José Elías Moreno

Acting

José Elías Moreno

Born — Died

1910-11-12 — 1969-07-15

Place of birth

Las Palmas, Unión de San Antonio, Jalisco, Mexico

Known for

Acting

Credits

60 titles

José Elías Moreno (12 November 1910 – 15 July 1969) was a Mexican film actor. He appeared in 184 films between 1937 and 1969.

Known for

The Little Priest poster
8.2

Young priest Father Sebastián is assigned to a parish in San Jeronimo el Alto, where he is not welcomed by the community, particularly the resident priest Father Damián. The newcomer gradually earns the trust of the people through humor, but firmly captures their hearts by saving the town fiesta by fighting a bull when the hired torero failed to show. Father Sebastián counsels the townspeople, lecturing them on their duties in a modern society. He used the collection plate to redistribute the town's wealth more evenly.

The Little Priest

1964

El Siete Machos poster
8.3

Rosario, the niece of the rancher, returns to the ranch after ten years of absence. She takes in Margarito, a worker at the ranch, who is immediately smitten by her. Rosario is rescued from a runaway horse by the Seven Men, an outlaw a la Robin Hood that steals from the rich and gives to the poor. He also happens to be the twin brother of Margarito, unbeknownst to him. The confusion between Margarito and the Seven Men generates great comical situations in the film.

El Siete Machos

1951

Dos tipos de cuidado poster
8.4

Jorge Bueno and Pedro Malo are best friends who consider giving up their womanizing ways when they each fall in love. As fate would have it, Pedro Malo unexpectedly marries Jorge Bueno's girlfriend, and the conflict between the former buddies begins.

Dos tipos de cuidado

1953

Rage poster
5.6

Small-town doctor bitten by rabid dog, races the clock to get to the city and receive treatment.

Rage

1966

Santa Claus poster
6.8

Pitch, the mean-spirited devil, is trying to ruin Christmas. Santa Claus teams up with Merlin the Magician and the children of the world in order to save the day!

Santa Claus

1959

Night of the Bloody Apes poster
5.5

A surgeon transplants the heart of an ape into his ailing son with horrific results.

Night of the Bloody Apes

1969

Film credits

1960s · 18 titles

The Little Priest poster
8.2

Young priest Father Sebastián is assigned to a parish in San Jeronimo el Alto, where he is not welcomed by the community, particularly the resident priest Father Damián. The newcomer gradually earns the trust of the people through humor, but firmly captures their hearts by saving the town fiesta by fighting a bull when the hired torero failed to show. Father Sebastián counsels the townspeople, lecturing them on their duties in a modern society. He used the collection plate to redistribute the town's wealth more evenly.

The Little Priest

1964

Rage poster
5.6

Small-town doctor bitten by rabid dog, races the clock to get to the city and receive treatment.

Rage

1966

Night of the Bloody Apes poster
5.5

A surgeon transplants the heart of an ape into his ailing son with horrific results.

Night of the Bloody Apes

1969

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 Valentina poster
6.4

A smuggler, condemned to be shot, is pardoned in exchange for kidnapping "La Valentina."

La Valentina

1966

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

Las hijas del Amapolo poster
5.3

The story of four charming girls in a small town, trying to hang out with four boys.

Las hijas del Amapolo

1962

El tesoro de Atahualpa poster
5.6

Mexican medical researchers are lost in a plane crash in the Amazon basin, which triggers a whole bunch of adventure-movie subplots.

El tesoro de Atahualpa

1968

Atrás de las nubes poster
5.7

All it says in my notes is "Like 'Juan Sin Miedo', only with soldiers." So... Army officer seeks revenge for... something...

Atrás de las nubes

1962

Black Wind poster
8.0

The building of a railroad under tough conditions from searing heat to freezing cold in the Sonora desert provokes clashes of passion and struggles between the engineers and the workers at the campsite. The workers also contend with sudden dust storms that are called the 'black wind'. Based on true events.

Black Wind

1965

El corrido de María Pistolas poster
6.4

Sequel to Maria Pistolas. Comic-tomgirl member of Villa's army has boy trouble.

El corrido de María Pistolas

1964

Little Red Riding Hood and Tom Thumb vs. the Monsters poster
3.9

The film follows adventures of Little Red Riding Hood (Maria Gracia) and Tom Thumb (Cesaro Quezadas) and their friends, fighting against the wicked Witch Queen (Ofelia Guilmáin) and her band of monsters. The film starts at the meeting of the evil monsters in the castle in the Haunted Forest, heart of the Devil's dominion, during which the Vampire (Quintín Bulnes) accuses the Wolf (Manuel Valdés) and the Ogre (José Elías Moreno) of betraying the Witch Queen (La Reina Bruja, renamed Queen of Badness in the English dub), who orders them to ber executed. Their friend Stinky the Skunk (Santanón) however escapes and informs Little Red Riding Hood and Tom Thumb, who promise to help. Meanwhile, the Queen and her sister the Old Witch cast a terrible curse, turning villagers into monkeys and mice for trying to defy her magic. The rest of the story details the heroes' quest to conquer evil.

Little Red Riding Hood and Tom Thumb vs. the Monsters

1962

Al rojo vivo poster
4.0

Three parallel romances among young people working in a steel mill.

Al rojo vivo

1969

No artwork available
6.6

The underside of Mexico City: street performers, factory workers, a drunk, an old man with civic pride, a pickpocket, and others live and interact in a shantytown near the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe.

The Laughter Of The City

1963

No artwork available
6.4

Three priests resort to desperate long-shots (like quiz-shows) to raise money for their parish.

Los tres mosqueteros de Dios

1967

El centauro Pancho Villa poster
6.7

M/F couple joins the Revolution, but she ends up in bed with Villa.

El centauro Pancho Villa

1967

La marcha a Zacatecas poster
5.8

Villistas, army officers, heirs and heiresses all gather at the home of a recently deceased hacendado. Everybody has an agenda, everybody butts heads in comical ways. Or not so much.

La marcha a Zacatecas

1969

Dos hijos desobedientes poster
6.2

Meddling mom tries to set up her two cowboy sons to marry two sisters who are looking for domesticated, 'indoor' husbands that cook and keep house.

Dos hijos desobedientes

1960

1950s · 23 titles

El Siete Machos poster
8.3

Rosario, the niece of the rancher, returns to the ranch after ten years of absence. She takes in Margarito, a worker at the ranch, who is immediately smitten by her. Rosario is rescued from a runaway horse by the Seven Men, an outlaw a la Robin Hood that steals from the rich and gives to the poor. He also happens to be the twin brother of Margarito, unbeknownst to him. The confusion between Margarito and the Seven Men generates great comical situations in the film.

El Siete Machos

1951

Dos tipos de cuidado poster
8.4

Jorge Bueno and Pedro Malo are best friends who consider giving up their womanizing ways when they each fall in love. As fate would have it, Pedro Malo unexpectedly marries Jorge Bueno's girlfriend, and the conflict between the former buddies begins.

Dos tipos de cuidado

1953

Santa Claus poster
6.8

Pitch, the mean-spirited devil, is trying to ruin Christmas. Santa Claus teams up with Merlin the Magician and the children of the world in order to save the day!

Santa Claus

1959

Tom Thumb poster
7.3

A young boy born extraordinarily small must rescue his older brothers from a wicked ogre.

Tom Thumb

1958

The River and Death poster
6.3

A useless and bloody vendetta has been going on for ages between two families in this Mexican village. Men, sons, have killed each other for generations, for a so-called conception of honor in a revenge that never ends since it is also triggered by people of the village. Now, today, there are only two sons left, one in each family. One has become a doctor in the big city and his culture is modern. The other last one - of the other family - hasn't left the village and is waiting for the doctor to come "home" as he plans to kill him, to settle this war on this matter of honor once and for all. And the people of the village want blood.

The River and Death

1954

La gota de sangre poster
6.5

Did Rodolfo just marry a serial murderess?

La gota de sangre

1950

Doña Perfecta poster
7.0

Liberal farmer Pepe has arrived in Santa Fe to visit his aunt, Dona Perfecta. While he's there, Pepe is eager to teach the traditional-minded townspeople a new way of living. Unfortunately for Pepe the people of Santa Fe aren't eager to embrace change, and when the citizens begin to voice resentment Pepe is forced to seek refuge with his sympathetic aunt. Dona Perfecta is just as traditional as any of the other townspeople though, and only suffers Pepe due to the fact that he is family. When Pepe and his cousin Rosario fall deeply in love, the situation quickly comes to a head.

Doña Perfecta

1951

The Magnificent Beast poster
5.7

Two very good friends become wrestlers to leave poverty behind, but the arrival of an ambitious woman will tragically change their destinies.

The Magnificent Beast

1953

The Three Perfect Wives poster
4.7

Three married couples gather to celebrate the eighteenth anniversary of their marriage mourning the absence of a friend who was best man at all three weddings.

The Three Perfect Wives

1953

La doncella de piedra poster
6.4

Adaptation of Rómulo Gallegos' novel Sobre la misma tierra. A young mixed-race woman is forced to choose between her tribal heritage and her position in white society.

La doncella de piedra

1956

La máscara de carne poster
6.0

Mexican feature film

La máscara de carne

1958

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

Los aventureros poster
6.3

Two brothers and their pops end up helping out an orphaned young woman who wants revenge against her father's murderer.

Los aventureros

1954

Pecado poster
6.7

No synopsis available yet.

Pecado

1951

El sindicato del crimen poster
6.7

A hard-boiled crime story also known as "The Waiting-room of Death".

El sindicato del crimen

1954

Espaldas mojadas poster
6.8

Mexican worker Rafael Améndola runs from the police and cross the Mexican-American border, helped by Frank Mendoza, a partner of an American called Mr. Sterling, who gives work to illegal migrants. Once in the United States, Rafael does not adapt to his new life. English translation of title is “Wet Backs”.

Espaldas mojadas

1955

La mujer que yo amé poster
7.0

A musician is injured and threatened for defending a girl and decides to go to the capital, where fame and success achieved. She is glad to know that he has succeeded, however, has become a street prostitute prone to paralysis. Finally one day he takes courage and decides to look for, since it has become invalid again ...

La mujer que yo amé

1950

El 7 leguas poster
7.9

Horse-trader gets absorbed into Pancho Villa's battalions, becomes a spy.

El 7 leguas

1955

No artwork available
5.8

No synopsis available yet.

Estampida

1959

Una cita de amor poster
6.0

The story of the doomed love between Soledad and Román. She is the daughter of a rich man that wants to marry her with Ernesto, nephew of his friend, the judge. Román owns a little ranch. A brawl in the town will unleash several deaths that will affect the already difficult relationship.

Una cita de amor

1958

Four Against the World poster
6.1

After ambushing a brewery’s money truck, four gangsters hide out in the attic of a gangster’s lover while the police search the city. As the heat closes in, jealousy, desire, and mistrust begin to fracture the gang from within.

Four Against the World

1950

¡… Y murío por nosotros! poster
5.2

No synopsis available yet.

¡… Y murío por nosotros!

1951

1940s · 16 titles

La canción del plateado poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

La canción del plateado

1942

The Three Musketeers poster
7.6

Cantinflas and three friends return a stolen necklace to an actress who invites them to be extras at Clasa studios. While on the set, he falls asleep and dreams that he is d'Artagnan, fighting on behalf of Queen Anne.

The Three Musketeers

1942

Soy un prófugo poster
7.6

A janitor in a large bank is accused of pulling of a major heist. He is forced to become a fugitive while hunting for the real culprits.

Soy un prófugo

1946

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

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 hombre de la máscara de hierro poster
6.2

No synopsis available yet.

El hombre de la máscara de hierro

1943

Virgen de medianoche poster
6.3

A gangster melodrama set in the slums of Mexico City, following the criminal exploits of a fur smuggler and his attraction to an innocent but determined young woman.

Virgen de medianoche

1942

El conde de Montecristo poster
5.6

Based on the famous novel by Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo tells the story of a man who is unjustly imprisoned alongside an old man, who before dying reveals the location of a buried treasure. When the man manages to escape from his miserable cell, he changes his identity, becoming the wealthy Count of Monte Cristo, an identity he uses to take revenge on those who betrayed him and sent him to prison.

El conde de Montecristo

1942

El rey se divierte poster
6.0

Mexican movie

El rey se divierte

1944

The Bewitched House poster
6.1

Magician Fu Manchu must find a way out of a supposed haunted house.

The Bewitched House

1949

Boom in the Moon poster
4.1

An American soldier marooned in Mexico is mistaken for a wife-butchering serial killer.

Boom in the Moon

1946

The Well-paid poster
5.6

Melodrama about marital infidelity.

The Well-paid

1948

El pasajero diez mil poster
6.0

Shipboard romance/comedy between a female executive and a guy with a lot of buttons on his tunic.

El pasajero diez mil

1946

El ahijado de la muerte poster
6.2

Father of a newborn makes a deal with Death to protect his son.

El ahijado de la muerte

1946

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

Aventuras de Cucuruchito y Pinocho poster
5.7

Las aventuras de Cucuruchito y Pinocho was the second color feature film and the first fantasy film for children made in Mexico.

Aventuras de Cucuruchito y Pinocho

1943