Alberto Galán

Alberto Galán

Born: November 20, 1901
Died: January 5, 1977
in Cantabria, Spain
Alberto Galán (November 20, 1901 – January 5, 1977) was a Spanish-born Mexican film actor.

Movies for Alberto Galán...

Andante
Title: Andante
Character: Doctor
Released: October 9, 1969
Type: Movie
A young woman falls in love with a classical pianist and has problems with her friends from high society.
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There are not Crosses in the Sea
Title: There are not Crosses in the Sea
Character: Anthropologist
Released: January 1, 1968
Type: Movie
A mute fisherman helps another whose boat capsizes, he dies and leaves behind a girl whom he raises as his own daughter.
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Your Excellency
Title: Your Excellency
Character: Secretario general
Released: May 3, 1967
Type: Movie
Lopitos, who is horribly inefficient but quick-witted, is invited (because of the current ambassador's superstition about 13 sitting down to a meal) to a banquet attended by the ambassadors of both superpowers. After the news of a series of coups d'état in Los Cocos arrives throughout the meal, Lopitos becomes the official ambassador. At a summit of world leaders, the representatives of the two world superpowers court the allegiances of third-world diplomats to tilt the balance of global power in their favor. The last diplomat to remain unaligned, Lopitos instead harangues the superpowers for infringing on the rights of developing countries to self determination, talking to them with his point of view as a citizen not as ambassador because he arranged his demise as ambassador one day before his speech.
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El padrecito
Title: El padrecito
Character: Padre Juan José Romero
Released: September 3, 1964
Type: Movie
Young priest Father Sebastián is assigned to a parish in San Jeronimo el Alto, where he is not welcomed by the community, particularly the resident priest Father Damián. The newcomer gradually earns the trust of the people through humor, but firmly captures their hearts by saving the town fiesta by fighting a bull when the hired torero failed to show. Father Sebastián counsels the townspeople, lecturing them on their duties in a modern society. He used the collection plate to redistribute the town's wealth more evenly.
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Little Town
Title: Little Town
Character: Don Sotero, priest
Released: August 2, 1962
Type: Movie
Reactionary local "Big Daddy" tries to prevent a school being built in his district.
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Yolanda
Title: Yolanda
Character: Father Pablo
Released: January 1, 1951
Type: Movie
Mexican feature film
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Cantaclaro
Title: Cantaclaro
Released: January 24, 1946
Type: Movie
A rootless wilderness-dude in the Venezuelan outback gets caught up in some human dramas despite himself.
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La mujer de todos
Title: La mujer de todos
Character: Coronel Juan Antonio Cañedo
Released: January 11, 1946
Type: Movie
A beautiful woman of affairs falls in love with a handsome young man of great promise. Fearing for his future, the man's father begs her to leave his son so that her reputation will not hold him back.
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La casa de la zorra
Title: La casa de la zorra
Released: December 6, 1945
Type: Movie
The owner of an illegal gambling casino witnesses all the problems in the life of her dissolute son and finally acts in a way that'll help him rehabilitate himself.
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La mujer legítima
Title: La mujer legítima
Character: Rafael
Released: November 25, 1945
Type: Movie
Widower wants to remarry, but his adult children are slow to warm to his new wife. One daughter in particular tries very hard to discredit her in his eyes.
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Bugambilia
Title: Bugambilia
Character: Luis Felipe
Released: November 2, 1945
Type: Movie
In mid-nineteenth century Guanajuato, the beauty and charm of the young heiress Amalia conquers the lowly foreman Ricardo with fatal results. Prevented from consummating their love, Ricardo is going to Guanajuato where again later become the rich owner of a mine. On his return, fate has prepared a tragic encounter with Amalia.
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Maria Candelaria
Title: Maria Candelaria
Character: El Pintor
Released: January 20, 1944
Type: Movie
A young journalist asks an old artist about the portrait of a naked Indian woman that he has in his study. The artist tells the story of Maria Candelaria, a young Indian woman who was rejected by her own people for being the daughter of a prostitute. She is protected by a young Indian man, Lorenzo Rafael, who has fallen in love with her.
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Another Dawn
Title: Another Dawn
Character: Ignacio Elizalde
Released: November 18, 1943
Type: Movie
The disaffected wife of a failed civil servant, is thrilled to re-encounter Octavio, a former lover who is now a union activist on the run from a corrupt politician. Hoping to help him, she descends into the Mexican underworld, where she finds a purpose-and a thrill-missing from her married life.
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The Virgin who Forged a Fatherland
Title: The Virgin who Forged a Fatherland
Character: fray Juan de Zumárraga
Released: December 11, 1942
Type: Movie
On the eve of the Grito de Dolores and faced with the threat of being arrested by the viceregal government, Miguel Hidalgo suggested to Captain Allende that the flag of the insurgent movement be the banner of the Virgin of Guadalupe.
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A Macabre Legacy
Title: A Macabre Legacy
Character: Sr. Mora
Released: November 29, 1939
Type: Movie
A plastic surgeon goes mad when he discovers that his wife have an affair. He fakes her death and disfigure her and locks her in the cellar.
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Every Madman to His Specialty
Title: Every Madman to His Specialty
Character: Dr. Luis Jiménez
Released: April 28, 1939
Type: Movie
Julio Cesar (Enrique Herrera), writer of soap operas, is very upset nerves. Dr. Jimenez (Alberto Galán) recommends an institution that will give he a therapy to cure these scares. To avoid exposure to bad publicity, is camouflaged by the pseudonym Justiniano Conquian . By chance, a taxidermist (Joaquin Pardavé) also named. His case is different: it is a millionaire heir heritage potential, but will only be legally recognized if it meets a peculiar condition in the will, having to spend a whole month in the gloomy castle Conquian, competing with other heirs of fortune. Dr. Jimenez is bribed by a cousin of Justinian to send the false Conquian scares Castle into thinking that is the sanatorium.
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Canto a mi tierra
Title: Canto a mi tierra
Character: Hector de la Maza
Released: November 11, 1938
Type: Movie
Theatrical producers discover a new musical-theatre star in a small farming town.