José Torvay
Popularity:0.373
Known For:Acting
Birthday:1909-01-28
Place of Birth:Durango, Mexico
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Also Known As:Jose Yanez Torvay, Jose Torbay, Jose Torvai, Jose Y. Torvay, José I. Torvay, Хосе Торвей, José Yáñez Torvay
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
Two jobless Americans convince a prospector to travel to the mountains of Mexico with them in search of gold. But the hostile wilderness, local...
The Jackals (1963)
Three brothers try to eliminate a man and in the shootout an innocent man is shot to death.
Code of Silence (1960)
An ex-mafioso moves to Mexico to become a writer, revealing mob secrets in his books which are met with understandable displeasure. He is soon...
Border Incident (1949)
The story concerns two agents, one Mexican (PJF) and one American, who are tasked to stop the smuggling of Mexican migrant workers across the border...
A Woman's Devotion (1956)
An artist suffering from mental problems from his experiences during the war goes to Acapulco on his honeymoon. Soon young women are turning up dead...
The Hitch-Hiker (1953)
Roy and Gilbert's fishing trip takes a terrifying turn when the hitchhiker they pick up turns out to be a sociopath on the run from the law. He's...
Bandido! (1956)
American arms dealer Kennedy hopes to make a killing by selling to the "regulares" in the 1916 Mexican revolution. American mercenary Wilson favors...
Borderline (1950)
The Los Angeles police know that Pete Ritchie has been bringing drugs into the city, but they can't pin a single piece of evidence on him. After many...
Miguel Strogoff (1944)
A Russian courier has to deliver a message from the Czar to the Grand Duke across enemy lines. He encounters many colorful characters along the way.
The Torch (1950)
The story of a fear-inspiring revolutionary general who develops a passion for the daughter of a wealthy villager. It's hate at first sight so far as...
Kaliman, the Incredible Man (1972)
Archaeologists, tomb robbers, a strange character and an adventurer undertake the search for the tomb of an Egyptian pharaoh, driven by different...
My Man and I (1952)
In California, a Mexican-American laborer is falsely accused of shooting the racist farmer he was working for after the farmer stiffed him with a bad...
Mystery in Mexico (1948)
Insurance detective Steve Hastings is sent by his company to investigate the disappearance of a fellow agent. His first lead is the agent's fetching...
One Day of Life (1950)
A story about two men caught in the Mexican revolution: close friends before, but now on the opposite sides. One of them is military officer, while...
Chisum (1970)
Cattle baron John Chisum joins forces with Billy the Kid and Pat Garrett to fight the Lincoln County Land War in the New Mexico Territory of 1878.
Two Mules for Sister Sara (1970)
When a wandering mercenary named Hogan rescues a nun called Sister Sara from the unwanted attentions of a band of rogues on the Mexican plains, he...
Little Town (1962)
Reactionary local "Big Daddy" tries to prevent a school being built in his district.
Zorina (1949)
This overlooked, if not almost forgotten romantic melodrama from Director Juan Jose Ortega, features a South American-born beauty named Lenora Amar,...
Green Fire (1954)
In Colombia, mining engineer Rian Mitchell discovers Carrero, the lost emerald mine of the Conquistadors, but has to contend with notorious local...
Enamorada (1946)
In Mexican Revolution times, a guerrilla general and his troops take the conservative town of Cholula, near by Mexico City. As the revolutionaries...
Aventurero del mar (1939)
Adventure film directed by Carlos Véjar hijo.
Boom in the Moon (1946)
An American soldier marooned in Mexico is mistaken for a wife-butchering serial killer.
Four Nights With You (1952)
Traveling salesman meets a young woman who's running away from home, and helps her evade detectives who are tracking her.
Black Wind (1965)
The building of a railroad under tough conditions from searing heat to freezing cold in the Sonora desert provokes clashes of passion and struggles...
Strange Lady in Town (1955)
Julia Garth, a female doctor, plans to introduce modern techniques of medicine to old Santa Fe in 1880, but is opposed by an established doctor,...
The Fugitive (1947)
Anti-Catholic and anti-cleric policies in the Mexican state of Tabasco lead the revolutionary government to persecute the state's last remaining...
My Outlaw Brother (1951)
Danny, a greenhorn from New York comes to the Mexican border in search for his older brother whom he has always looked up to. A Texas Ranger charged...
Se alquila marido (1961)
Female CEO hires a man to pass as her husband and act as figurehead of her business concerns.
Neither Blood Nor Sand (1941)
Cantinflas enjoys the bullfight show, and wants to crash in every of these spectacles. Also, there's a professional bullfighter, Manolete, who is...
Por mis pistolas (1968)
Fidencio Borer, an apothecary in a village on the northern border of Mexico, discovers some old title of a mine in Arizona and decides to claim them....
Untamed Frontier (1952)
The Denbow family denies access across their land to homesteaders. To evade a murder charge, Glenn Denbow marries Jane, the only witness who's in...
Pedro Paramo (1967)
When his mother Dolores dies, Juan Preciado, son of Pedro Páramo, goes to Comala to claim his inheritance; but when he arrives he finds an...
Maclovia (1948)
On a small Mexican island dwells a group of Indians who live in the traditional manner and who disdain outsiders. The beautiful Maclovia and the...
Maria Candelaria (1944)
A young journalist asks an old artist about the portrait of a naked Indian woman that he has in his study. The artist tells the story of Maria...
El ametralladora (1943)
Peasant farmer and landowner are rivals for a woman. Sequel to Ay Jalisco No Te Rajes.
Salon Mexico (1949)
Mercedes works as a cabaret performer to pay for her sister's studies. Problems begin when Mercedes and Paco, her exploiter, win a dance contest, but...
Los olvidados de Dios (1940)
Los olvidados de Dios is a 1940 Mexican proletarian drama film directed by Ramón Pereda
El rápido de las 9.15 (1941)
It tells the stories of the passengers aboard a nonstop train. Each character is portrayed one by one, and the only thing they have in common is the...
¡Cuando la tierra tembló! (1942)
A 1942 film.
The Jungle of Fire (1945)
A beautiful woman awakens passions in the workers of a camp deep in the jungle.. Venice Film Festival 1947
El Quelite (1970)
Agapito, leader of the revolutionary movement of his state, comes to a town, kills all the federales, and gets a girl who was promised to him for his...
La máscara de carne (1958)
Mexican feature film
Amanecer ranchero (1942)
The old massa dies and his son comes home to take over the hacienda. Things are going to be a whole lot different now; he's overturning all the old...
Fantasía ranchera (1947)
Young composer in a small town where everyone is very nurturing of his talent finishes his first opera and goes to Mexico City to get it produced....
Canasta Uruguaya (1951)
Screwball comedy about country girl who inherits a fortune.
El Cristo de mi Cabecera (1951)
1830s, guerrillas in the hills resisting the French occupation. Meanwhile, their leader has a French officer and another guy chasing after his...
The Brave Bulls (1951)
A matador must recover his courage after being gored in the ring.
One Big Affair (1952)
Lawyer Jimmy Donovan thinks a bicycle tour through Mexico is just the thing to keep him out of trouble until his client arrives. But when school...
Rancho Alegre (1941)
Proud old family's hacienda is falling into decay, and the oldest son has to come back from college to set things aright... or does he have other...
Beyond All Limits (1959)
This typical Mexican melodrama is set in a coastal fishing village where a wealthy fisherman lives with his wife and young son. Their lives are...
Serenade (1956)
A wealthy woman discovers a vineyard worker with a beautiful operatic singing voice. She helps make him a star but then breaks his heart. He flees in...
Night Falls (1952)
Marcos is an arrogant jai-alai player who seduces and discards women until he himself becomes the object of a cunning revenge.
The Sword of Granada (1954)
In this period costume swashbuckler, Don Pedro de Rivera, the rightful owner of a Spanish castle seeks to reclaim it from an occupying Moorish...
The Golden Cockerel (1964)
A poor, but very lucky man in the cock fighting business, is hired by a rich man, but both are in love with the same woman.
Sonatas (1959)
In the fall of 1824 Javier Montenegro, Bradomin Marquis is spared death hanging by Captain Casares, and in return, the Marquis agrees to help him...
The Littlest Outlaw (1955)
Little Pablito is the ten year old son of a cruel horse trainer. The trainer is responsible for training a Mexican General's horse to jump for the...
La extraña pasajera (1953)
During a long train trip, the Police has discovered jewelries in the personal bag of an actress, but she turns out to be innocent.
Kid Blue (1973)
Bickford Waner, an apparently naive young man from Fort Worth, arrives in the tiny Texas town of Dime Box and takes on a variety of menial jobs. He's...
A Life in the Balance (1955)
A widower's young son leads the police to a killer of sinners in Mexico City.
The Last Sunset (1961)
At a Mexican ranch, fugitive O'Malley and pursuing Sheriff Stribling agree to help rancher Breckenridge drive his herd into Texas where Stribling...
The Red Virgin (1943)
Aurora’s life changes when her younger sister is brutally assaulted and killed. Seeking justice, she tracks down the attacker and kills him,...
The White Rose (1961)
An international oil company comes into conflict with a Mexican ranch owner who refuses to sell his land, resorting to a devious scheme to try to...
El que tenga un amor (1942)
Victor must leave his life of partying and change his girlfriend, Lucero, for the bride that awaits him in his hometown.
Dos mexicanos en Sevilla (1942)
After many setbacks, Mr. Prudenciano, in Mexico, came to the conclusion that he had no great future as a bullfighter. He sold what little he had and,...
Extraña cita (1947)
After her father's death, María Eugenia is pressured by Don Remigio Pérez who her father owed debts to, to marry her. Instead, the...
Piña madura (1950)
A dancer surrenders herself to a wealthy, depraved man to save the life of her true love.
El conde de Montecristo (1942)
Based on the famous novel by Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo tells the story of a man who is unjustly imprisoned alongside an old man, who...
Virgen de medianoche (1942)
A gangster melodrama set in the slums of Mexico City, following the criminal exploits of a fur smuggler and his attraction to an innocent but...
El secreto del sacerdote (1941)
Priest Jesus knows a dark secret that was passed onto him during confession. When the town mayor threatens the integrity of some people, it is up to...
Mi preferida (1950)
A couple travels by car and they are kidnapped by a gang, they escape but they find the criminal boss.
Amor de una vida (1946)
During a stormy night, a rich man is abandoned by his wife, blaming him for her unhappy life. The man and his driver die in an accident in the...
La duquesa del Tepetate (1951)
Romantic comedy.
El indio (1938)
Social-justice movie about exploitation of Indians by white people in pre-Revolution Mexico.
La China Hilaria (1939)
Hilaria's engaged to be married, but her fiance may never come back from Texas. Meanwhile, two local guys are interested in her...
Aqui esta Juan Colorado (1946)
In the aftermath of a revolution, military forces face scattered rebel groups while soldiers navigate personal relationships and love interests amid...
Mas allá del amor (1945)
A street urchin helps a severe alcoholic with recovery, and he repays the favor by mentoring the boy and putting him through school. When the boy...
Juan Polainas (1960)
Pathetic shmuck loser tries to rival his twin brother's exploits in the Mexican Revolution.
La golondrina (1938)
American journalist in Yucatan falls into the orbit of a local politician.
Bajo el cielo de Sonora (1948)
Army officer goes undercover to investigate political unrest in a border state.
Secreto Eterno (1942)
The Story of a Woman's Redemption
El Charro del Cristo (1949)
Favored son of a wealthy rural family forced to go into hiding after killing someone in a duel.
El marido de mi novia (1951)
Raquel's life is turned upside down when a terrible accident results in the death of her child and the confinement of her husband to a wheelchair....
Caminos de sangre (1945)
A crooked lawyer frustrates attempts to clear bandits from the local highways.
Guardián, el perro salvador (1950)
Poor woman and her daughter hire on to rich family as servants. Husband/Daddy comes back from his foreign travels and crazy stuff happens! Death!...
With all my heart (1952)
Priest founds an orphanage, faces conflicts with townsfolk.
The Useless Life of Pito Perez (1944)
Episodes from the life of an alcoholic hobo.
Bésame mucho (1945)
A cluster of young performers will do just about anything to get their show produced.
De pecado en pecado (1948)
This post-World War II drama, (released to a world-wide audience on July 9, 1949), is definitively unique for the caliber of each of its contributing...
La Vuelta Del Charro Negro (1941)
Lone Ranger style heroic adventure, number two in a four-movie series.
Un hombre peligroso (1965)
Sequel to El Zurdo: ten years later, El Zurdo returns to his home town. The little boy whose father he killed in part one has grown up, and still...
El Zorro de Jalisco (1941)
Isabel, the daughter of Don Antonio; a rich land owner in Tepestates, Jalisco returns to her town after five years away, to visit her father. She is...
Los Cristeros (1947)
When the government places restrictions on the Catholic church's autonomy, an armed uprising takes place. Disagreements over the new laws create...
The Two Rivals (1966)
Ranchera comedy -- the hero thinks his girlfriend has another suitor... but the suitor is really she herself in man-drag.
Los Cuatro Juanes (1966)
Juan Sin Fiedo (Javier Solis), Juan Colorado (Antonio Aguilar), Juan Pistolas (Luis Aguilar) and Juan Charrasqueado join their destinies during the...
Sota, caballo y rey (1944)
Theatrical troupe schemes to expose corrupt dealings in local government.
La alegre casada (1952)
Housewife gets ticked off at her philandering hubby, falls under the influence of a cougarish rich widow and decides to start partying the way her...
The Abandoned (1945)
A young woman, abandoned by her womanizing fiancé, is forced to provide for the upbringing of her son and combat the difficulties of being an...
The Last Adventure (1946)
All of Mexico asks the same question, who has won the lottery jackpot of five million pesos? If the lucky person who won them does not show up soon...
Me he de comer esa tuna (1945)
In rural Mexico, a young man competes with his best school friend for the love of a girl whose marriage has been arranged by her parents.
La tierra del mariachi (1938)
Young woman's father, with the help of the boyfriend he prefers for her, spreads a rumor that the guy she likes better was already married.
La canción del huérfano (1940)
A 1940 film directed by Manuel R. Ojeda,
Si yo fuera millonario (1962)
White-collar criminals conspire to prevent a shmuck from collecting an inheritance.
La infame (1954)
For love, the rules of society and justice are broken, leading to abduction, exposing life and freedom, facing everything to make a sick child a...
Duelo en El Dorado (1969)
Saloon-owner's a hard guy and none too law-abiding; his twelve year old son comes to live with him and he starts changing his ways... but his past is...
El indomable (1966)
Wandering cowboy stops to help a widow out against the man who killed her husband.
Oh Pain, Little Pain, Pain! (1953)
Carmela is a Gypsy singer who sells lottery tickets. She meets two penniless Mexican brothers and they buy a ticket between the three: if it is...
La vorágine: abismos de amor (1949)
It narrates the adventures of the poet Arturo Cova and his lover Alicia, a story of passion and revenge framed in the plain lands and the Amazon...
Resurrección (1943)
This is an early film from Director Gilberto Martinez Solares, who would go on to become better-known for his unique perspective on horror films of...
Ahí viene Martín Corona (1952)
Martin Corona, player and womanizer, defends the underprivileged, the poor and the needy. He will have to defend a Spanish girl and her servant from...
Ay, Jalisco, Don't Give Up! (1941)
An orphan boy is left in the care of his godfather, a bartender who teaches him to play cards and shoot weapons.
Si me han de matar mañana (1947)
Romantic triangle during the Mexican Revolution.
Tierra brava (1938)
Financier threatens to foreclose on a cigar-factory's mortgage, but a secret benefactor pays off the owner's debt and saves the day.
Si Adelita se fuera con otro (1948)
Young couple run off to join the Mexican Revolution, in part because she has a crush on Francisco Villa.
Enrédate y verás (1948)
A young woman disguises herself as a soldier when her boyfriend arrives to propose.