José Elías Moreno

José Elías Moreno

Birth : 1910-11-12, Las Palmas, Unión de San Antonio, Jalisco, Mexico

Death : 1969-07-15

History

José Elías Moreno (12 November 1910 – 15 July 1969) was a Mexican film actor. He appeared in 184 films between 1937 and 1969.

Profile

José Elías Moreno

Movies

Santera
Juan de la Cruz
About a mysterious and troubled black woman, a former practitioner of the Santería religion, who must comes to terms with her background whilst in a Caracas jail.
Relaciones violentas
The misunderstanding between two people; lack of consideration in marriage; the false image that the children of the parents have; the easy door; the quick fix. It does not matter to debase, it does not matter to stain. A family watching at the apex of violence.
Coqueta
Carlos' teacher
Two teenagers fall in love with each other for the first time.
Peach Blossom
Padre Filemón
Farm-girl, seduced and abandoned, goes to the big city to have her baby and live out her shameful soiled disgrace away from her birth people.
Juan el desalmado
Cowboy on a revenge trip gets caught up in the sadistic games of some black-hats and goes through a whole narrative cycle with them before discovering the identity of the people he was originally looking for.
La marcha de Zacatecas
Villistas, army officers, heirs and heiresses all gather at the home of a recently deceased hacendado. Everybody has an agenda, everybody butts heads in comical ways. Or not so much.
El deseo llega de noche
Coronel Riquelme
Prison colony on an island: the staff Doctor has some neuroses he's trying to overcome, and his "weakness" makes him vulnerable to exploitation by a sociopathic prisoner.
Valentín Armienta, el vengador
Al rojo vivo
Three parallel romances among young people working in a steel mill.
Night of the Bloody Apes
Dr. Krallman
A surgeon transplants the heart of an ape into his ailing son with horrific results.
El tesoro de Atahualpa
Mexican medical researchers are lost in a plane crash in the Amazon basin, which triggers a whole bunch of adventure-movie subplots.
El centauro Pancho Villa
M/F couple joins the Revolution, but she ends up in bed with Villa.
Seis días para morir
Dr. Jáuregui
Public health thriller: rabies in Mexico City.
Alma Grande en el desierto
Yaqui Indian hero -- comic-book adaptation.
Los tres mosqueteros de Dios
Story
Three priests resort to desperate long-shots (like quiz-shows) to raise money for their parish.
Los tres mosqueteros de Dios
Clemente Garza
Three priests resort to desperate long-shots (like quiz-shows) to raise money for their parish.
Rage
Fortunato
Small-town doctor bitten by rabid dog, races the clock to get to the city and receive treatment.
Alazán y enamorado
Don Julio Rosales
Rom-com about two horses. And some humans.
La Valentina
A smuggler, condemned to be shot, is pardoned in exchange for kidnapping "La Valentina."
Black Wind
Lorenzo Montes
The building of a railroad under tough conditions from searing heat to freezing cold in the Sonora desert provokes clashes of passion and struggles between the engineers and the workers at the campsite. The workers also contend with sudden dust storms that are called the 'black wind'. Based on true events.
Adventure at the Center of the Earth
After a young man is killed in an unexplored subterranean cavern and his girlfriend driven mad by something she saw there, a track found at the scene cannot be identified with any known animal and thus a scientific expedition is launched to find out just what it is that is living there.
La loba
Professor Fernandez
A wealthy, young Mexican woman is under a werewolf's curse.
Nido de águilas
Driven from their homestead by bandits, three brothers and sisters form an outlaw crew of their own and hide out in the mountains, orchestrating their revenge.
Lawless Youth
Padre Francisco
Jorge is arrested and brought to trial, where it is known that he chose crime due to the abandonment of his father.
Los murciélagos
Cowboy-justice guy breaks up a criminal gang who are terrorizing a small town with the appearance of vampire activity.
Yo, el valiente
A young man wants to create a reputation for himself as a gunslinger; an older mentor tries to warn him that he's making life decisions he'll regret and never be able to undo.
El Padrecito
Don Silvestre
Young priest Father Sebastián is assigned to a parish in San Jeronimo el Alto, where he is not welcomed by the community, particularly the resident priest Father Damián. The newcomer gradually earns the trust of the people through humor, but firmly captures their hearts by saving the town fiesta by fighting a bull when the hired torero failed to show. Father Sebastián counsels the townspeople, lecturing them on their duties in a modern society. He used the collection plate to redistribute the town's wealth more evenly.
El corrido de María Pistolas
Sequel to Maria Pistolas. Comic-tomgirl member of Villa's army has boy trouble.
La risa de la ciudad
Romanticized, glamored-up neorealism, life in a squatter's-rights shantytown.
María Pistolas
Tomboyish gal becomes a player in the Mexican Revolution. Then: boyfriends.
Tres palomas alborotadas
Controlling papa won't let his daughters have boyfriends.
Atrás de las nubes
Chofer de carruaje
All it says in my notes is "Like 'Juan Sin Miedo', only with soldiers." So... Army officer seeks revenge for... something...
Little Red Riding Hood and Tom Thumb vs. the Monsters
El Ogro
The film follows adventures of Little Red Riding Hood (Maria Gracia) and Tom Thumb (Cesaro Quezadas) and their friends, fighting against the wicked Witch Queen (Ofelia Guilmáin) and her band of monsters. The film starts at the meeting of the evil monsters in the castle in the Haunted Forest, heart of the Devil's dominion, during which the Vampire (Quintín Bulnes) accuses the Wolf (Manuel Valdés) and the Ogre (José Elías Moreno) of betraying the Witch Queen (La Reina Bruja, renamed Queen of Badness in the English dub), who orders them to ber executed. Their friend Stinky the Skunk (Santanón) however escapes and informs Little Red Riding Hood and Tom Thumb, who promise to help. Meanwhile, the Queen and her sister the Old Witch cast a terrible curse, turning villagers into monkeys and mice for trying to defy her magic. The rest of the story details the heroes' quest to conquer evil.
Contra viento y marea
Two spoiled rich kids learn to value their father's working-class heritage.
Las hijas del Amapolo
Six grown-up daughers need husbands. Is big problem for El amapolo.
El centauro del norte
A Villista girl and a Huertista boy -- can their love cross ideological lines and heal a trembling nation?
My Son, the Hero
Don Refugio
Northern Mexico, early 20th century. Reynaldo del Hierro is murdered while riding with his sons Reynaldo and Martín, whose mother instills in them the need for revenge.
Remolino
Young woman manipulates all three of the men of the hacienda, planning to marry the father and play with one or both of the young ones.
Los desarraigados
Family in crisis: the American Dream collapses for four members of a Mexican family in Texas, all at the same time.
Dos hijos desobedientes
Meddling mom tries to set up her two cowboy sons to marry two sisters who are looking for domesticated, 'indoor' husbands that cook and keep house.
Simitrio
Don Cipriano
A blind teacher is the victim of endless pranks and pranks from his students.
The Shadow of the Strongman
Gobernador Catarino Ibáñez
Post-revolucionary Mexico. War secretary Ignacio Jimenez is chosen as the candidate for presidency, but he isn't so sure about it, because he knows that his boss and current president, El Caudillo, has chosen a second one.
El impostor
An academic and his family go back to the land, then get involved in politics.
Variedades de medianoche
Two unknown performers try to break into television. Meanwhile, a guy that calls himself 'El Vengador' is doing a Phantom of the Opera number on the studio executives...
Santa Claus
Santa Claus
Pitch, the mean-spirited devil, is trying to ruin Christmas. Santa Claus teams up with Merlin the Magician and the children of the world in order to save the day!
Estampida
Pancho Villegas
El zarco
Upperclass girl and notorious bandit leader fall in love. She agrees to "let him kidnap her" so they can be together, but she gets disillusioned when she sees the sordidness of his Camp Of Banditry. Also he keeps killing off members of her family.
Ángel del infierno
Young woman moves to a remote border town to take charge of properties she inherited from her father.
Una cita de amor
Juez de Acordada
The story of the doomed love between Soledad and Román. She is the daughter of a rich man that wants to marry her with Ernesto, nephew of his friend, the judge. Román owns a little ranch. A brawl in the town will unleash several deaths that will affect the already difficult relationship.
La máscara de carne
Mexican feature film
Hora y media de balazos
Unassuming, milquetoast-y shepherd-boy is pressured into posing as a dangerous gunslinger.
El gallo colorado
A young street vendor who is a cockfighting aficionado, attracted by the image of one of them, settles on the ranch of its owner where he falls in love with the foreman's daughter. All the problems happen and some that afflicted the ranch in the past are solved by him.
Tom Thumb
The Ogre
A young boy born extraordinarily small must rescue his older brothers from a wicked ogre.
Golden Wedding
On their anniversary, a lomg-married couple reminisce about the history of their marriage
The Hawks
The story of two half brothers who do not know they are such, who fight over a woman and nearly kill each other. One of them belongs to Los Gavilanes, a group of men who live live hidden and looting to give to the poor. Revenge, love and hate will at the end bring out the truth and everyone will get what he deserves.
Rapto al sol
Spoiled rich girl has massive temper tantrums when she doesn't get her way; a business associate kidnaps her to his private island to teach her a lesson and also tempestuous tropical love connections.
La doncella de piedra
A young mixed-race woman is forced to choose between her tribal heritage and her position in white society.
El 7 leguas
Don Pioquinto
Horse-trader gets absorbed into Pancho Villa's battalions, becomes a spy.
De carne somos
Doroteo
Woman becomes a prostitute so her writer BF can concentrate on his art instead of working for a living.
Espaldas mojadas
Frank Mendoza
Mexican worker Rafael Améndola runs from the police and cross the Mexican-American border, helped by Frank Mendoza, a partner of an American called Mr. Sterling, who gives work to illegal migrants. Once in the United States, Rafael does not adapt to his new life.
Fugitivos: Pueblo de proscritos
After breaking out of jail, a group of convicts finds a ghost town they can take possession of. They send word out along the grapevine that criminals and marginal people can make a home there... and as the population grows, their self-policing efforts turn the whole town into a model community.
La mujer X
General Pancho Villa
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.
La gaviota
Local gal in a fishing/seaport resort has to decide between a local fisherman and a doctor who comes for vacations.
What a Man
Father and adult sons give help to an orphaned teenage girl.
El sindicato del crimen
A hard-boiled crime story also known as "The Waiting-room of Death".
Los aventureros
Two brothers and their pops end up helping out an orphaned young woman who wants revenge against her father's murderer.
The River and Death
Don Nemesio
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.
The Abduction
Don Constancio
In a small Mexican village the news shock neighbors, Ricardo Alfaro, a wealthy local rancher has disappeared without a trace. Taking advantage of the circumstance, Aurora Campos, a strong woman with overwhelming beauty, convinces the authorities to sell her the property in exchange for twelve thousand dollars. Soon after, when Ricardo suddenly reappears, a real battle is about to begin.
La perversa
Padre
Working-class girl becomes a Kept Woman, violating all of man's laws and God's Mandates.
Nuevo amanecer
Mexican feature film
Reportaje
Mariachi
Reporters compete for cash prize awarded for biggest scoop on New Year's Eve.
Dos tipos de cuidado
El General
Jorge Bueno and Pedro Malo are best friends who consider giving up their womanizing ways when they each fall in love. As fate would have it, Pedro Malo unexpectedly marries Jorge Bueno's girlfriend, and the conflict between the former buddies begins. A year later they find themselves in the same town and confront each other once and for all.
Nunca es tarde para amar
A widowed doctor with a sick child marries a famous singer unpremeditatedly, running at first everything fine until she begins to long for his former life and scenic successes representing the only reason for existence.
The Three Perfect Married
Máximo
Three married couples gather to celebrate the eighteenth anniversary of their marriage mourning the absence of a friend who was best man at all three weddings.
The Magnificent Beast
Maravilla Lopez
The Magnificent Beast (Free Fight) is a 1953 Mexican film. It was directed by Chano Urueta. The first film of the Luchadores genre.
La hija del ministro
A young bureaucrat's career takes off when it's believed he's keeping company with the daughter of a higher-ranking official.
Doña Perfecta
Cristóbal Ramos
Liberal farmer Pepe has arrived in Santa Fe to visit his aunt, Dona Perfecta. While he's there, Pepe is eager to teach the traditional-minded townspeople a new way of living. Unfortunately for Pepe the people of Santa Fe aren't eager to embrace change, and when the citizens begin to voice resentment Pepe is forced to seek refuge with his sympathetic aunt. Dona Perfecta is just as traditional as any of the other townspeople though, and only suffers Pepe due to the fact that he is family. When Pepe and his cousin Rosario fall deeply in love, the situation quickly comes to a head.
Monte de piedad
Jefe policía
Anthology-movie, series of anecdotes about the personal tragedies that lead people to take their values posessions to the state-run pawnshop.
¡… Y murío por nosotros!
Pedro
Pecado
Alfonso Tello
El Siete Machos
El Chacal
Rosario, the niece of the rancher, returns to the ranch after ten years of absence. She takes in Margarito, a worker at the ranch, who is immediately smitten by her. Rosario is rescued from a runaway horse by the Seven Men, an outlaw a la Robin Hood that steals from the rich and gives to the poor. He also happens to be the twin brother of Margarito, unbeknownst to him. The confusion between Margarito and the Seven Men generates great comical situations in the film.
Capitán de rurales
Idealistic young police officer deals with corruption in local government.
Adventures of a New Rich Man
La mujer que yo amé
A musician is injured and threatened for defending a girl and decides to go to the capital, where fame and success achieved. She is glad to know that he has succeeded, however, has become a street prostitute prone to paralysis. Finally one day he takes courage and decides to look for, since it has become invalid again ...
Cuatro contra el mundo
Comandante Canseco
This dazed Mexican-melodrama-cum-boozer-heist-noir cuts a dark swath over a border nominally dominated by the hardboiled likes of Chandler and Hammett. Employing many of the classic tropes of Mexican noir (blood-tainted money, hothouse betrayals, the entrapped yearnings of dark hearts), we follow the slow demise of a gang who hole up in an attic in the wake of a fatal robbery. Galindo liberally dashes in lashes of the smokiest amour mort, gradually whittling it down to an ill-fated if rapturous coupling of gangster’s moll and underling. Starring Leticia Palma and Víctor Parra.
Matrimonio y mortaja
A series of misadventures leaves a city slicker trapped into a shotgun marriage with a country gal. Back home in Mexico City, he tries to scam his way out of his marriage and set things right with his previous fiance...
The Love Nest
Carlos Villanueva
Amalia, aged, remember when Fernando Mendoza, his former medical school, came to San Esteban, the town where she lived. They worked together and became his love. Although he was engaged to another, Fernando decided to return to the city to complete his commitment to her and finally reunited with Amalia, but the facts do not happen as they had planned.
La gota de sangre
Jefe de policía
Did Rodolfo just marry a serial murderess?
La casa embrujada
Stage magician Fu Manchu uses his illusions and trickeries to find a murderer.
Ángeles de arrabal
El aguador
Small-time crooks and bargirls, and also their mothers, get involved in a situation over some stolen jewels.
Eterna agonía
Julio Zamora
Convicted on flimsy evidence of complicity in a jewel robbery, there's nothing he can do afterward to put his life in order. Downward spiral.
Perez Family
Gumaro Pérez must fulfill all the whims of his wife, who is sworn lady of society even though the Pérez are not a wealthy family. In order not to look bad with his wife, Gumaro asks for a loan, but when he receives it, all his co-workers take it from him since he owes everyone money.
Midnight
Comandante Enrique Robles
A villain has his cronies kidnap a teacher and pretends to be him, teaching in a hidden town.
Bajo el cielo de Sonora
Army officer goes undercover to investigate political unrest in a border state.
Si Adelita se fuera con otro
Young couple run off to join the Mexican Revolution, in part because she has a crush on Francisco Villa.
La bien pagada
Gabriel
Melodrama about marital infidelity.
El ahijado de la muerte
El norteño
Father of a newborn makes a deal with Death to protect his son.
El pasajero diez mil
Shipboard romance/comedy between a female executive and a guy with a lot of buttons on his tunic.
Tragic Weddings
Romantic triangles, rural/hacienda setting.
Soy un prófugo
Gargantúa / El Pimpón
A janitor in a large bank is accused of pulling of a major heist. He is forced to become a fugitive while hunting for the real culprits.
Bugambilia
Socio de Ricardo
In mid-nineteenth century Guanajuato, the beauty and charm of the young heiress Amalia conquers the lowly foreman Ricardo with fatal results. Prevented from consummating their love, Ricardo is going to Guanajuato where again later become the rich owner of a mine. On his return, fate has prepared a tragic encounter with Amalia.
Marina
Capitán
Adaptation of a Spanish operetta about a love triangle between two fisherman and a human female.
Porfirio Díaz
Mexican movie
El mexicano
Wild Flower
Coronel Pánfilo Rodríguez
The film features Fernandez himself as a character named Rogellio Torres. The lion's share of the footage, however, is devoted to the romance between Esperanza, granddaughter of a common laborer, and Jose Luis Castro, the firebrand son of a landowner. Joining a revolutionary movements, Castro is disowned by his father, but Esperanza remains loyally by his side. Later on, Castro's father is killed by outlaws; in seeking vengeance, he sacrifices his own life, while Esperanza carries on his revolutionary work with their young son in tow.
El hombre de la máscara de hierro
Porthos
The Virgin who Forged a Fatherland
Capitán Ordaz
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.
The Three Musketeers
Portos
Cantinflas and three friends return a stolen necklace to an actress who invites them to be extras at Clasa studios. While on the set, he falls asleep and dreams that he is d'Artagnan, fighting on behalf of Queen Anne.
Carnaval en el trópico
Three Mexican friends decide to go to Vercacruz Carnaval to celebrate. There they watch Cantinflas' show of torero and boxer.
Jesus of Nazareth
Barrabas
The biblical story of The Messiah from his baptism through his crucifixion.
La bestia negra
Rielero (uncredited)
Comedy/drama about railroad workers.
La casa del ogro
Invitado al baile (uncredited)
Lives of the tenants in a shabby-genteel apartment house. Miserly landlord learns valuable life lessons.
Hombres del mar
A 1938 film.
Los millones de Chaflán
Invitado a fiesta de disfraz (uncredited)
Águila o sol
(uncredited)
At birth, three children are abandoned in a convent. They are Polito Sol and his siblings, Adriana and Carmelo Águila and they grow up to become the "Águila o Sol" trio. Many years later, Don Hipólito, Polito's father becomes rich and decides to search for his son. In the end he finds Polito and the Aguila siblings.
Así es mi tierra
Invitado a fiesta (uncredited)
With revolutionary Mexico as a backdrop, a successful local rancher returns triumphant from the war to the praise of townsfolk, and "El General" is ready to take a wife. However the senorita of choice already has fallen for a secret admirer, and a boyhood rival who is threatened by the General's popularity in turn plots against his life.