Ernesto Yáñez
Acting
Biography
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Born: November 28, 1946
Place of Birth: Ciudad de México, México
Known For
Conozca la cabeza de Juan Pérez
Juan Perez is a wizard who begins to remember how he lost his head, after an economic crisis in the Circus where he works, he promises to mount a spectacular act of beheading that it could again return it to its glory years. But without any fifth in the bag and with time running out to build a machine is forced to rob a real guillotine without this weighs a terrible curse.
The Beginning and the End
The film tells the story of the Boteros, a middle-class Mexican family struggling against poverty after their father's death. Ignacia (Egurrola) is the Boteros mother, a desperate woman who chooses to sacrifice the destiny of her three older children, in order to protect Gabriel (Laguardia) the youngest one. She believes Gabriel will climb the social structure and bring back the lost fortune to the family. But destiny has other plans for the Boteros and tragedy will overcome eventually. Based on the novel of Nobel Prize winner Naguib Mahfouz.
Pastorela
Agent Jesus Juarez (aka Chucho) has always played the Devil in his town's Nativity Play. This Christmas, when the new pastor of the church recasts the role, the two men engage in a battle between good and evil.
Knock Out
Rodrigo Zaracho, once a promising boxer, is in decline. While fleeing from a gang that is chasing him, he remembers his past.
Mexicano ¡Tú puedes!
Vicente and Carmen, are spouses, he works in a factory, although he is a womanizer and irresponsible; she sells cosmetics or fayuca. Both dream of owning a home. Vincent did not want to leave their neighborhood but after several discussions they decide to buy a land...
Nocturnal Love that Goes Away
A taxi driver goes missing after driving a passenger out of town.
The Ruination of Men
A woman seeks help from one of her bigamous husband's killers to transport his corpse back to her home.
La mujer del puerto
Perla, a prostitute and the star in a miserable cabaret in the docks, falls in love with a sailor without knowing that he is her brother. Tomasa, Perla's mother, tries to prevent this incestuous relationship at all costs, but fails to do so. Set in a sordid environment, the director makes no concessions in this tragic love affair, which is narrated from three different points of view.
Astucia
Historical melodrama on horseback, 1840s or so in central Mexico. Pulpy, Zorro-ish...
Curandero
A journey that takes one man into the bowels of black magic in Mexico City
Filmography
as Dios "El Monaguillo"
as Susión
as Don Chi Chi
as Quintana
as Poncho
as La Marrana
as The Guard
as Don Sabas
as Eneas
as Polvorón
as Superior Priest
as Matilde
as Gordo Pantoja
as Patilludo
as Chepe Botas
as Ismael
as Mesie
as Bonifacio Vizarrón