Birthday: January 11, 2032
Mexican actor and director Alfonso Arau's first American film role was as bloodthirsty bandit Herrera in Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch (1969), a role he would later parody (albeit with a straight face) in the 1986 comedy Three Amigos! U.S. filmgoers were by and large unaware that Arau had long been a popular vaudeville, theater, and TV performer, and had built his Mexican film ...more- 1993
- British Academy of Film and Television
- Best Foreign Language Film
- Like Water for Chocolate
- nom
- 1993
- Independent Spirit Awards
- Best Foreign Film
- Like Water for Chocolate
- nom
- 2000
- Committed
- Grampy
- 2000
- Picking Up the Pieces
- Doctor Amado
- 1988
- Dynamite and Gold
- Indio
- 1988
- Stones for Ibarra
- Chuy Santos
- 1988
- Camino Largo a Tijuana
- Chino
- 2003
- A Painted House
- Director
- 2001
- The Magnificent Ambersons
- Director
- 2000
- Picking Up the Pieces
- Director
- 2000
- Catch a Falling Star
- Director
- 1995
- A Walk in the Clouds
- Director












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