
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
7.0When 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
7.3No synopsis available yet.
Las Lunas del Auditorio
2002
6.6Cattle 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
6.11907 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
6.8An aging Texas cattle man who has outlived his time swings into action when outlaws kidnap his grandson.
Big Jake
1971
5.4Joe 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
1980s · 2 titles
5.2Cristina Carver (Angelica Maria) finds herself in dire straits after she arrives to spend some time with her TV-reporter husband (Dean Stockwell) who is visiting a Latin American country run by a military dictator. After a car accident one day, Cristina brings the helpful Col. Kostik (Donald Pleasence) home and then kills him in self-defense when he violently attempts to rape and murder her. Terrified, she covers up her act and hides the body, yet in spite of her husband's efforts to protect her, a local police detective starts to figure out what really happened.
To Kill a Stranger
1986
5.7An episodic film showing death, in various forms, in line with the mexican idiosyncrasy.
Kill Me At Once
1987
1970s · 17 titles
7.0When 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
6.6Cattle 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
6.8An aging Texas cattle man who has outlived his time swings into action when outlaws kidnap his grandson.
Big Jake
1971
5.4Joe 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
5.1Mexican 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
10.0A 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
6.0Beloved 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
5.7Ramón 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
6.4Western revenge drama.
Chico Ramos
1971
6.0The life of the Mexican muralist José Clemente Orozco and his quest to create a career in New York.
Looking for a Wall
1974
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
5.6A 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
6.3Tells 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
5.8Gale (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
6.8El 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
6.2Narration 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
5.7Shoplifter evades police by joining a monastery.
El hermano Capulina
1970
1960s · 21 titles
6.11907 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
4.0Relatives 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
6.6Witch Salome wants revenge. Only her riders can do it.
Los Jinetes De La Bruja
1966
5.8Piporro doesn’t need to use his gun to get away with murder.
El tragabalas
1966
6.3In 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
5.6An 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
6.7Lawman 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
5.9Antonio, 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
6.3A 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
5.0Reyes 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
5.1Three Americans get involved into the Mexican fight against the French Intervention.
The Bandits
1967
6.9A 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
5.6Two brothers are trying to raise emergency cash by doing cockfights and horse-races. They meet two sisters.
Dos gallos y dos gallinas
1963
5.5Dancing fanatic weasels his way into Perez Prado's entourage as a personal assistant.
El dengue del amor
1965
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
6.7M/F couple joins the Revolution, but she ends up in bed with Villa.
El centauro Pancho Villa
1967
6.4Not 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
5.8Two 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
6.0Semi-comic series western about two brothers what is good-guys. From the series "Los Hermanos Barragan."
Shadow of the Black Hand
1964
5.0An 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
4.2Daniel 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
6.0Karen 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
5.0Director 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
5.3On vacation, an old lady and her niece pick up a hitch-hiker.
Por el mismo camino
1953
6.2Historical drama/biopic about 1880s Social Justice bandits in a mining community in Sinaloa. First of three in series.
Here is Heraclius Bernal
1958
6.6During 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
5.8Boy witnesses a murder, killer terrorizes and exploits him.
Pata de palo
1950
5.7Model 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
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
5.7Husband and wife raise hubby's extra-marital child when the birth mother rejects it.
La Hija De La Otra
1951
5.8Three cowboy party-boys, posing as highway bandits, meet three women who want to reform them.
Tres desgraciados con suerte
1958
7.3Reporters compete for cash prize awarded for biggest scoop on New Year's Eve.
Reportaje
1953
5.8Disgruntled 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
6.3After 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
6.0A 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
4.9In 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
5.4Lawmen and their captured gunrunners take refuge at a deserted mission to fend off attacking Indians. Western.
Massacre
1956
1940s · 3 titles
6.7Tango singer exploits the women in his life. Learns a valuable life-lesson.
A media luz
1947
6.2Unscrupulous boss frames an employee for a robbery so he can make time with the guy's sister.
Las puertas del presidio
1949
6.5A diamond smuggler from the city is on the lam and takes the identity of a rural schoolteacher, teaching in a small town.
Midnight
1949

