Jorge Humberto Robles

Jorge Humberto Robles

Born: August 20, 1943
Died: November 1, 1983
in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
Studying in high school at UNAM, he climbed onto his first stages. Then he tried to study Economics, while working as an employee in a furniture store. In 1968 he worked as a journalist in the newspaper El Día, and then in the AMEX agency, dissolved by the government after starting a strike. He returned to acting at the Teatro Del Bosque and at the Jiménez Rueda, put in a greater number of daily hours as a host at the station Radio Universidad. Rafael Corkidi hired him for a film that Carlos Illescas was writing: Angeles y querubines. Jorge Humberto Robles had his first starring role there. His work partner: Helena Rojo

Around 1974 he worked as an actor in the Theater Company of the Universidad Veracruzana. In Xalapa he took part in few plays: he began to have problems with his eyesight and that year he lost an eye. -"What happened to Borges is happening to me," he used to joke very intimately, without petulance, without exaggerating the comment, "Anyway, there is not much to see".

Then, shortly after, came the project of making a film and he and his friends made it, creating an independent work unit, which resulted in Bandera rota, directed by Gabriel Retes.

On November 1, 1983, despite his success as a theater actor, he shot himself in the right temple.

Movies for Jorge Humberto Robles...

Persecución en Las Vegas: 'Volvere'
Title: Persecución en Las Vegas: 'Volvere'
Character: Strauss
Released: January 1, 1987
Type: Movie
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The Evil That Men Do
Title: The Evil That Men Do
Character: Jorge
Released: March 14, 1984
Type: Movie
Professional killer Holland is forced out of retirement to break a Central American government's political torture ring when one of his friends, a Latin American journalist, is killed. The murderer, Doctor Clement Molloch, is the master sadist behind the political torture of innocent victims. Posing as a journalist, Holland lures Molloch out of his fortress-like headquarters by using his murdered friend's wife and daughter as bait. When Holland kidnaps Molloch's sister, the doctor is led on a wild chase that takes him to an abandoned opal mine where he finally comes face to face with Holland.
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Figuras de la Pasión
Title: Figuras de la Pasión
Released: January 1, 1984
Type: Movie
This fairy type of movie is divided in episodes (Figuras) that are settle either on a jail or an play, in this surrealistic film we are immerse in a Dogville type of stage were the combination of Poetry, testaments and political discourse of the mix of characters of the daily basis and religious figures such as Judas, the virgin, the labor workers, homosexuals, drag queens. Ironically 'Figuras de la passion' has been banned for several years as a product of the attack and angriness of right – winged parties and scholars.
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El guerrillero del norte
Title: El guerrillero del norte
Released: January 1, 1983
Type: Movie
The Mexican Revolution in the state of Sonora.
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The flying pony
Title: The flying pony
Character: Ziran (Voice)
Released: January 1, 1982
Type: Movie
Mythical and fantastic story on the wishes of a peasant boy, Diego, who become reality in the course of a day and a night. On the eve of his birthday, the child's godfather gives her a shot of cardboard. At night, the little dreams that is mounted on the horse and find a nymph that describes the exact location of much needed water does to your family.
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Everyone's Hell so Feared
Title: Everyone's Hell so Feared
Character: Octavio
Released: September 9, 1981
Type: Movie
The inner demons of an aspiring writer, whose dissatisfaction has pushed him to alcohol and drugs, lead him to his self-destruction under the guise of confusing political positions.
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Savage Summer
Title: Savage Summer
Character: Juaco
Released: August 7, 1980
Type: Movie
The legend of their beach days, plus nights of sex.
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Constelaciones
Title: Constelaciones
Character: Monje confesor
Released: January 1, 1980
Type: Movie
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Semilla de muerte
Title: Semilla de muerte
Character: Agente Gonzalo
Released: January 1, 1980
Type: Movie
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Adriana del Rio, actriz
Title: Adriana del Rio, actriz
Released: October 4, 1979
Type: Movie
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Broken Flag
Title: Broken Flag
Character: Alberto Huesca
Released: June 21, 1979
Type: Movie
When a group of young filmmakers witness and film a crime of passion, the most outrageous blackmail of the century begins. By means of a fantastic plan, the filmmakers send to the murderer, a financial and industrial big shot, a copy of the movie that incriminates him and they demand him an improvement of the standard of living for the working class.
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New World
Title: New World
Character: Siervo
Released: August 10, 1978
Type: Movie
Towards the end of the 16th century, the Spanish conquerors living in the New World faced a serious problem: the evangelization of the indigenous people, who did not understand or accept Christianity due to their unshakable faith in their own religion. The court of the Inquisition cracks down on heretics and the natives prepare for a general uprising ...
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The Diabolical
Title: The Diabolical
Character: Oscar Peterson
Released: November 24, 1977
Type: Movie
Dave Boland (Carlos East) wears a strange medallion and robs the bank. He also takes the banker's daughter with him. Then he rapes her and put the satanic mark on her body. He was caught and was prepared for hanging. At moment before hanging Dave uses his supernatural power and makes a local shoe-shiner his accomplice. While running from sheriff Dave was injured and after some time dies. But before his death Dave gives this medallion to shoe-shiner Oscar and asks him to take revenge in the name of Satan. So he does it and also continue to rape and kill women never forgetting to leave satanic mark on their bodies...
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Holy Pafnucio
Title: Holy Pafnucio
Character: Hernán Cortés / mensajero / juez / Romeo / revolucionario
Released: October 27, 1977
Type: Movie
Controversial, sexy and surreal tale of a messenger, his journey and encounters with many historical events and people such as Auschwitz, the Ku Klux Klan, Frida Kahlo, Cortés and Emiliano Zapata (as a beautiful woman!)
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Desires
Title: Desires
Released: January 1, 1977
Type: Movie
Snippets of a family drama involving a rebellious son coming to his depressing home village, his father, and a jaded ex-lover, mixed with various surrealist scenes and statements about sin.
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Longitud de guerra
Title: Longitud de guerra
Character: David Chávez
Released: December 21, 1976
Type: Movie
Based on the novel Tomochic by Heriberto Frías; tells the story of the rebellion of the inhabitants of the village of Tomochi, Chihuahua, against the government of Porfirio Diaz in 1891. Mexico's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1976.
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Tango
Title: Tango
Released: January 1, 1976
Type: Movie
Mexican feature film
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Mary, Mary, Bloody Mary
Title: Mary, Mary, Bloody Mary
Character: Morgue Attendant
Released: May 1, 1975
Type: Movie
Mexican horror film about an American painter named Mary who is living in Mexico where she sells her works and also kills people for their blood. It turns out Mary is a vampire but not the traditional one with fangs. Since she has no fangs she must stab or slash the throats of her victims but soon she has a new man in her life as well as a mysterious man in black who appears to be doing the same type of murders.
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The One Who Came from Heaven
Title: The One Who Came from Heaven
Character: Robles
Released: March 6, 1975
Type: Movie
People's hero is Anapu... He extracts the water from a rock, befriends, and baptize and get it to Mary Magdalene, konsolerar the oppressed, makes peace with the warring brothers, raises the dead, licking men and women clean. In between, he makes a lot of soul searching as he wanders through the village, mingling with the various common folk and natives, and discuss their problems, future hazards and their lack of unity, the locals often break out of ethnic song and dance. While tracking a fascist military and his girlfriend to him..
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Peregrina
Title: Peregrina
Released: July 4, 1974
Type: Movie
Biopic: the last year or so in the life of Felipe Carrillo Puerto, Governor of Yucatan in the early 1920s.
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The Holy Inquisition
Title: The Holy Inquisition
Character: Pregonero de la Inquisición
Released: June 6, 1974
Type: Movie
A plague is spreading through 16th century Mexico, and the Inquisition of the Roman Catholic Church is rooting out Jews, for they are believed to be its cause. At his father's funeral, a monk observes his family practicing Jewish burial rite, and he reports them, leading to devastating consequences for the whole family.
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Angels and Cherubs
Title: Angels and Cherubs
Character: Cristián
Released: December 8, 1972
Type: Movie
A tragic celestial-western that explores Adam and Eve's paradise from a surreal point of view.