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name: "Miguel Ángel Fuentes"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/miguel-angel-fuentes"
fi1m_id: "miguel-angel-fuentes"
imdb_id: "nm0297450"
tmdb_id: 57380
wikidata_id: "Q112752773"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "29 September 1953"
died: "29 December 2023"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 69
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-17T23:36:00.270245+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."
---

# Miguel Ángel Fuentes

## Identity

Miguel Ángel Fuentes

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/miguel-angel-fuentes
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** miguel-angel-fuentes
- **IMDb ID:** nm0297450
- **TMDB ID:** 57380
- **Wikidata ID:** Q112752773
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q112752773, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0297450/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/57380

Actor. Born 29 September 1953 in Tlacotepec, Oaxaca, Mexico. Died 29 December 2023.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 29 September 1953, Tlacotepec, Oaxaca, Mexico
- **Died:** 29 December 2023
- **Active:** 1982–2001
- **Also known as:** Miguel Ángel Fuentes Ojeda
- **Average Fi1m score:** 69, as actor, over 2 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1980s 82 (1), 2000s 56 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q112752773, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0297450/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/57380

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Fitzcarraldo*](https://film.one/film/fitzcarraldo.md) (82)

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## Biography

Miguel Ángel Fuentes Ojeda was a Mexican actor. He was born on 29 September 1953 in Tlacotepec, Oaxaca, and died in December 2023 in Mexico City. He made his film debut in 1975 in *México, México, ra ra ra* and appeared in *Fitzcarraldo* (1982) as Cholo.

Fuentes worked in Mexican, European and Hollywood productions. His credits include *El hombre puma* (1980), *The A-Team* (1983), *Firewalker* (1986), *Herod's Law* (1999), *The Mexican* (2001) and *Texas Rising* (2015). He also appeared in numerous Mexican telenovelas and series from the 1980s to the 2010s.

*Sources: imdb.com, es.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *The Mexican* (2001), Fi1m 56, as Big Thief #4 — [page](https://film.one/film/the-mexican.md)
- *Fitzcarraldo* (1982), Fi1m 82, as Cholo — [page](https://film.one/film/fitzcarraldo.md)

## Complete filmography (34)

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

- *Al acecho del leopardo* (2011), Actor
- *Charros* (2004), Actor
- *Cómplices Al Rescate* (2002), series, as El Sombras
- *The Mexican* (2001), as Big Thief #4 — Fi1m 56, [page](https://film.one/film/the-mexican.md)
- *Herod's Law* (1999), as Pancho
- *Mookie* (1998), as El Indio
- *Codicia mortal* (1991), Actor
- *High Art* (1991), as Camilo Fuentes
- *My Gun and Your Handcuffs* (1989), Actor
- *Deathstalker III: The Warriors from Hell* (1988), as 1st Bodyguard
- *Firewalker* (1986), as Big Man
- *Oceans of Fire* (1986), as Roughneck
- *Separate Vacations* (1986), as Tiny the Henchman
- *Enemies to the Death* (1985), as Pierre
- *In 'N Out* (1984), as "King Kong"
- *The Evil That Men Do* (1984), as Latino
- *Frankenstein's Great Aunt Tillie* (1984), as The Monster
- *The A-Team* (1983), series, as Quintana
- *Triumphs of a Man Called Horse* (1983), as Big Bear
- *Fitzcarraldo* (1982), as Cholo — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/fitzcarraldo.md)
- *Sorceress* (1982), as Player
- *Santo and the Border of Terror* (1981), as Monk, capataz
- *Green Ice* (1981), as Herado
- *Caveman* (1981), as Grot
- *Las grandes aguas* (1980), as Pepe el mudo
- *Las Tentadoras* (1980), Actor
- *Morir de madrugada* (1980), as Prieto
- *Pumaman* (1980), as Vadinho
- *The Flight of the Stork* (1979), as Chiquilín
- *Milagro en el circo* (1979), as Hércules
- *Divine Words* (1978), Actor
- *The Bermuda Triangle* (1978), as Gordon
- *Los de abajo* (1977), Actor
- *Mexico, Mexico, ra, ra, ra!* (1976), Actor

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