Federico Curiel (19 February 1917 – 17 June 1985) was a Mexican filmmaker, writer and actor during the Golden Age of Mexican cinema. Curiel was born in

Monterrey, Mexico Monterrey ( , ) is the capital and largest city of the northeastern state of Nuevo León, Mexico, and the third largest city in Mexico behind Guadalajara and Mexico City. Located at the foothills of the Sierra Madre Oriental, the city is ancho ...

, he moved to

Guadalajara, Jalisco Guadalajara ( , ) is a metropolis in western Mexico and the capital of the state of Jalisco. According to the 2020 census, the city has a population of 1,385,629 people, making it the 7th largest city by population in Mexico, while the Guadala ...

as a child and attended the

University of Guadalajara The University of Guadalajara ( es, Universidad de Guadalajara) is a public higher education institution in the Mexican city of Guadalajara. The university has several high schools as well as graduate and undergraduate campuses, which are distr ...

Filmography

* ''The Curse of Nostradamus'' (1960) * ''The Blood of Nostradamus'' (1960) * ''Los autómatas de la muerte'' (1962) aka ''Neutron vs the Death Robots'' * ''Cazadores de cabezas'' (1962) aka ''Santo in The Headhunters'' * ''

The Mummies of Guanajuato ''The Mummies of Guanajuato'' is a 1978 book which reprints Ray Bradbury's novelette, "The Next in Line", illustrated with photographs, by Archie Lieberman, of the actual mummies A mummy is a dead human or an animal whose soft tissues and ...

'' (1972)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Curiel, Federico 1917 births 1985 deaths Mexican film directors People from Monterrey