Roberto Rodríguez Ruelas (

Mexico City Mexico City ( es, link=no, Ciudad de México, ; abbr.: CDMX; Nahuatl: ''Altepetl Mexico'') is the capital and largest city of Mexico, and the most populous city in North America. One of the world's alpha cities, it is located in the Valley o ...

, 1909-1995) was a Mexican film director. Brothers Roberto and Joselito Rodríguez were working in Hollywood as sound engineers in 1931 when Mexican President

Pascual Ortiz Rubio Pascual Ortiz Rubio (; 10 March 1877 – 4 November 1963) was a first Mexican President of Mexico from 1930 to 1932. He was one of three Mexican presidents to serve out the six-year term (1928–1934) of assassinated president-elect Álvaro O ...

, on an official visit to the city of Los Angeles, came to hear of their work and personally invited them to return to Mexico to film a sound-movie using the brothers' sound system - the result was the film Santa, 1932.

Selected filmography

* Santa, 1932 with actor-director Antonio Moreno, starring

Lupita Tovar Guadalupe Natalia Tovar (27 July 1910 – 12 November 2016), known professionally as Lupita Tovar, was a Mexican-born American actress best known for her starring role in the 1931 Spanish-language version of '' Drácula'', filmed in Los Angeles b ...

and Donald Reed * '' The Two Orphans'' (1950) * Diario de una madre 1956 * El gato con botas 1961 *

La Bandida ''La Bandida'' ("The Bandida") is a 1963 Mexican film. It stars María Félix. Cast * María Félix as María Mendoza 'La Bandida' * Pedro Armendáriz as Roberto Herrera * Ignacio Lopez Tarso as Anselmo * Emilio Fernandez as Epigmenio Go ...

1963Los Bracho: tres generaciones de cine mexicano - Page 147 Jesús Ibarra - 2006 "también de Gavaldón, La Cucaracha (1958), de Ismael Rodríguez y La bandida (1963), de Roberto Rodríguez."

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