
Acting
Delia Magaña
Born — Died
1903-02-02 — 1996-03-31
Place of birth
Mexico City, Mexico
Known for
Acting
Credits
60 titles
Delia Magaña was a Mexican film and television actress, singer, and dancer. Although she started as a silent film actress, Magaña became best known for her comic supporting roles in her later years. For her 60 years in the film industry, as well as for contributing to the American cinema, Magaña's name and hand print are preserved in the sidewalk outside Mann's Chinese Theater in Hollywood, California.
Known for
6.4Sister Maria is known in the convent for her good works and charity, but, in the secret depths of her sexual fantasies, she is tormented by visions of another world - a world where her forbidden passions are allowed to run free. In this world Satan is her master. As her acts of violence and blasphemy mount, Maria realizes that she has been chosen by the Devil to destroy the convent and lead her sister nuns into hell!
Satanic Pandemonium
1975
8.3Rosario, the niece of the rancher, returns to the ranch after ten years of absence. She takes in Margarito, a worker at the ranch, who is immediately smitten by her. Rosario is rescued from a runaway horse by the Seven Men, an outlaw a la Robin Hood that steals from the rich and gives to the poor. He also happens to be the twin brother of Margarito, unbeknownst to him. The confusion between Margarito and the Seven Men generates great comical situations in the film.
El Siete Machos
1951
8.2Carpenter Pepe El Toro lives peacefully with his daughter Chachita in an impoverished Mexico City neighborhood. He pursues a romance with the pretty Celia, but tragedy comes knocking on his door when he is falsely accused of having perpetrated a felony.
We the Poor
1948
7.8Two men and two women meet and pair off (m/w x 2) during the town Festival in San Marcos. Later, weddings.
La feria de San Marcos
1958
7.2Between-engagements troupers at a theatrical boarding-house con a rich acquaintance into financing a show.
Pensión de artistas
1956
7.5An academic tags along among a crew of rowdy delivery-truck drivers, taking notes on their colorful and idiomatic use of language.
Picardía mexicana
1978
Film credits
1990s · 1 titles
1980s · 7 titles
4.0Traumatized child grows up to commit serial murders, targeting men and women who look like his mom and her boyfriends.
Terror in the Barrios
1983
6.3No synopsis available yet.
Lagunilla 2
1982
5.7A ghost falls in love with the daughter of the owner of an old mansion, but her fiancé will fight to make sure the ghost leaves them alone.
The Ghost of the Lake
1981
6.0Mexican feature film
San Juan de Dios es Jalisco
1982
4.8Left grief-stricken when his bride dies unexpectedly on their wedding night, desperate newlywed Juan Pablo jumps into a relationship with a sexy pickpocket in this romantic Mexican drama. At first, Juan Pablo desires only the touch of a woman, but things change when he begins to have strong feelings for Rosa. Sasha Montenegro, Susana Cabrera, Roberto Montiel, Eduardo de la Peña, Anaís de Melo and Delia Magaña star.
La golfa del barrio
1982
No synopsis available yet.
La esperanza de los pobres
1983
5.8After being unjustly accused of corruption and seriously injured in prison, Miguel's personality will merge with the characters he reads in his police novels.
Call Me Mike
1981
1970s · 8 titles
6.4Sister Maria is known in the convent for her good works and charity, but, in the secret depths of her sexual fantasies, she is tormented by visions of another world - a world where her forbidden passions are allowed to run free. In this world Satan is her master. As her acts of violence and blasphemy mount, Maria realizes that she has been chosen by the Devil to destroy the convent and lead her sister nuns into hell!
Satanic Pandemonium
1975
7.5An academic tags along among a crew of rowdy delivery-truck drivers, taking notes on their colorful and idiomatic use of language.
Picardía mexicana
1978
5.2Agapito, leader of the revolutionary movement of his state, comes to a town, kills all the federales, and gets a girl who was promised to him for his heroic deeds.
El Quelite
1970
4.6She rejects him, but he's there for her, even after she gets married and then is abandoned by her babydaddy. Remake of Bajo El Cielo De Mexico (1958) (and also 1937?).
Tu camino y el mio
1973
5.8A man goes on a trip and then returns to his village pretending that everything went well for him.
The Useless Life of Pito Pérez
1970
4.7A soccer coach gets caught in the middle of the conflict between a millionaire and his wife.
Guerra de sexos
1978
5.8A political player is presumed dead in a traffic accident; his relatives all try to cash in on his estate while he goes into hiding with schemes of his own.
Las cenizas del diputado
1977
4.1While being shuttled from her convent/boarding school to her wedding, a young lady of the upper classes is kidnapped by bandits. She gets to see the world and meet interesting people.
The Nights of Paloma
1978
1960s · 10 titles
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
6.0Gabino's son tries to find out why his father was murdered.
El Hijo De Gabino Barrera
1965
6.4Sequel to Maria Pistolas. Comic-tomgirl member of Villa's army has boy trouble.
El corrido de María Pistolas
1964
Cowboy justice, Five-avenger team up. #2 in series of two.
Vuelven los cinco halcones
1962
5.8Charro-dude wants his sister to marry into professional city-folk and move into the upper classes... but she's in love with somebody from their own social stratum.
Los valientes no mueren
1962
5.5White-hat cowboy takes down a Western gang-leader and his hired guns.
Los Malditos
1966
6.2Rom-com about two horses. And some humans.
Alazán y enamorado
1966
6.7Tomboyish gal becomes a player in the Mexican Revolution. Then: boyfriends.
María Pistolas
1963
6.3Little cowboy-fella, believed to be an orphan, helps his sheriff buddy to stamp out crime. Second of two in series.
Los amigos Maravilla en el mundo de la aventura
1963
6.1Daniel is let out of jail for his mothers funeral. During his furlough he kidnaps his son and takes him to a movie set where a western is being shot.
Bala Perdida
1960
1950s · 18 titles
8.3Rosario, the niece of the rancher, returns to the ranch after ten years of absence. She takes in Margarito, a worker at the ranch, who is immediately smitten by her. Rosario is rescued from a runaway horse by the Seven Men, an outlaw a la Robin Hood that steals from the rich and gives to the poor. He also happens to be the twin brother of Margarito, unbeknownst to him. The confusion between Margarito and the Seven Men generates great comical situations in the film.
El Siete Machos
1951
7.8Two men and two women meet and pair off (m/w x 2) during the town Festival in San Marcos. Later, weddings.
La feria de San Marcos
1958
7.2Between-engagements troupers at a theatrical boarding-house con a rich acquaintance into financing a show.
Pensión de artistas
1956
5.6A couple suffers marital crisis, because they cannot have children. The wife harbors a long kept secret that might doom the marriage.
El secreto de mi mujer
1955
6.7A bullfighter suffers an accident during an afternoon of bullfighting in a town square and his ex-lover tells his story.
El sol sale para todos
1950
6.3A single mother discovers her daughter getting ready to elope with an unworthy boyfriend, so she sits the girl down and tells her the whole entire story of her own very unhappy marriage.
Inmaculada
1950
4.6Four anecdotes involving a mink coat in display in a shop window.
Historia de un abrigo de mink
1955
6.0No synopsis available yet.
Se le pasó la mano
1952
6.0The guy that runs the concession stand at a vaudeville theatre gets tangled up with a gang of thieves.
Comedians of the League
1957
5.8Woman and her daughter try to get on with their lives and run their family bakery while dealing with abusive alcoholic husband/father and other family problems.
Cuando los hijos odian
1950
6.0Three boys and three girls. First all the boys are fighting over one of the girls, then all the boys are fighting over another of the girls and yadda yadda yadda.
Sandunga para tres
1953
6.6In order to come into a large inheritance, young Divina must marry her cousin Pablo. Her aunt, Milagros, hatches a plan to disguise themselves as a maid and her nephew in order to get to know him better.
Yo quiero ser hombre
1950
5.2No synopsis available yet.
¡… Y murío por nosotros!
1951
6.7Concert pianist unjustly convicted of espionage. On release, he hooks up with a terminally-ill ballerina.
El valor de vivir
1954
6.0Two sisters, who are devoted to each other, fall in love with the same man. One of them is terminally ill and after she dies there is suspicion she might have been murdered.
Loving Was His Sin
1951
5.5Fed agent goes undercover as roving cowboy to solve rural crimes. "Mauricio Rosales" Series.
La pantera negra
1957
6.7A pregnant parishioner can't get her boyfriend to marry her and the home office thinks that foundling girl the priest took in is too old now to live under the same roof with him. It's always something, ain't it?
La sobrina del señor cura
1954
5.8Ten or twelve years ago, a young man wrecked his car and his wife was killed in the accident. Today, his wealthy mother-in-law is still full of hatred and bitterness toward him, and she prefers not to acknowledge her granddaughter. Will love and tenderness find their way into the crusty old bitch's heart?
El ruiseñor del barrio
1952
1940s · 11 titles
8.2Carpenter Pepe El Toro lives peacefully with his daughter Chachita in an impoverished Mexico City neighborhood. He pursues a romance with the pretty Celia, but tragedy comes knocking on his door when he is falsely accused of having perpetrated a felony.
We the Poor
1948
7.8Pepe el Toro is married to Celia la Chorreada and they have two children.
You the Rich
1948
6.4Driver Gregorio del Prado and fare collector Regalito were suspended for deviating from their route to impress a young woman named Cholita.
Get Off at the Next Corner!
1948
5.7A 1942 film directed by Miguel M. Delgado.
Mi viuda alegre
1942
5.8A very ordinary little mook is manipulated into posing as a notorious bandit.
El tigre de Jalisco
1947
6.2Divorciadas tells the story of three women: Cristina, recently divorced after refusing to endure her husband's lack of love, especially following the death of their young son; Carmen, divorced for many years and living on the fortune left to her by her late husband, leading a free and unconventional life; and Juanita, an employee at the courthouse where she meets Cristina, married but long abandoned by her husband.
Divorciadas
1943
6.6Union-organizing and labor/management conflicts among Mexico City bus-drivers. Sequel to "Esquina, Bajan!"
Hay lugar para... dos
1949
6.0A 17th century woman, imprisoned for fighting in a bar, recounts her past to a priest. She tells of her father teaching her how to fence, of being sent to a convent by her aunt when her father died, of escaping by dressing as a man, and of her life as a man following the escape.
La monja alférez
1944
6.3Comical misadventures of two goofballs looking for work.
Dos de la vida airada
1948
6.7No synopsis available yet.
Unidos por el eje
1942
5.8Naive Chinese immigrant has feelings for a young woman of loose morals whom he hires at his restaurant.
Café de chinos
1949
1930s · 5 titles
The magazine "Paintings of the People" initiates a contest to select the best watercolor painting of ethnic peoples and customs. A hungry bohemian painter invokes his muse to help him to produce the winning painting, and when he experiments with scenes set in Mexico, Argentina and Spain, his paintings come to life. In Xochimilco, Mexico, a young bachelor has a drunken dream that his girl friend is performing Josephine Baker's famous banana dance in a Parisian nightclub. In Buenos Aires, an Italian and a Galician are rivals for the affections of a Creole girl. At the other side of the Hispanic world, a Sevillian girl tells of her tragic romance with a matador, who obstinately continues to appear in the ring despite having been injured.
Charros, gauchos y manolas
1930
An irascible retired old lawyer exposes a diamond thief.
Curmudgeon
1930
8.0Spanish-language remake of the 1929 film of the same name. Broadway showgirl Mary Dugan is charged with murder in the knifing death of her wealthy lover and goes on trial for her life. When her defense counsel appears to bungle his job, Mary's brother Jimmy, a newly-licensed attorney, jumps into the case to defend his sister. Jimmy's courtroom style is unconventional, but he seems to be holding his own against the prosecuting attorney—until a surprise testimony changes the course of the trial...
The Trial of Mary Dugan
1931
8.0A British ex-Grenadier Guards officer moves to America, but struggles to find work. After he is employed as a chauffeur to a wealthy family, he falls in love with his employer's daughter.
Thus is Life
1930
Early talkie, Spanish-language comedy short film.
Un fotógrafo distraído
1930

