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Alfredo Galindo

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Content creator/Filmmaker/Storyteller/Mexican Film History Podcast @125YContando. t.co/ws7e5TvOCa

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Alfredo Galindo @alfredogalindo.com · 12/09/2026
Mexican actress Silvia Pinal, who starred in a trilogy of films by Spanish filmmaker Luis Buñuel like “Viridiana” (1961); “The Exterminating Angel” (1962) and “Simon of the Desert” (1965) was born on September 12, 1930. Her costar in “… Angel”, Jacqueline Andere, remembers her in @125ycontando.com
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Alfredo Galindo @alfredogalindo.com · 12/08/2026
Happy Heavenly birthday to Cantinflas, born on August 12, 1911 in Mexico City and became one of the biggest stars stars of Mexican cinema and successfully crossed over to star in the Academy Award Winner for Best Picture of 1956, “Around the World in 80 Days” which also gave him a Golden Globe
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Alfredo Galindo @alfredogalindo.com · 06/08/2026
Emilio “Indio” Fernandez and Bob Dylan share a scene of the classic western “Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid” (Sam Peckinpah, 1973). Actor/director “El Indio”, one of the iconic filmmakers of the Golden Age of Mexican cinema died on August 6, 1986, at age 82 in Acapulco, Mexico
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Alfredo Galindo @alfredogalindo.com · 03/08/2026
Today Mexican diva Dolores del Rio would’ve turned 122 years old. She played Elvis’ mom in the classic western “Flaming Star” (Don Siegel, 1960). Elvis starred a couple of years later in “Fun in Acapulco” with another Mexican actress, Elsa Cardenas (“The Brave One”; “Giant”) who turns 92 today
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Alfredo Galindo @alfredogalindo.com · 15/07/2026
RIP Elsa Aguirre, one of the last divas of the Golden Age of Mexican cinema. We had the privilege to have her as a guest in the fourth episode of the first season of our podcast @125ycontando.com long live her legacy
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Alfredo Galindo @alfredogalindo.com · 11/06/2026
Happy Birthday to Academy Award Winner for Best Original Screenplay of 2008, Dustin Lance Black, proudly Texan as well!
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Alfredo Galindo @alfredogalindo.com · 11/03/2026
On March 11, 2023, Mexican actor Ignacio Lopez Tarso passed away at age 98. He was the lead actor of the first Mexican film to be nominated for an Oscar, “Macario” (Roberto Gavaldon, 1960) and about this experience and many of his classics he talked to us in our podcast @125ycontando.com
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Alfredo Galindo @alfredogalindo.com · 25/02/2026
Un dia como hoy, pero del 2013, fallece la primera actriz mexicana Carmen Montejo a los 87 años de edad. Actuo, entre otras peliculas, en “La verdadera vocacion de Magdalena”, opera prima de Jaime Humberto Hermosillo de 1971 al lado de Emma Roldan
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Alfredo Galindo @alfredogalindo.com · 15/01/2026
Today would’ve been the 101 Birthday of Mexican actor Ignacio Lopez Tarso, star of “Macario” (Roberto Gavaldon, 1960), the first Mexican film to be nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award. We remember him as the first guest of our podcast @125ycontando.com
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Alfredo Galindo @alfredogalindo.com · 11/01/2026
Happy birthday to Mexican actor and producer Alfonso Arau, who also directed in the early 90s the international box office hit “Like Water for Chocolate” (1993), which was shot on location in the state of Coahuila, Mexico
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Alfredo Galindo @alfredogalindo.com · 10/01/2026
Happy Birthday to Mexican actress Blanca Guerra, star of cult classics such as Alejandro Jodorowsky’s “Santa Sangre” (1989) and international box office hits such as “Clean and present danger” (Philip Noyce, 1994), starring Harrison Ford, among many others!
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Alfredo Galindo @alfredogalindo.com · 30/12/2025
Happy Centennial to Fred Niblo’s “Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ” which had its world premiere on December 30, 1925 in New York City and catapulted to stardom in Hollywood its protagonist, Mexican actor Ramon Novarro
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Alfredo Galindo @alfredogalindo.com · 29/09/2025
Celebrating Silent Movie Day remembering Mexican star Ramon Novarro, leading actor from the epic “Ben-Hur” (Fred Niblo, 1925)
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Alfredo Galindo @alfredogalindo.com · 12/08/2025
Heavenly birthday
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Alfredo Galindo @alfredogalindo.com · 06/08/2025
On August 6, 1986, Mexican actor and filmmaker Emilio “Indio” Fernandez passed away at age 82. One of the most important representatives of the Golden Age of Mexican Cinema, “El Indio” appeared alongside Bob Dylan in Sam Peckinpah’s “Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid” (1973)
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Alfredo Galindo @alfredogalindo.com · 25/07/2025
Chuck Mangione, in memoriam. He was a Grammy Winner, not an Emmy Winner, for this Music Score instead. Mexican actor Ignacio Lopez Tarso talks to us about this experience in the first episode of the first season of our podcast @125ycontando.com
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Alfredo Galindo @alfredogalindo.com · 03/07/2025
Michael Madsen, in memoriam :(
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Alfredo Galindo @alfredogalindo.com · 25/04/2025
Hoy en el canal De Pelicula (Mexico) la primera pelicula de tematica gay del cineasta mexicano Jaime Humberto Hermosillo “El cumpleaños del perro” (1975), protagonizada por los primeros actores Hector Bonilla y Diana Bracho y sobre la cual nos habla la actriz en nuestro podcast @125ycontando.com
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Alfredo Galindo @alfredogalindo.com · 26/03/2025
Born #OTD in 1904 on Coahuila, Mexico, Emilio “Indio” Fernandez starred alongside Bob Dylan in Sam Peckinpah’s “Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid” (1973) after another western classic “The Wild Bunch” (1969) and before “Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia” (1974)
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Alfredo Galindo @alfredogalindo.com · 25/02/2025
Carmen Montejo and Emma Roldan starred in Jaime Humberto Hermosillo’s directorial film debut “La verdadera vocacion de Magdalena” (1971). Montejo, a Mexican acting legend on stage, film and TV, died on February 25, 2013, at age 87
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Alfredo Galindo @alfredogalindo.com · 18/02/2025
Tongolele fue dirigida por el cineasta coahuilense Mario Hernandez en “Las noches del Blanquita” (1981), donde comparte creditos con Carmen Salinas, Lucha Villa y Maria Victoria, entre otras mas
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Alfredo Galindo @alfredogalindo.com · 16/02/2025
Happy heavenly birthday to John Schlesinger, Academy Award Winner for Best Director of 1969 for “Midnight Cowboy”, starring Jon Voight and Dustin Hoffman. He would’ve turned 99 years old today
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Alfredo Galindo @alfredogalindo.com · 07/02/2025
Mexican actors Carmen Montejo and Antonio (Tony) Aguilar worked together for the first time in the Puerto Rico theater of New York in 1954. In the early 70s, according to Miss Montejo, also in New York Tony invited her to be part of the cast of the first gay themed western “Los marcados” (1971)
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Alfredo Galindo @alfredogalindo.com · 06/02/2025
Heavenly birthday
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Alfredo Galindo @alfredogalindo.com · 22/01/2025
Hermosillo’s biggest international hit is “Dona Herlinda y su hijo” (1985), starring Guadalupe del Toro, mother of renowned filmmaker Guillermo del Toro who worked as a production manager in the film and since then recognized Hermosillo as his film mentor. Hermosillo passed away on January 13, 2020
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Alfredo Galindo @alfredogalindo.com · 22/01/2025
Hermosillo’s first gay themed film was “El cumpleaños del perro” (1975), starring Hector Bonilla and Diana Bracho, who talks about this experience in the eight episode of our podcast @125ycontando.com
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Alfredo Galindo @alfredogalindo.com · 22/01/2025
OTD back in 1942 one of the best filmmakers of the famous generation of the New Mexican cinema of the 70s, Jaime Humberto Hermosillo, was born, being his directorial film debut “La verdadera vocacion de Magdalena” (1971), starring Angelica Maria, “La Novia de Mexico”, and Carmen Montejo
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