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Name
Alejandro Jodorowsky

Known For
Directing

Birthday
1929-02-17 (97 years old)

Place of Birth
Tocopilla, Chile

Biography

Alejandro Jodorowsky Prullansky, known as Alejandro Jodorowsky (born 17 February 1929) is a Chilean filmmaker, playwright, composer and writer with a large cult following. Best known for his avant-garde films, he has been "venerated by cult cinema enthusiasts" for his work which "is filled with violently surreal images and a hybrid blend of mysticism and religious provocation." His most notable works include El Topo (1970), The Holy Mountain (1973) and Santa Sangre (1989), all of which have had limited release but achieved popularity amongst various countercultural groups. He has cited the filmmaker Federico Fellini as his primary cinematic influence, and has been described as an influence on such figures as Marilyn Manson and David Lynch. After a failed attempt to return to filmmaking with a film entitled King Shot starring Marilyn Manson and produced by David Lynch, Alejandro is set to return to cinema with the sequel to El Topo entitled Abel Cain sometime in late 2011 or 2012.

Jodorowsky is also a playwright and play director, having produced over one hundred plays, primarily in Mexico where he lived for much of his life. Alongside this he is also a writer, particularly of comic books - his The Incal even has been noted as having a claim to be "the best comic book" ever written - as well as books on his own theories about spirituality. Jodorowsky has been involved in the occult and various spiritual and religious groups, including Zen Buddhism and forms of Mexican shamanism, and has formulated his own spiritual system, which he has called "psychomagic" and "psychoshamanism".

Known For

Movies

Tv Shows

1973 The Holy Mountain as The Alchemist
1970 El Topo as El Topo
1957 The Severed Heads
2006 Midnight Movies: From the Margin to the Mainstream as Self
1997 Jodorowsky's Phylosophycal Tales as Alejandro
1994 The Jodorowsky Constellation as Self
2003 No Big Deal as Pablo
Soon The Eternal Voice as Old Alejandro
2006 Musikanten as Ludwig van Beethoven
2011 The Island as Jodo
2013 The Dance of Reality as Old Alejandro
2013 Jodorowsky's Dune as Self - Writer / Filmmaker
2013 Ritual - A Psychomagic Story as Fernando
2007 Arrabal, Panik Cineast as Self
2012 NWR as Self
1965 Melodrama Sacramental as Himself
2022 Tripping The Dark Fantastic as Himself
2002 Psicotaxi as Himself
2015 My Life Directed by Nicolas Winding Refn as Self
Soon The Family Forest as Himself
2007 Moebius Redux: A Life in Pictures as Self
Soon Alejandro Jodorowsky - Conversations on the Way of the Tarot as himself
2016 Endless Poetry as Old Alejandro
2016 Alejandro Jodorowsky and the Seagulls as Himself
2014 Alejandro Jodorowsky's Social Psychomagic as Himself
2002 Cherif as Prophet
1969 Anticlimax
2011 Forget Everything You Have Ever Seen: The World of Santa Sangre as Himself
1997 Jean Cocteau: Lies and Truths as Self
2008 La colorina as Self
1965 He! Viva Dada as Self
2008 Born Without
2024 Helicopter as Himself
2017 Violeta más viva que nunca as Himself (archive footage)
2003 Alejandro Jodorowsky: Interview at ICA London December 2002
2007 A Conversation with Alejandro Jodorowsky
2007 Niente è come sembra
1972 Fando and Lis as Puppeteer (uncredited)
2019 Psychomagic: A Healing Art as Himself
2002 Blink Jodorowsky as Himself
2021 Fake News as Mysterious man
2007 Una hora con Alejandro Jodorowsky as Self
2025 John Lilly and the Earth Coincidence Control Office as Self
2010 A Tar
2023 What the Forest conceals as self
2025 The Dark Fantastic as Self
2004 Rush to War as Self
1991 Jonathan Ross Presents for One Week Only: Alejandro Jodorowsky as Self
2004 Electric Yakuza, Go to Hell! as Self

2006 Una belleza nueva ( 2 episodes ) as Self
2022 Léemelo ( 1 episode ) as Self
1996 De pé a pá ( 1 episode ) as Self
1968 The Dick Cavett Show ( 1 episode ) as Self - Guest
2005 Le Cercle ( 1 episode ) as Self
2002 Through the Night with... ( 1 episode ) as Self
1993 Eurotrash ( 1 episode )

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