Ofelia Guilmáin

Acting

Ofelia Guilmáin

Born — Died

1921-11-18 — 2005-01-14

Place of birth

Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Known for

Acting

Credits

46 titles

Ofelia Guilmáin (November 17, 1921 – January 14, 2005) was an actress of telenovelas, stage and the cinema of Mexico. She is also the mother of actors Juan Ferrara and Lucía Guilmáin.

Known for

Film credits

1970s · 17 titles

El patrullero 777 poster
7.9

Follows Diogenes as he goes about his day as a police officer. He's prone to do things the right way, surrounded by a pretty much corrupt & citizen distant police department, & always resolves his duties with a personal method.

El patrullero 777

1978

The Long Awaited Desperate Love poster
6.0

A thirty-something woman fears that life is passing her by and that she's going to end up as the family's 'maiden aunt'. She imagines that somebody in her circle is courting her, and he's too polite to disillusion her. And then...

The Long Awaited Desperate Love

1976

Why Was I Born a Woman? poster
8.2

A family gathers to celebrate Mother's Day, that day a woman discuss many problems about her woman condition; husband, children and grandchildren will hear she tired and overwhelmed silenced by submission and obedience. Analysis of the family and gender roles.

Why Was I Born a Woman?

1970

Para servir a usted poster
4.5

Working-class dude gets a gig as a waiter doing banquet service, and loses his moral compass through his contacts with decadent rich folk.

Para servir a usted

1971

The Prophet Mimi poster
6.8

Childhood trauma and religious repression causes a little boy to grow up into a murderer.

The Prophet Mimi

1973

El juicio de los hijos poster
5.8

Widow with teenaged children faces hostility from her dead husband's mother, who seems to know a family secret she wants to use against her.

El juicio de los hijos

1971

Aunt Isabel's Garden poster
5.5

A ship carrying Conquistadors is wrecked and the survivors are thrown ashore to struggle through the Yucatan jungle.

Aunt Isabel's Garden

1972

Those Years poster
6.0

President Juárez fights against the conservatives, who have ordered an emperor to be brought from France to govern Mexico

Those Years

1974

Confesiones de una adolescente poster
5.6

Orphan girl has a secret benefactor. When she's old enough to leave the orphanage and enter the real world, she's determined to track him down. Also: having a first boyfriend, yippee!

Confesiones de una adolescente

1970

La casa de Bernarda Alba poster
7.0

Bernarda, a domineering, reclusive, and ostentatiously pious widow in a small Spanish town, keeps such close watch on her daughters that they are unable to have normal social lives. However, the eldest is allowed to become engaged to an unprincipled young man.

La casa de Bernarda Alba

1974

There's Always a First Time poster
4.5

No synopsis available yet.

There's Always a First Time

1971

The Crazy Virgins poster
6.2

Handsome young swindler throws himself into the clutches of three rich spinsters who live in their own little fantasy world on their crumbling estate.

The Crazy Virgins

1972

The Business of Hate poster
5.8

An ambitious businessman searches for the perfect candidate to train and turn into a great boxing champion.

The Business of Hate

1972

Celestina poster
6.0

An adaptation of the tragicomedy "Calisto y Melibea", attributed to Fernando de Rojas.

Celestina

1976

Panic poster
5.3

Three tales of horror, isolation and insanity set in Mexico.

Panic

1972

El primer amor poster
6.4

Seminary students interrupts his studies for a final vacation in the real world and finds it difficult to break his worldly bonds in preparation for the pristhood.

El primer amor

1974

Misión cumplida poster
6.7

No synopsis available yet.

Misión cumplida

1970

1960s · 15 titles

The Exterminating Angel poster
7.9

After a lavish dinner party, the guests find themselves unable to depart... and, over the next few days, all of their elaborate societal pretenses and façades deteriorate as they are reduced to living like animals.

The Exterminating Angel

1962

The Brainiac poster
5.5

In 1661 Mexico, Baron Vitelius is executed for witchcraft. 300 years later, during a comet's return, he resurfaces as a brain-eating monster seeking revenge on the Inquisitors' descendants.

The Brainiac

1962

El jinete justiciero en retando a la muerte poster
5.7

Guy gets mugged on horseback and left for dead; farmgal nurses him back to health and when he's on his feet again, he puts a domino on and swings into J J action.

El jinete justiciero en retando a la muerte

1966

The Scapular poster
8.3

A woman who is about to die calls the town's priest and hands him a scapulary, saying that she knows of its great powers. Anybody who does not believe in them will end up dead.

The Scapular

1968

Little Red Riding Hood and Tom Thumb vs. the Monsters poster
3.9

The film follows adventures of Little Red Riding Hood (Maria Gracia) and Tom Thumb (Cesaro Quezadas) and their friends, fighting against the wicked Witch Queen (Ofelia Guilmáin) and her band of monsters. The film starts at the meeting of the evil monsters in the castle in the Haunted Forest, heart of the Devil's dominion, during which the Vampire (Quintín Bulnes) accuses the Wolf (Manuel Valdés) and the Ogre (José Elías Moreno) of betraying the Witch Queen (La Reina Bruja, renamed Queen of Badness in the English dub), who orders them to ber executed. Their friend Stinky the Skunk (Santanón) however escapes and informs Little Red Riding Hood and Tom Thumb, who promise to help. Meanwhile, the Queen and her sister the Old Witch cast a terrible curse, turning villagers into monkeys and mice for trying to defy her magic. The rest of the story details the heroes' quest to conquer evil.

Little Red Riding Hood and Tom Thumb vs. the Monsters

1962

Sangre en Rio Bravo poster
5.8

Foreign mining concern resorts to illegal tactics to buy up land; two brothers are orphaned and dispossessed and they become outlaws in revenge.

Sangre en Rio Bravo

1966

Sor Ye-yé poster
5.1

Maria is a young orphan who lives with her wealthy aunt. Maria sings in a cocktail bar with his friends, who form a rock band, and enjoy the night with them. One of his friends, Ernesto, is in love with her, though she does not seem to feel the same about him. In fact, multiple existential doubts and feel a strange emptiness in his life suddenly drive to enter a convent as a novice, breaking Ernestos' heart. However, with her cheerlul character, open and rebellious, not appear to conform to life in the cloister, and especially have problems with the novices director , who often punished for trying to take the right path. In the convent, which also functions as children's hospital, she meets a doctor with which it takes quite right for the contrast between his two characters, but his way with love and mutual respect.

Sor Ye-yé

1968

Aquella Rosita Alvírez poster
6.3

Traveling cowboy gets involved in political issues in a town he passes through. Also a romance.

Aquella Rosita Alvírez

1965

The Happy Musketeers poster
6.3

The Big Bad Wolf and the Stinky Little Skunk from the Caperucita Roja movies in their final adventure, as swashbuckling 17th century swordsmen in a king's service.

The Happy Musketeers

1961

Distant Wind poster
7.0

Three stories: A young man disobeys his aunt by not killing a cat. An orphan boy, in love with his cousin, is fond of war novels, imagining himself as a hero. A couple of schoolboys in love wander around the city and forget the brutality of their respective homes.

Distant Wind

1966

No artwork available
NR

A boy discovers desire and love, and that even when they are close, they can sometimes be far away.

August Afternoon

1965

Perverse Doll poster
6.9

A troubled woman commits a series of murders that exposes some dark family secrets.

Perverse Doll

1969

Quinceañera poster
7.2

María Antonia, Beatriz and Leonor are three classmates who are anxiously awaiting the celebration of their 15th birthday. However, each of them will have to cope with their complicated personal situation.

Quinceañera

1960

Flor marchita poster
6.2

Adult seduces and abandons a teenaged girl, she has a baby. Fifteen years later...

Flor marchita

1969

Las Troyanas poster
6.8

Adaptation of Euripides: lamentations of the women of Troy after their defeat in war.

Las Troyanas

1963

Series credits

Vivo Por Elena poster
6.7

Vivo Por Elena is a Mexican telenovela starring Victoria Ruffo and Saul Lisazo with the antagonic roles of Ana Patricia Rojo and Sebastian Ligarde. The telenovela aired on Univision in 1998. The theme song for the telenovela was Vivo Por Ella, sung by Andrea Bocelli with a duet by Marta Sanchez. The telenovela has been repeated several times on different channels since its original airing.

Vivo Por Elena

1998

La antorcha encendida poster
8.5

A Mexican telenovela produced in 1996. It was the last historical telenovela produced by Televisa. The plot tells the Independence of Mexico, with an emphasis on historical accuracy.

La antorcha encendida

1996

El manantial del milagro poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

El manantial del milagro

1974

Días sin luna poster
9.0

Días sin luna is a 1990 Mexican telenovela produced by Juan Osorio and directed by Rafael Banquells based on an original script by Eric Vonn. It was aired in Canal de las Estrellas Monday to Friday at 17:00 between May 14 and August 31, 1990.

Días sin luna

1990

Mañana es primavera poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Mañana es primavera

1982

Milagro y magia poster
8.5

Milagro y magia is a Mexican telenovela produced by Roberto Gómez Bolaños and Florinda Meza for Televisa and originally broadcast on Canal de las Estrellas from April 29 to August 30, 1991. Written by Florinda Meza and directed by Roberto Gómez Bolaños, the telenovela marked the duo's debut as telenovela producers and Florinda Meza's first leading role in the genre. The story is set in post-revolutionary Mexico and follows two orphaned children, Elisa and Pepe, as they leave their rural hometown in search of a better life in Mexico City. Separated by fate after escaping exploitation, they face hardship, love, and betrayal while struggling to reunite and build a brighter future.

Milagro y magia

1991

Yesenia poster
NR

Yesenia is a beautiful Roma woman who lives different situations in an aimlessly fixed way with the company of her caravan. In one of her many trips she meets a military man, Osvaldo Moncada, and falls in love with him. They will have to prove that their love is stronger than their differences and social prejudice that separate them. One of the opponents of their relationship is Rashay, the patriarch of the Roma people, who opposes the relationship because the military youth does not belong to the Romani tribe.

Yesenia

1987