Ernesto Alonso

Ernesto Alonso

Birth : 1917-03-01, Aguascalientes, Mexico

Death : 2007-08-07

History

Ernesto Alonso (February 28, 1917 – August 7, 2007) was a Mexican producer, director, cinematographer and actor. He was nicknamed "El Señor Telenovela" ("Mr. Soap Opera") because most of his work centered on telenovelas known around the world.

Profile

Ernesto Alonso

Movies

The Hex 2: Messengers of Hell
Enrique de Martino
Raul Araiza's chilling Spanish-language supernatural thriller tells the tale of two powerful beings, one good and one evil incarnate, fighting for control of Earth--and of a beautiful woman.
Coronation
Andrés Avalos
The traumatic story of an old bourgueoise in Mexico City, his relationship with his crazy grandmother, his sexually troubled past and his sick crush on the young and beautiful maid of the house.
La torre de marfil
Philandering husband drives wife to the brink of suicide.
Maternidad imposible
Mother and child are separated during the Spanish Civil War. Believing the mother to be dead, the child is sent to a refugee orphanage in Mexico, then adopted. Meanwhile, Mama recovers from her injuries, and...
Una mujer en la calle
An implausible accident causes a street prostitute to become close friends with an aristocratic old lady.
The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz
Archibaldo de la Cruz
A bizarre black comedy about a man whose overwhelming ambition in life is to be a renowned serial killer of women, and will stop at nothing to achieve it - but not everything goes according to plan...
Wuthering Heights
Eduardo
Gone several years, the brooding Alejandro returns to the hacienda of his foster sister, Catalina, whom he loves, to find her married to the wealthy and effete Eduardo.
Orquídeas para mi esposa
Ricardo del Río
A Doll's House
Adaptation of the play by Henrik Ibsen. Mexican version of " A Doll's House." A spendthrift wife hides from her banker husband that she is in debt to a dishonorable employee her husband has fired.
Reportaje
Doctor
Reporters compete for cash prize awarded for biggest scoop on New Year's Eve.
La cobarde
Arturo
A stranded ship. A man and two boys go to its rescue - uncle Arturo and his two nephews. The ship is empty, except for a little girl - the only survivor.
Mujer de medianoche
Young woman elopes with her fiancé; during their honeymoon, things happen that cause them to be separated, and she finds herself alone in a big city with no resources to fall back on.
The Port of the Seven Sins
El Mirlo
Career criminals vie for ownership of a disreputable waterfront dive and for the love of the cabaret-gal that sings there.
Streetwalker
Rodolfo
The story of two estranged sisters, both of whom end up as prostitutes but for very different reasons.
Girls in Uniform
Novio de Lucila (voz)
Orphan Manuela's passionate crush on her teacher Lucila scandalizes their all-girl Catholic school.
The Young and the Damned
Narrator (uncredited)
A group of juvenile delinquents live a violent, criminal life in the festering slums of Mexico City, among them the young Pedro, whose morality is gradually corrupted and destroyed by the others.
Otra primavera
His wife dies and now he's free to marry his mistress and adopt their children officially. How will this play out?
Felipe de Jesús
Felipe de las Casas
Biography of the first Catholic Saint to be born in Mexico.
La dama del velo
Lic. Cristobal Gómez Peña
Andrea loves Esteban. Esteban murders his wife and goes go jail. Andrea marries Esteban's lawyer. Twenty years later...
The Cockfighter
In Michoacan in the 1920s, Gabriel, a young farmer and champion cockfighter, finds himself in violent opposition to Roman, who not only wants to beat Gabriel's fighting cock, but to steal Gabriel's wife Rosa.
Crimen en la alcoba
Federico Alarcón
A man's on trial for murder; a friend who could prove his innocence chooses not to come forward. An interested detective starts working to discover the how-come of all of that.
Tragic Weddings
Romantic triangles, rural/hacienda setting.
La mujer de todos
Carlos
A beautiful woman of affairs falls in love with a handsome young man of great promise. Fearing for his future, the man's father begs her to leave his son so that her reputation will not hold him back.
Marina
Pascual
Adaptation of a Spanish operetta about a love triangle between two fisherman and a human female.
El globo de Cantolla
Three boys and three girls in the 1890s.
La corte de faraón
Micerino
Remotely based on a famous Spanish zarzuela of 1910, this lavish, daring sex comedy was filmed on a gigantic art deco set that suggests ancient Egypt repurposed for an Astaire and Rogers musical. The Pharaoh, played here as a henpecked husband by the popular comedian Roberto Soto, seeks a virginal slave girl as a bride for his general Potiphar (Fernando Cortés), but Potiphar is impotent and the slave girl (played by Mapy Cortés in a swirl of high-spirited sexuality) has some ideas of her own.
El Jorobado
Historical drama/swashbuckler: Spain during the Inquisition.
El padre Morelos
Biography of early-1800s Mexican priest/statesman.
The Virgin who Forged a Fatherland
Ignacio Allende
On the eve of the Grito de Dolores and faced with the threat of being arrested by the viceregal government, Miguel Hidalgo suggested to Captain Allende that the flag of the insurgent movement be the banner of the Virgin of Guadalupe.
Story of a Great Love
Sacristán
Manuel leaves town leaving Soledad in deep sadness. After several years of absence, the young man returns to find Soledad married to Antonio. However, the woman continues to be in love with him and both are determined to consummate their love.
La gallina clueca
Roberto (uncredited)
Divorced mother struggles to raise her large family.