
Salvador Sánchez
Biography
Alfredo Salvador Sánchez Bolaños (born October 28th, 1943) is a Mexican actor and director.
He was one of the most relevant actors among those who renewed the list of interpreters of Mexican cinema at the beginning of the seventies. Since then, he has stood out in films such as The devil fell from glory (Cayó de la gloria el diablo, .1971), The bump (La choca, 1973), The heist (El apando, 1975), Canoa (1975), Las Poquianchis (1976), Los albañiles (1976), Under the shrapnel (Bajo la metralla, 1983), Motel (1983), Journey to Paradise (1985), Going for a nut (1986), Fire Angel (1991), Lady at night (1993), Leap into the void (1994), Natural death (1996) , Only once (2000) and Herod's law (2000).
He directed Pedro Páramo in 1981. Deserving of various distinctions for his acting work in film, including two Diosas de Plata, he has also developed an outstanding theatrical career and has participated repeatedly on television.
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Acting History
2025
Curandero as Manuel
2025The Dead Girls as Juez Peralta
2025Amanecer as Doroteo Talavera
20251938: When Mexico Recovered Its Oil as Peasant
2023The Beast as Don Gerardo
2023Más Allá de Tí as Crisanto Pescador
2023¡Que viva México! as Notario / Don Florencio
2022The Exorcist as Señor Ramirez
2021Malverde: El Santo Patrón as Ramon
2019The Mongolian Conspiracy as Señor Liu
2018The Voice of a Dream as Apolonio
201640 y 20 as Don Doroteo
2015Lo imperdonable as Crescencio Álvarez
2015Between Shadows as Narciso
2014The Perfect Dictatorship as Hombre X
2013Puras mentiras as Luis Pérez Goya
2011Tequila, historia de una pasión as Vicente
2010Acorazado as Alacran
2010El Infierno as El Padrino
2010File of Attempted Murder as Antonio Villacencio
2009Héroes de la seguridad
2009Burden of Guilt as Padre Matías Quiroga
2008Killer Women as Don Ramón
2007Charm School as Monseñor
2006Jack's Law as Joker
2004Sobre el arco iris
2003Alegrijes y Rebujos as Asunción Yunque "Chon"
2002Collateral Damage as Peddler
2002Solamente una vez
2001The Mexican as Gunsmith
2001El Noveno mandamiento as Andrés Roldán Martínez
2000A Breakfast Chronicle as Pedro (uncredited)
2000His Most Serene Highness
1999Herod's Law as Pek
1999El fantasma de la coca
1999Ojitos mentirosos
1998Fuera de la ley
1997Pueblo chico, infierno grande as Consejo Serratos
1996De muerte natural
1995La Dueña as Macario Robles
1995Salto al vacío
1994Una buena forma de morir
1994Loving Ghosts
1994Amor que mata as Don Raúl
1994The Food of Fear as Jefe
1993Dama de Noche as Diego
1993Un ángel para los diablillos as Jefe de Policía
1993Abuelita de Bakman
1992Octagon and Mascara Sagrada in Fight to the Death
1992Imperio de los Malditos as Rutilo Morán
1992Octagon and Atlantis, the rematch
1992El último narco
1992La dama y el judicial
1991The Mexican Ninja
1991One Man’s War as Ramírez
1991Diplomatic Immunity as Colonel Hernández
1991Jóvenes delincuentes
1991Mujer de cabaret
1991Ángel de fuego as Rito
1991The Legend of the Scorpion
1991La fuerza bruta
1991Perseguida as Commander German Paino
1990With Fear in the Veins as José
1990El hijo de Lamberto Quintero
1990Dos judiciales en aprietos
1990Violaciónes, casos de la vida real
1990Motel of Death
1989Old Gringo as Floreal
1989Las asesinas del panadero
1989He kidnapped her, he raped her, and he killed her as Bonifaz
1989El jardín de la paz
1988The Marked Hour as (Varios)
1988Difficult Days as Diputado Gabriel Aguirre
1988Angel River as Toral
1988El pecado de Oyuki as Yutaka Ogino
1988Furia en la sangre
1987Zapata en Chinameca
1986Salvador as Human Rights Leader
1986Frida Still Life as David Alfaro Siqueiros
1985Viaje al paraíso as Bulmador
1984Under the Volcano as Chief of Stockyards
1984Motel as Julián Vargas, Detective
1983Under the Shrapnel as Tomas
1982The Eve as Villegas
1981Pedro Páramo
1980¿Y si Platicamos de Agosto?
1979Maria of My Heart as Chava
1979La madre
1978Drizzle as Indígena
1978The Recourse to the Method
1977Caminando pasos... caminando
1977El elegido as Don Liserio
1976The Bricklayers as Chapo Álvarez
1976Anyway, Juan is Your Name
1976Las Poquianchis as Reportero
1976The Heist as Albino
1976The House in the South as Genaro
1976Canoa: A Shameful Memory as Witness
1975Letters from Marusia as Sebastián
1975Do You Hear the Dogs Barking? as Juan Dolores
1975Aventuras de un caballo blanco y un niño
1975Esa mi Irene
1974La Choca as Audias
1974Those Years as Gen. Melchor Ocampo
1974The Master of Ballantrae as El Chueco
1973La yegua colorada
1973Valente Quintero as Capitán Carrancista
1972El vals sin fin
1972No One Will Love You Like I Do
1972Cayó de la gloria el diablo as Charro cantor / Solís
1971La Generala as Jesús
1970Emiliano Zapata
1951Kill Me Because I'm Dying!!!
1951Crimen y castigo as (uncredited)








