Emma Roldán

Acting

Emma Roldán

Born 1893-02-03 · San Luis Potosi, Mexico

Emma Roldán (February 3, 1893 – August 29, 1978) was a Mexican character actress and costume designer. She is remembered as the sharp-tongued, domineering matron of Mexican cinema, and was nominated three times for a Silver Ariel Award.

Acting credits

Shadow of Pancho Villa poster
6.0

A 1933 film.

Shadow of Pancho Villa

1933

La mafia del crimen poster
5.0

No synopsis available yet.

La mafia del crimen

1958

The Curse of the Aztec Mummy poster
4.1

The evil Dr. Krupp, once again trying to get possession of the Aztec princess Xochitl's jewels, hypnotizes her current reincarnation, Flor, to get her to reveal the jewels' location - Xochitl's tomb. Confusion reigns as Krupp and his thugs are opposed by Flor's lover, Dr. Almada, his assistant, and wrestling superhero, El Angel. Krupp finally meets his match, however, when he comes up against Popoca, the warrior mummy who guards Xochitl's tomb.

The Curse of the Aztec Mummy

1957

No artwork available
5.6

Four young women facing "crises," mostly centered around the crucially-important issue of preserving their virginity in a variety of purity-oath threatening situations.

Señoritas

1959

Magdalena’s True Vocation poster
7.0

Sex and middle class are the main topics in "La verdadera vocación de Magdalena". Hermosillo shows marriage as a matter of interests (economical and social) in the modern society. emphasizing the education, lose of tradition and customs in the gap generation of sixties youth and its parents. Angelica María, plays the best character in his career, being a kind and vulnerable girl raised in a hard moral education

Magdalena’s True Vocation

1972

Hipólito, el de Santa poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Hipólito, el de Santa

1950

La estrella vacía poster
6.6

Mourners share their memories of a dead film-star at her wake, a la Citizen Kane. Only melodrama.

La estrella vacía

1960

Ojos tapatios poster
6.3

Mexican feature film

Ojos tapatios

1938

Aquella Rosita Alvírez poster
6.3

Traveling cowboy gets involved in political issues in a town he passes through. Also a romance.

Aquella Rosita Alvírez

1965

Free Love poster
5.2

Two single women share an apartment, work together, and sometimes swap boyfriends. None of their romantic attachments seem quite as stable or enduring as their friendship.

Free Love

1978

No artwork available
6.3

A 1933 film.

La calandria

1933

El jefe máximo poster
6.3

A 1940 film directed by Fernando de Fuentes.

El jefe máximo

1940

Como yo te quería poster
5.6

Romantic comedy/drama.

Como yo te quería

1945

No artwork available
6.7

Two secret agents are after a couple of car thieves who belong to a band of criminals headed by Ernesto. The band has kidnapped the son of Daniel, a boxer who is about to fight for the world title. The agents must destroy Ernesto's band and rescue Daniel's son before the fight so Daniel doesn't lose his chance at the title under the kidnapper's threats.

Servicio secreto

1962

Tentación poster
6.0

Upon reaching the capital, an old man and his daughter are victims of abuse, where their goodwill becomes the way to gain control of the low instincts of a man who sought favors he did for an uncontrolled temptation.

Tentación

1943

María poster
6.0

María tells the tragic love story of María, a beautiful young woman, and her half brother Efraín, a handsome young man from Valle del Cauca. They both fall in love and live their romance on the farm "El Paraíso", in Valle del Cauca, but not everything is rosy, since Efraín must go to Bogotá because of study reasons leaving María with pain in her soul. Some time later, María becomes ill and Emma tells her brother about the situation.

María

1922

La infame poster
6.5

For love, the rules of society and justice are broken, leading to abduction, exposing life and freedom, facing everything to make a sick child a normal child.

La infame

1954

Mi candidato poster
5.8

Young silversmith runs for office, butts heads with political machine that's sucking the town dry.

Mi candidato

1937

Castle of Purity poster
7.4

A disciplined and sexually driven man forces his family to stay isolated in their home in order to protect them from the “evil nature” of human beings.

Castle of Purity

1973

No artwork available
6.2

Two brothers butt heads: one's a gadabout charro playboy and the other's a priest.

Hay ángeles con espuelas

1957

El malvado Carabel poster
6.7

Frustrated salaryman responds to career setbacks by embarking on a life of crime.

El malvado Carabel

1961

El mariachi canta poster
6.6

Rivalry and romance between the leaders of a male mariachi band and a female one.

El mariachi canta

1963

Tailored gentleman poster
7.3

Cantinflas works as a model of tuxedos in a prestigious store, your job is to use the smoking in the street along with an advertising sign on his back. The use of smoking gives you access to exclusive places and meet important people. During this time, Cantinflas was the manager of an amateur boxer, it is an attractive nurse assistant and occasionally attending a priest in the church and the orphanage. However, a Cantinflas day while wearing tuxedo, is a rich man, who mistakenly believe that Cantinflas is a millionaire too.

Tailored gentleman

1954

Amanecer ranchero poster
6.7

The old massa dies and his son comes home to take over the hacienda. Things are going to be a whole lot different now; he's overturning all the old social order. A-a-and...

Amanecer ranchero

1942