Don Alvarado

Don Alvarado

Born: November 4, 1904
Died: March 31, 1967
in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA

Movies for Don Alvarado...

The Big Steal
Title: The Big Steal
Character: Lt. Ruiz
Released: July 1, 1949
Type: Movie
Army Lieutenant Halliday, accused of stealing the Army payroll, pursues the real thief on a frantic chase through Mexico aided by the thief's ex-girlfriend and is in turn being chased by his accuser, Capt. Blake.
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One Night in the Tropics
Title: One Night in the Tropics
Character: Rodolfo
Released: November 15, 1940
Type: Movie
Jim "Lucky" Moore, an insurance salesman, comes up with a novel policy for his friend, Steve: a 'love insurance policy', that will pay out $1-million if Steve does not marry his fiancée, Cynthia. The upcoming marriage is jeopardized by Steve's ex-girlfriend, Mickey, and Cynthia's disapproving Aunt Kitty. The policy is underwritten by a nightclub owner, Roscoe, who sends two enforcers - Abbott and Costello - to ensure that the wedding occurs as planned.
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Cafe Society
Title: Cafe Society
Character: Don Jose Monterico
Released: March 3, 1939
Type: Movie
A pampered heiress (Madeleine Carroll) elopes with a shipboard reporter (Fred MacMurray) just to get her name in a society column.
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Rose of the Rio Grande
Title: Rose of the Rio Grande
Character: Don Jose del Torre
Released: March 15, 1938
Type: Movie
The story, based on a novel by Johnston (Zorro) McCulley, concerns a group of aristocratic vigilantes, who go about trying to restore their prominence in Mexico by killing anyone who stands in their way.
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Love Under Fire
Title: Love Under Fire
Character: Lieutenant Cabana
Released: August 20, 1937
Type: Movie
A suspense-thriller-comedy set against the backdrop of the Spanish Civil War.
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The Lady Escapes
Title: The Lady Escapes
Character: Antonio
Released: July 22, 1937
Type: Movie
A young husband schemes to regain his wife, who earlier had left him and now is involved with a European playboy.
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Nobody's Baby
Title: Nobody's Baby
Character: Tony Cortez
Released: April 23, 1937
Type: Movie
Kitty Reily (Patsy Kelly) and Lena Marchetti (Lyda Roberti) meet each other at an amateur Radio Show. Kitty quickly learns to greatly dislike incompetent Lena. They keep running into each other until Kitty resigns to being friends with Lena when they become hospital nurses and share a dorm room.
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Federal Agent
Title: Federal Agent
Character: Armand Recard
Released: April 13, 1936
Type: Movie
A federal agent sets out to track down his partner's killers.
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Rose of the Rancho
Title: Rose of the Rancho
Character: Don Luis Espinosa
Released: January 9, 1936
Type: Movie
It is California in 1852 that only recently being surrendered by Mexico to the United States and admitted into the union. Most of the land-owners of California were the descendants of the Dons who had colonized it a hundred years before and whose title deeds bore the signature and seal of a long-dead Spanish king. But, by a loop-hole in the law, the title-deeds of the Dons could not be recognized, and this opened the door of organized gangs of land-grabbers, such as the one led by Joe Kincaid, to operate with a prime excuse for legitimate plunder and robbery. In most cases the law was unable to cope with the situation. Then Rosita Castro, the daughter of Don Pasqual Castro, masked and disguised as a man, organized a band of vigilantes to fight against the tyranny of the outlaws, aided by an undercover federal agent, Jim Kearney.
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I Live for Love
Title: I Live for Love
Character: Rico Cesaro
Released: September 28, 1935
Type: Movie
A failed actor finds success as a radio singer.
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The Devil Is a Woman
Title: The Devil Is a Woman
Character: Morenito
Released: May 3, 1935
Type: Movie
In the carnival in Spain in the beginning of the Twentieth Century, the exiled republican Antonio Galvan comes from Paris masquerade to enjoy the party and visit his friend Capt. Don Pasqual 'Pasqualito' Costelar. However, he flirts with the mysterious Concha Perez and they schedule to meet each other later. When Antonio meets Pasqualito, his old friend discloses his frustrated relationship with the promiscuous Concha and her greedy mother and how his life was ruined by his obsession for the beautiful demimondaine. Pasqualito makes Antonio promise that he would not see Concha. However, when Antonio meets Concha, she seduces him and the long friendship between Antonio and Pasqualito is disrupted
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La Cucaracha
Title: La Cucaracha
Character: Pancho
Released: August 31, 1934
Type: Movie
Señor Martinez, a famous theater owner, visits a local café in Mexico because of its reputation for good food and to audition the famous dancer who performs there. Martinez tells the café owner that if the dancer is as good as he has heard, he will offer the dancer a contract to perform in his theater. The café's female singer hears about this and is determined that he won't leave the café without her.
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A Demon for Trouble
Title: A Demon for Trouble
Character: Golinda
Released: August 10, 1934
Type: Movie
Dyer is buying ranches and then retrieving his check by having his gang kill the owner. Bob Worth arrives just as Buck Morton is killed and gets blamed for the murder. Fleeing from the Sheriff, Bob teams up with the Mexican outlaw Golinda. Having seen Dyer pay off his men, he has a plan to trap him and Golinda is just the man he needs to make it work.
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On Secret Service
Title: On Secret Service
Character: Conte Valenti
Released: December 15, 1933
Type: Movie
Greta Nissen stars as an Italian noblewoman living a dangerous double life as a spy. A remake of the celebrated German thriller Spione am Werk. Co-starring noted German actor Karl Ludwig Diehl and American matinee idol Don Alvarado. The film takes place in Vienna, 1912. When an Austrian staff officer is implicated by association with a known Italian spy he goes on the run. Three years later - as the Great War gets into full swing - he returns and begs the Austrian Secret Service to allow him to clear his name from suspicion.
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Under Secret Orders
Title: Under Secret Orders
Character: Don Frederico
Released: December 6, 1933
Type: Movie
A young bank employee is sent to South America to bring some valuable bonds to a client there. Unfortunately for him, he tends to drink a bit too much and winds up getting involved with a gang that's planning on stealing the bonds to start a revolution.
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Red Wagon
Title: Red Wagon
Character: Davey Heron
Released: December 6, 1933
Type: Movie
Adapted from Lady Eleanor Smith’s novel, this 1934 feature tells the story of Joe Prince, an orphan child of circus people who, after many struggles, achieves his life-long ambition of owning a circus.
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Morning Glory
Title: Morning Glory
Character: Pepi Velez
Released: August 18, 1933
Type: Movie
Wildly optimistic chatterbox Eva Lovelace is a would-be actress trying to crash the New York stage. She attracts the interest of a paternal actor, a philandering producer, and an earnest playwright. Is she destined for stardom, or will she fade like a morning glory after its brief blooming?
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Black Beauty
Title: Black Beauty
Character: Renaldo
Released: April 1, 1933
Type: Movie
Black Beauty is being trained to run in the steeplechase race, upon which the Cameron family has staked its fortune. However, the horse is injured racing for a doctor when its owner is hurt, and it looks like it won't recover in time to compete in the race.
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The King Murder
Title: The King Murder
Character: Jose Moreno
Released: September 15, 1932
Type: Movie
A beautiful blonde makes a career out of seducing and then blackmailing wealthy married men. She is found murdered after demanding a $5000 payoff from her latest victim, and the detective investigating the case finds out that she was involved in a lot more than just blackmail.
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Smuggling
Title: Smuggling
Released: September 14, 1932
Type: Movie
Contrabando is an adventure film. The film tells of the millionaire Hernández who smuggles weapons from the United States into Mexico. He does this because he is planning an uprising. The hotel attendant Carlos is informed of this. Hernández and his troops are defeated by the army. Carlos is acquitted and can marry his lover Lolita. The film Contrabando was shot in locations on the border with the United States, such as Tijuana, Ensenada and Playas de Rosarito. It was shot in Spanish and in English under the title Contraband. The role of Lolita was cast for the English version with Dorothy Sebastian. Contrabando's plot was inspired by an actual 1929 rebellion led by José Gonzalo Escobar.
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Bachelor's Affairs
Title: Bachelor's Affairs
Character: Ramon Alvarez
Released: June 26, 1932
Type: Movie
A middle aged millionaire falls in love with a gorgeous, but stupid blonde gold digger, being guided by her ever-present shrewish friend.They marry but the man soon regrets his rash move when she's constantly bored and looking for dancing and excitement, leaving him feel his age. He conspires with a loyal friend to find a suitable man she might run away with so he can divorce her.
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Westward Passage
Title: Westward Passage
Character: Count Felipe DeLatorie
Released: May 27, 1932
Type: Movie
A struggling writer divorces his wife to pursue his career without interference, but they meet in Europe years later after she has remarried.
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Lady with a Past
Title: Lady with a Past
Character: Carlos Santiagos
Released: February 19, 1932
Type: Movie
A wealthy girl hires a male escort to make one of her male friends jealous. She spreads rumours about her character that makes her popular amongst all bachelors in the city including her friend.
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Beau Ideal
Title: Beau Ideal
Character: Ramon Gonzales
Released: January 25, 1931
Type: Movie
An American joins the French Foreign Legion in order to rescue a boyhood friend.
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Captain Thunder
Title: Captain Thunder
Character: Juan
Released: December 27, 1930
Type: Movie
A notorious Mexican bandit goes all soft and mushy when he falls for a beautiful senorita. Warner Bros.' Captain Thunder contains some of the darndest Mexican accents you've ever heard in your life. The star is Hungarian-born Victor Varconi, portraying a legendary south of the border outlaw who tries to force Canadian senorita Fay Wray to marry a rival rustler whom she despises. She pleads with the bandito so pathetically that he is moved to grant her a single wish. Without hesitation she chooses her poor but true love. The bandit king, being a somewhat honorable fellow grants the wish and without a twitch, guns down the wicked cattle thief. Fortunately the film was played for comedy, a wise decision since it probably would have garnered laughs as a straight drama anyway.
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Estrellados
Title: Estrellados
Character: Larry Mitchell
Released: July 7, 1930
Type: Movie
A matinée idol and a bumbling manager fight for the love of a would-be starlet. Estrellados is the Spanish version of Free and Easy (1930) with Hispanic/Spanish-speaking actors.
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The Bad One
Title: The Bad One
Character: The Spaniard
Released: May 3, 1930
Type: Movie
In this melodrama, a dancer works in a sleazy Marseilles portside dive that is really the front for a bordello. While dancing one night she meets a sailor and agrees to be his bride. Unfortunately, one of her former suitors suddenly shows up and a terrible fight ensues.
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The Sculptor's Dream
Title: The Sculptor's Dream
Released: April 7, 1930
Type: Movie
A sculptor dreams about his work coming to life and having various adventures.
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Rio Rita
Title: Rio Rita
Character: Roberto Ferguson
Released: September 15, 1929
Type: Movie
Capt. James Stewart pursues the bandit "The Kinkajou" over the Mexican border and falls in love with Rita. He suspects, that her brother is the bandit.
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The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Title: The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Character: Manuel
Released: March 30, 1929
Type: Movie
This first cinematic version of the classic book is a part-talkie, although the only surviving print is silent (housed in the George Eastman House, Rochester, NY). It is a straight-forward telling of the intermingled lives of a group of strangers doomed to die in a collapsing bridge accident. The Art Direction, paltry and unremarkable, surprisingly won an Oscar over the far more remarkable work nominated in THE IRON MASK. The special effect scene of the lovers plummeting with the bridge into the chasm is unforgettable and remarkably done.
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The Apache
Title: The Apache
Character: Pierre Dumont
Released: November 19, 1928
Type: Movie
The Apache (1928)
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The Battle of the Sexes
Title: The Battle of the Sexes
Character: Babe Winsor
Released: October 12, 1928
Type: Movie
Gum-chewing frizzy-haired golddigger Marie Skinner cooks up a scheme with her lover Babe Winsor, a jazz hound, to fleece a portly middle-aged real estate tycoon, William Judson. Marie moves into Judson's apartment building and contrives to meet and seduce him, plying him with compliments, music, swoons, décolletage, and batted eyes. When his loyal wife (and their two children) see him out catting with Marie at a night club, mom's devastated and confronts him. He moves out. Babe wants Marie to sell Judson worthless bonds. Will mom commit suicide? Will sis shoot the floozy? Will pops figure out he's being a fool?
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The Scarlet Lady
Title: The Scarlet Lady
Character: Prince Nicholas
Released: August 1, 1928
Type: Movie
Silent film drama...
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No Other Woman
Title: No Other Woman
Character: Maurice
Released: June 10, 1928
Type: Movie
No Other Woman
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Drums of Love
Title: Drums of Love
Character: Count Leonardo de Alvia
Released: January 24, 1928
Type: Movie
A princess is betrothed to a deformed monarch, but falls hard for his handsome brother.
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Breakfast at Sunrise
Title: Breakfast at Sunrise
Character: Lussan
Released: October 23, 1927
Type: Movie
While plotting together to win back their lovers, the rich Madeleine and the penniless Pierre fall for each other.
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The Loves of Carmen
Title: The Loves of Carmen
Character: Jose
Released: September 3, 1927
Type: Movie
Carmen, a gypsy, working in a Spanish cigar factory, is flaunted by Escamillo, the bullfighter, but infatuates José, a soldier, who aids her to escape from jail and follows her to the gypsy camp. Tiring of his love, Carmen finally fascinates Escamillo and the love-crazed José kills her at a bull fight just as Escamillo is being proclaimed by the audience.
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The Monkey Talks
Title: The Monkey Talks
Character: Sam Wick
Released: February 20, 1927
Type: Movie
In 1927 Olive Borden starred in Fox drama The Monkey Talks directed by Raoul Walsh. She played a circus performer who meets a man pretending to be a talking monkey.
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A Hero of the Big Snows
Title: A Hero of the Big Snows
Character: Ed Nolan
Released: July 24, 1926
Type: Movie
Rin Tin Tin drama!
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The Night Cry
Title: The Night Cry
Character: Pedro
Released: February 27, 1926
Type: Movie
A giant condor decimates a herd of sheep, and Rin-Tin-Tin is accused of having turned killer.
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His Jazz Bride
Title: His Jazz Bride
Released: January 15, 1926
Type: Movie
Young lawyer Dick Gregory, is hard pressed to pay the bills of his wife, Gloria, and equally hard pressed to keep up with the frantic pace of her life. Edward Martindel, an attorney who represents a corporation against which Dick is litigating, attempts to bribe Dick with a substantial sum of money; Dick refuses, and Gloria develops a complaint against him on this account. After a particularly bitter argument, Gloria leaves Dick and joins some friends for a moonlight cruise. Alec Seymour, a friend of the Gregorys', tells Dick that the boat on which Gloria is sailing has not met safety standards, and Dick goes after her, saving her life when the boat sinks. Gloria repents of her wild and wicked ways, and she and Dick settle into calm domesticity.
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The Pleasure Buyers
Title: The Pleasure Buyers
Character: Tommy Wiswell
Released: December 19, 1925
Type: Movie
Joan Wiswell, Ted Workman, and wholesome Helen Ripley are among the half-dozen or more suspects, all for good reasons of their own, murdered a high-society crook called Genne Cassenas.
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Satan in Sables
Title: Satan in Sables
Character: Student
Released: October 14, 1925
Type: Movie
A young lady plans her devious revenge on a Russian aristocrat of fantastic wealth, who will not give her his permanent affections.
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The Spaniard
Title: The Spaniard
Character: Matador (uncredited)
Released: May 4, 1925
Type: Movie
In England, Don Pedro de Barrego meets Dolores Annesley, and he decides he must have her. Dolores, however, refuses to have anything to do with him. Later, when she visits Spain, she discovers he is a famous bullfighter.
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Mademoiselle Midnight
Title: Mademoiselle Midnight
Character: Undetermined Role
Released: April 14, 1924
Type: Movie
Renée (Mae Murray) is the heiress of a Mexican ranch, granddaughter of a woman known for her recklessness and frivolity at night. This first "Mademoiselle Midnight" is banished in the opening scene by Napoleon III at Empress Eugenie's insistence to Mexico. Renee is kept locked at the hacienda at night by her father to prevent her following in her grandmother's wayward footsteps. She falls in love with a visiting American (Monte Blue) but is also pursued by the craven outlaw Manuel Corrales. Miss Murray gets to do some of her trademark dancing, but this one isn't a comedy, despite comic relief provided by Johnny Arthur.