Salvador Sánchez
Born: 1943-10-28 in Tehuacan, Puebla, Mexico
Known For: Acting
Biography
Alfredo Salvador Sánchez Bolaños (born October 28th, 1943) is a Mexican actor and director. He was one of the most relevant actors among those who renewed the list of interpreters of Mexican cinema at the beginning of the seventies. Since then, he has stood out in films such as The devil fell from glory (Cayó de la gloria el diablo, .1971), The bump (La choca, 1973), The heist (El apando, 1975), Canoa (1975), Las Poquianchis (1976), Los albañiles (1976), Under the shrapnel (Bajo la metralla, 1983), Motel (1983), Journey to Paradise (1985), Going for a nut (1986), Fire Angel (1991), Lady at night (1993), Leap into the void (1994), Natural death (1996) , Only once (2000) and Herod's law (2000). He directed Pedro Páramo in 1981. Deserving of various distinctions for his acting work in film, including two Diosas de Plata, he has also developed an outstanding theatrical career and has participated repeatedly on television.
Filmography
2025
- The Dead Girls as Juez Peralta
- Amanecer as Doroteo Talavera
- Curandero as Manuel
- 1938: When Mexico Recovered Its Oil as Peasant
2023
- ¡Que viva México! as Notario / Don Florencio
- Más Allá de Tí as Crisanto Pescador
- The Beast as Don Gerardo
2022
- El último rey: El hijo del pueblo
- The Exorcist as Señor Ramirez
2021
- Malverde: El Santo Patrón as Ramon
2019
- The Mongolian Conspiracy as Señor Liu
2018
- The Voice of a Dream as Apolonio
2016
- 40 y 20 as Don Doroteo
2015
- Lo imperdonable as Crescencio Álvarez
- Between Shadows as Narciso
2014
- The Perfect Dictatorship as Hombre X
2013
- Puras mentiras as Luis Pérez Goya
2012
- Porque el Amor Manda ... (Director)
2011
- Una familia con suerte ... (Director)
- Tequila, historia de una pasión as Vicente
2010
- El Infierno as El Padrino
- Acorazado as Alacran
- File of Attempted Murder as Antonio Villacencio
2009
- Burden of Guilt as Padre Matías Quiroga
- Héroes de la seguridad
2008
- Killer Women as Don Ramón
2007
- Palabra de Mujer ... (Director)
- Charm School as Monseñor
2006
- Jack's Law as Joker
2004
- Misión S.O.S ... (Director)
- Sobre el arco iris
2003
- Alegrijes y Rebujos as Asunción Yunque "Chon"
2002
- Cómplices Al Rescate ... (Director)
- Collateral Damage as Peddler
- Solamente una vez
2001
- The Mexican as Gunsmith
- El Noveno mandamiento as Andrés Roldán Martínez
2000
- A Breakfast Chronicle as Pedro (uncredited)
- His Most Serene Highness
1999
- Herod's Law as Pek
- Serafín ... (Director)
- Ojitos mentirosos
1998
1997
- Hurricane ... (Director)
- Pueblo chico, infierno grande as Consejo Serratos
1996
1995
- La Dueña as Macario Robles
- Salto al vacío
1994
- Amor que mata as Don Raúl
- Loving Ghosts
- Una buena forma de morir
- The Food of Fear as Jefe
1993
- La última esperanza as Pancho
- Un ángel para los diablillos as Jefe de Policía
- Abuelita de Bakman
- Dama de Noche as Diego
1992
1991
- Madres egoístas ... (Cinematography)
- One Man’s War as Ramírez
- Diplomatic Immunity as Colonel Hernández
- Mujer de cabaret
- Perseguida as Commander German Paino
- The Mexican Ninja
- Mexican Ghostbusters as Procoro
- Jóvenes delincuentes
- La fuerza bruta
- The Legend of the Scorpion
1990
1989
- Old Gringo as Floreal
- Las asesinas del panadero
- He kidnapped her, he raped her, and he killed her as Bonifaz
- El jardín de la paz
- La venganza as Rafael Galeana
1988
- The Marked Hour as (Varios)
- El pecado de Oyuki as Yutaka Ogino
- Flor y canela as Sinforoso
- Difficult Days as Diputado Gabriel Aguirre
- Angel River as Toral
- Furia en la sangre
1987
1986
- Salvador as Human Rights Leader
- Frida Still Life as David Alfaro Siqueiros
1985
- Esperándote as Juancho
- Viaje al paraíso as Bulmador
1984
- Under the Volcano as Chief of Stockyards
- Motel as Julián Vargas, Detective
1983
- Under the Shrapnel as Tomas
1982
- The Eve as Villegas
1981
1979
- La madre
- Maria of My Heart as Chava
1978
- Drizzle as Indígena
- The Recourse to the Method
1977
- El elegido as Don Liserio
- Caminando pasos... caminando
1976
- Las Poquianchis as Reportero
- The Bricklayers as Chapo Álvarez
- Canoa: A Shameful Memory as Witness
- Anyway, Juan is Your Name
- The Heist as Albino
- The House in the South as Genaro
1975
1974
- La Choca as Audias
- Do You Hear the Dogs Barking? as Juan Dolores
- Those Years as Gen. Melchor Ocampo
- The Master of Ballantrae as El Chueco
1973
- La yegua colorada
- Valente Quintero as Capitán Carrancista
1972
- El vals sin fin
- Cayó de la gloria el diablo as Charro cantor / Solís
- No One Will Love You Like I Do
1971
- La Generala as Jesús
1970
1951
- Crimen y castigo as (uncredited)