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Robert Rodriguez was born and raised in San Antonio, Texas, USA. At a very young age he showed an interest in cartooning and filmmaking and devoted all of his time towards developing this fascination. Finally, it paid off, resulting in him in making real movies; and just the first of them - El mariachi (1992) - made him the legend of independent, ... See full bio »

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 2014 From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series (TV Series) (3 episodes) (filming)
- Blood Runs Thick (2014)
- Episode #1.1 (2014)
 2013 Machete Kills
 2013/II Two Scoops (Short)
 2011/I The Black Mamba (Short)
 2010 Machete
 2009 Shorts
 2007 Planet Terror
 2007 Grindhouse (segment "Planet Terror", fake trailer segment "Machete")
 2005 Sin City
 2004 How to Make Cool Home Movies (Video short)
 2004 Ten Minute Film School: Big Movies Made Cheap (Video documentary short)
 2004 Ten Minute Flick School: Fast, Cheap and in Control (Video documentary short)
 2004 Ten Minute Cooking School: Puerco Pibil (Video documentary short)
 2004 Inside Troublemaker Studios (Video documentary short)
 2003 Del Castillo (Video) (live segments)
 2001 Spy Kids
 1998 Ten More Minutes: Anatomy of a Shootout (Video documentary short) (uncredited)
 1998 The Robert Rodriguez Ten Minute Film School (Video documentary short) (uncredited)
 1998 The Faculty
 1995 Four Rooms (segment "The Misbehavers")
 1995 Desperado
 1994 Roadracers (TV Movie)
 1994 Rebel Highway (TV Series) (1 episode)
- Roadracers (1994)
 1992 El mariachi
 1991 Bedhead (Short)
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Other Works:

Director & Editor Tito & Tarantula - After Dark (music video) Available on the Collector's Edition of "From Dusk till Dawn" See more »

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Alternate Names:

Robert Rodriguez 'My Brother' | Robert Rodriguez and Band | Mi Hermano Robert R. | Roberto Rodriguez | Robert Rodríguez

Height:

6' 2" (1.88 m)
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Personal Quote:

I didn't want Frank [Miller, creator of the comic "Sin City" and co-writer on the film] to be treated just as a writer because he is the only one who has actually been to 'Sin City'. I am making such a literal interpretation of his book that I'd have felt weird taking directing credit without him. It was easier for me to quietly resign because otherwise I'd have been force to make compromises I ... See more »

Trivia:

Left the Writers' Guild of America (WGA) in late 2001, citing the organization had "too many rules and just take your money." See more »

Trademark:

His adult-oriented movies always feature a fictional brand of beer called "Cerveza Chango". Chango is the Orisha (a deity as in the Afro-Cuban religion of Santeria - an amalgam of African tradition and Catholocism) of fire, lightning and dance. Chango is renowned for the way he avenges crimes against the innocent, a recurring theme in Rodriguez-movies in which the fictional beer appears. See more »

Nickname:

The Wizard

Star Sign:

Gemini

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