José Torvay
Acting
Biography
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Born: January 28, 1909
Place of Birth: Durango, Mexico
Known For
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Two jobless Americans convince a prospector to travel to the mountains of Mexico with them in search of gold. But the hostile wilderness, local bandits, and greed all get in the way of their journey.
Black Wind
The building of a railroad under tough conditions from searing heat to freezing cold in the Sonora desert provokes clashes of passion and struggles between the engineers and the workers at the campsite. The workers also contend with sudden dust storms that are called the 'black wind'. Based on true events.
Enamorada
In Mexican Revolution times, a guerrilla general and his troops take the conservative town of Cholula, near by Mexico City. As the revolutionaries mistreat the town's riches, General Reyes falls for beautiful and wild Beatriz Peñafiel, the daughter of one of the town's richest men.
Por mis pistolas
Fidencio Borer, an apothecary in a village on the northern border of Mexico, discovers some old title of a mine in Arizona and decides to claim them. Trying to cross the border is a border guard intercepted by exaggerating in the line of duty. On the way is captured by a tribe of Apaches and is about to be burned alive, but thanks to the Great Head Horse Lying having toothache and learns that the prisoner it can heal, ordered his release on the condition that the cure. Fidencio would take the wheel and gets the eternal friendship of the Chief apache.
Kaliman, the Incredible Man
Archaeologists, tomb robbers, a strange character and an adventurer undertake the search for the tomb of an Egyptian pharaoh, driven by different motivations: from the mere archaeological find to the destruction of humanity.
Maria Candelaria
A young journalist asks an old artist about the portrait of a naked Indian woman that he has in his study. The artist tells the story of Maria Candelaria, a young Indian woman who was rejected by her own people for being the daughter of a prostitute. She is protected by a young Indian man, Lorenzo Rafael, who has fallen in love with her.
Ni sangre ni arena
Cantinflas enjoys the bullfight show, and wants to crash in every of these spectacles. Also, there's a professional bullfighter, Manolete, who is identical to Cantinflas. Manolete has to give a bullfight show in a village, but Cantinflas arrives first as a stowaway in a train, and he'll be mistake by the real bullfighter. Cantinflas will give us a demonstration of courage.
Untamed Frontier
The Denbow family denies access across their land to homesteaders. To evade a murder charge, Glenn Denbow marries Jane, the only witness who's in love with him. But the woman favors the settlers...
Pedro Paramo
When his mother Dolores dies, Juan Preciado, son of Pedro Páramo, goes to Comala to claim his inheritance; but when he arrives he finds an abandoned and sinister place, inhabited by mysterious voices and whispers…
Rosa blanca
An international oil company comes into conflict with a Mexican ranch owner who refuses to sell his land, resorting to a devious scheme to try to take over the property.
Filmography
as Old Coyote
as (uncredited)
as Mexican Blacksmith (uncredited)
as Mexican Guerrilla (as Jose Torvay)
as (uncredited)
as Terencio Lubianes
as Nabor Camargo
as Gregorio
as Pueblerino
as Rosario (uncredited)
as Segundo sargento
as Gomez
as Gonzalez
as Mariachi Leader (uncredited)
as Vulture
as Andrés Martínez
as Bartolo Diaz
as Manuel
as Negrete, detective de banco
as Captain Alvarado
as Manuel Ramirez
as Bandera
as Charcoal Wagon Driver
as Juan, hombre familia tren
as Don Atenogenes
as Enrique Ortiz (as Jose Torvay)
as Eladio Gómez
as Sabas
as Don Manuel, maestro de escuela
as Captain Quiñones
as Miguel
as Pocoloco
as Policía (uncredited)
as Don Generoso (uncredited)
as Swigart
as Pablo
as Mexican (uncredited)
as Maestro Apolonio Sánchez
as Abdo
as Policeman (uncredited)
as Tartaro
as Cockfighter
as El compadre de ranchero
as Comisario (uncredited)
as Arabé Nagil