Roberto Rodríguez (director)

Not to be confused with Robert Rodriguez.

Roberto Rodríguez Ruelas (Mexico City, 1909-1995) was a Mexican film director.^[1] Brothers Roberto and Joselito Rodríguez were working in Hollywood as sound engineers in 1931 when Mexican President Pascual Ortiz Rubio, 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)
• I Will Live Again (1940)
• The Woman I Lost (1949)
• The Two Orphans (1950)
• Diario de una madre 1956^[2]
• The Seven Girls (1955)
• Spring in the Heart (1956)
• El gato con botas 1961^[3]
• La Bandida 1963^[4]