Emma Roldán

Emma Roldán

출생 : 1893-02-03, San Luis Potosi, Mexico

사망 : 1978-08-29

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Emma Roldán (February 3, 1893 – August 29, 1978) was a Mexican character actress and costume designer. She is remembered as the sharp-tongued, domineering matron of Mexican cinema, and was nominated three times for a Silver Ariel Award.

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Emma Roldán

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Deceitful Appearances
The sexual misunderstandings caused by the real identity of a rich woman serve Hermosillo to satirize the moral and social hypocrisy of the provincial that every Mexican carries inside.
El perdon de la hija de nadie
While she's conducting an obsessive search for the father she never met, a nightclub owner falls ill with a movie disease that leaves her amnesiac afterwards. Then she falls in with a band of gypsies. And... (Sequel to La Hija De Nadie.)
Ratero
Solovino is called like that because no one knows where he came from. He is a miserable province man trying to improve his life, but sees himself forced to steal to survive. When he comes up with a large jewelry bounty a pair of cops offer him his freedom in exchange of the bounty and becomes the target of the police harassment.
Naufragio
Raquelito
One woman lives waiting for her son who is a sailor. She hasn't seen him for years although he writes to her a lot. The woman shares the letters and her grief with a co-worker and friend. This last woman begins to idealize her friend's son.
Free Love
Viejita
Two single women share an apartment, work together, and sometimes swap boyfriends. None of their romantic attachments seem quite as stable or enduring as their friendship.
The Place Without Limits
Ludovinia
Father and daughter compete for the same passion in a ruthless place where kindness mixes with hate.
El miedo no anda en burro
Doña Paz
This funny Mexican film tell the tale of a family who will do anything to get rid of the rich old lady who sits at the head of the clan. All the hilarious members want a piece of the very lucrative inheritance money. What they don't know, however, is that grandma has left all of the money to her trusty kitten.
The Passion of Berenice
Josefina
Berenice is a young woman with traditional customs who lives with her godmother in a quiet provincial town. The appearance of Rodrigo in his life will cause him a profound and unusual transformation. The calm without major shocks in Aguascalientes turns out to be just a disguise, an illusory cover-up of what will really happen.
Castle of Purity
Clerk
A disciplined and sexually driven man forces his family to stay isolated in their home in order to protect them from the “evil nature” of human beings.
Magdalena’s True Vocation
Vendedora de lotería
Sex and middle class are the main topics in "La verdadera vocación de Magdalena". Hermosillo shows marriage as a matter of interests (economical and social) in the modern society. emphasizing the education, lose of tradition and customs in the gap generation of sixties youth and its parents. Angelica María, plays the best character in his career, being a kind and vulnerable girl raised in a hard moral education
Chico Ramos
Western revenge drama.
El hermano Capulina
Shoplifter evades police by joining a monastery.
Los amores de Chucho el Roto
Gentleman bandit pulls off crafty robberries and frets over having or losing custody of his daughter
La Hermanita Dinamita
Anciana esposa de borracho
After accidentally hitting a boy with her car, a young woman pretends to be a nurse in order secretly help him to recover.
Memories of the Future
Gregoria
A story where the Cristero Rebellion creates a story of love, passion, and betrayal. When the Federal Rosas and his lover arrive in a town, a local woman feels strangely attracted to him. The woman will surrender under the pretext that the population is liberated when in reality she wants to consummate the passion that ignites her.
The Devil's Visitations
Tona
A young architect returns from Europe to live in the house of his uncles and cousins, where someone pretends to be the Devil.
Si quiero
Juan's Mother
Newlyweds find married life to be challenging.
Mi caballo prieto rebelde
Two cowboys fight over ownership of a horse and a woman.
Los dos rivales
Ranchera comedy -- the hero thinks his girlfriend has another suitor... but the suitor is really she herself in man-drag.
Despedida de soltera
Sirvienta
Five young women hold a weekend-long bachelorette party for their engaged girlfriend.
El jinete justiciero en retando a la muerte
Guy gets mugged on horseback and left for dead; farmgal nurses him back to health and when he's on his feet again, he puts a domino on and swings into J J action.
Un hombre peligroso
Criada
Sequel to El Zurdo: ten years later, El Zurdo returns to his home town. The little boy whose father he killed in part one has grown up, and still wants revenge... but doesn't recognize him. Meanwhile, his ex-girlfriend, now a widow, needs help protecting her property and her person from the predatory owner of a neighboring ranch.
Aquella Rosita Alvírez
Traveling cowboy gets involved in political issues in a town he passes through. Also a romance.
She-Wolves of the Ring
Loreta's Mother
Intimate problems and the wickedness of friends is resolved in the ring.
Los hermanos Muerte
Woman swears to avenge her brother's murder.. Then she falls in love with the murderer, before discovering that he's the one.
Mi ley es un revólver
Masked justice on horseback, again: guy plays it meek & mild in his civilian identity so no-one will suspect him of being Mr. Cowboy Hero.
Guadalajara en verano
Lucretia
Tourists and exchange students find romance.
Museum Of Horror
Doña Leonor
A mysterious killer abducts girls off the street and covers them in wax.
Ruletero a toda marcha
Mamá de Bárbara
Country-boy migrates to the big city to work as a taxi-driver.
The Bloody Revolver
tía de Rosa
Follows an "unlucky" gun across the paths of five owners.
Entrega Inmediata
Doña Angustias
Immediate delivery recounts the misadventures of Feliciano Callosum (Cantinflas), a postman who is recruited by the secret counterintelligence service (called XU-777 secret agency), and must uncover an international conspiracy.
El mariachi canta
Doña Mela
Rivalry and romance between the leaders of a male mariachi band and a female one.
El rey del tomate
Tía Milagros
El rey del tomate ("The Tomato King") is a 1964 Mexican comedy-drama film, directed by Miguel M. Delgado and starring Eulalio González, Luz Márquez, and Emma Roldán.
La barranca sangrienta
Chole (as Ema Roldan)
Alberto and Leonor have a son, they find out that one of the masked men who attacked them was her nephew, things get difficult for them when they find out about a testament left by her grandmother.
La edad de la inocencia
La pitocha
A poor little girl slips in a circus one day and sees a puppets' show. Later she returns to the empty circus looking for a fairy she was fascinated by.
La venganza del resucitado
Two families have made peace after generations of feuding... but some bad-hat strangers have come to town looking for the buried treasure that sparked the whole mess.
La entrega de Chucho el Roto
Gentleman swindler runs cleverly-orchestrated scams. Four of four in a series.
La trampa mortal
Charro western.
Muerte en la feria
Four bad eggs from the traveling carney are setting up local men for a blackmail scam, and it's up to western-series hero El Hijo Del Charro Negro! to make things right.
Los encapuchados del infierno
Husband and wife team of hooded avengers, First of three in series.
El malvado Carabel
Frustrated salaryman responds to career setbacks by embarking on a life of crime.
Servicio secreto
Sra. Robles
Two secret agents are after a couple of car thieves who belong to a band of criminals headed by Ernesto. The band has kidnapped the son of Daniel, a boxer who is about to fight for the world title. The agents must destroy Ernesto's band and rescue Daniel's son before the fight so Daniel doesn't lose his chance at the title under the kidnapper's threats.
El hijo del charro negro
The son of a famous vigilante returns to his home town... but he's all citified and pantywaisted. Or is he?
Dios sabrá juzgarnos
Rejected suitor goes all-out in his efforts to break up an engaged couple.
The Crying Woman
Maria
A woman takes revenge in the family of her lover.
¡Yo sabia demasiado!
Doña Delfina
Simitrio
Catalina
A blind teacher is the victim of endless pranks and pranks from his students.
Peligros de juventud
Each of the boys and girls at the coffee shop has something snarled in their love life.
La estrella vacía
Emilia González, partera
Mourners share their memories of a dead film-star at her wake, a la Citizen Kane. Only melodrama.
Las hermanas Karambazo
Three brothers meet three sisters from the nearest town.
Our Daily Hunger
Trophy wife of a crooked industrialist meets a philanthropic doctor and develops a social conscience. Mexican remake of Born Yesterday.
Los tigres del ring
Crooked promoter has a secret weapon who goes around beating fighters to death after their matches if they aren't in line with his rigging schedule. Part one of two.
La Cucaracha
Comadrona
The Mexican Revolution serves as a backdrop to a torrid love triangle composed of three freedom fighters: a colonel, a widow, and a fiery female soldier.
Thirst for Love
Abuela
Las coronelas
Two young women 'forced' to masquerade as soldiers in military troop.
Beyond All Limits
Carmela
This typical Mexican melodrama is set in a coastal fishing village where a wealthy fisherman lives with his wife and young son. Their lives are turned upside down when an American of dubious morality comes into town. The American and the fisherman's wife had been lovers years and years ago -- and now the fisherman begins to suspect that the son he always thought was his, is really the offspring of this foreign intruder.
El vestido de novia
Doña Matilde
A young professional hires a sex-worker to pass as his wife in a situation that requires him to seem married. Later they think about getting married for reals... but mostly they just recite monologues to each other.
Vístete Cristina
Aspiring big-band singer who doubles as an art forger takes in a teenaged runaway who wants to be a showgirl.
Señoritas
Four young women facing "crises," mostly centered around the crucially-important issue of preserving their virginity in a variety of purity-oath threatening situations.
El Zorro escarlata en la venganza del ahorcado
Witch retrieves the corpse of a hanged criminal and brings it back to life as an unstoppable killing machine.
Los tres vivales
The rowdiest guy in each of three states hears rumors about the badassness of the other two and they all set out to meet each other. Comical complications.
The Robot vs. The Aztec Mummy
Maria, the housekeeper
A mad doctor builds a robot in order to steal a valuable Aztec treasure from a tomb guarded by a centuries old living mummy.
Guitarras de medianoche
Wealthy land-owner poses as a bandit, robbing only his own properties, to get the romantic attention of a woman who lives down the road.
Sueños de oro
Criada mayor
La mafia del crimen
Pobres millonarios
Juanita
Squatter neighborhood finds a wealthy sponsor.
The Curse of the Aztec Mummy
Maria
The evil Dr. Krupp, once again trying to get possession of the Aztec princess Xochitl's jewels, hypnotizes her current reincarnation, Flor, to get her to reveal the jewels' location - Xochitl's tomb. Confusion reigns as Krupp and his thugs are opposed by Flor's lover, Dr. Almada, his assistant, and wrestling superhero, El Angel. Krupp finally meets his match, however, when he comes up against Popoca, the warrior mummy who guards Xochitl's tomb.
The Aztec Mummy
Criada
A scientist discovers through hypnosis a mummy who watches over the jewels of an Aztec god for all eternity.
Los tres bohemios
Three struggling musicians share an apartment.
Furias desatadas
College student enters the pro wrestling circuit, hoping to find out who killed his father. Third of four in a series.
Hay ángeles con espuelas
Two brothers butt heads: one's a gadabout charro playboy and the other's a priest.
La flecha envenenada
Bad hats try to conduct a land-grab when it's announced that a dam's going to be built.
Secuestro diabolico
Forbidden Kisses
Nana
Nightclub singer has to choose between marrying again or reuniting with her divorced husband.
The Third Word
Antonia
The English-language title of this Mexican musical was The Third Word. Singer Pedro Infante stars as a pampered young man who is sheltered by his doting aunts. Deciding that their darling boy needs an education, the ladies hire pretty schoolteacher Marga Lopez. Upon discovering that her pupil is 28 years old, Marga is momentarily nonplused, but then settles into her duties. Inevitably, romance blossoms between Pedro and Marga, much to the aunts' dismay.
Los hijos de Rancho Grande
Doña Ángela
Sequel to Alla en el Rancho Grande, twenty years later -- sons and daughters of the original characters go through a courtship melodrama of their own.
The Illegitimate
Family melodrama: manipulative parents ruin lives with their meddling.
El seductor
Nana
A young artist's affair with a married woman destroys her family. Twenty-odd years later, her two daughters fall into his orbit.
Beware of Love
Chona
Salvador accompanied by two friends of his father whom he calls uncles, they arrive at a fair in the village, there he meets Ana. When he wins a bet he is paid with a mortgaged house, to his surprise upon entering the hom he realizes that Ana and her mother live in it, provoking a funny entanglement with an explosive final.
El mil amores
Gertrudis
Carmen has a daughter, Patricia, who attends a school for young ladies where they think Carmen is married to a sailor. Viviano is a friend of Carmen and when she needs it, he poses as the father of Patricia and she believes is her father. Actually, Viviano is engaged with Marilu
Tailored gentleman
Doña Pelos
Cantinflas works as a model of tuxedos in a prestigious store, your job is to use the smoking in the street along with an advertising sign on his back. The use of smoking gives you access to exclusive places and meet important people. During this time, Cantinflas was the manager of an amateur boxer, it is an attractive nurse assistant and occasionally attending a priest in the church and the orphanage. However, a Cantinflas day while wearing tuxedo, is a rich man, who mistakenly believe that Cantinflas is a millionaire too.
La calle de los amores
Hubby latches onto a series of side-pieces and wifey finds it increasingly hard to put up with his behavior.
Storm in the souls
Lives in a "model factory," designed to create a progressive community among the workers.
The Abduction
Esposa de Constancio (uncredited)
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 infame
Sad lonely spinster makes friends with a little boy in the park, ends up kidnapping him when she learns about how unloved and neglected he is at home. And then...
Nuevo amanecer
Mexican feature film
El gran mentiroso
A respectable, married gent has made up a passel of stories to cover for his fifteen years of frequent pleasure trips to the city. One weekend, one of his city friends meets his daughter in her home town and all his lies and cover stories start unraveling.
Póker de ases
Four brothers try to manage their careers and love-lives under the close supervision of a domineering mother.
Víctimas del divorcio
The 'other woman' tricks her fella into filing to divorce his wife.
Los hijos de María Morales
Doña María Morales
Two brothers known in town for their womanizing, drinking and rowdiness meet their matches when two girls who like them decide to tame the two machos.
Por qué peca la mujer
Doña Mati
Working-class girl-next--door type is seduced into a high-glam lifestyle when an oily promoter helps launch her as a nightclub singer; she throws over her decent-simple-guy boyfriend and loses her moral compass.
Salón de belleza
Employees and clients at Merle's Beauty Stuff have illicit romances and cheating husbands and that kind of thing. Meanwhile, the cop that directs traffic outside gets an opportunity to become a movie star.
Women's prison
Petrona
Evangelina murders her lover Alberto. In prison she meets Dora, Alberto's girlfriend, who was deprived of her freedom for his illicit business. An interesting story is about to be woven.
El tigre enmascarado
Doña Loreto
Monte de piedad
Doña Rosaura
Anthology-movie, series of anecdotes about the personal tragedies that lead people to take their values posessions to the state-run pawnshop.
Gendarme de punto
Don Timoteo Rodriguez is an old friendly but scared and outdated, whose office is the pedestal: According to his modest way of life, things are more important to the traditional and the past. Yet., Timothy has a son who's not at all like his name is Luis, a young reckless and vicious, whose bad companions take him away from the law. There will come a moment in which Don Timoteo have to forget about the old days and his son face the reality, but what will be the cost of having evaded?
One Way Street
Catalina
After stealing a gangster's money and his girlfriend, a doctor heads for a small village in Mexico to hide out.
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...
Vino el remolino y nos alevantó
La generala
Three generations of a stable, middle-class family in the capitol are scattered to the four winds by blowback from the Mexican Revolution.
Un milagro de amor
Young man goes to Mexico City in search of opportunity and gets framed for another person's embezzlement at their place of employ. Meanwhile, back home, his fiancée the blind woman...
Prisión de sueños
La norteña de mis amores
Child whose father was murdered grows up and seeks revenge, also falling in love with a new victim of the same bad guy.
La santa del barrio
Wicked old lady arranges to sell the virginity of a young neighbor. Her boyfriend gets upset over this.
Se la llevó el Remington
Adivinadora
While tracking down the three men that killed his father, a notorious bad-ass commits other misdeeds, seemingly based on his desire to wreck as many lives as possible. Doesn't really have anything to do with the historical figure known as Remington, though they used his name for the character here.
El cuarto mandamiento
Lupe
A Mexican family drama.
La carne manda
Childhood friends move up the economic ladder from slumrat to middle class comfort, but the marriage between two of them is threatened by a bad woman from a nightclub.
Albur de amor
Dark romantic melodrama, played out with high-stakes card games and cockfights.
Mujer
Orphan girl grows up, meets the wrong man and falls into disgrace.
El ahijado de la muerte
La muerte
Father of a newborn makes a deal with Death to protect his son.
La reina del trópico
Doña Gumersinda
Como yo te quería
Romantic comedy/drama.
La señora de enfrente
Two travelers visiting a small town link up together and then run afoul of the gossip of church ladies.
Flor de durazno
Candela
City slicker scams on young farmgirl while her fiance's in USA on a work permit.
Vertigo
Young woman's fiance unexpectedly falls in love with her mom, and ends up arranging the young woman's death.
Adam, Eve and the Devil
El museo del crimen
Enfermera
Stage magician/amateur detective helps police to solve a murder.
Cadetes de la naval
Two young men go through military training, then enlist to fight in WWII
La sombra de Chucho el Roto
La mujer sin alma
Sra. Camparelli
Ambitious young woman climbs the social ladder. A bit too fast.
Los miserables
Police officer makes life hell for an ex-convict. Based on that novel.
A Letter of Love
Nana Lupe
Moments before he will be executed by the French Intervention Army, the liberal leader reads a love letter by his girlfriend. His memories provide the poetic pictures of this romantic historical drama.
로미오와 줄리엣
Lady Capulet
Verona's peace is disturbed by the rivalry between noble families: the Montesco and the Capuleto, irreconcilable enemies. The two families have continued fighting to make life unbearable in the Italian town. The Prince of Verona informs the chiefs that the two families respond with their lives if there are new struggles. At a ball in honor of Juliet, the daughter of Capuleto, incidentally meets Romeo, son of Montesco. Both fall in love immediately, not knowing that their love is impossible.
Santa
Pepa
Santa is a beautiful and very humble young girl living in Chimalistac, a small and quiet spot south of the 1930's Mexico City. After Santa is cheated by arrogant soldier Marcelino, she's rejected by her family and friends and expelled of Chimalistac. Santa finds shelter in a whorehouse and becomes a cinic and bitter woman, mistreated by bullfighter "Jarameno" and silently loved by blind pianist Hipolito
Noches de ronda
Homeless singer-songwriter-piano-player gets a career boost with the support of a crippled waitress, and romance blossoms. Once he starts up the ladder of success, she starts feeling insecure about all the beautiful non-deformed women he's surrounded with.
Jesusita en Chihuahua
Ranchera comedy.
Amanecer ranchero
The old massa dies and his son comes home to take over the hacienda. Things are going to be a whole lot different now; he's overturning all the old social order. A-a-and...
Mi viuda alegre
A 1942 film directed by Miguel M. Delgado.
La gallina clueca
Rosarito
Divorced mother struggles to raise her large family.
El jefe máximo
A 1940 film directed by Fernando de Fuentes.
Madre a la fuerza
Imelda
A 1940 film directed by Robert Quigley.
The Midnight Ghost
A young orphan girl begins to witness strange phenomena in the house where she lives with her godparents.
¡Que viene mi marido!
Doña Tomasa
Rom-com: collecting on a big inheritance "forces" a family to play games with their daughter's marital status.
The Underdogs
Mamá de Camila
During the Mexican Revolution, the people tired of living in poverty and enduring the atrocities committed by the federals, decide to follow one of their own, General Demetrio Macias, a thief with tricks he learned in jail and who along with "La Pintada" decides to take his people to victory. Led by Captain Anastacio Montañez, the newly formed army fight and honor their code at the same time as they loot houses to spread the wealth.
Miente y serás feliz
Doña Margarita
A Spanish, Juan, is obsessed with telling the truth always. As a result he is consistently in the middle of troubles...
Harvest of Hate
A 1940 film directed by William Rowland.
Una luz en mi camino
A blind songwriter struggles to get his work published, and meanwhile a girl he's sweet on disappears from his life when her employer puts the moves on her.
La casa del ogro
La portera (Librada)
Lives of the tenants in a shabby-genteel apartment house. Miserly landlord learns valuable life lessons.
Los millones de Chaflán
Remedios
Tierra brava
Financier threatens to foreclose on a cigar-factory's mortgage, but a secret benefactor pays off the owner's debt and saves the day.
Ojos tapatios
Chefa
Mexican feature film
Canción del alma
Jose and Esperanza got married just before the Revolution blew up, and they got separated in the chaos, each assuming the other was dead. Six or eight years later...
La Adelita
Beautiful peasant girl runs afoul of her landlord's horny son and he poisons the well between her and her fiance, so she runs away and joins the Revolution.
Mi candidato
Young silversmith runs for office, butts heads with political machine that's sucking the town dry.
¡Esos hombres!
Doña María
A 1937 film.
Jalisco nunca pierde
Arranged marriages vs romance down on the hacienda.
Allá en el Rancho Grande
Ángela
Two good friends — the owner and general manager of a ranch — fall in love with the same girl at the same time. The owner tries to 'buy' the girl without knowing she is in love with the manager.
Two Monks
Gertrudis
In a Gothic-styled monastery, a monk named Javier sees the face of another monk, Juan, and suddenly attempts to bludgeon him to death with a heavy crucifix. Both men then relate their own versions of a story of romantic rivalry between them.
¡Viva México!
Juarez and Maximilian
Costume Design
The story of Mexican President Benito Juárez and the emperor Maximilian of Habsburg and the empress Carlota.
El compadre Mendoza
María
During Mexican Revolution, Rosalio Mendoza survives by making and winning favors from both factions, the governmental forces and Zapata's Army. His hacienda welcomes everybody, and Mendoza is considered a good friend of his guests. Eventually, the situation becomes unsustainable and he has to take sides. Betrayal and deception overcome and Mendoza's dark side surfaces
The Lark
Salomé
A 1933 film.
Prisoner 13
Margarita Ramos
Colonel Carrasco's wife Marta leaves him taking his young son. The child, Juan, grows into an admirable and well-mannered young man. Having been promoted to a higher rank of power amidst the Mexican Revolution, the indulgent and corrupt Colonel accepts a bribe to free a revolutionary, Felipe Martinez, from his prison. Martinez has been sentenced to execution at the hands of a firing squad. Carrasco asks to have the revolutionary replaced by absolutely anyone. In a twist of fate, that anyone turns out to be his own long lost son Juan. Upon receiving this news, Marta races to the prison and explains the predicament to Carrasco. He subsequently desperately attempts to prevent the gunning down of his son by his very own government officials.
Shadow of Pancho Villa
La curandera
A 1933 film.
Do You Know Your Wife?
María
Costume Design
María tells the tragic love story of María, a beautiful young woman, and her half brother Efraín, a handsome young man from Valle del Cauca. They both fall in love and live their romance on the farm "El Paraíso", in Valle del Cauca, but not everything is rosy, since Efraín must go to Bogotá because of study reasons leaving María with pain in her soul. Some time later, María becomes ill and Emma tells her brother about the situation.
María
Efraín's Mother
María tells the tragic love story of María, a beautiful young woman, and her half brother Efraín, a handsome young man from Valle del Cauca. They both fall in love and live their romance on the farm "El Paraíso", in Valle del Cauca, but not everything is rosy, since Efraín must go to Bogotá because of study reasons leaving María with pain in her soul. Some time later, María becomes ill and Emma tells her brother about the situation.