Rodrigo Puebla

Acting

Rodrigo Puebla

Born — Died

1929-03-13 — 1993-01-15

Place of birth

San Diego de La Union, Guanajuato, Mexico

Known for

Acting

Credits

41 titles

Rodrigo Puebla was born in San Diego de La Union, Guanajuato, Mexico, on March 13, 1929, and grew up in a modest environment. His life was marked by perseverance and sacrifice to achieve his dream of becoming an actor. Before becoming an actor, he worked in various occupations to support his family. Puebla was a recognized actor in the theatrical and television world in Latin America. His legacy as an actor continues to be remembered and appreciated for his talent and dedication to his career. He passed away on January 15, 1993 in Mexico City, Mexico.

Known for

Film credits

1980s · 13 titles

Romancing the Stone poster
6.8

Though she can spin wild tales of passionate romance, novelist Joan Wilder has no life of her own. Then one day adventure comes her way in the form of a mysterious package. It turns out that the parcel is the ransom she'll need to free her abducted sister, so Joan flies to South America to hand it over. But she gets on the wrong bus and winds up hopelessly stranded in the jungle.

Romancing the Stone

1984

La Chèvre poster
7.1

When the boss' unlucky daughter is missing in South America, Campana is sent to watch the boss' most unlucky employee who is sent as a private detective in hopes he can duplicate the daughter's mistakes.

La Chèvre

1981

El Norte poster
7.1

Brother and sister Enrique and Rosa flee persecution at home in Guatemala and journey north, through Mexico and on to the United States, with the dream of starting a new life.

El Norte

1983

At a Lame Pace poster
4.5

Ragtag crew of indigents from an asylum for the handicapped form a squadron to defend the Church during the Cristero Uprising.

At a Lame Pace

1980

No artwork available
5.5

No synopsis available yet.

Murieron a la mitad del rio

1986

El vengador del 30-06 poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

El vengador del 30-06

1983

Los Abandonados – Die Niemandskinder von Camanducaia poster
1.0

Based on the true story of boys from Brazilian jails taken to the state border and abandoned without food or clothing to relieve overcrowding in prison. Once discovered it became a major scandal in the 70s.

Los Abandonados – Die Niemandskinder von Camanducaia

1986

Mundo mágico poster
5.8

Anthology movie that presents 3 stories about romance.

Mundo mágico

1983

Albur de amor poster
6.0

Romantic triangle on the hacienda. Ends badly for all concerned.

Albur de amor

1980

La venganza de Maria poster
5.2

Arms/drug smuggler wants Maria to take care of his puppies... but he also has reasons to kill off most of her menfolk family members, one or two at a time.

La venganza de Maria

1983

It's my Life poster
6.5

Alberto Aguilera arrives from Ciudad Juárez to the capital to pursue a career in music, but in the midst of confusion he is accused of stealing and is sent to prison.

It's my Life

1982

Cazador De Asesinos poster
6.0

A retired police officer looks for revenge after his family is attacked by a gang of criminals.

Cazador De Asesinos

1983

Tras el horizonte poster
6.3

A man is on the run after taking revenge on his brother murder, but someone goes after him too

Tras el horizonte

1984

1970s · 22 titles

The Magnificent One poster
7.0

A writer of pulpy book series in which he's the hero and his beautiful English roommate is the love interest attempts to finish his new book in time at the publisher's demand.

The Magnificent One

1973

Life Sentence poster
6.8

After being released from jail, "Tarzan" Lira seeks to rebuild his life as a bank employee. Unfortunately, it might not be as easy as he thinks.

Life Sentence

1979

Canoa: A Shameful Memory poster
7.9

A group of students arrives in a small town during a hiking expedition. Once there, the local priest accuses them of being communist agitators on the run from an army crack-down against student demonstrations in nearby Mexico City and rallies the townsfolk to lynch them. Based on a true story.

Canoa: A Shameful Memory

1975

Picardía mexicana poster
7.5

An academic tags along among a crew of rowdy delivery-truck drivers, taking notes on their colorful and idiomatic use of language.

Picardía mexicana

1978

Pedro Páramo, el hombre de la Media Luna poster
5.8

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

Pedro Páramo, el hombre de la Media Luna

1978

Island of Lost Souls poster
6.1

Rene Cardona directs the film version of Jose Leon Sanchez's best-selling novel, which relates the author's 20 years of imprisonment on an island ruled by brutality. When a sadistic man declares himself the boss of an island pueblo, an innocent husband and wife become the victims of his selfish rule. Once the evil man's deeds reach the authorities on the mainland, however, he sinks further into madness and declares "his" island its own republic.

Island of Lost Souls

1974

Los Caciques poster
6.2

A bad man holds the power of life and death over the inhabitants of a village... for no apparent reason... and he's fond of torturing them, tying them to crosses and leaving them to die. A cowboy with necromantic powers comes along and leads a rebellion to overthrow that reign of terror.

Los Caciques

1975

El Quelite poster
5.2

Agapito, leader of the revolutionary movement of his state, comes to a town, kills all the federales, and gets a girl who was promised to him for his heroic deeds.

El Quelite

1970

El principio poster
5.5

Mexico is in the midst of Revolution when the protagonist returns after studying in Paris to find his native town in Chihuahua occupied by Francisco Villa’s revolutionary forces. He visits his deserted home and remembers people and events from his adolescence that provide glimpses of pre-Revolutionary society under dictatorship: his uncle, the chief of police; his sister’s involvement with a liberal political association; bathing with the girls from a local brothel; a labor strike that ended in a massacre. Returning to the present he discovers that his father has been assassinated and, in the company of his father’s former servant, joins the revolutionary movement.

El principio

1973

El elegido poster
7.1

A guy is peer-pressured, despite his reluctance, to play the role of Christ in a local production of the Passion Play.

El elegido

1977

Devil's Mountain poster
5.5

Adaptation of cowboy comic-book El Payo, #2 in a series.

Devil's Mountain

1975

Lo blanco, lo rojo y lo negro poster
4.9

All kinds of crimes are being committed in a frontier settlement; if you blame it on the Chiricahuas afterwards, you can get away with anything. One Chiricahua hooks up with a white guy and a black woman who have been victimized by the status quo, and the three of them whoop some righteous-vengeance butt.

Lo blanco, lo rojo y lo negro

1979

Benjamín Argumedo el rebelde poster
6.2

Biopic about a General in the Mexican Revolution. Sequel: Persecucion y muerte de Benjamin Argumedo.

Benjamín Argumedo el rebelde

1979

El águila descalza poster
5.8

Shmuck makes a superhero costume, rides his bike to crime scenes. He gets involved with something big involving US capitalists taking over local Mexican businesses.

El águila descalza

1971

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 House in the South poster
6.0

Indian village experiences forced relocation; their experience is paralleled by that of other groups dating back to the 18th century.

The House in the South

1976

The Encounter of a Lonely Man poster
6.0

Alberto is a journalist who remembers an event 15 years ago, when his friend Gabriel saved a girl from a fire suffering third-degree burns. When he tells the story to his friends, one of them asks him to write it with realism, so Alberto comes back to his old town to meet Gabriel again.

The Encounter of a Lonely Man

1974

Longitud de Guerra poster
5.9

Based on the novel Tomochic by Heriberto Frías; tells the story of the rebellion of the inhabitants of the village of Tomochi, Chihuahua, against the government of Porfirio Diaz in 1891. Mexico's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1976.

Longitud de Guerra

1976

El Payo: Un Hombre Contra el Mundo poster
5.5

Series western, adaptation of a popular comic-book.

El Payo: Un Hombre Contra el Mundo

1972

The Cursed Twelve poster
6.5

Escaping after a heist, bank-robbers run afoul of an ex bounty hunter with whom they have back story.

The Cursed Twelve

1974

La puerta falsa poster
5.0

Young heroin addict dies in the pursuit of his calling, and his brother goes on a vendetta against the narco gang that supplied his drugs.

La puerta falsa

1977

Pasajeros en Transito poster
6.3

A brave group of Mexicans embark on a risky mission to rescue a wounded guerrilla in Bolivia. This guerrilla, hoping to return to Mexico, is currently in the hands of friends who protect him and anxiously await the arrival of rescuers.

Pasajeros en Transito

1978

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