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Josefina Echánove is a Actor Mexicaine born on 29 september 1927

Josefina Echánove

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Birth name Josefina Echánove
Nationality Mexique
Birth 29 september 1927 (97 years)

Josefina Echánove is a Mexican actress, model and journalist.

Echánove started working as an actress and then later became a journalist.

Biography

Actress-journalist Josefina Echánove was born and raised in Guanajuato, Mexico. She came to fame with the release of the short film Laberinto in 1975. In late 1970s, Josefina worked in the Premios ACE award winning Drama Telenovela "La Plaza de Puerto Santo".

She married lawyer Alonso Echánove, and together they have two daughters and one son. Their oldest son, Alonso Echánove, is an actor. Their daughters are Peggy Echánove and pop singer Marisol de las Mercedes Echánove, who is publicly known as María del Sol.

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Filmography of Josefina Echánove (12 films)

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Actress

Dance with the Devil, 2h6
Directed by Álex de la Iglesia
Origin Mexique
Genres Thriller, Horror comedy, Action, Adventure, Horror
Themes Transport films, Films about automobiles, Road movies, Comedy horror films
Actors Rosie Perez, Javier Bardem, Harley Cross, Aimee Graham, James Gandolfini, Demián Bichir
Roles Romeo's Grandmother
Rating63% 3.1520753.1520753.1520753.1520753.152075
Perdita (Rosie Perez) is a tough, no-nonsense lady clad in a Tura Satana-style black outfit. She meets Romeo Dolorosa (Javier Bardem), a maniacal criminal who also happens to be an even more maniacal witch doctor. Romeo robs a bank but risks getting caught in order to force the Bank Teller to strip her shirt and reveal her large breasts. Once in the street, he hides his face from the cops by grabbing and french kissing a random woman on the street. Crossing the border into Mexico together, Perdita and Romeo become lovers and partners in crime as they kidnap a random Anglo-Saxon teenage couple in order to sacrifice them. Along the way they also hijack a truckload of human fetuses and try to evade a determined Drug Enforcement Administration officer (James Gandolfini).
The Burning Season, 2h3
Directed by John Frankenheimer
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Environmental films, Documentary films about environmental issues, Documentary films about nature
Actors Raúl Juliá, Carmen Argenziano, Sônia Braga, Kamala Lopez, Luis Guzmán, Nigel Havers
Roles Town Woman
Rating70% 3.530933.530933.530933.530933.53093
Chico Mendes was a Brazilian rubber tapper, unionist and environmental activist who was murdered in 1988 by ranchers opposed to his activism. The movie opens in 1951 with a young Chico Mendes witnessing his father's interaction with corrupt ranchers who are exploiting peasants for their work. The bulk of the film then takes place between 1983 and 1988, showing Mendes' activism to preserve the Amazon rainforest, to his murder in a drive-by shooting by a disgruntled rancher.
Cabeza de Vaca, 1h51
Directed by Nicolás Echevarría
Origin Mexique
Genres Drama, Biography, Action, Adventure, Historical
Actors Daniel Giménez Cacho, Josefina Echánove, Mayra Sérbulo
Roles Anciana Avavar
Rating68% 3.443153.443153.443153.443153.44315
Le film relate les aventures d'Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, un des premiers explorateurs espagnols, lors de sa traversée de ce qui allait devenir le sud-ouest des États-Unis et le Mexique, devenant un chaman.
Pure Luck
Pure Luck (1991)
, 1h36
Directed by Nadia Tass
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Adventure, Crime
Actors Martin Short, Danny Glover, Sheila Kelley, Harry Shearer, Sam Wanamaker, Scott Wilson
Roles Nun
Rating57% 2.8981052.8981052.8981052.8981052.898105
The daughter of a wealthy businessman has disappeared in Mexico, and all the efforts to find her have been unsuccessful. A psychologist (Harry Shearer), knowing that the girl has ultra bad luck, persuades her father (Sam Wanamaker) to send one of his employees (Martin Short), an accountant with super bad luck, to find her. Perhaps he will be lucky, and his bad luck could help to find the unlucky girl.
Old Gringo
Old Gringo (1989)
, 1h59
Directed by Luis Puenzo
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure, Romance
Themes Political films
Actors Jane Fonda, Gregory Peck, Jimmy Smits, Luis Puenzo, Jim Metzler, Jenny Gago
Roles Clementina
Rating58% 2.9000452.9000452.9000452.9000452.900045
American schoolteacher Harriet Winslow (Jane Fonda) goes to Mexico to work as a governess for the Miranda family, and becomes caught up in the Mexican revolution. Mexicans transporting her from Chihuahua, secretly soldiers of Pancho Villa's army, use her luggage to smuggle weapons to the servants at the Miranda hacienda. The servants in turn aid the attacking revolutionary army of General Tomas Arroyo (Jimmy Smits). During the attack, a sardonic "Old Gringo", American author Ambrose Bierce (Gregory Peck), joins the fighting on the side of the revolutionaries; he operates a railway switch that sends a railroad flatcar laden with explosives to its target.
Romelia's Secret, 1h40
Origin Mexique
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Pedro Armendáriz (fils), Dolores Beristáin, Arcelia Ramírez, Diana Bracho, Lumi Cavazos, Josefina Echánove
Roles Castula
Rating65% 3.2920553.2920553.2920553.2920553.292055
Le film raconte l'histoire de trois générations de femmes et leurs idées sur la virginité.
Amityville 3-D, 1h45
Directed by Richard Fleischer
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Fantastic, Horror
Themes Films about religion, Demons in film, Ghost films
Actors Tony Roberts, Tess Harper, Robert Joy, Lori Loughlin, Candy Clark, Leora Dana
Roles Dolores
Rating42% 2.107522.107522.107522.107522.10752
After he exposes a pair of con artists with his partner Melanie (Candy Clark) in the infamous 112 Ocean Avenue house in Amityville journalist John Baxter (Tony Roberts) is persuaded to purchase the house by real estate agent Clifford Sanders (John Harkins). While preparing the house for John, Clifford investigates footsteps in the attic. He is locked in the room, where a swarm of flies attack and kill him. John believes Clifford died of a stroke, even after Melanie shows him some photos she took of the real estate agent before his death which depict him as a rotting corpse.
The Honorary Consul, 1h43
Directed by John Mackenzie
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Action, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Political films
Actors Michael Caine, Richard Gere, Bob Hoskins, Zohra Sehgal, Geoffrey Palmer, Elpidia Carrillo
Roles Señora Sanchez
Rating57% 2.850872.850872.850872.850872.85087
Set in a small politically unstable Latin American country (in Greene's novel the setting is northern Argentina), the story follows the half English and half Latino Dr. Eduardo Plarr (Richard Gere), who left his home to find a better life. Along the way he meets an array of people, including British Consul Charley Fortnum (Michael Caine), a representative in Latin America who is trying to keep Revolution from occurring. He is also a remorseful alcoholic. Another person the doctor meets is Clara (Elpidia Carrillo), whom he immediately desires, but there is a problem: Clara is Charley's wife.
Missing
Missing (1982)
, 1h57
Directed by Costa-Gavras
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Documentary, Historical
Themes Seafaring films, Politique, Transport films, Political films, Films about Latin American military dictatorships
Actors Jack Lemmon, Sissy Spacek, Melanie Mayron, John Shea, Janice Rule, Charles Cioffi
Roles Woman Doctor (Basement Ward)
Rating76% 3.8460353.8460353.8460353.8460353.846035
The film opens with Costa-Gavras' statement that the events of the film are true.
The Fungi Man, 1h50
Directed by Roberto Gavaldón
Genres Drama, Historical, Romance
Actors Adolfo Marsillach, Isela Vega, Philip Michael Thomas, Sandra Mozarowsky, Ofelia Medina, Fernando Allende
Roles Nana / Nanny
Rating58% 2.9011552.9011552.9011552.9011552.901155
The story unfolds in a family of landowners from the colonial era, which owns a sugar plantation on the edge of the jungle. While hunting in the forest one day, the father, Don Everardo, discovers a young black orphan by the river. He leads the child to his great farm and call him Gaspar. Friendly and intelligent, the boy quickly becomes a new member of the family. He plays with his son, Sebastian and his two daughters, Emma and Lucilla, as if they were his own sisters. In a separate story, this family takes fine dining. One of his favorite mushroom dishes are prepared with an old family recipe from Spain. The family discovers if the mushroom is edible collected getting a volunteer to eat a few first. If voluntary collapses and dies, then the family does not serve mushrooms in the party.