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.

Directed

1. The Witch's Mirror (1962) — Director
2. The Brainiac (1962) — Director
3. The Sign of Death (1939) — Director
4. The Witch (1954) — Director
5. The Living Head (1963) — Director
6. The Revived Monster (1953) — Director
7. The Door and the Butcher's Wife (1969) — Director
8. Blue Demon vs. the Diabolical Women (1968) — Director
9. Blue Demon vs. the Infernal Brains (1968) — Director
10. The Magnificent Beast (1953) — Director
11. El conde de Montecristo (1942) — Director
12. Si Adelita se fuera con otro (1948) — Director
13. Pilotos de la muerte (1962) — Director
14. The Headless Rider (1957) — Director
15. Blue Demon vs. the Satanic Power (1966) — Director
16. Los leones del ring contra la Cosa Nostra (1974) — Director
17. Los leones del ring (1974) — Director
18. La norteña de mis amores (1948) — Director
19. The Underdogs (1940) — Director
20. Blue Demon (1965) — Director
21. The Night of the Mayans (1939) — Director
22. No matarás (1943) — Director
23. The Mark of Satan (1957) — Director
24. Los hermanos Diablo (1959) — Director
25. Bala Perdida (1960) — Director
26. Ventarrón (1949) — Director
27. Cinco asesinos esperan (1964) — Director
28. Especialista en chamacas (1965) — Director
29. Camino de Sacramento (1945) — Director
30. El desalmado (1950) — Director
31. La gota de sangre (1950) — Director
32. La perversa (1954) — Director
33. ¡Que viene mi marido! (1940) — Director
34. Se solicitan modelos (1954) — Director
35. The Illegitimate (1956) — Director
36. Tu camino y el mio (1973) — Director
37. Se la llevó el Remington (1948) — Director
38. El vendedor de muñecas (1955) — Director
39. Los tigres del ring (1960) — Director
40. Música, mujeres y amor (1952) — Director

Also appeared in

1. The Wild Bunch (1969) — Don Jose
2. Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974) — Manchot
3. Kaliman, the Incredible Man (1972) — Tabor Tagore
4. The Wrath of God (1972) — Antonio
5. La Choca (1974) — Don Pomposo
6. Guns and Guts (1974) — Fray José
7. El hermano Capulina (1970)
8. El capitán Mantarraya (1970)
9. Emiliano Zapata (1970)
10. The Door and the Butcher's Wife (1969) — Cura (segment "La mujer del carnicero")
11. Todo Por Nada (1969) — Nicolás
12. Once Upon a Scoundrel (1974)
13. Chanoc (1967) — Tsekub Baloyán
14. The Fearmaker (1971) — Pastor
15. Una luz en mi camino (1939)
16. Super Colt 38 (1969)
17. El pueblo del terror (1970)
18. Dos esposas en mi cama (1970)
19. Furias bajo el cielo (1971)
20. The Butcher’s Wife (1969) — Priest