Valentín Trujillo

Acting

Valentín Trujillo

Born — Died

1951-03-28 — 2006-05-04

Place of birth

Atotonilco, Jalisco, Mexico

Known for

Acting

Credits

89 titles

Valentin Trujillo Gazcón (28 March 1951 – 4 May 2006) was a Mexican actor, writer and director. His career spanned 48 years, where he appeared in over 140 films and directed 20 films. Trujillo was born on March 28, 1951 in a show business family as his grandfather was film producer Valentín Gazcón and his uncle was actor Gilberto Gazcón. He made his film debut as a baby. Trujillo initially studied law at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). He never completed his studies, choosing instead to become an actor. Trujillo made his acting debut at the age of seven in the film El Gran Pillo (1958). As a teen he got into the Columbia Pictures release Rage (1966) alongside Glenn Ford and S…

Known for

Film credits

1990s · 19 titles

1980s · 13 titles

The Death of a Stallion poster
6.7

When a dedicated jockey finds that the local politicians are not to be trusted and begins to feel his romance with a beautiful woman slowly slipping away, his last-ditch effort to risk it all for his trusted horse Palomo shows that sometimes animals are truly man's best friend.

The Death of a Stallion

1983

Mi fantasma y yo poster
5.2

A family of three moves to a haunted house. The couple's 10-year-old son runs into the ghost of the house but isn't scared. He tells the ghost that since his father is a writer of horror novels he lost fear of horror stories. The ghost then confides in the boy that he is a lonely ghost on account of the modern world focused on so many material priorities. Child and ghost become best friends, playing together, telling stories and helping the ghost pay his rent by scaring people every month.

Mi fantasma y yo

1988

Perro callejero poster
8.1

An abandoned child steals to survive and has problems when he decides to steal from the priest who helps him.

Perro callejero

1980

El diablo en persona poster
5.7

Young rural-gentry dude sows wild oats, settles down to raise a family, and fights in the Revolution, all at the same time.

El diablo en persona

1982

El Ansia de matar poster
6.5

This is a true story. Kicho and Maria come to Mexico looking for a better life but Maria gets killed by the guerrilla before she gets to sign the papers at the border. Kicho promises himself he will get revenge one day. At the same time a family of four gets kidnapped during a hunting trip by the same "red beret" guy who commands the guerrilla and left the father thinking hes dead. He is an experienced hunter and with Kichos help, who knows the woods very well, track down the guerrilla to rescue the rest of the family.

El Ansia de matar

1987

Del otro lado del puente poster
5.4

Among Chicanos in Los Angeles, young Alberto lives with the family of Dany, his older brother. Alberto studies at UCLA with the support of Professor Bob. Another young man, Jimy Joe, who lives with his sister Estela, is encouraged to quit drugs at a youth rehabilitation center coordinated by Many. Estela sees Jimy Joe being beaten up by gang members. Disillusioned with a gringa, Alberto meets Estela at a nightclub and becomes her boyfriend. Jimy Joe and his friends are surprised by a gang, and he is the only one left alive after a fierce fight, but with a fractured skull. The operation is very expensive, so Alberto and Many decide to raise funds with a show at the Convention Center. Alberto triumphs there as a composer and singer. Now saved, Jimy Joe dances in the street to one of Alberto's songs with Alberto, Estela, and others.

Del otro lado del puente

1980

Violación poster
5.5

In Mexico City, a woman is raped every 9 minutes. This film details some of the legal and social problems in the country and how it's often difficult for women to find justice. Awarded Best Film by Mexican Cinema Journalists and nominated for three Ariel Awards.

Violación

1989

The Scent of Death poster
6.8

The Chemos and the Pachecos are two gangs whose adventures are witnessed by the doctor, the assistant and the social worker of a clinic where they know of the young men's problems.

The Scent of Death

1987

Las modelos de desnudos poster
4.8

Three interlocking anecdotes about boy/girl stuff. Two gigolos make a bet to see which can boff an heiress first, a young artist tries to persuade his upper-class parents that his artist's-model fiance is a good choice for marriage, and a guy on the run from the mafia hides from them by cross-dressing.

Las modelos de desnudos

1983

Dos de abajo poster
4.7

Two bozo construction workers discover a cache of 19th century gold coins while demolishing a building.

Dos de abajo

1983

Perro callejero 2 poster
7.3

After serving his three-year sentence, Perro, who was only visited by Father Maromas, returns to his old environment. There, Chava recruits him back into drug trafficking.

Perro callejero 2

1981

En Peligro De Muerte poster
5.5

Nina is a reporter who works in a Latin American country at war when she finds herself trapped in the line of fire and hires a mercenary pilot named Victor to help her escape the place, but the plane is attacked and the journalist and pilot have to parachute off the plane. They fall into the sea but with a life raft they make it to the jungle, where they have to coexist and she learns to survive.

En Peligro De Muerte

1988

Ratas de la ciudad poster
8.1

A father on the search for his missing child discovers a revealing and shocking drama. The true adventures of thousands of juvenile criminals who live in a big city. They live in ghettos, in a world ful of violence, corruption and hate. They form gangs who attack and rob innocent victims, leaving a trail of terror behind.

Ratas de la ciudad

1985

1970s · 20 titles

El juicio de los hijos poster
5.8

Widow with teenaged children faces hostility from her dead husband's mother, who seems to know a family secret she wants to use against her.

El juicio de los hijos

1971

Como gallos de pelea poster
5.5

Young man returns from college to his family estate; when he learns that a rival family is trying to take over all available acreage, he gradually warms up to the idea of defending his turf.

Como gallos de pelea

1977

Hoy he soñado con Dios poster
6.8

Aging widow interferes in the lives of her adult children.

Hoy he soñado con Dios

1972

¿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

Partners and Lovers poster
4.0

Three short films about intimacy, infidelity and life as a couple (or almost)

Partners and Lovers

1973

Las figuras de arena poster
4.6

Separated Mom, Dad and son all come into conflict with each other during a brief reunion visit. Everyone learns and grows.

Las figuras de arena

1970

Death in Cold Blood poster
4.7

A man is murdered. His father tracks the killer, hoping to get revenge before the police capture him. What happened to cause his son's death is gradually revealed.

Death in Cold Blood

1978

Cuna de valientes poster
5.0

No synopsis available yet.

Cuna de valientes

1972

When I Want to Cry, I Don't poster
5.0

In Venezuela, one day in 1948 there were born three children all named Victorino: Pérez, mulatto and son of the poor Lucía; Perdomo, son of a middle-class communist who gets arrested; and bourgeois Peralta. On the day of his eighteenth birthday Pérez escapes from prison using lather pretending it to be a rage attack. Peralta shows a friend of his a car he got from his parents. A young lady gives herself to Perdomo as a birthday present. Pérez finds his mistress with another man and wounds her. Pérez and a few others rob an old man while riding on their motorcycles. Perdomo and a bunch of bushwhackers plan to rob a bank. Pérez sees a friend of his smoking pot while Peralta visits a cousin of his and has sex with her. Perdomo’s father, recently elected a communist representative wants to talk him out of his violent ways. Pérez sleeps with three girls and remembers how he once killed a man in the middle of a robbery. Peralta and his friends shoot dogs just for fun. Perdomo and his pals…

When I Want to Cry, I Don't

1973

Our Lady of Guadalupe poster
7.2

No synopsis available yet.

Our Lady of Guadalupe

1976

Mexicano Hasta Las Cachas poster
7.2

Mauro is your typical deep-heart Mexican man, a merrymaker always ready to sing a song and turn difficulties into a laugh. He's married, has a friend named Hilario, and a girlfriend named Rita, and a girlfriend named Carmen, and a girlfriend named Petra, and other unnamed girlfriends. His life was already troubled with jealous girlfriends fighting each other, when one of his lovers decides to kidnap his baby child from the cradle, to kill him. All turns to the good, in the end.

Mexicano Hasta Las Cachas

1979

Simon Blanco poster
6.2

The peasant and revolutionary Zapatista Simon Blanco still in arms but Zapata is dead. Simon with his lieutenant Andres visits his mother and his girlfriend in his hometown. The cacique Onesimo and his brother, the commissioner Martial put ambushes but he eludes them.

Simon Blanco

1975

El hijo del palenque poster
5.8

Man is murdered in a cockfighting dispute at the exact moment that his son is being born. The son grows up to avenge him.

El hijo del palenque

1977

El valiente vive... hasta que el cobarde quiere poster
5.5

The arrival of a new school-teacher to a small town triggers various large and small upheavals, including the Police Chief's total meltdown into raging psychosis.

El valiente vive... hasta que el cobarde quiere

1979

Mataron a Camelia la Texana poster
5.7

No synopsis available yet.

Mataron a Camelia la Texana

1978

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

El ausente poster
6.8

Young man returns to his childhood home-town, planning to git the people that killed his father.

El ausente

1972

Carroña poster
4.7

Horseback drama set in Mexico just before the Revolution.

Carroña

1978

El Desconocido poster
6.3

Disenfranchised drifter finds a home, working on a young orphan woman's ranch.

El Desconocido

1974

Son tus perjúmenes mujer poster
6.0

Marginal/unemployed dude with heart of gold tries to make life better for crippled niece, unapproachable girlfriend, others.

Son tus perjúmenes mujer

1978

1960s · 5 titles

Series credits

Behind the camera

Red Dawn poster
8.3

On October 2, 1968, a student uprising descends into violence after the Mexican government begins to use lethal force against the protesters.

Red Dawn

1990

Desesperación criminal poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Desesperación criminal

1994

Desesperación criminal poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Desesperación criminal

1994

Traición en la hacienda poster
7.5

No synopsis available yet.

Traición en la hacienda

1997

Traición en la hacienda poster
7.5

No synopsis available yet.

Traición en la hacienda

1997

Entre cartas y gallos poster
5.0

No synopsis available yet.

Entre cartas y gallos

1997

Burlando la ley poster
4.0

No synopsis available yet.

Burlando la ley

1993

Burlando la ley poster
4.0

No synopsis available yet.

Burlando la ley

1993

Violación poster
5.5

In Mexico City, a woman is raped every 9 minutes. This film details some of the legal and social problems in the country and how it's often difficult for women to find justice. Awarded Best Film by Mexican Cinema Journalists and nominated for three Ariel Awards.

Violación

1989

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Un secuestro de locura

1996

Ratas de la ciudad poster
8.1

A father on the search for his missing child discovers a revealing and shocking drama. The true adventures of thousands of juvenile criminals who live in a big city. They live in ghettos, in a world ful of violence, corruption and hate. They form gangs who attack and rob innocent victims, leaving a trail of terror behind.

Ratas de la ciudad

1985

Ratas de la ciudad poster
8.1

A father on the search for his missing child discovers a revealing and shocking drama. The true adventures of thousands of juvenile criminals who live in a big city. They live in ghettos, in a world ful of violence, corruption and hate. They form gangs who attack and rob innocent victims, leaving a trail of terror behind.

Ratas de la ciudad

1985

Carrera contra el destino poster
5.7

Mexican feature film

Carrera contra el destino

1990

Un Hombre Violento poster
5.2

Bent on avenging the death of his gambling addicted father, Julian Carrera embarks on a violent spree with deadly consequences.

Un Hombre Violento

1984

Amor que mata poster
5.7

Diego is a young musician who lives the terrible death of his uncle to AIDS. While in his deep depresion he meets Gabriela, which brings back a smile to his face. Just when life seems more promising than ever, one beutiful night death once again took a toll on his life. It seems as though the phantoms of the past are never going to let him go.

Amor que mata

1994

Imposible de matar poster
5.7

No synopsis available yet.

Imposible de matar

1994

The Last Escape poster
5.2

An elderly escape artist fails in his act and is fired from the theater. He and his grandchildren Magela and Pablo then perform magic acts in parks.

The Last Escape

1990

The Last Escape poster
5.2

An elderly escape artist fails in his act and is fired from the theater. He and his grandchildren Magela and Pablo then perform magic acts in parks.

The Last Escape

1990

Delirio de muerte poster
6.3

Married couple Alma & Carlos are stalked by Alma's look-a-like "Lucia", who wants Carlos back.

Delirio de muerte

1996

Yo el ejecutor poster
5.4

A retired mercenary known as 'The Executioner', is forced to take one more case especially when his girlfriend is kidnapped and raped, he then wages a one-man war against the mob with his execution style.

Yo el ejecutor

1987

Yo el ejecutor poster
5.4

A retired mercenary known as 'The Executioner', is forced to take one more case especially when his girlfriend is kidnapped and raped, he then wages a one-man war against the mob with his execution style.

Yo el ejecutor

1987

Atrapados poster
5.8

A wild police officer attempts to rescue a child from the hands of kidnappers.

Atrapados

1995

Atrapados poster
5.8

A wild police officer attempts to rescue a child from the hands of kidnappers.

Atrapados

1995

Hunting Humans poster
5.8

A guy whose brother was killed and a waitress whose sister was killed run afoul on a psycho killer who gets his jollies running people off the road with his big truck. Overcompensation much?

Hunting Humans

1987

Pesadilla infernal poster
6.7

No synopsis available yet.

Pesadilla infernal

1997

Un Hombre Despiadado poster
6.7

Valentin Trujillo film in which he is in some sort of camp with two other people.

Un Hombre Despiadado

1991

Venganza poster
6.3

No synopsis available yet.

Venganza

1992