
Acting
Joaquín García Vargas
Born — Died
1919-02-17 — 1993-05-13
Place of birth
Morelia, Michoacan, Mexico
Known for
Acting
Credits
60 titles
Known for
7.2A former circus artist escapes from a mental hospital to rejoin his armless, cult leader mother, and is forced to enact brutal murders in her name.
Santa Sangre
1989
8.1It is the story of a sportsman who is a little bit dumber than most people but nevertheless he succeeds in getting a job at a sports article saler's. Having this job is the beginning of a lot of funny problems he causes due to his dumbness.
Up and Down
1956
5.8At the local construction site, love and drama go hand in hand. Action, comedy, drama and sex are all in the mix in this very sexy/comedy starring some of the icons of this "sexy era" of the Mexican cinema.
El día de los albañiles
1982
8.4A poor man becomes a modern Robin Hood, robbing the rich to give to the poor.
The King of the Neighborhood
1950
5.8A former counterfeiter is trying to save his son, but he is pursued by the police and the mafia.
1000 Miles to the South
1978
6.3Anthology film, six little anecdotes about life in the big city.
D.F./Distrito Federal
1981
Film credits
1990s · 1 titles
1980s · 21 titles
7.2A former circus artist escapes from a mental hospital to rejoin his armless, cult leader mother, and is forced to enact brutal murders in her name.
Santa Sangre
1989
5.8At the local construction site, love and drama go hand in hand. Action, comedy, drama and sex are all in the mix in this very sexy/comedy starring some of the icons of this "sexy era" of the Mexican cinema.
El día de los albañiles
1982
6.3Anthology film, six little anecdotes about life in the big city.
D.F./Distrito Federal
1981
3.0The descendants of Baron Frankenstein return to the family castle to search for the family fortune that is supposed to be hidden there.
Frankenstein's Great Aunt Tillie
1984
5.7After winning a bet, Lalo goes on vacation with his two daughters and his best friend, they will try to keep Lalo's daughters away from perverted boys.
Más Buenas que el Pan
1987
5.7Mexican feature film
Los relajos
1989
6.7No synopsis available yet.
Corrupción
1984
4.8A gang of robbers sowing unrest in the city are attempting dislodge the police for a crime kingpin; the band are composed of three women and a business magnate.
Las Perfumadas
1983
4.0Showgirls and troll-dudes mix and mingle for a weekend, musical-beds style, at a fun motel in the middle of nowhere.
Perico el de los palotes
1984
6.2Theatrical promoter deals with temperamental artists and temperamental investors while putting a show together and holding everything together until opening night.
Las piernas del millón
1981
6.0The sexual adventures that take place in the rooms of a luxury hotel.
El sexo me divierte
1988
5.7Mexican feature film
Las noches del Blanquita
1981
5.8Lola finds herself into the world of violence and drug trafficking when her father is murdered for refusing to put his truck to the service of a powerful cartel, with protections at high police levels. Knowing the local officials will not serve out justice, she takes matters into her own hands. Armed with a machine gun, she'll attempt to get revenge by her own hands - but the enemy has more firepower than her.
Lola the Truck Driver
1983
6.0Comical misadventures: lady taxi-driver + doofus policemen.
La ruletera
1987
5.4The engineer José Luis, husband of the fichera and dancer Estrella Raleigh, dies in a plane crash. During the burial, Estrella discovers that her husband was having an affair. It's quickly revealed that things are a bit more complicated than they initially appear.
Sexo contra sexo
1983
4.4Venusita falls in love with the son of a wealthy family whose mother sends her son off to the United States in order to keep the two apart. Not to be rejected so easily, Venusita visits Saurina the sorceress who comes up with a spell that kills off the merchant and zaps the son back home, but Venusita's problems are far from over.
Lovers of the Lord of the Night
1986
Mexican feature film
No le saques, pos no le metas
1989
6.4An old man punishes his son for not having children, so he tells him his inheritance will go to someone else if he doesn't have a child in a year.
Macho Que Ladra No Muerde
1984
No synopsis available yet.
Ah que viejas canciones tan calientes
1985
4.6No synopsis available yet.
Nos reimos de la migra (Destrampados y mojados)
1987
4.7A beautiful woman discovers the rooster fighting world and in the process fall in love with a handsome boy.
Una gallina muy ponedora
1982
1970s · 5 titles
5.8A former counterfeiter is trying to save his son, but he is pursued by the police and the mafia.
1000 Miles to the South
1978
4.7A Mexican sex comedy (fichera)
The Loving Ones
1979
7.9In the city of Aguaprieta, two horses are part of the largest event in the region. The unbeatable horse Moro from the city of Cumpas faces the imposing Zaino de Aguaprieta. Two in a decided race in just 450 rods.
El moro de Cumpas
1977
5.6No synopsis available yet.
El rediezcubrimiento de México
1979
6.5No synopsis available yet.
¡Qué familia tan cotorra!
1973
1960s · 10 titles
5.8A 1968 film.
La ley del gavilán
1968
Two babies are switched in the cradle to gratify wealthy parents' preference for a boy. Nineteen years later, the babies meet...
Cuando el diablo sopla
1966
6.2Half-dozen comic actors in a spooky house.
House of the Frights
1963
6.3Two screwballs get mixed up with monsters, mad scientists and vampires.
Frankenstein, the Vampire and Company
1962
5.8The new Sheriff is framed for a series of stagecoach robberies, but he succeeds in finding the real thieves.
El rayo de Jalisco
1962
6.2Meddling 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
6.3Little cowboy-fella, believed to be an orphan, helps his sheriff buddy to stamp out crime. Second of two in series.
Los amigos Maravilla en el mundo de la aventura
1963
6.3A property owner dies from shock after his opponent tricks him into thinking his land was legally seized.
Pa' qué me sirve la vida
1961
5.5Hired 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
5.8Four expert marksmen compete in a target shooting competition. Each has a back-story that explains why he really really really needs the prize money.
Duelo de pistoleros
1966
1950s · 22 titles
8.1It is the story of a sportsman who is a little bit dumber than most people but nevertheless he succeeds in getting a job at a sports article saler's. Having this job is the beginning of a lot of funny problems he causes due to his dumbness.
Up and Down
1956
8.4A poor man becomes a modern Robin Hood, robbing the rich to give to the poor.
The King of the Neighborhood
1950
6.2Tin-Tan wants to builds an ice cream machine.
Las locuras de Tin Tan
1952
6.4To conquer the beautiful vedette Rosita, journalist Tin Tan is subject to her whims. Fired along with his friend Narciso from the newspaper they worked, Tin Tan trying to sell a movie plot. A woman looking to buy it and Tin Tan will visit her in a gloomy mansion where a mess is unleashed.
Me traes de un ala
1953
6.0In this movie a couple of comedians try to disappear for a while and end up in an asylum, where confused as the mad, and try to escape, but one of them falls in love and that complicates things.
Trip to the Moon
1958
5.8Police detective and his plucky girl-reporter fiancée go after the gang that committed a train robbery.
El misterio del carro express
1953
5.8Cowboy-policeman-hero interferes with the bad guy's plans and prevents his engaging in monkeyshines. Part of the series "Mauricio Rosales, el rayo justiciero."
La guarida del buitre
1958
5.4The good reputation of small-town “Candido” is threatened by the arrival of an impressive charro who is really an agent of Satan. To make things worse, the old mayor & his young son fall for the gorgeous star of the “Cha Cha Cha Club” owned by the “Evil One”.
What A Beautiful Cha Cha Cha
1955
6.0In the "Marquesa boarding house" lives a group of eclectic artists. They're trying to mount an spectacle to earn some money and pay their debt with the owner. At the same time arrives at the house a young car driver with a great voice, and a pretty model and dancer, who could help them and maybe fall in love between each other.
Los huéspedes de La Marquesa
1951
6.5The film is based on real events, from a case investigated by Detective Valente Quintana.
El mensaje de la muerte
1953
7.8Tin Tan just won the lottery and wants to donate it to an orphanage. Sataela and Riverita want to keep the money for themselves. In an attenpt to do so, they convince him of having a terminal disease and suggest that committing suicide is his best option.
Kill Me Because I'm Dying!!!
1951
5.5Fed agent goes undercover as roving cowboy to solve rural crimes. "Mauricio Rosales" Series.
La pantera negra
1957
7.2In 1840 California, The Texmelucan viscount bizco, offers a feast for his son Tin, who returned from Italy where he studied fencing. The boy turns out to be a coward who flees in terror after refusing to fight a duel with Captain Gaspar. In their flight, Tin rescues a witch was tied to a tree. Grateful, the witch gives him an ointment that will make him invincible for an hour. The coward swordsman will have three opportunities to use it and save his father from the injustices of the evil ruler Marcelo.
The Mark of the Skunk
1950
6.2Mischievous little girl pulls a variety of pranks for the purpose of preventing her parents from divorcing.
Angel Face
1956
5.8Spoiled rich kid from a cattle ranch is pretending to study at university so he can hang out in the city and live large... until his family forces him to straighten up his act; he moves back to the ranch, accompanied with some urban-fauna hangers-on,, a-a-a-and...
Fiesta en el corazón
1958
8.3An honest man emigrates to the capital in search of a better life, but ends up mired in extreme poverty along with his family; forced to overcome tragedy and despair to find, even in misery, a glimmer of hope.
A Place Close to Heaven
1952
6.7Sometimes parents make the mistake of loving one child more than the others. Don José places blind trust in his son Pepe, who turns out to be the one committing the most serious faults within the family, while Raymundo is the one who pays for them. Remake of Cuando los hijos se van (1941).
Every Child a Cross to Bear
1957
6.7Sequel to Alla en el Rancho Grande, twenty years later -- sons and daughters of the original characters go through a courtship melodrama of their own.
Los hijos de Rancho Grande
1956
6.8Two rodeo competitors from neighboring towns get all up in each other's business in the weeks before a big local competition. So do their respective manservants and the priests for each one's parish. Lotta competitive ructiousness going on.
Tan bueno el giro como el colorado
1959
6.2Two itinerant cowhands hire on at a ranch owned by a woman, end up fighting two bad-hats who rustle la patrona's cattle and set fire to her stables.
Here are the eagles!
1957
6.7Spoofy south-sea adventure, mostly about the hot babes.
La isla de las mujeres
1953
5.8Federal agent Mauricio Rosales goes undercover as itinerant cowpoke to clean up corruption in a remote Northern town. Series western.
La huella del chacal
1956


