Juan José Martínez Casado

Acting

Juan José Martínez Casado

Born — Died

1903-07-12 — 1987-01-01

Place of birth

Gibara, Cuba

Known for

Acting

Credits

47 titles

Known for

Film credits

1980s · 5 titles

1970s · 9 titles

The Man and the Beast poster
4.6

Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, adapted once again.

The Man and the Beast

1973

Faith, Hope and Charity poster
6.5

Three episodes. Faith: a woman is attacked. Hope: a fakir is crucified. Charity: a woman faces bureaucracy.

Faith, Hope and Charity

1974

El valle de los miserables poster
4.3

In 1909, former judge Cristóbal Zamarripa owns Valle Nacional, a tobacco plantation where he exploits workers with the support of the tyrant Porfirio Díaz, who sends him political prisoners as slaves. The others are lured with the promise of high wages, but end up owing everything to the company store. All are tortured, raped, or killed when they protest. Another landowner whose brother was killed by Zamarripa and who falls in love with one of his daughters is going to be punished, but he flees and becomes a revolutionary.

El valle de los miserables

1975

El valle de los miserables poster
4.3

In 1909, former judge Cristóbal Zamarripa owns Valle Nacional, a tobacco plantation where he exploits workers with the support of the tyrant Porfirio Díaz, who sends him political prisoners as slaves. The others are lured with the promise of high wages, but end up owing everything to the company store. All are tortured, raped, or killed when they protest. Another landowner whose brother was killed by Zamarripa and who falls in love with one of his daughters is going to be punished, but he flees and becomes a revolutionary.

El valle de los miserables

1975

The Incredible Professor Zovek poster
5.8

Escape-artist-mentalist-martial-arts superhero vs. mad scientist and monsters.

The Incredible Professor Zovek

1972

Tivoli poster
7.0

While trying to save the famous Tivoli burlesque theater, the participants uncover a web of commercial corruption.

Tivoli

1975

The Fight with the Panther poster
5.3

Three nymphets struggle to have a beneficial youth: Ana is suicidal, Mercedes is attracted to her brother William, and Patricia desires to be sexually abused.

The Fight with the Panther

1975

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

The Days of Love poster
6.0

In the 1920s, Mexico was still in a state of near-chaos. Rebellions and revolutions had followed one after the other for decades. Though things were beginning to settle down some, it was still a time when one had the feeling that anything could happen.

The Days of Love

1972

1950s · 7 titles

La mesera del café del puerto poster
5.7

A waitress helps a ruined composer. When he triumphs and after a surgery he decides to marry her.

La mesera del café del puerto

1957

No artwork available
NR

On New Year's Eve, a banker and his wife invite several friends to have dinner in their apartment. Suddenly, an astrologer makes an appearance and predicts seven of the present people will die in the next weeks.

Seven Deaths at a Fixed Time

1950

Y si ella volviera (Guantanamera) poster
6.3

Sonia, a school teacher, is excited about her new post in the Cuban beach town of Caibarien since her childhood friend Guillermo lives there. However she finds Guillermo a tormented soul and evil lurks in town.

Y si ella volviera (Guantanamera)

1957

Una gallega en La Habana poster
5.7

Cándida's boyfriend left her in Spain to go to work to Havana. After twenty years without news, she decides to go look for him, although the only thing she knows of him is his name. In the port of Havana, she is confused with a jewel smuggler, which kicks off a series of comical events.

Una gallega en La Habana

1955

La rosa blanca poster
6.0

For the centenary of Cuban patriot Jose Marti, the 1950s pre-Castro dictator Batista collected funds for an official film commemoration and hired renowned director Fernandez from Mexico to erect this memorial work.

La rosa blanca

1954

La última lucha poster
6.3

Slice-of-life melodrama: backstage at the wrestling arena.

La última lucha

1959

La esfinge maragata poster
7.0

The action takes place on a Maragata hacienda that is sinking into misery, whose situation can only be solved through a marriage of convenience. But the marriageable girl, during a train trip, falls in love with a young poet and is reciprocated. Her family is opposed to this relationship, since they have promised her to marry a man of good standing.

La esfinge maragata

1950

1930s · 16 titles

Cruz Diablo poster
5.9

16th-century swashbuckler; evil nobleman usurps another man's title and properties and forces his daughter to marry a political ally. But Cruz Diablo will have revenge!

Cruz Diablo

1934

Santa poster
5.6

Santa is a beautiful and very humble young girl living in Chimalistac, a small and quiet spot south of the 1930's Mexico City. After Santa is cheated by arrogant soldier Marcelino, she's rejected by her family and friends and expelled of Chimalistac. Santa finds shelter in a whorehouse and becomes a cinic and bitter woman, mistreated by bullfighter "Jarameno" and silently loved by blind pianist Hipólito.

Santa

1932

No artwork available
6.3

No synopsis available yet.

María Elena

1936

Huapango poster
5.7

No synopsis available yet.

Huapango

1938

Así es mi tierra poster
7.6

With revolutionary Mexico as a backdrop, a successful local rancher returns triumphant from the war to the praise of townsfolk, and "El General" is ready to take a wife. However the senorita of choice already has fallen for a secret admirer, and a boyhood rival who is threatened by the General's popularity in turn plots against his life.

Así es mi tierra

1937

Los hijos del destino poster
6.3

No synopsis available yet.

Los hijos del destino

1930

The Girls Aunt poster
4.5

Two middle-aged no-goodniks are trying to marry two young ladies; two age-appropriate young men concoct a scheme to prevent it, which involves one of them masquerading as the young ladies' aunt.

The Girls Aunt

1938

Malditas sean las mujeres poster
6.3

A tragicomic piece based on a novella by Manuel Ibo Alfaro.

Malditas sean las mujeres

1936

La obligación de asesinar poster
5.7

It revolves around a suave thief (Carlos Miranda) who infiltrates a house where a murder has taken place. Surprisingly, it is this very criminal who ends up helping to solve the mystery of this and other crimes that occurred during the night.

La obligación de asesinar

1937

El derecho y el deber poster
5.8

Officer comes home from the Revolution to discover that he's been declared dead and that his wife has remarried and given his lands to another man.

El derecho y el deber

1937

Eterna mártir poster
6.2

A dedicated wife and mother takes the blame for embezzling money that was actually stolen by her husband in order to buy medicine and a doctor's care for the couple's seriously ill infant son. Consequently, the well-meaning woman is willingly sentenced to years in prison for a crime she did not commit-all because she believes her son will fare better if the bond between father and son remains intact. Upon her release, she soon discovers that no good deed goes unpunished. Her once loving husband has remarried a woman that her son calls Mother, After just a brief glimpse of her loved ones, she simply leaves without saying a word. Many years later, she becomes a patient at her son's busy medical practice just so that she can keep an eye on his progress in secret. In a cruel twist of fate, it is only after he diagnoses her as being terminally ill does does she reveal her true identity. The poor woman subsequently learns that her former father-in-law lied about her initial release from ...

Eterna mártir

1937

Alma jarocha (Estudiantina) poster
6.0

A group of students enjoy crazy adventures during their vacation in Orizaba, Veracruz.

Alma jarocha (Estudiantina)

1937

El impostor poster
5.7

No synopsis available yet.

El impostor

1937

No artwork available
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

El rosal bendito

1936

Guadalupe La Chinaca poster
6.7

1830s: An officer from the French army and a leader of the insurgency are both in love with Ms. Guadalupe.

Guadalupe La Chinaca

1938

No artwork available
NR

Alma falls in love with Julio, a famous singer, but her parents oppose the idea thinking that it's just one more of her rich girl whims.

Ahora seremos felices

1939

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