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name: "Alejandro Jodorowsky"
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fi1m_id: "alejandro-jodorowsky"
imdb_id: "nm0423524"
tmdb_id: 55119
wikidata_id: "Q263730"
roles: ["Composer","Director"]
born: "17 February 1929"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_over: 0
updated: "2026-09-26T17:06:37.706088+00:00"
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# Alejandro Jodorowsky

## Identity

Alejandro Jodorowsky

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/alejandro-jodorowsky
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** alejandro-jodorowsky
- **IMDb ID:** nm0423524
- **TMDB ID:** 55119
- **Wikidata ID:** Q263730
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alejandro_Jodorowsky, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q263730, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0423524/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/55119

Composer and director. Born 17 February 1929 in Tocopilla, Chile.

## Details

- **Work:** Composer, Director
- **Born:** 17 February 1929, Tocopilla, Chile
- **Also known as:** Alexandro Jodorowsky, Alexandre Jodorowski, 알레한드로 호도로프스키, 알레한드로 조도로프스키, 알레한도로 호도로프스키, 알레한도로 조도로프스키, 亚历山大·尤杜洛斯基
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 2: 1 directing, 1 other
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1970s 67 (1), 2010s 48 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alejandro_Jodorowsky, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q263730, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0423524/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/55119

## Biography

Alejandro Jodorowsky is a Chilean-born French filmmaker, screenwriter and actor. Born on 17 February 1929 in Tocopilla, Chile, he moved to Paris in the 1950s where he studied mime with Marcel Marceau and worked in avant-garde theatre before relocating to Mexico.

He is best known for his surreal films *El Topo* (1970), on which he also served as writer, composer, production designer, costume designer and lead actor, and *The Holy Mountain* (1973). Later works include *Santa Sangre* (1989), *The Dance of Reality* (2013) and *Endless Poetry* (2016). He holds Chilean and French citizenship and has also written comics and books on spirituality.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, britannica.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

### Directed (1)

- *El Topo* (1970), Fi1m 67, as El Topo — [page](https://film.one/film/el-topo.md)

### Also credited (1) — thanks, archive footage, uncredited

- *Only God Forgives* (2013), Fi1m 48, Thanks — [page](https://film.one/film/only-god-forgives.md)

## Complete filmography (36)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Fake News* (2021), as Mysterious man
- *Psychomagic: A Healing Art* (2019), Director, Book, Writer
- *Endless Poetry* (2016), as Old Alejandro · Director, Screenplay, Executive Producer, Production Design
- *The Voice Thief* (2013), Story
- *The Dance of Reality* (2013), as Old Alejandro · Director, Writer, Producer, Production Design
- *Only God Forgives* (2013), Thanks — Fi1m 48, [page](https://film.one/film/only-god-forgives.md)
- *The Source Family* (2013), Thanks
- *Ritual - A Psychomagic Story* (2013), as Fernando
- *Doggiewoggiez! Poochiewoochiez!* (2012), Original Story
- *Drive* (2011), Thanks — Fi1m 83, [page](https://film.one/film/drive.md)
- *The Island* (2011), as Jodo
- *A Tar* (2010), Actor
- *Born Without* (2008), Actor
- *Niente è come sembra* (2007), Actor
- *A Conversation with Alejandro Jodorowsky* (2007), Actor
- *Musikanten* (2006), as Ludwig van Beethoven
- *Kaena: The Prophecy* (2003), Dialogue
- *No Big Deal* (2003), as Pablo
- *Alejandro Jodorowsky: Interview at ICA London December 2002* (2003), Director
- *Cherif* (2002), as Prophet
- *Jodorowsky's Phylosophycal Tales* (1997), as Alejandro
- *The Rainbow Thief* (1994), Director
- *Eurotrash* (1993), series, Actor
- *Santa Sangre* (1989), Screenplay, Story, Director
- *Tusk* (1980), Director, Screenplay
- *Pubertinaje* (1978), Producer
- *The Holy Mountain* (1973), as The Alchemist · Director, Producer, Screenplay, Costume Design, Painter, Sculptor, Set Designer, Original Music Composer, Production Design
- *Fando and Lis* (1972), as Puppeteer (uncredited) · Director, Screenplay, Dialogue
- *Apolinar* (1972), Producer
- *El Topo* (1970), as El Topo · Original Music Composer, Production Design, Director, Costume Design, Writer — Fi1m 67, [page](https://film.one/film/el-topo.md)
- *Anticlimax* (1969), Actor
- *He! Viva Dada* (1965), Writer
- *Melodrama Sacramental* (1965), Director
- *The Severed Heads* (1957), Director, Writer
- *The Eternal Voice*, as Old Alejandro · Director, Writer
- *Bouncer*, Story

## Gallery

- ![Rencontre Alejandro Jodorowsky animée par Romain Brethes - Festival International de la Bande Dessinée d'Angoulême 2020.](https://film.one/media/person/3851820/gallery-47c4b5dfa785.jpg) Rencontre Alejandro Jodorowsky animée par Romain Brethes - Festival International de la Bande Dessinée d'Angoulême 2020. — Selbymay, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/FIBD2020Jodorowsky_04.jpg/1280px-FIBD2020Jodorowsky_04.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Rencontre Alejandro Jodorowsky animée par Romain Brethes - Festival International de la Bande Dessinée d'Angoulême 2020.](https://film.one/media/person/3851820/gallery-6b37b75e8b4a.jpg) Rencontre Alejandro Jodorowsky animée par Romain Brethes - Festival International de la Bande Dessinée d'Angoulême 2020. — Selbymay, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/58/FIBD2020Jodorowsky_03.jpg/1280px-FIBD2020Jodorowsky_03.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Conference with Alejandro Jodorowsky and François Boucq at Japan Expo 2008 (Paris, France)](https://film.one/media/person/3851820/gallery-87bfaf136496.jpg) Conference with Alejandro Jodorowsky and François Boucq at Japan Expo 2008 (Paris, France) — Guillaume Jacquet, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/30/Alejandro_Jodorowsky_20080706_Japan_Expo_04.jpg/1280px-Alejandro_Jodorowsky_20080706_Japan_Expo_04.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![alejandro jodorowsky (1991)](https://film.one/media/person/3851820/gallery-e2fed293d63c.jpg) alejandro jodorowsky (1991) — Gorup de Besanez, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/75/1991_Alejandro_Jodorowsky_04.jpg/1280px-1991_Alejandro_Jodorowsky_04.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Alejandro Jodorowsky](https://film.one/media/person/3851820/gallery-04d4100ef880.jpg) Alejandro Jodorowsky — Image via TMDB
- ![alejandro jodorowsky (1991)](https://film.one/media/person/3851820/gallery-4538eca28799.jpg) alejandro jodorowsky (1991) — Gorup de Besanez, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c2/1991_Alejandro_Jodorowsky_03.jpg/1280px-1991_Alejandro_Jodorowsky_03.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Alejandro Jodorowsky](https://film.one/media/person/3851820/gallery-b7761cdd0d5a.jpg) Alejandro Jodorowsky — Lionel Allorge, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bd/Utopiales_2011_Alejandro_Jodorowsky_16_%28cropped%29.jpg/1280px-Utopiales_2011_Alejandro_Jodorowsky_16_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

## Awards

### Other awards — 6 won

- Leopard of Honour 2016: Leopard of Honour (won)
- Officer of Arts and Letters 2015: Officer of Arts and Letters (won)
- Adamson Awards 2013: Adamson Awards (won)
- Pablo Neruda Order of Artistic and Cultural Merit 2006: Pablo Neruda Order of Artistic and Cultural Merit (won)
- Time Machine Award 2006: Time Machine Award (won)
- Yellow Kid Award 1998: Yellow Kid Award (won)

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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