Peregrina must fight for her identity and her happiness.

Peregrina

2005

Loves with Trap poster
6.9

Los Carmona viven en el campo y su vida cambiará radicalmente cuando el gobierno les expropia su terreno y se mudan a la ciudad. En su nueva casa se encontrarán con la adinerada familia Velasco con quienes tendrán muchas aventuras. "The Carmona live in the countryside and their life will change radically when the government expropriates their land and they move to the city. In their new home they will meet the wealthy Velasco family with whom they will have many adventures."

Loves with Trap

2015

Camila poster
7.5

Camila Flores is a sweet peasant who lost her parents very early. Its creation was in charge of his grandfather Genaro. He is a great rooster breeder, but he is very poor. Genaro's biggest fear is that Camila will one day abandon him and that she will not be happy. One day, Camila meets lawyer Miguel Gutiérrez, he came from the capital, and as soon as he sees Camila he is impressed by her beauty. He asks the girl's grandfather for permission so he can visit her. Genaro thinks that Miguel will soon forget his granddaughter so he lets Miguel see her. Before long, Camila and Miguel fall in love, which is why he asks for the girl's hand in marriage. Genaro, even against his will, allows Camila to get married.

Camila

1998

Crystal Empire poster
6.0

Imperio de Cristal is a Mexican telenovela that aired on Televisa in 1994 with 124-episode from the plot to the main cast it was officially first launched on Monday, 29 August 1994 & ceased transmission on Friday, 17 February 1995 was aired runtime of 45-minutes with commercial on weekday at 21:00 to 22:00 CST/22:00 to 23:00 MST/23:00 to 00:00 PST.

Crystal Empire

1994

Las Lunas del Auditorio poster
7.3

No synopsis available yet.

Las Lunas del Auditorio

2002

El Encanto del Águila poster
7.8

A detailed dramatization of historical events during the time of the Revolution in Mexico. Using never-before-known historical documents, details about what happened during the period from 1910 to 1928 are revealed.

El Encanto del Águila

2011

Poucas, Poucas Pulgas poster
8.1

The general plot of the story is about a boy, Danilo, with a positive attitude and an inner strength that nothing in the world can break. He has to work hard to buy food for himself and his dog Tomás, who is his soulmate. Danilo anxiously hopes that his mother will return one day. Under these circumstances he will meet a little old man, Don Julián, and together they will unite the joy of childhood and the wisdom of age.

Poucas, Poucas Pulgas

2003

Senda de gloria poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Senda de gloria

1987

Atrévete a Olvidarme poster
6.9

Atrévete a Olvidarme is a Mexican telenovela produced by Roberto Hernández Vázquez for Televisa and originally broadcast on Canal de las Estrellas from August 6 to September 7, 2001. Created by Martha Carrillo, Roberto Hernández Vázquez, and Martha Oláiz, the telenovela stars Jorge Salinas and Adriana Fonseca. Due to low ratings, it was shortened to 25 episodes. The story follows Andrea Rosales, a kind-hearted young woman living in the mining town of Real del Monte. Her life changes when she falls in love with Daniel González, a young journalist searching for his grandfather and the truth about his family's past. Their romance revives a tragic love story from the previous generation, forcing them to confront jealousy, family secrets, revenge, and the belief that history is destined to repeat itself.

Atrévete a Olvidarme

2001

el gato animado televisa poster
5.0

No synopsis available yet.

el gato animado televisa

2001

Navidad sin Fin poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Navidad sin Fin

2001