Acting

José Baviera

Born — Died

1906-08-17 — 1981-08-13

Place of birth

Valencia, Spain

Known for

Acting

Credits

65 titles

José Baviera was born on August 17, 1906 in Valencia, Spain as José Luis Baviera Navarro. He was immigrated to Mexico in 1940. He was an actor and director, known for El ángel exterminador (1962), La barraca (1945) and La otra (1946). He died on August 13, 1981 in Mexico, D.F., Mexico.

Known for

The Exterminating Angel poster
7.9

After a lavish dinner party, the guests find themselves unable to depart... and, over the next few days, all of their elaborate societal pretenses and façades deteriorate as they are reduced to living like animals.

The Exterminating Angel

1962

Viva Maria! poster
6.1

1907 Central America: Maria II is the daughter of an Irish terrorist. After her father's death, she meets Maria I, a performer, and decides to stay with the circus, and on her debut as a singer, unintentionally invents the striptease and makes the circus famous. Their inadvertent encounter with a socialist revolutionary lands them leading a revolution against the dictator, the capitalists, and the Church.

Viva Maria!

1965

The Magician poster
7.5

A slapstick fantasy of the amorous adventures of a magician a la Cantinflas.

The Magician

1949

Hermoso ideal poster
6.0

Two Spanish children, boy and girl, make friends with a Mexican boy while on vacation. In adulthood, their friendship turns into a romantic triangle. Then bullfighting and the Foreign legion and stuff.

Hermoso ideal

1948

Los Perversos poster
5.7

Priest is sympathetic and understanding toward mod-era young folks and their new world-view... but he gets in trouble with a biker gang and with a young woman who crushes unhealthily on him.

Los Perversos

1967

El Portero poster
7.8

Cantinflas works as a porter, who writes letters and speeches in his old writing machine to earn an extra money, despite the fact that he still goes to school. The sentimental issues come when Cantinflas falls in love of his pretty neighborhood (Silvia Pinal), who is handicapped and unable to walk. The thing wont be easy, because a young military man also has feelings for the girl. But the porter wants to see her happy, and he will become a sort of Cyrano De Bergerac, writing love letters to her signed by the young soldier. His plan is simple: to win money in the horse races in order to pay the operation which will make her walk again.

El Portero

1950

Film credits

1970s · 5 titles

1960s · 14 titles

The Exterminating Angel poster
7.9

After a lavish dinner party, the guests find themselves unable to depart... and, over the next few days, all of their elaborate societal pretenses and façades deteriorate as they are reduced to living like animals.

The Exterminating Angel

1962

Viva Maria! poster
6.1

1907 Central America: Maria II is the daughter of an Irish terrorist. After her father's death, she meets Maria I, a performer, and decides to stay with the circus, and on her debut as a singer, unintentionally invents the striptease and makes the circus famous. Their inadvertent encounter with a socialist revolutionary lands them leading a revolution against the dictator, the capitalists, and the Church.

Viva Maria!

1965

Los Perversos poster
5.7

Priest is sympathetic and understanding toward mod-era young folks and their new world-view... but he gets in trouble with a biker gang and with a young woman who crushes unhealthily on him.

Los Perversos

1967

Corazón salvaje poster
4.7

Calculating Aime sends her sister Monica to distract a love-struck smuggler, Juan del Diablo, when he threatens to reveal their affair to Aime's new rich husband. They are discovered alone together and to save Monica's virtue, Juan del Diablo promises to marry Monica.

Corazón salvaje

1968

Savage Sunday poster
4.7

Repressed middle-aged Catholic gets into a troublesome relationship with the prostitute next door and her little boy.

Savage Sunday

1967

The Angels of Puebla poster
6.3

An angel who is three good deeds short of earning his wings chooses the city of Puebla to carry out her mission.

The Angels of Puebla

1968

La sombra de los hijos poster
5.6

Dying woman refuses to surrender to her unnamed movie disease until she can help her children through the big, big problems each one is facing.

La sombra de los hijos

1964

The World of the Vampires poster
5.6

A vampire uses two sisters to seek revenge from the last member of a family that persecuted the undead in Europe, but his plan is threatened by a man who knows how to destroy him with a peculiar piece of music.

The World of the Vampires

1961

Juan Colorado poster
7.9

Silvia's father wants to marry her off to Rafael who, out of jealousy, wants to finish off Juan. Silvia dresses up as Juan to save his skin.

Juan Colorado

1966

Los bárbaros del norte poster
6.0

Townsfolk expect that when the dead sheriff's son comes home, people will quit doing crimes... but he turns out to be an inept comedian type bozo guy.

Los bárbaros del norte

1962

El comandante Furia poster
4.8

No synopsis available yet.

El comandante Furia

1966

Under the Cover of Night poster
6.2

The vedette Miriam ignores her pretender Carlos because her daughter Margot, whom she passes as her sister, is in love with him.

Under the Cover of Night

1962

La guerrillera de Villa poster
5.0

Reyes Mendoza (Carmen Sevilla) is a Spanish artist who arrives in Mexico in 1913 and finds herself involved in the Pancho Villa (Jose Elias Moreno) revolution.

La guerrillera de Villa

1967

El hijo del diablo poster
5.6

Victor Rincon is a smuggler who burns down the coastal ranch of an old man who refused to sell it to him for a low price. The Devil's son, immune to bullets, kills some of the man's henchmen to return his money to the smuggler.

El hijo del diablo

1966

1950s · 14 titles

El Portero poster
7.8

Cantinflas works as a porter, who writes letters and speeches in his old writing machine to earn an extra money, despite the fact that he still goes to school. The sentimental issues come when Cantinflas falls in love of his pretty neighborhood (Silvia Pinal), who is handicapped and unable to walk. The thing wont be easy, because a young military man also has feelings for the girl. But the porter wants to see her happy, and he will become a sort of Cyrano De Bergerac, writing love letters to her signed by the young soldier. His plan is simple: to win money in the horse races in order to pay the operation which will make her walk again.

El Portero

1950

Soledad's Shawl poster
6.5

Alberto Robles, a young doctor, is faced with the decision to surrender to a life full of comforts and luxuries or to continue dedicating himself body and soul to serving those who need it most.

Soledad's Shawl

1952

Padre nuestro poster
6.5

Pops is dismissed from his banking job for embezzlement, and his family have to adjust to a more modest lifestyle.

Padre nuestro

1953

Camelia poster
6.2

A sort of meta riff on Alexandre Dumas fils' novel The Lady of the Camellias (La Dame aux Camélias or Camille) here in Mexican melodrama form involving the doomed love of a bullfighter and a beautiful but ailing actress/courtesan.

Camelia

1954

Nunca es tarde para amar poster
6.0

A widowed doctor with a sick child marries a famous singer unpremeditatedly, running at first everything fine until she begins to long for his former life and scenic successes representing the only reason for existence.

Nunca es tarde para amar

1953

The Hawks poster
6.7

The story of two half brothers who do not know they are such, who fight over a woman and nearly kill each other. One of them belongs to Los Gavilanes, a group of men who live live hidden and looting to give to the poor. Revenge, love and hate will at the end bring out the truth and everyone will get what he deserves.

The Hawks

1956

The Port of the Seven Sins poster
6.2

Career criminals vie for ownership of a disreputable waterfront dive and for the love of the cabaret-gal that sings there.

The Port of the Seven Sins

1951

El derecho de nacer poster
6.9

In Santiago de Cuba in the early 1950s, history begins. A young woman of high society becomes pregnant with a false love, her father orders his black maid (Dolores) to kill the baby (Alberto), but she flees to Havana where Alberto becomes a renowned doctor.

El derecho de nacer

1952

Two Faces Have the Destiny poster
6.2

Ruined alcoholic doctor escapes a tropical plague and begins a new life back in civilization, taking over the identity of a dead man.

Two Faces Have the Destiny

1952

Desired poster
5.6

A man comes to a village to marry a girl, but upon meeting the bride's sister, he falls in love with her.

Desired

1951

The Martyr of Calvary poster
8.1

The life of Jesus from the beginning of his ministry, his miracles, the Sermon on the Mount and his death on the cross.

The Martyr of Calvary

1952

Loving Was His Sin poster
6.0

Two sisters, who are devoted to each other, fall in love with the same man. One of them is terminally ill and after she dies there is suspicion she might have been murdered.

Loving Was His Sin

1951

No niego mi pasado poster
6.0

This is a film by Alberto Gout that deals with the story of a marriage in crisis. It all starts when Leonardo surprises his wife Susana with her lover and threatens him with death for stealing her.

No niego mi pasado

1952

Sueños de gloria poster
5.4

Auto mechanic invents a new-improved carburetor; industrial spies steal his invention, romance with a manufacturer's daughter, and he drives a cross-country race.

Sueños de gloria

1953

1940s · 21 titles

The Magician poster
7.5

A slapstick fantasy of the amorous adventures of a magician a la Cantinflas.

The Magician

1949

Hermoso ideal poster
6.0

Two Spanish children, boy and girl, make friends with a Mexican boy while on vacation. In adulthood, their friendship turns into a romantic triangle. Then bullfighting and the Foreign legion and stuff.

Hermoso ideal

1948

Romeo y Julieta poster
6.8

Verona's peace is disturbed by the rivalry between noble families: the Montesco and the Capuleto, irreconcilable enemies. The two families have continued fighting to make life unbearable in the Italian town. The Prince of Verona informs the chiefs that the two families respond with their lives if there are new struggles. At a ball in honor of Juliet, the daughter of Capuleto, incidentally meets Romeo, son of Montesco. Both fall in love immediately, not knowing that their love is impossible.

Romeo y Julieta

1943

The Other poster
6.9

A mousy, poor manicurist seeks to switch places with her more glamorous, wealthy twin sister.

The Other

1946

Gran Casino poster
5.2

After the mysterious disappearance of an oil well owner, one of his workers, Gerardo assumes the business management. Soon, the owner's sister arrives from Argentina, and, believing that Gerardo killed her brother to keep the wells for himself, she starts working as a singer under a false name in the same casino her brother disappeared, in order to find out what exactly happened.

Gran Casino

1947

Naná poster
4.0

Based in the Émile Zola novel of the same name, which details the life of Nana, a French prostitute of the 19th century.

Naná

1944

Late Afternoon poster
6.9

A former farmhand now with money, wants to buy his former boss's farm and marry his daughter, but they refuse.

Late Afternoon

1949

Espionaje en el golfo poster
6.7

Journalist Luis Navarro is assigned to cover the sinking of several ships, but his investigation takes an unexpected turn after meeting Miss Morán. As he digs deeper, he realizes the case is tied to a dangerous espionage conspiracy.

Espionaje en el golfo

1943

El criollo poster
5.6

After the ending of the War Of Independence, a Mexican officer goes roguish to get personal revenge on an enemy combatant who killed his father and oppressed his townfolk.

El criollo

1945

Reina de reinas: La Virgen María poster
6.0

Standard retelling of the the Gospels, with a brief epilogue about the death of Mary.

Reina de reinas: La Virgen María

1948

Mary Magdalene, Sinner of Magdala poster
6.0

The story of Mary Magdalene from being a sinner to follow Jesus Christ.

Mary Magdalene, Sinner of Magdala

1946

El rayo del sur poster
6.0

Latter part of the career of Padre Morelos, the 18th/19th century military leader. Sequel to... um... El Padre Morelos.

El rayo del sur

1943

Story of a Great Love poster
6.7

Manuel leaves town leaving Soledad in deep sadness. After several years of absence, the young man returns to find Soledad married to Antonio. However, the woman continues to be in love with him and both are determined to consummate their love.

Story of a Great Love

1942

Espinas de una flor poster
6.3

Mexican movie

Espinas de una flor

1945

La mujer del otro poster
6.3

No synopsis available yet.

La mujer del otro

1948

Tentación poster
6.0

Upon reaching the capital, an old man and his daughter are victims of abuse, where their goodwill becomes the way to gain control of the low instincts of a man who sought favors he did for an uncontrolled temptation.

Tentación

1943

May God Forgive Me poster
6.3

Lena, a beautiful and mysteriously sinister refugee haunted by her past, is chased into the arms of a rich, unsuspecting industrialist not for love, but for information.

May God Forgive Me

1948

El corsario negro poster
6.2

This Mexican drama features murder, revenge, ruling power and romance in Eighteenth century Maracaibo.

El corsario negro

1944

No artwork available
5.5

No synopsis available yet.

La vida íntima de Marco Antonio y Cleopatra

1947

Las puertas del presidio poster
6.2

Unscrupulous boss frames an employee for a robbery so he can make time with the guy's sister.

Las puertas del presidio

1949

Jesus of Nazareth poster
7.7

The biblical story of The Messiah from his baptism through his crucifixion.

Jesus of Nazareth

1942

Behind the camera