José Gálvez

José Gálvez

Born: March 19, 1931
Died: August 9, 1978
in Bucaramanga, Santander, Colombia
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.

Movies for José Gálvez...

Benjamín Argumedo el rebelde
Title: Benjamín Argumedo el rebelde
Released: December 13, 1979
Type: Movie
Biopic about a General in the Mexican Revolution. Sequel: Persecucion y muerte de Benjamin Argumedo.
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La muerte de un gallero
Title: La muerte de un gallero
Released: September 15, 1977
Type: Movie
Dramatization of a popular '70s corrido.
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Omen
Title: Omen
Character: Don Jorge
Released: February 13, 1975
Type: Movie
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.
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El derecho de los pobres
Title: El derecho de los pobres
Released: January 4, 1973
Type: Movie
Kids in an Ecuadorian slum have a benevolent doctor who tries to help them forward in life. Also they play soccer.
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Azul
Title: Azul
Released: December 6, 1972
Type: Movie
Rich man who owns an island sanctuary is involved in some shady business. Meanwhile, his daughter... and also meanwhile, the tribe of hippies that are racing around on dune buggies...
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El vals sin fin
Title: El vals sin fin
Released: November 30, 1972
Type: Movie
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Panic
Title: Panic
Character: Abel (segment "Soledad")
Released: June 15, 1972
Type: Movie
Three tales of horror, isolation and insanity set in Mexico.
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The Incredible Professor Zovek
Title: The Incredible Professor Zovek
Character: Dr. Leobardo Druso
Released: May 11, 1972
Type: Movie
Escape-artist-mentalist-martial-arts superhero vs. mad scientist and monsters.
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End of the Party
Title: End of the Party
Character: Gonzalo de la Puente
Released: January 13, 1972
Type: Movie
A motorcycle gang goes to a mansion where a party is being held and joy turns into tragedy.
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Apolinar
Title: Apolinar
Released: January 1, 1972
Type: Movie
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.
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The Business of Hate
Title: The Business of Hate
Released: January 1, 1972
Type: Movie
An ambitious businessman searches for the perfect candidate to train and turn into a great boxing champion.
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El águila descalza
Title: El águila descalza
Character: Don Carlos Martinez
Released: December 8, 1971
Type: Movie
Shmuck makes a superhero costume, rides his bike to crime scenes. He gets involved with something big involving US capitalists taking over local Mexican businesses.
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Cool Dad
Title: Cool Dad
Released: November 11, 1971
Type: Movie
Fiftyish head of household tries to hang onto his fun-loving youth while imposing his most rigid value judgements on his young-adult children.
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Rosario
Title: Rosario
Character: Padre
Released: May 6, 1971
Type: Movie
Rosario and Carlos, husbands, are part of a theater company. In a scene of jealousy, she should shoot and kill him. Carlos has had an affair with Zulma, another acriz of the company. On opening day, in the final scene, Rosario accidentally kills her husband. Someone change the gun ...
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Aguilas de acero
Title: Aguilas de acero
Character: Mayor Salinas
Released: January 7, 1971
Type: Movie
Two Air force pilots are best friends in that competitive, always picking fights with each other way.
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La mujer de oro
Title: La mujer de oro
Released: November 19, 1970
Type: Movie
Heist movie: bank teller develops an elaborate game plan to lift money from the vault where she works.
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Why Was I Born a Woman?
Title: Why Was I Born a Woman?
Character: Pedro
Released: August 20, 1970
Type: Movie
A family gathers to celebrate Mother's Day, that day a woman discuss many problems about her woman condition; husband, children and grandchildren will hear she tired and overwhelmed silenced by submission and obedience. Analysis of the family and gender roles.
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El cuerpazo del delito
Title: El cuerpazo del delito
Character: PG (segment "La rebelde")
Released: July 9, 1970
Type: Movie
Anthology film: three "sophisticated" rom-com scenarios.
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Prohibido
Title: Prohibido
Character: Enrique
Released: April 9, 1970
Type: Movie
Two young adults, brother and sister, discover that both were adopted, and they start to develop grown-up feelings toward each other. Is this the worst, most perverse thing to ever happen? Opinions differ.
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Cateto a babor
Title: Cateto a babor
Character: Sgt Canales, el tigre de San Fernando
Released: March 16, 1970
Type: Movie
Miguel Cañete is a village man who is called up by the Navy to do military service, but he lives alone with his little brother and doesn't know where to leave him...
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La mentira
Title: La mentira
Character: Jaime Botel
Released: March 12, 1970
Type: Movie
A man, torn inside by two passions, falls for the woman against whom he sought revenge, believing her to be responsible for the death of his brother.
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Misión cumplida
Title: Misión cumplida
Released: January 29, 1970
Type: Movie
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Trampa para un cadáver
Title: Trampa para un cadáver
Released: October 17, 1969
Type: Movie
Two brothers try to kill their stepfather to avenge the death of their mother.
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El golfo
Title: El golfo
Released: October 17, 1969
Type: Movie
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.
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Flor marchita
Title: Flor marchita
Character: Javier Almada
Released: July 3, 1969
Type: Movie
Adult seduces and abandons a teenaged girl, she has a baby. Fifteen years later...
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Santa
Title: Santa
Released: January 1, 1969
Type: Movie
A young and innocent girl is betrayed by the man whom she loves and has to become a prostitute because her family rejects her.
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Passport to Death
Title: Passport to Death
Character: Marcus
Released: December 26, 1968
Type: Movie
The Secret Agent Lafargue locates the evil Professor Marcus headquarters, who with the help of Dr. Bellini and an android of his invention, plan to conquer the world. Lafargue is discovered and severely injured, so he is unable to remember where it is the basis of Marcus or what their plan. To resolve this situation the authorities call the Agent Zero team.
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Sor Ye-yé
Title: Sor Ye-yé
Character: Pepe Castaño
Released: March 9, 1968
Type: Movie
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.
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Seis días para morir
Title: Seis días para morir
Character: Jaime Esquivel
Released: November 9, 1967
Type: Movie
Public health thriller: rabies in Mexico City.
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Savage Sunday
Title: Savage Sunday
Released: June 1, 1967
Type: Movie
Repressed middle-aged Catholic gets into a troublesome relationship with the prostitute next door and her little boy.
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Your Excellency
Title: Your Excellency
Character: Camarada Osky Popovsky, primer ministro
Released: May 3, 1967
Type: Movie
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.
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Estrategia matrimonio
Title: Estrategia matrimonio
Character: Roberto Santander
Released: March 23, 1967
Type: Movie
Pragmatic young woman plots out her flirtations with five rich, eligible bachelors to play to the weaknesses of each one. Then she has to pick one for keeps.
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Dr. Satan
Title: Dr. Satan
Character: Inspector Tomás Mateos
Released: December 29, 1966
Type: Movie
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?
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El indomable
Title: El indomable
Released: December 1, 1966
Type: Movie
Wandering cowboy stops to help a widow out against the man who killed her husband.
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Marcelo y María
Title: Marcelo y María
Released: November 10, 1966
Type: Movie
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...
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Sangre en Rio Bravo
Title: Sangre en Rio Bravo
Released: September 29, 1966
Type: Movie
Foreign mining concern resorts to illegal tactics to buy up land; two brothers are orphaned and dispossessed and they become outlaws in revenge.
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Nosotros los jóvenes
Title: Nosotros los jóvenes
Character: Julio Gálvez Sr.
Released: June 9, 1966
Type: Movie
Young-adult movie about a crew of 8 or 10 upper-middle-class boys and girls -- mostly about the romance between two of them.
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Planetary Giants
Title: Planetary Giants
Character: The Protector
Released: January 1, 1966
Type: Movie
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.
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Neutron vs. the Maniac
Title: Neutron vs. the Maniac
Character: Dr. Van Nielsen
Released: August 13, 1965
Type: Movie
Neutron, a wrestler/superhero, investigates a series of murders at a sanitarium.
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Amor de adolescente
Title: Amor de adolescente
Character: Fiscal
Released: January 1, 1965
Type: Movie
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Los cuervos están de luto
Title: Los cuervos están de luto
Character: Gelasio
Released: January 1, 1965
Type: Movie
The family of a dying man celebrates his wake while the man is still alive, showing their darker, selfish ambitions and trying to take the best part of the inheritance.
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I Killed a Man
Title: I Killed a Man
Released: October 29, 1964
Type: Movie
A mature woman looks for a judge to hand over after having murdered a man and recounts everything that happened. Sequel to "Historia de un canalla".
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History of a Scoundrel
Title: History of a Scoundrel
Character: Fiscal Gómez
Released: June 25, 1964
Type: Movie
A woman betrayed and betrayed by a man falls into despair and ends up killing him.
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Love & Sex (Sappho 1963)
Title: Love & Sex (Sappho 1963)
Character: Licenciado Miguel Gaudal
Released: May 14, 1964
Type: Movie
Independently-wealthy woman tries to break free of repressive, conservative cultural constraints.
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Vuelve el Norteño
Title: Vuelve el Norteño
Released: January 3, 1964
Type: Movie
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.
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El norteño
Title: El norteño
Released: November 7, 1963
Type: Movie
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.
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El tejedor de milagros
Title: El tejedor de milagros
Character: Marcial
Released: December 27, 1962
Type: Movie
Arnulfo is a man weaving baskets. Remedios has given birth in front of the house of a woman and her aid, but the village is spread the word that the child born as a child God and an atheist would think exploit to their advantage the "miracle ".
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Macario
Title: Macario
Character: El Demonio
Released: May 9, 1960
Type: Movie
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.
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El último mexicano
Title: El último mexicano
Released: April 14, 1960
Type: Movie
After the US annexation of Texas, a landowner from Guanajuato faces problems from bigoted new neighbors.
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El pandillero
Title: El pandillero
Released: January 3, 1959
Type: Movie
Gangsters kidnap the writer of a crime-drama radio program to plot their heists for them.
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Préstame tu cuerpo
Title: Préstame tu cuerpo
Character: Romualdo
Released: April 1, 1958
Type: Movie
Heaven Can Wait scenario; a young woman dies forty years ahead of schedule because her guardian angel made a mistake... so the divine powers that be put her back on earth in a new body.
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Vanilla, Bronze and to Die
Title: Vanilla, Bronze and to Die
Character: Enrique Vallarta
Released: December 4, 1957
Type: Movie
A beautiful woman, fatally ill of the heart, is torn between the love of a poor sculptor and a forced marriage with the sadistic son of a millionaire.
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Each child, a cross
Title: Each child, a cross
Character: Pepe
Released: May 9, 1957
Type: Movie
Empty nest syndrome, #1388.
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The King of México
Title: The King of México
Character: Raúl Olmedo
Released: April 20, 1956
Type: Movie
A humble tramp is turned, for a couple of days, into the richest and most famous man in México.