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Luis Valdez
Highest Rated: 97% Coco (2017)
Lowest Rated: 20% Which Way Is Up? (1977)
Birthday: Jun 26, 1940
Birthplace: Delano, California, USA
Born to parents of Mexican descent, Luis Valdez spent his childhood as a migrant farm worker. After graduating from San Jose State College he spent a year with the San Francisco Mime Troupe which culminated in a cultural exchange trip to Cuba. Upon his return to the US, Valdez returned to his hometown of Delano and joined Cesar Chavez's United Farmworkers. There he formed a workers' theatre company, "El Teatro Campesino," which developed original material in the form of short agitprop skits called "actos." "El Teatro Campesino" also produced several short films of their plays.
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| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 97% | 94% | Coco |
Tio Berto/ |
$210.5M | 2017 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Cruz Reynoso: Sowing the Seeds of Justice | Narrator | - | 2010 |
| No Score Yet | 57% | The Cisco Kid | Director | - | 1994 |
| 83% | 78% | La Bamba |
Director, Writer |
$52.7M | 1987 |
| 55% | 74% | Zoot Suit | Director | - | 1981 |
| 20% | 82% | Which Way Is Up? | Ramon Juarez (Character) | - | 1977 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Fighting for Our Lives | Screenwriter | - | 1975 |