Federico Curiel

Federico Curiel

Nascimento : 1917-02-19, Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico

Morte : 1985-06-17

História

Federico Curiel (19 February 1917 – 17 June 1985) was a Mexican cartoonist, caricaturist, composer, singer, actor, film director and screen writer during the Golden Age of Mexican cinema.

Perfil

Federico Curiel

Filmes

El padre trampitas
Folksy, down-to-earth priest is willing to bend the rules & cheat a little, for the well-being of his parishioners. By the end of the movie, he's reformed the alcoholic, restored the foundling boy to his family, match-made the eligible youngfolks together AND saved his orphanage from foreclosure.
La silla vacía
Director
Hombres de tierra caliente
Director
Old man kills his alleged best friend over the title to a piece of land. The adult sons of the two old guys get involved in looking for the murderer.
La sangre de nuestra raza
Writer
La sangre de nuestra raza
Director
Contacto chicano
Director
American and Mexican police operatives team up to catch gem-smugglers operating on the gulf coast in Texas.
Presos sin culpa
Director
Mexican feature film
Las musiqueras
Director
Chachita appears as wealthy spinster lady who surprised a burglar in his house. Instead of denouncing it, uses it as a driver and then fall in love.
Dos hermanos murieron
Director
Brothers on a farm fight over a woman, so one emigrates to Texas, to a town where the KKK is terrorizing la raza.
Ay Chihuahua no te rajes
Director
Guy from Chihuahua is hugely prejudiced against people from the state of Jalisco... until he finds out he has a son there. After that he figures out that he's only angry at one Jalisco family that did his grandpappy dirt, back in the day.
The Death Rider
Director
Horror with a western setting.
Carita de primavera
Director
Tomboy grows up, overalls to frilly pastel dresses. And even a husband.
Deus os criou...
Story
Vicente está em uma viagem de negócios para Tijjuana de Guadalajara quando vê Lorenzo, que está a caminho de Guadalajara para receber uma herança, encalhado na estrada e decide ajudá-lo.
Deus os criou...
Director
Vicente está em uma viagem de negócios para Tijjuana de Guadalajara quando vê Lorenzo, que está a caminho de Guadalajara para receber uma herança, encalhado na estrada e decide ajudá-lo.
Atacan los karatecas
Director
Karate champion becomes an undercover cop to investigate the death of his brother at the hands of organized crime.
Night of San Juan: Santo in Black Gold
Board member
Santo is called in to stop robot terrorists from sabotaging oil supplies in Puerto Rico.
Night of San Juan: Santo in Black Gold
Director
Santo is called in to stop robot terrorists from sabotaging oil supplies in Puerto Rico.
The Devil's Horse
Writer
Highly convoluted Mexican concoction involving the titular 'Devil's Horse' and a violent son brought back to life, courtesy of the aforementioned Devil who begins straight away to be even more violent then before, this time extending his violence to women and animals.
The Devil's Horse
Director
Highly convoluted Mexican concoction involving the titular 'Devil's Horse' and a violent son brought back to life, courtesy of the aforementioned Devil who begins straight away to be even more violent then before, this time extending his violence to women and animals.
Me caiste del cielo
Director
Santo vs. the Kidnappers
Director
Santo goes to Ecuador to sit in nightclubs and watch stage shows, also to crack a counterfeiting ring.
Suicide Mission
Director
Santo must investigate a secret conspiracy involving a spy training camp, a brainwashing plot, and a kidnapped Nazi scientist.
National Mechanics
Nando
A mechanic takes his family to a car race and a series of events occur which brings problems, betrayals, violence and the unexpected death of an elderly person.
The Champions Five Supermen
Director
The Champions against an army of rats turned into people.
The Mummies of Guanajuato
Director
Satan, a wrestler who sold his soul to the Lord of Darkness for fame but was thwarted by Santo's ancestor, who is now rising after a hundred years with his army of mummies to take revenge.
Superzam el invencible
Director
The first solo feature of super-powered, "flying", telepathic luchador Superzan, in which he saves the world from three midget aliens in silver suits.
Santo vs. the Vice Mafia
Director
Legendary masked wrestler El Santo must stop a criminal gang.
The Champions of Justice
Director
Blue Demon and pals square off against the Black Hand's army of super powered midgets. Five luchadores (Blue Demon, Mil Mascaras, El Medico Asesino, La Sombra Vengadora, Tinieblas plus Black Shadow) face off against a mad scientist and his army of powerful wrestling midgets.
The Vengeance of the Vampire Women
Coroner
The vampire women of Mexico have awakened to take their revenge on the descendant of the man who destroyed them shortly after they had emigrated to Mexico during the 19th century.
The Vengeance of the Vampire Women
Director
The vampire women of Mexico have awakened to take their revenge on the descendant of the man who destroyed them shortly after they had emigrated to Mexico during the 19th century.
Cruz de amor
Director
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
Director
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.
Enigma de muerte
Director
Um lutador protege uma jovem ameaçada de morte.
Super Colt 38
Writer
Billy Hayes, the marshal, discovers that the bandit whom he has been pursuing so long, and who has for months been torching his county, is none other than an old friend from childhood. Upon being confronted with the truth, the friend draws his gun, and Billy is forced to kill him in justifiable defense. Overwhelmed by guilt, he renounces his office and swears to never use arms again. He rides off toward the town where he and his old friend grew up together. Upon arriving there, he soon becomes involved in a dangerous situation, where Billy must decide whether he will fulfill his promise to keep away from arms, or intervene to save the honor of a woman and the life of an innocent man.
Super Colt 38
Director
Billy Hayes, the marshal, discovers that the bandit whom he has been pursuing so long, and who has for months been torching his county, is none other than an old friend from childhood. Upon being confronted with the truth, the friend draws his gun, and Billy is forced to kill him in justifiable defense. Overwhelmed by guilt, he renounces his office and swears to never use arms again. He rides off toward the town where he and his old friend grew up together. Upon arriving there, he soon becomes involved in a dangerous situation, where Billy must decide whether he will fulfill his promise to keep away from arms, or intervene to save the honor of a woman and the life of an innocent man.
The Vampire Girls
Screenplay
A wrestler tries to break up a covey of vampires, led by the King of Vampires.
The Vampire Girls
Director
A wrestler tries to break up a covey of vampires, led by the King of Vampires.
Valentín Armienta, el vengador
Director
Las Sicodélicas
Writer
Maura Monti (Mireya), Amedee Chabot (Adriana), Isela Vega (Dalila) and Elizabeth Campbell (Patricia), are hit women who kill men in cold blood. But not everybody, only men who don't comply with their 'godmother' (Tamara Garina)
Los Asesinos
Writer
Starring Nick Adams in his final role, a lone cowboy rides into a small Western town that is besieged by a gang of hoodlums in search of treasure. The search leads to an all out war between the town bosses, a family of crooked ranchers and other unsavory characters. But when Shannon (Nick Adams) enters the picture, they may have met their match...
The Shadow of the Bat
Director
A former wrestler called "the bat" lives in hiding after being disfigured and plans to kidnap a beautiful female singer and a lucha libre star known as Blue Demon.
Hellish Spiders
Director
Arácnea's residents have been desperately searching for a source of food to save the life of their queen (a big spider). Earth is chosen, since human brains are apparently like health food for alien spiders.
El amor de María Isabel
Director
Follow up to Maria Isabel. Newly wed to a rich man, Maria Isabel must still struggle with being branded as a lowly maid and endure the scorn of her adoptive daughter and the infidelity of her husband.
Los canallas
uncredited
A líder e vilã do filme se chama Kadena, uma garota desonesta, que é o verdadeiro negócio da gangue "Hell's Angels" e cujo objetivo é matar as Mil Máscaras, enviando para a prisão seu consentido. O que força nosso herói a lutar contra o mal e o mal.
Los canallas
Director
A líder e vilã do filme se chama Kadena, uma garota desonesta, que é o verdadeiro negócio da gangue "Hell's Angels" e cujo objetivo é matar as Mil Máscaras, enviando para a prisão seu consentido. O que força nosso herói a lutar contra o mal e o mal.
The Empire of Dracula
Director
A group of beautiful female vampires lure men to their estate so they can feed on their blood.
María Isabel
Director
A woman jumping from the poverty of the countryside to the splendor of wealth in the city without losing its simplicity
Retablos de la Guadalupana
Director
From the hill of Tepeyac arise the most extraordinary miracles.
Demonios sobre ruedas
Director
"Demons on Wheels". A gang of bikers terrorize a town and its inhabitants who can not do anything to prevent it.
El asalto
Story
Series western: decent guy with young son takes the rap for a bank robbery; justice-dude and sidekick smoke out his accomplices and the mastermind to clear the first guy's record.
The Engagement Ring
Director
Pedro and Isabel disagree on the number of children they'll have when they get married. By contrasting the bustle of the city life with the more traditional agrarian life, the film provides an examination of several attitudes toward family planning.
Frente al destino
Juicio contra un ángel
Director
A widower arrives in Puerto Rico with his son Angelito. The father dies and the boy goes to live with his grandfather who plays guitar in the streets. Angelito accompanies him singing and earns good money, but a political uncle accuses the grandfather of exploiting the boy and takes him to an orphanage.
Las hijas del Zorro
Director
Two sisters. They ride horses, they wear black dominos, they carry bullwhips. Their dad was... Third of three movies in unofficial series; the first two didn't explicitly reference Zorro.
Las dos galleras
Writer
Two tough Mexican ladies avenge their father when he is set-up and shot during a cockfight.
Las dos galleras
Director
Two tough Mexican ladies avenge their father when he is set-up and shot during a cockfight.
Las vengadoras enmascaradas
Director
Zorro-inspired sister act, black dominos and bullwhips. Second of three in unofficial series.
Santo vs. the Diabolical Brain
Screenplay
Investigators Conrado and Fernando take a leave of the absence from the police force to track down Fernando's girlfriend Virginia. Virginia, a reporter, has left town and is working undercover as a barmaid in order to interview Refugio Canales, a criminal and small town municipal president. Conrado and Fernando soon call their friend Santo for help.
Santo vs. the Diabolical Brain
Director
Investigators Conrado and Fernando take a leave of the absence from the police force to track down Fernando's girlfriend Virginia. Virginia, a reporter, has left town and is working undercover as a barmaid in order to interview Refugio Canales, a criminal and small town municipal president. Conrado and Fernando soon call their friend Santo for help.
Aventuras de las hermanas X
Director
Adventure film about two sisters looking revenge against the man who murdered their father.
The Terrible Giant of the Snow
Writer
A man and his wife discover they are in danger when they hear reports of a Yeti that lives on a nearby volcano is on the prowl.
Tin-Tán El Hombre Mono
Director
The Living Head
Screenplay
A group of archaeologists break into the tomb of an ancient Aztec general, arousing the warrior's head and sending his undead servant out to take revenge on the careless scientists.
Neutron vs. Dr. Caronte
Music Maestro
Neutron, a superhero/wrestler, goes up against a mad scientist and his army of monsters.
Neutron vs. Dr. Caronte
Director
Neutron, a superhero/wrestler, goes up against a mad scientist and his army of monsters.
Santo in the Hotel of Death
Writer
Tourists visiting the pyramids in Mexico experience a string of deaths and disappearances while staying at a nearby hotel. Police investigators Fernando and Cornado are assigned to the case and attempt to solve the mystery with the help of reporter (and girlfriend of Fernando) Veronica and the wrestler Santo.
Santo in the Hotel of Death
Director
Tourists visiting the pyramids in Mexico experience a string of deaths and disappearances while staying at a nearby hotel. Police investigators Fernando and Cornado are assigned to the case and attempt to solve the mystery with the help of reporter (and girlfriend of Fernando) Veronica and the wrestler Santo.
La muerte pasa lista
Director
Masked hero with a bullwhip. Number 2 of 4.
Nostradamus: The Genie of Darkness
Screenplay
In order to stop a vampire from terrorizing the countryside, some locals decide to break into his coffin at night and steal his ashes. Complications ensue.
Nostradamus: The Genie of Darkness
Director
In order to stop a vampire from terrorizing the countryside, some locals decide to break into his coffin at night and steal his ashes. Complications ensue.
Santo vs. the King of Crime
Screenplay
Santo vs. the King of Crime
Director
A Barraca Sangrenta
Adaptation
Alberto e Leonor têm um filho, descobrem que um dos homens mascarados que os atacaram era o sobrinho, as coisas ficam difíceis para eles quando descobrem um testamento deixado por sua avó.
A Barraca Sangrenta
Songs
Alberto e Leonor têm um filho, descobrem que um dos homens mascarados que os atacaram era o sobrinho, as coisas ficam difíceis para eles quando descobrem um testamento deixado por sua avó.
A Barraca Sangrenta
Story
Alberto e Leonor têm um filho, descobrem que um dos homens mascarados que os atacaram era o sobrinho, as coisas ficam difíceis para eles quando descobrem um testamento deixado por sua avó.
A Barraca Sangrenta
Director
Alberto e Leonor têm um filho, descobrem que um dos homens mascarados que os atacaram era o sobrinho, as coisas ficam difíceis para eles quando descobrem um testamento deixado por sua avó.
O Barão Do Terror
Writer
Em 1661, o Barão Vitelius de Astara é sentenciado a ser queimado vivo na Santa Inquisição Mexicana, por bruxaria, necromancia e outros crimes. Antes de morrer, o Barão jura vingança contra os descendentes dos inquisidores. Trezentos anos depois, o mesmo cometa que passara durante sua morte, retorna à Terra trazendo o Barão, na forma de uma criatura monstruosa, que se alimenta de cérebros, pronta para realizar sua vingança...
Sangre en el ring
Director
Boxing melodrama; heroic middleweight vs. crooked promoters. Sequel to Dinamita Kid.
El látigo negro contra los farsantes
Director
Masked hero in bondage gear battles crime. First of four in series.
La venganza del resucitado
Director
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.
Neutron the Atomic Superman vs. the Death Robots
Writer
The evil scientist Dr. Caronte plots to revive the brains of three dead scientists and use them to obtain the formula for the super-powerful neutron bomb. The resulting creation needs blood lots of blood, sending Caronte's midget assistant Nick and his legion of mutant monsters out to get fresh victims. However, the masked atom-superman Neutron vows to put a stop to Caronte's deeds.
Neutron the Atomic Superman vs. the Death Robots
Director
The evil scientist Dr. Caronte plots to revive the brains of three dead scientists and use them to obtain the formula for the super-powerful neutron bomb. The resulting creation needs blood lots of blood, sending Caronte's midget assistant Nick and his legion of mutant monsters out to get fresh victims. However, the masked atom-superman Neutron vows to put a stop to Caronte's deeds.
Dinamita Kid
Director
Young boxer on the rise butts head with dishonest promoters. Etc etc.
Los encapuchados del infierno
Director
Husband and wife team of hooded avengers, First of three in series.
Nostradamus and the Destroyer of Monsters
Screenplay
A professor and a vampire hunter join forces to destroy the murderous vampire Nostradamus and his minions.
Nostradamus and the Destroyer of Monsters
Director
A professor and a vampire hunter join forces to destroy the murderous vampire Nostradamus and his minions.
Neutron and the Black Mask
Director
Dr. Charon and his group of mad scientists built a neutron bomb with trying to blackmail the free world for global power. But the hero appears, Neutron, who, with the help of Dr. Thomas and reporter Nora spoil those plans.
La marca del gavilán
Director
Masked hero fights crime on horseback. #3 in the series "El Latigo Negro."
The Infernal Coffin
Writer
An obscure old dark house horror melodrama from Mexico. Based on the novel "El fistol del diablo" by Manuel Payno.
El Tesoro del Rey Salomon
Director
The Curse of Nostradamus
Writer
An aristocratic vampire swears an oath to kill the enemies who killed his father. In order to terrify them even further, he warns each one when he is coming for them.
The Curse of Nostradamus
Director
An aristocratic vampire swears an oath to kill the enemies who killed his father. In order to terrify them even further, he warns each one when he is coming for them.
Paraíso escondido
Snow masses pile up in abundance on the deep snow-covered slopes. The wind has created bizarre snowdrifts on the steep mountain ridges, and further below, the Swiss pine carry the weight of this sparkling splendor. The Arlberg is the embodiment of an idyllic winter and the cradle of alpine skiing. However, this famous ski resort that connects Tyrol with Vorarlberg, offers a lot more than expected.
The Blood of Nostradamus
Screenplay
Vampire hunters track down a vampire and attempt to steal the ashes from his coffin in order to stop him from reviving nightly.
The Blood of Nostradamus
Director
Vampire hunters track down a vampire and attempt to steal the ashes from his coffin in order to stop him from reviving nightly.
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.
El ánima del ahorcado contra el latigo negro
Story
Masked rider leads a posse to defend their town from crimes related to appearances of a hanged man come back from the grave.
El ánima del ahorcado contra el latigo negro
Masked rider leads a posse to defend their town from crimes related to appearances of a hanged man come back from the grave.
800 Leagues Over the Amazon
Fragoso (as Federico Curiel 'Pichirilo')
Family builds a houseboat and sets sail down the Amazon. Based on a novel by Jules Verne.
I'm flying low
Two hot-shot pilots working for the same company get all competitive and ructious toward each other.
El jinete solitario
Masked Rider adventure-hero.
El misterio del látigo negro
Zorro-type horseback adventure, series-hero programmer.
El Látigo Negro
Zorro imitation, first in a series.
The Last Rebel
Mexican western film about Joaquin Murrieta, the Robin Hood of the West.
El buen ladrón
Pablo y Carolina
Torn between three lovers and bored by her typewriting classes, Carolina (Dillian) writes a passionate love letter to fictional Pablo Garza from Monterrey. The letter is sent by mistake and received by real Pablo Garza's girlfriend. Pablo himself (Infante) flies to Mexico City looking for an explanation. Carolina is rehearsing a musical show for her school dressed as a man. When Pablo meets her, she pretends to be her brother Anibal, a shy and feminine sailor. Pablo likes Anibal and invites "him" to a cabaret. After that, Carolina falls inlove with Pablo but resists to unveil her real self. Meanwhile, Pablo feels himself confused, because young "Anibal" is cute as an angel and has "those blue eyes..."
A Morte no Jardim
(uncredited)
Uma revolução eclode em uma cidade de mineração sul-americana. Um aventureiro malandro, um velho mineiro, uma bela prostituta, um deficiente auditivo e um ministro ativista escapam do regime despótico e fogem para a selva.
Frontera norte
Detective policía
Two brothers: one's a cop, one's a gangster.
Here Come The Freeloaders
Authorities close down a restaurant after a violent crime is committed on the premises; the employees look for new jobs and try to track down the murderer.
Las interesadas
Three young women sharing an apartment take in a man they injured in a car accident; while he's recovering, they also make friends with a homeless man. And then...
Vuelve el lobo
Masked justice on horseback. #3 of four.
La justicia del lobo
Masked avenger rights wrongs in his home town. Second of four in a series.
El lobo solitario
Masked avenger on horseback. Again.
Traigo mi 45
Pichirilo
Mexican feature film
El Suavecito
Brillantina
The playboy Roberto "El Suavecito" takes very comfortable working relationship with Lupita, despite his constant infidelities. One night in a ballroom, "El Suavecito" fight with the driver Carlos. After making peace, "El Suavecito" invites the betting parlor Carlos "El Nene", a dangerous gangster. There he commits a crime and Carlos is wrongly accused. Coward, "El Suavecito" sells his silence to "El Nene", but regrets not allow you to keep your promise for long.
Los apuros de mi ahijada
Irresponsible playboy-type needs to cut down on his nightclubbing and his expensive women-friends and buckle down to his Uni studies. Meanwhile, his godfather...