Agustín Isunza
Date of birth: 1900-09-03
Place of birth: Muzquiz, Coahuila, Mexico
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Agustín Insunza, Agustin Izunsa, Agustín Isunza y del Palacio
Biography
Agustín Isunza y del Palacio (1900–1978) was a Mexican film actor. He appeared in over two hundred films during his career. Comic performer in Mexican film from the '30s into the '70s. Mostly cast in supporting roles.
Movie Credits
Illusion Travels by Streetcar
1954-03-10
Confronted with the unfortunate news that their favorite Streetcar, no. 133, is going to be decommis
Patsy My Love
1969-10-09
Written by future Nobel-prize winner Gabriel García Márquez, this is the story of Patsy, a wealthy d
Inspector Calzonzin
1974-05-02
A rumor reaches a small town, San Garabato, that a government infiltrator will arrive to check the c
Alucarda
1977-12-26
A young girl's arrival at a convent after the death of her parents marks the beginning of a series o
Gran Casino
1947-06-12
After the mysterious disappearance of an oil well owner, one of his workers, Gerardo assumes the bus
Mil Máscaras
1969-06-06
A committee of four wise men trains the masked hero Mil Máscaras to defend the world. When someone k
Wild Flower
1943-04-24
The film features Fernandez himself as a character named Rogellio Torres. The lion's share of the fo
Guadalajara pues
1946-12-15
Curious film about the Mexican immigrant stunned by the dollar and the English language. The plot
Cuando lloran los valientes
1947-01-08
A farmer is in love during revolutionary times.
Love for Life
1950-12-28
During the times of Venezuelan dictator Juan Vicente Gómez, an exhausted stranger arrives at a farm
Hidden River
1948-02-12
Called by the Mexican President himself, a rural teacher goes to work in a village that is dominated
Llanto por Juan Indio
1965-01-01
The story revolves around a farmer who is tried for stealing a military rifle and is sentenced to de
Juntos pero no revueltos
1939-01-06
Ensemble-comedy set in a lower-middle-class apartment complex.
La Vuelta Del Charro Negro
1941-06-18
Lone Ranger style heroic adventure, number two in a four-movie series.
Allá en el bajio
1942-02-05
Ranchera/western; white hats vs. black hats.
El lobo blanco
1962-10-25
A new sheriff rids his town of bandits and puts everything in order.
Caballo A Caballo
1939-06-06
Two con-men end up at a country estate, where they thwart some jewel-thieves.
Jesusita en Chihuahua
1942-10-08
Ranchera comedy.
El Zorro de Jalisco
1941-02-07
Isabel, the daughter of Don Antonio; a rich land owner in Tepestates, Jalisco returns to her town af
Those Were The Days, Senor Don Simon!
1941-09-19
A not very grief stricken young widow flutters her hand fan between a dashing young soldier and an e
El charro Negro
1940-07-18
Masked cowboy avenger in the style of The Lone Ranger, first film in a series of four.
Omen
1975-02-13
While attending the birth of Isabel, the wife of foreigner Felipe, Mama Santos predicts that "someth
Sota, caballo y rey
1944-12-08
Theatrical troupe schemes to expose corrupt dealings in local government.
El gavilan vengador
1955-10-27
Masked rider exposes the criminal misdeeds of a wealthy land-owner and his henchmen.
Como yo te quería
1945-09-26
Romantic comedy/drama.
Cinco minutos de amor
1941-12-11
Bedroom farce, with three men claiming the same woman as their mistress.
El abandonado
1949-09-15
Based on a popular song. An unhappy love affair becomes an excuse for heavy drinking and all-round d
Escuadrón 201
1945-11-30
Fictional story about the Escuadron 201 de Caza (201st Mexican Fighter Squadron), which participated
El ángel y yo
1966-11-22
Ex-con breaks into a house and ends up bonding with a toddler instead of burgling the way he'd plann
Dos tenorios de barrio
1949-11-06
Two small-town hustlers are mistaken for government officials.
El pueblo sin Dios
1955-03-17
Unscrupulous rich guy owns all the businesses in border towns, is challenged by town's new priest.
La tienda de la esquina
1951-03-23
Shady characters try to buy the corner shop and destroy a decent family's livelihood.
¡Fíjate qué suave!
1948-01-29
There are two sisters who will soon receive a large inheritance and several men want to marry them t
El rayo justiciero
1955-08-11
New sheriff cleans up the town. First (?) in "Mauricio Rosales" series.
El fronterizo
1952-09-12
Rom-com in charro hats.
Barridos y regados
1963-10-31
Two bozos take varied assignments from an employment agency.
Rural captain
1951-01-20
Idealistic young police officer deals with corruption in local government.
La marquesa del barrio
1951-03-22
Rich widow recovers from a thirty-year alcoholic fugue and resumes her previous life.
The Possession
1950-01-01
Two old friends get hinky with each other over the deed to a tract of land, and their children's eng
La diligencia de la muerte
1959-07-17
Law officer goes undercover as member of gang of murderous highwaymen.
One Way
1973-09-22
Story of a kind fisherman who wants to build himself a better future elsewhere. He crosses the bord
Pa' qué me sirve la vida
1961-11-30
A landowner dies of disgust when his rival makes him believe that he has legally taken away his prop
El casto Susano
1954-05-20
Father and son are sober, responsible pillars of the community in their home-town... but they make f
Solamente una vez
1954-08-25
A couple suffers through slander and jealousy to maintain their love for one another.
Las chivas rayadas
1964-04-02
The comical misadventures of two brothers who are part of the local soccer team and their family.
Departamento De Soltero
1971-02-25
Newlywed couple are jealous of each other's imagined infidelities.
Escuela de valientes
1961-10-12
Mexican western 1961
You’re Missing the Point
1940-09-11
Cantinflas, the boyfriend of the servant of a rich industrial man, gets into the house in order to k
Flor de caña
1948-11-10
Rural-community gal is being courted by a peon and by a land-owner.
Bala de Plata
1960-02-17
Young soldier goes home to Cowboyville to find the man who killed his father.
The Skulls of Terror Return
1944-09-17
A group of friends form a masked gang nicknamed 'The Skulls of Terror' and confront a local politica
Dos de la vida airada
1948-04-08
Comical misadventures of two goofballs looking for work.
El charro Negro en el norte
1949-11-18
Hero on horseback protects a family and their farm from human predators.
Las 5 noches de Adán
1942-04-18
Globe-hopping playboy bachelor is getting on in years, so he invites his five international children
Las mañanitas
1948-10-07
Rom-com scheming; wealthy landowner wants to seduce one of his tenants, but she wants the other guy.
La huella del chacal
1956-10-18
Federal agent Mauricio Rosales goes undercover as itinerant cowpoke to clean up corruption in a remo
La sierra del terror
1956-05-24
Federal police agent goes undercover to bust rural crime ring. Series western.
Herencia trágica
1960-06-02
Masked horseman avenges the deaths of family members and resolves questions about a contested inheri
La muerte en el desfiladero
1963-04-05
Masked horseman avenges the deaths of family members and resolves questions about a contested inheri
El jinete negro
1958-11-22
Masked horseman avenges the deaths of family members and resolves questions about a contested inheri
Mi ley es un revólver
1965-04-01
Masked justice on horseback, again: guy plays it meek & mild in his civilian identity so no-one
La pantera negra
1957-06-12
Fed agent goes undercover as roving cowboy to solve rural crimes. "Mauricio Rosales" Series.
Ahí vienen los Mendoza
1948-11-01
Two brothers "out on the ranch" fight over girls and stuff.
Un par de sinvergüenzas
1964-11-05
Itinerant cowboy learns that his horse can talk. Horse ends up giving him singing-lessons... and...
I'm flying low
1959-01-22
Two hot-shot pilots working for the same company get all competitive and ructious toward each other.
Here is Heraclius Bernal
1958-04-09
Historical drama/biopic about 1880s Social Justice bandits in a mining community in Sinaloa. First o
El ciclón
1959-10-02
Cowboy revenge-drama, paired with a love triangle between two Mexican fellers and a rather unpleasan
Audaz y bravero
1965-09-09
Two ranchers competing over a woman. Cult actor Noe Murayama plays a mentally handicapped character.
Así amaron nuestros padres
1964-07-16
Elderly roue interferes in the love life of a young woman because she's secretly his daughter. Remak
Mi niño Tizoc
1972-07-13
Tizoc wishes to eat a chicken by himself and have his own piñata. At Christmas his father Carmelo gr
Doña Bárbara
1943-09-16
A woman hardened by her past now runs a ranch she acquired through manipulation and bribery.
El rayo de Sinaloa: La venganza de Heraclio Bernal
1958-07-09
Disgruntled 19th century peasants get militant and start redistributing some wealth. Part two of a h
Ambición sangrienta
1968-08-29
A lawman and two sidekicks clear up a series of crimes related to mining rights.
El fistol del diablo
1961-03-16
Luis, who has suffered several disappointments, invokes the Devil to help him, who gives him a fisto
Los fenómenos del fútbol
1964-09-10
Working class family owns a restaurant: one brother's a rising star in local soccer, one's a priest/
Fuerte, audaz y valiente
1963-06-27
Western comedy: two medicine-show guys vs. badhats.
El asaltacaminos
1962-10-26
Young man puts on the Black Mask Of Vengeance to solve some tangled legal problems concerning a cont
Ruletero a toda marcha
1964-05-14
Country-boy migrates to the big city to work as a taxi-driver.
La guarida del buitre
1958-02-19
Cowboy-policeman-hero interferes with the bad guy's plans and prevents his engaging in monkeyshines.
El fistol del diablo III
1961-06-16
Part of a series of films based on portions of the Manuel Payno novel "El fistol del diablo". All we
Lupe Balazos
1964-09-17
Cowgirl gets her man. After all the entanglements run their course.
La justicia del gavilán vengador
1957-11-01
Federal agent on horseback comes to town to catch some crooks. Series western: Mauricio Rosales El J
La negra Angustias
1950-01-19
When her father dies, a young Afro-Mexican woman joins the Revolution, the way he was planning to do
La mano de Dios
1966-12-01
A dead man's brother tracks his murderer down, years later, and intercedes to prevent him from takin
Vuelve el Norteño
1964-01-03
Two rival gangs of outlaws are terrorizing a small town; el Comandante and his sidekicks pit them ag
Tierra de violencia
1966-02-18
Western sheriff's black-sheep son becomes responsible for keeping order in town while his father is
Mi caballo prieto rebelde
1967-01-06
Two cowboys fight over ownership of a horse and a woman.
Pobre diablo
1940-04-24
An elderly homeless dude lucks into a situation where a young woman's uncle and her boyfriend ask hi
Lauro Puñales
1969-03-12
One of Zapata's field marshals runs afoul of dictator Huerta's stooges in his home town.
Carnaval en el trópico
1942-06-07
Three Mexican friends decide to go to Vercacruz Carnaval to celebrate. There they watch Cantinflas'
Señoritas
1959-01-15
Four young women facing "crises," mostly centered around the crucially-important issue of preserving
Soy un prófugo
1946-03-11
A janitor in a large bank is accused of pulling of a major heist. He is forced to become a fugitive
La hija del ministro
1952-09-19
A young bureaucrat's career takes off when it's believed he's keeping company with the daughter of a
El pocho
1970-11-04
José Guadalupe García was born in the United States, but seems very Mexican. Winning his American gi
Los tres mosqueteros y medio
1957-10-29
Spoofy adaptation of The Three Musketeers, follows the original very closely.
Legacy of the Crying Woman
1947-02-24
A hacienda seem to be haunted by La Llondra, the crying woman.
A Macabre Legacy
1939-11-29
A plastic surgeon goes mad when he discovers that his wife have an affair. He fakes her death and di
Here are the eagles!
1957-01-11
Two itinerant cowhands hire on at a ranch owned by a woman, end up fighting two bad-hats who rustle
Madness from Terror
1961-08-04
Monster film and mad doctor spoof.
The Unknown Policeman
1941-10-22
A gang of thieves has jeopardized the city and even the police, whose chief urges their forces to ca
Un Quijote sin mancha
1969-09-17
A lawyer trying to fix everyone's problems, instead causes problems, which always end up in funny si
Por mis pistolas
1968-08-21
Fidencio Borer, an apothecary in a village on the northern border of Mexico, discovers some old titl
The Shadow of the Tyrant
1960-08-22
In 1920s Mexico, the candidates being chosen to succeed the current president, El Caudillo, find the
In the Times of Don Porfirio
1940-04-04
In a Mexican city at the end of the 19th century, Don Francisco, a gambler and a bohemian, almost fo
Horizontes de sangre
1962-10-25
Bad Comanches persuade good Apaches to go on the warpath.
Lo que el viento trajo
1941-09-12
A 1941 film.
Yo... el aventurero
1959-01-21
A crew of happy ne'er do wells comes to town to gamble and party during the town fair... but then th
La sombra de Chucho el Roto
1945-07-11
El Quelite
1970-12-10
Agapito, leader of the revolutionary movement of his state, comes to a town, kills all the federales
La feria de San Marcos
1958-06-02
Two men and two women meet and pair off (m/w x 2) during the town Festival in San Marcos. Later, wed
El norteño
1963-11-07
Lawman on horseback cracks a case involving stolen gold bullion, the title to a mine, an evil twin a
Las tandas del principal
1949-07-15
Frivolous young dandy is trying to score with an operetta singer, but she ends up with his uncle. Fo
La venganza del Charro Negro
1942-08-21
Third in a series; flashbacks remind us of the beef El Charro had with Carlos from his home town. Wh
Los tigres del ring
1960-03-30
Crooked promoter has a secret weapon who goes around beating fighters to death after their matches i
La Adelita
1937-11-07
Beautiful peasant girl runs afoul of her landlord's horny son and he poisons the well between her an
Los muertos no hablan
1958-07-31
Bandit crew with mysterious masked leader is doing lots of crimes. Mauricio Rosales and his sidekick
Amanecer ranchero
1942-08-29
The old massa dies and his son comes home to take over the hacienda. Things are going to be a whole
Ay Chabela...!
1961-06-22
Two guys fight over two girls, ranchera style.
La fe en Dios
1950-10-17
Criminal on the lam assumes the identity of a dead priest and takes his place in a rural parish.
Me ha besado un hombre
1944-11-10
Spanish refugee could only get across the border using fake documents that belonged to her brother a
The Guys from Penjamo
1953-01-01
When he hears how his grandfather left illegitimate children scattered all over the county, a young
Una luz en mi camino
1939-02-01
A blind songwriter struggles to get his work published, and meanwhile a girl he's sweet on disappear
El globo de Cantolla
1944-07-07
Three boys and three girls in the 1890s.
Fantasía ranchera
1947-02-12
Young composer in a small town where everyone is very nurturing of his talent finishes his first ope
The Waltzes came from Vienna and the Children from Paris
1966-01-13
Unmarried opera singer has a baby, and her friends convince her to pass it off as the grandchild of
The Bats
1964-12-03
Cowboy-justice guy breaks up a criminal gang who are terrorizing a small town with the appearance of
Cargando con el muerto
1965-11-12
Moving company bozos are left holding the bag when bad guys hire them to transport a corpse.
La vida en broma
1950-05-24
Many many mistaken identities and impostures overlapping among a group of husbands, wives and others
Pervertida
1946-09-13
A country girl finds herself working as a prostitute, but her true love, a musician, comes looking f
Viva Chihuahua
1961-09-28
Respectable guy uses a pseudonym when he wants to cut loose in a neighboring town. A friend of his p
La pequeña señora de Perez
1972-03-16
Teenaged girl isn't emotionally mature enough for marriage, but she gets hitched anyway.
Fuera de la ley
1966-04-15
Three outlaws get arrested, and the fourth tries several times to break them out of jail. Also, ther
Los parranderos
1963-05-31
Romantic complications and silliness when two farmhands are sent to the next town to track down thei
El texano
1965-01-08
A young man is executed for a murder he didn't commit. His brother shows up to clear his name and se
Lío de faldas
1969-09-18
Five artsy young women in a group house have landlord troubles.
My Dear Captain
1950-12-07
Muerte en la feria
1962-07-13
Four bad eggs from the traveling carney are setting up local men for a blackmail scam, and it's up t
El Topo
1970-12-18
El Topo decides to confront warrior Masters on a trans-formative desert journey he begins with his 6
Para todas hay
1965-10-01
Two young charros have been playing the field, and each one has three potential fiancees lined up...
The Skulls of Terror
1944-09-17
Feature-length version of a serial, originally in twelve chapters. Three-hour runtime, later re-edit
Rancho Alegre
1941-03-28
Proud old family's hacienda is falling into decay, and the oldest son has to come back from college
Tintansón Cruzoe
1965-09-30
Tin Tan is marooned on an island full of colorful natives.
Pueblo de odios
1962-08-10
Bad hats try to manipulate townsfolk and neighboring Apache tribal settlement into a range war.
Rosalinda
1945-12-25
Two adventurers visit a small coastal village in 1850 in hopes of getting access to a shipwreck that
Tormenta en la cumbre
1943-10-16
Young couple weather a marital crisis while older people who have already given up on life interfere
Charro a la fuerza
1948-06-10
Mistaken identity farce; heiress has to marry to receive an inheritance.
Venus de fuego
1949-10-29
Wholesome young man falls hard for a woman who's identified as a luxury commodity; gangster/pimp guy
Yo también soy de Jalisco
1950-08-23
A dizzy rich woman buys their horse, and three rubes get involved in the problems and intrigues brew
Cool Dad
1971-11-11
Fiftyish head of household tries to hang onto his fun-loving youth while imposing his most rigid val
El cachorro
1966-06-03
El Cachorro is falsely accused of two murders; right after he's arrested flor those crimes, another
Esta noche no
1966-08-04
Mexican feature film
The Golden Cockerel
1964-12-18
A poor, but very lucky man in the cock fighting business, is hired by a rich man, but both are in lo
El secreto del texano
1965-11-12
Mexican feature film
Padre contra hijo
1955-08-23
Eloisa works hard, sewing, to his son Juan de Dios. He learns that he is the bastard son of Cecilio,
No niego mi pasado
1952-03-04
A 1952 film by Alberto Gout.
La engañadora
1955-01-01
Two Cheerful Hawks
1963-01-01
Alfredo B. Crevenna helms this charming romantic comedy about a pair of skirt-chasers wooing the two
La marcha a Zacatecas
1969-08-28
Villistas, army officers, heirs and heiresses all gather at the home of a recently deceased hacendad
El hombre que quiso ser pobre
1956-01-01
A poor man sells his watch to buy a lottery ticket, advised by a friend, and wins the jackpot.
Historia de un abrigo de mink
1955-04-28
Four anecdotes involving a mink coat in display in a shop window.