Eduardo López Rojas

Eduardo López Rojas

Born: May 3, 1937
Died: July 31, 1999
in New York, New York, USA
Eduardo López Rojas was born in 1937 in New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for La mujer de Benjamín (1991), La ley de Herodes (1999) and Reed, México insurgente (1973). He died on September 2, 1999 in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico.

Movies for Eduardo López Rojas...

La maceta
Title: La maceta
Released: January 1, 2002
Type: Movie
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Los maravillosos olores de la vida
Title: Los maravillosos olores de la vida
Released: January 1, 2000
Type: Movie
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Amor de mis amores
Title: Amor de mis amores
Released: December 31, 1999
Type: Movie
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Herod's Law
Title: Herod's Law
Character: Doctor
Released: November 9, 1999
Type: Movie
Mexico, 1949. The fable of a janitor turned Mayor on a little town lost in the Mexican desert, who gradually realizes how far his new acquainted power and corruption can get him.
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The Other Side
Title: The Other Side
Released: July 14, 1999
Type: Movie
Alejandro and Beto are in love. Their relationship, however, is being seriously tested. Alejandro is HIV+ and becoming more desperate as he finds the drug treatments in Mexico City are not working as he had hoped, and his t-cells continue to plummet. After much anguish, he decides, without input from Beto, that he needs to go to the U.S. for better information, medication and treatment. That decision unleashes havoc for Alejandro as he and Beto fight, slip up and finally reconcile. At the U.S. embassy, Alejandro is denied a visa, which ultimately leads him to try crossing the border illegally.
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La paloma de Marsella
Title: La paloma de Marsella
Released: March 5, 1999
Type: Movie
Amelia is an old retired prostitute who lives at an asylum, where she decides to enter a T.V. contest.
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Asedio criminal
Title: Asedio criminal
Released: January 1, 1996
Type: Movie
Containing gore, snuff movies, zombies, the Mafia and the supernatural, this was one of the most notorious "solo para adultos" direct-to-video releases in Mexico during the 90s.
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Una papa sin catsup
Title: Una papa sin catsup
Released: July 6, 1995
Type: Movie
Gloria's grandmother is kidnapped by "La greñas", a gang leader, and is forced to impersonate her to save her grandmother's life.
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Title: The Owner
Character: Gregorio "Goyo" Mendoza
Released: May 22, 1995
Type: TV
La Dueña (Mexico) is a Mexican telenovela produced by Florinda Meza in 1995 for Televisa. It was transmitted by El Canal de las Estrellas in Mexico and Univision in the United States in 1995 and 1998, and on Galavisión in 2000.
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My Family
Title: My Family
Character: Jose
Released: May 3, 1995
Type: Movie
Traces over three generations an immigrant family's trials, tribulations, tragedies, and triumphs. Maria and Jose, the first generation, come to Los Angeles, meet, marry, face deportation all in the 1930s. They establish their family in East L.A., and their children Chucho, Paco, Memo, Irene, Toni, and Jimmy deal with youth culture and the L.A. police in the '50s. As the second generation become adults in the '60s, the focus shifts to Jimmy, his marriage to Isabel (a Salvadorian refugee), their son, and Jimmy's journey to becoming a responsible parent.
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Días de combate
Title: Días de combate
Character: Gilberto
Released: March 1, 1994
Type: Movie
A novice private detective is on the trail of a serial strangler in Mexico City.
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Title: Cuentos de Borges
Character: Finnegan
Released: May 26, 1993
Type: TV
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Title: Los Parientes Pobres
Character: Padre Cayetano
Released: May 3, 1993
Type: TV
Los Parientes Pobres is a telenovela made by Mexican TV network Televisa. It is a telenovela set in Mexico. This telenovela was broadcast in 1993.
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Dollar Mambo
Title: Dollar Mambo
Character: The Policeman
Released: January 2, 1993
Type: Movie
Music and dance nurture the story of a group of people who live in a popular neighborhood. The invasion of North American soldiers to Panama will break the tranquility of the place bringing a wave of violence with them.
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Death and the Compass
Title: Death and the Compass
Character: Finnegan
Released: August 5, 1992
Type: Movie
In a totalitarian future, in a nightmare metropolis, inhabited only by criminals and police, Erik Lonnrot, a gifted detective, investigates a series of strange murders and disappearances that seem to implicate a insane crime lord. (Re-released in 1996 as a feature film, 86 minutes.)
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El extensionista
Title: El extensionista
Character: Cuquillo
Released: February 28, 1991
Type: Movie
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Benjamín's Wife
Title: Benjamín's Wife
Character: Benjamín
Released: January 2, 1991
Type: Movie
Benjamin is an old bachelor who lives with his sister. One day he falls in love with the young Natividad. Seeing that the love letter strategy doesn't work with the girl, Benjamín decides to kidnap her.
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¡Maten a Chinto!
Title: ¡Maten a Chinto!
Character: Palancares
Released: May 21, 1990
Type: Movie
During the Christmas season of 1944 in the Pacific coast port city of Manzanillo, hotel manager Chinto loses his temper and assaults "Inés," the homosexual cook. Inés complains to the police, but when several patrolmen come to arrest Chinto, he pulls a pistol and shoots them. The authorities soon lay seige to the hotel; Chinto's employees, oddly enough, follow his orders without question and assist him in barricading the hotel's doors and windows. The guests include U.S. consul Kraft and Pamela, the blonde mistress of a Mexican businessman (whose Mexican wife is also staying in the hotel). Chinto has been having an affair with one of the maids (who, unknown to him, is pregnant with his child), but he begins a brief sexual liaison with Pamela (she asks him "Who taught you English?" and Chinto replies, "George Raft").
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Romero
Title: Romero
Character: Bishop Cordova
Released: August 25, 1989
Type: Movie
Romero is a compelling and deeply moving look at the life of Archbishop Oscar Romero of El Salvador, who made the ultimate sacrifice in a passionate stand against social injustice and oppression in his county. This film chronicles the transformation of Romero from an apolitical, complacent priest to a committed leader of the Salvadoran people.
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Gaby: A True Story
Title: Gaby: A True Story
Character: Hector Bulle Goyri
Released: October 30, 1987
Type: Movie
The life of Gaby Brimmer, a girl physically handicapped, who finally gets her goals of study and triumph.
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Lamberto Quintero
Title: Lamberto Quintero
Character: Ayudante de Jorge
Released: May 19, 1987
Type: Movie
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The Realm of Fortune
Title: The Realm of Fortune
Character: Secundino Colmeneros
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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As You See?
Title: As You See?
Character: Police Inspector
Released: August 1, 1986
Type: Movie
Award-Winning filmmaker Paul Leduc (Frida, Naturaleza Viva, Reed: Insurgent Mexico, Barroco) directed this gritty musical drama about life in the ghettos of Mexico City during the 1980s. With a soundtrack of Mexican rock music, the camera takes the viewer through the streets, to rock concerts, and to the bars and clubs, where he exposes the hunger, repression, unhealthy conditions and violence in the marginal communities of Mexico's capital city.
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Mission Kill
Title: Mission Kill
Character: President Ariban
Released: June 19, 1986
Type: Movie
An ex-Green Beret visits one of his army buddies, and finds himself involved in his friend's scheme to smuggle arms into a turbulent South American country.
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Red Menace
Title: Red Menace
Released: August 25, 1985
Type: Movie
A female doctor uses the body of a young playboy to insert him the brain of his teacher, an eminent physician who she loves, in order to perpetuate his life. But something goes wrong and this broken Jesus with superhuman strength escapes and hides to avoid showing his deformity. Disguised with a wrestler's mask and cape, circumstances lead him to undertake a heroic journey.
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Brigada de la Muerte
Title: Brigada de la Muerte
Released: May 4, 1985
Type: Movie
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Death Squad
Title: Death Squad
Character: Velazquez
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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Historia de payasos
Title: Historia de payasos
Released: January 1, 1984
Type: Movie
Mexican feature film
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'Ora Sí ¡Tenemos Que Ganar!
Title: 'Ora Sí ¡Tenemos Que Ganar!
Released: October 22, 1981
Type: Movie
The abuse of authority and the employer of a mining town make workers, influenced by reading articles from Ricardo Flores Magon in newspaper Regeneration, organize clandestinely and mutiny against the US, owner of the mine, which is refuses to rescue a group of workers trapped by a landslide.
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Maria of My Heart
Title: Maria of My Heart
Character: Vigilante
Released: May 17, 1979
Type: Movie
Héctor and María meet again after eight years of not seeing each other. She works as a magician in cabarets and he robs houses. María convinces Héctor to become a magician and work together. Life seems to smile on them until one day, when Maria travels to another city, the couple's situation will be overshadowed by an unfortunate event.
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Anacrusa
Title: Anacrusa
Released: May 17, 1979
Type: Movie
The divorced university professor, Victoria, signs a letter of protest for the political disappeared that her students request, although she is not interested in politics. That afternoon his daughter, a twenty-year-old medical student, disappears. This event will change the vision of Victoria and her participation together with relatives of other political disappeared to obtain justice.
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Cuartelazo
Title: Cuartelazo
Character: General Villista
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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Meridiano 100
Title: Meridiano 100
Released: January 1, 1976
Type: Movie
The task of some guerrillas is to try to foment the conscience among peasants of a town, but their attempts will be tragically restricted.
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Letters from Marusia
Title: Letters from Marusia
Character: Domingo Soto
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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Esa mi Irene
Title: Esa mi Irene
Released: January 1, 1975
Type: Movie
A 43 minutes short film filmed in Mexico in 1975
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Those Years
Title: Those Years
Character: Arzobispo Pelagio Antonio de Labastida
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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Apuntes
Title: Apuntes
Character: Rosario
Released: January 1, 1974
Type: Movie
Mexican feature film
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El principio
Title: El principio
Character: Jesús José Licón
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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Uno y medio contra el mundo
Title: Uno y medio contra el mundo
Released: November 1, 1973
Type: Movie
Small-time crook teams up with a street urchin for mutual support on the margins of society.
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Diamantes, Oro y Amor
Title: Diamantes, Oro y Amor
Released: June 28, 1973
Type: Movie
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Tu camino y el mio
Title: Tu camino y el mio
Released: May 24, 1973
Type: Movie
She rejects him, but he's there for her, even after she gets married and then is abandoned by her babydaddy. Remake of Bajo El Cielo De Mexico (1958) (and also 1937?).
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Reed: Insurgent Mexico
Title: Reed: Insurgent Mexico
Character: Gral. Thomas Urbina
Released: January 5, 1973
Type: Movie
A dramatization of John Reed's newspaper accounts of the Mexican Revolution. Considered the first real film in Mexican cinema to be made on the Mexican Revolution.
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Jory
Title: Jory
Character: Cookie
Released: January 1, 1973
Type: Movie
Jory is a fifteen-year-old boy who joins a horse-drive after his father is killed by a drunkard. The drive's leader and a likable cowhand take the boy under their wing, and find that tragedy has taught him how to take care of himself better than anyone could expect.
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Tú, yo, nosotros
Title: Tú, yo, nosotros
Character: Bartender
Released: June 19, 1972
Type: Movie
Three interwoven stories where the characters experience deception, passion, love and rejection.
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El medio pelo
Title: El medio pelo
Character: Gestas
Released: January 6, 1972
Type: Movie
A woman who fancies herself an aristocrat rejects a potential suitor because he's not of her class. Also: their adult children have their own drama, a bit inflected with hippie-ish values.
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El águila descalza
Title: El águila descalza
Character: Trabajador factoria
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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El profe
Title: El profe
Character: Espiridión Cascajo
Released: April 7, 1971
Type: Movie
Mario Moreno portrays a professor in this movie. A small town in the middle of no where requests the school Mario Moreno is working in for a teacher. He ends up going to give the town a hand. When he arrives he comes to know the corrupt leaders who through out the movie try to make him leave. Although he is being harassed you can see how much he cares for the kids and their circumstances. He deals with problems by using his hilarious comments.
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River of Gold
Title: River of Gold
Character: Señor Cepeda
Released: March 9, 1971
Type: Movie
A pair of beach bums wind up in Acapulco, where they get involved in a search for a beautiful woman and a sunken treasure.
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Story of a Girl Alone
Title: Story of a Girl Alone
Character: Hombre del coupé
Released: January 17, 1971
Type: Movie
A chronicle of the different reactions of a girl when she finds that her boyfriend decides to end their relationship.
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El Quelite
Title: El Quelite
Character: Gavillero
Released: December 10, 1970
Type: Movie
Agapito, leader of the revolutionary movement of his state, comes to a town, kills all the federales, and gets a girl who was promised to him for his heroic deeds.
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Romeo contra Julieta
Title: Romeo contra Julieta
Released: November 14, 1968
Type: Movie
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Los Caifanes
Title: Los Caifanes
Character: El Mazacote
Released: August 17, 1967
Type: Movie
A couple on the verge of getting married gets mixed up with a gang of thugs in this routine crime drama that underscores the Socio-economic disparity in the Mexican culture. The upper-class couple rides along with outsiders who go club-hopping and resort to petty thievery. After their adventure, the couple questions whether or not they are right for each other.