Héctor Ortega
Birthday: Born in 1939-01-12 in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
Deathday: 2020-06-03
Héctor Ortega (12 January 1939 - 3 June 2020) was a Mexican actor, director and writer.
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La Verdad Oculta
Character: Santiago Guzmán/Fausto Guillén/Mario Genovés
La Verdad Oculta is a Mexican telenovela, fusion and remake of two telenovelas, one of which is El Camino Secreto; the other is Al Final del Arco Iris, a novela produced by Ernesto Alonso in 1982, written by María Zarattini and José Rendón. Probably because the telenovela is a fusion, there are two sets of protagonists: The actors playing the protagonists of La Verdad Oculta are Galilea Montijo, Gabriel Soto, Alejandra Barros and Eduardo Yáñez, and one of the antagonists is played by Julio Alemá...
Zacatillo, un lugar en tu corazón
Character: Don Abundio Zarate
Zacatillo, un lugar en tu corazón is a Mexican telenovela produced by Lucero Suárez, starring Ingrid Martz, Jorge Aravena and antagonistic involvement of Laura Zapata, Alejandro Ibarra and Carmen Becerra. Univision aired single episodes of Zacatillo weekdays, from May 10, 2011 to August 5, 2011 at 3pm/2pm central, replacing Mar de amor. From August 8, 2011, Zacatillo aired double episodes at 2pm/1pm central weekdays on Univision. From September 6, 2011 to October 17, 2011, Esperanza del Corazón ...
Querida Enemiga
Character: Don Toribio Ugarte
Querida Enemiga is a telenovela distributed by Televisa. It starts Ana Layevska, Gabriel Soto, Carmen Becerra and Jorge Aravena. The telenovela is a production of Lucero Suárez....
Amigos x Siempre
Character: Crispín Ávila
The story is set at a prestigious, but rigid and repressive school called Instituto Vidal. Its strict owner, Julia Vidal, was once kind but has now turned into a bitter woman following the death of her husband and her daughter, Lauriel. Her granddaughter, Ana, a very sweet and intelligent 10 year old, also has been affected by the death: She has been rendered virtually speechless by the trauma, though she expresses herself through music and possesses an extraordinary ability to move objects with...
Aventuras en el Tiempo
Character: Señor Wolf
Violeta lives with her uncle because her mother died soon after she was born and she never knew her father, she stays with her grandmother from time to time as well. Violeta has a boyfriend named Ángel who gives her a pet dog. While at her grandmother's house, Violeta discovers a time machine that her grandfather built, so she and her friends travel to different time periods. They visit several important events in Mexican history, learning these stories firsthand....
Alegrijes y Rebujos
Character: Don Darvelio Granados Linares
Alegrijes y Rebujos is a Mexican soap opera which became very popular with children and adults in 2003 and 2004. The child actors came from the reality show Código F.A.M.A.. The first place winner, Miguel Martinez, earned the lead role. He shared the spotlight with the other finalists María Chacón, Diego González, Allisson Lozano, Michelle Álvarez, Nora Cano, Jesús Zavala and Tony Cobian....
Mi Destino Eres Tú
Character: Anselmo Sánchez Pérez
Mi destino eres tú is a 2000 Mexican telenovela. It is a production of Carla Estrada and the protagonists were Lucero and Jorge Salinas....
Colorina
Character: Toribio
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Movie Credits
Fray Bartolomé de las Casas
Character: Emperator Carlos V
Three moments in the life of Fray Bartolomé de Las Casas; his youth encounter with the natives; his resignation in maturity to lands and encomiendas to evangelize and defend justice and dignity against the cruelty of the Spanish and his reflections at the end of his life...
Mariana Mariana
Character: The Priest
The story runs in the 1940s Mexico City. A schoolboy (Carlos) falls in love with his best friend's mother (Mariana). Carlos is impressed because this family is not like the ordinary mexican families of the time, because they have many expensive American things, although they are not rich. The drama begins when Carlos gets out of school to go to declare his love to Mariana, and is discovered by his teachers....
Cuentos de Principes y Princesas
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Herencia maldita
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Mexican feature film...
Algunas nubes
Character: Escritor
A Spanish movie directed by Carlos García Agraz....
Lucía, Lucía
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Lucia, an children's book author, tells the story of her husband's disappearance. One day on their way to Brazil he just disappears. She goes to the police, gets a ransom note, and makes friends with the old dude downstairs and the young dude upstairs as she tries to find him. Things take a bit of a twist as she realized the kidnapping may not be as simple as it seems on the surface....
Curse of the Mayans
Character: Padre Grosjean
Danielle Noble (played by Carla Ortiz) and her team of expert cave divers led by an ambitious american archaeologist (Steve Wilcox), undertake an expedition in search of the lost Mayan Library, without imagining they will instead find the hidden gates of hell known as Xib'alb'a....
Cobrador: In God We Trust
Character: Periodista 1
Adaptation and unification in a single story of several stories by the writer Rubem Fonseca, where the theme of violence in contemporary society is explored....
Cinco mil dolares de recompensa
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A gunfighter is appointed sheriff of a town that is terrorized by a gang of criminals....
A Snow Globe Christmas
Character: Background
In a temper, Meg, a cynical, overworked TV executive, rants about how the movies she produces lie, making you think dreams can come true, and tries to smash her favorite snow globe. Instead, it hits her on the head and knocks her out. When she comes to, she finds herself magically transported to a perfect snow-covered town like the one in her globe, married to a handsome woodworker and mother to two young children....
Cuartelazo
Character: Belisario Domínguez
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....
Tivoli
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While trying to save the famous Tivoli burlesque theater, the participants uncover a web of commercial corruption....
Inspector Calzonzin
Character: Periodista
Mexico's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1974...
Otaola o la república del exilio
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A blend of documentary and fiction about the death of Simón Otaola....
La paloma de Marsella
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Amelia is an old retired prostitute who lives at an asylum, where she decides to enter a T.V. contest....
The Legend of a Mask
Character: Juan J. Luna
A reporter starts investigating the life of the recently deceased wrestler "The Masked Angel"...
¿De qué lado estás?
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An east german agent is forced to infiltrate student movement of 1968 at Mexico....
Duro pero seguro
Character: Periodista
Nicolasa sells tacos near a movie studio and her popularity threatens the restaurant's own studies. She drops the food when seeing actor Armando performing and the director expels her out....
El rincón de las vírgenes
Character: Gobernador
"Faith-healer" develops a cult-like following in 1920s Jalisco....
The Prophet Mimi
Character: Padre de Mimi
Childhood trauma and religious repression causes little boy to grow up and murder ....
Pubertinaje
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Three episodes: 1) "A Christmas dinner" where the family members fantasize about being somewhere else. The fetishist father wants to put on feminine clothes. The son longs for another transvestite adventure. The daughter yearns to be a singer and destroy the saints of the church with her voice. The youngest son wants to stab everyone dead. 2) "Game of mirrors". Two young classmates kiss on a picnic, but the girl's brother accuses the couple of being immoral. Bizarre things develop. 3) "Tetrahe...
Las delicias del poder
Character: Santos Barboza
A political candidate has an accident that will bring her out of the campaign unless her twin sister may be able to supplant her while she recovers....
Santa Sangre
Character: Doctor
A former circus artist escapes from a mental hospital to rejoin his mother – the leader of a strange religious cult – and is forced to enact brutal murders in her name....
¡Maten a Chinto!
Character: Inés
During the Christmas season of 1944 in the Pacific coast port city of Manzanillo, hotel manager Chinto loses his temper and assaults "Inés," the homosexual cook. Inés complains to the police, but when several patrolmen come to arrest Chinto, he pulls a pistol and shoots them. The authorities soon lay seige to the hotel; Chinto's employees, oddly enough, follow his orders without question and assist him in barricading the hotel's doors and windows. The guests include U.S. consul Kraft and Pamela,...
The Holy Mountain
Character: Drug Master
The Alchemist assembles together a group of people from all walks of life to represent the planets in the solar system. The occult adept's intention is to put his recruits through strange mystical rites and divest them of their worldly baggage before embarking on a trip to Lotus Island. There they ascend the Holy Mountain to displace the immortal gods who secretly rule the universe....
El vals sin fin
Character: Francisco Madero
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Adriana del Rio, actriz
Character: Director Western
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Those Years
Character: Estrada
President Juárez fights against the conservatives, who have ordered an emperor to be brought from France to govern Mexico...