Ernesto Alonso

Ernesto Alonso (February 28, 1917 – August 7, 2007) was a Mexican producer, director, cinematographer and actor. He was nicknamed "El Señor Telenovela" ("Mr. Soap Opera") because most of his work centered on telenovelas known around the world.

Works

El Maleficio

Release Date2023-11-13

Charactersd Bael

Episode Count82

Vote Count54

Bajo un Mismo Rostro

After the murder of her father and brother, Irene Saldivar travels to Greece. There she meets and falls in love with entrepreneur Alexis Theodorakis. Carlos is the administrator of Irene's fortune and cooperates with Alejandro in a rotten and corrupt business where he marries rich women, kills them, and obtains their fortune. When Carlos finds out about Irene's marriage to Alexis, he formulates a plan to kill Alexis and obtain his fortune. During Irene and Alexis' honeymoon, Carlos' plan succeeds when the boat Alexis travels in explodes. A desperate and pregnant Irene returns to Mexico, where she falls in love with Dr. Diego Covarrubias. However, Irene is forced to leave him for the sake of her friend Carolina, since Carolina loves him and has cancer. Since Alejandro isn't able to win Irene's love, Alejandro gets in her life and forces her to marry him or risk losing her son - all of this as part of another plan Carlos formulated so he and Alejandro plot Irene's death in another fatal catastrophe.

Release Date1995-04-17

Charactersd Melchor Saldívar

Episode Count100

Vote Count2

The Young and the Damned

A group of juvenile delinquents live a violent life in the infamous slums of Mexico City; among them Pedro, whose morality is gradually corrupted and destroyed by the others.

Release Date1950-12-09

Charactersd Narrator (uncredited)

Vote Count537

Aprendiendo a amar

Release Date1980-07-21

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Charactersd Cesar

Episode Count200

Vote Count1

Lo blanco y lo negro

Release Date1989-04-17

Charactersd Ángel de Castro/Silvio de Castro

Episode Count140

Vote Count2

Wuthering Heights

In 19th-century Mexico, young orphan Alejandro is adopted by the wealthy, landowning Earnshaw family and moves into their estate, Wuthering Heights. Soon, the new resident falls for his compassionate foster sister, Catalina. The two share a remarkable bond that seems unbreakable until Catalina, feeling the pressure of social convention, suppresses her feelings and marries Eduardo, a man of means who befits her stature. Alejandro vows to win her back.

Release Date1954-06-30

Charactersd Eduardo

Vote Count35

Tragic Weddings

Jalisco, 19th century. Diego, a wealthy landowner, secretly marries Amparo, defying her father Juan Manuel, who fiercely opposes the union. Juan Manuel still holds a grudge against Diego, having once been his employer when Diego was just a laborer. Their secret marriage stirs jealousy and resentment, particularly in Octavio, Diego’s servant, and his wife Laura, who harbors unspoken feelings for him. As Diego departs for a military mission in Guadalajara, Juan Manuel, unaware of the marriage, attempts to arrange a match between Amparo and the Spaniard José Luis.

Release Date1946-05-30

Charactersd Octavio

Vote Count3

The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz

A bizarre black comedy about a man whose overwhelming ambition in life is to be a renowned serial killer of women, and will stop at nothing to achieve it - but not everything goes according to plan...

Release Date1955-05-19

Charactersd Archibaldo de la Cruz

Vote Count175

Everybody's Woman

A beautiful woman of affairs falls in love with a handsome young man of great promise. Fearing for his future, the man's father begs her to leave his son so that her reputation will not hold him back.

Release Date1946-01-11

Charactersd Carlos

Vote Count8

Reportaje

Reporters compete for cash prize awarded for biggest scoop on New Year's Eve.

Release Date1953-11-13

Charactersd Doctor

Vote Count14

Coronation

The traumatic story of an old bourgueoise in Mexico City, his relationship with his crazy grandmother, his sexually troubled past and his sick crush on the young and beautiful maid of the house.

Release Date1976-06-03

Charactersd Andrés Avalos

Vote Count8

Streetwalker

In Mexico City, two sisters live radically different lives: Maria, who—along with her supportive group of fellow sex workers—must deal with unscrupulous, abusive clients and her exploitative pimp, Rudy, and Elena, a society woman trapped in a marriage of convenience, who falls prey to Rudy’s fortune-seeking seduction.

Release Date1951-06-22

Charactersd Rodolfo

Vote Count12

The Pharaoh's Court

The wise men of the kingdom interpret a dream of Pharaoh and decide that Putifar, a victorious general, should marry Lota, a virginal slave.

Release Date1944-06-08

Charactersd Micerino

Vote Count4

The Hex 2: Messengers of Hell

Raul Araiza's chilling Spanish-language supernatural thriller tells the tale of two powerful beings, one good and one evil incarnate, fighting for control of Earth--and of a beautiful woman.

Release Date1986-10-01

Charactersd Enrique de Martino

Vote Count7

The Port of the Seven Sins

Career criminals vie for ownership of a disreputable waterfront dive and for the love of the cabaret-gal that sings there.

Release Date1951-11-11

Charactersd El Mirlo

Vote Count6

The Coward

A stranded ship. A man and two boys go to its rescue - uncle Arturo and his two nephews. The ship is empty, except for a little girl - the only survivor.

Release Date1953-03-05

Charactersd Arturo

Vote Count6

Girls in Uniform

Orphan Manuela's passionate crush on her teacher Lucila scandalizes their all-girl Catholic school.

Release Date1951-05-31

Charactersd Novio de Lucila (voz)

Vote Count10

La gallina clueca

Divorced mother struggles to raise her large family.

Release Date1941-12-04

Charactersd Roberto (uncredited)

Vote Count5

Felipe de Jesús

Biography of the first Catholic Saint to be born in Mexico.

Release Date1949-08-05

Charactersd Felipe de las Casas

Vote Count6

Price of Glory

Release Date1949-01-15

Charactersd Alberto Reyes

Vote Count3

La dama del velo

Andrea loves Esteban. Esteban murders his wife and goes go jail. Andrea marries Esteban's lawyer. Twenty years later...

Release Date1949-06-01

Charactersd Lic. Cristobal Gómez Peña

Vote Count5

Orquídeas para mi esposa

Release Date1954-06-01

Charactersd Ricardo del Río

Vote Count5

The Virgin who Forged a Fatherland

On the eve of the Grito de Dolores and faced with the threat of being arrested by the viceregal government, Miguel Hidalgo suggested to Captain Allende that the flag of the insurgent movement be the banner of the Virgin of Guadalupe.

Release Date1942-12-11

Charactersd Ignacio Allende

Vote Count7

The White Monk

In an Italian monastery during the XIII century, a white image appears sculpted by Fray Paracleto humble mystically and sew clothes. Besides a mysterious woman appears Orsina Galata. She tells her story to the Father Provincial and thus dates back to his past.

Release Date1945-10-06

Charactersd Fray Can

Vote Count5

Story of a Great Love

Manuel leaves town leaving Soledad in deep sadness. After several years of absence, the young man returns to find Soledad married to Antonio. However, the woman continues to be in love with him and both are determined to consummate their love.

Release Date1942-09-20

Charactersd Sacristán

Vote Count7

Crimen en la alcoba

A man's on trial for murder; a friend who could prove his innocence chooses not to come forward. An interested detective starts working to discover the how-come of all of that.

Release Date1946-10-16

Charactersd Federico Alarcón

Vote Count5

Marina

Adaptation of a Spanish operetta about a love triangle between two fisherman and a human female.

Release Date1945-06-21

Charactersd Pascual

Vote Count5

Las Lunas del Auditorio

Release Date2002-09-04

Charactersd Self

Episode Count2

Vote Count3

Speaking of Buñuel

Surrealist master Luis Buñuel is a towering figure in the world of cinema history, directing such groundbreaking works as Un Chien Andalou, Exterminating Angels, and That Obscure Object of Desire, yet his personal life was clouded in myth and paradox. Though sexually diffident, he frequently worked in the erotic drama genre; though personally quite conservative, his films are florid, flamboyant, and utterly bizarre.

Release Date2000-06-09

Charactersd Self

Vote Count12

A Mexican Buñuel

A documentary covering the years Luis Buñuel spent in Mexico making films.

Release Date1997-01-01

Charactersd Self

Vote Count6

Un rostro en mi pasado

Release Date1989-10-16

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Episode Count160

Vote Count2

Desencuentro

Release Date1997-11-17

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Episode Count100

Vote Count1

My Love, My Sin

Amarte es mi Pecado' is a Mexican telenovela that was transmitted in the year 2004. It is a production of Ernesto Alonso and the protagonists are Yadhira Carrillo, Alessandra Rosaldo and Sergio Sendel.

Release Date2004-01-05

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Episode Count95

Vote Count145

La antorcha encendida

A Mexican telenovela produced in 1996. It was the last historical telenovela produced by Televisa. The plot tells the Independence of Mexico, with an emphasis on historical accuracy.

Release Date1996-05-06

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Episode Count140

Vote Count4

El Derecho de Nacer

Release Date1981-12-07

DepartmentCreator

JobCreator

Vote Count3

Triángulo

Release Date1992-08-03

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Episode Count80

Vote Count2

El precio de tu amor

Release Date2000-09-04

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Episode Count95

Vote Count1

Labyrinth of Passion

Laberintos de pasión is a Mexican telenovela produced by Televisa in 1999. Starring Leticia Calderon, Francisco Gattorno, César Évora, in addition to the participation of Manuel Ojeda, Monika Sanchez and Azela Robinson.

Release Date1999-10-04

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Episode Count80

Vote Count31

El manantial del milagro

Release Date1974-01-01

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Episode Count209

Vote Count1

Extraño en su pueblo

Release Date1973-07-23

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Episode Count190

Vote Count1

Mañana Será Otro Día

The title "Manana Sera Otro Dia" is the name of a Mexican telenovela. It began in 1976, with principal actors Jacqueline Andere and Eduardo Fajardo. The title in English means "Tomorrow will be another day", similar to Scarlett O'Hara's famous lines, optimistic of future victory, in the 1939 film Gone with the Wind. In the Spanish title, the accented word "será" is pronounced as "say-Rah" but often the word for day is not accented. The telenovela's runtime was 30 minutes, and it had 253 episodes. The TV series was produced in Mexico by Televisa S.A. de C.V. Viewers' reactions to the show have been highly favorable.

Release Date1976-06-11

DepartmentCrew

JobCinematography

Episode Count253

Vote Count1

At the end of the rainbow

Release Date1982-03-22

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Episode Count180

Vote Count1

Muchacha de barrio

Release Date1979-10-10

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count202

Vote Count2

Amor prohibido

Release Date1979-02-12

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Episode Count190

Vote Count1

El chofer

Release Date1974-11-06

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Episode Count186

Vote Count1

El milagro de vivir

Release Date1975-07-28

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Episode Count230

Vote Count1

El derecho de nacer

Release Date1966-11-07

DepartmentCreator

JobCreator

Vote Count1

The Cockfighter

In Michoacan in the 1920s, Gabriel, a young farmer and champion cockfighter, finds himself in violent opposition to Roman, who not only wants to beat Gabriel's fighting cock, but to steal Gabriel's wife Rosa.

Release Date1948-10-27

Vote Count5

México de mis amores

Anthology of clips from classic-era Mexican films, with reality-footage of elderly actors discussing their memories of the period.

Release Date1979-10-12

Vote Count4

Maternidad imposible

Mother and child are separated during the Spanish Civil War. Believing the mother to be dead, the child is sent to a refugee orphanage in Mexico, then adopted. Meanwhile, Mama recovers from her injuries, and...

Release Date1955-05-05

Vote Count3

LA HEREDERA

Based on the novel by Henry James. In mid-19th-century New York, a young, plain-looking heiress named Catherine Sloper is courted by a handsome young man who is only after her money. Although her love for him is unwavering, her domineering father will force her to confront the harsh reality by threatening to disinherit her.

Release Date1994-01-01

Vote Count1

Mujer de medianoche

Young woman elopes with her fiancé; during their honeymoon, things happen that cause them to be separated, and she finds herself alone in a big city with no resources to fall back on.

Release Date1952-05-28

Vote Count8

El cardenal

Mexican feature film

Release Date1951-12-31

Vote Count3

Otra primavera

His wife dies and now he's free to marry his mistress and adopt their children officially. How will this play out?

Release Date1950-04-27

Vote Count7

A Doll's House

Adaptation of the play by Henrik Ibsen. Mexican version of " A Doll's House." A spendthrift wife hides from her banker husband that she is in debt to a dishonorable employee her husband has fired.

Release Date1954-03-04

Vote Count6

La torre de marfil

Philandering husband drives wife to the brink of suicide.

Release Date1958-04-11

Vote Count5

El padre Morelos

Biography of early-1800s Mexican priest/statesman.

Release Date1943-04-22

Vote Count3

Una mujer en la calle

An implausible accident causes a street prostitute to become close friends with an aristocratic old lady.

Release Date1955-02-03

Vote Count6

El globo de Cantolla

Three boys and three girls in the 1890s.

Release Date1944-07-07

Vote Count5

El Jorobado

Historical drama/swashbuckler: Spain during the Inquisition.

Release Date1943-05-05

Vote Count5