
Acting
Jorge Russek
Born — Died
1932-01-05 — 1998-07-30
Place of birth
Guaymas, Sonora, Mexico
Known for
Acting
Credits
67 titles
Known for
6.8The High Chaparral is an American Western-themed television series starring Leif Erickson and Cameron Mitchell which aired on NBC from 1967 to 1971. The series, made by Xanadu Productions in association with NBC Productions, was created by David Dortort, who had previously created the hit Bonanza for the network. The theme song was also written and conducted by Bonanza scorer David Rose, who also scored the two-hour pilot.
The High Chaparral
1967
6.4After capturing the notorious drug lord Franz Sanchez, Bond's close friend and former CIA agent Felix Leiter is left for dead and his wife is murdered. Bond goes rogue and seeks vengeance on those responsible, as he infiltrates Sanchez's organization from the inside.
Licence to Kill
1989
7.2Pat Garrett is hired as a lawman on behalf of a group of wealthy New Mexico cattle barons to bring down his old friend Billy the Kid.
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
1973
8.0Pueblo chico, infierno grande is a Mexican historical telenovela produced by José Alberto Castro for Televisa and originally broadcast on Canal de las Estrellas from January 6 to August 1, 1997. Created by Javier Ruán and adapted by Javier Ruán, Mario Hernández, and Sergio Schmucler, the telenovela is based on a true story about Leonarda Ruán. It stars Verónica Castro, Juan Soler, and Guillermo Capetillo. The story is set in the late 19th century and follows Leonarda Ruán, a wealthy widow from the town of Nahuatzen who falls in love with Genaro Onchi, a young man from a humble background. Their relationship faces strong opposition from society, family conflicts, jealousy, and the return of people from Leonarda's past who try to separate them. As secrets and rivalries emerge, Leonarda and Genaro fight to protect their love against the judgment and traditions of their small town.
Pueblo chico, infierno grande
1997
7.6An aging group of outlaws look for one last big score as the "traditional" American West is disappearing around them.
The Wild Bunch
1969
7.0Huracán is a Mexican telenovela shown in Mexico from October 13, 1997 to March 27, 1998, starring with the late Jorge Russek, Fernando Balzaretti, and Eduardo Palomo.
Hurricane
1997
Film credits
1990s · 9 titles
5.6The daughter of a wealthy businessman has disappeared in Mexico, and all the efforts to find her have been unsuccessful. A psychologist, knowing that the girl has an ultra bad luck, persuades her father to send to Mexico one of his employees, an accountant with super bad luck, to find her. Perhaps he will be lucky, and his bad luck could help to find the unlucky girl.
Pure Luck
1991
6.4A naïve rookie in the Mexican highway patrol must adapt in order to survive as he contends with widespread corruption, dangerous drug runners and the consequences of his often morally gray actions.
Highway Patrolman
1991
5.0No synopsis available yet.
Escuadrón salvaje
1990
5.1Old Max remembers the time as a child when he was taken to the jungle where he met a prophet, a circus man and other weird characters.
Amber
1994
5.0In an underclass neighborhood of Mexico City, a place where a unique troupe features a circus act, led by Don Ramón, he and his wife Petra have to take care of the daughter of a neighbor who has been jailed for drug trafficking. Petra decides that the girl must earn a living, entrusting her several domestic tasks; while befriending Pepito, who works as a clown on the street. Things get complicated when someone with satanic tendencies arrives to Ramon's house, and the visitor develops an interest on Petra. A fight between the three adults causes that the little girl suffers a fatal accident, so the solution will be to use her meat for the tamales sold by Petra.
The Food of Fear
1994
4.6Two police officers investigate the case of the women from a brothel who died of pleasure. Their investigations will guide them to the real culprits.
Pecado original
1991
8.8The history of Los Bukis, from its humble beginning to its successful tour, going through problems and intrigues.
How Did I Come to Fall in Love With You?
1990
7.3No synopsis available yet.
La Chilindrina en apuros
1994
5.0No synopsis available yet.
El repartidor de pensamientos
1996
1980s · 14 titles
6.4After capturing the notorious drug lord Franz Sanchez, Bond's close friend and former CIA agent Felix Leiter is left for dead and his wife is murdered. Bond goes rogue and seeks vengeance on those responsible, as he infiltrates Sanchez's organization from the inside.
Licence to Kill
1989
5.8Set in a small politically unstable Latin American country, the story follows the half English and half Latino Dr. Eduardo Plarr, who left his home to find a better life. Along the way he meets an array of people, including British Consul Charley Fortnum, a representative in Latin America who is trying to keep Revolution from occurring. He is also a remorseful alcoholic. Another person the doctor meets is Clara, whom he immediately falls in love with, but there is a problem: Clara is Charley's wife.
The Honorary Consul
1983
6.0In 19th century Mexico, legendary swordsman Zorro has passed on his weapon and his sense of duty to his noble son, Diego, a dashing swashbuckler like his father. But after an injury sidelines Diego, he is forced to hand the mask over to his twin, Ramon.
Zorro, The Gay Blade
1981
7.2Based on the real-life experiences of Ed Horman. A conservative American businessman travels to Chile to investigate the sudden disappearance of his son after a military takeover. Accompanied by his son's wife he uncovers a trail of cover-ups that implicate the US State department which supports the dictatorship.
Missing
1982
7.1When 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
5.4Giff Hoyt, a cafe owner in Cabo Blanco, Peru after World War II is caught between refuge-seeking Nazis and their enemies. After the murder of a sea explorer is passed off as accidental death by the corrupt local police, Giff becomes suspicious. The police chief also intimidates a new arrival Marie, and Giff intervenes to help her. Giff suspects Beckdorff, a Nazi refugee living in the area. Beckdorff, it emerges, is seeking to uncover sunken treasure.
Caboblanco
1980
4.9Ben, a former Navy officer now works on a rig as the guy in charge, but since a lot of crew keeps dying whilst diving and planting the rig in the sea he needs men who are willing to take the risk. He gets in touch with an old friend from the Navy who works in a prison as sort of an diving training base and there Ben selects out the best to complete the task, but with superiors breathing down his neck, a camera crew now jumping on board and a deadline to meet he wants to finish the job and make sure the men stay alive, but not all things work out as he plans.
Oceans of Fire
1986
3.7A cop goes undercover as a mobster and gets a plumber involved in his mess. Meanwhile, a producer falls in love with a drag queen that isn't what she seems to be...
Los plomeros y las ficheras
1988
4.8A pharmaceutical salesman travels around the country and has sexual adventures in every place, but no woman really interests him. When returning from one of his travels, he is hit by a car and falls in love with the driver, but none of his tactics of conquest get results. Written by Anonymous
Memorias de un Visitador Médico
1980
4.6Jean and Roger decide to divorce after 10 years, but 12 hours later, they're together again by accident. Their cars collide, swerving to miss Juan, the jaywalking jewel thief who decides to cash in on the crash. The ex-couple are kidnapped, shot at, cast adrift, mistaken for smugglers and even survive a plane crash. But the toughest torture these two endure is being trapped together.
Miracles
1986
6.0Three related women have summer romances in this drama. The first has recently been deserted by her husband. When an old college beau shows up, sparks fly. Meanwhile her sister is wrestling with a rock star. And finally her daughter goes abroad and gets involved with a non-English speaking young man.
Pleasures
1986
6.3The relationship between a nephew and his aunt in the begining of Mexico's 20th century.
Vieja moralidad
1988
5.6Young man becomes a professional gambler to track down the cardshark that killed his father in a poker game.
El rey de los tahures
1980
6.7No synopsis available yet.
Encuentro con la muerte
1984
1970s · 22 titles
7.2Pat Garrett is hired as a lawman on behalf of a group of wealthy New Mexico cattle barons to bring down his old friend Billy the Kid.
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
1973
6.3Trucker Rubber Duck and his buddies Pig Pen, Widow Woman and Spider Mike use their CB radios to warn one another of the presence of cops. But conniving Sheriff Wallace is hip to the truckers' tactics, and begins tricking the drivers through his own CB broadcasts. Facing constant harassment from the law, Rubber Duck and his pals use their radios to coordinate a vast convoy and rule the road.
Convoy
1978
6.8After a cavalry group is massacred by the Cheyenne, only two survivors remain: Honus, a naive private devoted to his duty, and Cresta, a young woman who had lived with the Cheyenne two years and whose sympathies lie more with them than with the US government. Together, they must try to reach the cavalry's main base camp. As they travel onward, Honus is torn between his growing affection for Cresta.
Soldier Blue
1970
7.1An American bartender and his prostitute girlfriend go on a road trip through the Mexican underworld to collect a $1 million bounty on the head of a dead gigolo.
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
1974
6.8An aging Texas cattle man who has outlived his time swings into action when outlaws kidnap his grandson.
Big Jake
1971
5.4Two men, an aging Native American and a ne'er-do-well trapper from North America, race to claim the stallion Eagle's Wing in antebellum Mexico, meeting marauded stagecoach travelers and garrisoned Mexicans along the way.
Eagle's Wing
1979
5.2Lured to a demented playboy's secluded castle for a romantic evening, unsuspecting women become dinner for his 1000 cats.
The Night of a Thousand Cats
1972
5.7Lord John Morgan has returned to civilized life in England, but finds he has nothing but disdain for that life. Yearning to embrace the simplicity of the American West, and the Sioux tribe he left behind, Morgan returns to the their land only to discover that they've been decimated by ruthless, government-backed fur traders. Led by Horse, they fight to repossess their land.
The Return of a Man Called Horse
1976
5.5Set in the 1920s, several foreigners held by a South American military group are offered possible freedom if they accept to topple a local crazed military leader.
The Wrath of God
1972
5.2Also known as Santo vs. the She-Wolves
Santo vs. the She-Wolves
1976
7.2The De La Vega's are a wealthy and prestigious family known throughout the territory. When Diego, the youngest son of Don Alejandro de La Vega, returns from his 4 year stay in Spain, he finds him hometown oppressed by the corrupt military forces. The farmers are being run out of their homes and their land is being used as military camps and/or sold off to pay for military supplies and wages, along with taking the poor villagers and using them as slaves. So Diego/Zorro has multiple face offs with the local military and swears to restore order and freedom to the oppressed.
The Great Adventure of Zorro
1976
5.7Librado, an unemployed man, lives in a crowded small house with numerous children and relatives, is beaten for stealing a car antenna. His godmother and her children try to settle in his place. She then is arrested at a supermarket for stealing, however, she offers herself and volunteers a friend of hers for sex to the policemen so she can be released. She is a maid of an employee who acts subservient to his boss, a mid-level government employee at once servile who delivers speeches on sexuality in educational texts and then discusses the matter with his brother, a corrupt inspector.
Mexico, Mexico, ra, ra, ra!
1976
4.3In 1909, former judge Cristóbal Zamarripa owns Valle Nacional, a tobacco plantation where he exploits workers with the support of the tyrant Porfirio Díaz, who sends him political prisoners as slaves. The others are lured with the promise of high wages, but end up owing everything to the company store. All are tortured, raped, or killed when they protest. Another landowner whose brother was killed by Zamarripa and who falls in love with one of his daughters is going to be punished, but he flees and becomes a revolutionary.
El valle de los miserables
1975
7.4Juan returns home to Mexico after working in the USA for awhile, and gets caught up in cowboy problems among his townsfolk.
Juan Armenta El Repatriado
1976
5.8A woman is sent to Mexico to kill the person who presumptly killed her father.
Someone Wants to Kill Us!
1970
5.8A woman is sent to Mexico to kill the person who presumptly killed her father.
Someone Wants to Kill Us!
1970
6.2Innocent women are being kidnapped and used as guinea pigs for a brain transplant experiment. The diabolical Dr. Frankenstein continues his quest to perfect his brain transplant operation to bring back his deceased wife at any cost - even if it means playing with the lives of others. El Santo and Blue Demon are called in to help when their friend Alicia becomes Dr. Frankenstein's next target. It'll take both heroes to go up against the dastardly doctor and go mano a mano with his super strong zombie Golem.
Santo and Blue Demon vs. Dr. Frankenstein
1974
6.2Directed by René Cardona, and written by René Cardona Jr., «El Pequeño Robin Hood» is a 1975 Adventure/Comedy/Drama/Family film . René Cardona III and Patricia Aspíllaga are starring, alongside René Cardona, Arturo Cobo, Jorge Russek and Alfredo Wally Barrón.
El pequeño Robin Hood
1975
5.8Boy adopts an orphaned mountain lion and they grow up together. Fifteen years later, local farmers decid theey don't like having that critter around their livestock, and things go south real fast.
Tigre
1979
6.3Analytical view of one of the least reported conflicts of national cinema: the Cristero movement that developed in the regions of western Mexico between 1926 and 1929, highlighting the inability to be faithful to both the Church and the State.
Anyway, Juan is Your Name
1976
6.5A woman hires four gunmen, Trinidad, Doc, Satan and The Renegade to rob a bank, but things don't work out as planned.
Su precio... unos dólares
1970
6.6Crime-y land-owner declares war on the family at the ranch next door for not having joined with him in his illegal enterprises.
Dinastía de la muerte
1977
1960s · 15 titles
7.6An aging group of outlaws look for one last big score as the "traditional" American West is disappearing around them.
The Wild Bunch
1969
7.0Leon Alastray is an outlaw who has been given sanctuary by Father John, whom he then escorts to the village of San Sebastian. The village is deserted, with its cowardly residents hiding in the hills from Indians, who regularly attack the village and steal all their supplies. When Father John is murdered, the villagers mistakenly think the outlaw is the priest. Alastray at first tells them he is not a priest, but they don't believe it, and an apparent miracle seems to prove they are correct. Eventually, he assists them in regaining their confidence and defending themselves.
Guns for San Sebastian
1967
6.5Marshal Wyatt Earp kills a couple of men of the Clanton-gang in a fight. In revenge Clanton's thugs kill the marshal's brother. Thus, Wyatt Earp starts to chase the killers together with his friend Doc Holliday.
Hour of the Gun
1967
8.2Young 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
7.3Immediate delivery recounts the misadventures of Feliciano Callosum (Cantinflas), a postman who is recruited by the secret counterintelligence service (called XU-777 secret agency), and must uncover an international conspiracy.
Entrega Inmediata
1963
5.8A 1968 film.
La ley del gavilán
1968
7.2When his mother Dolores dies, Juan Preciado, son of Pedro Páramo, goes to Comala to claim his inheritance; but when he arrives he finds an abandoned and sinister place, inhabited by mysterious voices and whispers…
Pedro Paramo
1967
6.3Local rowdies roll a drunk and get away with his life savings. Felipe Reyes El Justiciero rides into town on his faithful sidekick Macario and sets things aright.
La maldición del oro
1965
7.7No synopsis available yet.
¡En peligro de muerte!
1962
6.0Gabino's son tries to find out why his father was murdered.
El Hijo De Gabino Barrera
1965
8.3A woman who is about to die calls the town's priest and hands him a scapulary, saying that she knows of its great powers. Anybody who does not believe in them will end up dead.
The Scapular
1968
5.5Man tracks down the five people responsible for killing his father. Semi-sorta sequel to Juan Sin Miedo (1964).
El tigre de Guanajuato: Leyenda de venganza
1965
6.2A man hated by his father and in love with a beautiful woman whose brothers do not approve of the relationship and persecute him.
¡Ay, Jalisco no te rajes!
1965
5.0One of Zapata's field marshals runs afoul of dictator Huerta's stooges in his home town.
Lauro Puñales
1969
6.7Wandering cowboy hero with sidekick helps a young woman solve a murder and find a hidden treasure.
La banda del fantasma negro
1964
Series credits
6.8The High Chaparral is an American Western-themed television series starring Leif Erickson and Cameron Mitchell which aired on NBC from 1967 to 1971. The series, made by Xanadu Productions in association with NBC Productions, was created by David Dortort, who had previously created the hit Bonanza for the network. The theme song was also written and conducted by Bonanza scorer David Rose, who also scored the two-hour pilot.
The High Chaparral
1967
6.8The High Chaparral is an American Western-themed television series starring Leif Erickson and Cameron Mitchell which aired on NBC from 1967 to 1971. The series, made by Xanadu Productions in association with NBC Productions, was created by David Dortort, who had previously created the hit Bonanza for the network. The theme song was also written and conducted by Bonanza scorer David Rose, who also scored the two-hour pilot.
The High Chaparral
1967
8.0Pueblo chico, infierno grande is a Mexican historical telenovela produced by José Alberto Castro for Televisa and originally broadcast on Canal de las Estrellas from January 6 to August 1, 1997. Created by Javier Ruán and adapted by Javier Ruán, Mario Hernández, and Sergio Schmucler, the telenovela is based on a true story about Leonarda Ruán. It stars Verónica Castro, Juan Soler, and Guillermo Capetillo. The story is set in the late 19th century and follows Leonarda Ruán, a wealthy widow from the town of Nahuatzen who falls in love with Genaro Onchi, a young man from a humble background. Their relationship faces strong opposition from society, family conflicts, jealousy, and the return of people from Leonarda's past who try to separate them. As secrets and rivalries emerge, Leonarda and Genaro fight to protect their love against the judgment and traditions of their small town.
Pueblo chico, infierno grande
1997
7.0Huracán is a Mexican telenovela shown in Mexico from October 13, 1997 to March 27, 1998, starring with the late Jorge Russek, Fernando Balzaretti, and Eduardo Palomo.
Hurricane
1997
6.9Cañaveral de Pasiones is a Mexican telenovela produced by Christian Bach and Humberto Zurita for Televisa and originally broadcast on Canal de las Estrellas from April 22 to September 3, 1996. It is based on the stories Una sombra entre los dos and Al pie del altar by Caridad Bravo Adams, adapted for television by María del Carmen Peña and José Cuauhtémoc Blanco. The story follows Julia Santos and Pablo Montero, two childhood friends whose lives are torn apart by a tragedy that sparks hatred between their families. Years later, Pablo returns to his hometown engaged to another woman, only to realize that he still loves Julia. As they struggle to rekindle their romance, they must confront family rivalries, dark secrets, jealousy, and betrayal that threaten to keep them apart forever.
Cañaveral de Pasiones
1996
8.5No synopsis available yet.
El rincón de los prodigios
1987
9.0Días sin luna is a 1990 Mexican telenovela produced by Juan Osorio and directed by Rafael Banquells based on an original script by Eric Vonn. It was aired in Canal de las Estrellas Monday to Friday at 17:00 between May 14 and August 31, 1990.
Días sin luna
1990
