{{Short description|Mexican film director}} {{for|the Mexican footballer|Ismael Rodríguez (footballer)}} {{Infobox person | name = Ismael Rodríguez | image = Ismael Rodríguez.jpg | caption = | birth_date = 19 October 1917 | birth_place = Mexico City, Mexico | death_date = {{Death date and age|2004|8|7|1917|10|19|df=yes}} | death_place = Mexico City, Mexico | occupation = Film director | birthname = | yearsactive = | othername = | homepage = | children = Ismael Rodríguez }}
'''Ismael Rodríguez''' (October 19, 1917 – August 7, 2004) was a Mexican film director.
Rodríguez rose to fame due to the movies he directed starring Pedro Infante,<ref>{{cite news |last=Avina |first=Rafael |date=19 April 2019 |title=La partida de Pedro y el azaroso encuentro entre Ismael Rodriguez y Pedro Infante en Mexicanos al grito de guerra (The passing of Pedro Infante and the chance meeting at the Mexican national anthem) |url=https://www.cineforever.com/2019/04/19/la-partida-de-pedro-y-el-azaroso-encuentro-entre-ismael-rodriguez-y-pedro-infante-en-mexicanos-al-grito-de-guerra/ |work=Cineforever |location=Aguascalientes, México |access-date=21 November 2020 |archive-date=6 July 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190706151227/https://www.cineforever.com/2019/04/19/la-partida-de-pedro-y-el-azaroso-encuentro-entre-ismael-rodriguez-y-pedro-infante-en-mexicanos-al-grito-de-guerra/ |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.proceso.com.mx/235475/ismael-rodriguez-y-pedro-infante-mancuerna-benefica |title=Ismael Rodríguez y Pedro Infante: Mancuerna benéfica |date=10 August 2004 |access-date=10 July 2019 |magazine=Proceso |language=es |archive-date=10 July 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190710140246/https://www.proceso.com.mx/235475/ismael-rodriguez-y-pedro-infante-mancuerna-benefica |url-status=dead }}</ref> and directed many major stars, including Dolores del Río, María Félix, Toshiro Mifune, Jorge Negrete, Sara García, Luis Aguilar, Tito Guízar, Gloria Marín, Carmelita González, Antonio Aguilar, Columba Domínguez and Flor Silvestre.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.excelsior.com.mx/funcion/2017/10/19/1195640 |title=Ismael Rodríguez, un grande del cine |date=19 October 2017 |access-date=10 July 2019 |newspaper=Excélsior |first=Lucero |last=Calderón |publisher=Imagen Digital}}</ref> He directed the film ''Ánimas Trujano'' (1961) for which he was nominated for an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1962 |title=The 34th Academy Awards (1962) Nominees and Winners |access-date=29 October 2011 |work=oscars.org |date=9 April 1962}}</ref>
Rodríguez's most renowned international film is ''Tizoc'', in which Pedro Infante starred alongside María Félix. For this role, Infante won the Silver Bear for Best Actor at the 7th Berlin International Film Festival.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.berlinale.de/en/archiv/jahresarchive/1957/03_preistr_ger_1957/03_Preistraeger_1957.html |title=Berlinale 1957: Prize Winners |access-date=31 December 2009 |work=berlinale.de |year=1957}}</ref>
He died on 7 August 2004 at the age of 87.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://archivo.eluniversal.com.mx/espectaculos/54922.html |title=Muere Ismael Rodríguez, el genio del melodrama |first=Gamalie |last=Luna |date=8 August 2004 |access-date=10 July 2019 |newspaper=El Universal |language=es}}</ref>
==Selected filmography== {| class="wikitable sortable" |+ Film |- ! Year ! Title ! class="unsortable" | Notes |- | 1965 |''El niño y el muro'' | |- | 1963 |''The Paper Man'' | |- | 1962 |''Ánimas Trujano'' | |- | 1961 |''Los Hermanos Del Hierro'' | |- |1960 | ''To Each His Life'' | |- | 1959 |''The Soldiers of Pancho Villa'' | |- | 1957 |''Tizoc'' | |- | 1956 |''Daniel Boone, Trail Blazer'' | |- |rowspan="3"| 1954 |''Romance de fieras'' | |- |''Borrasca en las almas'' | |- |''Maldita ciudad'' | |- |rowspan="2"| 1953 |''Pepe El Toro'' | |- |''Dos tipos de cuidado'' | |- |1951 | ''What Has That Woman Done to You?'' | |- |1951 | ''Full Speed Ahead'' | |- | 1951 |''A.T.M. A toda máquina!'' | |- |1951 | ''My General's Women'' | |- |1951 | ''Kill Me Because I'm Dying!'' | |- |rowspan="2"|1950 | ''Over the Waves'' | |- |''You Shall Not Covet Thy Son's Wife'' | |- |1949 | ''The Black Sheep'' | |- |rowspan="3"| 1948 |''Nosotros los Pobres'' | |- |''Los tres huastecos'' | |- |''Ustedes los ricos'' | |- | rowspan="3"|1947 |''The Three Garcias'' | |- | ''The Garcias Return'' | |- | ''Chachita from Triana'' | |- | 1943 |''Mexicanos, al grito de guerra'' |}
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== *{{IMDb name|id=0735879}}
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