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Activities Actor , Director , Screenwriter more
Real name Alfonso Arau Incháustegui
Nationality Mexico
Birth January 11, 1932 (Mexico City – Mexico)

BIOGRAPHY
Alfonso Arau Incháustegui is a renowned Mexican director, actor, producer and screenwriter, born on January 11, 1932, in Mexico City. Alfonso lost his father when he was very young, so he was raised by his family and his legal guardian, who would pay for his medical studies at UNAM. However, Alfonso was not entirely convinced with his career and left school to become a police officer, in the motorcycle squad. And it would be precisely by practicing that profession that he became linked to the artistic world, when he was assigned as driver and comedian Sergio Corona.

Interested in comedy and with great skills for it, Alfonso would form a duet with Corona, in a show of dancers and comedians, which triumphed in several countries in the 1950s. His recognition and popularity was such that, soon , they went on to star in films such as New Faces (1956), Trip to the Moon (1958) and Los Pistolocs (1960). Around that time, Arau would return to university, but to study dramatic art. Shortly afterward he would move to Paris to study with the legendary mime Marcel Marceu, as well as becoming close friends with director and writer Alejamdro Jodorowsky. By the mid-1960s, Alfonso was part of a rock group, Los Tepetagles, who played and parodied The Beatles. Shortly after, the actor would be part of Sam Peckinpah’s acclaimed film The Wild Bunch (1969), and then appear in films such as Three Friends (1970), Paradise (1970), El Topo (1970), Aunt Isabel’s Garden (1971), among others.

He would debut as a director with the film El Águila Descalza (1971), in which he also wrote and starred. After this, Arau would direct films such as El wet soaked (1981), Chido Guan, el tacos de oro (1986) and Como agua para chocolate (1992), a successful Mexican film, with which he would be recognized as best director at the awards. Ariel from 1992. The film established him as one of the most successful and talented directors in Mexico. He would soon direct Keanu Reeves in the film A Walk in the Clouds (1995). He would take a few years off from directing, until returning with Cachitos picados (2000), Zapata – The Hero’s Dream (2003) and The Trap of Light (2004).

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