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Katy Jurado
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Katy Jurado (16 January 1924 – 5 July 2002), born María Cristina Estela Marcela Jurado García, was a Mexican stage and screen actress.
Jurado had already established herself as an actress in Mexico in the 1940s when she came to Hollywood becoming a regular in Western films of the 1950s and 1960s. She worked with many Hollywood legends, including Gary Cooper in High Noon, Spencer Tracy in Broken Lance, and Marlon Brando in One-Eyed Jacks, and such respected directors as Fred Zinneman (High Noon), Sam Peckinpah (The Wild Bunch and Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid) and John Huston (Under the Volcano).
Jurado made seventy one films during her career. She became the first Latina/Hispanic actress n…
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Katy Jurado (16 January 1924 – 5 July 2002), born María Cristina Estela Marcela Jurado García, was a Mexican stage and screen actress. Jurado had already established herself as an actress in Mexico in the 1940s when she came to Hollywood becoming a regular in Western films of the 1950s and 1960s. She worked with many Hollywood legends, including Gary Cooper in High Noon, Spencer Tracy in Broken Lance, and Marlon Brando in One-Eyed Jacks, and such respected directors as Fred Zinneman (High Noon), Sam Peckinpah (The Wild Bunch and Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid) and John Huston (Under the Volcano). Jurado made seventy one films during her career. She became the first Latina/Hispanic actress nominated for an Academy Award when she was nominated as Best Supporting Actress for her work in 1954's "Broken Lance" and was the first to win a Golden Globe. Like many Latin actors, she was typecast to play ethnic roles in American films. By contrast, she had a greater variety of roles in Mexican films; sometimes she also sang and danced.
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3-D Rarities: Volume II
as (archive)
A Beautiful Secret
as Esperanza
The Hi-Lo Country
as Meesa
Divine
as Mamá Dorita
A Mexican Buñuel
as Self
Grace Kelly: The American Princess
as Self
Under the Volcano
as Senora Gregoria
Seduction
as Isabel
D.F./Distrito Federal
Barrio de campeones
Evita Peron
as Doña Juana
The Widow of Montiel
as Mamá grande
Los hijos de Sanchez
The Children of Sanchez
as Chata
The Recourse to the Method
A Little Game
as Laura
El elegido
as Doña Paz
The Bricklayers
as Josefina
Pantaleón y las visitadoras
Once Upon a Scoundrel
as Aunt Delfina
Faith, Hope and Charity
as Eulogia (segment "Caridad")
No Poster
Charity
as Eulogia
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
as Mrs. Baker
The Fearmaker
as Sara Verdugo
The Bridge in the Jungle
as Angela / The Witch
No Poster
The Butcher’s Wife
as Remedios
The Door and the Butcher's Wife
as Remedios (segment "La mujer del carnicero")
Any Second Now
as Señora Vorhis
Stay Away, Joe
as Annie Lightcloud
A Covenant with Death
as Eulalia Lewis
Smoky
as Maria
La Bandida
as La Jarocha
Barabbas
as Sara
Seduction Of The South
as Assunta Carbone
Then God Named It Earth
as Marta
One-Eyed Jacks
as Maria Longworth
The Badlanders
as Anita
Dragoon Wells Massacre
as Mara Fay
Four Women in Black
as Sister Monica
Man from Del Rio
as Estella
Trapeze
as Rosa
Trial
as Consuela Chavez
The Racers
as Maria Chávez
A Star Is Born World Premiere
as Self
Broken Lance
as Señora Devereaux
The Sword of Granada
as Lolita
Arrowhead
as Nita
San Antone
as Mistania Figueroa
The Brute
as Paloma
High Noon
as Helen Ramírez
Mujer de medianoche
as Carmela
Cárcel de mujeres
as Lupe
Bullfighter and the Lady
as Chelo Estrada
El sol sale para todos
as Amalia
White hair
as Luisa del Valle
The Seminarian
as Chayito
Prisión de sueños
as Carlota
Hay lugar para... dos
as Kitty (Amalia R. Legazpi)
El último chinaco
We the Poor
as The One Who Gets Up Late
Guadalajara pues
as Rosita
La viuda celosa
El museo del crimen
as Sara Ramos
Soltera y con gemelos
as Gloria
La sombra de Chucho el Roto
Bartolo toca la flauta
The Useless Life of Pito Perez
Balajú
as Lola
Internado para señoritas
No matarás
as Susana