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José Gálvez

José Gálvez

Acting

Biography

José Manuel Gálvez Velandia (March 19, 1931 - August 9, 1978), known as José Gálvez, was a Colombian-born actor who worked in Mexico in films, plays, television, and also did voice-over work starting from the 1960s.

Known For

Macario
8.7

Poor, hungry peasant Macario longs for just one good meal on the Day of the Dead. After his wife cooks a turkey for him, he meets three apparitions, the Devil, God, and Death. Each asks him to share his turkey, but he refuses all except Death. In return, Death gives him a bottle of water which will heal any illness. Soon, Macario is more wealthy than the village doctor, which draws the attention of the feared Inquisition.

Macario

1960
Omen
5.0

While attending the birth of Isabel, the wife of foreigner Felipe, Mama Santos predicts that "something terrible is going to happen in the town." From this omen, calamities will torment the locals.

Omen

1974
Dr. Satan
5.4

Dr. Satan, a mad scientist and sorceror, plans to take over the world. In order to do so, he wakes up three zombie slaves from the dead and attempts to make a deal with the devil. He sends his zombie servants to do harm to anyone who stands in his way. Will anyone be able to stop him?

Dr. Satan

1966
Extraño en su pueblo
10.0

No description available.

Extraño en su pueblo

1973
Sor Ye-yé
5.1

Maria is a young orphan who lives with her wealthy aunt. Maria sings in a cocktail bar with his friends, who form a rock band, and enjoy the night with them. One of his friends, Ernesto, is in love with her, though she does not seem to feel the same about him. In fact, multiple existential doubts and feel a strange emptiness in his life suddenly drive to enter a convent as a novice, breaking Ernestos' heart. However, with her cheerlul character, open and rebellious, not appear to conform to life in the cloister, and especially have problems with the novices director , who often punished for trying to take the right path. In the convent, which also functions as children's hospital, she meets a doctor with which it takes quite right for the contrast between his two characters, but his way with love and mutual respect.

Sor Ye-yé

1968
Your Excellency
8.0

Lopitos, who is horribly inefficient but quick-witted, is invited (because of the current ambassador's superstition about 13 sitting down to a meal) to a banquet attended by the ambassadors of both superpowers. After the news of a series of coups d'état in Los Cocos arrives throughout the meal, Lopitos becomes the official ambassador. At a summit of world leaders, the representatives of the two world superpowers court the allegiances of third-world diplomats to tilt the balance of global power in their favor. The last diplomat to remain unaligned, Lopitos instead harangues the superpowers for infringing on the rights of developing countries to self determination, talking to them with his point of view as a citizen not as ambassador because he arranged his demise as ambassador one day before his speech.

Your Excellency

1967
Planetary Giants
4.2

Daniel Wolf, scientist with a brand new rocket ship and a girlfriend/secretary is sent to 'the planet of the eternal night' to fight the guy who has threatened earth. He is supposed to go alone, but his assistant sneaks in the ship somehow, along with two other guys.

Planetary Giants

1966
El golfo
6.3

Tired of the monotony of her work, Mary O'Hara, executive of an important American company, travels to Acapulco for a few days in search of love and adventure. On the beach, her high hopes fade, since she only meets unscrupulous playboys. She declines all offers she gets until she meets Pancho el Golfo, a young man who makes a living as he can.

El golfo

1969
Vuelve el Norteño
5.8

Two rival gangs of outlaws are terrorizing a small town; el Comandante and his sidekicks pit them against each other and pick up the pieces.

Vuelve el Norteño

1964
Misión cumplida
6.7

No description available.

Misión cumplida

1970
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5.6

After the US annexation of Texas, a landowner from Guanajuato faces problems from bigoted new neighbors.

El último mexicano

1960
The Incredible Professor Zovek
5.8

Escape-artist-mentalist-martial-arts superhero vs. mad scientist and monsters.

The Incredible Professor Zovek

1972
Apolinar
6.3

Tancredo, a poor man, is in love with a rich girl, who does not return his feelings. One day when she is bathing in a river, a flood sweeps her away and Tancredo is unable to save her. Mad with grief, he steals the sun. The gods call Apolinar to restore light to the earth, but he is obstructed by the magician of darkness, until by means of a telescope he is able to send a bag of light to Tancredo, now grown old. Tancredo goes to the seashore and opens the bag of light as an offering to his beloved, whereupon the sun returns to the earth.

Apolinar

1972
Longitud de Guerra
5.9

Based on the novel Tomochic by Heriberto Frías; tells the story of the rebellion of the inhabitants of the village of Tomochi, Chihuahua, against the government of Porfirio Diaz in 1891. Mexico's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1976.

Longitud de Guerra

1976
La muerte de un gallero
6.3

Dramatization of a popular '70s corrido.

La muerte de un gallero

1977
Marcelo y María
5.6

Late 16th century: two Azteca teens are very much in love, but older folks have designs on each of them. This can't end well...

Marcelo y María

1966
El vals sin fin
6.0

No description available.

El vals sin fin

1972
History of a Scoundrel
6.3

A woman betrayed by a man falls into despair and kills him. What fate will the jury decide for her?

History of a Scoundrel

1964
El norteño
6.7

Lawman on horseback cracks a case involving stolen gold bullion, the title to a mine, an evil twin and a plucky pre-adolescent boy. First in a series.

El norteño

1963
Panic
5.3

Three tales of horror, isolation and insanity set in Mexico.

Panic

1972