Guillermo Gil
Also Known As: Juan Guillermo Sánchez Bolaños
Biography: Mexican actor Guillermo Gil participated in 51 plays, 49 feature films and 19 soap operas, as well as teaching at the Centro de Educación Artística (CEA). He died at the age of 65, a native of Tehuacán, Puebla, and a graduate of the School of Theatrical Art of the National Institute of Fine Arts (INBA). Juan Guillermo Sánchez Bolaños, his real name, stood out in the acting field thanks to his participation in theater and film productions, which earned him the Virgina Fábregas medal in February 2001, awarded by the National Actors Association (ANDA), for more than 25 years of uninterrupted career. He founded his own theater company which he named "San-Gil", in honor of his late father's name, Don Guillermo Sánchez. He was a teacher for seven years in the acting and theater workshop at CEA, and served as stage director at the experimental and amateur level in 108 plays.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Tehuacan, Puebla, Mexico
Adult: No
Birthday: January 01, 1943
Age: 82 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: May 29, 2008
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Los maravillosos olores de la vida
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2000-01-01
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Herod's Law
Overview: In the 1940s, a small Mexican town has seen its last three mayors assassinated in rapid succession. A naive janitor is recruited to become the new mayor, and he believes he will modernize the little town and usher in a reign of peace. But the system corrupts him very quickly, and he takes to abusing his power while associating with an unscrupulous assortment of opportunists, hypocrites and criminals.
Genres: Comedy Crime Mystery Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1999-11-09
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A Wonderful World
Overview: A fairy tale about the political and socioeconomic realities of Mexico.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2006-03-17
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Pedro Páramo
Overview: The third film version of the popular Mexican novel, about a wayfarer who travels to a mysterious arid village, to meet the father who long ago abandoned his wife.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1981-01-01
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Sin remitente
Overview: A lonely, aging postal worker finds himself the victim of a cruel practical joke in this pessimistic Mexican drama. The trouble begins when crotchety postman Andre begins complaining about his young neighbor Marianna's propensity for playing loud music every time she entertains a lover. To get back at him, Marianna begins sending him anonymous love letters. The old man is intrigued by the mysterious letters and hires a cheap detective to find their author. The detective is convinced the perpetrator is Teresita, a veteran hooker who joins in on the scheme to earn a little extra cash. Andre's friend and colleague tries to warn Andre that it is all a game, but his friend is in love and will not listen. Meanwhile, Marianna attempts to woo Luis Felipe, a hard, unfeeling tabloid journalist who has her take grisly pictures of murder victims for him. Both Marianna and Andre are destined to meet an unpleasant fate at the story's end.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-10-06
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Leftie
Overview: Futuristic movie about Alejandro, a gifted left-handed child marble player who must win a competition as the entire town's hopes - and money - rest on him.
Genres: Fantasy Adventure Family
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2003-02-20
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Esa mi Irene
Overview: A 43 minutes short film filmed in Mexico in 1975
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1975-01-01
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Chin Chin el teporocho
Overview: Rogelio’s story, a young man of humble origin in the neighborhood of Tepito, who falls in love with the daughter of a wealthy grocer, Michelle, but his marriage to her will be a failure and he will end up as a one more drunk.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1976-08-15
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Dark Cities
Overview: Adapted by writer/director Fernando Sariñana from the stories by Juan Madrid, Ciudades Oscuras (Dark Cities) tells a story of interwoven lives in the seedy underbelly of Mexico City. The several different story lines concern hooker Lola (Dolores Heredia); her drug addict son Fede (Diego Luna); her friend Zeze (Zaide Silvia Gutierrez); Zeze's daughter Susana (Jimena Ayala); and junkie Vicente (Roberto Sosa). Also on the scene are two corrupt cops (Alejandro Tommasi and Jesus Ochoa) and one good cop (Odiseo Bichir), while Chicken (Hector Suarez) and Casimiro (Alonso Echanove) each tell their separate stories to the same bartender (Demian Bichir). ~ Andrea LeVasseur, Rovi
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 2002-09-20
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Under a Spell
Overview: In the Yucatan coast of the thirties , Elisha, a boy of 13, is initiated into the art of love by Felipa , his schoolteacher. After discovering the relationship, Felipa runs away from the village , leaving Elisha mired in nostalgia. Forced to marry another woman and lead a routine life , recalling the years passed Eliseo romance with Felipa until ten years later, the woman returns , removing his wounds and changing forever the life of Elisha , his family and the whole town
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1999-02-19
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Luces de la noche
Overview: On a whim, a retired gentleman decides to track down an old girlfriend from decades back.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-05-29
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Tres minutos en la oscuridad
Overview: Four childhood friends decide to play a prank on an aunt of one of the four. Two enter the house and two others remain waiting in the car. When the alarm goes off, the two waiting in the car escape, leaving the other two to escape on their own. After that, the friends begin distrusting each other wondering what really happened during those three minutes in the dark inside the house.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-01-01
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Jonah and the Pink Whale
Overview: Official submission of Bolivia for the 'Best Foreign Language Film' category of the 68th Academy Awards in 1996. A schoolteacher in the small city of Santa Cruz de la Sierra has a passionate affair with his frigid wife's sister--despite the risk of having to confront not only his wife, but also his dubious father-in-law. Photographer Jonas (Dino García) and teenager Julia (María Renée Prudencio) live the romance loaded with erotic adventure in the dark and wet basement of the old house where he installs his laboratory of development. She is the sister of Talía (Claudia Lobo)- his wife and both are daughters of a coffin maker who dreams of pharaonic tombs. The film shows the rise of drug trafficking, illegal trade in which Julia's family is involved, the same that ends up marrying Grigotá (Milton Cortez) the son of a powerful narco.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1995-11-07
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Viva San Isidro!
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1995-04-13
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Two Crimes
Overview: After being falsely accused of a murder, Marcos runs away to the small and quiet town of Cuevano. There he finds that the family matters are more complicated than his.
Genres: Comedy Drama Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1995-05-26
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The Queen of the Night
Overview: The legendary life of Mexican singer Lucha Reyes is the basis of this fictionalized biography ( or as director Arturo Ripstein puts it "an imaginary biography"). Lucha Reyes was an unconventional, and sexually liberated woman, most famous for her "cancion ranchera" style singing. Her story begins in 1939, where at 33 she still lived at home with her mother, Dona Victora, the madame of a renowned Mexico City whorehouse. Lucha marries the liberal Pedro Calderon and then buys a beggar's daughter. She becomes the mother to this child, Luzma. Lucha craves lasting love like junkies crave heroin. But for her loyal daughter, she never finds it and in the end no one can help her.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1994-09-07
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Días de combate
Overview: A novice private detective is on the trail of a serial strangler in Mexico City.
Genres: Thriller Action Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1994-03-01
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Playa azul
Overview: A politician accused of fraud seeks refuge in a remote, hotel he owns. Joined by his wife, and children he requests aid from his friends. His friends refuse to help, and eventually his family leave him, leaving him with few options.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1992-01-01
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Gertrudis
Overview: The life and execution of Gertrudis Bocanegra, a sympathizer of the libertarian cause and a prominent figure in Mexico's independence from Spain.
Genres: History War Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1992-09-24
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Difficult Days
Overview: Two shareholder brothers close several factories due to economic problems, except for their chemical plants.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1988-07-07
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I Love You Catalina
Overview: An unseen person enters a taxi late at night. Suddenly the taxi driver is stabbed with a large metal knitting needle. From there we meet our female killer. Catalina is a very plain Jane looking young lady. She wears some geeky glasses and usually dresses very conservatively. She lives with her grandmother and they both seem to loathe men. Catalina’s grandmother mentions that her late daughter/Catalina’s mother was troubled by men and that cost her her life. Catalina and her mother resemble each other. At night, Catalina awakens by the vengeful spirit of her mother to advise her to go out and kill men. The kind that only want to take advantage.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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The Heist
Overview: In Mexico City's infamous Lecumberri prison, three drug-addicted convicts celebrate getting drugs from one of their the mothers. They are found out and locked up in the "apando," the dreaded punishment cell. Protests over the treatment of those held in the cell lead to a bloody confrontation.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1976-08-05
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Simon Blanco
Overview: The peasant and revolutionary Zapatista Simon Blanco still in arms but Zapata is dead. Simon with his lieutenant Andres visits his mother and his girlfriend in his hometown. The cacique Onesimo and his brother, the commissioner Martial put ambushes but he eludes them.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1975-03-16
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Mezcal
Overview: A group of beings permeated by the lack of love, guilt, pain and a desire for revenge, meet on the day of a storm at a cantina in the mythical town of Parián, a place where all roads and all destinies converge. There they find consolation for their woes in mezcal and in the distress of the others.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-06-15
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Nobody Will Speak of Us When We're Dead
Overview: A hit man searches for an alcoholic prostitute who has witnessed a crime and fled to Madrid.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1995-10-05
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A Trickle of Blood
Overview: Leon has a crush on Ofelia, so he decides to steal money from his father and cross the country looking for Ofelia who traveled to Guadalajara. On his journey, Leon goes through many adventures and takes the final step from childhood into adolescence.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1995-03-19
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Espinas
Overview: Magdalena is fifteen, but unlike many girls her age, her life is apathetic and somber, due to the abuse she receives from her father, a hopeless alcoholic, and her strange passion for Carlos, a neighborhood thug. A series of complex characters parade through Magdalena's life looking for themselves, such as Gabriel, the homosexual brother, and Huker, a violent judicial policeman who has an important secret. A portrait of the emotional depths of the strange and terrible Mexico City.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2007-08-31
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Canoa: A Shameful Memory
Overview: A group of students arrives in a small town during a hiking expedition. Once there, the local priest accuses them of being communist agitators on the run from an army crack-down against student demonstrations in nearby Mexico City and rallies the townsfolk to lynch them. Based on a true story.
Genres: History Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1976-03-04
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El misterio del Trinidad
Overview: The strange relation between two brothers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2003-04-29
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The Bricklayers
Overview: When a worker is found murdered on the construction side, the investigation swiftly turns from things criminal to the political circumstances surrounding the building itself. Widespread corruption and neglect by the builder himself are seen to have brought the situation about. Much of the movie is filmed using hand-held cameras, and the majority of the dialogue is in the difficult-to-understand and very slangy Spanish dialect of Mexico City's bricklayers.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1976-12-23
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La señorita
Overview: Violent death of a loan shark investigated by diligent policeman.
Genres: Mystery Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1994-06-02
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New World
Overview: Towards the end of the 16th century, the Spanish conquerors living in the New World faced a serious problem: the evangelization of the indigenous people, who did not understand or accept Christianity due to their unshakable faith in their own religion. The court of the Inquisition cracks down on heretics and the natives prepare for a general uprising ...
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1978-08-10
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Naufragio
Overview: One woman lives waiting for her son who is a sailor. She hasn't seen him for years although he writes to her a lot. The woman shares the letters and her grief with a co-worker and friend. This last woman begins to idealize her friend's son.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1978-11-02
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Tear This Heart Out
Overview: A young girl recounts her girlhood and eventual marriage to a general of the Mexican revolution. by one of the most outstanding writers of the new feminist Mexican literature, it is at once a haunting novel of one woman's life and a powerful account of post-revolutionary Mexico from a female perspective.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2008-09-12
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Letters from Marusia
Overview: Chronicle of the repression that a foreign company exerts on the miners of a small nitrate town in Chile, whose workers decide to claim their most essential rights. A reflection of the historic union struggles in the northern Chile that ended with terrible repressive acts.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1975-12-26
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Boboda
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2024-09-01
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