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 of ...

, 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 ...

, 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 by ...

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 Emilio may refe ...

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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