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Filmmaker · Mexico

Julio Bracho

Died in 1978

Julio Bracho was born in Durango on 17 July 1909. The brother of the actress Andrea Palma and a cousin of Dolores del Río and Ramón Novarro, he began in the theatre in the early thirties, as director of the Escolares del Teatro company and then of the Teatro Orientación. He moved into cinema and directed his first film in 1941. One of his films, adapted from a novel by Martín Luis Guzmán about political life after the revolution, remained banned for thirty years. He died in Mexico City on 26 April 1978.

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