José Moreno Filmography

Born:: January 1, 1910
Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: Mexican actor Jose Elias Moreno made his screen bow in the 1943 Spanish-language adaptation of Zola's Nana. He kept busy in films for the next five decades, usually in flamboyant character roles. During the 1950s and 1960s, he was most gainfully employed in horror flicks and so-called "family"...Read More

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La Guerrillera De Villa

1969
Night of the Bloody Apes

Synopsis: La Horriplante Bestia Humana is a gory, misogynist exercise in rape, wrestling, and thoracic surgery from Mexico's premier father-son "Z"-movie team René Cardona and René Cardona Jr. Essentially a remake of the elder Cardona's Doctor of Doom, laced with more sex and violence for more tolerant Read More

1968
Rage

Actors: Glenn Ford, Stella Stevens, David Reynoso, Armando Sylvestre, Ariadne Welter

Synopsis: This suspenseful drama from Mexican director Gilberto Gazcon stars Glenn Ford as Reuben, a doctor who has accepted a job at a construction site south of the border following the death of his wife during childbirth. Devastated by grief, the widower is also drowning his sorrows in booze. Then a man Read More

1966
Alazan y Enamorado

1966
Viento Negro

Actors: José Moreno, David Reynoso

Synopsis: Railroad workers struggle with the temperature extremes in an unforgiving desert in this Mexican western. From searing heat to freezing cold, the workers also contend with sudden storms that are called the "black wind." The campsite is the scene of loving, fighting, gunplay, and a train wreck. Read More

1965
La Valentina

1965
Yo, El Valiente

Synopsis: Yo, El Valiente tells the story of a man who travels with a friend to his hometown in order to make peace with his elderly father and his well-to-do brother. His visit kicks up lots of old recriminations and hurts, a situation that is exacerbated when the man falls in love with his brother's Read More

1964
El Padrecito

Actors: Rogelio Guerra, Angelines Fernandez, Cantinflas, Ángel Garasa, Rosa Maria Vasquez, José Moreno

Synopsis: When an unconventional priest assumes his new post in a conservative small town, the skeptical citizens find that adjusting to the oddball clergyman's strange little quirks may take a little more getting used to than they first expected. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide Read More

1964
Kings of the Sun

Actors: Yul Brynner, George Chakiris, Shirley Ann Field, Richard Basehart, Brad Dexter

Synopsis: In this historical adventure saga, Balam (George Chakiris) is the son of the ruler of the Mayan people; when his father is killed in battle, Balam succeeds his father as King and leads his followers out of Mexico to a coastal region. The Mayan's new home, however, is already the province of a Read More

1963
Atras de las nubes

Actors: Luis Aguilar, Marga Lopez, Dagoberto Rodriguez, Joaquin Cordero, Ofelia Montesco

1962
Contra Viento y Marea

Actors: Luis Aguilar, Alma Delia Fuentes, José Moreno

1962
La Risa de la Ciudad

Actors: Joaquin Cordero, José Moreno, Alma Delia Fuentes, Adalberto "Resortes" Martinez, Julio Aleman

Synopsis: Hampered by a low budget, this otherwise well-acted and excellently directed drama (Gilberto Gazcon is at the helm) takes an understanding look at a group of people living on the fringe of Mexico City in their own squatters' community. They are street entertainers who go out during the day and Read More

1962
Hijas Del Amapolo

1962
Capurcita y Pulgarieto Contra Los Monstruos

Actors: Maria Gracia, José Moreno, Manuel Valdés

Synopsis: This unusual episode of the Mexican Little Red Riding Hood series features an evil witch, a vampire and monsters confronted by Gracia and her animal friends. (In English) ~ All Movie Guide Read More

1962
Remolino

Synopsis: A femme fatale to end all, the woman who stands at the center of Gilberto Gazcon's erotically-charged western drama Remolino plots and schemes to win the amorous adoration of three men on one ranch - father, son and the local martinet. Her deceptions inevitably lead to a heated Read More

1961
Simitrio

Actors: José Moreno

Synopsis: Only a few off-beat musical moments interrupt the flow of this melodrama about a schoolteacher who loses his sight. Aptly directed by Emilio Gómez-Muriel, José Elias Moreno plays the teacher who suddenly faces the loss of his job when the state refuses to keep a blind instructor on the payroll. Read More

1961
Santa Claus

Actors: José Moreno

Synopsis: Yet another oddball Mexican fantasy brought to American audiences by cut-rate exploitation titan K. Gordon Murray, this seasonal tale concerns Santa Claus (Jose Elias Moreno), who we discover doesn't work out of the North Pole after all. Instead, Santa and his friend and associate Merlin the Read More

1959
Los Desarraigados

Actors: Pedro Armendáriz, Ariadne Welter, Sonia Furio, José Moreno

Synopsis: The dark side of American society is emphasized in this standard Mexican melodrama about a family from south of the border, living just north of that dividing line. The paterfamilias is lonesome and nostalgic for his old home, not an uncommon reaction for anyone living outside their country. But Read More

1959
Pulgarcito

Actors: Maria Elena Marques, José Moreno

Synopsis: Tom Thumb (Cesareo Quezadas) convinces an ogre (Jose Elias Moreno) and his family to refrain from eating children and encourages them to bathe regularly in this children's fairy tale from 1958. Tom gets help from the ever-present fairy princess (Maria Elena Marques) whenever his troubles loom too Read More

1958
Una Cita de Amor

1958
El Ultimo Cuple

Actors: Sara Montiel, Armando Calvo, Alfredo Mayo

Synopsis: Sarita (aka Sara) Montiel stars in this Spanish musical, which was directed by Juan De Orduna, the man who 10 years earlier first recognized the star potential of the multitalented Montiel. Set in the late 19th century, the story concerns a famous music-hall singer who achieves fame with the help Read More

1957
Tres Bribones

1955
Fugitivos

Synopsis: A roving gang of bandits takes over a small Mexican town, only to find their lawless hierarchy crumbling due to the arrival of a smoldering chanteuse. Jacinto is a prisoner desperate to regain his freedom. After Jacinto and six of his fellow inmates escape from jail in a deadly hail or gunpowder Read More

1955
El Rio y la Muerte

Actors: Victor Alcocer, Humberto Almazan, Joaquin Cordero, Columba Dominguez

1954
El Lunar de la Familia

Actors: Luis Aguilar, Antonio Badú, Linda Cristal, Esther Fernandez, Sara Garcia, José Moreno, Arturo Soto Rangel, Quintin Bulnes, Sara Montes

Synopsis: Fernando Mendez's 1953 Spanish-language melodrama El Lunar de la Familia unfurls against the backdrop of a deceptively innocent-sounding family reunion. Two freewheeling, party-happy young men, Luis and his buddy Antonio, catch the train in to San Miguel, on a visit to Luis's grandmother, Doña Read More

1953
El Rapto

Actors: Maria Felix, Jorge Negrete, José Moreno, Andres Solér, Jose Angel "Ferrusquilla" Espinosa

Synopsis: A tenacious beauty named Aurora (Maria Felix) seduces the municipal authorities so that she can purchase the estate of missing local Ricardo Alfaro (Jorge Negrete), only to find her elaborate ruse complicated when Ricardo eventually returns home. Incensed that his house was sold without his Read More

1953
Two Careful Fellows

Actors: Jorge Negrete, Pedro Infante, Sr.

Synopsis: Dos Tippos de Cuidado (Two Careful Fellows) teams a pair of very popular Mexican musical stars. Jorge Negrete and Pedro Infante play a couple of wandering vagabonds who show up at a ranch. Here they try to avoid getting involved with the local female population, but it's a losing battle. Among the Read More

1952
La Hija del Ministro

Actors: Luis Aguilar

Synopsis: Luis Aguilar stars in this vintage comedy by celebrated Mexican director Fernando Mendez; he plays automobile accident victim Joven Morillo, dumbstruck to discover that the woman whose car struck him is both young and gorgeous. Sensing an opportunity to make his move, the clever Morillo opts to Read More

1952
Las Tres Perfectas Casadas

Actors: Miroslava Stern

Synopsis: The Spanish language romantic drama Las Tres Perfectas Casadas features Mexican film star Mauricio Garces as one of the points in a love triangle. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide Read More

1952
Doña Perfecta

Synopsis: Director Alejandro Galindo directs the legendary Delores Del Rio in a classic drama from the Golden Age of Mexican cinema that portrays political change in Mexico through the microcosm of one family struggling with tradition in a time of change. Liberal farmer Pepe has arrived in Santa Fe to visit Read More

1951
Bodas De Fuego

1951
Si Adelita Se Fuera Con Otro

Actors: Jorge Negrete, Gloria Marin

Synopsis: Director Chano Urueta draws inspiration from the classic Mexican folk song about Pancho Villa to tell musical tale of romance concerning a privileged rich girl (Gloria Martin) who gives up her life of luxury to be with the famed Mexican revolutionary (Jorge Negrete). ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Read More

1948
Hora Y Media De Balazos

Synopsis: This western features a gunfight between a timid shepherd and a bully. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

1947
Flor Silvestre

Actors: Dolores Del Rio, Pedro Armendáriz, Emilio Fernández, Miguel Angel Ferriz

Synopsis: Completed before his immensely successful Maria Candelaria, Emilio Fernandez' Flor Sylvestre was released second in the US-and not until two years after its initial Mexican release. Also known as Wildflower, the film features Fernandez himself as a character named Rogellio Torres. The lion's share Read More

1943