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Patrice Fisher was born on 5 January 1978 in Del Rio, Texas, USA. She is an actress and producer, known for Saints & Sinners Judgment Day (2021), Boomerang (2019) and Saints & Sinners (2016).- Eryka Foz is a Mexican and American actress. She studied at the prestigious American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City after auditioning along with thousands of people worldwide and get accepted. She's been cast in productions from England, U.S. Mexico and Spain. She's been acting in films, television series and theatre plays for over 20 years.
- Sergio Calderón has worked as a professional actor since 1970. Following his studies at the Instituto Andrés Soler of the Asociación Nacional de Actores in Mexico, he was chosen for his first film, Bridge in the Jungle, based on B. Traven's novel, and starring legendary director/actor John Huston. Thirteen years later, Calderón worked with Huston again, this time under Huston's direction as one of the sinister murderers in the classic Under the Volcano with Albert Finney and Jacqueline Bisset. In television in this same period, he played the guest stars Malavida Valdése and El Cajón in both of the two season-initial double episodes of the very popular series "The A-Team" with George Peppard and Mr. T.
But principally he is well-respected and widely recognized for all of his long career of some fifty films. Calderón has worked with other outstanding directors besides Huston: Sergio Leone, Ron Howard, Luis Puenzo, R. Mann and many others. Since beginning his career he has worked with actors such as Anthony Quinn (Children of Sánchez), Peter Falk and Alan Arkin (The In-Laws), Robert Mitchum, James Coburn and Rod Steiger (Duck, you Sucker!), Gerard Depardieu and Pierre Richard (Le Chevre) and Gregory Peck, Jane Fonda and Jimmy Smits (Old Gringo).
He is perhaps most well known for his role as the first alien, Head on a Stick, in the original blockbuster Men in Black, starring Tommy Lee Jones and Will Smith. He co-starred with Jones again - along with Cate Blanchett and Aaron Eckhart - in The Missing, and played Captain Villanueva, the Spanish pirate lord in Pirates of the Caribbean 3: At World's End. He also appeared in Little Fockers, the comedy starring Robert DeNiro, Ben Stiller, and Barbra Streisand. - Actor
- Producer
Born in Pinar del Río, Cuba, Hector Medina has been making a name for himself in theater and cinema since graduating from Cuba's National School of Art (ENA), having quickly earned a place in the prestigious theatre company El Público and starred in many landmark Cuban films such as Boleto al Paraíso ("Ticket to Paradise," 2010).
His breakout performance as "Jesús" in the critically acclaimed 2015 film Viva launched him as an undeniable talent. He continued to become internationally recognized as a rising star working on The King of Havana.
Since moving to Miami he has had a successful career both in theater and on screen. Next up for Hector is the much-anticipated film "Los Frikis," in which he stars and co-produces, as well as the feature film "Killing Casto."- Actress
- Producer
Rossy Mendoza and dubbed Mexico's Smalles Waist and The Body, is a Mexican showgirl and actress. Along with Lyn May, Princess Lea and Angelica Chain, she was one of the best-known burlesque performers of the 1970s, and became widely known for her appearances in Mexican sexplotation films.
Her physique influenced transcendentally the standards of female beauty in the Mexican media. She is known for appearing in some of the most controversial nude scenes of Mexican film history, in which she participated with some of the most biggest names in the industry, such as El Santo, Jorge Rivero, David Reynoso, Andres Garcia and Jaime Moreno to name a few.
In her cinematographic trajectory, the roles of bimbos, exotic dancers, showgirls, strippers and damsel in distress are the most common.- Actor
- Producer
Francisco "Pancho" Villa was born Doroteo Arango to rural peasant parents in San Juan del Rio, Mexico, on June 5, 1878. He later took several aliases, the most popular and well-known being "Pancho Villa". Raised in poverty in Durango, he turned to cattle rustling and robbery as a young man. The turning point in his life, however, was the day his sister was attacked and raped by Mexican army troops. Villa wanted revenge against the whole world and soon turned from being simply a bandit leader into a full-fledged revolutionary with the aim of overthrowing Mexican dictator Porfirio Díaz. To that end Villa became an ally of another revolutionary, the urbane and educated Francisco I. Madero, and although the two were about as opposite from one another as it was possible to be, Villa soon became a diehard supporter of the diminutive Madero, whom he affectionately called "the little man". Madero appointed Villa a colonel in the revolutionary army. On May 11, 1911, Villa led a daring raid against the federal stronghold of Juarez, soundly defeating the government forces and securing Madero's position as the new president. After Diaz was driven from power and Madero installed as president, Villa went home. His stay there was not to be very long, however. Two years later Madero was overthrown and executed by renegade Gen. Victoriano Huerta. Enraged, Villa re-formed his army, now called the Army of the North, and became an important member of a coalition of anti-Huerta forces, among whom were such legendary Mexican figures as Emiliano Zapata and Venustiano Carranza.
Villa's mounted troops, called "Villistas", were highly mobile and seasoned by years of fighting against the Diaz regime. They inflicted a decisive defeat on Huerta's army in northern Mexico at the Battle of Zacatecas on June 23, 1913, then began a campaign to drive Huerta's forces south to their stronghold of Mexico City. By December, in conjunction with the armies of Carranza and Zapata, Villa captured Mexico City, forcing Huerta to flee and placing control of the government in the hands of the three rebel leaders. However, the following spring Villa was forced out of the triumvirate when he lost a power struggle with Carranza. In the ensuing conflict his troops were badly defeated by Carranza's army and Villa was forced to withdraw to his headquarters in Durango. There he resumed his life as a bandit, raiding isolated American border towns and mining camps as well as Mexican villages.
On March 9, 1916, troops under Villa's command raided the town of Columbus, New Mexico, looted it, burned down much of it and caused the deaths of more than a dozen residents, although about 30 of their own men were killed by American soldiers and civilians defending the town (supposedly Villa was angered by the U.S. authorities allowing elements of Carranza's army, which was pursuing him, to cross through American territory as a shortcut in an attempt to get ahead of Villa and ambush him, and the raid was in retaliation for that). The U.S. government sent an expeditionary force into Mexico under Gen. John J. Pershing to capture Villa. However, Villa's maneuverability and superior knowledge of the terrain enabled him to elude the pursuing American troops, and Pershing's forces withdrew from the area the following year.
In 1920 the Carranza government struck a deal with Villa in which he agreed to halt his raids in exchange for settling down on a ranch in Canutillo and being appointed a general in the Mexican army. However, on June 20, 1923, Villa was ambushed and murdered in Parral by followers of Álvaro Obregón, a former army general, who feared that Villa would oppose their leader's candidacy for president in the upcoming elections. Immediately following his death the name of Pancho Villa was eliminated from all history books, children's books and all monuments in Mexico. It wasn't until 1975 (more than a half-century after his death) that both the Mexican and American governments felt safe enough to exhume his body, and when they did, they discovered that someone had stolen his head. After a large parade was held in his honor in Mexico, Pancho Villa's body was sent to the cemetery where many Mexican revolutionary heroes were buried, and he was finally given the proper burial he deserved.- Actress
- Writer
- Soundtrack
Carmen Montejo was born on 26 May 1925 in Pinar del Río, Cuba. She was an actress and writer, known for Mujeres sin mañana (1951), Los cachorros (1973) and La infame (1954). She was married to Manuel González Ortega. She died on 25 February 2013 in Mexico, Distrito Federal, Mexico.- Cinematographer
- Camera and Electrical Department
Entering films in 1923 as an assistant cameraman, Burnett Guffey was picked by John Ford to handle second-unit photography on The Iron Horse (1924). After that film, however, Guffey returned to his assistant cameraman position, a job he held until 1928, when he became a camera operator. In that capacity he photographed such major productions as Ford's The Informer (1935), Alfred Hitchcock's Foreign Correspondent (1940) and Charles Vidor's Cover Girl (1944), among others. Guffey was finally hired as a director of photography by Columbia. Highly regarded by his colleagues for his crisp imaging and superb compositions, Guffey won two Academy Awards, for From Here to Eternity (1953) and Bonnie and Clyde (1967).- Dianne Garriga was born in Pinar del Río, Cuba. She is an actress, known for FBI: Most Wanted (2020), The Mother (2023) and Pie Mojado.
- Art Director
- Art Department
- Production Designer
William Eliscu was born on 22 June 1973 in Del Rio, Texas, USA. He is an art director and production designer, known for Inception (2010), Wonder Woman 1984 (2020) and Real Steel (2011).- Actor
- Camera and Electrical Department
- Special Effects
Jay Kerr was born on 16 November 1948 in Del Rio, Texas, USA. He is an actor, known for Five Mile Creek (1983), Wizards and Warriors (1983) and East Meets West (1995).- Lilia Lazo was born in Pinar del Rio, Cuba, in 1935. From an early age, she showed a great gift for acting, painting, writing and oratory. After her father's death, she and her mother moved to Havana. She enrolled in Sociedad de Bellas Artes (The Society of Fine Arts) a theatrical group that was a springboard for many fine Cuban actors. Young Lilia developed on the stage and showed an unusually skillful ability to tackle demanding roles.
In late 1940s Cuba, dozens of radio stations broad casted scores of soap operas. Lilia auditioned for and was hired by Radio CMQ in 1948. By 1950 she starred in five daily radio programs, all with the top audiences. Cuban radio corporations, like their US counterparts, began the transition to TV in the late 40s and CMQ's state-of-the-art television studio was inaugurated in 1949. Lilia was invited to act on television.
Her loyal radio audience could now see the pretty, talented girl they had heard, and her popularity skyrocketed. The Cuban Television Association voted her Cuba's best dramatic and comedic actress in 1952. She created various comedic characters for Cuban television, including one named Popa, which would later reappear in the United States.
Her years of TV stardom were from 1953 to 1960, but she also made time to appear in various movies, most notably Affair in Havana with Raymond Burr and John Cassavetes, and the leading role in the Cuban-made La Vida Comienza Ahora, released in 1960 and considered by critics the first Castro-era movie of note. In 1960, she accepted an offer to study acting with Lee Strasburg at New York's Actors Studio. Rejecting Cuba's Communist Revolution, she and her husband of 47 years, producer Mario Agüero, settled in New York.
In 1967, former Cuban television mogul Gaspar Pumarejo asked Lilia to return to TV with one of her comedy characters, Popa. Popa En Nueva York, as the series was titled, was taped and televised at WNJU channel 47 in Newark, NJ. A second season was aired in 1968 in color, making it the first Spanish language TV show made in color in the US. A full-length film, Popa en Nueva York, was released by Columbia Pictures that same year, directed by the legendary Mexican director Julio Bracho and co-starring Mexican leading man Rogelio Guerra.
In 1971, Goya Foods, Inc., sponsored production for Santa Barbara, Virgen y Martir, the first Spanish language TV Soap Opera made in the U.S. 75 full color episodes were aired between 1971 and 1972, and the novela topped the ratings in various cities in the United States.
By 1975, the illness and death of Lilia's mother and her husband's new upper east side restaurant took Lilia away from acting for good. Thereafter she turned her attention to art, embarking on a successful painting career with various solo and group exhibitions in the US and abroad. - Actor
- Producer
Nick Brandt was born in Del Rio, Texas, USA. Nick is an actor and producer, known for Harmony Town (2009), Friday Night Lights (2006) and Michael Jackson: A Remarkable Life (2003).- Composer
- Actor
- Soundtrack
Willy Chirino was born in 1947 in Consolación del Sur, Pinar del Río, Cuba. He is a composer and actor, known for Let It Ride (1989), Caught (1996) and My Big Night (2015). He is married to Lissette Álvarez. They have three children. He was previously married to Olga María Rodríguez.- Manuel Gil was born on 13 December 1933 in Cervera del Río Alhama, Logroño, Spain. He is an actor, known for La casa de la Troya (1959), Code Name: Jaguar (1965) and Botón de ancla (1961).
- Pastora Soler was born on 28 September 1978 in Coria del Río, Seville, Andalucía, Spain.
- Evelyn Pierce was born on 5 February 1907 in Del Rio, Texas, USA. She was an actress, known for Don't (1925), Once a Gentleman (1930) and Sonia (1928). She was married to Robert Allen. She died on 9 August 1960 in Oyster Bay, Long Island, New York, USA.
- Additional Crew
Todd Hayes was born on 21 May 1969 in Del Rio, Texas, USA. He is known for The Mark Steyn Show (2016), Choke (1999) and Salt Lake City 2002: XIX Olympic Winter Games (2002).- Actor
- Art Department
- Additional Crew
Paco Morán was born on 9 November 1930 in Almodóvar del Río, Córdoba, Andalucía, Spain. He was an actor, known for Estudio 1 (1965), Historias para no dormir (1966) and Matalobos (2009). He died on 23 July 2012 in Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.- Actor
- Stunts
Doran Ingrham was born on 24 June 1946 in Del Río, Texas, USA. He was an actor, known for Planet Terror (2007), Machete (2010) and True Grit (2010). He was married to Maria Mae. He died on 8 October 2022 in the Philippines.- Yoel Romero Palacio is a Cuban mixed martial artist (MMA) and former World Champion and Olympic silver medalist in freestyle wrestling. He made his UFC debut against Clifford Starks on April 20, 2013 at UFC on Fox 7. He won the fight via KO in the first round. He did also compete in the now-defunct Strikeforce organization.
- Manuel Benítez 'El Cordobés' was born on 4 May 1936 in Palma del Río, Córdoba, Andalucía, Spain. He is an actor, known for Aprendiendo a morir (1962), The Blackmailers (1963) and Europe Here We Come! (1971). He is married to Martine Freisse.
- Raúl Capote was born on 8 January 1983 in Pinar del Río, Cuba. He is an actor, known for La piscina (2012), Jazz Club (2018) and Ferozz: The Wild Red Riding Hood (2010).
- Producer
- Production Manager
- Art Department
Puy Oria was born in 1962 in Torres del Río, Navarre, Spain. She is a producer and production manager, known for Obaba (2005), Broken Silence (2001) and Un paraíso bajo las estrellas (2000).- Actor
- Director
- Producer
Matthew Peschio was born on 3 November 1991 in Del Rio, Texas, USA. He is an actor and director, known for Hawaii Five-0 (2010), Magnum P.I. (2018) and They're Inside (2019).