QUICK FACTS
Activities Director, Actor, Screenwriter
Nationality Mexico
BIOGRAPHY
The actor, director and screenwriter, Rogelio Antonio González Villarreal , known as Rogelio A. González, was born on January 27 , 1922 in Monterrey , Nuevo León. He began studying medicine but later abandoned it to pursue his career as an actor. He started in the theater but later also participated in film and radio as a producer and announcer. He served as union leader of the Directors’ Section of the Department of Film Production Workers of the Mexican Republic (STPC) on repeated occasions.
In 1945 he debuted on the big screen with the film ¡Como México no hay dos!, by Carlos Orellana. Since 1945 he worked with the filmmaker Ismael Rodríguez as a screenwriter, and in 1951 he debuted as a director with the film El gavilán pollero , starring Pedro Infante, a legendary actor who claimed that González was his favorite screenwriter.
Some of his most remembered films are The Cultured Lady (1957), The Three Garcías (1947) and Our Everyday Hunger (1959). On May 10, 1984, he had an accident on the Piedras Negras-Mexico highway, in which he lost control of his car and ended up hitting a trailer. He had several fractures and was rushed to the IMSS in Saltillo. Eleven days after the tragic accident he died of cardiorespiratory arrest.
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