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Katy Jurado
María Cristina Estela Marcela Jurado García, known professionally as Katy Jurado, was a Mexican actress. She followed in the footsteps of earlier Mexican actresses in Hollywood, including Dolores Del Rio, Lupe Velez, and María Félix. And her talent for playing a variety of characters helped to promote later Mexican actresses in American cinema. She acted in popular Western films of the 1950s and 1…
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Born 16 January 1924 · Died 5 July 2002 · Q259446
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2002· 2 entries
Made her final film appearance in Un secreto de Esperanza
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1998· 2 entries
Completed a Spanish-language film for director Arturo Ripstein titled El Evangelio de las Maravillas
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Mexican singer-songwriter Juan Gabriel composed a song for her titled, "Que rechula es Katy (What a beauty is Katy)"
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1997· 1 entry
Won Golden Ariel (1997).
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1992· 1 entry
Was honored with the Golden Boot Award for her notable contribution to the Western genre
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1984· 1 entry
John Huston convinced her to resume her career as an actress
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1981· 2 entries
Her son died in an accident on a highway near Monterrey
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Her son Victor Hugo died in an accident on a highway near Monterrey while she was filming a movie Barrio de campeones in Mexico City
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1980· 1 entry
Jurado filmed La Seducción, directed by Arturo Ripstein, for which she was nominated for another Ariel Award for Best Actress
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1978· 1 entry
Played a small role in the film The Children of Sanchez, where she shares credits with Anthony Quinn and Dolores del Río
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1976· 1 entry
Played the role of Chuchupe in the film Pantaleón y Las Visitadoras, an adaptation of the novel Captain Pantoja and the Special Service by Mario Vargas Llosa, who also directed the film
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1975· 1 entry
Participated in the Mexican film Los albañiles, again directed by Jorge Fons
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1974· 2 entries
Awarded Ariel Award for Best Actress for Fé, Esperanza y Caridad (1974).
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Jurado appeared in the American film Once Upon a Scoundrel (1974) opposite comedian Zero Mostel
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1973· 1 entry
Appeared in Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, directed by Sam Peckinpah
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1970· 1 entry
Filmed The Bridge in the Jungle opposite John Huston
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1968· 1 entry
Appeared in the film Stay Away, Joe in the role of the half-Apache stepmother of Elvis Presley's character
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1966· 1 entry
Played the mother of George Maharis's character in A Covenant with Death
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1965· 1 entry
Jurado returned to Hollywood for the film Smoky, directed by George Sherman, starring Fess Parker
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1962· 1 entry
Appeared as the historical character La Tules in an episode of Death Valley Days
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1961· 1 entry
Jurado returned to Mexico and filmed La Bandida (1962), where she shared credits with Pedro Armendáriz and temperamental Mexican actress María Félix, with whom Jurado had friction on the set
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1959· 2 entries
Acted for the first time under Sam Peckinpah's direction in an episode of The Rifleman
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Marlon Brando, with whom Jurado maintained a close friendship, invited her to participate in One-Eyed Jacks, his first film as director
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1957· 1 entry
Debuted on television with a guest appearance in an episode of Playhouse 90
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1956· 2 entries
Participated in the film Man from Del Rio (1956), opposite Anthony Quinn, one of the few Hollywood movies to have Mexican actors as main stars
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Jurado debuted on Broadway in the play The Best House in Naples (1956), by Eduardo de Filippo
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1955· 1 entry
Jurado filmed Trial, directed by Mark Robson, with Glenn Ford
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1954· 1 entry
Actress Dolores del Río was accused of being a communist sympathizer at the height of the McCarthy era, and the U
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1953· 3 entries
Starred in Luis Buñuel's film El Bruto, for which she received an Ariel Award for Best Supporting Actress, Mexico's equivalent of an Academy Award
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Jurado was captured in a portrait by Mexican artist Diego Rivera
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Had a role in San Antone, directed by Joseph Kane and opposite Rod Cameron
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1952· 1 entry
Won Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture for High Noon (1952).
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1943· 1 entry
Shortly after Jurado began her film career
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1924· 1 entry
Born 1924-01-16.
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