Guillermo del ToroFilmography

Born:: October 9, 1964 in Guadalajara, Mexico
Occupation:: Actor, Director, Executive Producer, Producer, Screen Story, Screenwriter
Biography:: A film prodigy dedicated to Latin American cinema even as his success gave him a ticket to Hollywood, Guillermo del Toro earned a place as one of Time magazine's 50 Young Leaders for the New Millennium before he made his third film. Born in Guadalajara, Mexico, and raised by his staunchly...Read More

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The Hobbit, Part 2

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: MGM and New Line Cinema presents the second half of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit. Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh executive produce the production, which will shoot simultaneously with the first film. Guillermo del Toro (Pan's Labyrinth) is attached to helm the feature, budgeted at 150 million Read More

1/1/12
The Hobbit, Part 1

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: The creative team behind the Lord of the Rings trilogy return to Middle-earth with this adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's classic precursor The Hobbit. Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh executive produce the New Line Cinema/MGM joint production, the story of which will span two films. Acclaimed director Read More

1/1/11
Don't Be Afraid of the Dark

Crew: Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Guy Pearce, Katie Holmes, Bailee Madison

Synopsis: A young girl discovers a hoard of monsters living underneath her father and stepmother's house in this remake of the spooky 1973 made-for-TV production. Guillermo del Toro and Matthew Robbins adapt the screenplay, with directing duties handled by comic artist Troy Nixey. Katie Holmes stars in the Read More

1/1/10
Pinocchio

Crew: Executive Producer, Screenwriter

Synopsis: Visionary filmmaker Guillermo del Toro teams up with goth illustrator Gris Grimly and the Jim Henson Co. for this stop-motion version of Carlo Collodi's classic tale of Pinnochio. Del Toro and Grimly provide the screenplay, with the latter directing along with Adam Parrish King. ~ Jeremy Wheeler Read More

2010
Rudo y Cursi

Crew: Producer

Actors: Gael García Bernal, Diego Luna, Guillermo Francella

Synopsis: Carlos Cuarón, who co-wrote the script for his brother Alfonso Cuarón's breakthrough hit, Y Tu Mamá También, makes his feature directorial debut with Rudo y Cursi. The film also reunites the stars of the earlier film, Gael García Bernal and Diego Luna, and is the first release from the production Read More

5/8/09
Born

Crew: Producer

Actors: Paul Bettany

Synopsis: This psychological thriller concerns a successful clay-animation artist (Paul Bettany) and his wife, who settle in a quaint English town with the intention of raising a family. Their efforts are soon complicated, however, when the fictional characters created by the husband appear in the real Read More

1/1/09
Splice

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Adrien Brody, Sarah Polley

Synopsis: Two scientists (Adrien Brody and Sarah Polley) embark on a dangerous journey when they splice human DNA into preexisting genetic-engineered experiments in this sci-fi thriller from director Vincenzo Natali and executive producer Guillermo del Toro (Pan's Labyrinth). ~ Jeremy Wheeler, All Movie Read More

1/1/09
Trollhunters

Crew: Director

2009
While She Was Out

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Kim Basinger, Lukas Haas, Craig Sheffer, Jamie Starr, Leonard Wu

Synopsis: A suburban housewife heads out for a quick trip to the local mall, only to find herself trapped in the forest and forced to fend for herself against four murderous hooligans. Kim Basinger and Lukas Haas star in a thriller produced by Pan's Labyrinth director Guillermo del Toro and directed by Susan Montford Read More

12/12/08
Hellboy II: The Golden Army

Crew: Director, Screen Story, Screenwriter

Actors: Ron Perlman, Selma Blair, Doug Jones, Luke Goss, John Alexander

Synopsis: Ron Perlman returns to the role of the big red BPRD agent in this sequel to 2004's Hellboy, directed once again by Guillermo del Toro and scripted as before in collaboration with original Hellboy creator Mike Mignola. For centuries, an ancient truce has kept the naïve citizens of the human race Read More

7/11/08
Comic Books Unbound

Actors: Guillermo del Toro, Stan Lee, Zak Penn, Ron Perlman, Selma Blair

Synopsis: Comic books have long been a key source of inspiration in Hollywood, and in this documentary from Starz Inside, the folks behind some of the most popular comic-to-screen translations ever produced explain how the stories that have held children captivated for decades successfully made the Read More

2008
Lovecraft: Fear of the Unknown

Synopsis: Journey into the life and work of the weird fiction author who gave us the Cthulu mythos and inspired such notable horror authors as Stephen King, Robert Bloch, and Neil Gaiman. Though initially overshadowed by the masterfully morbid prose of author Edgar Allen Poe, H.P. Lovecraft's writings have Read More

2008
The Orphanage

Crew: Co-producer, Executive Producer

Actors: Geraldine Chaplin, Belén Rueda, Fernando Cayo, Roger Princep, Mabel Rivera

Synopsis: Pan's Labyrinth director Guillermo del Toro produces director Juan Antonio Bayona's gothic frightener about a long-abandoned orphanage with a particularly troubling past. As a child, young orphan Laura spent her formative years being cared for by the staff of a large orphanage located by the Read More

12/28/07
Hellboy: Blood and Iron

Crew: Producer

Actors: Ron Perlman, Selma Blair, Doug Jones, John Hurt, Peri Gilpin

Synopsis: Mike Mignola and Guillermo Del Toro team up once again to bring everyone's favorite wise-cracking, crime fighting demon to the screen in an animated adventure that finds Hellboy, Liz Sherman, and Abe Sapien pitted against a powerful horde of supernatural baddies. When a sprawling mansion becomes Read More

2007
Pan's Labyrinth

Crew: Costume Designer, Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Ariadna Gil, Ivana Baquero, Sergi López, Maribel Verdú, Doug Jones

Synopsis: Mexican filmmaker Guillermo del Toro returns to the phantasmagorical cinema that defined such early fare as Cronos and The Devil's Backbone with this haunting fantasy-drama set in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War and detailing the strange journeys of an imaginative young girl who may be the Read More

12/29/06
Hellboy: Sword of Storms

Crew: Producer

Actors: Ron Perlman, Selma Blair, Doug Jones, Peri Gilpin

Synopsis: Buzz Lightyear of Star Command director Tad Stones teams with Hellboy creator Mike Mignola and Hellboy director Guillermo del Toro to follow the further adventures of the wisecracking demon who fights for the powers of light in the mortal realm. A folklore professor has become possessed by the Read More

2006
Crónicas

Crew: Producer

Actors: John Leguizamo, Leonor Watling, Damián Alcázar, Jose Maria Yazpik, Alfred Molina

Synopsis: A man with a secret forms an uneasy alliance with an opportunistic reporter in this drama from Mexico. Manolo Bonilla (John Leguizamo) is a broadcast journalist for a Latin-American tabloid television series who has been sent to Ecuador to cover the funeral services of three children who fell Read More

7/8/05
Hellboy

Crew: Director, Fights Choreographer, Screen Story, Screenwriter

Actors: Ron Perlman, John Hurt, Selma Blair, Rupert Evans, Karel Roden, Jeffrey Tambor, Doug Jones, David Hyde Pierce

Synopsis: Mike Mignola's acclaimed comic book series about a creature from Hades who joins the battle against evil arrives on the screen in vivid form in this adaptation directed by distinctive horror filmmaker Guillermo del Toro. During World War II, the Third Reich has joined forces with the evil Grigori Read More

4/2/04
Blade II

Crew: Director

Actors: Wesley Snipes, Kris Kristofferson, Ron Perlman, Leonor Varela

Synopsis: Four years after scoring a box-office touchdown with Blade (1998), actor Wesley Snipes returns to portray the Marvel Comics character again in this sequel that teams him with Mexican horror director Guillermo del Toro. A half-vampire, half-human hybrid, Blade (Snipes) is a merciless vampire hunter Read More

3/22/02
Masters of Horror

2002
The Devil's Backbone

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Fernando Tielve, Marisa Paredes, Eduardo Noriega, Federico Luppi

Synopsis: Guillermo del Toro, who quickly became one of the most talked-about directors in contemporary horror films with his first two features, Chronos and Mimic, takes on a more subtle tale of terror with this psychological suspense piece. Casares (Federico Luppi) and Carmen (Marisa Paredes) operate a Read More

11/21/01
Mimic

Crew: Director, Screen Story, Screenwriter

Actors: Mira Sorvino, Jeremy Northam, Josh Brolin, Giancarlo Giannini, Charles S. Dutton

Synopsis: While one would imagine that the average New Yorker would be used to dealing with bugs after years of apartment dwelling, a scientific experiment gone wrong results in an insect that even Raid can't handle in this sci-fi/horror thriller. In Manhattan, cockroaches are spreading a deadly disease Read More

1997
Cronos

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

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
Dona Herlinda and Her Son

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Marco Antonio Trevino, Guadalupe Del Toro, Leticia Lupersio

Synopsis: In this sly Mexican sex comedy, a manipulative mama deftly manages the life of her homosexual son so that he can have his cake and eat it too. A woman of means, she does this by allowing her son, a doctor, to tryst in her home with his lover. Putting her son's happiness above all else, she then Read More

1986