Cast
Eligio Meléndez
Acting
Cast
Eligio Meléndez
Known for
Acting
Born
1950-06-20
From
Mexico
Biography
Eligio Meléndez is a Mexican film, theater and television director and actor, born on June 20, 1950, in Mexico City. He studied at the Andrés Soler Acting Institute, with the renowned Luis Gimeno, Carlos Ancira, Miguel Círcega and Soledad Ruíz as teachers. One of the most recognized personalities in theater, the actor has participated in more than 30 works, including The Flower of the Heart, Borges with Music, The Enchanted Mirror, The Old Men, Trufaldino Servant of Two Patrons, Mexican Entremeses, Mexico Pachuco, Soldado Razo, among others. In film, Eligio made his debut in the film Perseguida (1991), and then built an interesting and lucrative career with roles in films such as The Colonel Doesn't Have Anyone Write to Him (1999), In the Country of Nothing Happens (2000), for which that he would receive his first Ariel nomination; Perfume of violets (2001), Amar te duele (2002), Curandero (2005), The last one and we leave (2009), Hidalgo – The untold story (2010), Yerbamala (2014) and Dream in another language (2017) , for which he was nominated, for the second time, for an Ariel award.
★6.1
MOVIE2025
Dreams
as Fernando's Father
★6.2
MOVIE2025
Border Hunters
as Ezekiel
★7.6
MOVIE2025
Aztec Batman: Clash of Empires
as Viejo Guerrero (voice)
★6.7
MOVIE2022
Sex, Shame and Tears 2
as Old Man
★8.1
MOVIE2002
Love Hurts
as Martin
★6.1
MOVIE2020
Tragic Jungle
as Mundo
★3.8
MOVIE1991
Perseguida
MOVIETBA
El Extraordinario Hombre Halcón
as Don Gustavo
MOVIE2024
*****… (Los Asteriscos…)
MOVIE2024
Quietud
★5.7
MOVIE1991
Curvas peligrosas
★6.8
MOVIE2002
The Virgin of Lust
as Don Nemesio
MOVIE2025
Mi Amigo Bernardo
as Abuelo Vicente
MOVIETBA
Desechos
as Arturo
★7.9
MOVIE2017
I Dream in Another Language
as Evaristo
★6.4
MOVIE2020
New Order
as Rolando
★5.2
MOVIE2010
Hidalgo: la historia jamás contada
as Ascanio
★7.9
MOVIE2001
Violet Perfume: Nobody Hears You
as Padrastro de Yessica
★5.7
MOVIE1999
No One Writes to the Colonel
as Sotero
★7.2
MOVIE2024
The Day Everything Changed
as Fausto (Cantinero)
★7.9
MOVIE2021
La Civil
as Quique
★6.0
MOVIE2011
The Reasons of the Heart
as Lawyer
★6.7
MOVIE2023
The Great Seduction
as Simón
★6.6
MOVIE2018
El Día de la Unión
as Achichincle
★6.2
MOVIE2000
The Ruination of Men
as The Guard
MOVIE2021
Siete en punto
★6.9
MOVIE2024
Disappear Completely
as Elías Lozano Mata
★8.5
MOVIE2024
Underdog
as Aureliano
★6.8
MOVIE2010
One for the Road
as Birthday Girl's Father
★5.5
MOVIE2011
The Compass Is Carried by the Dead Man
as Adulto
★6.1
MOVIE2015
Bleak Street
as Dad
MOVIE2025
Public Phone
as Gabriel
★5.7
MOVIE2005
Curandero
as Gomez
★6.0
MOVIE2018
Fireflies
as Jorge
★6.7
MOVIE2019
This Is Tomas
as Reparador
★5.3
MOVIE1996
The Overturning Of The Heart
MOVIE2022
More Tomorrow Than Before
★6.0
MOVIE2002
¿De qué lado estás?
★5.0
MOVIE2014
Yerbamala
as Anselmo
★6.4
MOVIE2000
In The Country Where Nothing Happens
as Don Jacinto
★4.8
MOVIE1993
Repartidores de muerte
★2.0
MOVIE2022
Recurring Patients
as Raúl
★10.0
MOVIE2022
Living all of Life
as Leo
★6.0
MOVIE2024
#Rats
★10.0
MOVIE2024
The Perfect Tomato
★5.0
MOVIE2014
Vultures
as Durán
★6.0
MOVIE2022
Medusa
as Esposo
MOVIE2012
Ismael
as Ismael
MOVIE2023
Jefecita
★6.0
MOVIE1997
Reencuentros
MOVIE2025