Luis Aguilar

Overview

Known for
Acting
Gender
Other
Birthday
Jan 29, 1918 (107 years old)
Death date
Oct 24, 1997

Luis Aguilar

Known For

Perdida
1h 36m
Movie 2009

Perdida

This film traces the unbelievable true story of the Calderón family, who built grand movie palaces in Mexico and the U.S., employing thousands to produce incomparable, hugely successful, and often reprehensible populist-genre films that were utterly and uniquely Mexican.

Bajo un Mismo Rostro
0h 45m
TV Show 1995

Bajo un Mismo Rostro

After the murder of her father and brother, Irene Saldivar travels to Greece. There she meets and falls in love with entrepreneur Alexis Theodorakis. Carlos is the administrator of Irene's fortune and cooperates with Alejandro in a rotten and corrupt business where he marries rich women, kills them, and obtains their fortune. When Carlos finds out about Irene's marriage to Alexis, he formulates a plan to kill Alexis and obtain his fortune. During Irene and Alexis' honeymoon, Carlos' plan succeeds when the boat Alexis travels in explodes. A desperate and pregnant Irene returns to Mexico, where she falls in love with Dr. Diego Covarrubias. However, Irene is forced to leave him for the sake of her friend Carolina, since Carolina loves him and has cancer. Since Alejandro isn't able to win Irene's love, Alejandro gets in her life and forces her to marry him or risk losing her son - all of this as part of another plan Carlos formulated so he and Alejandro plot Irene's death in another fatal catastrophe.

Capricho
0h 45m
TV Show 1993

Capricho

Story about a woman that is unhappily married and with two daughters. She constantly reprimands Cristina and baby Raquel. What the people around her don't know is that Raquel is not her husband's daughter as everyone believes. Raquel is Eugenia and León's daughter. She has always loved him, not her husband. That is the reason she's always angry at Cristina.

Midnight Killer
1h 10m
Movie 1993

Midnight Killer

A reporter begins to suspect that the murders he’s been assigned to cover could be the work of his army buddy - now heroin addict - Roy, who suffers from blackouts.

El reloj de la muerte
1h 30m
Movie 1993

El reloj de la muerte

More Mexican exploitation gold, it is a one hour and 40 minute schizophrenic experience. This is an experience that is surely to be enjoyed by everyone that's into weird and tripppy shit." Also from the review: "Exactly what kind of bad stuff is happening to Alberto? Well first of all, he starts to see bloody dead bodies in his bathroom, his employees turn into hungry zombies, and he's almost killed by Batman, Catwoman and Penguin (seriously)."

Los años de Greta
1h 49m
Movie 1992

Los años de Greta

Elderly woman bonds with other senior citizens for emotional support.

Lola the Truck Driver 3
Movie 1991

Lola the Truck Driver 3

The Only Witness
1h 30m
Movie 1990

The Only Witness

A paid assassin who fights a criminal organization in order to find the person responsible of his mother’s death, beginning with the organization’s leader down to the very last one. Then he discovers that the only witness of his mother’s murder is...

Biography

Luis Aguilar Manzo (1918 - 1997) was a Mexican film and television actor and singer of the Golden Age of Mexican cinema. He was also known as El Gallo Giro, and was noted for his performances in films as El 7 leguas (1955) and El látigo negro (1958). Aguilar was born in Hermosillo, Sonora. He was given his first leading role in the film Sota, Caballo y Rey (1944). He had two daughters (Anna Luisa and Martha Fernanda Aguilar) from his first marriage and one son (Luis Aguilar Doblado) from his second marriage with actress Rosario Galvez. He died on the night of October 23–24, 1997 during his sleep.

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