José Ángel Espinosa 'Ferrusquilla'

José Ángel Espinosa 'Ferrusquilla'

Birth : 1919-09-02, Mazatlan, Sinaloa, Mexico

Death : 2015-11-06

History

José Ángel Espinosa 'Ferrusquilla' was born on August 2, 1922 in Mazatlan, Sinaloa, Mexico as José Ángel Espinoza Aragón. He is an actor, known for Sierra torride (1970),La duda (1972) and Guantanamera (1995).

Profile

José Ángel Espinosa 'Ferrusquilla'

Movies

Que me maten de una vez
An episodic film showing death, in various forms, in line with the mexican idiosyncrasy.
El Bronco
Manager
Boxer fights his way up toward a world championship and faces ups and downs in his love life.
Cuartelazo
Manuel Gutiérrez Zamora
Narration of one of the bloodiest episodes of the Mexican national history, The Tragic Ten, beginning when General Victoriano Huerta sent to kill President Francisco I. Madero, Vice President José María Pino Suárez and Senator Belisario Dominguez. The film recreates the moment of the execution at the hands of Huerta and his accomplices Bernardo Reyes, Félix Díaz and Manuel Mondragón.
Mariachi - Fiesta de sangre
Don Nico
El alegre divorciado
Gonzalitos
Ramón y Socorro, a 50-year-old couple, owners of a tavern, embarks on a long trip to Mexico to attend the wedding of their son, Carlos, with Gloria, the daughter of an important Mexican businessman. Upon arriving in Mexico, Ramón discovers that in this country there is a divorce. Fed up with his wife, he decides to divorce without taking into account that he will soon pay the consequences of this act.
Mary, Mary, Bloody Mary
Mexican horror film about an American painter named Mary who is living in Mexico where she sells her works and also kills people for their blood. It turns out Mary is a vampire but not the traditional one with fangs. Since she has no fangs she must stab or slash the throats of her victims but soon she has a new man in her life as well as a mysterious man in black who appears to be doing the same type of murders.
The Log of the Black Pearl
Benjamin Velasquez
A young stockbroker, Christopher Sand, inherits an old ship named "Black Pearl" along with a medallion that is the key to a sunken Nazi treasure. But there are other people looking for the sunken treasure, people who will stop at nothing to gain access to the medallion.
Looking for a Wall
Dr. Atl
The life of the Mexican muralist José Clemente Orozco and his quest to create a career in New York.
El extraño caso de Rachel K
Based on a real event, the action takes place in Havana in 1931, during the dictatorship of Gerardo Machado. Rachel, a young French showgirl, is murdered during an orgy involving personalities of the bourgeoisie and politics. The tabloid press echoes the story to divert public attention from the serious social problems that affect the country. The governors on their part order to silence the case to protect the characters involved.
La duda
(as J. A. Espinosa 'Ferrusquilla')
Don Rodrigo, who lives in America, returns to Spain at the death of his son. Once here he discovers he has two granddaughters, though only one is a fruit of his son's marriage as the other is daughter of his son with a mistress.
Macabre Serenade
Dr. Emery Horvath (as Ángel Espinoza)
Relatives of a recently deceased man meet at his eerie castle for a reading of the will. They encounter a sinister piano player who turns out to be a toy maker, and his toys are imbued with murderous intentions.
Los Beverly de Peralvillo
Ferrusquilla
El Borras marries La Pecas, unaware of her mother's (Doña Chole) scheme against Borras. That of Borras to provide for all her family members who are a lazy bunch composed of her father and brothers.
Chico Ramos
Western revenge drama.
The Bridge in the Jungle
Garcia (as José Ángel Espinoza)
Gale (Charles Robinson) is an idealistic and naive young hunter who ignores warnings that no one can survive for long in the jungles of Mexico except the native Indians. He tries to hunt crocodiles but becomes delirious, disoriented and nears death. Sleigh (John Huston) is a veteran hunter living among the natives who rescues Gale just in time. As he recovers in the Indian village, Gale listens to Sleigh's denunciation of the evils of modern society (ie. money, greed and oil). Later on, a former native of the village returns from the oil fields of Texas and presents his young brother with a pair of cowboy boots. Proudly wearing his new boots, the boy falls off the wooden bridge into the river and drowns as the boots, symbolic shackles of civilization, fill up with water and pull him beneath the surface. Sleigh and Gale observe the Indians as they recover the body and stage an elaborate funeral for the dead boy
El hermano Capulina
Shoplifter evades police by joining a monastery.
Two Mules for Sister Sara
(as Jose Angel Espinosa)
When a wandering mercenary named Hogan rescues a nun called Sister Sara from the unwanted attentions of a band of rogues on the Mexican plains, he has no idea what he has let himself in for. Their chance encounter results in the blowing up of a train and a French garrison, as well as igniting a spark between them that survives a shocking discovery.
The Candy Man
The Vagabond
An American actress travels to Mexico to make a movie and brings her daughter with her. Upon arriving in Mexico, she is spotted by a drug dealer who also heads a kidnapping ring. He plants one of his drug-addicted "customers" with the actress as her nanny in order to be kidnap the child for ransom, but things don't work out as planned.
El centauro Pancho Villa
M/F couple joins the Revolution, but she ends up in bed with Villa.
Planet of the Female Invaders
Taquito
A group of sexy space vixens flies down to Earth, sets up a shop at a carnival (disguising their ship as a ride), and kidnap some earthlings in their scheme to conquer our planet. The humans, including Marcos, a crooked boxer and our hero, Silvia, his love interest, and a gang of comical mobsters out to kill Marcos, are taken to the women’s home planet. There they are held prisoner by the evil queen Adastrea and aided by her selfless twin Alburnia. Meanwhile, a standard issue hunky scientist back on Earth, who happens to be Silvia’s boss, tries to rescue them.
Los jinetes de la bruja (En el viejo Guanajuato)
Don Manuelito
Witch Salome wants revenge. Only her riders can do it.
El tragabalas
Western comedy - sheriff faces bad guys.
Planetary Giants
Rey Taquito
Daniel Wolf, scientist with a brand new rocket ship and a girlfriend/secretary is sent to 'the planet of the eternal night' to fight the guy who has threatened earth. He is supposed to go alone, but his assistant sneaks in the ship somehow, along with two other guys.
Viva Maria!
The Dictator of San Miguel (as José Ángel Espinoza)
Gorgeous IRA operative Marie flees the British authorities and finds herself somewhere in the American continent, where she meets a stunning woman also named Marie, a singer in a traveling circus. The new friends start a vaudeville act that grows exponentially more popular after they incorporate striptease into their routine. When the singer Maria falls for a charismatic rebel, the girls leave the circus behind and recreate themselves as wild-eyed revolutionaries.
El dengue del amor
Dancing fanatic weasels his way into Perez Prado's entourage as a personal assistant.
Las tapatías nunca pierden
Casio (as Ferrusquilla)
An heiress and some friends pose as gypsies to fight back against some bad-hats who are squatting on her new estate.
The Boy and the Ball and the Hole in the Wall
Hombre que escapa del muro
Not realizing the dangers he is facing, Young Dieter will do anything to get his ball back after it was thrown over the Berlin wall by a ruthless guar
La sombra del mano negra
Semi-comic series western about two brothers what is good-guys. From the series "Los Hermanos Barragan."
Los hermanos Barragán
Cowboy-hero B-western with comical overtones. First of two in series.
Vuelve el Norteño
Two rival gangs of outlaws are terrorizing a small town; el Comandante and his sidekicks pit them against each other and pick up the pieces.
El norteño
Lawman on horseback cracks a case involving stolen gold bullion, the title to a mine, an evil twin and a plucky pre-adolescent boy. First in a series.
The Paper Man
Torcuato
A deaf and mute vagabond finds a large denomination bill in a Mexico City dump, and while he tries to buy something with it, others try to con him into giving it away. The film was selected as the Mexican entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 36th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.
El amor llegó a Jalisco
A couple of modern city women find love in Jalisco.
Dos gallos y dos gallinas
Two brothers are trying to raise emergency cash by doing cockfights and horse-races. They meet two sisters.
Two Cheerful Hawks
Titote
Alfredo B. Crevenna helms this charming romantic comedy about a pair of skirt-chasers wooing the two lovely daughters of a land baron — who rebuffs the young swains to protect his girls.
Pa' qué me sirve la vida
A landowner dies of disgust when his rival makes him believe that he has legally taken away his property.
El rayo de Sinaloa: La venganza de Heraclio Bernal
Disgruntled 19th century peasants get militant and start redistributing some wealth. Part two of a historical-drama trilogy.
Sierra Baron
Felipe (as Ferrusquilla 'Jose Espinosa')
Director James B. Clark's western, set in 1848 California, is about a brother and sister battling a crooked businessman over property rights.
Here is Heraclius Bernal
Historical drama/biopic about 1880s Social Justice bandits in a mining community in Sinaloa. First of three in series.
Tres desgraciados con suerte
Three cowboy party-boys, posing as highway bandits, meet three women who want to reform them.
Massacre
Vincent (as Ferrusquilla)
Lawmen and their captured gunrunners take refuge at a deserted mission to fend off attacking Indians. Western.
La mujer X
Ruperto Sánchez (Sanchitos)
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.
The Abduction
Don Cándido
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.
Reportaje
Young doctor from Yucatán
Reporters compete for cash prize awarded for biggest scoop on New Year's Eve.
La extraña pasajera
Lucas Soriano
Noir-style suspense thriller; three unrelated criminal schemes are happening on board an express train; all three get uncovered/solved/thwarted before they reach their destination.
Por el mismo camino
Fritas
On vacation, an old lady and her niece pick up a hitch-hiker.
Retorno al quinto patio
After getting out of prison, Ramon Vallarta tries to put his life back together, establishing himself in a new career and reconciling himself with his former sweetheart. Also other stuff. Sequel to Quinto Patio.
La Hija De La Otra
Husband and wife raise hubby's extra-marital child when the birth mother rejects it.
Pata de palo
Boy witnesses a murder, killer terrorizes and exploits him.
Quinto patio
Model son/employee/student is frustrated by poverty and surrenders to the temptations of a criminal lifestyle... in the same gang that twenty years earlier murdered his father OMG. Meanwhile his sister. Meanwhile his mother.
Mariachis
Two rival combos play practical jokes on each other during a festival where they're performing... then a sideshow artist is murdered and several of them fall under suspicion for the crime.
Las puertas del presidio
Zeferino Martínez 'El Ciengramos'
Unscrupulous boss frames an employee for a robbery so he can make time with the guy's sister.
Carta Brava
Gilberto
Safe-cracker sets up a gangster rival to get arrested; after some unrelated adventures, that guy escapes from jail and pays him back.
Perez Family
Narrator (Prologue)
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
Profesor Florentino Mendizábal (as J. Angel Espinosa)
A villain has his cronies kidnap a teacher and pretends to be him, teaching in a hidden town.
A media luz
Tango singer exploits the women in his life. Learns a valuable life-lesson.