José Torvay
Popularity:1.095
Known For:Acting
Birthday:1909-01-28
Place of Birth:Durango, Mexico
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Also Known As:Jose Yanez Torvay, Jose Torbay, Jose Torvai, Jose Y. Torvay, José I. Torvay, Хосе Торвей, José Yáñez Torvay

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
Two jobless Americans convince a prospector to travel to the mountains of Mexico with them in search of gold. But the hostile wilderness, local...

Code of Silence (1960)
An ex-mafioso moves to Mexico to become a writer, revealing mob secrets in his books which are met with understandable displeasure. He is soon...

Border Incident (1949)
The story concerns two agents, one Mexican (PJF) and one American, who are tasked to stop the smuggling of Mexican migrant workers across the border...

A Woman's Devotion (1956)
An artist suffering from mental problems from his experiences during the war goes to Acapulco on his honeymoon. Soon young women are turning up dead...

The Hitch-Hiker (1953)
Roy and Gilbert's fishing trip takes a terrifying turn when the hitchhiker they pick up turns out to be a sociopath on the run from the law. He's...

Bandido! (1956)
American arms dealer Kennedy hopes to make a killing by selling to the "regulares" in the 1916 Mexican revolution. American mercenary Wilson favors...

Borderline (1950)
The Los Angeles police know that Pete Ritchie has been bringing drugs into the city, but they can't pin a single piece of evidence on him. After many...

Miguel Strogoff (1944)
A Russian courier has to deliver a message from the Czar to the Grand Duke across enemy lines .On the way he encounters adventures and colorful...

The Torch (1950)
The story of a fear-inspiring revolutionary general who develops a passion for the daughter of a wealthy villager. It's hate at first sight so far as...

Kaliman, the Incredible Man (1972)
Archaeologists, tomb robbers, a strange character and an adventurer undertake the search for the tomb of an Egyptian pharaoh, driven by different...

My Man and I (1952)
In California, a Mexican-American laborer is falsely accused of shooting the racist farmer he was working for after the farmer stiffed him with a bad...

Mystery in Mexico (1948)
Insurance detective Steve Hastings is sent by his company to investigate the disappearance of a fellow agent. His first lead is the agent's fetching...

One Day of Life (1950)
A story about two men caught in the Mexican revolution: close friends before, but now on the opposite sides. One of them is military officer, while...

Chisum (1970)
Cattle baron John Chisum joins forces with Billy the Kid and Pat Garrett to fight the Lincoln County Land War in the New Mexico Territory of 1878.

Two Mules for Sister Sara (1970)
When a wandering mercenary named Hogan rescues a nun called Sister Sara from the unwanted attentions of a band of rogues on the Mexican plains, he...

Little Town (1962)
Reactionary local "Big Daddy" tries to prevent a school being built in his district.

Zorina (1949)
This overlooked, if not almost forgotten romantic melodrama from Director Juan Jose Ortega, features a South American-born beauty named Lenora Amar,...

Green Fire (1954)
In Colombia, mining engineer Rian Mitchell discovers Carrero, the lost emerald mine of the Conquistadors, but has to contend with notorious local...

Enamorada (1946)
In Mexican Revolution times, a guerrilla general and his troops take the conservative town of Cholula, near by Mexico City. As the revolutionaries...

Aventurero del mar (1939)
Adventure film directed by Carlos Véjar hijo.

Boom in the Moon (1946)
An American soldier (Keaton) during World War II escapes from an airplane crash over the Pacific Ocean. He arrives on a beach believing he has landed...

Cuatro noches contigo (1952)
Traveling salesman meets a young woman who's running away from home, and helps her evade detectives who are tracking her.

Black Wind (1965)
The building of a railroad under tough conditions from searing heat to freezing cold in the Sonora desert provokes clashes of passion and struggles...

Strange Lady in Town (1955)
Julia Garth, a female doctor, plans to introduce modern techniques of medicine to old Santa Fe in 1880, but is opposed by an established doctor,...

The Fugitive (1947)
Anti-Catholic and anti-cleric policies in the Mexican state of Tabasco lead the revolutionary government to persecute the state's last remaining...

My Outlaw Brother (1951)
Danny, a greenhorn from New York comes to the Mexican border in search for his older brother whom he has always looked up to. A Texas Ranger charged...

Se alquila marido (1961)
Female CEO hires a man to pass as her husband and act as figurehead of her business concerns.

Ni sangre ni arena (1941)
Cantinflas enjoys the bullfight show, and wants to crash in every of these spectacles. Also, there's a professional bullfighter, Manolete, who is...

Por mis pistolas (1968)
Fidencio Borer, an apothecary in a village on the northern border of Mexico, discovers some old title of a mine in Arizona and decides to claim them....

Untamed Frontier (1952)
The Denbow family denies access across their land to homesteaders. To evade a murder charge, Glenn Denbow marries Jane, the only witness who's in...

Pedro Paramo (1967)
When his mother Dolores dies, Juan Preciado, son of Pedro Páramo, goes to Comala to claim his inheritance; but when he arrives he finds an...

Maclovia (1948)
On a small Mexican island dwells a group of Indians who live in the traditional manner and who disdain outsiders. The beautiful Maclovia and the...

Maria Candelaria (1944)
A young journalist asks an old artist about the portrait of a naked Indian woman that he has in his study. The artist tells the story of Maria...

El ametralladora (1943)
Peasant farmer and landowner are rivals for a woman. Sequel to Ay Jalisco No Te Rajes.

Salon Mexico (1949)
Mercedes works as a cabaret performer to pay for her sister's studies. Problems begin when Mercedes and Paco, her exploiter, win a dance contest, but...

Los olvidados de Dios (1940)
A 1940 film directed by Ramón Pereda.

El rápido de las 9.15 (1941)
Every passenger boarding The Express has a story.

¡Cuando la tierra tembló! (1942)
A 1942 film.

The Jungle of Fire (1945)
A beautiful woman awakens passions in the workers of a camp deep in the jungle.. Venice Film Festival 1947

El Quelite (1970)
Agapito, leader of the revolutionary movement of his state, comes to a town, kills all the federales, and gets a girl who was promised to him for his...

La máscara de carne (1958)
Mexican feature film

Amanecer ranchero (1942)
The old massa dies and his son comes home to take over the hacienda. Things are going to be a whole lot different now; he's overturning all the old...

Fantasía ranchera (1947)
Young composer in a small town where everyone is very nurturing of his talent finishes his first opera and goes to Mexico City to get it produced....

Canasta Uruguaya (1951)
Screwball comedy about country girl who inherits a fortune.

El Cristo de mi Cabecera (1951)
1830s, guerrillas in the hills resisting the French occupation. Meanwhile, their leader has a French officer and another guy chasing after his...

The Brave Bulls (1951)
A matador must recover his courage after being gored in the ring.

One Big Affair (1952)
Lawyer Jimmy Donovan thinks a bicycle tour through Mexico is just the thing to keep him out of trouble until his client arrives. But when school...

Piña madura (1950)
Bad woman plays men off each other to her advantage; she ends up with about 8 guys she's leading around by the nose. How long can this last?

Rancho Alegre (1941)
Proud old family's hacienda is falling into decay, and the oldest son has to come back from college to set things aright... or does he have other...

Beyond All Limits (1959)
This typical Mexican melodrama is set in a coastal fishing village where a wealthy fisherman lives with his wife and young son. Their lives are...

Serenade (1956)
A wealthy woman discovers a vineyard worker with a beautiful operatic singing voice. She helps make him a star but then breaks his heart. He flees in...

Night Falls (1952)
Marcos is an arrogant jai-alai player who seduces and discards women until he himself becomes the object of a cunning revenge.

The Sword of Granada (1954)
In this period costume swashbuckler, Don Pedro de Rivera, the rightful owner of a Spanish castle seeks to reclaim it from an occupying Moorish...

The Golden Cockerel (1964)
A poor, but very lucky man in the cock fighting business, is hired by a rich man, but both are in love with the same woman.

Sonatas (1959)
In the fall of 1824 Javier Montenegro, Bradomin Marquis is spared death hanging by Captain Casares, and in return, the Marquis agrees to help him...

The Littlest Outlaw (1955)
Little Pablito is the ten year old son of a cruel horse trainer. The trainer is responsible for training a Mexican General's horse to jump for the...

La extraña pasajera (1953)
Noir-style suspense thriller; three unrelated criminal schemes are happening on board an express train; all three get uncovered/solved/thwarted...

Kid Blue (1973)
Bickford Waner, an apparently naive young man from Fort Worth, arrives in the tiny Texas town of Dime Box and takes on a variety of menial jobs. He's...

A Life in the Balance (1955)
A widower's young son leads the police to a killer of sinners in Mexico City.

The Last Sunset (1961)
At a Mexican ranch, fugitive O'Malley and pursuing Sheriff Stribling agree to help rancher Breckenridge drive his herd into Texas where Stribling...