Directing
Gilberto Gazcón
Born 1929-05-19 · Mexico City, Mexico
Gilberto Gazcón de Anda (May 19, 1929 – May 11, 2013) was a Mexican film director , screenwriter and producer. He wrote more than fifty screenplays , directed more than thirty films, won numerous awards, and was a promoter of Mexican cinema. He is best known in English-speaking countries for the neo noir thriller film Rage (1966), starring Glenn Ford and Stella Stevens . Gilberto Gazcón was born in Mexico City on 19 May 1929. He was the son of film producer and screenwriter Valentín Gazcón, and the nephew of Raúl de Anda , pioneers of Mexican sound cinema. His brother Edgardo Gazcón also became a filmmaker. He showed an aptitude for art from an early age, and was drawn to cinema, where he began as a child actor and later worked as an assistant set designer. He began writing his own screenplays, and decided to abandon his medical career and enrolled in film adaptation courses and studied acting at the Cinematographic Academy, directed by Celestino Gorostiza . The first film to be released with a plot written by him was Fierecilla (1950), directed by Fernando Méndez [ es ] , which received favorable reviews for its plot and the psychology of its characters. In 1958 he directed his first film, The Boxer. In 1966 he directed a Mexican-American co-production Rage ( El mal ), starring Glenn Ford and Stella Stevens. In 1960 he directed Lacarcel de Cananea , which was shown at the San Sebastián International Film Festival. He directed more than 30 films, including The Uprooted (1959), The Laughter of the City (1962), Stray Dog (1980), and Stray Dog II (1981). He was a founding member in 1963 of the Mexican Society of Film, Radio and Television Directors and Producers (Sociedad Mexicana de Directores y Realizadores de Cine, Radio y Televisión ), and honorary president since 1982. He died on May 11, 2013 at the age of 83, due to pulmonary complications caused by an embolism. Film director Juan Antonio de la Riva, head of the Mexican Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences, described him as "a great man, who in his career as a writer and director always strove to be ambitious, always pursued quality cinema, which was demonstrated in most of his films".
Acting credits
Behind the camera
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
5.7All it says in my notes is "Like 'Juan Sin Miedo', only with soldiers." So... Army officer seeks revenge for... something...
Atrás de las nubes
1962
6.3Two brothers and their pops end up helping out an orphaned young woman who wants revenge against her father's murderer.
Los aventureros
1954
5.4Traveling salesman's amoral/sometimes criminal behavior catches up with him after he settles in at his brother's vinyard.
El Cínico
1970
Three men receive a newborn child, along with a message that leaves the mother for dead and one of them for the father.
Tres bribones
1955
8.0An abandoned child steals to survive and has problems when he decides to steal from the priest who helps him.
Perro callejero
1980
8.0An abandoned child steals to survive and has problems when he decides to steal from the priest who helps him.
Perro callejero
1980
Troubled young man meets his father for the first time.
Cielo Rojo
1962
7.3After serving his three-year sentence, Perro, who was only visited by Father Maromas, returns to his old environment. There, Chava recruits him back into drug trafficking.
Perro callejero 2
1981
7.3After serving his three-year sentence, Perro, who was only visited by Father Maromas, returns to his old environment. There, Chava recruits him back into drug trafficking.
Perro callejero 2
1981
4.7Two bozo construction workers discover a cache of 19th century gold coins while demolishing a building.
Dos de abajo
1983
4.7Two bozo construction workers discover a cache of 19th century gold coins while demolishing a building.
Dos de abajo
1983
5.6Small-town doctor bitten by rabid dog, races the clock to get to the city and receive treatment.
Rage
1966
5.6Small-town doctor bitten by rabid dog, races the clock to get to the city and receive treatment.
Rage
1966
5.6Small-town doctor bitten by rabid dog, races the clock to get to the city and receive treatment.
Rage
1966
5.3After breaking out of jail, a group of convicts finds a ghost town they can take possession of. They send word out along the grapevine that criminals and marginal people can make a home there... and as the population grows, their self-policing efforts turn the whole town into a model community.
Fugitivos: Pueblo de proscritos
1955
6.9Trucker accepts an assignment to haul an extremely dangerous load of explosives from Tijuana to Mexico City.
El cafre
1986
6.9Trucker accepts an assignment to haul an extremely dangerous load of explosives from Tijuana to Mexico City.
El cafre
1986
6.9Trucker accepts an assignment to haul an extremely dangerous load of explosives from Tijuana to Mexico City.
El cafre
1986
5.8Two construction workers discover a stash of gold coins hidden in the walls of a building they're demolishing.
Suerte Te De Dios
1961
6.3Disenfranchised drifter finds a home, working on a young orphan woman's ranch.
El Desconocido
1974
4.0Three parallel romances among young people working in a steel mill.
Al rojo vivo
1969
5.7The misunderstanding between two people; lack of consideration in marriage; the false image that the children of the parents have; the easy door; the quick fix. It does not matter to debase, it does not matter to stain. A family watching at the apex of violence.
Relaciones violentas
1992
6.0One-armed man tracks the people who killed his father.
Juan sin miedo
1961