Abel Salazar
Also Known As: Abel Salazar García
Biography: Abel Salazar García (24 September 1917 – 21 October 1995) was a Mexican actor, producer and director. He appeared in 70 films between 1941 and 1989.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Mexico City, Mexico
Adult: No
Birthday: September 24, 1917
Age: 107 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: October 21, 1995
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The Living Head
Overview: A group of archaeologists break into the tomb of an ancient Aztec general, arousing the warrior's head and sending his undead servant out to take revenge on the careless scientists.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1963-03-01
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The Brainiac
Overview: 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
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1962-11-09
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The Coyote
Overview: California, 1848. An invading army has defeated the few opposing forces and the territory has become part of the United States. Don César de Echagüe, an old gentleman, begs his son César to return from Europe, confident that he will know how to confront the oppressor.
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1955-05-05
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The Curse of the Crying Woman
Overview: A young woman inherits a mansion, only to discover that it is haunted by witches and evil spirits.
Genres: Thriller Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1963-08-15
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Vuelven los García
Overview: Ruled by a tough grandma, the Garcías are three charro cousins who fall in love with young American-born Lupita and fight for her love until grandma quiets them.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1947-08-15
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The Three Garcías
Overview: Ruled by a tough grandma, the Garcías are three charro cousins who fall in love with young American-born Lupita and fight for her love until grandma quiets them.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1947-08-15
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Black Pit of Dr. M
Overview: Two doctors make a pact in which they swear that the first to die will return - if possible - to tell the other how to get a glimpse of the afterlife while still alive.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1959-05-13
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The Vampire
Overview: A pretty young Mexican girl returns to her hometown to make funeral arrangements for her beloved aunt, who has just died. Soon she begins to hear disturbing stories about the town being infested by vampires, and she eventually begins to suspect that her remaining aunt and the mysterious next-door neighbor may be involved.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1957-10-04
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La miel se fue de la luna
Overview: Dr. Pablo, something womanizer, going to marry with Mini and cheats África, singer and his lover, telling her to wait while she is on tour in Cuba. With her, he poses as a friend industrial, Ricardo and his intention is not to see her again. While Africa is out he marries Mini, which proves to be terribly jealous. Complications ensue when Africa returns to Mexico and start searching for the fake Richard. By chance a friend of Mini will be in a beauty salon and this ensures she can take to "Ricardo" because is "a friend of her husband". A typical sitcom with a blistering pace.
Genres: Family Comedy Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1952-05-02
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The Vampire's Coffin
Overview: In Sierra Negra, graverobbers Barraza and Mendoza steal the coffin of Count Karol de Lavud, before heading to a hospital. Barraza sees a medallion upon the coffin's opening and demands more money from Mendoza. Meanwhile, Marta González, recovering from traumatic events, works as a nurse with Dr. Saldívar. When Barraza removes the wooden stake in order to steal Lavud's medallion, the vampire returns to life and begins a crime spree, hunting down Marta to marry her.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1958-08-28
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Capullito de alhelí
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 1945-04-12
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El conde de Montecristo
Overview: Adaptation of Dumas' swashbuckler classic.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1942-04-29
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Como yo te quería
Overview: Romantic comedy/drama.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-09-26
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The Man and the Monster
Overview: 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.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1959-10-07
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Dos pesos dejada
Overview: Comedy/melodrama: player runs out on his pregnant girlfriend, and her mother's boyfriend steps in to set matters straight.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-09-07
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Laura's Sin
Overview: Young woman breaks her engagement to be married when an opportunity for stardom comes her way.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1949-05-26
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La Panchita
Overview: Flirty young farmgirl has five or six suitors to choose between.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-06-06
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La duquesa del Tepetate
Overview: Romantic comedy.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1951-07-21
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From Can-Can to Mambo
Overview: Young man convinces his conservative uncle that trendy modern stuff is fun.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1951-11-15
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Ella, Lucifer y yo
Overview: Playboy uses satanic powers to score with the babes.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1953-03-17
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Café de chinos
Overview: Naive Chinese immigrant has feelings for a young woman of loose morals whom he hires at his restaurant.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-09-02
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The Case of the Wee Murdered Woman
Overview: Ghosts and premonitions; a married woman discovers the true love of her life while being plagued with supernatural phenomena relating to her imminent murder. It's a comedy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1955-05-27
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La visita que no tocó el timbre
Overview: Two underachieving brothers take responsibility for an abandoned baby.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1954-09-11
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El renegado blanco
Overview: Cowboy comedy turns serious and adventure-y in the middle. Sequel to Los hermanos diablo.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1960-06-16
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The Ghost falls in Love
Overview: A romance between a woman and a ghost.
Genres: Comedy Romance Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1953-06-26
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Cucurrucucú Paloma
Overview: Biography of a fictional ranchera singer whose career trajectory seems to parallel that of the actress performing the role.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-02-11
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El indomable
Overview: Wandering cowboy stops to help a widow out against the man who killed her husband.
Genres: Western Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1966-12-01
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Necesito un marido
Overview: After being stood up at the altar, a young heiress hires a burglar to pose as her husband to help her save face.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1955-02-11
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Yo quiero ser hombre
Overview: In order to come into a large inheritance, young Divina must marry her cousin Pablo. Her aunt, Milagros, hatches a plan to disguise themselves as a maid and her nephew in order to get to know him better.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1950-06-30
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Una vírgen moderna
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1946-01-01
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Las cinco advertencias de Satanás
Overview: Satan plays a trick on two roues, telling them five things that are predestined to happen to them, but leaving out some crucial details. Then he sits back and laughs as they struggle against their preordained situations.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-06-02
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La morena de mi copla
Overview: In Cordoba, Spain, a girl singer and her mother are falsely accused of stealing a donkey. They are saved by a famous painter who becomes infatuated with the girl and asks her to be his model for a painting. Things get complicated when a Mexican bullfighter arrives in town and falls for the same girl.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1946-01-01
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El marido de mi novia
Overview: Raquel's life is turned upside down when a terrible accident results in the death of her child and the confinement of her husband to a wheelchair. Without any way to support her and her disabled husband, Raquel turns to a life of crime and partners with a petty thief named Paco who falls in love with her.
Genres: Crime Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1951-09-30
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Vuelva el sábado
Overview: Young woman loses her secretarial job, so she tries to become a bill-collector.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1951-09-23
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Yo fui una callejera
Overview: Teenaged slum-girl falls into show-biz by accident and rises to the tuxedos-and-furs class. Gangster drama and heartbreak, so she goes back to her own social class at the end, even though other options were available to her.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1952-09-30
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The Coyote's Justice
Overview: California, 1840s. Wealthy landowner César de Echagüe, secretly acting as El Coyote, the legendary masked hero, continues his fight against the injustices and abuses suffered by the Hispanic population at the hands of the US Army.
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1956-03-08
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Donde nacen los pobres
Overview: Working-class boy, pampered rich girl. She thinks their love is strong enough to overcome all the class issues; he knows better, but he decides to give it a whirl anyway. It ends badly for everyone.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1950-08-08
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La casa del rencor
Overview: A 1941 film directed by Gilberto Martínez Solares.
Genres: Mystery Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1941-11-06
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El otro
Overview: A novelist travels to the country to learn the problems of a friend's shy son and runs into an intruder.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1986-04-24
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Los hermanos Diablo
Overview: The three Diablo brothers are effete dandies who love chamber music and afternoon tea... but they also love brawling and whoring and all that wild west stuff. They inherit a ranch, and all hell breaks loose when they go to take ownership of it.
Genres: Western
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1959-11-17
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La vírgen morena
Overview: Intensifying skirmishes between a brutally oppressive conquistador imperialist and the last holdouts of Aztec resistance... and meanwhile, miraculous visitations of The Virgin Mary to two of the downtrodden and conquered indigenous peons.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1942-01-07
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Cadetes de la naval
Overview: Two young men go through military training, then enlist to fight in WWII
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1945-02-21
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Me ha besado un hombre
Overview: Spanish refugee could only get across the border using fake documents that belonged to her brother and now she's stuck with the male identity...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1944-11-10
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The Force of Desire
Overview: Wicked girl uses nude modeling as a way to seduce a wealthy painter into marriage, while still trying to keep an artschool stud piece on the side.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1955-07-22
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Los tres amores de Lola
Overview: Flamenco artist in Mexico draws attention from three suitors.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1956-02-08
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Canasta Uruguaya
Overview: Screwball comedy about country girl who inherits a fortune.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1951-11-01
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Hay un niño en su futuro
Overview: Wacky rich woman subjects her husband, servants and friends to a series of elaborate masquerades, remodeling her house and wardrobe every couple of days to represent different historical eras or cultural milieux. Today she's Marie Antoinette, tomorrow she may be Pancho Villa's common-law wife or a nun.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1952-02-22
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Menores de edad
Overview: Late-teens girl is trapped into masquerading as a 12 year old. Wacky complications.
Genres: Comedy Drama Family
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1951-09-13
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No te ofendas, Beatriz
Overview: Young couple looks for a way to wiggle out of the marriage their parents have arranged for them.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1953-05-21
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Nadie muere dos veces
Overview: Big-league criminal escapes from jail, tracks down his ex-wife at a seaside resort. She kills him in self-defense, and then a guy who looks exactly like him comes along. Massive complications!
Genres: Crime Thriller Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1953-09-15
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Pistoleros del oeste
Overview: Timid city-boy hires two cowboy roughnecks to help him get out of an arranged marriage.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1965-11-26
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Por qué peca la mujer
Overview: Working-class girl-next--door type is seduced into a high-glam lifestyle when an oily promoter helps launch her as a nightclub singer; she throws over her decent-simple-guy boyfriend and loses her moral compass.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1952-07-10
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Tres hermanos
Overview: The three sons of a Mexican family emigrated to USA end up fighting in WWII.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1943-11-02
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Tropicana
Overview: Behind-the-scenes at a famous nightclub's floor-show. Those wacky choreographers and hotel managers!
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1957-05-24
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Venganza Apache
Overview: Three good guys vs a bad dude who sells weapons to the Apaches and provokes a range war between US Cavalry and a splinter group of tribesmen, breaking the standing treaty between their tribe and the invaders. Sequel to Los Hermanos Diablo.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1960-11-23
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Vive como sea
Overview: A rich uncle thinks he's married with children, so a young gadabout recruits all his friends to pass themselves off as his wife, inlaws and children.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1952-05-02
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Serenata en México
Overview: Mariachi with dual vocalists is broken up by a promoter who wants one of them as a solo act.
Genres: Comedy Music Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1956-07-05
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Paula
Overview: The story of a young woman falling for an older man.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1969-11-20
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Yo Quiero Ser Mala
Overview: In this Romantic-Comedy from Director Rene Cardona, Actress Maria Elena Marques plays a hard-living woman named Leticia, who suffers from a recently broken heart after being deceived by her ex-boyfriend. Soured on anything to do with love and while drinking away her sorrows, she sets out to marry the very first man she sees. This man just happens to be a nice guy named Roberto, (Abel Salazar). Although the pair's mutual attraction to each other is obvious, Roberto has no idea what he is in for, and he soon proposes. Not long after the marriage, Leticia starts to take advantage of both Roberto and her new Father-in-Law (played by Oscar Pulido), who shows kindness towards the girl. Predictably, marital bliss soon turns into discord, and the couple agree to divorce after a year passes. Their love-hate relationship and pending break-up provides a perfect backdrop for several comedic situations before the two realize that they are actually in love.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1950-01-05
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Se le pasó la mano
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 1952-10-29
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La engañadora
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1955-01-01
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Born to Love
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Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1959-09-03
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Mañana cuando amanezca
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Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1955-01-01
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Siete mujeres
Overview: Mexican feature film
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1953-01-01
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