Along his career he received his first Ariel as the best male character in the film Sombra verde (1954) and the second Ariel, at the same category at the film Canasta de cuentos mexicanos (1956). He received two Diosas de Plata, the first in 1966 and the second in 1978 for the best male character in Divinas Palabras. For Valentín de la sierra (1968), he received the Prize Mérito Cinematográfico. In 1966 he received the Onix for La trinchera film. He also received three Heraldos all along his career. In 1983 he won two prizes as best actor of the Mexican television thanks to his role as Don Benito at the soap opera Gabriel y Gabriela. And in 1993 he won the prize as best first actor of the soap opera El abuelo y yo.

The name of this extraordinary actor is written with golden letters in the history of cinema, theater and Mexican television.

Adventures of Casanova (1947)

Released: 24th June 1948

Director: Roberto Gavaldón
Script: Crane Wilbur, Walter Bullock and Karen De Wolf

¡Esquina bajan! / Next stop! (1948)

Director: Alejando Galindo
Script: Alejandro Galindo, adviser Rafael Cataño
Role: Rabanito

Una familia de tantas / An ordinary family (1949)

Director: Alejandro Galindo
Script: Alejandro Galindo
Role: Announcer



Confidencias de un ruletero / A taxi driver’s secrets (1949)

Director: Alejandro Galindo
Script: Alejandro Galindo and Gunther Gerzso

Hay lugar para dos / There’s room for two (1948)

Released: 15th July 1949

Director: Alejandro Galindo
Script: Alejandro Galindo

Pata de palo / Wooden leg (1950)

Director: Emilio Gómez Muriel
Script: Max Aub and Mauricio Magdaleno
Role: Railroad worker

Pobre corazón / Poor heart (1950)

Director: José Díaz Morales
Script: Álvaro Custodio and Carlos Sampelayo
Role: Party guest

Entre tu amor y el cielo / Between your love and heaven (1950)

Director: Emilio Gómez Muriel
Script: Max Aub, Mauricio Magdaleno and Santiago Ruisñol

El grito de la carne / The call of the flesh (1951)

Director: Fernando Soler and Zacarías Gómez Urquiza
Script: Neftali Beltrán, Fernando Soler and Enrique Uhtoff
Role: Party guest

La mujer que tú quieres / The woman you love (1952)

Director: Emilio Gómez Muriel
Script: Edmundo Báez, Egon Eis and Arduino Maiuri

Ahora soy rico / Now I'am rich (1952)

Director: Rogelio A. González
Script: Rogelio A. González and Gregorio Walerstein
Role: Salesman

Subida al cielo / Ascent to heaven (1951) 

Released: 26th June 1952

Director: Luis Buñuel
Script: Luis Buñuel and Juan de la Cabada
Role: Tourist guide

El misterio del carro exprés / The mystery of the express wagon (1953)

Director: Zacarías Gómez Urquiza
Script: Zacarías Gómez Urquiza and Carlos Novi

Sombra verde / Green shadow (1954)

Director: Roberto Gavaldón
Script: Luis Alcoriza, Rafael García Travesí, Roberto Gavaldón, José Revueltas and Ramiro Torres Septién
Role: Pedro González

El túnel seis / Tunnel number six (1955)

Director: Chano Urueta
Script: Rafael García Travesí and Chano Urueta
Role: José

Canasta de cuentos mexicanos / Basket of Mexican tales (1955) 

Realesed: 20th November 1956

Director: Julio Bracho and José Kohn
Script: Adaptation of B. Traven´s tale by Juan de la Cabada
Role: Man with the basket

La Escondida / The hidden woman (1955)

Released: 18th July 1956

Director: Roberto Gavaldón
Script: José Revueltas, Gunther Gerzso and Roberto Gavaldón
Role: Máximo Tepal

Donde el círculo termina / Where the circle ends (1955)

Released: 11th April 1956

Director: Alfredo B. Crevenna
Script: Luis Spota, José Revueltas and Alfredo B. Crevenna
Role: Inspector Carlos Carrillo

Comanche (1956)

Released: 11th January 1957

Director: George Sherman
Script: Carl Krueger

La mort en ce jardin / Death in this garden (1956)

Director: Luis Buñuel
Script: Luis Buñuel, Raymond Queneau and Luis Alcoriza
Role: Capitán Ferrero

Los amantes / The lovers (1956) 

Director: Benito Alazraki
Script: Francisco Rojas González, Benito Alazraki and Rafael García Travesí

La mafia del crimen / The criminal mafia (1957)

Released 7th August 1958

Director: Julio Bracho
Script: Sixto Pondal

La sonrisa de la Virgen / The Virgin's simple (1957)

Released: 4th December 1958

Director: Roberto Rodríguez
Script: Rafael García Travesí and Roberto Rodríguez
Role: Anselmo

Ama a tu prójimo / Love by neighbor (1958)

Director: Tulio Demicheli
Script: Tulio Demicheli
Role: Trainer

Una golfa / A loose woman (1957)

Released in 1958

Director: Tulio Demicheli
Script: Sixto Pondal and Tulio Demicheli
Role: Toño

Paraíso escondido / Hidden paradise (1958)

Released: 15th March 1962



Director: Mauricio de la Serna and Raphael J. Sevilla
Script: Luis Osorno Barona
Role: Don Lorenzo

Sábado negro / Black Saturday (1958)

Released in 1959


Director: Miguel M. Delgado
Script: Miguel M. Delgado

Café Colón (1958)

Released: 5th March 5 1959

Director: Benito Alazraki
Script: Eduardo Galindo
Role: General Sánchez

Las rosas del milagro / The miracle roses (1959)

Released: 7th Abril 1960


Director: Julián Soler
Scritp: Alfonso Patiño Gómez
Role: Juan Diego

The Magnificent Seven / Los siete magníficos (1960)

Released: 1st June 1961


Director: John Sturges
Script: William Roberts
Role: Hilario

El despojo / The eviction (1960)


Director: Antonio Reynoso
Script: Juan Rulfo
Narrator

Las recién casadas / The newly married women (1960)

Released: 26th April 1962


Director: José Díaz Morales
Script: Varelita and José Díaz Morales
Role: Juan

Un día de diciembre / One Day in December (1961)

Released: 4th October 1962


Director: Fernando Cortés
Script: Fernando Cortés and Alejandro Verbitzki

Tlayucan (1961)

Director: Luis Alcoriza
Script: Luis Alcoriza
Role: Priest Aurelio

Qué hacer con mis hijos / What to do with my children (1962)


Director: Alberto Mariscal
Script: Juan Alfonso Chavira Jacha and Juan H. Durán y Casahonda

Los chacales / The jackals (1963)


Director: Chano Urueta
Script: Chano Urueta

Nido de águilas / Eagle's nest (1963)

Released: 1st July 1965


Director: Vicente Oroná
Script: Vicente Oroná
Role: El Tigre

Viento negro / Black wind (1964)

Released: 23rd December 1965


Director: Servando González
Script: Rafael García Travesí and Servando González, based on the novel El muro y la trocha / The wall and the gaouge by Nino Martini
Personaje: Ulalio

Cinco asesinos esperan / Five murderers await (1964)


Director: Chano Urueta
Script: Ramón Obón

Cien gritos de terror / A hundred screams of terror (1964)

Released: 14th May 1965


Director: Ramón Obón
Script: Ramón Obón
Role: Dr. Javier Medina

Tiempo de morir / Time to cie (1965)


Director: Arturo Ripstein
Script: Gabriel García Márquez and Carlos Fuentes
Role: Juan Sáyago

El secreto del texano / The secret of the Texan (1965)

Released in 1966


Director: Alfredo B. Crevenna
Script: Alfredo Morones and Alfredo Ruanova

The Professionals / Los profesionales (1966)


Director: Richard Brooks
Script: Frank O’Rourke and Richard Brooks
Role: Eduardo Padilla (shepherd)

Smoky / Salvaje y libre (1966)

Released: 29th February 1968

Director: George Sherman
Script: Dwight Cummings, Lillie Hayward and Will James
Role: Pepe

Valentín de la Sierra (1967)

Released in 1968

Director: René Cardona
Script: Ricardo Garibay

La bataille de San Sebastian / Los cañones de San Sebastián (1968)


Director: Henri Verneuil
Script: CWilliam Barband Fahertand, Serge Gance, Miguel Morayta and Ennio De Concini
Role: Felipe Cayetano

Day of the Evil Gun / Las pistolas del infierno (1968)


Director: Jerry Thorpe
Script: Charles Marquis Warren and Eric Bercovici
Role: Guillermo (De Leon's second in command)

La manzana de la discordia / The bone of contention (1968)


Director: Felipe Cazals
Script: Felipe Cazals, Roger Serra, René Avilés Fabila, Jorge Martínez de Hoyos

Suave patria (1968)


Director: Antonio Fernández

La trinchera / The trench (1968)

Released: 4th December 1969


Director: Carlos Enrique Taboada
Script: Carlos Enrique Taboada

The adventurers / Los aventureros (1970)


Director: Lewis Gilbert
Script: Lewis Gilbert and Michael Hastings
Role: The condor

Furias bajo el cielo / Furies under heaven (1970)

Released in 1971


Director: Julio Aldama
Script: “Murciélago" Velázquez

El jardín de tía Isabel / Aunt Isabel's garden (1971)


Director: Felipe Cazals
Script: Julio Alejandro and Jaime Casillas
Role: Capitán de Ballesteros

Puente en la selva / The Bridge in the jungle (1971) 

Released: 18th March 1976

Director: Pancho Kohner
Script: Pancho Kohner, based on the novel of the same title by B. Traven
Personaje: Don Agustín

Los días del amor / Days of love (1971)

Released: 9th March 1972

Director: Alberto Isaac
Script: Emilio García Riera and Alberto Isaac
Role: Vicente Icaza

The Revengers / Los vengadores (1972)

Director: Daniel Mann
Script: Wendell Mayer based on Stevens W. Carabatsos
Role: Cholo

Aquellos años / Those years  (1973) 

Released: 21st March 1974

Director: Felipe Cazals
Script: Carlos Fuentes, Felipe Cazals and José Iturriaga
Role: Benito Juárez

La venida del rey Olmos / The arrival of King Olmos (1974)

 Released: 11th September 1975


Director: Julián Pastor
Script: Julián Pastor and Eduardo Luján
Role: Reynaldo Olmos Camargo

La India (1974)

Released: 21th October 1976

Director: Rogelio A. González
Script: Rafael García Travesí and Pascual García Peña
Role: The teacher

El cumpleaños del perro / The dog's birthday (1975)


Director: Jaime Humberto Hermosillo
Script: Jaime Humberto Hermosillo
Role: Jorge Maldonado

La casta divina / The divine caste (1976)


Director: Julián Pastor
Script: Eduardo Luján
Role: General Salvador Alvarado

Lo mejor de Teresa / The best of Teresa (1976)

Director: Alberto Bojórquez
Script: Alberto Bojórquez and Adolfo Martínez Solares
Role: Tío Eleazar


Las Poquianchis / The Poquianchis (1976)

Director: Felipe Cazals
Script: Tomás Pérez Turrent and Xavier Robles
Role: Rosario

Los amantes fríos / Cold lovers (1978)

Director: Julio Bracho and Miguel Morayta
Script: Hugo Argüelles
Role: Librado


Crónica íntima / Intimate chronicle (1979)

Director: Claudio Isaac
Script: Claudio Isaac

Una leyenda de amor / A love legend (1982)

Director: Abel Salazar
Script: Julio Alejandro, Jorge Patiño and Edmundo Báez
Role: Priest Diego


Aquel famoso Remington / That famous Remington (1982)


Director: Gustavo Alatriste
Script: Gustavo Alatriste

La dama solitaria / The lonely lady (1985)

Director: Felipe Cazals
Script: Felipe Cazals
Narrator

Damián (1985)

Director: Felipe Cazals
Script: Felipe Cazals
Narrator


Dulce espíritu / Sweet spirit (1985)

Director: Felipe Cazals
Narrator


Pesadilla / Nightmare (1985)

Director: Felipe Cazals
Script: Felipe Cazals
Narrator


Astucia (1986)


Director: Mario Hernández
Script: Xavier Robles, based on the novel of the same title by Luis G. Inclán

Murieron a la mitad del río / The died half way down the river (1986)

Director: José Nieto Ramírez
Script: José Nieto Ramírez, based on the novel of the same title by Luis Spota
Personaje: Don Chebo


TV film: Her Secret Life (1987)

Director: Buzz Kulik
Script: Carla Jean Wagner
Role: Rudy Villegas

Cronos (1993)

Director: Guillermo del Toro
Script: Guillermo del Toro
Narrator

Un hilito de sangre / A trickle of blood (1995)

Director: Erwin Neumaier
Script: Alejandro Lubezki, based on the novel of the same title by Eusebio Ruvalcaba
Personaje: Don Manuel


Edipo Alcalde / Oedipus mayor (1996)

Released: 17th February 1997

Director: Alí Triana
Script: Gabriel García Márquez and Stella Malagón based on Edipo King by Sófocles
Personaje: Priest

Las momias de Guanajuato / Mummies of Guanajuato, episode 1.1 (1962)

Producer: Ernesto Alonso
Script: Hugo Argüelles, Inés Arredondo, Guadalupe Dueñas, Vicente Leñero, Luis Moreno and Miguel Sabido

Tarzan, episode 1: “Pearls of Tanga”

Released: 9th December 1966

Director: R. G. Springsteen
Script: Sid Saltzman
Role: Tanoma

El juramento / The oath (1974)

Director: Guillermo Diazayas

McCloud, episode: “Lady on the Run” (1975)

Director: Russ Mayberry
Script: Herman Miller and Gilbert Edd
Role: Inspector Depalma

Lonesome Dove / Paloma solitaria, episodes: “Return”, “The Plains” and “On the Trail” (1989)

Director: Simon Wincer
Script: Larry MacMurtry and William D. Wittliff
Role: Po Campo

Destinos: An Introduction to Spanish / Destinos: Una introducción al español, episodes: “Keeping the Books” / “Llevando cuentas”, “Worries” / “Preocupaciones”, “Trapped” / “Atradados”, “The Letter” / “La carta” and “Seasons” / “Estaciones” (1992)
Role: Pedro Castillo

Gabriel & Gabriela (1982)

Director: Carlos Téllez
Script: Bebu Silvetti and Yolanda Vargas Dulché
Role: Benito

El pecado de Oyuki / Sin of Oyuki (1988)

Director: Gabriel Vázquez Bulman
Script: Yolanda Vargas Dulché
Role: Sir Charles Pointer

El abuelo y yo / Grandfather and I (1992)

Director: Juan Carlos Muñoz
Script: Eduardo Quiroga, Lorena Salazar and Xuitlatzin Vázquez
Role: Don Joaquín

Alondra (1995)

Director: Miguel Córcega and Mónica Miguel
Script: Martha Carrillo, Roberto Hernández and Yolanda Vargas Dulché
Role: Alfredito

Pueblo chico, infierno grande / Small town, Big hell (1997)

Director: Benjamín Cann
Script: Begoña Fernández, Mario Hernández, Javier Ruán and Sergio Schmucler
Role: Chucho Ríos