José Ángel Espinosa 'Ferrusquilla'

Acting

José Ángel Espinosa 'Ferrusquilla'

Born — Died

1919-09-02 — 2015-11-06

Place of birth

Mazatlan, Sinaloa, Mexico

Known for

Acting

Credits

61 titles

José Ángel Espinosa 'Ferrusquilla' was born on August 2, 1922 in Mazatlan, Sinaloa, Mexico as José Ángel Espinoza Aragón. He is an actor, known for Sierra torride (1970),La duda (1972) and Guantanamera (1995).

Known for

Two Mules for Sister Sara poster
7.0

When a wandering mercenary named Hogan rescues a nun called Sister Sara from the unwanted attentions of a band of rogues on the Mexican plains, he has no idea what he has let himself in for. Their chance encounter results in the blowing up of a train and a French garrison, as well as igniting a spark between them that survives a shocking discovery.

Two Mules for Sister Sara

1970

Las Lunas del Auditorio poster
7.3

No synopsis available yet.

Las Lunas del Auditorio

2002

Chisum poster
6.6

Cattle baron John Chisum joins forces with Billy the Kid and Pat Garrett to fight the Lincoln County Land War in the New Mexico Territory of 1878.

Chisum

1970

Viva Maria! poster
6.1

1907 Central America: Maria II is the daughter of an Irish terrorist. After her father's death, she meets Maria I, a performer, and decides to stay with the circus, and on her debut as a singer, unintentionally invents the striptease and makes the circus famous. Their inadvertent encounter with a socialist revolutionary lands them leading a revolution against the dictator, the capitalists, and the Church.

Viva Maria!

1965

Big Jake poster
6.8

An aging Texas cattle man who has outlived his time swings into action when outlaws kidnap his grandson.

Big Jake

1971

Something Big poster
5.4

Joe Baker has a dream. He wants to do 'something big.' When he needs a Gatling gun to accomplish this, he seeks out a black marketeer. The price he wants for the gun? A woman! So Baker kidnaps a woman off of the stagecoach, only to find that she is the wife of the commandant of the local Cavalry detachment. Things get further complicated when a girl named Dover McBride shows up. She has come to force Baker to marry her and return east, as he promised to do four years earlier

Something Big

1971

Film credits

1970s · 17 titles

Two Mules for Sister Sara poster
7.0

When a wandering mercenary named Hogan rescues a nun called Sister Sara from the unwanted attentions of a band of rogues on the Mexican plains, he has no idea what he has let himself in for. Their chance encounter results in the blowing up of a train and a French garrison, as well as igniting a spark between them that survives a shocking discovery.

Two Mules for Sister Sara

1970

Chisum poster
6.6

Cattle baron John Chisum joins forces with Billy the Kid and Pat Garrett to fight the Lincoln County Land War in the New Mexico Territory of 1878.

Chisum

1970

Big Jake poster
6.8

An aging Texas cattle man who has outlived his time swings into action when outlaws kidnap his grandson.

Big Jake

1971

Something Big poster
5.4

Joe Baker has a dream. He wants to do 'something big.' When he needs a Gatling gun to accomplish this, he seeks out a black marketeer. The price he wants for the gun? A woman! So Baker kidnaps a woman off of the stagecoach, only to find that she is the wife of the commandant of the local Cavalry detachment. Things get further complicated when a girl named Dover McBride shows up. She has come to force Baker to marry her and return east, as he promised to do four years earlier

Something Big

1971

Mary, Mary, Bloody Mary poster
5.1

Mexican horror film about an American painter named Mary who is living in Mexico where she sells her works and also kills people for their blood. It turns out Mary is a vampire but not the traditional one with fangs. Since she has no fangs she must stab or slash the throats of her victims but soon she has a new man in her life as well as a mysterious man in black who appears to be doing the same type of murders.

Mary, Mary, Bloody Mary

1975

The Log of the Black Pearl poster
10.0

A young stockbroker, Christopher Sand, inherits an old ship named "Black Pearl" along with a medallion that is the key to a sunken Nazi treasure. But there are other people looking for the sunken treasure, people who will stop at nothing to gain access to the medallion.

The Log of the Black Pearl

1975

Pobre, pero honrada poster
6.0

Beloved Mexican screen star La India Maria portrays a poor but honorable woman who causes a stir around town when she decides to become a witch doctor in this classic comedy from director Fernando Cortes. When the real medical practitioner in town discovers that there's a new shaman around, the comic trouble that follows is sure to keep viewers in stitches.

Pobre, pero honrada

1973

El alegre divorciado poster
5.7

Ramón y Socorro, a 50-year-old couple, owners of a tavern, embarks on a long trip to Mexico to attend the wedding of their son, Carlos, with Gloria, the daughter of an important Mexican businessman. Upon arriving in Mexico, Ramón discovers that in this country there is a divorce. Fed up with his wife, he decides to divorce without taking into account that he will soon pay the consequences of this act.

El alegre divorciado

1976

Chico Ramos poster
6.4

Western revenge drama.

Chico Ramos

1971

Looking for a Wall poster
6.0

The life of the Mexican muralist José Clemente Orozco and his quest to create a career in New York.

Looking for a Wall

1974

No artwork available
8.0

Based on a real event, the action takes place in Havana in 1931, during the dictatorship of Gerardo Machado. Rachel, a young French showgirl, is murdered during an orgy involving personalities of the bourgeoisie and politics. The tabloid press echoes the story to divert public attention from the serious social problems that affect the country. The governors on their part order to silence the case to protect the characters involved.

El extraño caso de Rachel K

1973

El tunco Maclovio poster
5.6

A guilt-ridden gunslinger seeks redemption after a tragic accident claims his friend's life. As he finds purpose through love, a vengeful shadow from his past threatens his chance at a new beginning.

El tunco Maclovio

1970

Mariachi - Fiesta de sangre poster
6.3

Tells the story of the formation of Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlán, spanning three generations: the grandfather, Amado Vargas; the father, Gaspar Vargas; and the son, Silvestre Vargas.

Mariachi - Fiesta de sangre

1977

The Bridge in the Jungle poster
5.8

Gale (Charles Robinson) is an idealistic and naive young hunter who ignores warnings that no one can survive for long in the jungles of Mexico except the native Indians. He tries to hunt crocodiles but becomes delirious, disoriented and nears death. Sleigh (John Huston) is a veteran hunter living among the natives who rescues Gale just in time. As he recovers in the Indian village, Gale listens to Sleigh's denunciation of the evils of modern society (ie. money, greed and oil). Later on, a former native of the village returns from the oil fields of Texas and presents his young brother with a pair of cowboy boots. Proudly wearing his new boots, the boy falls off the wooden bridge into the river and drowns as the boots, symbolic shackles of civilization, fill up with water and pull him beneath the surface. Sleigh and Gale observe the Indians as they recover the body and stage an elaborate funeral for the dead boy

The Bridge in the Jungle

1971

Los Beverly de Peralvillo poster
6.8

El Borras marries La Pecas, unaware of her mother's (Doña Chole) scheme against Borras. That of Borras to provide for all her family members who are a lazy bunch composed of her father and brothers.

Los Beverly de Peralvillo

1971

Cuartelazo poster
6.2

Narration of one of the bloodiest episodes of the Mexican national history, The Tragic Ten, beginning when General Victoriano Huerta sent to kill President Francisco I. Madero, Vice President José María Pino Suárez and Senator Belisario Dominguez. The film recreates the moment of the execution at the hands of Huerta and his accomplices Bernardo Reyes, Félix Díaz and Manuel Mondragón.

Cuartelazo

1977

El hermano Capulina poster
5.7

Shoplifter evades police by joining a monastery.

El hermano Capulina

1970

1960s · 21 titles

Viva Maria! poster
6.1

1907 Central America: Maria II is the daughter of an Irish terrorist. After her father's death, she meets Maria I, a performer, and decides to stay with the circus, and on her debut as a singer, unintentionally invents the striptease and makes the circus famous. Their inadvertent encounter with a socialist revolutionary lands them leading a revolution against the dictator, the capitalists, and the Church.

Viva Maria!

1965

Macabre Serenade poster
4.0

Relatives of a recently deceased man meet at his eerie castle for a reading of the will. They encounter a sinister piano player who turns out to be a toy maker, and his toys are imbued with murderous intentions.

Macabre Serenade

1968

Los Jinetes De La Bruja poster
6.6

Witch Salome wants revenge. Only her riders can do it.

Los Jinetes De La Bruja

1966

El tragabalas poster
5.8

Piporro doesn’t need to use his gun to get away with murder.

El tragabalas

1966

El amor llegó a Jalisco poster
6.3

In a small Mexican town, two rival groups clash over water irrigation rights. While the local priest attempts to mediate, his nieces charm the landowners' sons to force a peaceful resolution.

El amor llegó a Jalisco

1963

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

El norteño poster
6.7

Lawman on horseback cracks a case involving stolen gold bullion, the title to a mine, an evil twin and a plucky pre-adolescent boy. First in a series.

El norteño

1963

The New Cinderella poster
5.9

Antonio, the famous dancer is preparing a big performance for the TV. But he is missing a good female dancer. One day he sees a girl dancing in the streets but when he is going to talk to her she runs away. She lost one of her shoes and this will be the only hint Antonio will have to find her. She is the new Cinderella.

The New Cinderella

1964

Planet of the Female Invaders poster
6.3

A group of sexy space vixens flies down to Earth, sets up a shop at a carnival (disguising their ship as a ride), and kidnap some earthlings in their scheme to conquer our planet. The humans, including Marcos, a crooked boxer and our hero, Silvia, his love interest, and a gang of comical mobsters out to kill Marcos, are taken to the women’s home planet. There they are held prisoner by the evil queen Adastrea and aided by her selfless twin Alburnia. Meanwhile, a standard issue hunky scientist back on Earth, who happens to be Silvia’s boss, tries to rescue them.

Planet of the Female Invaders

1966

La guerrillera de Villa poster
5.0

Reyes Mendoza (Carmen Sevilla) is a Spanish artist who arrives in Mexico in 1913 and finds herself involved in the Pancho Villa (Jose Elias Moreno) revolution.

La guerrillera de Villa

1967

The Bandits poster
5.1

Three Americans get involved into the Mexican fight against the French Intervention.

The Bandits

1967

The Paper Man poster
6.9

A deaf and mute vagabond finds a large denomination bill in a Mexico City dump, and while he tries to buy something with it, others try to con him into giving it away.

The Paper Man

1963

Dos gallos y dos gallinas poster
5.6

Two brothers are trying to raise emergency cash by doing cockfights and horse-races. They meet two sisters.

Dos gallos y dos gallinas

1963

El dengue del amor poster
5.5

Dancing fanatic weasels his way into Perez Prado's entourage as a personal assistant.

El dengue del amor

1965

Pa' qué me sirve la vida poster
6.3

A property owner dies from shock after his opponent tricks him into thinking his land was legally seized.

Pa' qué me sirve la vida

1961

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

The Boy and the Ball and the Hole in the Wall poster
6.4

Not realizing the dangers he is facing, Young Dieter will do anything to get his ball back after it was thrown over the Berlin wall by a ruthless guar

The Boy and the Ball and the Hole in the Wall

1965

Vuelve el Norteño poster
5.8

Two rival gangs of outlaws are terrorizing a small town; el Comandante and his sidekicks pit them against each other and pick up the pieces.

Vuelve el Norteño

1964

Shadow of the Black Hand poster
6.0

Semi-comic series western about two brothers what is good-guys. From the series "Los Hermanos Barragan."

Shadow of the Black Hand

1964

The Candy Man poster
5.0

An American actress travels to Mexico to make a movie and brings her daughter with her. Upon arriving in Mexico, she is spotted by a drug dealer who also heads a kidnapping ring. He plants one of his drug-addicted "customers" with the actress as her nanny in order to be kidnap the child for ransom, but things don't work out as planned.

The Candy Man

1969

Planetary Giants poster
4.2

Daniel Wolf, scientist with a brand new rocket ship and a girlfriend/secretary is sent to 'the planet of the eternal night' to fight the guy who has threatened earth. He is supposed to go alone, but his assistant sneaks in the ship somehow, along with two other guys.

Planetary Giants

1966

1950s · 16 titles

The Magnificent Matador poster
6.0

Karen Harrison is a spoiled, rich, American predator who falls head-over-heels for the brooding, tormented, about-to-retire matador, Luis Santos who has inexplicably run away prior to a corrida that was to occasion the "alternativa" of a young, up-and-coming bullfighter.

The Magnificent Matador

1955

Sierra Baron poster
5.0

Director James B. Clark's western, set in 1848 California, is about a brother and sister battling a crooked businessman over property rights.

Sierra Baron

1958

Por el mismo camino poster
5.3

On vacation, an old lady and her niece pick up a hitch-hiker.

Por el mismo camino

1953

Here is Heraclius Bernal poster
6.2

Historical drama/biopic about 1880s Social Justice bandits in a mining community in Sinaloa. First of three in series.

Here is Heraclius Bernal

1958

La extraña pasajera poster
6.6

During a long train trip, the Police has discovered jewelries in the personal bag of an actress, but she turns out to be innocent.

La extraña pasajera

1953

Pata de palo poster
5.8

Boy witnesses a murder, killer terrorizes and exploits him.

Pata de palo

1950

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

Kill Me Because I'm Dying!!! poster
7.8

Tin 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

La Hija De La Otra poster
5.7

Husband and wife raise hubby's extra-marital child when the birth mother rejects it.

La Hija De La Otra

1951

Tres desgraciados con suerte poster
5.8

Three cowboy party-boys, posing as highway bandits, meet three women who want to reform them.

Tres desgraciados con suerte

1958

Reportaje poster
7.3

Reporters compete for cash prize awarded for biggest scoop on New Year's Eve.

Reportaje

1953

El rayo de Sinaloa: La venganza de Heraclio Bernal poster
5.8

Disgruntled 19th century peasants get militant and start redistributing some wealth. Part two of a historical-drama trilogy.

El rayo de Sinaloa: La venganza de Heraclio Bernal

1958

Retorno al quinto patio poster
6.3

After getting out of prison, Ramon Vallarta tries to put his life back together, establishing himself in a new career and reconciling himself with his former sweetheart. Also other stuff. Sequel to Quinto Patio.

Retorno al quinto patio

1951

La mujer X poster
6.0

A woman accused of murder refuses to defend herself in any way, in order to avoid tarnishing the family name and the reputation of her long-lost son.

La mujer X

1955

The Abduction poster
4.9

In a small Mexican village the news shock neighbors, Ricardo Alfaro, a wealthy local rancher has disappeared without a trace. Taking advantage of the circumstance, Aurora Campos, a strong woman with overwhelming beauty, convinces the authorities to sell her the property in exchange for twelve thousand dollars. Soon after, when Ricardo suddenly reappears, a real battle is about to begin.

The Abduction

1954

Massacre poster
5.4

Lawmen and their captured gunrunners take refuge at a deserted mission to fend off attacking Indians. Western.

Massacre

1956

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