Jorge Rivero

Acting

Jorge Rivero

Born

1938-06-15 (88)

Place of birth

Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico

Known for

Acting

Credits

68 titles

Jorge Pous Rosas, known as Jorge Rivero, is a Mexican actor. In his time he was one of the most athletic actors in Mexican cinema, which made him one of the biggest male sex symbols of the 1970s and 1980s. Very handsome and muscular Mexican leading man of Spanish origin, on-screen from the mid-1960s. Ironically, in his debut film he played a masked wrestler and his face was never shown. Rivero soon became a sex symbol and a major box-office star, and was called by Hollywood to star with John Wayne in Howard Hawks's Río Lobo (1970). Since the 1980s he has worked only occasionally in Mexican films and soap operas -- he has lived in Southern California for more than a decade -- but shows up in…

Known for

Columbo poster
8.1

Columbo is a friendly, verbose, disheveled-looking police detective who is consistently underestimated by his suspects. Despite his unprepossessing appearance and apparent absentmindedness, he shrewdly solves all of his cases and secures all evidence needed for indictment. His formidable eye for detail and meticulously dedicated approach often become clear to the killer only late in the storyline.

Columbo

1971

The Merv Griffin Show poster
6.8

No synopsis available yet.

The Merv Griffin Show

1962

La Chacala poster
6.5

Javier takes Delia, his pregnant wife, to his ranch in a remote village. Although she's surrounded with love and comfort, Delia has an uneasy feeling. One day, Javier goes out hunting and kills a deer, which to his horror turns out to be a man. Javier's servants toss the corpse over a canyon and tell him to forget the incident, but the dead man's ghost seeks out his mother, the local witch, and begs her to avenge his murder. The witch turns up at Javier´s ranch, and under a mysterious and unexpected shower of thunder and lightning, curses the family. Javier's wife shall bear twin daughters, one of which shall be a fearsome demoness. A day later, Delia goes into labor and gives birth to a healthy baby girl. Everybody feels calmer after the birth, yet a couple of hours later, Delia gets labor pains again. This time she's ripped apart by another baby girl. Delia bleeds to death, yet because the two girls look identical, both healthy and beautiful, it´s hard to know which one killed her mother. Several years later, the identical twins have very different personalities. Gilda is an independent doctor and a city dweller. Her twin Liliana is a frail invalid who resides in the ranch. However, one of them harbors inside the dreadful Chacala, which will soon materialize to wreak havoc among those around her.

La Chacala

1997

Balada por un amor poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Balada por un amor

1989

El chofer poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

El chofer

1974

Pacto de amor poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Pacto de amor

1977

Film credits

1990s · 7 titles

1980s · 14 titles

Target Eagle poster
5.5

A Spanish police chief hires an undercover agent, Eagle, to infiltrate a gang of heroin smugglers. Infiltrating the gang, he uses a female agent as a point of contact. However he discovers that there bigger goings-on than dope. The gang is involved in the transportation of smuggled uranium for the manufacture of nuclear arms for sale to Libya and other aspiring third world countries.

Target Eagle

1982

Counterforce poster
5.6

A team of specialists is dispatched to protect the leader of a Middle Eastern country from a neighboring dictator who has designs on his country.

Counterforce

1988

El Dia Del Compadre poster
5.5

The inhabitants of a condominium prepare to party and have a baile where various things happen caused by alcohol.

El Dia Del Compadre

1983

Priest of Love poster
5.0

Following the banning and burning of his novel, "The Rainbow," D.H. Lawrence and his wife, Frieda, move to the United States, and then to Mexico. When Lawrence contracts tuberculosis, they return to England for a short time, then to Italy, where Lawrence writes "Lady Chatterley's Lover."

Priest of Love

1981

Conquest poster
5.2

To mark his passage into manhood, young Ilias is gifted a magical bow by his father and embarks upon a journey into the wilderness to rid the land of evil, all the while battling the witch Ocron, who wishes to steal the bow for her own nefarious ends.

Conquest

1983

Killing Machine poster
4.6

After a gang of thugs brands a hard working truck driver a traitor and murders his bride, He retaliates by being even more violent than his attackers.

Killing Machine

1984

Profesor eróticus poster
6.1

A young professor of sexology advantage to spend the honeymoon at hotel in Mallorca where he has a congress. There he meets colleagues of different nationalities who also attended with their wives. A number of changes in the novel drugs that are causing a number of unexpected reactions ranging from professional envy jealousy. The situation causes wobble love affair honeymooners.

Profesor eróticus

1981

Bordello poster
4.7

Minister with four virgin daughters inherits a bordello. The land contains a silver mine and the corrupt sheriff tries to force them to leave.

Bordello

1981

Mi fantasma y yo poster
5.2

A family of three moves to a haunted house. The couple's 10-year-old son runs into the ghost of the house but isn't scared. He tells the ghost that since his father is a writer of horror novels he lost fear of horror stories. The ghost then confides in the boy that he is a lonely ghost on account of the modern world focused on so many material priorities. Child and ghost become best friends, playing together, telling stories and helping the ghost pay his rent by scaring people every month.

Mi fantasma y yo

1988

Fist Fighter poster
4.6

C.J. Thunderbird, a down-on-his-luck professional fighter is informed that his old friend has been killed in an illegal fight. He finds out that the killer is a goon named Rhino and, with vengeance on his mind, tracks him down in Bolivia. The trouble is that the guy works for a local drug lord and the only way for C.J. to get to Rhino is to prove himself with his fists. However, the druglord doesn't want his best goon hurt, so he arranges for the corrupt local authorities to bust C.J. and send him to prison. The only way out is fighting the prison's monstrous colossal cage-fighting champ known as the Beast, who's never left an opponent breathing. Druglord's hot blond Caucasian girlfriend, Ellen, tired of being at the criminal's mercy, decides to help C.J. anyway she can. Even with all the odds against him, C.J. is no pushover and Rhino slowly becomes worried.

Fist Fighter

1989

El rey de los tahures poster
5.6

Young man becomes a professional gambler to track down the cardshark that killed his father in a poker game.

El rey de los tahures

1980

Morir de madrugada poster
6.8

A successful lawyer has his life shattered when his beautiful wife is found murdered. An investigation reveals she was lying to him and leading a double life... but who killed her?

Morir de madrugada

1980

La pulquería 3: Entre ficheras anda el diablo poster
6.6

After regaining his manliness, he escapes from hell Satan for embezzling Secretary of infernal hacienda, being chased by a couple of poor devils good for nothing, and took refuge in the cabaret ends up working as a transvestite.

La pulquería 3: Entre ficheras anda el diablo

1984

Savage Summer poster
4.4

After a romantic betrayal, young Cecilia decides to sleep around with the men she grew up with.

Savage Summer

1980

1970s · 30 titles

Rio Lobo poster
6.5

After the Civil War, a former Union colonel searches for the two traitors whose perfidy led to the loss of a close friend.

Rio Lobo

1970

Soldier Blue poster
6.8

After a cavalry group is massacred by the Cheyenne, only two survivors remain: Honus, a naive private devoted to his duty, and Cresta, a young woman who had lived with the Cheyenne two years and whose sympathies lie more with them than with the US government. Together, they must try to reach the cavalry's main base camp. As they travel onward, Honus is torn between his growing affection for Cresta.

Soldier Blue

1970

The Last Hard Men poster
6.1

In 1909 Arizona, retired lawman Sam Burgade's life is thrown upside-down when his old enemy Provo and six other convicts escape a chain-gang in the Yuma Territorial Prison and come gunning for Burgade.

The Last Hard Men

1976

Las ficheras: Bellas de noche II parte poster
6.9

Bellas de noche continues. The ex-fichera who bought the cabaret continues to work with several of her former companions, the waiter Fabian, the pugilist Bronco who returns to boxing, Carmen, his wife, who returns to booking, the drunk “La Corcholata”, in love with an old man, and a French woman and the pimp “El Vaselinas”, whose favors are disputed by all the women, but who loses his virility and fights to regain it.

Las ficheras: Bellas de noche II parte

1977

Bellas De Noche poster
6.2

The Boxer Germán Bronco Torres loses his license, and works as bouncer at the cabaret El Pirulí, where he falls for the fichera Carmen, and befriends of the pimp Margarito Fuensanta El Vaselinas, who lost a bet and has to pay to a gangsters. For 500 pesos for El Vaselinas, Bronco prepares a trap in the cabaret to the taxi driver Raul, to seduce his girlfriend, not knowing that the victim is his own sister Lupita.

Bellas De Noche

1975

Day of the Assassin poster
4.9

Treasure hunters from around the world race to Mexico after a Middle Eastern luxury yacht explodes, sending a Shah's fortune and mysterious document to the bottom of the ocean.

Day of the Assassin

1979

Los Hombres No Lloran poster
5.4

Man is manipulated into thinking his wife is unfaithful and abandons her, taking one of their two sons with him.

Los Hombres No Lloran

1973

El cortado poster
5.5

Two small boys see their parents murdered by army officer. They grow up and go gunning for him..

El cortado

1979

Guns and Guts poster
5.2

An outlaw and a scorned husband both team up to track down and kill the man that wronged them. Along the way, the two men meet a hired gun that loves money just as much as he loves the company of women, so the two men decide to hire him in order to help them on their mission. However, things become complicated when the man they all seek to kill has risen to become a wealthy sheriff with a small army of gunmen at his disposal.

Guns and Guts

1974

La hora desnuda poster
4.2

No synopsis available yet.

La hora desnuda

1971

The Gambler poster
7.5

Three childhood friends; when they grow up, the poor boy is shut out from the possibility of romancing the girl because of class issues. He leaves town, learns to play pro-level poker, wins a fortune, then goes home to ruin his rival's life.

The Gambler

1979

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

Erótica poster
6.5

Two men commit a robbery. One is caught but the other escapes. He ends his escape on a lonely and deserted beach where he meets a beautiful woman named Erótica. They start a passionate love affair that is interrupted when the other con man escapes from prison and joins them. A sexual/sentimental love triangle begins leading to a violent confrontation between the two men.

Erótica

1979

Maten al León poster
6.6

A pilot is called back to his homeland, the Latin American republic of Arepa, by the rich islanders to participate in a complot to kill the dictator known as El León (The Lion).

Maten al León

1977

Los Caciques poster
6.2

A bad man holds the power of life and death over the inhabitants of a village... for no apparent reason... and he's fond of torturing them, tying them to crosses and leaving them to die. A cowboy with necromantic powers comes along and leads a rebellion to overthrow that reign of terror.

Los Caciques

1975

Chronicle of a Love poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Chronicle of a Love

1974

The Children of Satan poster
5.8

Two sworn enemies must put aside their differences and join forces to catch a gang of thieves led by a woman called "The Yara". They must fight to save their village from the bandits and do everything necessary to prevent The Yara from controlling their destinies.

The Children of Satan

1972

Manaos poster
4.7

At the beginning of this century some owners of rubber plantations in the Amazonas jungle convert a village into one big prison. But the inhabitants have other plans...

Manaos

1979

Tigre poster
5.8

Boy adopts an orphaned mountain lion and they grow up together. Fifteen years later, local farmers decid theey don't like having that critter around their livestock, and things go south real fast.

Tigre

1979

Jesús, el niño Dios poster
6.4

No synopsis available yet.

Jesús, el niño Dios

1971

Hoy he soñado con Dios poster
6.8

Aging widow interferes in the lives of her adult children.

Hoy he soñado con Dios

1972

The Loving Ones poster
4.7

A Mexican sex comedy (fichera)

The Loving Ones

1979

Angel Negro poster
6.0

A young man witnesses the assassination of his father and suffers an emotional shock. He then prepares himself for a bloody and terrible vengeance.

Angel Negro

1978

Noches de Cabaret: Las Reinas del Talón poster
5.0

No synopsis available yet.

Noches de Cabaret: Las Reinas del Talón

1978

La Hermanita Dinamita poster
6.7

After accidentally hitting a boy with her car, a young woman pretends to be a nurse in order secretly help him to recover.

La Hermanita Dinamita

1970

Los leones del ring poster
5.5

Young wrestler runs afoul of gambling-syndicate Mafiosi; his twin brother and two friends meet at his funeral and decide to avenge his murder (which they don't even start doing until the sequel).

Los leones del ring

1974

Trampa mortal poster
6.0

During a secret society initiation, a girls-only event, one of the new members is killed in a game of Russian roulette. Years go by, and the remaining members are invited to a mysterious reunion at a lavish estate belonging to the father of the killed girl.

Trampa mortal

1972

Evil Eye poster
4.6

People around Peter Crane begin dying in mysterious fashion. How is Playboy Peter involved in this? He begins having nightmares dealing with murder...His psychiatrist has no idea of what Peter is suffering from. Even the police are in danger as they start investigating the case. What is the secret of the "Magic Circle"?

Evil Eye

1975

Los dos hermanos poster
6.0

A rich and powerful man is married to a much younger woman, who has a lover.

Los dos hermanos

1971

Los leones del ring contra la Cosa Nostra poster
4.5

Twin brother of murdered pro-wrestler goes after the killerses.

Los leones del ring contra la Cosa Nostra

1974

1960s · 7 titles

Series credits

Columbo poster
8.1

Columbo is a friendly, verbose, disheveled-looking police detective who is consistently underestimated by his suspects. Despite his unprepossessing appearance and apparent absentmindedness, he shrewdly solves all of his cases and secures all evidence needed for indictment. His formidable eye for detail and meticulously dedicated approach often become clear to the killer only late in the storyline.

Columbo

1971

The Merv Griffin Show poster
6.8

No synopsis available yet.

The Merv Griffin Show

1962

La Chacala poster
6.5

Javier takes Delia, his pregnant wife, to his ranch in a remote village. Although she's surrounded with love and comfort, Delia has an uneasy feeling. One day, Javier goes out hunting and kills a deer, which to his horror turns out to be a man. Javier's servants toss the corpse over a canyon and tell him to forget the incident, but the dead man's ghost seeks out his mother, the local witch, and begs her to avenge his murder. The witch turns up at Javier´s ranch, and under a mysterious and unexpected shower of thunder and lightning, curses the family. Javier's wife shall bear twin daughters, one of which shall be a fearsome demoness. A day later, Delia goes into labor and gives birth to a healthy baby girl. Everybody feels calmer after the birth, yet a couple of hours later, Delia gets labor pains again. This time she's ripped apart by another baby girl. Delia bleeds to death, yet because the two girls look identical, both healthy and beautiful, it´s hard to know which one killed her mother. Several years later, the identical twins have very different personalities. Gilda is an independent doctor and a city dweller. Her twin Liliana is a frail invalid who resides in the ranch. However, one of them harbors inside the dreadful Chacala, which will soon materialize to wreak havoc among those around her.

La Chacala

1997

Balada por un amor poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Balada por un amor

1989

El chofer poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

El chofer

1974

Pacto de amor poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Pacto de amor

1977

Gabriel y Gabriela poster
8.0

Gabriel y Gabriela is a Mexican telenovela made by Televisa and produced by Patricia Lozano in 1982. The series was based on an original story by Yolanda Vargas Dulche, who also wrote the adaptation for television. The series featured an original song "Dulce Amor", written by Bebu Silvetti and performed by Ana Martín, who also starred in the main role. The series was directed by Carlos Téllez with cinematography by Carlos Velazquez.

Gabriel y Gabriela

1982

Behind the camera