Biography
Katy Jurado (16 January 1924 – 5 July 2002), born María Cristina Estela Marcela Jurado García, was a Mexican stage and screen actress. Jurado had already established herself as an actress in Mexico in the 1940s when she came to Hollywood becoming a regular in Western films of the 1950s and 1960s. She worked with many Hollywood legends, including Gary Cooper in High Noon, Spencer Tracy in Broken Lance, and Marlon Brando in One-Eyed Jacks, and such respected directors as Fred Zinneman (High Noon)...
Known For
Complete Filmography

3-D Rarities: Volume II
2020
as (archive)
Blu-ray. 2020 release, the long-awaited follow-up collection of extraordinary 3-D wonders, including the feature-length El Corazón y la Espada, all ex...

Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
2004
as (archive footage)
An account of the life and work of American film director Sam Peckinpah (1925-84), a tortured artist whose genius and inner demons changed the Western...

A Beautiful Secret
2002
as Esperanza
The beloved screen legend Katy Jurado, the lights one last time in the history of a special friendship that develops between a lonely old woman and Jo...

The Hi-Lo Country
1998
as Meesa
An intimate story of the enduring bond of friendship between two hard-living men, set against a sweeping backdrop: the American West, post-World War I...

Divine
1998
as Mamá Dorita
"La Nueva Jerusalem" is a small community of believers lead by Papá Basilio and Mamá Dorita. They're waiting for the second coming of Christ, so they'...

A Mexican Buñuel
1997
as Self
A documentary covering the years Luis Buñuel spent in Mexico making films.

Grace Kelly: The American Princess
1987
as Self
A biography of American actress Grace Kelly from her early days as an aspiring actress to her death as Princess of Monaco.

Grace Kelly: The American Princess
1987
Thanks
A biography of American actress Grace Kelly from her early days as an aspiring actress to her death as Princess of Monaco.

Under the Volcano
1984
as Senora Gregoria
Against a background of war breaking out in Europe and the Mexican fiesta Day of Death, we are taken through one day in the life of Geoffrey Firmin, a...

D.F./Distrito Federal
1981
Anthology film, six little anecdotes about life in the big city.

Barrio de campeones
1981
Extended family in working-class neighborhood; story mostly focuses on a young man who aspires to a pro boxing career, his grandma and the restaurant ...

La seducción
1981
as Isabel

Evita Peron
1981
as Doña Juana
Aspiring actress Eva Duarte rises from a minor celebrity to the wife of a powerful Argentine dictator, but her all consuming fiery rage, ambition, and...

The Widow of Montiel
1979
as Mamá grande
Mexican drama film directed by Miguel Littín. It is based on a short story of the same name by Gabriel García Marquez. It was entered into the 30th Be...

The Children of Sanchez
1978
as Chata
Hall Bartlett directs the rural drama The Children of Sanchez, based on the tome The Children of Sanchez: Autobiography of a Mexican Family written by...

The Recourse to the Method
1978
Set in the early 1900s, this film charts the rule of a Latin American dictator as he moves from being a charming despot to a tyrannical ruler before h...

El elegido
1977
as Doña Paz
A guy is peer-pressured, despite his reluctance, to play the role of Christ in a local production of the Passion Play.

The Bricklayers
1976
as Josefina
When a worker is found murdered on the construction side, the investigation swiftly turns from things criminal to the political circumstances surround...

Pantaleón y las visitadoras
1975
Pantaleón and the visitors is a peruvian film made in 1975 and based on the book of the same name by Mario Vargas Llosa. Directed by the novelist hims...

Faith, Hope and Charity
1974
as Eulogia (segment "Caridad")
Three episodes. Faith: a woman is attacked. Hope: a fakir is crucified. Charity: a woman faces bureaucracy.

Charity
1974
as Eulogia
The charity of an elderly millionaire in a lost city provokes a series of reactions:

Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
1973
as Mrs. Baker
Pat Garrett is hired as a lawman on behalf of a group of wealthy New Mexico cattle barons to bring down his old friend Billy the Kid.

Once Upon a Scoundrel
1973
as Aunt Delfina
After falling for Alicia, greedy and powerful Mexican landowner Carlos has her fiancé thrown in prison on a bogus charge. To trick Carlos into releasi...

The Fearmaker
1971
as Sara Verdugo
A world-famous stage performer returns home following her father's death, only to find greed and evil awaiting.

A Little Game
1971
as Laura
A hostile youngster who will stop at nothing to break up his mother's marriage is suspected of homicide, and his stepfather fears that he may be the b...

The Bridge in the Jungle
1971
as Angela / The Witch
Gale (Charles Robinson) is an idealistic and naive young hunter who ignores warnings that no one can survive for long in the jungles of Mexico except ...

The Door and The Butcher's Wife
1969
as Remedios (segment "La mujer del carnicero")
A movie divided in two segments, the first "La puerta" (The Door) is about a high society gathering in which a door inside the mansion leads to a biza...

The Butcher's Wife
1969
as Remedios
The apparitions of a man who died during the Revolution lead a man to confess to the crime he committed for money.

Any Second Now
1969
as Señora Vorhis
A photographer plans to murder his rich young wife after she catches him cheating on her and threatens to divorce him so he won't get any of her money...

Stay Away, Joe
1968
as Annie Lightcloud
Joe Lightcloud persuades his Congressman to give him 20 heifers and a prize bull so he and his father, Charlie, can prove that the Navajos can success...

A Covenant with Death
1967
as Eulalia Lewis
An innocent man is found guilty of murder and sentenced to death, but as he's about to be hanged he accidentally kills his executioner. He now faces a...

Smoky
1966
as Maria
A cowboy named Clint bonds with a beautiful wild stallion that he trains, but after the two are separated and the horse ends up in a rodeo, Clint is d...

La Bandida
1963
as La Jarocha
During a lull in the Mexican Revolution when Francisco Madero became president and attempted to implement land reforms, two former revolutionaries are...

Barabbas
1961
as Sara
Epic account of the thief Barabbas, who was pardoned for his crimes and spared crucifixion when Pilate offered the Israelites a choice to pardon Barab...

Seduction Of The South
1961
as Assunta Carbone
Based on the events from the Italian civil war. In 1860's, a member of a guerrilla force captures a colonel from the opposing army and later leads one...

Then God Named It Earth
1961
as Marta
During the Mexican Agrarian Reform, an engineer travels to a town to distribute the land of the landowners among the peasants.

One-Eyed Jacks
1961
as Maria Longworth
Running from the law after a bank robbery in Mexico, Dad Longworth finds an opportunity to take the stolen gold and leave his partner Rio to be captur...

The Badlanders
1958
as Anita
Two men are released from the Arizona Territorial Prison at Yuma in 1898. One, The Dutchman, is out to get both gold and revenge from certain people i...

Dragoon Wells Massacre
1957
as Mara Fay
A cavalry officer, the sole survivor of an Indian attack, and a wagon load of prisoners travel through hostile Indian country.

Man from Del Rio
1956
as Estella
Mexican gunfighter Dave Robles outdraws the town's outlaw-turned-sheriff and is invited to fill the dead man's shoes. But a tin star doesn't bring aut...

Trapeze
1956
as Rosa
A pair of men try to perform the dangerous "triple" in their trapeze act. Problems arise when the duo is made into a trio following the addition of a ...

Trial
1955
as Consuela Chavez
A Mexican boy accused of rape and murder becomes a pawn for Communists and red-baiters. A courtroom drama set in 1947 and underlying post-WW2 acute pr...

The Racers
1955
as Maria Chávez
An Italian daredevil turns Grand Prix driver and works his way up to Le Mans with his ballerina lover.
A Star Is Born World Premiere
1954
as Self
Live television broadcast of the world premiere. Described by various participants as the biggest world premiere in memory, even bigger than the Acade...

Broken Lance
1954
as Señora Devereaux
Cattle baron Matt Devereaux raids a copper smelter that is polluting his water, then divides his property among his sons. Son Joe takes responsibility...

The Sword of Granada
1954
as Lolita
In this period costume swashbuckler, Don Pedro de Rivera, the rightful owner of a Spanish castle seeks to reclaim it from an occupying Moorish Caliph....

Arrowhead
1953
as Nita
Director Charles Marquis Warren's 1953 western stars Charlton Heston and Jack Palance. Chief of Scouts Ed Bannon works for the US Army at Fort Clark, ...

San Antone
1953
as Mistania Figueroa
After the Civil War, a cowboy who's a former Union soldier leads a cattle drive into Mexico now occupied by the French...

The Brute
1953
as Paloma
A tough young man, who helps to kick poor people out of their houses, falls in love with a girl. She lives with her father in the building about to be...

High Noon
1952
as Helen Ramírez
Will Kane, the sheriff of a small town in New Mexico, learns a notorious outlaw he put in jail has been freed, and will be arriving on the noon train....

Mujer de medianoche
1952
Young woman elopes with her fiancé; during their honeymoon, things happen that cause them to be separated, and she finds herself alone in a big city w...

Women's prison
1951
as Lupe
Evangelina murders her lover Alberto. In prison she meets Dora, Alberto's girlfriend, who was deprived of her freedom for his illicit business. An int...

Bullfighter and the Lady
1951
as Chelo Estrada
An American takes up bullfighting to impress the ladies but learns to respect the sport.

White hair
1950
as Luisa del Valle
Singer's-rise-to-stardom plot combined with long-lost-son plot.

The Seminarian
1949
as Chayito
Returning to his home town, seminarist Miguel is forced to trade the robes for a charro costume in order to solve several problems that appear in his ...

Prisión de sueños
1949

Hay lugar para... dos
1949
Union-organizing and labor/management conflicts among Mexico City bus-drivers. Sequel to "Esquina, Bajan!"

El último chinaco
1948
1880s-1890s rural adventure on horseback.

We the Poor
1948
as The One Who Gets Up Late
Carpenter Pepe El Toro lives peacefully with his daughter Chachita in an impoverished Mexico City neighborhood. He pursues a romance with the pretty C...

Guadalajara pues
1946
as Rosita
Curious film about the Mexican immigrant stunned by the dollar and the English language. The plot deals with a serious social mood, but narrated as ...

La viuda celosa
1946
Young-ish widow forbids herself the pleasure of male company in deference to the deceased.

El museo del crimen
1945
as Sara Ramos
Stage magician/amateur detective helps police to solve a murder.

La sombra de Chucho el Roto
1945

The Useless Life of Pito Perez
1944
Episodes from the life of an alcoholic hobo.

Balajú
1944
as Lola

Internado para señoritas
1943
1940s-style teen comedy set in a private school for girls.

No matarás
1943
A mother stands by helplessly while a scandal involving marital infidelity, blackmail and murder takes shape around her daughter.