Roberto Gavaldón

Roberto Gavaldón was born on 7 June 1909 in Chihuahua. Having gone to the United States to study dentistry, he became an extra in Los Angeles, then returned to Mexico in the early 1930s. An assistant director on more than fifty films, he moved on to directing in 1944 and often worked with the writer José Revueltas, co-author of several of his screenplays. Active in the film unions and a deputy at the end of the 1950s, he died in Mexico City on 4 September 1986.

In the catalogue 2

• Feature filmThe Kneeling GoddessLa diosa arrodilladaRoberto Gavaldón · 1947Cinema
• Feature filmMacarioRoberto Gavaldón · 1960Cinema