Álvaro Rodríguez
Acting
Biography
Álvaro Rodríguez Granada (Sevilla, Valle del Cauca, October 25, 1948) is a Colombian film and television actor.
Born: October 25, 1948
Place of Birth: Sevilla, Valle del Cauca, Colombia
Known For
The Deal
Based on a true story of a British television crew that travelled to Colombia to film a fake documentary about drug trafficking. In one scene, shot in the director’s hotel room, an actor played the part of a character whom the filmmakers passed off as Cali Cartel’s Number Three. They claimed they had risked their lives to get the interview. One sequence also shows a man pretending to swallow capsules of heroine and transporting them to London in his stomach. This phoney TV documentary is an international smash hit. When a London daily discovers that the whole thing is a hoax, a team of British journalists are sent out to Colombia to cover the story. Their report unleashes a scandal that shakes the very foundations of television in the UK.
Rapunzel, The Dog and The Warlock
El Perro, a kidnapped soldier, takes advantage of a confrontation between his captors and the paramilitaries to escape. In his escape, he takes refuge in the house of a peasant family that keeps a dark secret that he must solve to be free.
The Passion of Gabriel
In a small hamlet in the Colombian mountains, a newly appointed padre Father Gabriel finds himself torn between his spiritual calling and his desires for a young woman named Silvia, while also trying to protect his congregation from being drawn into the increasingly violent battles between the government military and rebel forces that surround the town.
The Trip
Alex Peinado decides to takes his family on a road trip to Cartagena after 11 years of continuous work. But he also has a secret plan at the same time.
Looking for Miguel
A wealthy Columbian politician blinded by his own privilege is forced to walk a mile in the shoes of the people he despises most after falling victim to a violent attack and subsequently losing his memory. Miguel was a man of fine stock, a politician who has led a charmed life since the day he was born. But Miguel has no appreciation for his lot in life, and scoffs at the everyday people who must struggle just to survive. One day, after being assaulted on the street and left for dead, Miguel awakens with no memory of the past. He has forgotten his distain for the dumpster divers, petty thieves, and wandering transients who crowd the city streets, and now their warmth and solidarity is the only thing keeping him alive. As Miguel forges a friendship with a pious but promiscuous drag queen, the fragments of the past gradually become illuminated in his mind, prompting him on a desperate quest to reclaim his identity and atone for the sins of his past.
The People at Universal
Former Sergeant Diogenes Hernandez owns the Universal, a precarious detective agency private in the Centre of Bogotá, which is based in the same apartment where he and his wife Fabiola inhabit. His nephew, Clemente Fernández, who works at the Agency, maintains a romance with Fabiola, without trying to hurt the feelings of his uncle, but driven by the need to alleviate their empty urban and anonymous man.
All Your Dead Ones
Salvador is a peasant who one day wakes up as usual to work on his land but instead finds a pile of corpses in the middle of his crops. He runs to notify the authorities but is Sunday and Election Day so the dead ones end up being a nuisance that nobody wants to deal with.
Looking for you
William, a five-year-old boy, loses his innocence while helping his uncle Gustavo organize an orchestra with several friends.
Dog Eat Dog
In the crime world of Colombia, there is an unwritten code. When Víctor and Eusebio, two hoods who bungle a shake-down job, break that code, they unwittingly sign their own death sentence.
Un tal Alonso Quijano
For Alonso Quijano, professor of literature and expert in Don Quixote of la Mancha, the thin line between sanity and madness snaps one day and from that day forward, his accomplice, veterinary assistant Santos Carrasco, travels through the Professor's past to discover that his madness is but an escape from pain and into the definitive refuge found in fantasy.
Filmography
as El Brujo
as Caceres
as Santos
as Álvaro Rodríguez
as Cáceres
as Lanchero
as Innkeeper
as Salvador García
as Policía de Tránsito
as Ramón
as Silvio Sierra
as Cop 2
as Benjamín Restrepo
as Bartender
as Rosas
as Nicolás
as Parmenio, E.P.R. Commander
as John Jairo Estupiñán, the police officer
as Jesús
as Diógenes Hernández