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Guillermo Toro Biography (1964-)

Born in 1964, in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico; married; children: one daughter. Career: Director, screenwriter, producer, production manager, special effects make-up artist, and actor. Necropia (a special effects company), co-founder, 1985; University of Guadalajara, teacher of film language and student film workshop co-ordinator, 1986-92; Tequila Gang (production company), founder, 1999. Awards, Honors: First Prize, International Critics Week,Cannes Film Festival, Golden Ariel, Mexican Academy Awards, Silver Ariel, Mexican Academy Awards, best first feature, Catalonian International Film Festival Award, best screenplay, 1993, Silver Raven, Brussels International Festival of Fantasy Film, 1994, all for Cronos; Catalonian International Film Festival Award nomination, best film, 1997, for Mimic..

Nationality

Mexican

Gender

Male

Occupation

director, screenwriter, producer, production manager, special effects make-up artist, actor

Birth Details

1964

Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico

Famous Works

• CREDITS
• Film Director, Except Where Indicated
• Executive producer and production manager, Dona Herlinda y su Hijo(also known as Dona Herlinda and Her Son), 1985
• Dona Lupe, 1985
• Maquette construction, Mentiras piadosas, 1988
• Geometria, 1988
• Chief of special effects and makeup, Cabeza de Vaca, Concorde, 1990
• Special effects makeup, Mi querado Tom Mix (also known as My Dear Tom Mix), 1991
• Cronos (also known as Chronos and La Invencion de Cronos), October Films, 1992
• Mimic, Dimension, 1997
• Producer, Un Embrujo (also known as Under a Spell), 1998
• Superstitious, 1999
• Hellboy, 1999
• Also directed Mephisto's Bridge; did special effects and make-up for Bandidos, Morir en el Golfo, Algunas Nubes, and Goitia.
• Film Appearances
• Voice, Mimic, Dimension, 1997
• Bull boy, Bullfighter, 1999
• Television Director
• Directed episodes of Hora Marcada.
• WRITINGS
• Screenplays
• Cronos (also known as Chronos and La Invencion de Cronos), October Films, 1992
• Mimic, Dimension, 1997
• Also wrote Mephisto's Bridge.
• Nonfiction
• Wrote Alfred Hitchcock, University of Guadalajara.

Further Reference

OTHER SOURCES

Periodicals:

• Interview, August 1997, p. 56.
• Time International, May 24, 1999, p. 103.*