---
name: "Juan José Gurrola"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/juan-jose-gurrola"
fi1m_id: "juan-jose-gurrola"
imdb_id: "nm0348739"
tmdb_id: 942065
wikidata_id: "Q5950292"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "19 October 1935"
died: "1 June 2007"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-26T17:06:51.917948+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Juan José Gurrola

## Identity

Juan José Gurrola

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/juan-jose-gurrola
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** juan-jose-gurrola
- **IMDb ID:** nm0348739
- **TMDB ID:** 942065
- **Wikidata ID:** Q5950292
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5950292, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0348739/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/942065

Actor. Born 19 October 1935 in Mexico City. Died 1 June 2007.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 19 October 1935, Mexico City
- **Died:** 1 June 2007
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5950292, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0348739/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/942065

## Biography

Juan José Gurrola was a Mexican actor, theatre and film director, architect, playwright and visual artist. Born in Mexico City in 1935, he studied architecture at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and later pursued further training in theatre design and direction in the United States and Germany.

He appeared as Maestro 2 in Alejandro Jodorowsky’s *El Topo* (1970). Other screen roles include Diego Rivera in *Frida, naturaleza viva* (1983) and appearances in *Llámenme Mike* (1979) and *Senda de gloria* (1987). Gurrola directed several short films and worked extensively in theatre, staging more than fifty productions.

In 2004 he received Mexico’s National Prize for Sciences and Arts in the field of Fine Arts. He died in Mexico City in 2007.

*Sources: imdb.com, es.wikipedia.org, sic.gob.mx.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *El Topo* (1970), Fi1m 67, as Maestro 2 — [page](https://film.one/film/el-topo.md)

## Complete filmography (14)

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

- *Frida Still Life* (1986), as Diego Rivera
- *To Kill a Stranger* (1986), as Truck driver
- *Call Me Mike* (1981), as El Rojo
- *Descenso del País de la Noche* (1974), Writer
- *La quinta de las rosas* (1974), Writer
- *Robarte el arte* (1972), Director
- *El Topo* (1970), as Maestro 2 — Fi1m 67, [page](https://film.one/film/el-topo.md)
- *Mariana* (1968), as Psychiatrist
- *The Shunammite* (1965), Actor
- *Alberto Gironella* (1965), Director
- *The Beloved Ones* (1965), Writer, Director
- *Tajimara* (1965), Director, Writer
- *La creación artística. Gironella* (1965), Director
- *La creación artística. Cuevas* (1965), Writer, Director

## Awards

### Other awards — 2 won

- National Prize for Arts and Sciences 2004: National Prize for Arts and Sciences (won)
- Guggenheim Fellowship 1974: Guggenheim Fellowship (won)

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

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