QUICK FACTS
Activities Director , Actor , Screenwriter
Real name Julio Bracho Pérez-Gavilán
Nationality Mexico
Birth July 17, 1909
Death April 26, 1978
BIOGRAPHY
The producer, director and screenwriter, Julio Bracho Pérez Gavilán , was born on July 17, 1909 in Durango, Durango, Mexico. He was the ninth of eleven children, he studied dramatic art and in 1927, after the death of his father, he decided to write the script for his first work with the actress Isabela Corona, who would be his first wife. He founded the Teatro de Orientación, where he debuted as a director with the play Jinetes towards the sea , however, his first theatrical success came in 1933 with the play Lázaro laughed. He also founded the University Theater and the Workers’ Theater, an experimental group in which he collaborated alongside Ermilo Abreu Gómez and Silvestre Revueltas, among other intellectuals of the time. He began his film career as a stage dialogue supervisor in the film Ave sin direction. He debuted as a director in 1941 with the film Ay, what times, Señor Don Simón! , which enjoyed great success. From there he made many successful films such as Story of a Great Love , The Virgin Who Forged a Homeland , Different Dawn, Rosenda and San Felipe de Jesús. He directed great figures of golden cinema such as Dolores del Río, María Félix, Arturo de Córdova, Joaquín Pardavé, Jorge Negrete, Gloria Marín and Ramón Novarro. In the 1950s, budget cuts led him to venture into commercial cinema with films such as Immaculate , Story of a Heart , Stolen Paradise , Forgotten Faces , The Absent , The Coward and The Possession. In 1943 he ended his relationship with Isbela Corona and the following year he married the actress Diana Bordes, with whom he had his first daughter, the renowned actress Diana Bracho. Two years later they had his second child. , Jorge. In 1951 they divorced, leaving him in charge of his two children. In 1960 he filmed The Shadow of the Caudillo , however, it was censored and banned for being considered denigrating to the army, from then on he embarked on films of little importance. He died on April 26, 1978 in Mexico City.