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- Birth nameRoberto Gavaldón Leyva
- Roberto Gavaldon was the most prominent director of the so-called Golden Age of Mexican CInema. One of the supreme artists of the melodrama, Gavaldon was a rival to Old Hollywood movies. Gavaldon's movies, like contemporary director Emilio 'Indio' Fernandez, were popular and populist. Because that Gavaldon's cinema has melodramatic plots, extravagant and larger-than-life star performances, feverish and hyperbolic scenarios, and thunderous and over-the-top musical scores. Few directors in the history of world cinema have been so fully and passionately dedicated to melodrama - not just as a movie genre, but as a distinct and legitimate art form in its own right. Besides his cinematographic activities, Gavaladon was fighting for the Mexican workers rights and against foreign investment in the country.- IMDb mini biography by: Pierrot Le Fou
- SpousesAdela Aguilar Gómez(February 12, 1938 - ?)Emma Arbide Bolaños(? - May 25, 1983) (her death)
- Eight of Gavaldón's films were featured on the list 100 Best Movies of the Cinema of Mexico.
- His 1958 film Ash Wednesday was entered into the 8th Berlin International Film Festival and his 1959 film Beyond All Limits was entered into the following years festival.
- His 1960 film Macario was entered into the 1960 Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
- Father of Roberta Gavaldón.
- Roberto Gavaldón was a Mexican film director.
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