Gilberto Gazcón

Biography

Gilberto Gazcón de Anda (May 19, 1929 – May 11, 2013) was a Mexican film director , screenwriter and producer. He wrote more than fifty screenplays , directed more than thirty films, won numerous awards, and was a promoter of Mexican cinema. He is best known in English-speaking countries for the neo noir thriller film Rage (1966), starring Glenn Ford and Stella Stevens . Gilberto Gazcón was born in Mexico City on 19 May 1929. He was the son of film producer and screenwriter Valentín Gazcón, and the nephew of Raúl de Anda , pioneers of Mexican sound cinema. His brother Edgardo Gazcón also became a filmmaker. He showed an aptitude for art from an early age, and was drawn to cinema, where he began as a child actor and later worked as an assistant set designer. He began writing his own screenplays, and decided to abandon his medical career and enrolled in film adaptation courses and studied acting at the Cinematographic Academy, directed by Celestino Gorostiza . The first film to be released with a plot written by him was Fierecilla (1950), directed by Fernando Méndez [ es ] , which received favorable reviews for its plot and the psychology of its characters. In 1958 he directed h…

Directed

1. Perro callejero (1980) — Director
2. Perro callejero 2 (1981) — Director
3. The Boy and the Star (1976) — Director
4. Rage (1966) — Director
5. Death in Cold Blood (1978) — Director
6. El cafre (1986) — Director
7. The Laughter Of The City (1963) — Director
8. Dos de abajo (1983) — Director
9. Rosa de dos aromas (1989) — Director
10. Ya somos hombres (1971) — Director
11. Al rojo vivo (1969) — Director
12. La cárcel de Cananea (1960) — Director
13. El cielo y tú (1971) — Director
14. Atrás de las nubes (1962) — Director
15. El Desconocido (1974) — Director
16. Suerte Te De Dios (1961) — Director
17. El boxeador (1958) — Director
18. Juan sin miedo (1961) — Director
19. Cielo Rojo (1962) — Director
20. El Cínico (1970) — Director
21. Remolino (1961) — Director
22. Los desarraigados (1960) — Director
23. Tres amigos (1970) — Director
24. El gran pillo (1960) — Director
25. Tres tristes tigres (1961) — Director
26. Los novios (1971) — Director
27. Traigo la sangre caliente (1977) — Director

Also appeared in

1. Four Nights With You (1952) — Empleado (uncredited)
2. Rapto al sol (1956) — Capitán (uncredited)