Juan Orol
August 4, 1897 (127 years old) in Lalín, Pontevedra, Galicia, Spain
Juan Rogelio García García, better known as Juan Orol, was a Mexican-Spanish actor, producer, screenwriter and film director. He was known as The King of the Mexican Film noir. He was also known as The Involuntary Surrealist. He was a pioneer of the Mexican cinema's first talkies and one of the main promoters of the Rumberas film in the Golden Age of Mexican cinema. His films have been described as cult films.
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- 2019 · Olmedo: El rey de la risa as
- 1981 · Ni modo... así somos as
- 1979 · Adriana del Rio, actriz as
- 1975 · México de noche as
- 1972 · El fantástico mundo de los hippies as Larry
- 1968 · Historia de un gángster as Tony Florino
- 1968 · Organización criminal as
- 1966 · Contrabandistas del Caribe as
- 1966 · Antesala de la silla eléctrica as
- 1962 · Under the Cover of Night as Jack
- 1958 · Plazos traicioneros as
- 1958 · Secretaria peligrosa as
- 1956 · Under the influence of fear as
- 1954 · El sindicato del crimen as
- 1951 · Hombres sin alma as
- 1951 · Perdición de mujeres as Rizo
- 1951 · The Hell of the Poor as
- 1950 · Cabaret Shanghai as Tony
- 1948 · El reino de los gángsters as
- 1947 · El amor de mi bohío as Pablo Mendizabal
- 1947 · Gangsters Versus Cowboys as Johnny Carmenta
- 1946 · Una mujer de Oriente as
- 1945 · Los misterios del hampa as
- 1940 · Siboney as Gastón de Montero
- 1937 · Eterna mártir as Narrator
- 1937 · El derecho y el deber as
- 1937 · Honrarás a tus padres as Juan de Calvacanti
- 1936 · El calvario de una esposa as Pepe Luis
- 1934 · Soulless Women as Julián Landeros