ACTOR

Alfonso Arau

1932 - Today

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Alfonso Arau Incháustegui (born 11 January 1932) is a Mexican filmmaker and actor. He worked as an actor and director in both Mexican and Hollywood productions for over 40 years, before his international breakthrough with the 1992 film Like Water for Chocolate, based on his wife Laura Esquivel's novel of the same name. His other films include A Walk in the Clouds (1995), Picking Up the Pieces (2000), The Magnificent Ambersons (2002) and Zapata: El sueño del héroe (2004). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alfonso Arau has received more than 694,776 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Alfonso Arau is the 4,265th most popular actor (down from 3,614th in 2019), the 230th most popular biography from Mexico (down from 196th in 2019) and the 49th most popular Mexican Actor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 690k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 48.60

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.37

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.06

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Alfonso Araus by language

Over the past year Alfonso Arau has had the most page views in the with 92,841 views, followed by Spanish (41,979), and Italian (9,150). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Egyptian Arabic (49.48%), Korean (47.00%), and Italian (36.40%)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Alfonso Arau ranks 4,265 out of 13,578. Before him are Hiroshi Kamiya, Constance Bennett, Wayne Rogers, Naima Akef, Robert John Burke, and Hōchū Ōtsuka. After him are Billy Barty, Romain Duris, May Whitty, Arturo de Córdova, Andrei Smirnov, and László Szabó.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1932, Alfonso Arau ranks 310. Before him are Cliff Allison, John Flynn, Joe Engle, Eddy Wally, Carlyle Glean, and Lola Beltrán. After him are Paul Anderson, Masten Gregory, Bo Goldman, Robert B. Parker, Jay Miner, and Anatoly Roshchin.

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In Mexico

Among people born in Mexico, Alfonso Arau ranks 230 out of 729. Before him are Rodolfo Neri Vela (1952), Juan Álvarez (1790), Jorge Ibargüengoitia (1928), Lupita Nyong'o (1983), Lucas Alamán (1792), and Lola Beltrán (1932). After him are Arturo de Córdova (1908), Juan José Arreola (1921), Leticia Calderón (1968), Pedro María de Anaya (1795), Marco Antonio Solís (1959), and Rómulo Díaz de la Vega (1800).

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Among ACTORS In Mexico

Among actors born in Mexico, Alfonso Arau ranks 49. Before him are Kate del Castillo (1972), Gilbert Roland (1905), Irma Serrano (1933), Diego Luna (1979), Lupita Nyong'o (1983), and Lola Beltrán (1932). After him are Arturo de Córdova (1908), Leticia Calderón (1968), Lupita Tovar (1910), Daniela Romo (1959), Lucero (1969), and Ana Gabriel (1955).

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Television and Movie Roles

¡Three Amigos!
El Guapo
A trio of unemployed silent film actors are mistaken for real heroes by a small Mexican village in search of someone to stop a malevolent bandit.
Dec 12o 19866.324 / 10
Coco
Papá Julio Rivera (voice)
Despite his family’s baffling generations-old ban on music, Miguel dreams of becoming an accomplished musician like his idol, Ernesto de la Cruz. Desperate to prove his talent, Miguel finds himself in the stunning and colorful Land of the Dead following a mysterious chain of events. Along the way, he meets charming trickster Hector, and together, they set off on an extraordinary journey to unlock the real story behind Miguel's family history.
Oct 27o 20178.217 / 10
Romancing the Stone
Juan
Though she can spin wild tales of passionate romance, novelist Joan Wilder has no life of her own. Then one day adventure comes her way in the form of a mysterious package. It turns out that the parcel is the ransom she'll need to free her abducted sister, so Joan flies to South America to hand it over. But she gets on the wrong bus and winds up hopelessly stranded in the jungle.
Mar 30o 19846.753 / 10