Rodolfo Guzmán Huerta, known professionally as El Santo or in English The Saint, was a Mexican luchador enmascarado, actor and folk hero. He is one of the most famous and iconic Mexican luchadores, and has been referred to as one of "the greatest legends in Mexican sports". His wrestling career spanned nearly five decades, during which he became a folk hero and a symbol of justice for the common man through his appearances in lucha films and comic books telling fictionalized stories of El Santo fighting for justice. He starred or co-starred in at least 54 movies between 1958 and 1982.
Santo contra los Zombies is a 1961 Mexican film directed by Benito Alazraki. It depicts the popular character El Santo in a pulp-style film.
Jaime Fernández Reyes is a Mexican actor. Over his career, he won 3 Silver Ariel awards — the Mexican equivalent of the Oscar — including one for what is arguably his best-known role, playing Friday, the protagonist's associate in Luis Buñuel's Robinson Crusoe. He appeared in over 200 films and served as the general secretary of the National Association of Actors (ANDA) for 11 years. His father is actor/director Emilio Fernández.
Wolf Ruvinskis, born Wolf Ruvinskis Manevics, was a Latvian-Mexican actor and professional wrestler. He was married to dancer Armida Herrera. Born to a Latvian mother and a Ukrainian father, of Jewish background, they relocated to Argentina in 1923. In spite of living in extreme poverty he excelled in sports and as a professional wrestler he toured South America, the United States and Mexico. This last country became his place of residence where he stayed in the ring well into the 1960s, wrestling El Santo, Black Shadow, El Médico Asesino and Lobo Negro. As a wrestler he was introduced to the Cinema of Mexico playing luchadores, in particular a masked character he created called Neutrón. He also belongs to the Golden Age of Mexican cinema.
Augusto Benedico, born Augusto Pérez Lias, was a Mexican actor of Spanish origin best known for his role as "Don Alberto Salvatierra" in the soap opera Los ricos también lloran and his role as "Don Fernando" in the American educational television program Destinos: An Introduction to Spanish.
Horror films in Mexico form part of cinema of the country.
Joaquín Cordero was a Mexican actor of the cinema, theatre and telenovelas.
Rodolfo Galindo Ramirez was a Mexican luchador and film actor, best known by his ring name Cavernario Galindo, who was active in Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre from the 1930s to the 1990s. Well known for inventing La Cavernaria, a commonly used submission hold in modern Lucha Libre.
The IWRG Intercontinental Welterweight Championship is a professional wrestling championship promoted by the Mexican wrestling promotion International Wrestling Revolution Group (IWRG) since 1998. The official definition of the Welterweight weight class in Mexico is between 70 kg (150 lb) and 78 kg (172 lb), but the weight limits are not always strictly adhered to. Because Lucha Libre puts more emphasis on the lower weight classes, this division is considered more important than the normally more prestigious heavyweight division of the promotion.
Cruz Pío Socorro Alvarado Bolado, known professionally as Crox Alvarado, was a Mexican actor who appeared in over 90 films. He was considered a popular star of the Golden Age of Mexican cinema.
Santiago Eduardo Urueta Sierra, more commonly known as Chano Urueta, was a Mexican film director, producer, screenwriter, and actor.
Guerra de Campeones (2011) was a professional wrestling event produced and scripted collaboratively by International Wrestling Revolution Group (IWRG) and Promociones Wagner. It took place on December 25, 2011, at Arena Naucalpan in Naucalpan, State of Mexico, IWRG's main venue. The event featured six professional wrestling matches with different wrestlers involved in pre-existing scripted feuds or storylines.
Santo contra el cerebro del mal is a 1961 Cuban-Mexican horror-action film directed by Joselito Rodríguez and starring Joaquín Cordero, Norma Suárez, Enrique Zambrano and Rodolfo Guzmán Huerta. It is the first Santo film chronologically. Released in 1961, it was filmed in Cuba in 1958, shortly before Fidel Castro entered Havana.
Alejandro Jiménez Cruz is a Mexican luchador, or professional wrestler best known under the ring name Dr. Cerebro. He has been associated with the Mexican professional wrestling promotion International Wrestling Revolution Group (IWRG) since his debut in 1996 and has portrayed both a tecnico and a Rudo wrestling character. He is also a licensed Chiropractor.
Ricardo Antonio Morales Gonzalez, better known under the ring name Cerebro Negro, is a Mexican luchador, or masked professional wrestler currently working for the Mexican professional wrestling promotion International Wrestling Revolution Group (IWRG) portraying a rudo wrestling character as well as a number of independent promotions.
Santo vs The Clones is a 2004 Cartoon Network Latin American original animated series consisting of five short episodes, which were aired every Wednesday nights at 8:00 PM in Mexico, and also in another Latin American countries. It's created by Carlo Olivares Paganoni, a filmmaker and advertising worker, but also a cartoonist who already made the local Cartoon Network pilot Bobots; he wanted to pay tribute to the legendary defunct Luchador wrestler enmascarado and film actor Rodolfo Guzmán Huerta, better known as El Santo. Finally, Carlo hired for this show as developer El Hijo del Santo.
Juan Charrasqueado is a 1948 Mexican Western film directed by Ernesto Cortázar. It stars Pedro Armendáriz, Miroslava, and Fernando Soto. The film's sets were designed by the art director Francisco Marco Chillet.
Alberto Vázquez Gurrola is a Mexican singer and actor from part of the golden age generation of rock and roll in Mexico. He had a son, Arturo Vazquez, who also became a singer, with actress Isela Vega, but the couple never married.
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Fernando Curiel Defossé was a Mexican writer, lawyer and professor at the National Autonomous University of Mexico since 1980.
