Ofelia Guilmáin

Ofelia Guilmáin

Born: November 18, 1921
Died: January 14, 2005
in Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Ofelia Guilmáin (November 17, 1921 – January 14, 2005) was an actress of telenovelas, stage and the cinema of Mexico.

She is also the mother of actors Juan Ferrara and Lucía Guilmáin.

Movies for Ofelia Guilmáin...

Mi Verdad
Title: Mi Verdad
Character: Catalina Ortiz
Released: January 1, 2004
Type: Movie
Film about the scandal of TV producer Juan Osorio with Cuban dancer Niurka Marcos.
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Title: La antorcha encendida
Character: Doña Macaria de Soto
Released: May 6, 1996
Type: TV
A Mexican telenovela produced in 1996. It was the last historical telenovela produced by Televisa. The plot tells the Independence of Mexico, with an emphasis on historical accuracy.
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Title: Días sin luna
Character: Doña Carlota Parlange
Released: May 14, 1990
Type: TV
Días sin luna is a 1990 Mexican telenovela produced by Juan Osorio and directed by Rafael Banquells based on an original script by Eric Vonn. It was aired in Canal de las Estrellas Monday to Friday at 17:00 between May 14 and August 31, 1990.
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Violence in Cold Blood
Title: Violence in Cold Blood
Released: January 1, 1989
Type: Movie
Compilation tape of Hora Marcada episodes.
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Title: Yesenia
Character: Magenta
Released: January 10, 1987
Type: TV
Yesenia is a beautiful Roma woman who lives different situations in an aimlessly fixed way with the company of her caravan. In one of her many trips she meets a military man, Osvaldo Moncada, and falls in love with him. They will have to prove that their love is stronger than their differences and social prejudice that separate them. One of the opponents of their relationship is Rashay, the patriarch of the Roma people, who opposes the relationship because the military youth does not belong to the Romani tribe.
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El patrullero 777
Title: El patrullero 777
Character: Esposa violenta
Released: April 27, 1978
Type: Movie
Follows Diogenes as he goes about his day as a police officer. He's prone to do things the right way, surrounded by a pretty much corrupt & citizen distant police department, & always resolves his duties with a personal method.
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The Long Awaited Desperate Love
Title: The Long Awaited Desperate Love
Character: Aminta
Released: November 25, 1976
Type: Movie
A thirty-something woman fears that life is passing her by and that she's going to end up as the family's 'maiden aunt'. She imagines that somebody in her circle is courting her, and he's too polite to disillusion her. And then...
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Celestina
Title: Celestina
Character: Celestina
Released: January 1, 1976
Type: Movie
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La Casa de Bernarda Alba
Title: La Casa de Bernarda Alba
Character: Bernarda
Released: October 25, 1974
Type: Movie
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Those Years
Title: Those Years
Character: Madre de Comonfort
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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El primer amor
Title: El primer amor
Released: January 9, 1974
Type: Movie
Seminary students interrupts his studies for a final vacation in the real world and finds it difficult to break his worldly bonds in preparation for the pristhood.
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The Prophet Mimi
Title: The Prophet Mimi
Character: Doña Eulalia, madre de Mimi
Released: December 27, 1973
Type: Movie
Childhood trauma and religious repression causes little boy to grow up and murder .
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Panic
Title: Panic
Character: Witch (segment "Pánico")
Released: June 15, 1972
Type: Movie
Three tales of horror, isolation and insanity set in Mexico.
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The Crazy Virgins
Title: The Crazy Virgins
Character: Teresa Guardiola
Released: May 31, 1972
Type: Movie
Handsome young swindler throws himself into the clutches of three rich spinsters who live in their own little fantasy world on their crumbling estate.
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Aunt Isabel's Garden
Title: Aunt Isabel's Garden
Character: Xeneta
Released: April 5, 1972
Type: Movie
A ship carrying Conquistadors is wrecked and the survivors are thrown ashore to struggle through the Yucatan jungle.
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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 juicio de los hijos
Title: El juicio de los hijos
Character: Doña Rosa
Released: March 25, 1971
Type: Movie
Widow with teenaged children faces hostility from her dead husband's mother, who seems to know a family secret she wants to use against her.
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Para servir a usted
Title: Para servir a usted
Character: Doñ Pepa
Released: March 11, 1971
Type: Movie
Working-class dude gets a gig as a waiter doing banquet service, and loses his moral compass through his contacts with decadent rich folk.
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Siempre hay una primera vez
Title: Siempre hay una primera vez
Character: Josefina (segment "Gloria")
Released: February 25, 1971
Type: Movie
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Why Was I Born a Woman?
Title: Why Was I Born a Woman?
Character: Carmela
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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Confesiones de una adolescente
Title: Confesiones de una adolescente
Released: May 14, 1970
Type: Movie
Orphan girl has a secret benefactor. When she's old enough to leave the orphanage and enter the real world, she's determined to track him down. Also: having a first boyfriend, yippee!
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Misión cumplida
Title: Misión cumplida
Released: January 29, 1970
Type: Movie
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Perverse Doll
Title: Perverse Doll
Character: Abuela
Released: December 26, 1969
Type: Movie
A troubled woman commits a series of murders that exposes some dark family secrets.
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Flor marchita
Title: Flor marchita
Character: Eugenia 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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Sor Ye-yé
Title: Sor Ye-yé
Character: Sor Emilia
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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The Scapular
Title: The Scapular
Character: Maria Pérez viuda de Fernández
Released: January 18, 1968
Type: Movie
A woman who is about to die calls the town's priest and hands him a scapulary, saying that she knows of its great powers. Anybody who does not believe in them will end up dead.
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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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El jinete justiciero en retando a la muerte
Title: El jinete justiciero en retando a la muerte
Released: January 6, 1966
Type: Movie
Guy gets mugged on horseback and left for dead; farmgal nurses him back to health and when he's on his feet again, he puts a domino on and swings into J J action.
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Aquella Rosita Alvírez
Title: Aquella Rosita Alvírez
Released: July 29, 1965
Type: Movie
Traveling cowboy gets involved in political issues in a town he passes through. Also a romance.
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Las Troyanas
Title: Las Troyanas
Released: July 1, 1963
Type: Movie
Adaptation of Euripides: lamentations of the women of Troy after their defeat in war.
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The Brainiac
Title: The Brainiac
Character: Señora Meneses
Released: November 9, 1962
Type: Movie
In 1661 Mexico, the Baron Vitelius of Astara is sentenced to be burned alive by the Holy Inquisition of Mexico for witchcraft, necromancy, and other crimes. As he dies, the Baron swears vengeance against the descendants of the Inquisitors. 300 years later, a comet that was passing overhead on the night of the Baron's execution returns to earth, bringing with it the Baron in the form of a horrible, brain-eating monster that terrorizes the Inquisitor's descendants
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Little Red Riding Hood and Tom Thumb vs. the Monsters
Title: Little Red Riding Hood and Tom Thumb vs. the Monsters
Character: La reina bruja
Released: September 20, 1962
Type: Movie
The film follows adventures of Little Red Riding Hood (Maria Gracia) and Tom Thumb (Cesaro Quezadas) and their friends, fighting against the wicked Witch Queen (Ofelia Guilmáin) and her band of monsters. The film starts at the meeting of the evil monsters in the castle in the Haunted Forest, heart of the Devil's dominion, during which the Vampire (Quintín Bulnes) accuses the Wolf (Manuel Valdés) and the Ogre (José Elías Moreno) of betraying the Witch Queen (La Reina Bruja, renamed Queen of Badness in the English dub), who orders them to ber executed. Their friend Stinky the Skunk (Santanón) however escapes and informs Little Red Riding Hood and Tom Thumb, who promise to help. Meanwhile, the Queen and her sister the Old Witch cast a terrible curse, turning villagers into monkeys and mice for trying to defy her magic. The rest of the story details the heroes' quest to conquer evil.
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The Exterminating Angel
Title: The Exterminating Angel
Character: Juana Ávila
Released: May 16, 1962
Type: Movie
A formal dinner party starts out normally enough, but after the bourgeois group retire to the host’s music room, they inexplicably find themselves unable to leave.
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The Happy Musketeers
Title: The Happy Musketeers
Released: November 28, 1961
Type: Movie
The Big Bad Wolf and the Stinky Little Skunk from the Caperucita Roja movies in their final adventure, as swashbuckling 17th century swordsmen in a king's service.
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Quinceañera
Title: Quinceañera
Character: Carmen, Leonor's mother
Released: June 9, 1960
Type: Movie
María Antonia, Beatriz and Leonor are three classmates who are anxiously awaiting the celebration of their 15th birthday. However, each of them will have to cope with their complicated personal situation.
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The Man and the Monster
Title: The Man and the Monster
Character: Cornelia Magno
Released: October 7, 1959
Type: Movie
A failed pianist sells his soul to the devil in return for his becoming the greatest musician in the world. The catch: every time he plays he turns into a horrible monster.
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Nazarin
Title: Nazarin
Character: Chanfa
Released: June 4, 1959
Type: Movie
After hiding a murderer, a Catholic priest is forced into self-exile and decides to embark on a pilgrimage through the Mexican countryside.
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El caso de una adolescente
Title: El caso de una adolescente
Character: Tía Laura
Released: November 20, 1958
Type: Movie
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Mi desconocida esposa
Title: Mi desconocida esposa
Character: María Linz
Released: January 22, 1958
Type: Movie
After moving from Guadalajara to Mexico City, a young woman gets embroiled in a series of puzzling mistaken-identity misadventures.
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Flor de fango
Title: Flor de fango
Released: January 16, 1942
Type: Movie
Wicked man seduces virtuous young woman; she leaves home in disgrace. Etc.