Roberto G. Rivera

Acting

Roberto G. Rivera

Born 1927-04-01 · Mexico City, Mexico

Roberto Gutiérrez Rivera (April 1st, 1927 - June 11th, 2016), better known simply as Roberto G. Rivera, was a Mexican actor, singer, producer, story writer, screenwriter, and film director. He began his artistic career as a singer in 1945 after winning a contest, and by 1950 he was performing ranchera music on television programs such as Noches Tapatías, Así es mi Tierra, and Estudio Raleigh on XEWTV’s Canal 2. He studied medicine for a little over a year at UNAM before leaving to enter cinema full-time, debuting as an actor in 1946 in El yugo (dir. Víctor Urruchúa). Over his career he acted in 102 films alongside major stars including Jorge Negrete, Pedro Infante, and Tito Guízar; he also wrote for 20 films and produced 60. In 1959 he received his first opportunity as a leading man and writer with Ferias de México (dir. Rafael Portillo), and produced La ley de las pistolas and Pistolas invencibles (both dir. Benito Alazraki). After a long hiatus, he directed the short film Los marginados (1972), portraying harsh realities of social poverty in Monterrey. In 1981 he produced and directed his first feature film, El Milusos, based on a story by Ricardo Garibay; the film earned him the El Heraldo award for Best Debut (Ópera Prima) in 1984 and a special prize at the Karlovy Vary festival that same year, and it was later recognized by the national film industry as a major box-office success. He went on to direct Las glorias del gran Púas (1982), El Milusos 2 (1983), and his last 35mm feature ¿La tierra prometida? / La dulce esperanza (1985), which won a top prize at the Tashkent international festival and received second place at Karlovy Vary in 1986; in the 1990s he returned to directing with several videohome productions. Separately, he received a gold medal in 1964 from the National Association of Actors for his promotion of Mexican culture abroad, an initiative attributed to President Adolfo López Mateos.

Acting credits

The Vampire and Sex poster
8.0

El vampire y el sexy (or Santo in the Treasure of Dracula in its censored version) is a 1968 Mexican film starring El Santo and directed by René Cardona. ​The Vampire and Sex was filmed as the adult version of Santo in the Treasure of Dracula. While the censored family version was distributed in 1969, the uncensored version was not shown to the public until 2011 when it was discovered.

The Vampire and Sex

1969

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5.4

A musical comedy about a group of pretty girls who meet in Mexico and decide to break into showbiz and make a pact and promise not to get involved with men. But they all are in love with different guys and that complicates things.

Póker de reinas

1960

Frontera norte poster
6.0

Two brothers: one's a cop, one's a gangster.

Frontera norte

1953

Arrabalera poster
5.4

Working-class girl marries rich playboy, gets implicated in his criminal activities.

Arrabalera

1951

Mexico, Mexico, ra, ra, ra! poster
5.7

Librado, 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

Gitana Tenias Que Ser poster
7.7

Pastora de los Reyes is a beautiful Spanish that goes to Mexico with a contract to film a movie. The main actors will receive her at the airport, among them is Paul, a little-known mariachi that has been chosen to become a new idol. Automatically, both had bad relations and during filming many discussions happens. This arguments gives way to a deep love.

Gitana Tenias Que Ser

1953

Santo in the Treasure of Dracula poster
6.1

A woman travels to her past life with the help of Santo's past life regression machine

Santo in the Treasure of Dracula

1969

The Illegitimate poster
4.5

Family melodrama: manipulative parents ruin lives with their meddling.

The Illegitimate

1956

Solamente una vez poster
5.0

A couple suffers through slander and jealousy to maintain their love for one another.

Solamente una vez

1954

Muñecas de medianoche poster
5.2

Two young men go into hiding to escape from a contract killer; they put on women's clothing and hang around in bars.

Muñecas de medianoche

1979

The Gunslingers poster
5.7

The Jiménez brothers and their allies lead an operation to combat a gang of criminals who have the region under a regime of terror. The bloody confrontations begin to produce the first fatalities.

The Gunslingers

1962

Untouched poster
6.9

With the purpose of using barbasco roots in the production of cortisone, a pharmaceutical company sends a scientist to investigate the possibilities of exploitation in Veracruz, but the man gets lost in the jungle and lives a strange romantic adventure in a remote location called Paradise.

Untouched

1954

Las Tentadoras poster
4.6

The female employees at a nightclub go on a strike.

Las Tentadoras

1980

School for Buglars poster
7.7

The police plan to capture a killer by using a double that looks exactly as one of his victims.

School for Buglars

1958

The New Invisible Man poster
5.6

A man is sentenced to prison for a murder he did not commit. Thanks to a serum invented by his brother, he manages to become invisible and escape from prison in order to prove his innocence, while his brother works feverishly to find an antidote. Theatrically released in USA in Spanish language only; later English-dubbed version syndicated directly to television.

The New Invisible Man

1958

Los tres alegres compadres poster
6.2

Father and two sons raise hell at the county fair.

Los tres alegres compadres

1952

Amor a balazo limpio poster
5.5

Hired gunman tries and fails to kill The Sheriff. Then the gunman's kid brother coms to town, thinking The Sheriff is to blame for the gunman's death.

Amor a balazo limpio

1961

Peligros de juventud poster
5.4

Each of the boys and girls at the coffee shop has something snarled in their love life.

Peligros de juventud

1960

El vestido de novia poster
6.2

A young professional hires a sex-worker to pass as his wife in a situation that requires him to seem married. Later they think about getting married for reals... but mostly they just recite monologues to each other.

El vestido de novia

1959

La noche es nuestra poster
5.8

Journalist meets an unforgettable woman, tracks her down and discovers all her tragic past.

La noche es nuestra

1952

El mil amores poster
7.6

Carmen has a daughter, Patricia, who attends a school for young ladies where they think Carmen is married to a sailor. Viviano is a friend of Carmen and when she needs it, he poses as the father of Patricia and she believes is her father. Actually, Viviano is engaged with Marilu

El mil amores

1954

Secreto profesional poster
6.0

A film that tells how a woman who suffered blackmail her entire life kills a man. Her lawyer falls in love with her and does everything possible to uncover the truth, even though it is a professional secret that will make him lose everything.

Secreto profesional

1955

Frankenstein, the Vampire and Company poster
6.3

Two screwballs get mixed up with monsters, mad scientists and vampires.

Frankenstein, the Vampire and Company

1962

Nuevo amanecer poster
5.7

Mexican feature film

Nuevo amanecer

1954

Behind the camera