Mario Almada
Acting
Biography
Mario Almada Otero (January 7, 1922 - October 4, 2016) was a Mexican actor with a career lasting over seven decades. He has appeared in over 370 films. He is most known for his roles in urban westerns and action pictures. He was the brother of actor Fernando Almada. Almada was born in Huatabampo, Sonora. Apart from acting he was also a director, writer and film producer. He began his artistic career in Mexico during the 1930s. He has appeared in over 200 films, with his first being Madre Querida in 1935. In this film he acted alongside his brother Fernando as children as an extra. He would not appear in another film again until a few decades later. Almada moved from his home city of Huatabampo to Ciudad Obregón and to Guadalajara, Jalisco, where he lived for many years until he settled down in Mexico City. Almada was born to a family connected to the film industry, and was exposed to film shootings from an early age and, when he moved to Mexico City, he began working at a nightclub called Cabaret Master that was owned by his father. When his brother Fernando decided to take up acting, Mario decided to become a film producer. He wrote his first film script in 1963. The Almada brothers had their own family-run production company that eventually dissolved due to financial troubles from lack of profit. Almada died in his sleep at the age of 94 on October 4, 2016. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Born: January 8, 1922
Place of Birth: Huatabampo, Sonora, Mexico
Known For
La pantera negra
Dishevelled private eye Nico Beamonte's latest case comes from God himself ... possibly. He wants Nico to find the mysterious Black Panther. But who, or what, is the Black Panther? And what has this got to do with a cryogenically frozen Mariachi singer and a 1950s flying saucer? Surrealism, Mexican-style - as if film noir had collided with props left over from a Ray Harryhausen film.
El Infierno
After being deported back to Mexico, a man has no choice but to join the vicious drug cartel that has corrupted his hometown in order to survive.
The Earrings
Mariano Landeros is sworn by his mother to look for the murderer of his father at all costs, the proof would bring that Doroteo Carrillo earring snatched his mother when it happened the asesinato.Mariano part unstoppably to find the murderer finding in the way love, hate and violence.
Under the Same Moon
Tells the parallel stories of nine-year-old Carlitos and his mother, Rosario. In the hopes of providing a better life for her son, Rosario works illegally in the U.S. while her mother cares for Carlitos back in Mexico.
La Banda del Carro Rojo
Drug dealers try to cross the US border.
Pistoleros famosos
A gunfighter after killing the ones responsible for his brother's death, joins by mistake a gang of smugglers
El cuatrero
Gambler-horsethief-womanizer ends up hiding out in a church-run orphanage. Spiritual regeneration stuff happens.
Zone of Silence
Several fantastic stories occur in the Mexican "Zone of Silence." It begins in the 1920s when a man steals a train and then flees to enter the present. Another man finds a colonizer guarded by a ghost treasure, two girls are attacked by an evil car and finally a man steals money, then he flees to enter the past.
Everything In Vain
Gunfighters kill all family members of farmer brothers Mario and Fernando Almada, after the tragic event, they seek revenge.
La mugrosita
Orphaned boy Andrés and his best friend Maria live in one of the poorest parts of the city. Nevertheless, their hearts are full of love and happiness. Kind-hearted Sócrates has raised the boy as if he were his own son. When Andrés gets to know that Sócrates is about to become evicted, he assumes the identity of the landlord's long lost son. The plan backfires, because the landlord wants to take the boy away from Sócrates. The friendship of Andrés and Maria threatens to break apart. Written by Anonymous
Filmography
as Emilio
as Un Viejo
as El Texano
as Miguel
as Jefe de policia
as Padrino
as Don Pablo
as Don Evaristo
as Don Jacinto
as Dr. Fabre
as Fernando Montes
as Don Norberto
as Comandante Aguirre
as Comandante Romero
as Jefe Quiroz
as Mike McKendall
as Miranda
as Damian
as Don Ramon
as Licenciado Figueroa
as Carlos Rusteguí
as Comandante Carrillo
as Dr. Otero
as Doctor Albarda
as Lucio Avila
as Ramón
as Prisoner 1
as Raúl Peña
as Oscar Rivas
as Senator Rusteguí
as Gabino Perez
as Mario
as Guardian
as Falcón
as Jefe policiaco
as Comandante Arenas
as Silvestre Otero
as Mario
as Shooting Instructor
as Alfredo
as Captain Montana
as Victoriano Córdova
as Navarro
as Juan's Father
as Don Nacho
as El Jefe
as Roberto
as Reinaldo Cruz
as Doctor Jack Miller
as Charo Fuentes
as Ramón Luna
as Don Emilio
as Mario Balbuena
as Sheriff Bob
as Sheriff Ventura
as Sheriff Bob
as Eduardo Garza
as Father Feliciano
as Romulo Cabrera
as Lucio Peña
as Pedro
as Orlando Medina
as Wally
as Pitorro
as Séptimo Miau
as Amado Vargas
as Coronel Joaquín Terrazas
as El Zarco
as Don Cristóbal Zamarripa
as Onésimo
as Don Miguel
as Mariano Escobedo
as Morgan
as Daniel Fierro
as Balbuena
as Villegas
as Al Gibson
as Eufemio Zapata
as El Comisario
as Mario
as Juan Mariscal
as Lead Thug