David Villalpando
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Born	January 2, 1959 (1959-01-02) (age 48), Mexico City, DF, Mexico.
Notable roles	Enrique in El Norte.

David Villalpando (born January 2, 1959 in Mexico City, D.F.) is a Mexican actor, whose break out role was in the film El Norte (1983).^[1] Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... January 2 is the second day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1959 (MCMLIX) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Nickname: Location of Mexico City in central Mexico Coordinates: Country Mexico Federal entity Federal District Boroughs The 16 delegaciones Founded (as Tenochtitlan) c. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Mexico. ... El Norte is a 1983 film that tells the story of a teenaged brother and sister from Guatemala who leave their war-torn country to try to find a new life in Los Angeles; the two characters expect to have a simple, easy life in the United States. ... January 2 is the second day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1959 (MCMLIX) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Nickname: Location of Mexico City in central Mexico Coordinates: Country Mexico Federal entity Federal District Boroughs The 16 delegaciones Founded (as Tenochtitlan) c. ... El Norte is a 1983 film that tells the story of a teenaged brother and sister from Guatemala who leave their war-torn country to try to find a new life in Los Angeles; the two characters expect to have a simple, easy life in the United States. ...

Since then he's had small roles in American films such as The Arrival, The Mask of Zorro, and the John Sayles film Men with Guns (1997). The Arrival is a 1996 science fiction film directed by David Twohy and starring Charlie Sheen. ... The Mask of Zorro (1998) is an American action film directed by Martin Campbell, and stars Antonio Banderas, Anthony Hopkins, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Stuart Wilson. ... Photo of John Sayles by Robert Birnbaum John Thomas Sayles (born September 28, 1950) is an independent American film director and writer who frequently takes a small part in his own and other indie films. ... Men with Guns is a 1997 film written and directed by John Sayles. ...

He was also in an episode in the television series Acapulco H.E.A.T., and has done a lot of work in Mexican cinema. Alapulco H.E.A.T. was a short live 1993 television series in which the H.E.A.T. team, a group of specialists recruited to fight a secret war on terrorists, is based in Acapulco, Mexico. ...

El Norte

Villalpando first role in El Norte meant a lot to him. He gave an interview to Lear Media about the film: what it meant to him and why the film was important. Villalpando said:

Fifteen years ago, the indigenous people in Guatemala were living a cruel extermination that forced them to flee toward Mexico and the United States. This exodus lasted a decade and half a million Guatemalans made the journey to America seeking for asylum and refuge...El Norte became a powerful fighting element, grew an audience, searched audiences, and left the theatres to tell its truth.^[2]

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Footnotes

1. ^ IMDb film data base.
2. ^ Villalpando, David. Lear Media, interview of Villalpando.

External links

• David Villalpando at the Internet Movie Database.