
Acting
Pedro de Aguillón
Born — Died
1915-06-28 — 2022-12-05
Place of birth
Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico
Known for
Acting
Credits
45 titles
Known for
7.2Mateo Melgarejo is a notary public and scribe for the illiterate people of Santo Domingo, a neighborhood north of Mexico City's Zócalo. A squatter friend asks for his help in negotiating with the land census bureau to regularize a land title. After a great deal of frustration with the government bureaucracy, he writes a letter to the cabinet minister, earning an audience with him. The minister hires Melgarejo to reform the bureau, and the appointee proceeds to lecture the officials on their duties in a democratic society. At the end, he gives up the post, returning to Santo Domingo to help its poor residents.
The Minister and Me
1976
7.1After a quarrel with her boyfriend on New Year's Eve, Mane drives her car from Mexico City to Cuernavaca to meet her parents in their country house. The car breaks down in the highway and Mane has to ask for help. Mechanic Cruci arrives and, after testing the car, offers Mane a ride on his motorcycle. Back in Mane's house, she invites him some drinks to celebrate New Year's Eve. They get drunk and, the morning after, Mane's parents arrive and find them sleeping together. Not knowing what happened, Mane and Cruci are forced to get married against their will.
The Innocent
1956
7.7Pastora 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
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
6.7Sitcom episodes about the daily life of a pop-vocal quartet family. One of four in a series.
To Hell with the Music
1958
6.0A federal policeman arrives in a town ravaged by a cult of hooded men who leave a satanic face on their victims.
Los diablos del terror
1959
Film credits
1970s · 4 titles
7.2Mateo Melgarejo is a notary public and scribe for the illiterate people of Santo Domingo, a neighborhood north of Mexico City's Zócalo. A squatter friend asks for his help in negotiating with the land census bureau to regularize a land title. After a great deal of frustration with the government bureaucracy, he writes a letter to the cabinet minister, earning an audience with him. The minister hires Melgarejo to reform the bureau, and the appointee proceeds to lecture the officials on their duties in a democratic society. At the end, he gives up the post, returning to Santo Domingo to help its poor residents.
The Minister and Me
1976
6.0A politically-themed stage play provokes a murder. Police detective walks the cast through a reenactment of their performance as a way of investigating the crime.
El juicio de Martín Cortés
1974
5.4A beer seller is kidnapped by martians, who give him special powers to become a super football player.
El futbolista fenómeno
1979
6.3Running from the law, young crooks hole up in a small town... and get hooked into performing in the town's Passion Play.
Cristo 70
1970
1960s · 12 titles
7.1A mad scientist creates a remote-controlled monster and sends it to terrorize the city.
Orlak, the Hell of Frankenstein
1960
6.0On Christmas Eve, Santa Claus engineers a miracle that will rehabilitate three kept women into orthodox 'decency' and marriage.
Las amiguitas de los ricos
1968
5.7Various murders are examined by a private investigator.
El aviador fenómeno
1961
6.2A family of six children are orphaned on Christmas Eve and struggle through a year without parental support.
When mommy comes back
1961
6.0Cowboy goes to track down the man who murdered his brother, but it turns out to be someone other than the one he was looking for. Together, they set things straight and take care of the real murderer.
Una bala es mi testigo
1960
No synopsis available yet.
Tirando a matar
1961
5.8Mad scientist brings his dead mad scientist grandfather back to life and makes a Frankenstein-type monster out of him.
Mark of the Dead Man
1961
5.8A group of bandits operating illegal mines kidnap Don Rosendo, who has discovered a mine containing a highly valuable metal. The Lone Rider comes to the aid of Don Rosendo and Rosita, capturing the bandits.
El jinete solitario en El valle de los desaparecidos: La venganza del jinete solitario
1960
6.7No synopsis available yet.
Esta noche si
1968
5.1Reporter/photographer team have risen to their level of incompetence at their newspaper.
Cómicos y canciones
1960
6.0A poor mechanic is conned into taking the place of a wealthy business magnate so the rich man can take off to work on some major wheeling and dealing. Sure enough, the impostor is trapped in a series of circumstances beyond his control that lead him right to the altar. Once he is wed -- or rather, once the rich businessman is unknowingly wed by proxy, the tycoon returns from his trip with the subsequent surprises in store for all concerned.
Casi Casados
1961
6.0Two unknown performers try to break into television. Meanwhile, a guy that calls himself 'El Vengador' is doing a Phantom of the Opera number on the studio executives...
Variedades de medianoche
1960
1950s · 27 titles
7.1After a quarrel with her boyfriend on New Year's Eve, Mane drives her car from Mexico City to Cuernavaca to meet her parents in their country house. The car breaks down in the highway and Mane has to ask for help. Mechanic Cruci arrives and, after testing the car, offers Mane a ride on his motorcycle. Back in Mane's house, she invites him some drinks to celebrate New Year's Eve. They get drunk and, the morning after, Mane's parents arrive and find them sleeping together. Not knowing what happened, Mane and Cruci are forced to get married against their will.
The Innocent
1956
7.7Pastora 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
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
6.7Sitcom episodes about the daily life of a pop-vocal quartet family. One of four in a series.
To Hell with the Music
1958
6.0A federal policeman arrives in a town ravaged by a cult of hooded men who leave a satanic face on their victims.
Los diablos del terror
1959
5.2A disappearing body leads a detective and his sidekick into an encounter with a gill man.
Swamp of the Lost Monster
1957
6.8AWOL from French Foreign Legion and hiding in a Prince's harem, clowns get mixed up in palace intrigues
Los legionarios
1958
5.6A cowboy and his sidekick meet a ranching family that is haunted by spirits and vampires.
The Living Coffin
1959
6.7Spoofy south-sea adventure, mostly about the hot babes.
La isla de las mujeres
1953
6.8Due to confusion, Rafael is believed responsible for the death of Teresa. His wife Lilia and his brother looking for the real culprits.
Había una vez un marido
1953
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
Masked hero on horseback. One in a series.
El jinete solitario en el valle de los buitres
1958
5.5No synopsis available yet.
El potro salvaje
1958
Blowhard's mouth runs away with him and he's trapped into having to prove that he knows Maria Antonieta Pons, the big movie star and stuff.
Nunca me hagan eso
1957
5.8A young orphan girl is attacked by Apaches and must pay her father's debts, as she may be stripped of her lands.
La flecha envenenada
1957
5.8A tailor is mistaken for the leader of an agricultural union and gets tangled up in a price-fixing conspiracy.
Manos arriba
1958
5.5Slapstick/musical comedy parody of historical dramas, send-up of "Locura de amor," about Queen Juana 'la loca' of Spain.
Crazy Love
1953
6.5Adult street urchin passes himself off as rich man's long-lost son.
El hombre inquieto
1954
Masked wrestler vs. gothic criminal gang. Third or fourth in a series.
La sombra vengadora contra la mano negra
1955
6.0Masked Rider adventure-hero.
El jinete solitario
1958
7.6Two clownish incompetents get mixed up in power struggles between state officials.
A sablazo limpio
1958
6.8Wealthy land-owner poses as a bandit, robbing only his own properties, to get the romantic attention of a woman who lives down the road.
Guitarras de medianoche
1958
Romantic triangle. One of the guys is a very bad man.
Beneath the Sky of Mexico
1958
6.6An evil mastermind, known as La mano negra, attempts to steal a formula that creates synthetic drugs but a masked avenger known as La sombra will do anything to stop him.
La sombra vengadora
1956
5.5Two young women 'forced' to masquerade as soldiers in military troop.
Las coronelas
1959
6.2A woman in an unhappy marriage trades places with her grandmother's ghost; Grandma whupps the girl's husband into line AND proves to her own husband that she was innocent of the infidelity that he was suspecting when she died, fifty years earlier.
Mi adorada Clementina
1953
7.6Three criminals break out of jail and head for a town where they've hidden their steals.
Los santos reyes
1959
1940s · 2 titles
6.2Two men are shipwrecked and arrive in the Kingdom of Eden, where the women control all the power.
El sexo fuerte
1946
6.0In Michoacan in the 1920s, Gabriel, a young farmer and champion cockfighter, finds himself in violent opposition to Roman, who not only wants to beat Gabriel's fighting cock, but to steal Gabriel's wife Rosa.
The Cockfighter
1948
