Born: 24 April 1907, Ciudad de México [Mexico City], as Gabriel Figueroa Mateos.

Died: 27 April 1997, Ciudad de México [Mexico City].

Education: Academia de San Carlos [Painting]; Conservatorio Nacional de Música [Violin; unfinished]; Studied still ph with Eduardo Guerrero.

Career: Started in 1932 as still ph for doph Alex Phillips Sr. and, later, became his assistant. During the 1930s he worked as c.op with Gregg Toland, James Wong Howe, Jack Draper, a.o. In 1935 he went to Hollywood to study cinematography with Gregg Toland. After the death of Gregg Toland, he was offered the remainder of Toland's contract with Samuel Goldwyn: five years with another five optioned. He turned it down. Retired in 1986. 

Appeared in the doc's 'On the Trail of the Iguana' [1964, Ross Lowell] & 'The Bronze Screen - 100 Years of the Latino Image in American Cinema' [2002, Susan Racho, a.o.]. Interviewee in the tv-doc 'B. Traven - A Mystery Solved' [1978, Will Wyatt]. Book: 'Conversaciones con Gabriel Figueroa' [1993, Alberto Isaac]. His son Gabriel Figueroa Flores Jr. is a still ph and doph.

Awards: Cannes IFF 'Grand Prix International du meilleur operateur' [1946] & Locarno IFF Prize [1947] for 'María Candelaria'; Silver 'Ariel' Award [1947] for 'Enamorada'; Venice IFF 'Best Photography' Award [1947], Silver 'Ariel' Award [1948] & Golden Globe 'Best Cinematography' Award [1948] for 'La perla'; Venice IFF 'Best Photography' Award [1949] for 'La malquerida'; Silver 'Ariel' Award [1949] for 'Río Escondido', [1950] for 'Pueblerina', [1951] for 'Los olvidados', [1953] for 'El rebozo de soledad' & [1954] for 'El niño y la niebla'; 'Oscar' AA nom [1964; b&w] for 'The Night of the Iguana'; Premio Nacional de Ciencias y Artes [1971]; Golden 'Ariel' Award [1987]; ASC International Award [1995]; AEC Honorary 'Premio Prisma' [1996]; Los Angeles Latino IFF 'Lifetime Achievement Award [1997].

Website: Gabriel Figueroa

Gabriel Figueroa was born in Mexico City on April 24, 1907. His mother died giving birth to him, and his father was never able to recover from the loss. Along with his brother Roberto, Gabriel spent his childhood under the care of his aunts on his father's side. In this family environment, Gabriel grew up surrounded by hard-working widows and liberal writers who sympathized with various revolutionary warlords. When the money they inherited from their parents ran out, squandered through the executors' mismanagement, the Figueroa brothers were forced to quit their studies to make a living. Thus, Gabriel, who was studying drawing and music, had to leave the San Carlos Academy and the National Music Conservatory. He then began studying photography with Eduardo Guerrero. Figueroa's training as a photographer spanned from 1927 to 1932. He worked at a studio on Guerrero Street, where people had their picture taken in front of hand-painted backdrops under natural light. Then he found employment with Juan de la Peña, who ran a business founded by several Mexico City photographers who aspired to compete against Russians working on Hidalgo Avenue. [Since they slashed their prices to acquire a clientele, at times Figueroa - whose daily wage was one peso - had to produce up to a hundred oval-shaped portraits a day.]

But it was at the Estudio Fotográfico Brooklyn where the mysteries of photographic techniques were revealed to him. The shop was run by José Guadalupe Velasco, a pioneer in the use of artificial lighting, a grand master in retouching negatives, and a follower of the Bohemian cult for the artistic nude. Famous for his cosmetic tricks - heart-shaped mouths and well-defined eyelashes, amongst others - he had become the favorite of actresses and vaudeville dancers.

Finally, in association with his friend Gilberto Martínez Solares, the young Figueroa opened his own photo studio. Actresses like Sara García or Consuelo Frank, dancers like Issa Marcu and other performers commissioned him for their promotional pictures. In making these portraits - visibly influenced by Pictorialism and Expressionism - Figueroa fine-tuned his craft as a photographer.

These pictures of celebrities and novel aspects of modern life, published in magazines like 'México al día' or 'Filmográfico', were Figueroa's contribution to a time that was eager to leave behind the cloud of dust raised by the Revolution. Some time later, while working at a studio that Gilberto Martínez Solares had opened on Madero Street, Figueroa befriended Alex Phillips, one of the American cinematographers employed in the nascent Mexican film industry. With his recommendation he was able to start working as a still photographer at the studios where miracles happened, like the reincarnation of Marlene Dietrich in the form of Andrea Palma.

In August 1936, after having worked as a still photographer, key grip, camera operator, and assistant cameraman, Gabriel Figueroa finally had the opportunity to become the director of photography on a feature film. Directed by Fernando de Fuentes, the movie 'Allá en el Rancho Grande' was a domestic and international success, and it established the formula for a genre that became a trademark of Mexican cinema, the 'ranchero' comedy. [From the 'Centro de la imagen' website.]

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'Though relatively little of Figueroa is known to anyone outside the Spanish-speaking countries, those films that have emerged certainly wet the appetite for more. (As a side issue, when faced with a list of mainly unknown movies and directors, one wonders what masterpieces are included and what subtleties and joys abound in the worlds of, say, Fernando de Fuentes or Julio Bracho.) American directors shooting in Mexico - not surprisingly considering the visual impact - are always likely to become obsessed with the marvelous cloud formations of the Mexican landscape, and Figueroa (for Ford, Huston and Siegel) proved to be a superb foil to their demands, producing a string of classic compositions in which the people seemed dwarfed by their magnificent surroundings. Figueroa's work for Buñuel, however, is perhaps a greater indication of his ability. No shortage of landscapes here, admittedly ('Nazarín', 'Simón del desierto'), but also greater accomplishment, in both direction and camerawork, of themes and ideas. Throughout the parables of 'Nazarín', the picture of dire poverty intermixed with unconscious human desires in 'Los olvidados', and the paranoia of a neurotic bourgeois in 'Él', Figueroa's images, full of stark contrasts that seem to test the limits of black-and-white photography, show him to be a worthy collaborator to Buñuel at the height of his powers.' [David Badder in 'Film Dope', #16, February 1979.]

1935        Cuernavaca [Rolando Aguilar] b&w; doc/?m

1936        Las mujeres mandan/His Great Adventure [Fernando de Fuentes] b&w; cph: Jack Draper

1936        Allá en el Rancho Grande/Cruz/Out On the Big Ranch [Fernando de Fuentes] b&w

1936        Desfile deportivo [Fernando de Fuentes] b&w; doc/?m; cph: Jack Draper, Alex Phillips Sr., Alvaro González & Agustín

                    Delgado

1936        Petróleo/La sangre del mundo [Arturo Mom & Fernando de Fuentes] b&w; doc/19m; cph: Adolfo Slazy & Manuel

                    Álvarez Bravo

1937        Bajo el cielo de México/Beneath the Sky of Mexico [Fernando de Fuentes] b&w

1937        Jalisco nunca pierde/Jalisco Never Loses [Chano Urueta] b&w

1937        Canción del alma/Song of the Soul [Chano Urueta] b&w

1937        La Adelita [Guillermo Hernández Gómez] b&w

1937        Mi candidato/My Candidate [Chano Urueta] b&w

1938        Refugiados en Madrid/Refugees in Madrid [Alejandro Galindo] b&w

1938        Padre de más de cuatro [Robert Quigley] b&w

1938        La casa del ogro/The House of the Ogre [Fernando de Fuentes] b&w

1938        Los millones de Chaflán [Rolando Aguilar] b&w

1938        Mientras México duerme/While Mexico Sleeps [Alejandro Galindo] b&w

1938        La bestia negra/Mi negra o su negra/The Black Beast [Gabriel Soria] b&w

1939        La noche de los mayas/Night of the Mayas [Chano Urueta] b&w

1939        Papacito lindo/¡El viejo verde!/Sugar Daddy [Fernando de Fuentes] b&w

1939        Los de abajo/Con la División del Norte [Chano Urueta] b&w

1939        La canción del milagro/The Miracle Song [Rolando Aguilar] b&w

1939        ¡Que viene mi marido! [Chano Urueta] b&w

1940        Allá en el trópico [Fernando de Fuentes] b&w

1940        El jefe máximo [Fernando de Fuentes] b&w

1940        Con su amable permiso [Fernando Soler] b&w

1940        El monje loco [Alejandro Galindo] b&w

1940        Creo en Dios/Secreto de confesión/Believe in God [Fernando de Fuentes] b&w

1941        Ni sangre, ni arena/Neither Blood Nor Sand [Alejandro Galindo] b&w; collab ph: Agustín Delgado, Jack Draper &

                    Raúl Martínez Solares

1941        El rápido de las 9:15 [Alejandro Galindo] b&w

1941        ¡Ay, qué tiempos, senor don Simón! [Julio Bracho] b&w

1941        La casa del rencor [Gilberto Martínez Solares] b&w

1941        El gendarme desconocido [Miguel M. Delgado] b&w

1941        La gallina clueca/The Cackling Hen [Fernando de Fuentes] b&w

1941        Virgen de medianoche/El imperio del Hampa [Alejandro Galindo] b&w

1941        Mi viuda alegre/My Merry Widow [Miguel M. Delgado] b&w

1942        Cuando viajan las estrellas/When the Stars... [Alberto Gout] b&w

1942        Historia de un gran amor [Julio Bracho] b&w

1942        Los tres mosqueteros/The Three Musketeers [Miguel M. Delgado] b&w

1942        El verdugo de Sevilla [Fernando Soler] b&w

1942        La virgen que forjó una patria/The Saint That Forged a Country [Julio Bracho] b&w

1942        El circo [Miguel M. Delgado] b&w

1943        Flor silvestre/Wild Flower [Emilio Fernández] b&w

1943        El espectro de la novia [René Cardona] b&w

1943        El as negro [René Cardona] b&w

1943        La mujer sin cabeza [René Cardona] b&w

1943        Distinto amanecer/Another Dawn [Julio Bracho] b&w

1943        María Candelaria/Xochimilco/Portrait of Maria [Emilio Fernández] b&w

1943        La fuga [Norman Foster] b&w

1944        El corsario negro/The Black Pirate [Chano Urueta] b&w

1944        El intruso/The Intruder [Mauricio Magdaleno] b&w

1944        Adiós, Mariquita linda [Alfonso Patiño Gómez] b&w; cph: Victor Herrera

1944        Las abandonadas [Emilio Fernández] b&w

1944        Más allá del amor [Adolfo Fernández Bustamante] b&w

1944        Bugambilia [Emilio Fernández] b&w

1945        Un día con el diablo [Miguel M. Delgado] b&w

1945        Cantaclaro [Julio Bracho] b&w

1945        La perla/The Pearl [Emilio Fernández] b&w

1946        Su última aventura/The Last Adventure [Gilberto Martínez Solares] b&w

1946        Enamorada/Girl in Love [Emilio Fernández] b&w

1946        The Fugitive [John Ford & (uncred) Emilio Fernández] b&w; replaced ph Gregg Toland, who couldn't ph the film because

                    of a contract dispute

1947        La casa colorada [Miguel Morayta] b&w

1947        Río Escondido/Hidden River [Emilio Fernández] b&w-c; murals by Diego Rivera ph in color by Luis Osorno Barona

1947        María la O [Adolfo Fernández Bustamante] b&w

1947        Tarzan and the Mermaids [Robert Florey] b&w; co-assoc ph; ph: Jack Draper

1948        Maclovia [Emilio Fernández] b&w

1948        Dueña y señora [Tito Davison] b&w

1948        Medianoche/Midnight [Tito Davison] b&w

1948        Salón México/Mujer Mala [Emilio Fernández] b&w

1948        Pueblerina/Town Tale [Emilio Fernández] b&w

1948        Prisión de sueños [Víctor Urruchúa] b&w

1949        El embajador [Tito Davison] b&w

1949        Opio/La droga maldita [Ramón Peón] b&w

1949        La malquerida [Emilio Fernández] b&w

1949        Un cuerpo de mujer [Tito Davison] b&w

1949        Duelo en las montañas [Emilio Fernández] b&w

1949        The Torch/Beloved/Bandit General/Del odio nació el amor [Emilio Fernández] b&w

1949        Nuestras vidas [Ramón Peón] b&w

1950        Un día de vida [Emilio Fernández] b&w

1950        Los olvidados/The Young and the Damned [Luis Buñuel] b&w

1950        Víctimas del pecado/Hell's Kitchen [Emilio Fernández] b&w

1950        Pecado [Luis César Amadori] b&w

1950        Islas Marías [Emilio Fernández] b&w

1950        El gavilán pollero [Rogelio A. González] b&w

1950        El bombero atómico/The Atomic Fireman [Miguel M. Delgado] b&w; or ph Jack Draper

1950        Viva Zapata! [Elia Kazan] turned down prod because he didn't like the script; ph by Joe MacDonald (1951)

1950        Siempre tuya [Emilio Fernández] b&w

1951        Los pobres van al cielo [Jaime Salvador] b&w

1951        Un gallo en corral ajeno/The Straying Rooster [Julián Soler] b&w

1951        La bienamada [Emilio Fernández] b&w

1951        Hay un niño en su futura [Fernando Cortés] b&w

1951        El mar y tú [Emilio Fernández] b&w

1951        Ahí viene Martín Corona/Little Love of My Life [Miguel Zacarías] b&w

1951        El enamorado/El regreso de Martín Corona/Vuelve Martín Corona [Miguel Zacarías] b&w

1952        El rebozo de Soledad/Soledad's Shawl [Roberto Gavaldón] b&w

1952        Ni pobres ni ricos [Fernando Cortés] b&w

1952        Cuando levanta la niebla [Emilio Fernández] b&w

1952        Crisol de pensamiento mexicano [Alejandro Galindo] b&w; doc/20m; cph: Alex Phillips Sr., Agustín Jiménez & José

                    Ortiz Ramos

1952        El señor fotógrafo [Miguel M. Delgado] b&w

1952        Dos tipos de cuidado/Two Careful Fellows [lsmael Rodríguez] b&w

1952        Ansiedad/Anxiety [Miguel Zacarías] b&w

1952        Él/This Strange Passion/Torments [Luis Buñuel] b&w

1953        Camelia [Roberto Gavaldón] b&w

1953        Llévame en tus brazos [Julio Bracho] b&w

1953        El niño y la niebla [Roberto Gavaldón] b&w

1953        La rosa blanca/Momentos de la vida de Martí/The White Rose [Emilio Fernández & (uncred) Íñigo de Martino] b&w

1954        La rebelión de los colgados [Alberto B. Crevenna & Emilio Fernández] b&w

1954        La mujer X [Julián Soler] b&w

1954        Pueblo, canto y esperanza [Mexican seg dir by Rogelio A. González] b&w; 3 seg; other ph: ?

1954        Estafa de amor [Miguel M. Delgado] b&w

1954        El monstruo de la sombra [Zacarías Gómez Urquiza] b&w

1955        La doncella de piedra [Miguel M. Delgado] cs/c

1955        Historia de un amor [Roberto Gavaldón] b&w

1955        La Escondida/The Hidden One [Roberto Gavaldón] scope/c

1955        La Tierra del Fuego se apaga [Emilio Fernández] b&w

1955        Canasta de cuentos mexicanos [Julio Bracho] cs/c

1956        Una cita de amor [Emilio Fernández] b&w

1956        Sueños de oro [Miguel Zacarías] c

1956        El bolero de Raquel [Miguel M. Delgado] c

1956        Mujer en condominio [Rogelio A. González] b&w

1957        Aquí está Heraclio Bernal [Roberto Gavaldón] b&w

1957        La venganza de Heraclio Bernal/El rayo de sinaloa [Roberto Gavaldón] b&w

1957        La rebelión de la sierra/La ley de la sierra o El ocaso de Heraclio Bernal [Roberto Gavaldón] b&w

1957        Flor de mayo/Beyond All Limits/A Mexican Affair [Roberto Gavaldón] c; Spanish & English version

1957        Maricruz [Miguel Zacarías] b&w

1957        Una golfa [Tulio Demicheli] b&w

1957        La sonrisa de la virgen/Little Angel [Roberto Rodríguez & K. Gordon Murray] Colorscope/c

1958        Carabina 30-30 [Miguel M. Delgado] c

1958        Impaciencia del corazón/Impatient Heart [Tito Davison] c

1958        Café Colón [Benito Alazraki] c

1958        Isla para dos/Island for Two [Tito Davison] c

1958        La Cucaracha/The Soldiers of Pancho Villa [lsmael Rodríguez] c

1958        Nazarín [Luis Buñuel] b&w

1958        La estrella vacía/The Empty Star [Emilio Gómez Muriel] c

1959        Sonatas/Las aventuras del marqués de Bradomin [Juan Antonio Bardem] c; ph Mexico seq; ph: Cecilio Paniagua

1959        La fièvre monte à El Pao/Los ambiciosos/Republic of Sin/Fever Rises in El Pao [Luis Buñuel] b&w

1959        Macario [Roberto Gavaldón] b&w

1959        La joven/The Young One/Island of Shame [Luis Buñuel] b&w

1960        Juana Gallo/The Guns of Juana Gallo [Miguel Zacarías] c

1961        Los hermanos del hierro/My Son, the Hero [lsmael Rodríguez] b&w; or ph Rosalío Solano

1961        Rosa blanca [Roberto Gavaldón] b&w; released 1972

1961        Ánimas Trujano, el hombre importante [lsmael Rodríguez] cs/b&w

1961        El tejedor de milagros/The Weaver of Miracles [Francisco del Villar] b&w

1962        Um dia de vida [Augusto Fraga] b&w; cph: João Moreira

1962        El ángel exterminador/The Exterminating Angel (Luis Buñuel] b&w

1962        Días de otoño [Roberto Gavaldón] b&w

1962        La bandida/The Bandit [Roberto Rodríguez] c

1963        El hombre de papel/The Paper Man [lsmael Rodríguez] b&w

1963        Entrega inmediata/Agente XU 777 [Miguel M. Delgado] b&w-c

1963        En la mitad del mundo [Ramón Pereda] c

1963        The Night of the Iguana [John Huston] b&w

1964        Escuela para solteras/Águila con las hermanas [Miguel Zacarías] b&w

1964        El gallo de oro [Roberto Gavaldón] c

1964        Los tres calaveras [Fernando Cortés] b&w

1964        Los cuatro Juanes [Miguel Zacarías] b&w

1964        Simón del desierto/Simon of the Desert [Luis Buñuel] b&w; short/43m

1965        Amor, amor, amor [seg 'Las dos Elenas' dir by José Luis Ibáñez, 'Un alma pura' dir by Juan Ibáñez & 'Lola de mi vida'

                    dir by Miguel Barbachano-Ponce] b&w; 5 seg; other ph: Antonio Reynoso

1965        Cargamento prohibido [Miguel M. Delgado] b&w

1965        ¡Viva Benito Canales! [Miguel M. Delgado] c

1966        Pedro Páramo [Carlos Velo] b&w

1966        El asesino se embarca [Miguel M. Delgado] c

1966        El escapulario [Servando González] b&w

1966        Domingo salvaje [Francisco del Villar] b&w

1966        El cuarto chino/The Chinese Room [Albert Zugsmith] c

1966        Su excelencia [Miguel M. Delgado] c; cph: Rosalío Solano

1966        Los ángeles de Puebla [Francisco del Villar] c

1967        El jinete fantasma/El pistolero fantasma/The Phantom Gunslinger/The Phantom Rider [Albert Zugsmith] b&w

1967        Mariana [Juan Guerrero] c

1967        Corazón salvaje [Tito Davison] c; cph: Alex Phillips Sr.

1967        ¿Pax?/¿Paz? [Santiago Genovés Tarazaga] c; ?

1968        The Big Cube/El terrón de azúcar [Tito Davison] c

1968        Narda o el verano/Narda or the Summer [Juan Guerrero] c

1968        La puerta y la mujer del carnicero/The Door and the Woman of the Butcher [seg 'La puerta' (26m) dir by Luis

                    Alcoriza] c; 2 seg; cph: Alex Phillips Sr.; seg 'La mujer del carnicero' (59m) dir by Ismael Rodríguez and ph by Juan

                    Manuel Herrera & (uncred) Raúl Martínez Solares

1968        Kelly's Heroes [Brian G. Hutton] p (35mm & 70bu)/c; 2uc: H.A.R. Thomson

1969        The Great Sex War/Make Love Not War [Norman Foster] c

1969        Two Mules for Sister Sara [Don Siegel] p/c; 2uc: Gabriel Torres

1970        La Generala [Juan Ibáñez] c

1970        El cielo y tú [Gilberto Gazcón] c

1970        El profe/The Professor [Miguel M. Delgado] c

1971        Los hijos de Satanás/Y los llamaban Satanás [Rafael Baledón] c

1971        Hijazo de mi vidaza/Aventuras en el tiempo/Son of My Life [Rafael Baledón] c

1971        María/Marie [Tito Davison] c

1972        El festin de la loba [Francisco del Villar] c

1972        El señor de Osanto [Jaime Humberto Hermosillo] c

1972        El monasterio de los buitres [Francisco del Villar] c

1972        Once Upon a Scoundrel [George Schaefer] c

1972        Interval/Intervalo [Daniel Mann] c

1973        El amor tiene cara de mujer [Tito Davison] c

1973        Los perros de Dios [Francisco del Villar] c

1974        El llanto de la tortuga [Francisco del Villar] c

1974        Presagio/Presage [Luis Alcoriza] c

1975        Coronación/Coronation [Sergio Olhovich] c

1975        La vida cambia/Life Changes [Juan Manuel Torres] c

1975        Maten al león [José Estrada] p/c

1976        Balún Canán [Benito Alazraki] c

1976        Cananea [Marcela Fernández Violante] c

1976        Los aztecas [Marcel Boudou] for tv

1977        Divinas palabras [Juan Ibáñez] c

1977        La casa del pelícano [Sergio Véjar] c

1977        The Children of Sanchez [Hall Bartlett] c

1977        México mágico [François Reichenbach] c; doc/?m

1978        A paso de cojo [Luis Alcoriza] c

1978        Te quiero [Tito Davison] c

1979        The Border/The Blood Barrier/Border Cop [Christopher Leitch] c

1980        El jugador de ajedrez [Juan Luis Buñuel] tvm/50m

1981        D.F./Distrito Federal [Rogelio A. González] c

1981        México 2000 [Rogelio A. González] c

1981        El héroe desconocido [Julián Pastor] c

1982        El corazón de la noche/The Heart of the Night [Jaime Humberto Hermosillo] c

1983        Under the Volcano [John Huston] c; filmed 1983-84

1984        Rambo: First Blood Part II [George P. Cosmatos] was asked to ph this film, but turned it down; ph: Jack Cardiff

1984        Prizzi's Honor [John Huston] scheduled as doph, but he didn't get a working permit; ph: Andrzej Bartkowiak

1986        El maleficio II [Raúl Araiza] c; cph: José Ortiz Ramos

1931        ¡Qué Viva México! [Sergei Eisenstein] c.asst; ph: Eduard Tisse; unfinished; filming started in Dec 1930, prod shut down

                    in Jan 1932; several films were edited from this footage

1932        Revolución [o La sombra de Pancho Villa] [Miguel Contreras Torres & Antonio Moreno] still ph; ph: Alex Phillips Sr. &

                    Ezequiel Carrasco

1933        Almas encontradas/Souls in Conflict [Raphael J. Sevilla] still ph; ph: Ross Fisher

1933        El vuelo glorioso de Barberán y Collar [ ?; doc] c.op; ph: ?

1933        Juárez y Maximiliano/La caída de un imperio [Miguel Contreras Torres & Raphael J. Sevilla] still ph; ph: Alex Phillips

                    Sr., a.o.

1933        Sagrario [Ramón Peón] still ph; ph: Alex Phillips Sr.

1933        Profanación [Chano Urueta] still ph; ph: ?

1933        La noche del pecado/The Night of Sin [Miguel Contreras Torres] still ph; ph: ?

1933        Enemigos/Enemies [Chano Urueta] still ph; ph: Alex Phillips Sr.

1933        La mujer del puerto [Arcady Boytler & Raphael J. Sevilla] still ph; ph: Alex Phillips Sr.

1933        La sangre manda/The Call of the Blood [José Bohr & Raphael J. Sevilla] still ph; ph: Alex Phillips Sr.

1933        Viva Villa! [Howard Hawks] co-c.op military parade seq; ph: James Wong Howe

1934        Chucho el roto [Gabriel Soria] still ph; ph: Alex Phillips Sr.

1934        Corazón Bandolero [Raphael J. Sevilla] still ph; ph: Alex Phillips Sr.

1934        El escándalo/The Scandal [Chano Urueta] lighting; ph: Victor Herrera

1934        Tribu [Miguel Contreras Torres] still ph; ph: Alex Phillips Sr.

1934        El primo Basilio [Carlos de Nájera] lighting; ph: Alvin Wyckoff

1935        María Elena [Raphael J. Sevilla] c.op & lighting; ph: Jack Draper, Alvin Wyckoff & William Clothier; English and Spanish

                    versions

1935        Vámonos con Pancho Villa/Let's Go with Pancho Villa [Fernando de Fuentes] c.op; ph: Jack Draper

1935        Splendor [Elliott Nugent] intern; ph: Gregg Toland

1936        Cielito lindo/Beautiful Sky [Roberto Gavaldón & Roberto O'Quigley (= Robert Quigley)] c.op; ph: Jack Draper