Robert Rodriguez

Birthplace: San Antonio, Texas
Birthday: June 20, 1968

Mexican-American filmmaker Robert Rodriguez burst upon the independent scene with a miraculous $7000 (shooting cost) action film geared for the Mexican Spanish-language video market. Touted as the cheapest film ever released by a studio, "El Mariachi" (1993) was a galvanizing send-up of Mexican action films, American Westerns and tough anti-hero movies informed by such auteurs as Sergio Leone and Sam Peckinpah. It told the fast-moving story of a mariachi musician who arrives in a Mexican border town at the same time as a hit man. Violent compli…more

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Actor

One River, One Country -- The U.S./Mexico Border
Masters of Fantasy: John Carpenter
Interviewee
CityKids
Juan Cabrini
Newport Jazz '90
Anatomy of Horror
Interviewee

Below The Line

Elvis Meets Nixon
Post-Production Assistant

Director

Roadracers
Director

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Career Milestones

2007
Helmed "Planet Terror," the zombie themed half of the goretastic double feature "Grind House" a collaboration with Quentin Tarantino
2005
Directed "The Adventures of Shark Boy & Lava Girl in 3-D," an advanture film scripted by his young son
2005
Helmed the feature film based on the "Sin City" series of comic books and graphic novels created, written, and illustrated by Frank Miller
2003
Again collaborated with Banderas on "Once Upon a Time in Mexico" a sequel to "Desperado"
2002
Reteamed with the cast of "Spy Kids" to film "Spy Kids 2: The Island Of Lost Dreams"