Óscar Chávez
Acting
Biography
Óscar Chávez Fernández (20 March 1935 – 30 April 2020), better known simply as Óscar Chávez, was a Mexican singer, songwriter and actor. He was the major proponent of the Nueva Trova movement in Mexico in the 1960s and 1970s.
Born: March 20, 1935
Place of Birth: Mexico City, Mexico
Known For
The Outsiders
A couple on the verge of getting married gets mixed up with a gang of thugs in this routine crime drama that underscores the Socio-economic disparity in the Mexican culture. The upper-class couple rides along with outsiders who go club-hopping and resort to petty thievery. After their adventure, the couple questions whether or not they are right for each other.
The Shout
In the summer of revolt 1968, student Leobardo López Aretche captured the protests in Mexico City, and the state’s brutal response, up close – and like many of his subjects and fellow comrades, would pay a high price for his audacity. Fifty years later, his movie is no longer a secret.
Maria of My Heart
Héctor and María meet again after eight years of not seeing each other. She works as a magician in cabarets and he robs houses. María convinces Héctor to become a magician and work together. Life seems to smile on them until one day, when Maria travels to another city, the couple's situation will be overshadowed by an unfortunate event.
Distant Wind
Three stories: A young man disobeys his aunt by not killing a cat. An orphan boy, in love with his cousin, is fond of war novels, imagining himself as a hero. A couple of schoolboys in love wander around the city and forget the brutality of their respective homes.
Break of Dawn
The true story of the first Spanish-language radio announcer and political activist, Pedro J Gonzalez
Las cadenas del mal
Ambitious young woman thinks she's on he fast track to fame and fortune, but her manager's a sleazeball who gets her hooked on IV drugs and pimps her out at random.
Conversando con Cristina Pacheco
La Generala
During the Mexican Revolution, a hardened and rich lady landowner is overtaken by the violence of the times. Losing her land and house, she falls in love with a revolutionary leader that is killed by a sadistic and corrupt federal officer. She takes the revolutionary flag and leads a rampage of violence and destruction.
El cuerpazo del delito
Anthology film: three "sophisticated" rom-com scenarios.
The World's Oldest Profession
Having an example of piety and Christian devotion in their midst may help the girls in this whorehouse reform. Maybe.
Filmography
as Self (archive footage)
as Singer (voice)
as Pedro Gonzales
as Cuban Man
as Óscar Chávez
as Singer at party
as Fabián
as (segment "La rebelde")
as Padre Aurelio
as Self
as El Estilos
as voice
as voice