Claudio Brook Filmography

Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: A Mexican supporting actor, Brook was onscreen from the '60s. ~ All Movie Guide...Read More

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Una Papa Sin Catsup

Synopsis: Although this Mexican romp stars popular, flamboyant singer Gloria Trevi, it was a box-office flop because audiences were put off by the vulgar situations within the story. Playing a dual role, Trevi plays an innocent but rebellious school girl, Gloria, and a notorious drug runner "Las Grenas." Read More

1995
Cronos

Actors: Federico Luppi, Ron Perlman, Claudio Brook, Margarita Isabel, Tamara Shanath

Synopsis: This surreal variant on the classic vampire tale is the directorial debut of Mexican filmmaker Guillermo del Toro, who garnered international acclaim and several awards. The film tells the story of elderly antique dealer Jesus Gris (Federico Luppi, in a role originally written for Max Von Sydow) Read More

1993
Bartolome De Las Casas

Actors: José Alonso, German Robles

Synopsis: The son of one of Columbus' soldiers, Bartolomé de las Casas was educated at the University of Salamanca, taking a law degree there. In 1502 he joined conquistador Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo in what was then the largest military expedition ever to set sail from Spain. In 1510, he became the first Read More

1993
Miroslava

Actors: Arielle Dombasle, Claudio Brook

Synopsis: At the time of her death in 1955 at age twenty five, Czech-born Mexican actress Miroslava had been in over twenty films. Her cool, distant beauty attracted Mexican viewers to her films then and continues to do so now. This biographical drama covers her life as a young girl escaping just ahead of Read More

1993
Revenge

Actors: Kevin Costner, Anthony Quinn, Madeleine Stowe, Tomas Milian, Sally Kirkland, Joaquin Martinez, James Gammon, Joe Santos

Synopsis: Kevin Costner plays an ex-pilot who visits the posh Mexican estate of an old associate (Anthony Quinn) "Tibey" Mendes, for a bit of R & R. Tibey has turned into a very powerful Godfather type who rules his world and those who touch it. Costner can't help but notice his old friend's incredibly Read More

2/16/90
Born on the Fourth of July

Actors: Tom Cruise, Raymond J. Barry, Caroline Kava, Kyra Sedgwick, Brian Larkin, Willem Dafoe

Synopsis: The second of three films by co-writer/director Oliver Stone to explore the effects of the Vietnam War (Platoon and Heaven and Earth are the others), Born On The Fourth Of July tells the true story of Ron Kovic (Tom Cruise), a patriotic, All-American small town athlete who shocks his family by Read More

12/20/89
Romero

Actors: Raul Julia, Richard Jordan, Ana Alicia, Tony Plana, Harold Gould

Synopsis: In El Salvador in the late '70s, the wealthy few rule the impoverished many. To maintain the status quo against peasant insurgents and labor organizations, the military regime brutalizes the populace, in particular, rebels who espouse Marxism. Assassinations, executions, and disappearances become Read More

8/25/89
Licence to Kill

Actors: Timothy Dalton, Carey Lowell, Robert Davi, Talisa Soto, Anthony Zerbe

Synopsis: Timothy Dalton is better in Licence to Kill than in his first James Bond endeavor (The Living Daylights), but he still seems uncomfortable on the right side of the law. This time around, Bond is working on his own rather than on behalf of the British Secret Service. His American friend Felix Read More

1989
Esperansa

Actors: Dmitriy Kharatyan, Leonid Kuravlev, Boris Tokarev, Claudio Brook, Deliya Kazanova

1988
Frida

Actors: Ofelia Medina, Juan Jose Gurrola, Salvador Sanchez, Claudio Brook, Max Kerlow

Synopsis: Frida Kahlo was more than a mere Mexican artist. Crippled, Kahlo used her art to speak for other physically afflicted souls. She also was a controversial political figure, commiserating with the likes of Leon Trotsky and Diego Rivera. Directed by Paul Leduc and photographed by cinematographer Angel Goded Read More

6/26/87
La Mansion De La Locura

1987
Murieron a Mitad del Rio

Actors: Héctor Suárez, Tony Bravo, Jorge Luke, Enrique Lucero, Jorge Martinez de Hoyos

Synopsis: In this cautionary tale, based on a novel by Luis Spota, the travails of four "wetbacks" are told. These men have left their homes throughout Mexico in order to sell their labor north of the Border in the U.S. Along the way, one dies while crossing the Rio Grande, another is deported, a third is Read More

1987
De Veras Me Atrapaste

Actors: Annette Fradera, Armando Martin

Synopsis: Teen angst in Mexico City is made all the worse by a young provincial woman's infatuation for a ghost, in this effective drama about disturbed youth. Aida (Lucy Reyna) arrives in Mexico City and is immediately introduced into the world of drugs and sex by the friends she meets. Before long, she is Read More

1985
Only Once in a Lifetime

Actors: Miguel Robelo, Estrellita Lopez, Sheree North, Claudio Brook

Synopsis: This routine drama is about Dominguez (Miguel Robelo), a Chicano artist living in L.A. who is going through a difficult period of mourning for his dead wife. He lives alone with their dog and continues to paint in the way he wants -- which is not a style that anyone in the public is willing to Read More

1979
Eagle's Wing

Actors: Martin Sheen, Sam Waterston, Harvey Keitel, Stéphane Audran, Caroline Langrishe

Synopsis: Though made in Britain and Europe, Eagle's Wing qualifies as a Western. Easterner Pike (Martin Sheen) does a lot of growing up in a hurry when he becomes a trapper out-West. By mid-film, Pike is accomplished enough to compete with Comanche chief White Bull (Sam Waterston, there's a masterpiece of Read More

1979
Flores de Papel

Actors: Ana Luisa Peluffo, Gabriel Retes, Tina Romero, Claudio Brook

Synopsis: On the thinnest of pretexts, a horde of homeless people descend on the apartments of two members of the comfortable middle class and proceed to loot and vandalize both homes, leaving the next morning with many of the belongings they found there, as well as one of the residents who has opted to Read More

1978
The Bees

Actors: John Saxon, Angel Tompkins, John Carradine, Claudio Brook, Alicia Encinas

Synopsis: This hilariously awful killer-bee epic from director Alfredo Zacharias features surprisingly good special effects and horrible acting. Cult favorites John Saxon and Angel Tompkins star as scientists trying to deal with a U.S. invasion by trillions of sentient bees. The bees want humans to stop Read More

1978
Foxtrot

Actors: Peter O'Toole, Charlotte Rampling, Max von Sydow, Jorge Luke, Helena Rojo

Synopsis: Arturo Ripstein directs Foxtrot, a drama filmed in Mexico that borrows much material from The Rules of the Game. Wealthy European aristocrat Liviu (Peter O'Toole) and his wife, Julia (Charlotte Rampling) escape the harsh reality of WWII by vacationing on a tropical island. Due to unforeseen Read More

1976
The Return of a Man Called Horse

Actors: Richard Harris, Gale Sondergaard, Geoffrey Lewis, Bill [William] Lucking, Jorge Luke

Synopsis: In this sequel to A Man Called Horse, Richard Harris is back as a blue-blooded Englishman who returns to America to help the Indians who had once adopted him. Seeing their lands being taken over by greedy whites, he joins forces with the Sioux tribe to help them defend their birthborn rights. Read More

1976
The Devil's Rain

Actors: Ernest Borgnine, Eddie Albert, Ida Lupino, William Shatner, Keenan Wynn

Synopsis: This horror oddity tells the story of a well-networked throng of devil-worshipers populating a small Arizona town who possess a strange crystal icon which houses the captive souls of their sacrificial victims. The coven, led by the thick-browed Jonathan Corbis (Ernest Borgnine), are also Read More

1975
Cronica De Un Subversivo Latinoamericano

Actors: Orlando Urdaneta

Synopsis: In 1964 a U.S. army colonel was kidnapped by a group of Venezuelan radicals who hoped to effect a prisoner exchange with a Vietnamese man who was sentenced to death for an assassination plot involving the U.S. Secretary of Defense. This political thriller follows the events and characters involved Read More

1975
Sisters of Satan

Synopsis: The Mexican convent of St. Archangelo has a "bad rep" long before Sisters of Satan gets under way. The eponymous sisters don't seem to have a very firm grasp on the concept of giving one's life to one's Lord. When they finally determine that neither God nor the Virgin Mary can satisfy their Read More

1975
5,000 dolares de recompensa

Actors: Claudio Brook, Jorge Luke, Pedro Armendariz, Jr., Silvia Pasquel, Lorena Velazquez

1974
El Santo Oficio

Synopsis: The long arm of the Inquisition, or the "Holy Office," reached at least as far as 16th-century Mexico (known as New Spain at the time). Many Spanish Catholics of Moorish or Jewish origin found it expedient to flee to the New World to escape the suffocating attentions of the Inquisition. In Spain Read More

1974
El Castillo De La Pureza

Synopsis: In this disturbing drama, a father, seeking to protect his family from the evils of the outside world, locks them away in his ancestral home for eighteen years. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1974
Interval

Actors: Anel, Betty Lyon, Fernando Soler, Jr.

Synopsis: In her final role, Merle Oberon stars as a middle-aged woman who falls in love with a painter (Robert Wolders) who is two decades younger than she is. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

1973
The Assassination of Trotsky

Actors: Richard Burton, Alain Delon, Romy Schneider, Valentina Cortese, Luigi Vannucchi

Synopsis: This film is Joseph Losey's mood piece that delves into the psychological makeup of Frank Jackson (Alain Delon), the assassin of exiled Russian Communist leader Leon Trotsky (Richard Burton). The tale chronicles the final few months of Trotsky's life, from the May 1940 raid upon Trotsky's Mexican Read More

4/20/72
Jory

Actors: Robby Benson

Synopsis: A boy (Robby Benson) is forced to become a man when he is left orphaned in the Old West. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

1972
Mansion of Madness

Synopsis: This bizarre Mexican production is loosely based on The System of Dr. Tarr and Professor Feather by Edgar Allan Poe. The story involves a visit from a newspaper reporter (Claudio Brook) to a sanitarium in 19th century France, where he eventually comes to realize the asylum is being run by one of Read More

1972
Frau Wirtin Hat Auch Eine Nichte

Actors: Terry Torday, Claudio Brook, Margaret Lee, Harald Leipnitz, Karl Michael Vogler

Synopsis: Susanne (Terry Torday) is the hostess of a popular hotel on the Lahn River. When she vacations in Paris, she becomes romantically involved with the emperor Napoleon. She sets him up with a bride and manages to uncover some military secrets in the court of the amorous emperor. There is plenty of Read More

8/14/69
The Scarlet Lady

Actors: Monica Vitti, Maurice Ronet, Robert Hossein, Claudio Brook

Synopsis: This dark comedy finds Lucie (Monica Vitti) planning to kill her boyfriend (Maurice Ronet), and then herself, after discovering that he has cheated her out of her inheritance and left her penniless. She decides to binge on champagne and caviar before committing suicide, but is rendered intoxicated Read More

5/14/69
La Voie Lactée

Actors: Laurent Terzieff, Paul Frankeur, Alain Cuny, Delphine Seyrig, Edith Scob, Bernard Verley

Synopsis: While arch surrealist Luis Bunuel never made a secret of his skepticism about the existence of God, he was also raised as a strict Spanish Catholic and remained fascinated with the church's teaching throughout his life, and his obsessions with both faith and the contradictions of dogma provided Read More

2/28/69
Jesus, nuestro señor

1969
Coplan Sauve Sa Peau

Actors: Claudio Brook, Margaret Lee, Bernard Blier, Jean Topart, Klaus Kinski

Synopsis: Coplan (Claudio Brook) is a free-lance undercover agent who offers his services to the highest bidder. He receives a phone call from an old girlfriend in Turkey imploring him to see her immediately. The panic-stricken woman gives sketchy details of a plot that threatens world security. When Coplan Read More

2/21/68
La Blonde de Pekin

Actors: Mireille Darc, Claudio Brook, Edward G. Robinson, Pascale Roberts, Françoise Brion

Synopsis: The third film from director Nicolas Gessner, this espionage drama is a filmed adaptation of the novel You Have Yourself a Deal by James Hadley Chase. Mireille Darc stars as Christine, a mysterious blonde suffering from amnesia who becomes the focus of international attention as rival spies Read More

8/25/67
La Grande Vadrouille

Actors: Bourvil, Louis de Funès, Terry-Thomas, Marie Dubois, Andréa Parisy, Claudio Brook

Synopsis: In this British war comedy, set in WW II, a bomber crew is shot down over Paris during the Nazi occupation. They are helped out of the city by several good-hearted Frenchman. They make it to the steambath where they had an important rendezvous. They then begin the final part of their escape. A Read More

12/8/66
Du Rififi à Paname

Actors: Jean Gabin, George Raft, Nadja Tiller, Mireille Darc, Claudio Brook

Synopsis: In this crime drama, two middle-aged gangsters attempt to run an international smuggling ring and begin looking for new people to sneak their illicit gold across Europe. They take on a jobless journalist to assist, not realizing he is really a US government agent who is looking to see if the two Read More

3/2/66
Viva Maria!

Actors: Brigitte Bardot, Jeanne Moreau, George Hamilton, Claudio Brook, Paulette Dubost, Gregor Von Rezzori

Synopsis: Two of the most beautiful women in the European cinema of the 1960s -- Brigitte Bardot and Jeanne Moreau -- team up under the direction of Louis Malle in this engaging comedy/adventure. Maria Fitzgerald O'Malley (Bardot) is the daughter of an Irish political dissident who has traveled to Latin Read More

11/22/65
Simon del Desierto

Actors: Claudio Brook, Silvia Pinal, Hortensia Santovena, Enrique Alvarez Felix

Synopsis: Forty minutes is more than enough screen time for Spanish director Luis Buñuel to state his case in Simon of the Desert. Claudio Brook portrays fifth-century Christian Simon (later St. Simon Stylites) who dispenses religious sagacity while standing on a tall column in the middle of the desert. Read More

1965
Un Hombre Peligroso

Actors: Rodolfo De Anda

Synopsis: The long-buried sins of a foster father return to haunt a younger generation in Mexican director Arturo Martinez, Sr.'s 1965 Spanish-language western Un Hombre Peligroso. Rodolfo de Anda stars as the gunfighter El Zurdo, nicknamed 'Lefty.' During his younger days, El Zurdo was forced to murder a Read More

1965
The Glory Guys

Actors: Tom Tryon, Harve Presnell, Senta Berger, James Caan, Andrew Duggan

Synopsis: Though written by Sam Peckinpah (he adapted the film from a novel by Hoffman Birney), the direction of The Glory Guys was entrusted to the competent but perfunctory Arnold Laven. Cavalry captain Demas Harrod (Tom Tryon) and his faithful scout Sol Rogers (Harve Presnell) are placed under the Read More

1965
Entrega Inmediata

Actors: Cantinflas, Gina Romano, Claudio Brook, Fanny Cano

Synopsis: Cantinflas, known the world around for his Jerry Lewis-style antics, seems more like Peter Sellers in this hilarious Mexican comedy. Short on plot but long on laughs, the innocent comedian falls victim to excellently contrived cliches as a special delivery man caught in the middle of intrigue and Read More

1963
Santo en el Museo De Cera

Synopsis: Mighty masked Mexican wrestler Santo crosses the path of another evil scientist. Evidently the villain has been taking Vincent Price 101: he's stumbled upon a method to make wax figures come alive. They do, and they're mean. They also know how to wrestle, as Santo discovers on several occasions. Read More

1963
The Exterminating Angel

Actors: Silvia Pinal, Jacqueline Andere, Jose Baviera, Augusto Benedico, Luis Beristain

Synopsis: The great screen surrealist Luis Buñuel co-wrote and directed this dark, bitterly witty satire. A group of people in formal dress arrives at an elegantly appointed home for a dinner party. However, once dinner is over and the guests retire to the drawing room, they discover that the servants have Read More

1962
The Last Rebel

Synopsis: When Carlos Thompson begins killing miners following the murder of his wife by a miner, Charles
Fawcett and his Texas Rangers halt the killing spree. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

1961
Neutron El Enmascarado Negro

Synopsis: Originally titled Neutron el Enmascarado Negro, the Mexican melodrama stars the legendary "mystery wrestler" Neutron (said to have been played by Wolf Ruvinskis, but who can tell?) Mad scientist Dr. Caronte (Julio Aleman) develops a neutron bomb, in hopes of taking over the world-or, at least Read More

1961
La Joven

Actors: Zachary Scott, Kay Meersman, Bernie Hamilton, Graham Denton, Claudio Brook

Synopsis: Luis Buñuel and Hugo Butler (under the pseudonym "H.B. Addis") adapted Peter Matthiessen's story Travelin' Man for this drama about a black jazz musician, on the run from a false accusation of raping a white woman. Miller (Zachary Scott) is a middle aged handyman on a small island off the Read More

1960
The Wonderful Country

Actors: Robert Mitchum, Julie London, Gary Merrill, Pedro Armendáriz, Jack Oakie

Synopsis: Although a mood of melancholy or worse pervades this excellent western, it remains an honest and hard-hitting look at the realistic adventures of Martin Brady (Robert Mitchum -- who produced). Brady fled to Mexico while still quite young in order to avoid prison in the U.S. -- he had killed his Read More

1959
Vagabundo y Millionario

Actors: "Tin Tan", Sonia Furio

1958
Daniel Boone, Trail Blazer

Actors: Bruce Bennett, Lon Chaney, Jr., Faron Young, Damian O'Flynn

Synopsis: Daniel Boone, Trail Blazer was lensed in the Trucolor process. Brice Bennett plays the titular 18th century frontiersman, carving out a home for himself, his family and his fellow settlers in the wilds of Kentucky. The climax finds Boone and company defending Fort Boonesborough from a Shawnee Read More

1956
Fury in Paradise

Synopsis: In this western, the hero takes a Mexican vacation, gets caught up in a revolutionary plot with the powerful owner of a hacienda, and falls in love with the rancher's daughter all at the same time. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1955
La Vida De Nuestro Senor Jesucristo

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