Joaquín Cordero

Acting

Joaquín Cordero

Born — Died

1923-08-16 — 2013-02-19

Place of birth

Puebla, Mexico

Known for

Acting

Credits

80 titles

Joaquín Cordero (August 16, 1923 – February 19, 2013) was a Mexican actor of the cinema, theatre and telenovelas. Shortly after his birth, Cordero’s family moved to Mexico City, and in the following years he studied in a seminary and even considered becoming a priest, but eventually he decided to pursue a law career. After three years of law classes, against his family’s wishes he decided to become an actor. He initially appeared in small roles but by his early fifties he was getting much larger roles. Eventually he became one of the most popular actors in Mexican cinema. Cordero also shown appeared in theatre and on television and in the latter medium in numerous telenovelas and winning…

Known for

Burning for Revenge poster
7.5

Fuego en la sangre is a telenovela that began transmissions on January 21, 2008, through Mexico's Canal de las Estrellas network. Starring Adela Noriega, Eduardo Yáñez, Diana Bracho, and Guillermo García Cantú. It is the Mexican remake of the Colombian soap operas Las Aguas Mansas and Pasion de Gavilanes. The theme song called "Para Siempre" is sung by Vicente Fernández. The telenovela received TVyNovelas Award for Best Telenovela, in 2009.

Burning for Revenge

2008

Little Angel Face poster
7.8

Dulce María is like her name, a sweet 5-year-old girl, full of joy and good feelings. With the death of his mother, his father, Luciano Larios, sinks into depression and pain, and decides to distance himself from everything and everyone. He admits Dulce María to the "Queen of America" ​​nuns' school and goes abroad, leaving her in the care of her brother Gabriel, who is a priest. The only visit the girl receives is from her beloved Aunt Estefanía, whom she affectionately calls "Aunt Wigs" because instead of showing her hair, she wears colored wigs that match her clothes.

Little Angel Face

2000

¡Vivan los niños! poster
7.8

¡Vivan los niños! is a Mexican telenovela for children that premiered in 2002. It ran for 155 episodes and finished in 2003. The opening, Vivan los niños, was recorded by the Latin pop group OV7. One of its closing themes, also entitled Vivan los niños, was performed by Cuban-American singer and songwriter Ana Cristina. The show is a version of the Argentinian telenovela "Jacinta Pichimahuida, la maestra que no se olvida". The series starred Andrea Legarreta as 2nd grade teacher Lupita Gómez. After the series ended, Andrea became the long-time host of the morning talk show Hoy. On July 12, 2012, in celebration of Andrea's birthday, the producers of Hoy reunited her with the young actors who played her students on the series.

¡Vivan los niños!

2002

Mi Destino Eres Tú poster
7.6

Mi destino eres tú is a 2000 Mexican telenovela. It is a production of Carla Estrada and the protagonists were Lucero and Jorge Salinas.

Mi Destino Eres Tú

2000

Un rostro en mi pasado poster
5.0

No synopsis available yet.

Un rostro en mi pasado

1989

La Madrastra poster
8.1

After twenty years, María obtains her freedom and returns to Mexico to find Patricia's real murderer. She marries Esteban, her husband, again to regain the affection of her children, who reject her for being their stepmother.

La Madrastra

2005

Film credits

1960s · 32 titles

Dr. Satan vs. Black Magic poster
6.1

Plutarco Satan returns, this time he's pitted against a rival evil organization intent on owning the very formula rumored to turn any metal into gold! Dr. Satan must go toe to toe with the vampiric black magician Yei Lin, in order to keep it out of their hands. The cost of failure? His eternal rest!

Dr. Satan vs. Black Magic

1968

Estrategia matrimonio poster
7.2

Pragmatic young woman plots out her flirtations with five rich, eligible bachelors to play to the weaknesses of each one. Then she has to pick one for keeps.

Estrategia matrimonio

1967

Wrestling Women vs. the Killer Robot poster
5.6

A lady wrestler and her boyfriend, a policeman, battle a mad scientist who has developed a murderous killer robot and uses it to kidnap wealthy people.

Wrestling Women vs. the Killer Robot

1969

No artwork available
NR

Billionaire Mauricio Brandy picks up two stranded models after a car crash and begins a risky triangle, as his doctor warns his excesses could kill him.

The Dilemma

1969

The Book of Stone poster
7.8

Julia, a governess, comes to work for a bourgeois family that lives in a forested property they have recently bought. Julia is to take care of a little girl named Silvia, whose unusual demeanor may find its roots in the family garden.

The Book of Stone

1969

Las tapatías nunca pierden poster
5.6

An heiress and some friends pose as gypsies to fight back against some bad-hats who are squatting on her new estate.

Las tapatías nunca pierden

1965

Santo vs. Infernal Men poster
4.3

Agent Joaquin recalls his latest mission while lying wounded in an ambulance: Joaquin has infiltrated into a band of smugglers. When the villains learn the truth about him, they kidnap Jouqin's fiancee. Santo comes to her rescue and fights the band.

Santo vs. Infernal Men

1961

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

Orlak, the Hell of Frankenstein poster
7.1

A mad scientist creates a remote-controlled monster and sends it to terrorize the city.

Orlak, the Hell of Frankenstein

1960

Patsy My Love poster
5.3

Written by future Nobel-prize winner Gabriel García Márquez, this is the story of Patsy, a wealthy debutante with an acute sense of living and boundless curiosity. She falls in love with an older man (Julio Alemán) whom is married and mediocre, and thus learns the hard way about unhappiness, marring her rose colored world.

Patsy My Love

1969

Dr. Satan poster
5.4

Dr. Satan, a mad scientist and sorceror, plans to take over the world. In order to do so, he wakes up three zombie slaves from the dead and attempts to make a deal with the devil. He sends his zombie servants to do harm to anyone who stands in his way. Will anyone be able to stop him?

Dr. Satan

1966

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

Un novio para dos hermanas poster
7.5

Pili and uncle Angel travel to Mexico to see Mili dancing at her debut in a theater in the capital. When Mili finds out the bad economic situation of her uncle, she decides to seek work. Meanwhile, Pili works in a department store and meets Rodolfo, the grandson of Mrs. Caceres, owner of the store, which she takes for the chauffeur of the lady. In turn, Ms. Caceres hires Mili to dance at her party, where she meets and falls for Rodolfo. Rodolfo, who does not know of the existence of a twin sister, is convinced that the girl in the party is Pili. And the sisters do not know they are in love with the same man, which will lead to an unexpected conflict.

Un novio para dos hermanas

1967

Asesinos de la lucha libre poster
5.3

Cowboy sheriff investigates the murder of a crooked lucha-libre promoter.

Asesinos de la lucha libre

1962

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

Santo vs. Evil Brain poster
5.3

In his first film El Santo was still referred to as ‘El Enmascarado’. Rendered compliant by a scientist and his gangsters via a serum and mysterious rays, he is forced for the opening act to be a henchman for the evil forces who want to take over the world. The film has great historic value, due also to its impressive exterior shots of pre-revolutionary Cuba 1959.

Santo vs. Evil Brain

1961

Los hombres de Lupe Alvírez poster
5.8

Three bad dudes are each hot for Lupe. They kill a guy while committing some crimes together, and that guy's brother goes gunning for them. Eventually, he meets Lupe; she helps him track down the killers and a thing develops between them.

Los hombres de Lupe Alvírez

1967

The Terrible Giant of the Snow poster
6.0

A man and his wife discover they are in danger when they hear reports of a Yeti that lives on a nearby volcano is on the prowl.

The Terrible Giant of the Snow

1963

El tesoro de Chucho el Roto poster
6.7

A notorious bandit dies and adventurers try to track down his hidden loot.

El tesoro de Chucho el Roto

1960

Suerte Te De Dios poster
5.8

Two construction workers discover a stash of gold coins hidden in the walls of a building they're demolishing.

Suerte Te De Dios

1961

100 Cries of Terror poster
5.2

A husband and his lover hatch a plan to murder his wife, and a woman is buried alive in a mausoleum.

100 Cries of Terror

1965

Esta noche no poster
6.3

Mexican feature film

Esta noche no

1966

El río de las ánimas poster
5.4

Traveling lawman comes to town and schools the residents in collective farming practices. There's also a bad guy with a lot of money who's cut off the water supply to the area's farmers, and the soul of a murder victim that manifests as a flying fireball.

El río de las ánimas

1964

¡Qué bonito amor! poster
5.8

Bride backs out of her wedding at the last possible minute; she and her fiance get caught up in a power-struggle that ends with both running for mayor.

¡Qué bonito amor!

1960

¡Que padre tan padre! poster
5.7

Two feuding families are affecting the quality of life in a small town. The Church wants to intervene, but the local Priest is sorta helpless, so he brings in a younger, more aggressive, gitterdone Priest to attack the problem.

¡Que padre tan padre!

1961

Campeón del barrio poster
6.0

A young man eagerly prepares for triumph as a boxer in a neighborhood gym with the firm intention of escaping poverty to marry his girlfriend, who sings in a nightclub.

Campeón del barrio

1964

Los tres calaveras poster
6.2

A Mexican music trío go through friendships and hardships in order to be famous and travel to Spain.

Los tres calaveras

1965

Los amores de Marieta (los fabulosos 20s) poster
6.0

Young woman and her godfather make up a story about her past in order to trick a suitor into marrying her. Then she becomes a musical comedy star and Mexican Revolution.

Los amores de Marieta (los fabulosos 20s)

1964

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

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

Seis días para morir poster
6.7

Public health thriller: rabies in Mexico City.

Seis días para morir

1967

1950s · 15 titles

A Woman Without Love poster
5.5

After indulging in an affair with a man (a friend of the family) she truly loves, a woman returns to her young son and husband for good, and loses contact with the man. Her husband is unaware of the affair. Twenty years later, there is news that the friend has died and left all of his money to the younger son in the family, which leads us to question this younger son's biological origin.

A Woman Without Love

1952

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

El gran mentiroso poster
4.4

A married man's double life unravels when his city acquaintance encounters his daughter back home, threatening to expose fifteen years of deception about his frequent urban getaways.

El gran mentiroso

1953

Arrabalera poster
5.4

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

Arrabalera

1951

El derecho a la vida poster
6.7

Four interlocking stories about pregnancy all intersecting in an obstetrician's office.

El derecho a la vida

1959

Pepe El Toro poster
6.5

The simple life and the values ​​of loyalty and solidarity of the poor people in the environment of professional boxing, is the plot of this film, where Pepe el Toro shows the effort and tragedies that are experienced in this profession.

Pepe El Toro

1953

Land of Men poster
7.2

On his family's farm, Gilberto keeps weapons to support the revolutionaries. When his father find out, he runs out from the hacienda to join them.

Land of Men

1959

Fugitivos: Pueblo de proscritos poster
5.3

After breaking out of jail, a group of convicts finds a ghost town they can take possession of. They send word out along the grapevine that criminals and marginal people can make a home there... and as the population grows, their self-policing efforts turn the whole town into a model community.

Fugitivos: Pueblo de proscritos

1955

Venganza en el circo poster
5.8

Criss-crossing love affairs and jealousies result in a murder attempt.

Venganza en el circo

1954

Una calle entre tú y yo poster
6.0

When the national league coach selects Luis, a football star, to participate in a match against the US team, his father forces him to leave his girlfriend and his nemesis.

Una calle entre tú y yo

1952

¡Qué bravas son las costeñas! poster
6.4

Mexican-American playboy anchors his yacht offshore of a Veracruz fishing village and chases skirts in town.

¡Qué bravas son las costeñas!

1955

Quinto patio poster
5.7

Model son/employee/student is frustrated by poverty and surrenders to the temptations of a criminal lifestyle... in the same gang that twenty years earlier murdered his father OMG. Meanwhile his sister. Meanwhile his mother.

Quinto patio

1950

El gran autor poster
5.5

A story of passion and deceit, where love overcomes the misfortunes and finally triumphs.

El gran autor

1954

Sandunga para tres poster
6.0

Three boys and three girls. First all the boys are fighting over one of the girls, then all the boys are fighting over another of the girls and yadda yadda yadda.

Sandunga para tres

1953

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

1940s · 4 titles

Series credits

Burning for Revenge poster
7.5

Fuego en la sangre is a telenovela that began transmissions on January 21, 2008, through Mexico's Canal de las Estrellas network. Starring Adela Noriega, Eduardo Yáñez, Diana Bracho, and Guillermo García Cantú. It is the Mexican remake of the Colombian soap operas Las Aguas Mansas and Pasion de Gavilanes. The theme song called "Para Siempre" is sung by Vicente Fernández. The telenovela received TVyNovelas Award for Best Telenovela, in 2009.

Burning for Revenge

2008

Little Angel Face poster
7.8

Dulce María is like her name, a sweet 5-year-old girl, full of joy and good feelings. With the death of his mother, his father, Luciano Larios, sinks into depression and pain, and decides to distance himself from everything and everyone. He admits Dulce María to the "Queen of America" ​​nuns' school and goes abroad, leaving her in the care of her brother Gabriel, who is a priest. The only visit the girl receives is from her beloved Aunt Estefanía, whom she affectionately calls "Aunt Wigs" because instead of showing her hair, she wears colored wigs that match her clothes.

Little Angel Face

2000

¡Vivan los niños! poster
7.8

¡Vivan los niños! is a Mexican telenovela for children that premiered in 2002. It ran for 155 episodes and finished in 2003. The opening, Vivan los niños, was recorded by the Latin pop group OV7. One of its closing themes, also entitled Vivan los niños, was performed by Cuban-American singer and songwriter Ana Cristina. The show is a version of the Argentinian telenovela "Jacinta Pichimahuida, la maestra que no se olvida". The series starred Andrea Legarreta as 2nd grade teacher Lupita Gómez. After the series ended, Andrea became the long-time host of the morning talk show Hoy. On July 12, 2012, in celebration of Andrea's birthday, the producers of Hoy reunited her with the young actors who played her students on the series.

¡Vivan los niños!

2002

Mi Destino Eres Tú poster
7.6

Mi destino eres tú is a 2000 Mexican telenovela. It is a production of Carla Estrada and the protagonists were Lucero and Jorge Salinas.

Mi Destino Eres Tú

2000

Un rostro en mi pasado poster
5.0

No synopsis available yet.

Un rostro en mi pasado

1989

La Madrastra poster
8.1

After twenty years, María obtains her freedom and returns to Mexico to find Patricia's real murderer. She marries Esteban, her husband, again to regain the affection of her children, who reject her for being their stepmother.

La Madrastra

2005

Amor en silencio poster
8.4

Marisela Ocampo is a wealthy, beautiful, and intelligent young woman who feels a great void in her life, but then she meets Fernando Silva, a good, honest man from a respectable family. The two fall in love, but their families oppose the relationship: on one side is Marisela’s father, Miguel, who considers Fernando beneath his daughter and wants something better for her; on the other is Mercedes, Fernando’s sister, who harbors an unhealthy love for her own brother and refuses to see him happy with any woman; and to make matters worse, Paola, Marisela’s sister, becomes infatuated with Fernando and is unwilling to let her sister have him.

Amor en silencio

1988

Amor de nadie poster
8.0

Amor de nadie is a Mexican telenovela produced by Carla Estrada for Televisa and originally broadcast on Canal de las Estrellas from September 10, 1990, to June 14, 1991. Created by Eric Vonn, with literary editing by Marcia del Río, the telenovela stars Lucía Méndez, Saúl Lisazo, Fernando Allende, and Bertín Osborne. It was Lucía Méndez's final telenovela as a leading actress for Televisa during this period. The story follows Sofía Hernández, a young woman from a humble mining town who dreams of leaving her difficult life behind. After suffering betrayal and hardship, she moves to Mexico City to pursue a career as a model. Along the way, she faces jealousy, ambition, family conflicts, and complicated relationships while searching for love and a better future.

Amor de nadie

1990

No Limite da Paixão poster
2.0

No synopsis available yet.

No Limite da Paixão

2002

Los Parientes Pobres poster
6.8

Los Parientes Pobres is a telenovela made by Mexican TV network Televisa. It is a telenovela set in Mexico. This telenovela was broadcast in 1993.

Los Parientes Pobres

1993

Por Tu Amor poster
7.0

A wealthy and handsome man named Marco Durán arrives in a small coastal town called San Carlos, partly to consolidate his businesses in the area and partly to get away from Miranda Narváez, his obsessive and unstable ex-girlfriend. María del Cielo Montalvo is a beautiful and tasteful young woman, whose strength of character arouses the admiration of all the men in the sector and the love at first sight of Marco who does not hesitate to ask for her hand immediately after seeing her for the first time. She is the woman he has always dreamed of; However, for Cielo he is just another man like many who has come to poison the quiet life of San Carlos with his money and does not hide the contempt she feels for him, being also a woman engaged to Sergio Zambrano, her lifelong boyfriend.

Por Tu Amor

1999

Embrace Me Tightly poster
7.4

Cristina es una muchacha dulce y tierna, querida por todos en “El Platanal”, una hermosa hacienda propiedad de Severiano Álvarez, su padre, hombre recio de campo y de gran carácter. En este lugar trabaja como capataz Diego Hernández, un criollo fuerte que se ha enamorado de Cristina, y ella, ante el amor que siente por Diego, se entrega a él. Cristina confesses to her father that she is pregnant and that she loves Diego. Severiano orders that Cristina and Raquela, the servant, go to the capital and have the child there. Through the actions of Federico Rivero, little María del Carmen returns to the hacienda as Raquela's daughter. Cristina, because she is close to her daughter, is forced to marry Federico, a ruthless and ambitious man. And from now on she will be everyone's “godmother.” Federico causes an accident in which Cristina is blinded; Thus, her fortune passes into his hands.

Embrace Me Tightly

2000

Ha llegado una intrusa poster
7.5

No synopsis available yet.

Ha llegado una intrusa

1974

Las Lunas del Auditorio poster
7.3

No synopsis available yet.

Las Lunas del Auditorio

2002

Cómo duele callar poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Cómo duele callar

1987

J.J. Juez poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

J.J. Juez

1979

Canción de amor poster
8.5

Canción de amor is a Mexican youth telenovela produced by Luis de Llano Macedo for Televisa and originally broadcast on Canal de las Estrellas from May 13 to September 13, 1996. It is an adaptation of the 1982 Argentine telenovela Los cien días de Ana, created by Osvaldo Dragún. The telenovela stars Eduardo Capetillo and Lorena Rojas. The story follows Ana Guzmán, a young woman whose life changes after she falls in love with Renzo, an aspiring rock singer, shortly after being diagnosed with leukemia. Determined to live every moment to the fullest, Ana supports Renzo's dreams while the couple faces love, illness, separation, and the emotional challenges that test the strength of their relationship.

Canción de amor

1996

No artwork available
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

La paloma

1995

Baila Conmigo poster
8.3

Baila conmigo is a Mexican youth telenovela produced by Luis de Llano Macedo for Televisa and originally broadcast on Canal de las Estrellas from March 30 to August 14, 1992. Created by Susan Crowley and Gabriela Ortigoza, the telenovela stars Eduardo Capetillo and Biby Gaytán. Set in the late 1950s during the rise of rock and roll, the story follows Pilar, a popular young woman who falls in love with the ambitious Bruno, who is only interested in fame and adventure. As love triangles, friendships, and rivalries unfold, a group of teenagers pursues their dreams while discovering the joys and challenges of first love, music, and growing up.

Baila Conmigo

1992

No artwork available
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

¿Quién?

1973