Manuel Ojeda
Acting
Biography
Manuel Salvador Ojeda Armenta (4 November 1940 – 11 August 2022) was a Mexican actor. Ojeda was one of the most active actors of television and cinema in Mexico. He played the villain, Zolo, in the Hollywood film Romancing the Stone.
Born: November 4, 1940
Place of Birth: La Paz, Baja California Sur, Mexico
Known For
Amor Gitano
En un lejano pasado donde las injusticias son pan de cada día, Rodolfo Farnesio, vil señor feudal, se dispone a exigir su "derecho a la pernada" sobre una campesina y para eso irrumpe en la boda de la muchacha. Pero sus planes son interrumpidos por la llegada del noble Renzo el Gitano. Pronto Renzo se verá obligado a defender a otra víctima de Farnesio. Se trata de la Condesa Adriana de Astolfi que está siendo forzada a casarse con el villano. Para deshacerse del gitano, Rodolfo lo acusa de un crimen que no ha cometido y hace que lo deporten a la Isla de los Condenados, una infecta isla-prisión. Allá lo sigue Adriana, que bajo la personalidad de "Luna" podrá amarlo libremente. Pero nuevamente, Rodolfo se interpone y los separa. Adriana, ahora amnésica, se convertirá en la esposa de Rodolfo. Tendrá que regresar Renzo, bajo otra identidad, para rescatarla de Rodolfo y de la ex tabernera Isa Valenti quien, a base de chantajes, se ha convertido en la cuñada de Adriana.
La casa en la playa
Guerrero
Police corruption causes a massacre of peasants. A man in his motorcycle will try to bring back order to the town.
Misión S.O.S
The story follows the life of Diana, a pre-teen who lives in a neighborhood called Buenaventura. Diana and Christian, who has just moved to Mexico due to his parents' divorce, quickly become best friends, despite their families hatred for each other. However, the neighbors of Buenaventura are in danger of losing their homes, their school and much more, because the evil old Severiano plans to tear down the neighborhood and build an enormous shopping mall in its place. To accomplish his plan, Severiano is willing to resort to any means, and will provoke a series of disasters to drive the inhabitants away.
Mi querido viejo
Luis Fuentes, a singer of Mexican music, comes to know a journalist by the name of Maria Luisa Cortéz and fall madly in love with each other. In time, the couple gets married and come to have a son, Rafael. However, they soon divorce because of Luis's many commitments as a singer. This strains the relationship between Luis and Maria, so much so that Maria, stung by bitterness, teaches her son to despise his father and manages to move from Mexico to the United States to keep Luis from contacting his son. Luis wants nothing more than to regain his lost relationship and affection with his beloved son. Therefore, time after time he visits Maria in hope of winning over his son's affection with little success. Over time, Rafael, now a young man, comes to have a passion for music just like his father despite having a hatred for him.
The Marked Hour
La Hora Marcada was a 1986 Mexican television anthology series famous for its horror and science fiction themes in the vein of the Twilight Zone. Although virtually unknown outside the country, it achieved a popular and critical success in Mexico. It had a series of rotating writers and directors, among them Emmanuel Lubezki, Guillermo del Toro and Alfonso Cuarón.
My Love, My Sin
Amarte es mi Pecado' is a Mexican telenovela that was transmitted in the year 2004. It is a production of Ernesto Alonso and the protagonists are Yadhira Carrillo, Alessandra Rosaldo and Sergio Sendel.
El vuelo del águila
Senda de gloria
Tal como somos
Filmography
as Juan Flores
as Don Patricio Montes
as Idris
as Don Antonio
as Joel Olmedo
as Aurelio
as Champarro
as Don Refugio
as Genaro Valencia
as Damián Madrigal Ríos
as Reséndiz
as Melitón Ramos
as El Silencioso
as Don Gregorio
as Don Fidel
as Ernesto Contreras
as Eduardo Moreno
as El Presidente Municipal
as Sacerdote
as Juan Antonio Orduña
as Raúl
as Capitán Pablo Solís
as Comandante Martín Aguirre
as Don Francisco Escobar
as Narrator
as Eduardo Montero
as Manuel
as Severiano Martinez
as Carlos
as Jacobo Guzmán
as Rodrigo Leyva
as Padre José
as Juan Pedro Portugal
as Sr. Rivas
as Father Salvador Valdéz
as El Tigre
as Francesco
as Octavio Rangel
as Moctezuma
as Manuel Rey
as Don Mario
as Humberto Nava
as Cantinero
as Genaro Valencia
as Pedro Minelli,
as Gustavo
as Comandante Juan
as Abogado (segment "Eutanasia o asesinato")
as Indalecio Madrazo / Inocencio Lemus Smasht
as Sr. Emilio Valtierra
as Kalimán
as Nicanor Esparragoza
as Mariano Lagarde
as Lupe López
as Alcántara
as El Fish
as Fray Camilo Lacroix Imerino
as Erik Orozco
as Porfirio Díaz
as José
as Coro Chief
as Evaristo
as Apolonio Méndez
as Julio Araujo
as Don Manuel Jiménez
as Severo
as Dr. Leonardo Sánchez
as El Tijuana
as Pablo
as Ignacio
as Emiliano Zapata
as Abel Romo
as Víctor Araiza
as Carlos Meléndez
as General Vorteez
as Conde Muffat
as Almiron
as Zolo
as Leyva
as Diablo
as Pablo
as Doctor Alvar
as Sergio Gaitán
as Daniel
as Mariano Ortega
as Jacinto Chontal
as Fernando
as Asmodeo
as Lt. Costas
as Antonio Vélez
as Rodolfo
as Miguel
as Médico
as Pedro Páramo
as Ernesto
as Francisco
as Andres Martinez
as José
as Tadeo
as Polonio
as Livingston
as Hombre del pueblo
as Pleberio