Pedro Damián
Acting
Biography
Pedro Damián (born Pedro Muñoz Romero; November 29, 1952) is a Mexican actor, television producer and director.
Born: November 29, 1952
Place of Birth: Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
Known For
Love Hurts
Family and friends try to sabotage the budding romance between a young upper class girl and a humble student.
The Minister and Me
Mateo Melgarejo is a notary public and scribe for the illiterate people of Santo Domingo, a neighborhood north of Mexico City's Zócalo. A squatter friend asks for his help in negotiating with the land census bureau to regularize a land title. After a great deal of frustration with the government bureaucracy, he writes a letter to the cabinet minister, earning an audience with him. The minister hires Melgarejo to reform the bureau, and the appointee proceeds to lecture the officials on their duties in a democratic society. At the end, he gives up the post, returning to Santo Domingo to help its poor residents.
El Día de la Unión
Deseo
Eight short stories of seduction and illicit encounters between lovers, filled with humor and eroticism, which use a circular structure located in the cosmopolitan atmosphere of a colonial city of Mexico.
The Bricklayers
When a worker is found murdered on the construction side, the investigation swiftly turns from things criminal to the political circumstances surrounding the building itself. Widespread corruption and neglect by the builder himself are seen to have brought the situation about. Much of the movie is filmed using hand-held cameras, and the majority of the dialogue is in the difficult-to-understand and very slangy Spanish dialect of Mexico City's bricklayers.
Tired of Kissing Frogs
A romantic comedy about a young interior decorator who, as a result of a romantic disappointment, becomes the female counterpart of Don Juan. The misadventures of the manizer make her rediscover the value of love.
Father of the Bride
A father comes to grips with his daughter’s upcoming wedding through the prism of multiple relationships within a big, sprawling Cuban-American family.
Island of Lost Souls
Rene Cardona directs the film version of Jose Leon Sanchez's best-selling novel, which relates the author's 20 years of imprisonment on an island ruled by brutality. When a sadistic man declares himself the boss of an island pueblo, an innocent husband and wife become the victims of his selfish rule. Once the evil man's deeds reach the authorities on the mainland, however, he sinks further into madness and declares "his" island its own republic.
Collateral Damage
Firefighter Gordon Brewer is plunged into the complex and dangerous world of international terrorism after he loses his wife and child in a bombing credited to Claudio 'The Wolf' Perrini.
Rock, Weed and Wheels
In 1971, two young entrepeneurs decide to organize a race car with lots of indie rock bands livening up the event in Avandaro, Mexico. When only 25 thousand tickets are sold but more than 200 thousand people arrive, things start to get out of control.
Filmography
as Alex Baca
as Carlos
as Hernan Castillo
as Víctor
as El Marido
as El Suavecito
as Marcos
as Amado
as Genaro
as Polo
as Armando
as Ceasar Vargas
as Guerilla Motorista aka River Rat
as Billy (uncredited)
as Capt. Ovando
as Forastero
as Joe
as Eduardo
as José
as Felipe
as Amigo de Federico (uncredited)
as (uncredited)
as Standing Bear
as Actor
as Perico