Alfonso Arau
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Alfonso Arau Incháustegui (born January 11, 1932) is a Mexican actor and director.
Life and career
Arau, the son of a physician, was born in Mexico City. He produced the films Zapata: The Dream of a Hero, Like Water for Chocolate (adapted from Laura Esquivel's book), A Walk in the Clouds with Keanu Reeves and Anthony Quinn), and the Hallmark Hall of Fame's A Painted Home (adapted from the John Grisham novel of the same name). Arau played "Captain Herrera," a lieutenant of Federal general "Mapache" in Sam Peckinpah's 1969 western "The Wild Bunch," chief bandit "El Guapo," a comedy starring Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner, as well as shady businessman Manuel in Romancing the Stone (USA, 1984), a comedy starring Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner, among a number of roles in his career. When a group of women decide to recommend the doctor for sainthood, Arau appeared in the 1972 Mexican film El rincón de las vrgenes ("The Virgins' Corner"), where he played the assistant of a false mystical doctor cruising from town to town, where he reminisce about their travels. The film was shot in 1920s rural Mexico.
Arau has appeared in numerous American and television series and plays as a character actor. Arau portrayed the bandit "Mando" who fires and wounds marshal Matt Dillon in the 1972 episode of Gunsmoke titled "Hidalgo."
Arau appeared and directed Calzónzin Inspector ("Caltzontzin", the Spanish word used in the Purépecha style to name their emperors) in 1973, a film based on a character from the Mexican comic Los Supermachos of Rius, a cartoonist who co-wrote the script. The film, which is influenced by Nikolai Gogol's The Government Inspector, revolves around two Mexicans who have been mistaken for government inspectors from Mexico City by the corrupt mayor of a small town. It is a witty political reflection aimed squarely at the then-governing party Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI) and its paramilitary caciques, during a period when freedom of expression in politics was heavily restricted. At least two versions of the film have been released, with one of which has had some scenes cut by state censorship, the most notable of which depicts the assassination of a renegade farmer by a cop who shot the farmer in the back.
The Santa Fe Film Festival honoured Alfonso Arau for his contribution to cinema in December 2004.
The Trick in the Sheet, an Italian-language film, was directed by Ken Reid in 2010.
He appeared in Chad, Matt & Rob's "The Treasure Hunt: An Interactive Adventure" in January 2011.
In February 2017, Debra Messing said that Arau belittled her for her appearance and body in her first film "A Walk in the Clouds." Arau denied the allegation later.