Luis G. Oquendo

Luis G. Oquendo

Born: March 24, 1925
Died: August 25, 1992
in Havana, Cuba

Movies for Luis G. Oquendo...

A Show of Force
Title: A Show of Force
Character: Governor Villanueva
Released: May 11, 1990
Type: Movie
In this thriller, television reporter Kate Ryan de Meléndez investigates the death of two radical Puerto Rican activists, whom she begins to believe may have been framed and murdered by undercover American agents.
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Guaguasi
Title: Guaguasi
Character: Perdomo
Released: November 4, 1983
Type: Movie
A story about a simple man from the mountains, Guaguasi, who falls in love with a beautiful chorus girl, Marina, during the Cuban Revolution. Guaguasi joins the rebels and arrives in Havana at the end of Batista's dictatorship, and, in the midst of political turmoil, is swept off his feet by the mesmerising Marina. The story celebrates the vitality and lunacy of the Revolution period with surrealism, humor and sensuality and is a compassionate metaphor about the human condition.
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La virgen de la calle
Title: La virgen de la calle
Released: January 1, 1965
Type: Movie
A young woman has to move forward after the death of her mother and the abuse of her stepfather. She decides to be the mistress of a number of rich men. If she were to fall in love, she would keep quiet about her past. But the father of the man she falls for was one of her former lovers.
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La maldición de mi raza
Title: La maldición de mi raza
Released: January 1, 1964
Type: Movie
A young woman gets in trouble for wanting to deny her ethnic ancestry.
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Title: ¿Qué Pasa, USA? (1977)
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV
¿Qué Pasa, U.S.A.? is America's first bilingual situation comedy, and the first sitcom to be produced for PBS. It was produced and taped in front of a live studio audience at PBS member station WPBT in Miami, Florida and aired on PBS member stations nationwide. The program explored the trials and tribulations faced by the Peñas, a Cuban-American family living in Miami's Little Havana neighborhood, as they struggled to cope with a new country and a new language. The series was praised as being very true-to-life and accurately, if humorously, portraying the life and culture of Miami's Cuban-American population.