
Alfonso Arau Incháustegui (born 11 January 1932) is a Mexican filmmaker, actor, and singer. He worked as an actor and director in both Mexican and Hollywood productions for over 40 years, before his international breakthrough with the 1992 film Like Water for Chocolate, based on his wife Laura Esquivel's novel of the same name. His other films include A Walk in the Clouds (1995), Picking Up the Pieces (2000), The Magnificent Ambersons (2002), and Zapata: El sueño del héroe (2004). He is a five-time Ariel Award winner, including Best Director for Like Water for Chocolate, and a BAFTA nominee.

Miami Vice
TV • 1984

Gunsmoke
TV • 1955

Coco
MOVIE • 2017

227
TV • 1985

Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV • 1951

The Wild Bunch
MOVIE • 1969

¡Three Amigos!
MOVIE • 1986

Romancing the Stone
MOVIE • 1984

Used Cars
MOVIE • 1980

Committed
MOVIE • 2000

Walker
MOVIE • 1987

El Topo
MOVIE • 1970

Posse
MOVIE • 1975

El aviso inoportuno
MOVIE • 1969

The Dead One
MOVIE • 2007

Picking Up the Pieces
MOVIE • 2000

Drunk Angry Idiot
MOVIE • 2018

Pedro Paramo
MOVIE • 1967