Gonzalo Vega

Acting

Gonzalo Vega

Born — Died

1946-11-29 — 2016-10-10

Place of birth

Mexico City, Mexico

Known for

Acting

Credits

48 titles

Gonzalo Agustín Vega y Gonzalez (November 29, 1946 - October 10, 2016) was a Mexican film, theatre and television actor. He was also father of the actresses Zuria Vega, Marimar Vega and Gonzalo Vega Jr.

Known for

Film credits

2010s · 5 titles

We Are the Nobles poster
8.0

Tells the "riches to rags" story of the Nobles, three upper-class twenty-somethings that appear to have no limits to their checkbooks, and no direction in their lives. Until one day, their father tries to teach them a lesson by staging a financial scandal that forces the whole family to escape to an old house in the poor side of town, and leads the "kids" to do what they haven't done before: get jobs.

We Are the Nobles

2013

Treading Water poster
5.2

Mica is born smelling of fish that soap and doctors can't remove. Problems increase starting school as no one'll be his friend. He sees a therapist. His life seems doomed until he meets Laura.

Treading Water

2013

A través del silencio poster
5.0

In a town in Veracruz being buffeted by cold northerly winds, seven men and woman start out on paths that will change their lives. A well-intentioned Christian gives in to the temptation of a young widow: a mayor succumbs to his greed: an elderly lady adopts a young burn victim: a doctor breaks away from a past that had hardened her heart: an old priest comes and goes trying to understand and a lost poet rediscovers his capacity to love and write. All these passions come together in a yearning to give meaning to their lives.

A través del silencio

2010

Nezahualcóyotl, la gran historia poster
5.0

King Tezozomoc invades Texcoco betraying the trust of his allies with a surprise attack. The young prince Nezahualcoyotl will attempt to retrieve his father's kingdom from the hands of Tezozomoc.

Nezahualcóyotl, la gran historia

2015

Seres: Genesis poster
5.0

When a young girl is found amid the wreckage of an accident caused by an alien craft, Mariel (Alejandra Barros), head of a secretive task force investigating the paranormal, must solve the riddle of a frightening message the girl delivers which suggests humanity is on the verge of extermination by a hostile alien force.

Seres: Genesis

2010

2000s · 3 titles

1980s · 14 titles

Terror and Black Lace poster
6.1

A psycho with a hair fetish is caught in the act of disposing of a body and the lonely housewife that witnesses it must fight for her life.

Terror and Black Lace

1985

Living Is What Matters poster
5.4

A drifter named Candelario asks to spend the night at the hacienda of Don Lazaro. Once there, he gets the offer to stay and work as a laborer with a fixed salary. Over time, Candelario is gaining the confidence of his employer, and becomes indispensable. The situation will change radically when Don Lazarus discovers that Candelario is having a love affair with his wife.

Living Is What Matters

1987

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

God's Crooked Lines poster
4.8

Newly-committed to a mental institution, a woman tries to convince her doctors that her husband conspired to have her put away for selfish reasons unrelated to her mental health.

God's Crooked Lines

1983

A Married Woman poster
6.0

Irene is a young housewife and mother who tries to raise her young family, love her husband and keep her home all the while studying her masters' degree. Mario, her husband, is a good man, but he's tied by convention. When she has a strange mishap one day, her domestic life is catapulted in a whirl of horror and violence that will tear the fabric of her very existence apart.

A Married Woman

1982

Deceitful Appearances poster
4.6

The sexual misunderstandings caused by the real identity of a rich woman serve Hermosillo to satirize the moral and social hypocrisy of the provincial that every Mexican carries inside.

Deceitful Appearances

1983

Knock Out poster
6.8

Rodrigo Zaracho, once a promising boxer, is in decline. While fleeing from a gang that is chasing him, he remembers his past.

Knock Out

1984

Angel del barrio poster
6.7

Patada de Mula, an old retired boxer, lives with the guilt of having killed his opponent in his last fight, but he works as a masseur in a gym, sells balloons on Sundays and with the proceeds supports the widow of the opponent he killed and his son El Kid, an aspiring boxer, without his knowledge. Patada is also in love with his neighbor Marga, a young woman who is pushed into prostitution by the gangster Duque and his own father, but to whom Patada sends letters as an anonymous lover. The Kid is sponsored by Duke and detests Patada for the death of his father, but when he throws him out of the inn that his mother tends she confesses to him what he has done for them and the Kid asks her forgiveness and makes him his second.

Angel del barrio

1981

Arma de dos filos poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Arma de dos filos

1988

Ya nunca más poster
6.4

A young teenage boy with a zest for sports and singing is seriously injured in a motorcycle accident. The story revolves around his shock at the way his life has changed and his difficulty in coping with his new reality. The boy, played by Latin singing star Luis Miguel at age 14, sings several songs in the movie.

Ya nunca más

1984

El sexo de los ricos poster
5.7

Newlywed couple loses their moral compasses while hubby climbs the career ladder in a corrupt office.

El sexo de los ricos

1981

Seduction poster
6.4

The story of two women, a mother and her daughter, who during the Cristero War set traps for government soldiers passing by their house, using seduction that was never consummated. The idea was to deceive the soldiers by making them feel safe, then hand them over, almost with their hands tied, to the Cristero guerrillas. But then one of the women, the daughter, truly falls in love with one of the soldiers, allows herself to be seduced by him, and then tries to save him, only to be killed, in the circumstances, by the soldier himself.

Seduction

1981

Visita al Pasado poster
6.0

Mexican feature film

Visita al Pasado

1981

Tiempo de lobos poster
6.3

Two young emigres return home from USA to their family farm to visit for a week.

Tiempo de lobos

1982

1970s · 15 titles

The Place Without Limits poster
7.2

Family honor, greed, machismo, homophobia, and dreams collide in a small Mexican town.

The Place Without Limits

1978

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

Las Poquianchis poster
7.0

Three sisters run brothels protected by the authorities, abuse and prostitute young women under the false pretense of employing them as servants.

Las Poquianchis

1976

Chronicle of a Love poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Chronicle of a Love

1974

La agonía de ser madre poster
5.8

She has an incurable heart condition, her son's a shoplifter, her husband's an alcoholic, her daughter runs away from home...

La agonía de ser madre

1970

Las adorables mujercitas poster
5.5

No synopsis available yet.

Las adorables mujercitas

1974

Before the Corpse of a Leader poster
6.4

A union leader dies in a sleazy hotel room, then the wife, mistress, police, co workers, reporters, colleagues, and political figures arrive to the hotel and each has its own intentions.

Before the Corpse of a Leader

1974

Those Years poster
6.0

President Juárez fights against the conservatives, who have ordered an emperor to be brought from France to govern Mexico

Those Years

1974

The Dried Butterflies poster
6.7

A disturbed middle aged writer becomes obsessed with a little boy who reminds her of a former lover.

The Dried Butterflies

1978

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

Hoy he soñado con Dios poster
6.8

Aging widow interferes in the lives of her adult children.

Hoy he soñado con Dios

1972

Más allá de la violencia poster
5.7

The young pacifist Claudio is saddened to see some children playing war. He goes with a group of rebels who make fun of him and invite him to participate in a motorcycle race where the prize is a girl. Ál wins the race with the help of Rafael, the head of the band, and decides to buy to join the group, on a trip they meet with some hippies led by a psychologist who opposes drugs. Two of the gang members, Gabriel and Bernardo, attack one of the girls; the hippies in revenge violate Mimi and sa Julia, for which Bernardo kills a hippie. Claudio fights with him but Mimi intervenes and receives a stab aimed at Claudio. Ál recalls that Rafael was a brother and a lover of her. The police arrest the hippies and scold the parents for the behavior of the young people.

Más allá de la violencia

1971

...And Woman Made Man poster
5.8

A completely illiterate general from the Mexican Revolution “wins” a teacher in a game of dice. What happens to him with this woman is something unexpected.

...And Woman Made Man

1975

Tango poster
5.7

Mexican feature film

Tango

1976

Pubertinaje poster
6.3

Three episodes: 1) "A Christmas dinner" where the family members fantasize about being somewhere else. The fetishist father wants to put on feminine clothes. The son longs for another transvestite adventure. The daughter yearns to be a singer and destroy the saints of the church with her voice. The youngest son wants to stab everyone dead. 2) "Game of mirrors". Two young classmates kiss on a picnic, but the girl's brother accuses the couple of being immoral. Bizarre things develop. 3) "Tetrahedron". A very fat man faces his girlfriend's longing for love.

Pubertinaje

1978

Series credits

En carne propia poster
6.5

The year is 1972: Magdalena Dumont and Octávio Muriel are celebrating the birthday of their daughter, little Estefanía, at a party in the family mansion. However, this party is merely a backdrop and an opportunity to commit a crime.

En carne propia

1990

Alondra poster
5.7

Alondra is a Mexican telenovela shown in 1995, written by Yolanda Vargas Dulché and produced by Carla Estrada, starring with Ana Colchero and the late Beatriz Sheridan. This telenovela contains 78 episodes.

Alondra

1995

The Marked Hour poster
8.3

La Hora Marcada was a 1986 Mexican television anthology series famous for its horror and science fiction themes in the vein of the Twilight Zone. Although virtually unknown outside the country, it achieved a popular and critical success in Mexico. It had a series of rotating writers and directors, among them Emmanuel Lubezki, Guillermo del Toro and Alfonso Cuarón.

The Marked Hour

1988

La traición poster
7.5

No synopsis available yet.

La traición

1984

Muchachita poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Muchachita

1985

Den of Wolves poster
7.5

Cuna de lobos is a Mexican soap opera produced by Televisa and broadcast by Canal de las Estrellas in 1986 to 1987. The serial, about the struggle for power within a wealthy Mexican dynasty, was enormously popular in its native Mexico. It was also a hit in several foreign countries, including the United States, Germany and Australia. The soap opera starring antagonistically María Rubio as the main villain interpreting the evil "Catalina Creel", with Gonzalo Vega, Diana Bracho, Alejandro Camacho and Rebecca Jones.

Den of Wolves

1986

Tenías que ser tú poster
7.5

Tenías que ser tú is a Mexican telenovela produced by Carlos Téllez for Televisa and originally broadcast on Canal de las Estrellas from November 23, 1992, to March 12, 1993. Created by Jorge Patiño and Gerardo Sánchez Luna, it was the last telenovela produced by Carlos Téllez. The story follows Gabriela Beltrán, whose life changes dramatically after the tragic death of her father leaves her family in poverty. As she and her family struggle to rebuild their lives, Gabriela falls in love with her childhood friend, Gorka Charachaga. Their romance is threatened by Santa, an ambitious young woman determined to separate them, leading to a story of love, sacrifice, and perseverance in the face of adversity.

Tenías que ser tú

1992

Mañana es primavera poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Mañana es primavera

1982

La vida en el espejo poster
4.8

No synopsis available yet.

La vida en el espejo

1999