--- name: "Manuel Ojeda" canonical: "https://film.one/person/manuel-ojeda" fi1m_id: "manuel-ojeda" imdb_id: "nm0645327" tmdb_id: 236686 wikidata_id: "Q944345" roles: ["Actor"] born: "4 November 1940" died: "11 August 2022" reviewed_on_fi1m: 1 average_as: "actor" average_over: 1 updated: "2026-10-04T18:33:36.639538+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." --- # Manuel Ojeda ## Identity Manuel Ojeda - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/manuel-ojeda - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** manuel-ojeda - **IMDb ID:** nm0645327 - **TMDB ID:** 236686 - **Wikidata ID:** Q944345 - **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel_Ojeda, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q944345, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0645327/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/236686 Actor. Born 4 November 1940 in La Paz, Baja California Sur, Mexico. Died 11 August 2022. ## Details - **Work:** Actor - **Born:** 4 November 1940, La Paz, Baja California Sur, Mexico - **Died:** 11 August 2022 - **Active:** 1984–1988 - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel_Ojeda, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q944345, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0645327/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/236686 ## Streaming the US now - **Tubi:** [*Romancing the Stone*](https://film.one/film/romancing-the-stone.md) (77) For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country. ## Biography Manuel Ojeda was a Mexican actor. He was born on 4 November 1940 in La Paz, Baja California Sur, and died on 11 August 2022 in Mexico City. Ojeda studied acting at the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes and began his career in theatre before moving into film and television in the mid-1970s. He appeared in hundreds of films and dozens of telenovelas. He played the villain Zolo in the Hollywood film *Romancing the Stone* (1984). On television he portrayed Porfirio Díaz in *El vuelo del águila* (1994) and Emiliano Zapata in *Senda de gloria* (1987). He also appeared in the anthology series *Hora marcada* (1988). *Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org.* ## On Fi1m (1) - *Romancing the Stone* (1984), Fi1m 77, as Zolo — [page](https://film.one/film/romancing-the-stone.md) ## Complete filmography (183) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *Los Networkers Multinivel* (2020), as Juan Flores - *Quererlo Todo* (2020), series, as Don Patricio Montes - *Deadly Embroidered Memories* (2020), as Idris - *Perversa tentación* (2019), as Don Antonio - *Las amantes del narco III* (2019), as Joel Olmedo - *Víctimas de tratantes* (2018), Actor - *No One Will Ever Know* (2018), as Aurelio - *The 4th Company* (2017), as Champarro - *Peligrosa tentación 5* (2016), as Don Refugio - *El candidato* (2016), Actor - *Las Amazonas* (2016), series, as Genaro Valencia - *Yago* (2016), series, as Damián Madrigal Ríos - *Dinero marcado* (2015), as Comandante Salinas - *Perras de barrio* (2015), as Reséndiz - *Ask God For Forgiveness... Not Me* (2015), series, as Melitón Ramos - *El asesino de la mafia* (2015), as Quintero - *The Stray Cat* (2014), series, as El Silencioso - *The children of Don Gregorio* (2013), as Don Gregorio - *Martin at Dawn* (2013), as Don Fidel - *The Tempest* (2013), series, as Ernesto Contreras - *El comandante sin ley* (2013), Actor - *Por ella soy Eva* (2012), series, as Eduardo Moreno - *Todos hemos pecado* (2011), as El Presidente Municipal - *Another Mexican* (2010), as Sacerdote - *Family Secrets* (2009), as Guillermo - *Fray Justicia* (2009), Actor - *El triunfo del mojado* (2009), Actor - *Killer Women* (2008), series, as Juan Antonio Orduña - *Victorio* (2008), as Raúl - *La Hummer asesina* (2008), Actor - *Storm Over Paradise* (2007), series, as Capitán Pablo Solís - *Calles sin nombre* (2007), as Comandante Martín Aguirre - *Debut y despedida* (2006), Actor - *Alborada* (2005), series, as Don Francisco Escobar - *The Devils Dagger* (2005), as Narrator - *Estate of Terror* (2005), as Manuel - *The Goddess of the Sea* (2005), as Eduardo Montero - *Los más buscados* (2004), Actor - *Juventud inquieta* (2004), Actor - *Los más buscados 2* (2004), Actor - *Camino equivocado* (2004), Actor - *Misión S.O.S* (2004), series, as Severiano Martinez - *Fantasías* (2004), as Carlos - *My Love, My Sin* (2004), series, as Jacobo Guzmán - *Maldita vecindad* (2004), Actor - *Bajo la misma piel* (2003), series, as Rodrigo Leyva - *Las perversiones del padre José* (2003), as Padre José - *El verdugo* (2003), Actor - *Nido de escorpiones* (2003), Actor - *The Other Woman* (2002), series, as Juan Pedro Portugal - *Espejo Retrovisor* (2002), as Sr. Rivas - *Mictlan* (2002), Actor - *El Manantial* (2001), series, as Father Salvador Valdéz - *Guerrero* (2001), as El Tigre - *Niños y Criminales* (2001), Actor - *Carreras de muerte* (2001), Actor - *The Magic Hour* (2000), as Francesco - *El precio de tu amor* (2000), series, as Octavio Rangel - *Hijos del viento* (2000), as Moctezuma - *La casa en la playa* (2000), series, as Manuel Rey - *Cháman, viento de muerte* (2000), Actor - *Bienvenida al clan* (2000), as Humberto Nava - *La otra cara de Pedro Navaja* (2000), as Don Mario - *Operación Coyote* (2000), as Ibarra - *Asesina* (1999), Actor - *Herod's Law* (1999), as Cantinero - *Labyrinth of Passion* (1999), series, as Genaro Valencia - *Amor Gitano* (1999), series, as Pedro Minelli, - *Sangre prisionera* (1999), Actor - *El Cometa* (1999), Actor - *Balas salvajes* (1999), Actor - *El chivatazo* (1999), as Mateo Beltran - *La Rubia y La Morena 2* (1999), Actor - *Abuso de autoridad* (1998), Actor - *Los 100 Kilos de Reyna* (1998), Actor - *Luces de la noche* (1998), as Gustavo - *Fuera de la ley* (1998), Actor - *16 en la lista* (1998), Actor - *La siembro, cosecho y vendo* (1998), Actor - *La banda del mocha orejas* (1998), Actor - *Fraude en el sexenio* (1998), Actor - *Carmela the Michoacan* (1998), as Comandante Juan - *Las dos caras del guero Estrada* (1998), Actor - *La operación pesada* (1998), Actor - *El hombre de la toallita* (1998), as Santos - *El güero estrada* (1997), Actor - *El valle de los zopilotes* (1997), Actor - *Reclusorio* (1997), as Abogado (segment "Eutanasia o asesinato") - *No tengo madre* (1997), series, as Indalecio Madrazo / Inocencio Lemus Smasht - *El asesinato* (1997), as Ramón Acevedo - *Carga blanca* (1997), as Nicanor Esparragoza - *Reencuentros* (1997), as Sr. Emilio Valtierra - *Me llaman Madrina* (1997), as Kalimán - *La Culpa* (1996), series, as Mariano Lagarde - *Salón México* (1996), as Lupe López - *¡Sálvame! Una luz en la oscuridad* (1996), as Alcántara - *Perversión* (1996), Actor - *Llamadas obscenas* (1996), as El Fish - *En las manos de Dios* (1996), Actor - *La paloma* (1995), series, as Ramiro López-Yergo Aguilar - *El castrado* (1995), Actor - *Las nueve caras del miedo* (1995), as Fray Camilo Lacroix Imerino - *La ley del cholo* (1995), Actor - *Tiempo de muerte 2* (1995), Actor - *Uzi ráfaga mortal* (1995), Actor - *Tiempo de muerte* (1994), Actor - *Pánico en el paraíso* (1994), Actor - *La Dinastía de Los Pérez* (1994), as Erik Orozco - *El vuelo del águila* (1994), series, as Porfirio Díaz - *La señorita* (1994), Actor - *The Man in White* (1994), as José - *Juana la Cubana* (1994), Actor - *Loving Ghosts* (1994), Actor - *Amor que mata* (1994), Actor - *Seducción judicial* (1994), Actor - *Suerte en la vida (La Lotería III)* (1994), Actor - *Wall of Darkness* (1994), Actor - *Vigilante nocturno* (1993), Actor - *Bestias humanas* (1993), Actor - *Kino: The Legend of the Black Priest* (1993), as Coro Chief - *In The MIddle of Nowhere* (1993), Actor - *My dear Tom Mix* (1992), as Evaristo - *Octagon and Atlantis, the rematch* (1992), Actor - *Cabaret de frontera* (1992), Actor - *El último narco* (1992), Actor - *Mi Querido Viejo* (1991), as Apolonio Méndez - *Amor y venganza* (1991), Actor - *Al Filo de la Muerte* (1991), series, as Julio Araujo - *Blue Memories* (1991), as Don Manuel Jiménez - *El extensionista* (1991), as Severo - *Traición* (1991), Actor - *La fuerza bruta* (1991), Actor - *El hijo de Lamberto Quintero* (1990), Actor - *Un rostro en mi pasado* (1989), series, as Dr. Leonardo Sánchez - *Selva de cocaina* (1989), Actor - *The Wrath of a God* (1988), Actor - *The Marked Hour* (1988), series, Actor - *Reto a la vida* (1988), as El Tijuana - *Tal como somos* (1987), series, as Pablo - *Muelle rojo* (1987), Actor - *Los confines* (1987), as Ignacio - *Senda de gloria* (1987), series, as Emiliano Zapata - *Herencia maldita* (1986), series, as Rogelio Velarde - *The Hex 2: Messengers of Hell* (1986), as Abel Romo - *Al filo de la ley: Misión rescate* (1986), as Víctor Araiza - *De pura sangre* (1985), series, as Carlos Meléndez - *The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents* (1985), series, as General Vorteez - *Naná* (1985), as Conde Muffat - *Luna caliente* (1985), as Almiron - *La traición* (1984), series, as Pech Gutiérrez - *El tonto que hacía milagros* (1984), Actor - *Romancing the Stone* (1984), as Zolo — Fi1m 77, [page](https://film.one/film/romancing-the-stone.md) - *The Heart of the Night* (1984), as Leyva - *Carnival Night* (1984), as Diablo - *Under the Shrapnel* (1983), as Pablo - *God's Crooked Lines* (1983), as Doctor Alvar - *Deceitful Appearances* (1983), as Sergio Gaitán - *Un hombre llamado el diablo* (1983), Actor - *The Flying Pony* (1982), as Esteban (padre de Diego) - *I Don't Know For Sure, But I Suppose* (1982), as Daniel - *'Ora sí ¡tenemos que ganar!* (1981), Actor - *Fuego en el mar* (1981), as Mariano Ortega - *Everyone's Hell So Feared* (1981), as Jacinto Chontal - *Occupation of Darkness* (1981), as Fernando - *La leyenda de Rodrígo* (1981), as Asmodeo - *Green Ice* (1981), as Lt. Costas - *Long live Tepito!* (1981), as Antonio Vélez - *Aunt Alejandra* (1980), as Rodolfo - *Eagle's Wing* (1979), as Miguel - *The Perfect Woman* (1979), Actor - *Naufragio* (1978), as Médico - *Pedro Páramo, el hombre de la Media Luna* (1978), as Pedro Páramo - *Free Love* (1978), as Ernesto - *Matinée* (1977), as Francisco - *El mar* (1977), Actor - *El elegido* (1977), as Andres Martinez - *The Passion of Berenice* (1976), as José - *Las Poquianchis* (1976), as Tadeo - *The Heist* (1976), as Polonio - *Celestina* (1976), as Pleberio - *The House in the South* (1976), as Livingston - *Canoa: A Shameful Memory* (1975), as Hombre del pueblo - *Inspector Calzonzin* (1974), Actor ## Gallery - ![Lunes 2 de abril de 2018. En el Instituto Francés de América Latina, IFAL, se realizó la conferencia de prensa para dar a conocer el estreno nacional de la pelí](https://film.one/media/person/1257443/gallery-bd6a52ad36f1.jpg) Lunes 2 de abril de 2018. 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