Alejandro Parodi

Alejandro Parodi

Born: July 23, 1928
Died: August 26, 2011
in Mexico
Alejandro Parodi Montaño (1928 - 2011) was a Mexican actor.

Parodi made professional studies in photography, cinematography and theater. He studied drama with the teacher Seki Sano, in addition to having been a disciple of Alex Phillips. He taught at the Universidad Iberoamericana; with studies in Madrid, Spain.

He participated in works of Spanish and German cinema. He alternated with actors such as Geraldine Chaplin, Gian Maria Volonté, Dean Stockwell, Marhe Keller, Kris Kristofferson, among others. He worked with directors such as: Miguel Littín, Arturo Ripstein, Felipe Cazals, Alfredo Gurrola and Alejandro Pelayo.

Movies for Alejandro Parodi...

El misterio del Trinidad
Title: El misterio del Trinidad
Released: April 29, 2003
Type: Movie
The strange relation between two brothers.
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Back and Forth
Title: Back and Forth
Released: October 18, 2001
Type: Movie
After working for three years in the USA, Filiberto returns to his home town in Mexico. A proud man, he is searching for the recognition that will give him a new position in life. However, he finds that things have changed. His mother is dead, and Luis, his best friend, is married to his ex-girlfriend. Filiberto gets involved in the town’s disputes over a water spring.
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His Most Serene Highness
Title: His Most Serene Highness
Character: Antonio López de Santa Anna
Released: August 17, 2000
Type: Movie
This historical drama depicts the waning days of the life of Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, who waged a war against the United States that ultimately cost his nation half of its territory
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The Beginning and the End
Title: The Beginning and the End
Character: Rector
Released: June 24, 1994
Type: Movie
The film tells the story of the Boteros, a middle-class Mexican family struggling against poverty after their father's death. Ignacia (Egurrola) is the Boteros mother, a desperate woman who chooses to sacrifice the destiny of her three older children, in order to protect Gabriel (Laguardia) the youngest one. She believes Gabriel will climb the social structure and bring back the lost fortune to the family. But destiny has other plans for the Boteros and tragedy will overcome eventually. Based on the novel of Nobel Prize winner Naguib Mahfouz.
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La mujer del puerto
Title: La mujer del puerto
Character: Carmelo
Released: September 11, 1991
Type: Movie
Perla, a prostitute and the star in a miserable cabaret in the docks, falls in love with a sailor without knowing that he is her brother. Tomasa, Perla's mother, tries to prevent this incestuous relationship at all costs, but fails to do so. Set in a sordid environment, the director makes no concessions in this tragic love affair, which is narrated from three different points of view.
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Angel of Fire
Title: Angel of Fire
Character: Renato
Released: January 2, 1991
Type: Movie
The young trapeze artist Alma is part of the show of a miserable traveling circus. In an act of desperation, Alma commits incest with her father, a sick clown obsessed with the woman who abandoned them. Determined to have his child, Alma leaves the circus and joins a group of preachers led by Refugio, a woman who performs puppet shows with biblical passages in poor neighborhoods.
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El hijo de Lamberto Quintero
Title: El hijo de Lamberto Quintero
Released: November 15, 1990
Type: Movie
Lamberto Quintero is assassinated and his son intends to avenge him following in his footsteps. The pair of father and son, Antonio Aguilar and Pepe Aguilar star in this action film.
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Dying in the Gulf
Title: Dying in the Gulf
Released: March 8, 1990
Type: Movie
The story of the oil leader Lázaro Pizarro, of his political and personal wars, the use of crime to settle conflicts and the course of his power between the basements and the domes of Mexican politics, have a narrative record made in the Gulf of accuracy and dexterity
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Romelia's Secret
Title: Romelia's Secret
Character: Rafael Orantes
Released: December 4, 1988
Type: Movie
The way three different generations of women view virginity and the mystery that a love story hides.
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Difficult Days
Title: Difficult Days
Character: Edmundo Castelar
Released: July 7, 1988
Type: Movie
Two shareholder brothers close several factories due to economic problems, except for their chemical plants.
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Living Is What Matters
Title: Living Is What Matters
Character: Canales
Released: October 21, 1987
Type: Movie
A drifter named Candelario asks to spend the night at the hacienda of Don Lazaro. Once there, he gets the offer to stay and work as a laborer with a fixed salary. Over time, Candelario is gaining the confidence of his employer, and becomes indispensable. The situation will change radically when Don Lazarus discovers that Candelario is having a love affair with his wife.
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Lamberto Quintero
Title: Lamberto Quintero
Character: Fidencio
Released: May 19, 1987
Type: Movie
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Zapata en Chinameca
Title: Zapata en Chinameca
Released: February 15, 1987
Type: Movie
Urbino Martínez, on his deathbed, regrets his wrongdoing after betraying Emiliano Zapata.
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The Realm of Fortune
Title: The Realm of Fortune
Character: Lorenzo Benavides
Released: November 28, 1986
Type: Movie
Poor Dionisio finds himself as recipient of the good fortune, but soon he forgets that everything that goes up also has to go down, and that in the depressing nothingness of his town it is easy to die.
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Die Frau des Reporters
Title: Die Frau des Reporters
Character: Padre Manuel
Released: March 23, 1986
Type: Movie
In the spring of 1980, Esther Jochmann, a young Austrian woman, flies to San Salvador. Her husband, a journalist, has been killed. She has to identify his corpse so that the authorities will allow it to be transferred to Europe. She learns that Archbishop Oscar Romero, who was also a victim of an assassination, had granted a taped interview to her husband. Padre Manuel hands the tape over to her. Esther accompanies the Padre and John, an American reporter, who are trying to find the murderers.
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Viaje al paraíso
Title: Viaje al paraíso
Character: Ramiro
Released: September 8, 1985
Type: Movie
Family plans for a quiet weekend at the beach, but everything goes wrong.
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Violent Stories
Title: Violent Stories
Released: August 29, 1985
Type: Movie
Five surreal short stories make up this Mexican anthology film.
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Death Squad
Title: Death Squad
Character: Gabriel Patino
Released: January 1, 1985
Type: Movie
Mario Balbuena, a honest cop, becomes the victim of an ambush by drug dealers and dirty cops, after that, he recruits a group of sleazy criminals in order to strike his revenge.
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Knock Out
Title: Knock Out
Character: Taxi driver
Released: November 22, 1984
Type: Movie
Rodrigo Zaracho, once a promising boxer, is in decline. While fleeing from a gang that is chasing him, he remembers his past.
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Encuentro con la muerte
Title: Encuentro con la muerte
Released: September 7, 1984
Type: Movie
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Alsino and the Condor
Title: Alsino and the Condor
Character: The Major
Released: December 1, 1982
Type: Movie
Alsino, a boy of 10 or 12, lives with his grandmother in a remote area of Nicaragua. He's engulfed in the war between rebels and government troops when a US advisor orders the army to open a staging area by the boy's hamlet. Alsino tries to be a child, climbing trees with a girl, looking through his grandfather's trunk of mementos and trying to fly; he goes to town to sell a saddle, has his first drink and is taken to a brothel. But the war surrounds him. The US advisor takes Alsino on a chopper flight, but he's unimpressed. The soldiers' cruelties awake rebel sympathies in Alsino, and after an army assault backfires, the lad is fully baptized into the conflict.
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La viuda de Montiel
Title: La viuda de Montiel
Character: Alacaide
Released: November 30, 1979
Type: Movie
Mexican drama film directed by Miguel Littín. It is based on a short story of the same name by Gabriel García Marquez. It was entered into the 30th Berlin International Film Festival
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Call Me Mike
Title: Call Me Mike
Character: Miguel/Mike
Released: March 7, 1979
Type: Movie
After being unjustly accused of corruption and seriously injured in prison, Miguel's personality will merge with the characters he reads in his police novels.
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The Year of the Plague
Title: The Year of the Plague
Character: Dr. Pedro Sierra Genovés
Released: February 12, 1978
Type: Movie
A terrible disease is found in a Mexican town. A doctor tries to alert the authorities when he discovers its epidemic nature. No one listen to him and soon after the disease spreads. The government tries to control the information in order to prevent panic.
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Cuartelazo
Title: Cuartelazo
Character: José Ma. Iglesias
Released: May 4, 1977
Type: Movie
Narration of one of the bloodiest episodes of the Mexican national history, The Tragic Ten, beginning when General Victoriano Huerta sent to kill President Francisco I. Madero, Vice President José María Pino Suárez and Senator Belisario Dominguez. The film recreates the moment of the execution at the hands of Huerta and his accomplices Bernardo Reyes, Félix Díaz and Manuel Mondragón.
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Las Poquianchis
Title: Las Poquianchis
Character: Juez
Released: November 17, 1976
Type: Movie
During the mid-1970s, in the Mexican state of Guanajuato, authorities discover a clandestine burial ground. The corpses are from murdered prostitutes. The suspects are three sisters known as "Las Poquianchis".
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Letters from Marusia
Title: Letters from Marusia
Character: Espinoza
Released: December 26, 1975
Type: Movie
Chronicle of the repression that a foreign company exerts on the miners of a small nitrate town in Chile, whose workers decide to claim their most essential rights. A reflection of the historic union struggles in the northern Chile that ended with terrible repressive acts.
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The Fight with the Panther
Title: The Fight with the Panther
Character: Journalist
Released: July 31, 1975
Type: Movie
Three nymphets struggle to have a beneficial youth: Ana is suicidal, Mercedes is attracted to her brother William, and Patricia desires to be sexually abused.
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Those Years
Title: Those Years
Character: Cnel. Dupin
Released: March 21, 1974
Type: Movie
President Juárez fights against the conservatives, who have ordered an emperor to be brought from France to govern Mexico
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El principio
Title: El principio
Character: Leobardo López
Released: December 3, 1973
Type: Movie
Mexico is in the midst of Revolution when the protagonist returns after studying in Paris to find his native town in Chihuahua occupied by Francisco Villa’s revolutionary forces. He visits his deserted home and remembers people and events from his adolescence that provide glimpses of pre-Revolutionary society under dictatorship: his uncle, the chief of police; his sister’s involvement with a liberal political association; bathing with the girls from a local brothel; a labor strike that ended in a massacre. Returning to the present he discovers that his father has been assassinated and, in the company of his father’s former servant, joins the revolutionary movement.
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Los amigos
Title: Los amigos
Released: November 17, 1968
Type: Movie
Ambition, social climbing and insincerity shape the emotional climate among a circle of young professionals launching their careers.
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Volantín
Title: Volantín
Released: September 23, 1963
Type: Movie
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Santo in the Hotel of Death
Title: Santo in the Hotel of Death
Character: Chantajista
Released: January 25, 1963
Type: Movie
Tourists visiting the pyramids in Mexico experience a string of deaths and disappearances while staying at a nearby hotel. Police investigators Fernando and Cornado are assigned to the case and attempt to solve the mystery with the help of reporter (and girlfriend of Fernando) Veronica and the wrestler Santo.
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El fistol del diablo IV
Title: El fistol del diablo IV
Character: Secuestrador
Released: January 5, 1962
Type: Movie
Part of a series of films based on portions of the Manuel Payno novel "El fistol del diablo". All were directed by Fernando Fernández and star Roberto Cañedo.
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The Infernal Coffin
Title: The Infernal Coffin
Character: Secuestrador
Released: January 5, 1962
Type: Movie
An obscure old dark house horror melodrama from Mexico. Based on the novel "El fistol del diablo" by Manuel Payno.
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Thursday night
Title: Thursday night
Character: Alejandro
Released: January 1, 1962
Type: Movie
A group of friends plan to steal a companýs payroll, they succeed, but they have a fatal accident in the getaway car.
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Servicio secreto
Title: Servicio secreto
Character: Daniel Campos
Released: January 1, 1962
Type: Movie
Two secret agents are after a couple of car thieves who belong to a band of criminals headed by Ernesto. The band has kidnapped the son of Daniel, a boxer who is about to fight for the world title. The agents must destroy Ernesto's band and rescue Daniel's son before the fight so Daniel doesn't lose his chance at the title under the kidnapper's threats.
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Mis abuelitas... no más!
Title: Mis abuelitas... no más!
Released: March 30, 1961
Type: Movie
Bush-league actor allows two adorable grannies to believe he's their long-lost grandson. Then: complications!
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Mujeres engañadas
Title: Mujeres engañadas
Character: Roque
Released: January 1, 1961
Type: Movie
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Pepito as del volante
Title: Pepito as del volante
Character: Raúl
Released: June 20, 1957
Type: Movie
Pepito's father dies in rollover the Ferrari that is winning a race car, so Pepito is about his grandfather and asks him to equip a car to get him to compete.
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El buen ladrón
Title: El buen ladrón
Released: May 23, 1957
Type: Movie
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Good Love
Title: Good Love
Released: February 28, 1957
Type: Movie
Mother and son conspire against his sister when she marries against their wishes.
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La mujer X
Title: La mujer X
Released: April 6, 1955
Type: Movie
A woman accused of murder refuses to defend herself in any way, in order to avoid tarnishing the family name and the reputation of her long-lost son.
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Venganza en el circo
Title: Venganza en el circo
Character: Crispín
Released: February 17, 1954
Type: Movie
Criss-crossing love affairs and jealousies result in a murder attempt.