Biography
Claudio Brook (28 August 1927 — 18 October 1995) was a Mexican actor. Born in Mexico City, Brook had a prolific career, making around 100 film and television appearances in his 38 years. He won two Ariel Awards. He died from stomach cancer in 1995. For his work in motion pictures, Brook was inducted into the Paseo de las Luminarias. Description above from the Wikipedia Claudio Brook, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Complete Filmography
Nahui Olín: Una mujer de los tiempos modernos
1996
as Narrator
"A Woman of Modern Times". María del Carmen Mondragón Valseca (1893 - 1978), better known by the name Nahui Olín. A Mexican artist's model, painter, ...
Utopía 7
1995
as Spacium
In a post-apocalyptic world where children are banned, a group of young rebels fight for survival against Utopia 7, the computer program who rules the...
Una papa sin catsup
1995
Gloria's grandmother is kidnapped by "La greñas", a gang leader, and is forced to impersonate her to save her grandmother's life.
Perdóname Todo
1995
Ricardo Alfaro is a popular composer and singer who has failed in life because of alcohol. However, things change when he meets Teresa Montes, a young...
El corresponsal
1994
as William S. Benton
William Benton, a rich British landowner and cattle baron was murdered, creating one of the most bizarre and sensational international scandals in his...
Fray Bartolomé de las Casas
1993
as Fernando El Católico
Three moments in the life of Fray Bartolomé de Las Casas; his youth encounter with the natives; his resignation in maturity to lands and encomiendas t...
Cronos
1993
as De la Guardia
Faced with his own mortality, an ingenious alchemist tried to perfect an invention that would provide him with the key to eternal life. It was called ...
The Stork's Mistake
1993
as Sr. Kuriansky
India María raises a kidnapped newborn and is pursued by criminals who want the boy.
Miroslava
1993
as Alex Fimman
The beautiful and popular movie star Miroslava is depressed tonight. As she prepares her suicide, her entire life is revealed on screen in a disturbin...
One Man’s War
1991
as Robledo
Anthony Hopkins plays an English medical doctor living with his family in Paraguay and treating the poor people from the surroundings, who has his lif...
Revenge
1990
as Barone
Michael ‘Jay’ Cochran has just left the Navy after 12 years and he's not quite sure what he's going to do, except that he knows he wants a holiday. He...
Romero
1989
as Bishop Flores
Romero is a compelling and deeply moving look at the life of Archbishop Oscar Romero of El Salvador, who made the ultimate sacrifice in a passionate s...
Licence to Kill
1989
as Montelongo
After capturing the notorious drug lord Franz Sanchez, Bond's close friend and former CIA agent Felix Leiter is left for dead and his wife is murdered...
Hope
1988
as Dr. Greene
At only 19 years old, Vladimir Olhosvky, fleeing the Russian Revolution and going into exile in Mexico City, will have to make his way in a new countr...
Frida Still Life
1986
as Guillermo Kahlo
This film is a chronicle of painter Frida Kahlo, and her encounter with the personalities of her time. Despite being confied to a wheelchair as a resu...
Murieron a la mitad del rio
1986
as Mr. Robinson
The Nativity: The Life of Jesus Christ
1986
as Jesucristo
Jesus Christ goes from being born in a manger to being King of the Jews . Walk where he walked, see what He did, and be where He died. What made him m...
Memoriales perdidos
1985
In the 16th century, an envoy from the pope and the king of Spain arrives in New Spain to deal with the case of Augustinian Alonso, in a state of auti...
The Nativity: The Life of Jesus Christ
1984
as Self
This colorful and inspirational adaptation of the greatest story every told follows the life of Jesus Christ from his birth through his childhood. As ...
Deveras me atrapaste
1983
as Padre de Aída
Teen angst in Mexico City is made all the worse by a young provincial woman's infatuation for a ghost, in this effective drama about disturbed youth. ...
Complot Petróleo: La cabeza de la hidra
1981
While Mexico swims in the oil veins that were deeded to him by the Devil, a bureaucrat is thrown into a whirlwind of intrigue and international espion...
Pedro Páramo
1981
The third film version of the popular Mexican novel, about a wayfarer who travels to a mysterious arid village, to meet the father who long ago abando...
Max Dominó
1981
Mexican feature film
Eagle's Wing
1979
as Sánchez
Two men, an aging Native American and a ne'er-do-well trapper from North America, race to claim the stallion Eagle's Wing in antebellum Mexico, meetin...
Only Once in a Lifetime
1979
as Jimenez
For 20 years, since his wife died only a year after they came to California as young, hopeful newly-weds, life has been hard on Francisco. A talented,...
Matar por matar
1979
as Jeremías
The Bees
1978
as Dr. Franklin Miller
Corporate smuggling of South American killer bees into the United States results in huge swarms terrorizing the northern hemisphere. A small team of s...
Duro pero seguro
1978
Nicolasa sells tacos near a movie studio and her popularity threatens the restaurant's own studies. She drops the food when seeing actor Armando perfo...
Paper Flowers
1978
as Héctor Trejo
On the thinnest of pretexts, a horde of homeless people descend on the apartments of two members of the comfortable middle class and proceed to loot a...
Alucarda
1977
as Dr. Oszek / Hunchbacked Gypsy
A young girl's arrival at a convent after the death of her parents marks the beginning of a series of events that unleash an evil presence on the girl...
El mar
1977
as Arne
Local artists mingle with tourists and each other at a Mexican resort. Mingle, mingle.
The Smoking Fish
1977
A handsome young man is released from jail and goes to "El Pez que Fuma", a bordello in the outskirts of Caracas. La Garza, its middle-aged owner, hir...
The Return of a Man Called Horse
1976
as Chemin De Fer
Lord John Morgan has returned to civilized life in England, but finds he has nothing but disdain for that life. Yearning to embrace the simplicity of ...
Foxtrot
1976
as Paul
A Romanian aristocrat retreats to a desert isle with his wife and servants on the eve of World War II.
The Cornered Beast
1975
as Heinrich Werner
A man who pretends to be a Dutch immigrant, is discovered by the Israelite Secret Service that he is a German Nazi War Criminal who escaped to Mexico.
The Devil's Rain
1975
as Preacher
A Satanist cult leader is burnt alive by the local church. He vows to come back to hunt down and enslave every descendant of his congregation, by the ...
The Burning of Judas
1974
Jesús María Carmona is a small-time crook who poses as a cop so he can rob a bank. A few days before the day he planned to do it, a guerrilla group ro...
Chronicle of a Latin American Subversive
1974
as Colonel Robert Ernest Whitney
1964, in a Latin American country, a journalist is head of an armed liberation movement that decides to initiate radical actions. His second in comman...
The Holy Inquisition
1974
as Fray Alonso de Peralta
A plague is spreading through 16th century Mexico, and the Inquisition of the Roman Catholic Church is rooting out Jews, for they are believed to be i...
Cinco mil dolares de recompensa
1974
as Baker
A gunfighter is appointed sheriff of a town that is terrorized by a gang of criminals.
The Wall of Silence
1974
as Señor Olmedo
Regina, who lives with her son Daniel, loses her teaching job because his illegitimacy. She opens a sewing shop and keeps her child away from people. ...
The Mansion of Madness
1973
as Dr. Maillard / Raoul Fragonard
The inmates of an insane asylum take over the institution, imprison the doctors and staff, and then put into play their own ideas of how the place sho...
Interval
1973
as Armando Vertiz
An emotionally fragile older woman embarks on an ill-fated love affair with a handsome young artist while traveling through Mexico's Yucatan peninsula...
Castle of Purity
1973
as Gabriel Lima
A disciplined and sexually driven man forces his family to stay isolated in their home in order to protect them from the “evil nature” of human beings...
Jory
1973
as Ethan Walden
Jory is a fifteen-year-old boy who joins a horse-drive after his father is killed by a drunkard. The drive's leader and a likable cowhand take the boy...
Triángulo
1972
as Dr. Pedro Millán
The story of Mother and Daughter for a Husband and Stepfather who was killed by shotgun.
Aunt Isabel's Garden
1972
as Gonzalo de Medina
A ship carrying Conquistadors is wrecked and the survivors are thrown ashore to struggle through the Yucatan jungle.
The Assassination of Trotsky
1972
as Roberto (uncredited)
A Stalinist assassin tracks exiled revolutionary Leon Trotsky to Mexico in 1940.
Jesús, nuestro Señor
1971
as Jesús
Third movie in "Life of Christ" trilogy.
Fútbol México 70
1970
as Narrator
The 1970 finals saw the emergence of probably the greatest team the world has ever seen, in the all-conquering form of Brazil. Pelé was playing in his...
The Scarlet Lady
1969
as John Bert
Comedy about a self-made woman in Paris contemplating the idea of suicide at first, then murder.
The Milky Way
1969
as L'évêque
Two men, part tramp, part pilgrim, are on their way to Santiago de Compostela in Spain. On their way they meet a whole assortment of people—some trucu...
House of Pleasure
1969
as Baron von Ambras
Susanna travels to Paris with her small group of actors. There she saves Emperor Napoleon from rather painful predicaments, uncovers a number of nasty...
Coplan Saves His Skin
1968
as Francis Coplan
Free-lance undercover agent Coplan receives a phone call from an old girlfriend in Turkey. The panic-stricken woman gives sketchy details of a plot th...
The Blonde from Peking
1967
as Marc Garland
Spies from several countries try to find out what secrets are hidden in the mind of a young amnesiac girl who has appeared in Paris.
Your Turn to Die
1967
as Robert Foster
When Gordon Smash tries to get away with the loot from a successful diamond heist, his fellow conspirators shoot him in the back. Smash manages to get...
Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At!
1966
as Peter Cunningham
During World War II, two French civilians and a downed British Bomber Crew set out from Paris to cross the demarcation line between Nazi-occupied Nort...
The Clutching Hand
1966
as Professor Davenport
Two wrestling stars must investigate strange deaths and a secret criminal organization led by a madman who becomes invisible.
The Upper Hand
1966
as Mike Coppolano
In Paris, a gold smuggler is at war with other local gangsters who want piece of the action. Then the mob shows up and makes things worse. And an unde...
Viva Maria!
1965
as The Great Rodolfo
An IRA operative escapes to the Americas and teams up with a circus singer to create a popular vaudeville act. When the singer falls for a rebel, they...
Simon of the Desert
1965
as Simón
Simon, a deeply religious man living in the 4th century, wants to be nearer to God so he climbs a column. The Devil wants him come down to Earth and i...
Un hombre peligroso
1965
as El 22
Sequel to El Zurdo: ten years later, El Zurdo returns to his home town. The little boy whose father he killed in part one has grown up, and still want...
The Glory Guys
1965
as Rev. Poole
Though a fictionalized Western based on George Armstrong Custer's 7th Cavalry Regiment at the Battle of the Little Big Horn, the film is almost a gene...
Guadalajara en verano
1965
as Professor Fernando Luna
Tourists and exchange students find romance.
Entrega Inmediata
1963
as Alex
Immediate delivery recounts the misadventures of Feliciano Callosum (Cantinflas), a postman who is recruited by the secret counterintelligence service...
Santo in the Wax Museum
1963
as Dr. Karol
El Santo, the masked Mexican wrestler, investigates a series of kidnappings. He discovers that the mysterious Doctor Caroll is using the victims as pa...
Neutron vs. Dr. Caronte
1963
as Professor Walker
Neutron, a superhero/wrestler, goes up against a mad scientist and his army of monsters.
Cuando los hijos se pierden
1963
as Sr. Carlos de los Rios, padre de Silvia
Young woman's parents don't supervise her activities closely enough; she ends up going to a beatnik nightclub and dancing the twist and getting raped.
Neutron the Atomic Superman vs. the Death Robots
1962
as Professor Walker
The evil scientist Dr. Caronte plots to revive the brains of three dead scientists and use them to obtain the formula for the super-powerful neutron b...
The Exterminating Angel
1962
as Butler Julio
A formal dinner party starts out normally enough, but after the bourgeois group retire to the host’s music room, they inexplicably find themselves una...
Geronimo
1962
as Mr. Henry
In 1883, the Apache Indians lead by Geronimo reluctantly surrender to the attacks of American and Mexican troops, in exchange for a territory and food...
Neutron and the Black Mask
1962
as Professor Walker
Dr. Charon and his group of mad scientists built a neutron bomb with trying to blackmail the free world for global power. But the hero appears, Neutro...
Viridiana
1962
as (uncredited)
Viridiana is preparing to start her life as a nun when she is sent, somewhat unwillingly, to visit her aging uncle, Don Jaime. He supports her; but th...
The White Rose
1961
as Cónsul de México
An international oil company comes into conflict with a Mexican ranch owner who refuses to sell his land, resorting to a devious scheme to try to take...
Las cosas prohibidas
1961
Four unrelated stories about unmarried mothers.
¡Yo sabia demasiado!
1960
as Dr. Villafranca
The Young One
1960
as Rev. Fleetwood
A jazz musician seeks refuge from a lynch mob on a remote island, where he meets a hostile game warden and the young object of his attentions.
The Perfect Game
1960
Inspired by a real-life history comes the feat of a small group, led by their manager, Cesar Faz, that achieved what no other Mexican team in Little L...
El último mexicano
1960
After the US annexation of Texas, a landowner from Guanajuato faces problems from bigoted new neighbors.
El gran pillo
1960
as Arturo's brother
A comic movie that involves a guy who sees a kid in his house who escaped from his wealthy grandfather's mansion.
The Wonderful Country
1959
as Ruelle (uncredited)
Having fled to Mexico from the U.S. many years ago for killing his father's murderer, Martin Brady travels to Texas to broker an arms deal for his Mex...
The Vivanco Ladies
1959
as William
Two women of lesser descent are dedicated to stealing to support their brother's daughter.
Vagabundo y Millonario
1959
as Mr. Attorney
Tin Tan stands in as the double of a kidnapped millionaire.
El derecho a la vida
1959
as Priest
Four interlocking stories about pregnancy all intersecting in an obstetrician's office.
El dinamitero
1958
This Was Pancho Villa: Third chapter
1958
as Mr. Licenciado (uncredited)
The third and final chapter of director Ismael Rodríguez's series about Pancho Villa. Several stories about the life and death of the famous mexican r...
The Last Rebel
1958
Mexican western film about Joaquin Murrieta, the Robin Hood of the West.
Los hijos del divorcio
1958
as Fiscal
Daniel Boone, Trail Blazer
1956
as James Boone
Daniel Boone leads settlers into Kentucky, but must battle Shawnee Indians who have been persuaded by a French renegade that Boone and the settlers ar...