Julio Villarreal

Julio Villarreal (December 7, 1885 – August 4, 1958) was a Spanish actor who later settled and worked in Mexico. He also directed two films in the early 1930s.^[1] Born as Julio Crochet Martínez Villarreal in Madrid, in a family or theater actors, moved to Argentina an Perú in 1900 they returned to Spain in 1921. After the Spanish Civil War, Julio moved to the United States and in 1932 he finally settled in Mexico City. He acted in many Mexican movies of the Golden Age of Mexican cinema along with many stars such as Maria Félix, Cantinflas, Pedro Infante and Jorge Negrete who became his son in law by gettin married to Elisa Christy (Elisa Crochet Asperó), daughter of Julio Villarreal.

Selected filmography

• El rey de los gitanos (1933)
• Sanctuary (1933)
• The Unknown Policeman (1941)
• The Count of Monte Cristo (1942)
• Simón Bolívar (1942)
• Michael Strogoff (1944)
• The White Monk (1945)
• Twilight (1945)
• Adultery (1945)
• Dizziness (1946)
• Honeymoon (1947)
• Rough But Respectable (1949)
• Philip of Jesus (1949)
• Confessions of a Taxi Driver (1949)
• The Torch (1950)
• Maria Islands (1951)
• The Night Falls (1952)
• The Photographer (1953)
• I Want to Live (1953)
• Take Me in Your Arms (1954)

References

Bibliography

• Paco Ignacio Taibo. María Félix: 47 pasos por el cine. Bruguera, 2008.

External links

• Julio Villarreal on IMDb