Tito Junco, Sr.

Mexican film actor Tito Junco inaugurated his screen career in 1942. Though few of his films were seen in English-speaking countries (a rare exception was the 1959 Benedict Bogaeus production Jet Over the Atlantic), he was quite well-known in Latin America and Spain. Turning to directing in the mid-'60s, he helmed such productions as El Derecho de Nacer (1966). Tito Junco's most celebrated film appearances included La Sombra el Claudio (1960), which won him several film festival awards, and Bunuel's The Exterminating Angel (1962). ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide