Francisco Ledesma

Acting

Known For & Full Filmography15 Titles

#1Si usted no puede, yo sí

Movie - 1951, 2h 15m as Don Inocencio

6.0 / 10
Comedy

Out-of-work actor and his burglar pal get jobs at an agency that pledges to do things the client doesn't want to deal with. Meanwhile, their boss is being stalked by seven Italian brothers who want revenge for something that happened to their great great grandfather.

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#2The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz

Movie - 1955, 2h 15m as Antique shop asst. (uncredited)

7.3 / 10
ComedyDramaCrime

A bizarre black comedy about a man whose overwhelming ambition in life is to be a renowned serial killer of women, and will stop at nothing to achieve it - but not everything goes according to plan...

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#3The Brute

Movie - 1953, 2h 15m as Cantinero (uncredited)

6.9 / 10
DramaCrime

A tough young man, who helps to kick poor people out of their houses, falls in love with a girl. She lives with her father in the building about to be demolished.

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#4Daughter of Deceit

Movie - 1951, 2h 15m as Don Laureano, cantinero

5.9 / 10
DramaComedy

In the drama, a father, firmly believing that the baby daughter in his arms is not his own, abandons her upon the doorstep of the town drunk. Many years pass, and the man finds himself continually wracked with guilt about deserting her.

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#5El pecado de ser pobre

Movie - 1950, 2h 15m as Cliente de Julia (uncredited)

6.7 / 10
CrimeDrama

Ex-con rebuilds his life after being discharged from prison.

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#6Illusion Travels by Streetcar

Movie - 1954, 2h 15m as Vendedor de masa (uncredited)

6.5 / 10
ComedyDrama

Confronted with the unfortunate news that their favorite Streetcar, no. 133, is going to be decommissioned, two Municipal Transit workers get drunk and decide to "take 'er for one last spin," as it were. Unfortunately, the "one last spin" ends up being an all-night and all-day scramble to stay out of trouble, as they are confronted with situation after sometimes bizarre situation that prevents them from returning the "borrowed" Streetcar!

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#7Pepita Jiménez

Movie - 1946, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

5.9 / 10
DramaRomance

On March 22, four days after returning to his home in Andalusia, Luis de Vargas writes the first of his letters to his uncle and favorite professor at the seminary. He reports that his father intends to fatten him up during his vacation, to have him ready to return in the fall to finish his training for the priesthood. He mentions in passing that his father is courting a twenty-year-old, attractive widow, Pepita Jiménez; his father is fifty-five years old. Pepita had been married for only a short time to an eighty-year-old moneylender named Gumersindo. Luis is not eager to see his father marry again, but he promises his uncle not to judge Pepita before he knows her.

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#8Soltera y con gemelos

Movie - 1945, 2h 15m as Conductor tren (uncredited)

5.7 / 10
ComedyRomance

A father imposes conditions on his son in order to inherit his fortune, unaware of what true love is capable of. The son accepts his father's terms and faces a series of challenges that ultimately lead him to become the heir.

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#9Trail of Death

Movie - 1981, 2h 15m as (as Francisco Ledezma)

6.8 / 10
Thriller

Thriller directed by Arturo Ripstein.

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#10The River and Death

Movie - 1954, 2h 15m as Tendero (uncredited)

6.4 / 10
Drama

A useless and bloody vendetta has been going on for ages between two families in this Mexican village. Men, sons, have killed each other for generations, for a so-called conception of honor in a revenge that never ends since it is also triggered by people of the village. Now, today, there are only two sons left, one in each family. One has become a doctor in the big city and his culture is modern. The other last one - of the other family - hasn't left the village and is waiting for the doctor to come "home" as he plans to kill him, to settle this war on this matter of honor once and for all. And the people of the village want blood.

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#11Teatro del crimen

Movie - 1957, 2h 15m as Doctor (uncredited)

6.2 / 10
CrimeDramaMusic

In a music hall has committed a murder, the police will also find the murderer.

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#12El héroe desconocido

Movie - 1983, 2h 15m as Don Marcial

6.0 / 10
ComedyDrama

An outcast, Rodolfo Martínez, whom no one loves and whom everyone despises and undervalues ​​in his town of Valle Verde, in Mexico, decides to change his luck. He decides to invent that he has a very important ancestor and that is why he deserves a statue that will remind future generations of everything he has done. Rodolfo doesn't care what happens, all he wants is to stop being a failure and for people to see him as an equal.

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#13In the Storm

Movie - 1982, 2h 15m as Sacerdote

5.4 / 10
DramaThrillerWar

In the storm is a Mexican film of the year 1980 directed by Fernando Vallejo. The film is about the time of La Violencia in Colombia. Vallejo wanted to make the film in Colombia, however he found numerous obstacles to film it in the country so he decided to do it in Mexico with Mexican actors and recreating the Colombian landscapes in that country.

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#14Mujeres en mi Vida

Movie - 1950, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

3.8 / 10
MusicDramaComedy

Mexican romantic musical.

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#15La noche es nuestra

Movie - 1952, 2h 15m as Jefe de redacción

5.8 / 10
Drama

Journalist meets an unforgettable woman, tracks her down and discovers all her tragic past.

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