Jorge RiveroFilmography

Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: Mexican movie leading man Jorge Rivero has occasionally essayed character roles in North-of-the-Border productions. Rivero is best known to Howard Hawks buffs as Captain Pierre Cordona in Hawks' Rio Lobo (1969), in which the actor was afforded second billing, just below John Wayne. Though not...Read More

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The Pearl

Actors: Lukas Haas, Richard Harris, Tere Tarin, Paul G. "Litefoot" Davis, Jorge Rivero

Synopsis: John Steinbeck's fable of how wealth destroys the life of a simple man is given another screen adaptation in this drama. Kino (Lukas Haas) is a diver who scrapes together a meager living off the coast of Mexico. One day, Kino makes an amazing discovery -- he finds a giant pearl whose value could Read More

11/4/05
Loco Love

Actors: Laura Elena Harring, Roy Werner, Gerardo Mejia, Margaret Scarborough, Frank Gallegos

Synopsis: Just how far would you go to get financing for your business? Donald Chandler (Roy Werner) is the owner of a restaurant who suddenly finds himself without a business or a job when his wife leaves him, taking the deed to the eatery with her. Eager to start over, Donald goes into a business Read More

8/15/03
Ice

Actors: Zach Galligan, Traci Lords, Phillip Troy

Synopsis: Don't worry: former porn queen Traci Lords was "of age" when she starred in Ice. Lords and Phillip Troy play a husband-and-wife team of thieves who steal a fortune in diamonds. Problem is, they've stolen it from a mob kingpin. Before the film's halfway point, Lords is going it alone, running Read More

1993
Fist Fighter

Actors: Jorge Rivero, Edward Albert, Michael Connors

Synopsis: George Rivero stars in Fist Fighter as C.J. Thunderbird, a participant in the dangerous, illegal world of bare-knuckle boxing. Working the bare-knuckle circuit in Mexico, Thunderbird forms a business partnership with old buddy Harry "Punchy" Moses (Edward Albert). This angers avaricious promoter Read More

5/12/89
Dos camioneros con suerte

1989
Rio De La Muerte

Synopsis: It's a battle of the sexes as a playboy and a divorcee enter a river race in this video. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

1987
Paraiso

Synopsis: This action adventure explores the gritty dark side of glittering Acapulco. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1987
La Montana Del Diablo

Synopsis: El Payo is asked for help by two men seeking to escape from slavery. ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide Read More

1987
Counterforce

Synopsis: In this actioner, a crack unit of elite mercenaries must protect a recently deposed Middle Eastern leader and his family from assassination. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1987
Entre Ficheras Anda El Diablo

Actors: Jorge Rivero, Sasha Montenegro, Carmen Salinas, Rafael Inclán, Alfonso Zayas

Synopsis: An all-star cast of popular Mexican comics appears in this uneven sex comedy. A wife paints a nude picture of her husband who suspects infidelity when he is not portrayed as being anatomically correct. A veterinarian becomes obsessed over a beautiful showgirl, and the devil emerges from hell to Read More

1987
Hombre Contra El Mundo

Synopsis: Classic comic-book superhero battling evil, done Mexican style. ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide Read More

1987
Sin Salida

Synopsis: When a man crosses paths with a group of gangsters, they pursue him throughout Mexico City. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

1987
Killing Machine

Actors: Margaux Hemingway, Willie Aames, Richard Jaeckel

Synopsis: With shoddy production values and a plot that seems to be more of an excuse for violence than anything else, this underpar drama focuses on vigilante justice. While trying to cross the border into France, a Spanish truck driver's vehicle is burned by two angry French farmers, killing the driver's Read More

1985
La Maquina De Matar

1985
Conquest

Actors: Jorge Rivero, Andrea Occhipinti, Sabrina Siani, Conrado SanMartin, Violeta Cela

Synopsis: Acclaimed horror director Lucio Fulci infuses the sword-and-sorcery genre with gory decapitations, pus-squirting lesions and flesh-eating zombies in this uneven fantasy. The hero of the piece is young Ilias (Andrea Occhipinti), who, along with his bolo-swinging friend Maxz (Jorge Rivero), battles Read More

6/2/83
El Dia Del Compadre

1983
Target Eagle

Actors: Jorge Rivero, Maud Adams, George Peppard, Max von Sydow, Chuck Connors

Synopsis: In this well-acted but very standard action thriller, Spanish police chief O'Donnell Max von Sydow) hires the tough mercenary David (Jorge Rivero) with the code name "Eagle" to infiltrate an international drug cartel. Carmen (Maud Adams), a policewoman, is to be David's contact. The plot thickens Read More

1982
La Pulqueria 2

Synopsis: Victor Manuel Castro's thriller La Pulqueria 2 stars Leticia Perdigon and Maria Luisa Alcala as a pair of women who behind bars after being suspected of a murder they had nothing to do with. In order to guarantee that he stays a free man, the actual murderer (Luis Reynoso) hatches a plot to have Read More

1982
Priest of Love

Actors: Ian McKellen, Janet Suzman, Ava Gardner, Penelope Keith, Jorge Rivero

Synopsis: The later years of the life of author D.H. Lawrence are dramatized in this screen biography. Following the controversial reception of his novel The Rainbow, David Herbert Lawrence (Ian McKellen) and his wife Frieda (Janet Suzman) leave England for the U.S., where they hope that Lawrence's bold Read More

1981
Day of the Assassin

Actors: Chuck Connors

Synopsis: Treasure hunters from around the world race to Mexico after a Middle Eastern luxury yacht explodes, sending a fortune in gold to the bottom of the ocean. An agent (Chuck Connors) must stop the ruthless fortune hunters. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

1981
La Pulqueria

Synopsis: An unrepentant ladies man begins to experience romantic longings for his psychiatrist as the devil comes to Earth in hopes of experiencing true love in director Victor Manuel Castro's quirky comedy classic. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide Read More

1981
Manaos

Actors: Fabio Testi, Agostina Belli, Jorge Rivero, Andrés García, Florinda Bolkan

Synopsis: American and Venezuelan foreigners try to steal coveted seeds from a rubber-tree plantation in this action-adventure saga. They battle crocodiles, Indian attacks, slave revolts, and a director who insisted on putting disco music to a 19th-century setting. The two heroes are hidden by a concubine Read More

3/29/80
Las Tentadoras

Actors: Sasha Montenegro, Rafael Inclán

1980
Bordello

Synopsis: A houseful of prostitutes and a few cowboys have some fun in this made-for-TV spoof on westerns. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

1979
Las Cariñosas

Actors: Luis de Alba

1979
El Tahur

1979
Munecas de Media Noche

Actors: Sasha Montenegro, Rafael Inclán

Synopsis: Victor Manuel Castro's comedy Munecas de Media Noche tells the tale of a man of a man who loses his job as a nightclub entertainer after a vacation that he ended up extending without notifying his employer. He comes up with a variety of outrageous scams in order to get his place on the stage back. Read More

1978
Centennial

Actors: William Atherton, Raymond Burr, Richard Chamberlain, Timothy Dalton, Alex Karras, Robert Conrad

Synopsis: The longest (26-1/2 hours), most expensive ($25 million) and most complicated (four directors, five producers, five cinematographers, almost 100 speaking parts, several hundred extras) project made for television up to that time, Centennial was shown in two- and three-hour installments over a Read More

1978
Angel Negro

1977
Las Viboras Cambian de Piel

1977
The Last Hard Men

Actors: Charlton Heston, James Coburn, Barbara Hershey, Jorge Rivero, Michael Parks

Synopsis: A former lawman must return to his guns when his daughter is threatened in this dark-themed western. Zach Provo (James Coburn) was a notorious outlaw who was finally put behind bars by sheriff Sam Burgade (Charlton Heston), who also killed Provo's wife in the midst of a gun battle. Provo is Read More

1976
El Hombre

1976
Volver, Volver, Volver!

Synopsis: Two powerhouse international stars, Antonio Aguilar and Jorge Rivero, top the cast of Volver, Volver, Volver! The central character, however, is played by the beautiful Claudia Islas. When her husband dies, the poor widow's tragedy is intensified by the arrival of her brother. Believing that Read More

1975
Evil Eye

1974
Bellas De Noche

Synopsis: When a Latino pimp messes with the Mafia, he finds himself in a dangerous situation. Dialogue is in Spanish. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

1974
Guns and Guts

Synopsis: Cult maestro René Cardona, Jr. (Night of a 1,000 Cats, Rock 'n' Roll Wrestling Women vs. the Aztec Mummy) enters Peckinpah territory with the 1974 blood-soaked western melodrama Guns & Guts, starring Jorge Rivero, Pedro Armendariz, Rogelio Guerra and Zulma Faiad. Guns concerns a hired gun (Rivero) Read More

1974
El Secuestro

Synopsis: A gentle abductor grows attractive to a captured woman who catches glimpses into his horrible history. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

1974
The Sin of Adam and Eve

Synopsis: This narrated film follows the biblical story of Adam and Eve, including their creation in the Garden of Eden, their Fall, and their attempt to survive after they are banished to the cruel outside world. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

1972
Indio

Synopsis: The Spanish-language Mexican vigilante drama Indio concerns an unscrupulous and sociopathic land developer who schemes to wrest a piece of land away from an Apache Indian tribe. His diabolical plan involves poisoning most of the water on-site. It succeeds in the short term by wiping out most of Read More

1972
Las Cautivas

1971
Los Dos Hermanos

Actors: Nadia Milton, Sergio Jiménez, Tito Junco, Jr., Sandra Boyd, Jorge Rivero

1971
Jesús, el Niño Dios

Actors: Jorge Rivero, Guillermo Murray

Synopsis: The biblical story Jesus, el Nino Dios offers a look at the birth of Christ from the point of view of the wisemen who followed a star to bring the baby gifts. They encounter King Herod who is consumed with jealousy in regard to the newly born Prince of Peace. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide Read More

1971
Soldier Blue

Actors: Candice Bergen, Peter Strauss, Donald Pleasence, John Anderson, Jorge Rivero

Synopsis: A cavalry unit in Colorado is conducting two important cargoes to Fort Reunion, home of the 11th Colorado Volunteers: Cresta Marybelle Lee (Candice Bergen), the fiancée of an officer in the unit until two years ago, when she was taken by the Cheyenne, and who just escaped; and Captain Battles (Dana Elcar Read More

1970
Rio Lobo

Actors: John Wayne, Jorge Rivero, Jennifer O'Neill, Jack Elam, Christopher Mitchum

Synopsis: John Wayne, in the last of his Civil War characterizations, portrays Cord McNally, a Union Army colonel who loses a gold shipment in a Confederate raid, during which a devoted young officer is also killed. After the end of the war, McNally bears no ill-will toward the leaders of the raid, Pierre Read More

1970
Verano Ardiente

1970
El Pacado de Adan y Eva

1969
El Tesoro de Moctezuma

1968
Estafa De Amor

1968
Prohibido

Actors: Jorge Rivero, Blanca Sanchez, Rodolfo De Anda

1968
Operacion 67

Synopsis: Rene Cardona's action film Operacion 67 features a pair of heroes who attempt to stop Asian villains who are throwing their country into chaos by flooding the area with funny money. The two must engage in a number of dangerous altercations in order to save the day. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide Read More

1967
Como Pescar Marido

1966
La Presa

Crew: Director, Screenwriter
La Hermanita Dinamita
El Mejor Regalo

Synopsis: A bizarre gift threatens to ruin the groom's wedding. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More
El Tigre
Morir De Madrugada
Peores Que Los Buitres
Los Caciques
Pasion Por El Peligro
Carne De Horca
El Llanto De La Tortuga
Erotica

Synopsis: Friendship turns to rivalry when a woman finds her affections shifting in this moody drama from Mexico. Antonio (Jaime Moreno) and Jose Luis (Jorge Rivero) are a pair of small-time crooks who are hoping to land a big score by robbing a safe, but run afoul of an armed security guard. Jose Luis is Read More
La Vida De Nuestro Senor Jesucristo
Hoy He Sonado Con Dios
El Caballo Del Diablo

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