Juan García Garza (5 February 1905 – 12 October 1973), nicknamed "El Peralvillo", was a Mexican actor and screenwriter. He wrote the screenplays of the films of comedian Germán Valdés, beginning in Tender Pumpkins (1949), and was credited for the street talk featured in Valdés's films.Monsiváis, p. 114.Hershfield & Maciel, p. 76.García Riera, p. 170.
Selected filmography
Juan Pistolas (1936) El baúl macabro (1936) - Agente Gavilando Allá en el Rancho Grande (1936) - Gabino (uncredited) El impostor (1937) Canción del alma (1938) - Julían - bandido La Adelita (1938) - Eusebio Vargas Padre de más de cuatro (1938) - Apostadore La bestia negra (1939) - El Malcriado El charro Negro (1940) - Esbirro de Emilio Con su amable permiso (1940) - El deslenguado El Zorro de Jalisco (1941) - Esbirro de Ernesto (uncredited) The Unknown Policeman (1941) - Chusma (uncredited) ¡Ay Jalisco... no te rajes! (1943) - (uncredited) The Circus (1943) - Acróbata (uncredited) El misterioso señor Marquina (1943) - Villano (uncredited) Romeo and Juliet (1943) Espionaje en el golfo (1943) El corsario negro (1944) - Iván, corsario (uncredited) Me ha besado un hombre (1944) - Hombre celoso en cabaret El mexicano (1944) The Abandoned (1945) - Cliente de Margarita (uncredited) Canaima (1945) - Esbirro de Cupira (uncredited) A Day with the Devil (1945) Amor de una vida (1946) - Campesino (uncredited) El ahijado de la muerte (1946) - El coyote Enamorada (1946) - Capt. Quiñones The Pearl (1947) - Aid 2 Corridor of Mirrors (1947) - Compadre gordo Río Escondido (1948) - Esbirro de Regino The Pearl (1948) ¡Ay, Palillo, no te rajes! (1948) - (uncredited) El casado casa quiere (1948) - Luis Conejo Cara sucia (1949) Medianoche (1949) - El norteño Carta Brava (1949) - El Gorila Rough But Respectable (1949) - Sanforizado No me defiendas compadre (1949) - Sr. García Novia a la medida (1949) - Tambor Tender Pumpkins (1949) Ventarrón (1949) - Esbirro de Ventarrón (uncredited) The King of the Neighborhood (1950) - El Peralvillo The Mark of the Skunk (1950) - Pitaya Sinbad the Seasick (1950) - Juan el policía El ciclón del Caribe (1950) La ciudad perdida (1950) Mi querido capitán (1950) - Octaviano The Honesty of the Lock (1950) Oh Darling! Look What You've Done! (1951) - Peralvillo Los tres alegres compadres (1952) - (uncredited) The Night Falls (1952) - Esbirro de Marcial Chucho the Mended (1952) - Detective Las tres alegres comadres (1952) - El norteño The Beautiful Dreamer (1952) - Cavernario bruto Snow White (1952) You've Got Me By the Wing (1953) - Jefe de redacción Here Come the Freeloaders (1953) - don Octaviano The Island of Women (1953) - Isleño (uncredited) Plunder of the Sun (1953) - Bartender (uncredited) God Created Them (1953) - Asistente de licenciado Blowing Wild (1953) - El Gavilan The Unknown Mariachi (1953) Contigo a la distancia (1954) Sindicato de telemirones (1954) - (uncredited) Vera Cruz (1954) - Pedro Bluebeard (1955) - Director de periódico Qué lindo Cha Cha Cha (1955) The Tall Men (1955) - Luis Look What Happened to Samson (1955) Run for the Sun (1956) - Fernandez Barefoot Sultan (1956) The Bravados (1958) - Pepe Martínez Deputy Sheriff Guarding the Pass (uncredited) Ten Days to Tulara (1958) - Piranha Besos de arena (1959) El ciclón (1959) - Octaviano García El tesoro de Chucho el Roto (1960) - Octaviano Vuelta al paraíso (1960) - Filemón Vivo o muerto (1960) - Octaviano Garcia Garza Los valientes no mueren (1962) Sartana Does Not Forgive (1968) The Undefeated (1969) - Col. Gomez Misión cumplida (1970) - Policía (uncredited) Something Big (1971) - Juan Garcia El metiche (1972) Los temibles (1977) - (final film role)
References
Bibliography Monsiváis, Carlos (1997). Mexican Postcards. Verso. Hershfield, Joanne; Maciel, David R. (1999). Mexico's Cinema: A Century of Film and Filmmakers. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. García Riera, Emilio (1986). Historia del cine mexicano. Secretaría de Educación Pública.
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