Silvia Derbez

Silvia Derbez

Birth : 1932-03-08, San Luis Potosi

Death : 2002-06-04

History

Silvia Derbez, born Lucille Silvia Derbez Amézquita, was a Mexican film and television actress. Derbez was born in San Luis Potosi. She competed in Miss Mexico 1953 where she placed 2nd place, after Miss Jalisco Ana Bertha Lepe.

Profile

Silvia Derbez

Movies

Reclusorio
Carmen Galicia (segment "Eutanasia o asesinato")
The human and divine justice are exposed through five real life stories related to the legal processes of a prison. The cases presented are: "I want to stay in jail", "Blood between women", "The raped prostitute", "The kidnapped policeman", and "Euthanasia or murder?"
Zapatos viejos
Miss Lucy
Young Gloria is abused by the Vitorina, hospice caretaker hosting it. She forces her to perform the heaviest tasks. Gloria is only happy in music class. When she grows decides to escape, and now she lives on the street with another girl, both singing in the trucks and try to survive.
Mientras México duerme
El ahorcado
Three greedy relatives scheme for an inheritance and frame the good guy for the murder of the maker of the will.
Cruz de amor
Mother works as a servant to send her daughter to an expensive private school. Naturally, the daughter meets the son of her mother's employer at a mixer...
Quinto patio
Doña Blanca
Ramon is a guy who lives in a neighborhood, in the " fifth courtyard " in urban poverty. Nevertheless, aspires to the love of the daughter of his employer, a woman of another social class.
El impostor
An academic and his family go back to the land, then get involved in politics.
La esquina de mi barrio
Two young sweethearts get tangled up with a bad guy and a stolen necklace.
The King of México
Toña
A humble tramp is turned, for a couple of days, into the richest and most famous man in México.
Who are our daughters with?
Isabel
The story of a group of young people and the problems they face in modern society slowly begins to decline, due to family disintegration and loss of values.
Padre contra hijo
Lucía
Eloisa works hard, sewing, to his son Juan de Dios. He learns that he is the bastard son of Cecilio, who owns almost a whole town named: San Juan de Dios, Durango.
Las engañadas
Elisa
Irresponsible playboy seduces a decent young lady with a fake wedding; he continues being a creep for the next 12 or 15 years.
El medallón del crimen
Carmen Álvarez
Going out for a drink with the guys after work, a salaryman get in over his head with a gangster's moll and a murder.
La mujer X
Elena
A woman accused of murder refuses to defend herself in any way, in order to avoid tarnishing the family name and the reputation of her long-lost son.
Dios nos manda vivir
Everything-but-the-kitchen-sink melodrama: young widow suffers everything life can throw at her.
The River and Death
Elsa
A useless and bloody vendetta has been going on for ages between two families in this Mexican village. Men, sons, have killed each other for generations, for a so-called conception of honor in a revenge that never ends since it is also triggered by people of the village. Now, today, there are only two sons left, one in each family. One has become a doctor in the big city and his culture is modern. The other last one - of the other family - hasn't left the village and is waiting for the doctor to come "home" as he plans to kill him, to settle this war on this matter of honor once and for all. And the people of the village want blood.
La sobrina del señor cura
A pregnant parishioner can't get her boyfriend to marry her and the home office thinks that foundling girl the priest took in is too old now to live under the same roof with him. It's always something, ain't it?
Mamá nos quita los novios
Amanda, a widow, is a beautiful woman that finds comfort seducing every man in her path, including her daughters' boyfriends.
Dance my king!
Lower-middle-class ligger rescues a girl from her abusive father and practices for a high-profile dance contest.
The Seminarian
Mercedes Orozco
Returning to his home town, seminarist Miguel is forced to trade the robes for a charro costume in order to solve several problems that appear in his way, including the female kind.
Dicen que soy mujeriego
Flor
Pedro has had many lovers but he only loves one of them, but this romance stop going on for his flirts with other women.
Salon Mexico
Beatriz Gómez
Mercedes (Marga Lopez) dances for money with the clients of Salon Mexico, a famous cabaret in Mexico City. Her younger sister Beatriz (Derbez) studies in an expensive private school, paid by Mercedes. Obviously, young Beatriz doesn't know about her sister's job. Troubles begin when Mercedes wins a danzon contest with Paco (Acosta), her pimp. Paco refuses to share the prize with Mercedes, so she steals the money when he's sleeping.
Allá en el Rancho Grande
Margarita
Remake of famous 1936 ranchera musical.
Tarzan and the Mermaids
Aquitanian
A high priest tries to force a young beauty to marry a pearl trader who is masquerading as the god Balu.