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Jacobo Morales is a Actor, Director, Scriptwriter, Producer and Editor American born on 12 november 1934 at Lajas, Puerto Rico (USA)

Jacobo Morales

Jacobo Morales
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Nationality USA
Birth 12 november 1934 at Lajas, Puerto Rico (USA)
Death 29 september 2010 (at 75 years)

Jacobo Morales (born 12 November 1934) is a Puerto Rican actor, poet, writer, playwright, filmmaker, and auteur. Many consider him the most influential film director in Puerto Rico's history.

Biography

Né de parents d'origine séfarade, il amorce sa carrière à la radio et au théâtre alors qu'il n'a que 14 ans.

En 1954, il commence à travailler pour la télévision comme acteur, scénariste et réalisateur. Entre-temps, il dirige une troupe de comédiens qui, avec en collaboration avec le journaliste Eddie López, monte des comédies et des satires politiques. La troupe se produit uniquement sur scène, avec plus de 30 pièces à son répertoire, jusqu'aux années 1980 et 1990, où elle enregistre plusieurs de ses spectacles pour la télévision.

Dans les années 1970, Jacobo Morales a la possibilité de jouer dans des productions hollywoodiennes, notamment aux côtés de Woody Allen dans Bananas et de Barbra Streisand dans Up the Sandbox d'Irvin Kershner.

Dios los cría, son premier film en tant que réalisateur, sort en 1979. Événement important de l'histoire du cinéma portoricain, le film est un succès public et critique.

En 1989, Lo que le pasó a Santiago, son troisième film, est nommé pour l'Oscar du meilleur film en langue étrangère à la 62e cérémonie des Oscars en 1990.

En 1994, Linda Sara, mettant en vedette la chanteuse Chayanne et la Miss Univers 1993 Dayanara Torres, est un autre gros succès. Le film reçoit, entre autres, le prix du public au Festival international du film de Mar del Plata en Argentine.

Après le documentaire Enredando sombras sur les origines et l'histoire du cinéma latino-américain qu'il réalise en 1998, Morales signe en 2004 une suite de son premier film, Dios los cría II.

En 2007, Ángel, son dernier film long métrage, est un thiller sur fond de corruption des services de l'ordre.

Usually with

Miguel Ángel Suárez
Miguel Ángel Suárez
(3 films)
Gladys Rodríguez
Gladys Rodríguez
(2 films)
Daniel Lugo
Daniel Lugo
(2 films)
Johanna Rosaly
Johanna Rosaly
(2 films)
Alicia Moreda
Alicia Moreda
(1 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Jacobo Morales (7 films)

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Actor

Broche de Oro
Broche de Oro (2012)
, 1h30
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Jacobo Morales, Luis Raúl, Michael Stuart
Roles Rafael Medina
Rating77% 3.879063.879063.879063.879063.87906
Carlos (Luis Omar O'Farrill) is an aspiring surfer, whose father, Alberto (Carlos Esteban Fonseca), disapproves of his passion. They both visit Alberto's father, Rafael (Jacobo Morales), at the Catholic retirement home he lives in. Carlos is left with his grandfather and his friends Pablo (Diego de la Texera) and Anselmo (Adrián García), whom Pablo nicknames "Elmo". Alberto later picks up Carlos, he tells Rafael he and Carlos are moving to Orlando for his job, leaving Rafael without words. After leaving the retirement home and realizing what little time he has before he moves, Carlos calls Rafael later that night to invite him and his elder friends to a road trip to Loíza for a surfing competition and for Rafael to show him the family land. Early the next morning, the elders manage to sneak out of the retirement home through the kitchen and head out to Loíza with Carlos driving his father's car. After realizing their absence, the Madre Superiora of the retirement home (Marian Pabón) recurs to the help of Noberto (Luis Raúl), the home's security guard, to retrieve the elders and bring them back.
Ángel
Ángel (2007)

Directed by Jacobo Morales
Genres Drama, Action
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Jacobo Morales, Miguel Ángel Suárez, Israel Lugo
Roles Mariano Farías
Rating61% 3.07613.07613.07613.07613.0761
The film follows the actions of a corrupt police captain, the title-character Ángel Lugo, performed by Braulio Castillo, hijo. Lugo is responsible for the wrongful imprisonment of Mariano Farías (Morales) and the murder of his pregnant wife (Sara Jarque).
What Happened to Santiago
What Happened to Santiago (1989)
, 1h45
Directed by Jacobo Morales
Origin Porto rico
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Actors Gladys Rodríguez, Johanna Rosaly, Jacobo Morales, Claribel Medina
Roles Arístides Esquilín
Rating71% 3.572743.572743.572743.572743.57274
Une veuve qui s'est retirée du monde depuis peu de temps fait la connaissance d'une mystérieuse jeune femme qui vient perturber ses habitudes.
...And God Created Them
...And God Created Them (1979)
, 2h
Directed by Jacobo Morales
Genres Drama
Actors Norma Candal, Daniel Lugo, Jacobo Morales, Alicia Moreda, Gladys Rodríguez, Esther Sandoval
Roles Fernando Sepúlveda (segment "La Otra")
Rating77% 3.858683.858683.858683.858683.85868
Dios los cría – A rich industrialist has died, leaving two sons and his widow (a buxom young woman) as heirs. While his body lies on a public wake, one of his sons sneaks out of the funeral parlor, goes to the father's office, opens the office's safe and steals the cash inside it. On his way out, he's confronted by his brother, who points a gun at him. They exchange words about their individual relationship, as well as how they related to their father and how his widow would not deserve any part of the old man's estate. They start to argue and get into a physical confrontation. One of the brothers shoots the other, but the wounded one shoots back the other in return with a gun he pulls from his coat. At the end, all three family members lie in caskets at the funeral parlor. Negocio redondo – Don Marcos, the lead of a construction company (and a lecherous old man who constantly imagines women around him being naked) visits the local Roman Catholic archbishop. They are discussing the last details of a land plot's purchase. Don Marcos tries to outsmart the archbishop when they negotiate the contract's terms, but the archbishop proves to be a clever negotiator. Once they sign the contract and the deal is closed, Don Marcos returns to his office, but has second thoughts and asks his chauffeur to drive him back to the archbishop's office. He asks for a private audience to confess his sins, to which the archbishop agrees. Besides conceding on his lewd behavior, Don Marcos reveals the archbishop that the plot he has sold to the church is overvalued, since a major road will soon run through it. The archbishop threatens to sue him and his company, to which Don Marcos reminds him that this fact has been revealed to him under confession, and therefore, cannot be revealed under penalty of excommunion. The archbishop reluctantly absolves the manager of his sins, and Don Marcos returns to his office, expressionless.
Up the Sandbox
Up the Sandbox (1972)
, 1h37
Directed by Irvin Kershner
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Comedy, Fantasy
Actors Barbra Streisand, David Selby, Jacobo Morales, Conrad Bain, Paul Benedict, Carl Gottlieb
Roles Fidel Castro
Rating57% 2.8521052.8521052.8521052.8521052.852105
Margaret Reynolds, a young wife and mother, severely bored with her day-to-day life in New York City and neglected by her husband, slowly slips into depression, finding refuge in her outrageous fantasies: her mother breaking into her apartment, an explorer's demonstration of tribal fertility music at a party causing strange transformations, and joining terrorists to plant explosives in the Statue of Liberty.
Bananas
Bananas (1971)
, 1h22
Directed by Woody Allen
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Seafaring films, Monde imaginaire, Films about sexuality, Transport films, LGBT-related films, Political films, Films about Latin American military dictatorships, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Louise Lasser, Woody Allen, Carlos Montalbán, Sylvester Stallone, Dan Frazer, Jacobo Morales
Roles Esposito
Rating68% 3.447963.447963.447963.447963.44796
Fielding Mellish (Woody Allen) is the main character, but he does not appear until after the opening credits. The cold open, which featured the assassination of the president of the fictional "banana republic" of San Marcos that completed a coup d'état bringing Gen. Emilio Molina Vargas (Carlos Montalban) to power, sets up the situation that Mellish would enter later in the movie. The scene was in the form of a championship boxing telecast on Wide World of Sports, with Don Dunphy as the host and Howard Cosell as the commentator.

Director

Ángel
Ángel (2007)

Directed by Jacobo Morales
Genres Drama, Action
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Jacobo Morales, Miguel Ángel Suárez, Israel Lugo
Rating61% 3.07613.07613.07613.07613.0761
The film follows the actions of a corrupt police captain, the title-character Ángel Lugo, performed by Braulio Castillo, hijo. Lugo is responsible for the wrongful imprisonment of Mariano Farías (Morales) and the murder of his pregnant wife (Sara Jarque).
What Happened to Santiago
What Happened to Santiago (1989)
, 1h45
Directed by Jacobo Morales
Origin Porto rico
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Actors Gladys Rodríguez, Johanna Rosaly, Jacobo Morales, Claribel Medina
Rating71% 3.572743.572743.572743.572743.57274
Une veuve qui s'est retirée du monde depuis peu de temps fait la connaissance d'une mystérieuse jeune femme qui vient perturber ses habitudes.
...And God Created Them
...And God Created Them (1979)
, 2h
Directed by Jacobo Morales
Genres Drama
Actors Norma Candal, Daniel Lugo, Jacobo Morales, Alicia Moreda, Gladys Rodríguez, Esther Sandoval
Rating77% 3.858683.858683.858683.858683.85868
Dios los cría – A rich industrialist has died, leaving two sons and his widow (a buxom young woman) as heirs. While his body lies on a public wake, one of his sons sneaks out of the funeral parlor, goes to the father's office, opens the office's safe and steals the cash inside it. On his way out, he's confronted by his brother, who points a gun at him. They exchange words about their individual relationship, as well as how they related to their father and how his widow would not deserve any part of the old man's estate. They start to argue and get into a physical confrontation. One of the brothers shoots the other, but the wounded one shoots back the other in return with a gun he pulls from his coat. At the end, all three family members lie in caskets at the funeral parlor. Negocio redondo – Don Marcos, the lead of a construction company (and a lecherous old man who constantly imagines women around him being naked) visits the local Roman Catholic archbishop. They are discussing the last details of a land plot's purchase. Don Marcos tries to outsmart the archbishop when they negotiate the contract's terms, but the archbishop proves to be a clever negotiator. Once they sign the contract and the deal is closed, Don Marcos returns to his office, but has second thoughts and asks his chauffeur to drive him back to the archbishop's office. He asks for a private audience to confess his sins, to which the archbishop agrees. Besides conceding on his lewd behavior, Don Marcos reveals the archbishop that the plot he has sold to the church is overvalued, since a major road will soon run through it. The archbishop threatens to sue him and his company, to which Don Marcos reminds him that this fact has been revealed to him under confession, and therefore, cannot be revealed under penalty of excommunion. The archbishop reluctantly absolves the manager of his sins, and Don Marcos returns to his office, expressionless.

Scriptwriter

Ángel
Ángel (2007)

Directed by Jacobo Morales
Genres Drama, Action
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Jacobo Morales, Miguel Ángel Suárez, Israel Lugo
Roles Writer
Rating61% 3.07613.07613.07613.07613.0761
The film follows the actions of a corrupt police captain, the title-character Ángel Lugo, performed by Braulio Castillo, hijo. Lugo is responsible for the wrongful imprisonment of Mariano Farías (Morales) and the murder of his pregnant wife (Sara Jarque).
What Happened to Santiago
What Happened to Santiago (1989)
, 1h45
Directed by Jacobo Morales
Origin Porto rico
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Actors Gladys Rodríguez, Johanna Rosaly, Jacobo Morales, Claribel Medina
Roles Writer
Rating71% 3.572743.572743.572743.572743.57274
Une veuve qui s'est retirée du monde depuis peu de temps fait la connaissance d'une mystérieuse jeune femme qui vient perturber ses habitudes.
...And God Created Them
...And God Created Them (1979)
, 2h
Directed by Jacobo Morales
Genres Drama
Actors Norma Candal, Daniel Lugo, Jacobo Morales, Alicia Moreda, Gladys Rodríguez, Esther Sandoval
Roles Writer
Rating77% 3.858683.858683.858683.858683.85868
Dios los cría – A rich industrialist has died, leaving two sons and his widow (a buxom young woman) as heirs. While his body lies on a public wake, one of his sons sneaks out of the funeral parlor, goes to the father's office, opens the office's safe and steals the cash inside it. On his way out, he's confronted by his brother, who points a gun at him. They exchange words about their individual relationship, as well as how they related to their father and how his widow would not deserve any part of the old man's estate. They start to argue and get into a physical confrontation. One of the brothers shoots the other, but the wounded one shoots back the other in return with a gun he pulls from his coat. At the end, all three family members lie in caskets at the funeral parlor. Negocio redondo – Don Marcos, the lead of a construction company (and a lecherous old man who constantly imagines women around him being naked) visits the local Roman Catholic archbishop. They are discussing the last details of a land plot's purchase. Don Marcos tries to outsmart the archbishop when they negotiate the contract's terms, but the archbishop proves to be a clever negotiator. Once they sign the contract and the deal is closed, Don Marcos returns to his office, but has second thoughts and asks his chauffeur to drive him back to the archbishop's office. He asks for a private audience to confess his sins, to which the archbishop agrees. Besides conceding on his lewd behavior, Don Marcos reveals the archbishop that the plot he has sold to the church is overvalued, since a major road will soon run through it. The archbishop threatens to sue him and his company, to which Don Marcos reminds him that this fact has been revealed to him under confession, and therefore, cannot be revealed under penalty of excommunion. The archbishop reluctantly absolves the manager of his sins, and Don Marcos returns to his office, expressionless.