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{{short description|Mexican filmmaker}}
{{Infobox person
| name               = Manuel R. Ojeda
| birth_name         = Manuel Romulo Ojeda
| birth_date         = February 17, 1898
| birth_place        = Mexico
| death_date         = ???
| death_place        = ???
| occupation         = Writer, director, screenwriter, actor, cinematographer, editor
| spouse             =
}}
'''Manuel R. Ojeda''' was a Mexican writer, director, screenwriter, actor, cinematographer, editor, producer, and production manager who worked in Hollywood and Mexico from the 1910s through the 1960s.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/211169733/?terms=%22manuel+ojeda%22|title=Filmgramas|date=28 Sep 1933|website=El Nuevo Mexicano|language=en|access-date=2019-11-12}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7MWFzOV4-fAC&q=%22manuel+r.+ojeda%22+guionista&pg=PA265|title=Diccionario de escritores mexicanos, siglo XX: N-Q|last=Literarios|first=Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Centro de Estudios|date=1988|publisher=UNAM|isbn=9789703205097|language=es}}</ref>
== Biography ==
Manuel was born in Mexico in 1898 to parents of Spanish descent; he told reporters that his father was the Mexican ambassador to France, and the family spent time in Europe and Argentina when Manuel was young. When the Mexican Revolution broke out, the Ojedas relocated to Los Angeles, where Manuel pursued a career as an actor as early as 1912.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/79069173/?terms=%22manuel+ojeda%22|title=Manuel Ojeda Prefers Peace in the Silent Drama|date=26 Oct 1919|website=The New-York Tribune|language=en|access-date=2019-11-12}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/58424588/?terms=%22manuel+ojeda%22|title=Stage and Screen|date=17 Dec 1919|website=The Coffeyville Daily Journal|language=en|access-date=2019-11-12}}</ref>
Around 1920, he decided made plans to travel to Peru to produce films there with an American crew.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/169215365/?terms=%22manuel+ojeda%22|title=Footlight Flashes|date=20 Jun 1920|website=The Philadelphia Inquirer|language=en|access-date=2019-11-12}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/380352046/?terms=%22manuel+ojeda%22|title=Select Peru as Location for Studio|date=10 Apr 1921|website=The Los Angeles Times|language=en|access-date=2019-11-12}}</ref> It is unclear whether or not he was successful in that venture, but he then appears to have begun a career behind the camera in Mexico, starting with 1921's ''La Rosa del Desierto''.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SSobsiSzXZgC&q=%22manuel+r.+ojeda%22+film&pg=PA45|title=Guillermo Calles: A Biography of the Actor and Mexican Cinema Pioneer|first=Rogelio Jr.|last=Agrasánchez|date=2014-01-10|publisher=McFarland|isbn=9780786456482|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=M67QCAAAQBAJ&q=%22manuel+r.+ojeda%22+film&pg=PA55|title=Mexico on Main Street: Transnational Film Culture in Los Angeles Before World War II|last=Gunckel|first=Colin|date=2015|publisher=Rutgers University Press|isbn=9780813570778|language=en}}</ref> In addition to a string of narrative features, he also directed a string of documentaries.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://sic.gob.mx/ficha.php?table=cineasta&table_id=1485|title=Manuel R. Ojeda|website=Secretaría de Cultura/Sistema de Información Cultural|language=es|access-date=2019-11-12}}</ref> Toward the end of his career, he worked as a production manager in Mexico.
== Selected filmography ==
As director:
*''[[La rosa del desierto]]'' (1921)
*''[[Almas tropicales]]'' (1924)
*''[[The Golden Christ|El Cristo de oro]]'' (1926)
*''[[Conspiracy (1927 film)|Conspiración]]'' (1927)
*''[[The Marble Colossus|El coloso de mármol]]'' (1929)
*''[[Águilas de América]]'' (1933)
*''[[Judas (1936 film)|Judas]]'' (1936)
*''[[The Tragic Circus]]'' (1939)
*''[[La canción del huérfano]]'' (1940)
*''[[La última aventura de Chaflán]]'' (1942)
*''[[De Nueva York a Huipanguillo]]'' (1943)
As screenwriter:
* ''[[La insaciable (film)|La insaciable]]'' (1947)
* ''[[Zorina (film)|Zorina]]'' (1949)
* ''[[La mujer que yo perdí]]'' (1949)
* ''[[Ultraje al amor]]'' (1956)
* ''[[Tizoc (film)|Tizoc]]'' (1957)
* ''[[Pueblo en armas]]'' (1959)
* ''[[¡Viva la soldadera!]]'' (1960)
* ''[[The Happy Musketeers]]'' (1961)
* ''[[La tórtola del Ajusco]]'' (1962)
As actor:
* ''[[The Law of the North]]'' (1918)
* ''[[Rustling a Bride]]'' (1919)
* ''[[The Man Who Turned White]]'' (1919)
* ''[[Pinto (film)|Pinto]]'' (1920)
* ''[[A Double-Dyed Deceiver]]'' (1920)
* ''[[The Scuttlers]]'' (1920)
== References ==
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== External links ==
*{{IMDb name|0645328}}
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[[Category:Mexican film directors]]
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[[Category:Mexican film editors]]
[[Category:Mexican male silent film actors]]
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