Roberto Gavaldón

Roberto Gavaldón was born on Jun 07, 1909 in Mexico. Roberto Gavaldón's big-screen debut came with Viva Villa! directed by Jack Conway in 1934. Roberto Gavaldón is known for Rosa blanca directed by Roberto Gavaldón, Ignacio López Tarso stars as Jacinto Yáñez and Christiane Martel as Georgette. Roberto Gavaldón has got 9 awards and 27 nominations so far. The most recent award Roberto Gavaldón achieved is Ariel Awards, Mexico. The upcoming new movie Roberto Gavaldón plays is La playa vacía which will be released on Aug 09, 1979.

Roberto Gavaldon was the most prominent director of the so-called Golden Age of Mexican CInema. One of the supreme artists of the melodrama, Gavaldon was a rival to Old Hollywood movies. Gavaldon's movies, like contemporary director Emilio 'Indio' Fernandez, were popular and populist. Because that Gavaldon's cinema has melodramatic plots, extravagant and larger-than-life star performances, feverish and hyperbolic scenarios, and thunderous and over-the-top musical scores. Few directors in the history of world cinema have been so fully and passionately dedicated to melodrama - not just as a movie genre, but as a distinct and legitimate art form in its own right. Besides his cinematographic activities, Gavaladon was fighting for the Mexican workers rights and against foreign investment in the country.