Pancho Villa - in Films, Video, and Television

In Films, Video, and Television

Villa appeared as himself in films in 1912, 1913, 1914 and 1916:

• Life of Villa (1912)
• With General Pancho Villa in Mexico (1913, unconfirmed)
• The Life of General Villa (1914)
• Following the Flag in Mexico (1916)

The 1934 biopic Viva Villa! was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture. Actors that have portrayed Villa include:

• Raoul Walsh (1912, 1914) The Life of General Villa
• Wallace Beery (1917) Patria
• George Humbert (1918) Why America Will Win
• Wallace Beery (1934) Viva Villa!, with Phillip Cooper (Pancho Villa as a boy)
• Juan F. Triana (1935) El Tesoro de Pancho Villa
• Domingo Soler (1936) Vámonos con Pancho Villa
• Maurice Black (1937) Under Strange Flags
• Leo Carrillo (1949) Pancho Villa Returns
• Pedro Armendáriz (1950, 1957, 1960 twice)
• Alan Reed (1952) Viva Zapata!
• Victor Alcocer (1955) El siete leguas
• Rodolfo Hoyos, Jr. (1958) Villa!!
• Rafael Campos (1959) Have Gun Will Travel, Season 3-Episode 6 (Pancho)
• José Elías Moreno (1967) El Centauro Pancho Villa
• Ricardo Palacios (1967) Los Siete de Pancho Villa
• Yul Brynner (1968) Villa Rides
• Telly Savalas (1971) Pancho Villa!
• Heraclio Zepeda (1973) Reed, México insurgente
• Antonio Aguilar (1974) La Muerte de Pancho Villa
• Héctor Elizondo (1976) Wanted: The Sundance Woman (TV)
• Freddy Fender (1977) She Came to the Valley
• José Villamor (1980) Viva México (TV)
• Jorge Reynoso (1982) Red Bells: Mexico in Flames
• Gaithor Brownne (1985) Blood Church
• Guillermo Gil (1987) Senda de Gloria (TV series)
• Pedro Armendáriz, Jr. (1989) Old Gringo
• Mike Moroff (1992) The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, Young Indiana Jones and the Curse of the Jackal, "Mexico, March 1916", The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Spring Break Adventure
• Antonio Aguilar (1993) La sangre de un valiente
• Alonso Echánove (1993) By Our Own Correspondent
• Jesús Ochoa (1995) Entre Pancho Villa y una mujer desnuda
• Carlos Roberto Majul (1999) Ah! Silenciosa
• Peter Butler (2000) From Dusk Till Dawn 3: The Hangman's Daughter
• Antonio Banderas (2003) And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself
• Alejandro Calva (2009) Chico Grande
• Deadliest Warrior, Spike TV's hit show, featured Pancho Villa in a match-up against Chief Crazy Horse.
• Wild Roses, Tender Roses (2012), based on the novel The Friends of Pancho Villa, by James Carlos Blake