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Eligio Meléndez
0.3 Popularity
Biography
Eligio Meléndez is a Mexican film, theater and television director and actor, born on June 20, 1950, in Mexico City. He studied at the Andrés Soler Acting Institute, with the renowned Luis Gimeno, Carlos Ancira, Miguel Círcega and Soledad Ruíz as teachers. One of the most recognized personalities in theater, the actor has participated in more than 30 works, including The Flower of the Heart, Borges with Music, The Enchanted Mirror, The Old Men, Trufaldino Servant of Two Patrons, Mexican Entremeses, Mexico Pachuco, Soldado Razo, among others. In film, Eligio made his debut in the film Perseguida (1991), and then built an interesting and lucrative career with roles in films such as The Colonel Doesn't Have Anyone Write to Him (1999), In the Country of Nothing Happens (2000), for which that he would receive his first Ariel nomination; Perfume of violets (2001), Amar te duele (2002), Curandero (2005), The last one and we leave (2009), Hidalgo – The untold story (2010), Yerbamala (2014) and Dream in another language (2017) , for which he was nominated, for the second time, for an Ariel award.
Known For
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Ezekiel
Border Hunters
2025
7.8
Viejo Guerrero (voice)
Aztec Batman: Clash of Empires
2025
0.0
Gabriel
Public Phone
2025
7.2
Gedeón Céspedes
The Dead Girls
2025
0.0
Abuelo Vicente
Mi Amigo Bernardo
2025
0.0
Fuego en el sur
2025
5.7
Fernando's Father
Dreams
2025
6.0
#Rats
2024
🎬
0.0
*****… (Los Asteriscos…)
2024
8.5
Aureliano
Underdog
2024
Credits
Border Hunters
as Ezekiel
2025
7.0
Aztec Batman: Clash of Empires
as Viejo Guerrero (voice)
2025
7.8
Public Phone
as Gabriel
2025
0.0
The Dead Girls
as Gedeón Céspedes
2025
7.2
Mi Amigo Bernardo
as Abuelo Vicente
2025
0.0
Fuego en el sur
2025
0.0
Dreams
as Fernando's Father
2025
5.7
#Rats
2024
6.0
🎬
*****… (Los Asteriscos…)
2024
0.0
Underdog
as Aureliano
2024
8.5
Disappear Completely
as Elías Lozano Mata
2024
6.6
El día que todo cambió
as Fausto (Cantinero)
2024
6.0
The Perfect Tomato
2024
10.0
🎬
Jefecita
2023
0.0
The Great Seduction
as Simón
2023
6.7
El colapso
as Román
2023
7.3
Medusa
as Esposo
2022
6.0
Recurring Patients
as Raúl
2022
2.0
More Tomorrow Than Before
2022
0.0
Living all of Life
as Leo
2022
10.0
Sex, Shame and Tears 2
as Old Man
2022
6.7
Cecilia
2021
7.6
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Siete en punto
2021
0.0
La Civil
as Quique
2021
7.7
New Order
as Rolando
2020
6.4
Tragic Jungle
as Mundo
2020
6.2
El Candidato
as Julio de Velasco
2020
6.8
This Is Tomas
as Reparador
2019
6.7
Guardia García
as Rodolfo Silva
2018
2.0
Fireflies
as Jorge
2018
5.9
An Unknown Enemy
as Fidel Velázquez
2018
8.0
El Día de la Unión
as Achichincle
2018
6.6
I Dream in Another Language
as Evaristo
2017
7.8
Bleak Street
as Dad
2015
6.1
Yerbamala
as Anselmo
2014
5.0
Vultures
2014
5.0
The Impostor
as Padre Camilo Fernández
2014
7.2
Ismael
as Ismael
2012
0.0
The Compass Is Carried by the Dead Man
as Adulto
2011
5.5
The Reasons of the Heart
as Lawyer
2011
6.0
Hidalgo: la historia jamás contada
as Ascanio
2010
4.9
One for the Road
as Birthday Girl's Father
2010
6.8
Curandero
as Gomez
2005
5.6
Love Hurts
as Martin
2002
8.0
The Virgin of Lust
as Don Nemesio
2002
6.8
¿De qué lado estás?
2002
5.0
Violet Perfume: Nobody Hears You
as Padrastro de Yessica
2001
7.8
The Ruination of Men
as The Guard
2000
6.0
In The Country Where Nothing Happens
as Don Jacinto
2000
6.2
No One Writes to the Colonel
as Sotero
1999
5.3
Reencuentros
1997
5.0
The Overturning Of The Heart
1996
4.6
Repartidores de muerte
1993
4.0
Perseguida
1991
3.4
Curvas peligrosas
1991
5.0
Quietud
N/A
0.0
🎬
El Extraordinario Hombre Halcón
as Don Gustavo
N/A
0.0
Desechos
as Arturo
N/A
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