Actor

Gustavo Alatriste

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Movies: 19Series: 0Crew credits: 17

TMDB ID: 37494

IMDb ID: nm0016105

Known for: Production

Born: August 25, 1922

Died: July 22, 2006

Age: 83

Place of birth: Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, Mexico

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1962 - 1998

Years active: 37

Average TMDB rating: 7.72

Wikidata: Q978635

Also known as

Gustavo Alatriste Rodríguez

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Producer (9)Director (7)Writer (1)

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Biography

Gustavo Alatriste Rodríguez (August 8th, 1922 – July 22, 2006) was a Mexican director, producer, exhibitor, and entrepreneur. At the age of 17, he enrolled in the Escuela Bancaria y Comercial to study Accounting, but left after only six months. He married Ariadne Welter, an actress who appeared in Ensayo de un crimen (1955), a film directed by the Spanish filmmaker Luis Buñuel, with whom Alatriste formed a strong friendship. A successful furniture businessman, Alatriste later ventured into the film industry as a producer with Viridiana (Buñuel, 1961), a story set in an old and remote estate filled with attractions and romantic entanglements involving a novice (Silvia Pinal, then Alatriste’s second wife), her uncle Don Jaime (Fernando Rey), her cousin Jorge (Paco Rabal), the maid Ramona (Margarita Lozano), and a group of beggars. The film was awarded the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival, where Alatriste received the prize from André Malraux, then France’s Minister of Culture and a member of the French Resistance during World War II.