
Carlos Ancira
Actor · 1929 – 1987 · Mexico City, Mexico
He began his professional studies at the Escuela de Arte Teatral del Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes (INBA), in 1946, under the teachings of Clementina Otero, Enrique Ruelas, Earl Senett and Seki Sano. He excelled as an actor in numerous plays: Waiting for Godot, by Samuel Beckett; Poor People, by Dostoyevsky; The Diary of a Madman, by Gogol; with which he achieved a memorable dramatization and more than two thousand performances for nearly twenty-five years. He received awards and distinctions, among them, that of actor emeritus of the Moscow Academy of Theater and Performing Arts for his performance in The Diary of a Madman. Carlos Ancira Negrete, actor and playwright, was one of the initiators of the "Theater of the Absurd" in the 1960s. His interest focuses on the values of a dehumanized society and the loneliness of the individual, thus reflecting the moral and psychological conflicts of a central character to whom the author gave all the dramatic force through the monologue, one of his most successful resources, which in turn led to a theatrical representation in which the essence of the work itself and the performer could be seen with greater effect, above the theatrical or scenographic space. He left unfinished a book he was preparing on his theatrical technique, and other plays unpublished. Interested in all expressions of dramatic art, he participated in some two thousand television programs, in 50 cinematographic films, in innumerable radio broadcasts and in dubbing and photonovelas. For 30 years he taught at the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, the Academia de Actores and other teaching centers. In the theater he was an author, adaptor, director and fundamentally an actor. His plays include: Nezahualcóyotl (1951), Después... nada (1954), Imágenes (1973), Pasto rojo, El mundo vacío and Cangrejos (not yet premiered). With Gonzalo Martínez, he composed a 120-episode telenovela based on the life and work of Dostoevsky. He adapted for the stage a novel by Dostoevsky, another by Andreiev and several short stories by Chekhov and directed plays by these authors and by Armando Moock, Ugo Betti, Eugene O'Neill and Jesús R. Guerrero. His repertoire as an actor included some 300 plays. Married to actress Karina Duprez, he died in 1987 of a chronic illness.
Movies24
Movie6.8RomanceAdventureFando and his partially paralysed lover Lis search for the mythical city of Tar.
Movie4.9ActionHorrorWhen Santo accompanies a troupe of archaeologists in the search for Aztec artifacts, they find the Mummy of an Aztec who leaves a warning to those who tamper with his resting place. The adventurers ignore the warning, and before long, the Mummy starts bumping them off one-by-one with his bow & arrow.
Movie5.6HorrorWesternA cowboy and his sidekick meet a ranching family that is haunted by spirits and vampires.
Movie7.1Third movie in "Life of Christ" trilogy.
Jesús, nuestro Señor
1971 · 11 votes
Movie6.3DramaThree interwoven stories where the characters experience deception, passion, love and rejection.
Tú, yo, nosotros
1972 · 3 votes
Movie5.6HorrorVampire hunters track down a vampire and attempt to steal the ashes from his coffin in order to stop him from reviving nightly.
Movie7.5DramaFamilyThe founder of Christianity and his sacred family.
Jesús, María y José
1972 · 15 votes
Movie6.0AdventureMysteryA federal policeman arrives in a town ravaged by a cult of hooded men who leave a satanic face on their victims.
Los diablos del terror
1959 · 9 votes
Movie7.1HorrorScience FictionA mad scientist creates a remote-controlled monster and sends it to terrorize the city.
Movie6.9DramaA deaf and mute vagabond finds a large denomination bill in a Mexico City dump, and while he tries to buy something with it, others try to con him into giving it away.
Movie6.3HorrorTwo doctors make a pact in which they swear that the first to die will return - if possible - to tell the other how to get a glimpse of the afterlife while still alive.
Movie5.6HorrorA man becomes more and more infatuated with his childhood sweetheart leading to a haunting encounter with horror.
Movie4.8HorrorMysteryA mad scientist teams with an evil, disfigured woman to kidnap and operate on young women to make her look beautiful again.
Movie7.4ActionCrimeGunfighters kill all family members of farmer brothers Mario and Fernando Almada, after the tragic event, they seek revenge.
Todo Por Nada
1969 · 7 votes
Movie8.0DramaComedyTrophy wife of a crooked industrialist meets a philanthropic doctor and develops a social conscience. Mexican remake of Born Yesterday.
Movie6.6ActionScience FictionBruno Halder a sinister scientist seeking revenge against his brother and niece is resurrected by Waldo his faithful sidekick. Besides his minions of zombies Halder enlists the help of Wolfman, Franquestain, a Vampire, a Mummy and a Cyclops. Once again the survival of mankind is put in the hands of Santo
Santo el enmascarado de plata y Blue Demon contra los monstruos
Santo and Blue Demon Against the Monsters
1970 · 39 votes
- Movie5.8DramaAction
Five criminals are arrested after a bank-robbery. One escapes, and the police officer in charge of transporting them arrests a new person at random to cover up for his negligence.
Cinco en la cárcel
1968 · 5 votes
Movie5.0DramaRomanceDuring a lull in the Mexican Revolution when Francisco Madero became president and attempted to implement land reforms, two former revolutionaries are pitted against each other for the love of the same woman.
La Bandida
1963 · 10 votes
Movie5.3ThrillerHorrorThree tales of horror, isolation and insanity set in Mexico.
Movie6.2ComedyDramaFather and two sons raise hell at the county fair.
Los tres alegres compadres
1952 · 4 votes
Movie4.0HorrorThose involved in the making of an amateur porn video end up getting slashed to death with a cane sword. It's up to the brave policewoman Eugenia aka The Scorpion (Maribel Guardia) to stop him.
- Movie6.7
Ensayo de una noche de bodas
1968 · 3 votes
Movie5.6ThrillerHorrorSix hundred year old witch butts heads with a scholar over the possession of a rare ancient grimoire and then discovers that his daughter's fiance is the reincarnation of her first boyfriend.
Movie6.7Gangsters kidnap the writer of a crime-drama radio program to plot their heists for them.
El pandillero
1959 · 6 votes
Series5
TV7.7SoapDramaThe story follows Rina, a young hunchback who sells flowers to support her father and siblings after being abandoned by her mother. One day, while selling her flowers, she is beckoned from a window by Leopoldo—a wealthy, elderly, bitter, and invalid man—who manipulates her into marrying him because he refuses to leave his inheritance to his sister-in-law, Rafaela. Rina agrees to the marriage due to financial hardship. Shortly thereafter, Leopoldo dies, and Rina inherits a vast fortune. She undergoes surgery to correct her hunchback and transforms into a beautiful woman. Unwilling to accept the loss of the inheritance, Rafaela devises a scheme with the help of her son, Carlos Augusto, who has recently been widowed.
Rina
1977 · 3 votes
- TV7.0SoapDrama
Al rojo vivo
1980 · 1 votes
TV9.0SoapMysteryEl camino secreto
1986 · 2 votes
TV8.0DramaYara is an indigenous woman who comes to Mexico City in search of a better quality of life. Yara suffered the contempt of society and the people around her.
Yara
1979 · 1 votes
TV8.5DramaCrimeLos miserables
1974 · 2 votes