Alfonso Arau
- Acting
- January 11, 1932 · Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
Biography
Alfonso Arau Incháustegui (born 11 January 1932) is a Mexican filmmaker, actor, and singer. He worked as an actor and director in both Mexican and Hollywood productions for over 40 years, before his international breakthrough with the 1992 film Like Water for Chocolate, based on his wife Laura Esquivel's novel of the same name. His other films include A Walk in the Clouds (1995), Picking Up the Pieces (2000), The Magnificent Ambersons (2002), and Zapata: El sueño del héroe (2004). He is a five-time Ariel Award winner, including Best Director for Like Water for Chocolate, and a BAFTA nominee.
Known for
Filmography
- Drunk Angry Idiot · Ernesto Pino
- Coco · Papá Julio (Voice)
- I Heart Shakey · Raoul
- L'imbroglio nel lenzuolo · Director
- The Dead One · Tezcatlipoca (Voice)
- Ni Muy, Muy... ni Tan, Tan... simplemente Tin Tan · Self
- Zapata: The dream of a hero · Director, Writer
- A Painted House · Director
- The Magnificent Ambersons · Director
- Picking Up the Pieces · Dr. Amado, Director
- Committed · Grampy
- A Walk in the Clouds · Director
- Polvora En La Piel
- Like Water for Chocolate · Director, Producer
- Camino largo a Tijuana
- Where the Hell's That Gold?!!? · Indio
- The Marked Hour · Ernesto Godin
- Stones for Ibarra · Chuy Santos
- Walker · Raousset
- ¡Three Amigos! · El Guapo
- Round
- Chido Guan, el tacos de oro · Screenplay, Story
- 227
- Miami Vice · Jorge Cruz
- Romancing the Stone · Juan
- Mojado Power · Nato Solís, Director
- The Day Pedro Infante Died · Anselmo
- Used Cars · Manuel
- Tivoli · Tiliches, Writer
- Posse · Pepe
- Inspector Calzonzin · Calzonzín, Director
- Nest of Virgins · Lucas Lucatero
- Run, Cougar, Run · Etio
- Aunt Isabel's Garden
- El águila descalza · Poncho / Jonathan Eaglepass / Mascalzzone, Director
- Scandalous John · Paco
- El Topo · Bandit 1
- Paradise · El Perro
- The Useless Life of Pito Pérez
- Jóvenes de la Zona Rosa
- Glücksspirale · Self
- Tres amigos
- The Wild Bunch · Herrera
- El aviso inoportuno
- Operación carambola · Capulina's Aid #1
- Pedro Paramo · 'Saltaperico'
- There Are No Thieves in This Village
- ...And Your Love Too · Alfredo
- Los pistolocos
- Trip to the Moon · Carlos Vera
- Música en la noche
- New faces · Writer
- Gunsmoke · Mando
- Hallmark Hall of Fame · Chuy Santos, Director