Gabriel Figueroa
Camera
Born 1907-04-24
Died 1997-04-27
Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
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Gabriel Figueroa Mateos (April 24, 1907 – April 27, 1997) was a Mexican cinematographer who worked both in Mexican cinema and Hollywood. His mother died after giving birth to him. His father, unable to cope with the loss of his wife, left Gabriel and his brother Roberto to be cared for by their aunts. He studied painting at the Academia de San Carlos, and at the age of 16 he became interested in photography thanks to José Guadalupe Velasco. He later befriended other photographers, such as Gilberto Martínez Solares and Raúl Martínez Solares, and these three would then move on to cinematography. Figueroa made his entry in the movie industry in 1932 as a photographer of stills for the film Revolución of Miguel Contreras Torres. He was later one of the 20 cinematographers hired for the Howard Hawks film Viva Villa!. After a few jobs he obtained a scholarship to study in the United States where the established director of photography Gregg Toland taught Figueroa. Back in Mexico, his first film was Fernando de Fuentes's Allá en el Rancho Grande (1936) which would become one of the most popular films in Mexico and Latin America, and gave him his first award at the Venice Film Festival. He filmed 235 movies over 50 years, including Los Olvidados by Luis Buñuel, The Night of the Iguana by John Huston, The Fugitive by John Ford, and Río Escondido by Emilio Fernández. One of his main collaborators was Fernández, with whom he shot twenty films, some of which won prizes at the Venice Film Festival, the Cannes Film Festival, and the Berlin Film Festival. After collaborating with Fernández and Buñuel on their films with such actors as Dolores del Río, Pedro Armendáriz, María Félix, Jorge Negrete, Columba Domínguez, and Silvia Pinal, Figueroa has come to be regarded one of the most influential cinematographers active in México.
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Kelly's Heroes
The Young One
Two Mules for Sister Sara
Mientras México duerme
Your Excellency
The Heart of the Night
The Young and the Damned
The Exterminating Angel
The Night of the Iguana
Corazón salvaje
El jefe máximo
Under the Volcano
The Important Man
El circo
Nazarín
Balún Canán
The Fugitive
Macario
Simon of the Desert
María
La estrella vacía
Él
Coronation
Savage Sunday
Allá en el Trópico
Another Dawn
The Hidden One
El señor fotógrafo
Impaciencia del corazón
El profe
Pedro Paramo
The Unknown Policeman
Pecado
The Master of Ballantrae
The Angels of Puebla
Entrega Inmediata
Love of a Cabaret Singer
Virgen de medianoche
Enamorada
Ni sangre ni arena
One Day of Life
The Big Cube
Miracles Weaver
The Scapular
The Torch
The Three Musketeers
Maria Candelaria
The Unloved Woman
D.F./Distrito Federal
Fever Mounts at El Pao
La Cucaracha
Salon Mexico
El bolero de Raquel
Camelia
Pueblerina
Juana Gallo
The Children of Sanchez
Victims of Sin
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