Chano Urueta
Date of birth: 1904-02-24
Place of birth: Chihuahua - Mexico
Known for: Directing
Also known as: Chano Urueta
Biography
Santiago Eduardo Urueta Sierra Rodríguez (Mineral de Cusihuiriachi, Chihuahua, Mexico, February 24, 1895-Mexico City, March 23, 1979), better known as Chano Urueta, was a film director, actor and writer who stood out since the first half of the 1930s as one of the most gifted adapters of great works of universal literature.
Movie Credits
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
1974-08-01
An American bartender and his prostitute girlfriend go on a road trip through the Mexican underworld
Guns and Guts
1974-05-23
An outlaw and a scorned husband both team up to track down and kill the man that wronged them. Along
Super Colt 38
1969-09-05
Billy Hayes, the marshal, discovers that the bandit whom he has been pursuing so long, and who has f
Emiliano Zapata
1970-11-20
This is the story of a man, Emiliano Zapata, and of a revolution, the Mexican Revolution.
Everything In Vain
1969-05-29
Gunfighters kill all family members of farmer brothers Mario and Fernando Almada, after the tragic e
Kaliman, the Incredible Man
1972-04-15
Archaeologists, tomb robbers, a strange character and an adventurer undertake the search for the tom
Chanoc
1967-04-07
Chanoc, along with his godfather, Tsekub Baloyán, investigate a series of mysterious deaths linked t
Once Upon a Scoundrel
1973-01-01
After falling for Alicia, greedy and powerful Mexican landowner Carlos has her fiancé thrown in pris
El pueblo del terror
1970-10-29
Federal-agent/cowboy battles crime
La Choca
1974-09-05
A smuggler lives far from civilization, in a hut in the jungle with his wife, La Choca, his son and
El hermano Capulina
1970-10-29
Shoplifter evades police by joining a monastery.
The Door and The Butcher's Wife
1969-09-25
A movie divided in two segments, the first "La puerta" (The Door) is about a high society gathering
The Fearmaker
1971-11-25
A world-famous stage performer returns home following her father's death, only to find greed and evi
Dos esposas en mi cama
1970-10-21
Missing-presumed-dead wife reappears after husband has remarried.
Furias bajo el cielo
1971-03-05
Five inmates escape Death Row and hole up with their women in the ruins of an abandoned hacienda.
The Wild Bunch
1969-06-19
An aging group of outlaws look for one last big score as the "traditional" American West is disappea
El capitán Mantarraya
1970-10-03
Elderly sea captain charms and delights an audience of children, telling them stories about the high
The Wrath of God
1972-07-14
Set in the 1920s, several foreigners held by a South American military group are offered possible fr