
Directing
Gilberto Gazcón
Born — Died
1929-05-19 — 2013-05-11
Place of birth
Mexico City, Mexico
Known for
Directing
Credits
42 titles
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 …
Known for
5.4Traveling salesman's amoral/sometimes criminal behavior catches up with him after he settles in at his brother's vinyard.
El Cínico
1970
8.1An abandoned child steals to survive and has problems when he decides to steal from the priest who helps him.
Perro callejero
1980
5.6Small-town doctor bitten by rabid dog, races the clock to get to the city and receive treatment.
Rage
1966
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
4.0Three parallel romances among young people working in a steel mill.
Al rojo vivo
1969
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
Film credits
Behind the camera
5.4Traveling salesman's amoral/sometimes criminal behavior catches up with him after he settles in at his brother's vinyard.
El Cínico
1970
8.1An abandoned child steals to survive and has problems when he decides to steal from the priest who helps him.
Perro callejero
1980
8.1An abandoned child steals to survive and has problems when he decides to steal from the priest who helps him.
Perro callejero
1980
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
5.7All 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
4.0Three parallel romances among young people working in a steel mill.
Al rojo vivo
1969
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
7.0Wanted to fly to the sky ...And one day he got it When a child dares to steal the keys to the orphanage, guarded by a soldier, is exposed to too many dangers. This is the story of that child, freeing his birds, he demanded to life and men, their own freedom. '
The Boy and the Star
1976
7.0Wanted to fly to the sky ...And one day he got it When a child dares to steal the keys to the orphanage, guarded by a soldier, is exposed to too many dangers. This is the story of that child, freeing his birds, he demanded to life and men, their own freedom. '
The Boy and the Star
1976
7.0Wanted to fly to the sky ...And one day he got it When a child dares to steal the keys to the orphanage, guarded by a soldier, is exposed to too many dangers. This is the story of that child, freeing his birds, he demanded to life and men, their own freedom. '
The Boy and the Star
1976
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
4.7A man is murdered. His father tracks the killer, hoping to get revenge before the police capture him. What happened to cause his son's death is gradually revealed.
Death in Cold Blood
1978
4.7A man is murdered. His father tracks the killer, hoping to get revenge before the police capture him. What happened to cause his son's death is gradually revealed.
Death in Cold Blood
1978
Law officer tracks and recaptures escaped convict.
La cárcel de Cananea
1960
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
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
Troubled young man meets his father for the first time.
Cielo Rojo
1962
5.0Priest suffers a head injury, develops amnesia, ends up in a hippie commune.
El cielo y tú
1971
Zorroesque adventure pitting two swordsmen against a newly-appointed governor who wastes no time in displaying his despotic tendencies. Sequel to En El Viejo California.
Los bravos de California
1963
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
5.3After 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
5.8Believing he's committed murder, an unscrupulous adventurer, Lucio Márquez, flees town and takes refuge on a ranch managed by his brother Fausto. Fausto is an honorable man and is about to become engaged to the daughter of the owner of the property under whom he works. He warmly welcomes the errant man and lends his support. Until, disloyally and out of self-interest, his friend steals his fiancée. After struggling between her sincere love for one and her passion for the other, she ends up making a bad choice that could cost her her life.
With the Devil in the Body
1954
5.8Bastard son kidnaps legitimate heir in attempt to suborn their father's estate... but a surrogate comes forward to impersonate the real heir while the other problem getss resolved.
En la vieja California
1963
6.0One-armed man tracks the people who killed his father.
Juan sin miedo
1961
5.8Man accused of murder, and the dead man's daughter, try to find proof of the real murderer's identity.
Tres amigos
1970
5.8Man accused of murder, and the dead man's daughter, try to find proof of the real murderer's identity.
Tres amigos
1970
5.4Two women meet by accident and discover that they both have 10 year+ relationships with the same man. Also, unrelated subplots involving other women.
Rosa de dos aromas
1989
5.4Two women meet by accident and discover that they both have 10 year+ relationships with the same man. Also, unrelated subplots involving other women.
Rosa de dos aromas
1989
The underside of Mexico City: street performers, factory workers, a drunk, an old man with civic pride, a pickpocket, and others live and interact in a shantytown near the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe.
The Laughter Of The City
1963
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
5.5A comic movie that involves a guy who sees a kid in his house who escaped from his wealthy grandfather's mansion.
El gran pillo
1960
5.5A comic movie that involves a guy who sees a kid in his house who escaped from his wealthy grandfather's mansion.
El gran pillo
1960
Three childhood friends are reunited after twenty years to receive an inheritance.
Tres tristes tigres
1961
Three childhood friends are reunited after twenty years to receive an inheritance.
Tres tristes tigres
1961
6.2Father and adult sons give help to an orphaned teenage girl.
What a Man
1955
6.0Footloose roving-gambler type marries a young woman against her father's wishes; she assimilates herself to his rootless, random lifestyle, but her family is working to track them down. Eventually, he decides to settle down and lead a more responsible life, home-and-family style... and then...
Traigo la sangre caliente
1977


