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Fidel Castro
Actor
Born August 13, 1926Died November 25, 2016 (90 years)
Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz (13 August 1926 – 25 November 2016) was a Cuban revolutionary and politician who served as Prime Minister of Cuba from 1959 to 1976 and President from 1976 to 2008. Ideologically a Marxist–Leninist and Cuban nationalist, he also served as the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba from 1961 until 2011. Under his administration, Cuba became a one-party communist state; industry and business were nationalized, and state socialist reforms were implemented throughout society.
Born in Birán, Oriente, the son of a wealthy Spanish farmer, Castro adopted leftist and anti-imperialist ideas while studying law at the University of Havana. After participating in rebellions against right-wing governments in the Dominican Republic and Colombia, he planned the overthrow of Cuban President Fulgencio Batista, launching a failed attack on the Moncada Barracks in 1953. After a year's imprisonment, Castro traveled to Mexico where he formed a revolutionary group, the 26th of July Movement, with his brother Raúl Castro and Ernesto "Che" Guevara. Returning to Cuba, Castro took a key role in the Cuban Revolution by leading the Movement in a guerrilla war against Batista's forces from the Sierra Maestra. After Batista's overthrow in 1959, Castro assumed military and political power as Cuba's Prime Minister. The United States came to oppose Castro's government and unsuccessfully attempted to remove him by assassination, economic blockade, and counter-revolution, including the Bay of Pigs Invasion of 1961. Countering these threats, Castro aligned with the Soviet Union and allowed the Soviets to place nuclear weapons in Cuba, resulting in the Cuban Missile Crisis – a defining incident of the Cold War – in 1962.
Adopting a Marxist–Leninist model of development, Castro converted Cuba into a one-party, socialist state under Communist Party rule, the first in the Western Hemisphere. Policies introducing central economic planning and expanding healthcare and education were accompanied by state control of the press and the suppression of internal dissent. Abroad, Castro supported anti-imperialist revolutionary groups, backing the establishment of Marxist governments in Chile, Nicaragua, and Grenada, as well as sending troops to aid allies in the Yom Kippur, Ogaden, and Angolan Civil War. These actions, coupled with Castro's leadership of the Non-Aligned Movement from 1979 to 1983 and Cuba's medical internationalism, increased Cuba's profile on the world stage. Following the Soviet Union's dissolution in 1991, Castro led Cuba through the economic downturn of the "Special Period", embracing environmentalist and anti-globalization ideas. In the 2000s, Castro forged alliances in the Latin American "pink tide" – namely with Hugo Chávez's Venezuela – and formed the Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas. In 2006, Castro transferred his responsibilities to Vice President Raúl Castro, who was elected to the presidency by the National Assembly in 2008. Description above from the Wikipedia article Fidel Castro, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Born in Birán, Oriente, the son of a wealthy Spanish farmer, Castro adopted leftist and anti-imperialist ideas while studying law at the University of Havana. After participating in rebellions against right-wing governments in the Dominican Republic and Colombia, he planned the overthrow of Cuban President Fulgencio Batista, launching a failed attack on the Moncada Barracks in 1953. After a year's imprisonment, Castro traveled to Mexico where he formed a revolutionary group, the 26th of July Movement, with his brother Raúl Castro and Ernesto "Che" Guevara. Returning to Cuba, Castro took a key role in the Cuban Revolution by leading the Movement in a guerrilla war against Batista's forces from the Sierra Maestra. After Batista's overthrow in 1959, Castro assumed military and political power as Cuba's Prime Minister. The United States came to oppose Castro's government and unsuccessfully attempted to remove him by assassination, economic blockade, and counter-revolution, including the Bay of Pigs Invasion of 1961. Countering these threats, Castro aligned with the Soviet Union and allowed the Soviets to place nuclear weapons in Cuba, resulting in the Cuban Missile Crisis – a defining incident of the Cold War – in 1962.
Adopting a Marxist–Leninist model of development, Castro converted Cuba into a one-party, socialist state under Communist Party rule, the first in the Western Hemisphere. Policies introducing central economic planning and expanding healthcare and education were accompanied by state control of the press and the suppression of internal dissent. Abroad, Castro supported anti-imperialist revolutionary groups, backing the establishment of Marxist governments in Chile, Nicaragua, and Grenada, as well as sending troops to aid allies in the Yom Kippur, Ogaden, and Angolan Civil War. These actions, coupled with Castro's leadership of the Non-Aligned Movement from 1979 to 1983 and Cuba's medical internationalism, increased Cuba's profile on the world stage. Following the Soviet Union's dissolution in 1991, Castro led Cuba through the economic downturn of the "Special Period", embracing environmentalist and anti-globalization ideas. In the 2000s, Castro forged alliances in the Latin American "pink tide" – namely with Hugo Chávez's Venezuela – and formed the Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas. In 2006, Castro transferred his responsibilities to Vice President Raúl Castro, who was elected to the presidency by the National Assembly in 2008. Description above from the Wikipedia article Fidel Castro, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
| 2023 | Kennedy, Sinatra and the Mafia · as Self - Prime Minister Of Cuba |
| 2023 | Augusto Pinochet: The Coup, the Torture & the West · as Self - 15th Prime Minister Of Cuba |
| 2023 | Rather · as Self - Leader Of Cuba 1959 - 2008 |
| 2022 | El Caso Padilla · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2022 | Uncle Tom II: An American Odyssey · as Self |
| 2022 | The Mystery of Marilyn Monroe: The Unheard Tapes · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2022 | Red Elvis: The Cold War Cowboy · as Self |
| 2021 | The Death of God · as Self |
| 2021 | JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass · as Self - Leader Of Cuba |
| 2021 | Becoming Cousteau · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2021 | |
| 2021 | How to Become a Tyrant (TV Series) · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2021 | Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2020 | I Am Jackie O · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2020 | Handelskriege im Spiegel der Geschichte · as Self |
| 2020 | Friedrich Engels: Der Unterschätzte · as Self |
| 2020 | Castro's Spies · as Self - Former Cuban President |
| 2020 | 537 Votes · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2020 | Spycraft (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2020 | |
| 2019 | Leap of Faith: William Friedkin on the Exorcist · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2019 | Wasp Network · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2019 | Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project · as Self |
| 2019 | The Irishman · as Self |
| 2019 | The Coldest Game · as Self |
| 2019 | The Kingmaker · as Self |
| 2019 | What's My Name: Muhammad Ali · as Self |
| 2019 | Operation C.H.I.M.P · as Himself |
| 2019 | ReMastered: Massacre at the Stadium · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2018 | Yuli · as Self |
| 2018 | Another Day of Life · as Himself (archive Footage) |
| 2018 | Meeting Gorbachev · as Self |
| 2018 | Chavismo: la peste del siglo XXI · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2018 | Explained (TV Series) · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2018 | Bobby Kennedy for President (TV Series) · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2018 | Minnesota Experience (TV Series) · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2017 | Cuba and the Cameraman · as Self |
| 2017 | El Che · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2017 | Elián · as Himself |
| 2017 | Angola the war · as Himself - President Of Cuba (archive Footage) |
| 2017 | El Che · as Self |
| 2016 | Fidel Castro: America's Nemesis · as Himself (archive Footage) |
| 2016 | Fidel Castro: America's Nemesis · as Self |
| 2016 | Love Records: Gimme Some Love · as Self |
| 2015 | Papa Hemingway in Cuba · as Self |
| 2015 | Castro: The World's Most Watched Man · as Himself (archive Footage) |
| 2015 | The Bomb · as Self |
| 2015 | Black and Cuba · as Self |
| 2015 | |
| 2015 | The Eichmann Show · as Self |
| 2014 | The Hitch · as Self |
| 2014 | Mi Amigo Hugo · as Self |
| 2013 | Killing Oswald · as Self |
| 2013 | JFK Assassination: The Definitive Guide · as Self |
| 2013 | Lee Harvey Oswald: 48 Hours to Live · as Self |
| 2013 | Plot for Peace · as Self |
| 2013 | |
| 2012 | Sexocracy: The man of Bunga Bunga · as Self |
| 2012 | The Day That Lasted 21 Years · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2012 | The Man Who Stopped WW3: Revealed/The Man Who Saved the World · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2012 | Occupy Unmasked · as Self |
| 2012 | Marighella · as Self |
| 2012 | Castro in Winter · as Self |
| 2012 | Elvis Found Alive · as Self |
| 2012 | Ethel · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2011 | 7 Days in Havana · as Self (segment "diary Of A Beginner") (archive Footage) |
| 2011 | Zombies: A Living History · as Self |
| 2011 | Santiago Files · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2011 | Ronald Reagan: An American Journey · as Self - President Of Cuba |
| 2011 | Kennedys' Home Movies · as Self |
| 2010 | Norman Mailer: The American · as Self |
| 2010 | The Kennedy Detail · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2010 | The President's Book of Secrets · as Self |
| 2010 | Memória Cubana · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2010 | The Box of the Century (TV Series) · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2010 | Memorias del desarrollo · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2009 | Did the Mob Kill JFK? · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2009 | |
| 2009 | South of the Border · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2009 | Double Take · as Self |
| 2008 | An American Affair · as Self |
| 2008 | La rabbia di Pasolini · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2008 | Superpower · as Self |
| 2008 | How the West Was Lost · as Self |
| 2008 | Maradona by Kusturica · as Self |
| 2008 | The American Trap · as Self |
| 2008 | A President to Remember · as Self |
| 2008 | |
| 2007 | RFK Must Die: The Assassination of Bobby Kennedy · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2007 | Oswald's Ghost · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2007 | The War on Democracy · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2007 | Tasmanian Devil: The Fast and Furious Life of Errol Flynn · as Himself (archive Footage) |
| 2006 | The Good Shepherd · as Self |
| 2006 | 638 Ways to Kill Castro · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2006 | Hércules 56 · as Self |
| 2006 | Cocaine Cowboys · as Self |
| 2006 | Looking for Fidel · as Himself |
| 2006 | |
| 2006 | |
| 2005 | The Adventures of Errol Flynn · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2005 | Wrong Side Up · as Self |
| 2004 | The Big Fat Quiz of the Year · as Self |
| 2004 | Last Laugh '04 · as Self |
| 2004 | |
| 2004 | Odd People Out · as Self |
| 2004 | Salvador Allende · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2004 | Fidel Castro: Life for the Revolution · as Self |
| 2004 | Looking For Fidel · as Self |
| 2003 | Surplus: Terrorized Into Being Consumers · as Self |
| 2003 | |
| 2003 | The Fog of War · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2003 | Glauber o Filme, Labirinto do Brasil · as Self |
| 2003 | Comandante · as Self |
| 2003 | Bola de Nieve · as Self |
| 2002 | The Weather Underground · as Self |
| 2002 | |
| 2002 | Naqoyqatsi · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2002 | Power and Beauty · as Self |
| 2002 | Fond Memories of Cuba · as Self |
| 2002 | Cuban Rafters · as Himself (archive Footage) |
| 2002 | |
| 2001 | Dear Fidel · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2001 | Manic Street Preachers: Louder Than War · as Self |
| 2001 | Fidel · as Self |
| 2001 | Roots of the Cuban Missile Crisis · as Self |
| 2001 | Sacrificio: Who Betrayed Che Guevara · as Self |
| 2000 | Before Night Falls · as Self (anti-Marielito Speech) |
| 1999 | Film 1 · as Self |
| 1999 | Blast from the Past · as Self |
| 1999 | Nukes in Space · as Self |
| 1999 | The Secret KGB JFK Assassination Files · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 1998 | Pas vu, pas pris · as Self |
| 1998 | Cold War (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1998 | The Rat Pack · as Self |
| 1997 | The Fifties (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1997 | |
| 1996 | Whoever That Fails (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1995 | Nixon · as Self - Smoking Cigar |
| 1995 | The Perez Family · as Self (during Mariel Exodus) |
| 1994 | Loyalty & Betrayal: The Story of the American Mob · as Self - Leader Of Cuba |
| 1994 | Moon Shot · as Self - Prime Minister Of Cuba |
| 1993 | The Century of Warfare (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1993 | Mafia: The History of the Mob in America (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1993 | Fame in the 20th Century (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1992 | |
| 1992 | The Assassination of JFK · as Self |
| 1992 | The JFK Conspiracy · as Self |
| 1992 | |
| 1992 | Beyond 'JFK': The Question of Conspiracy · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 1991 | JFK · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 1990 | |
| 1988 | 11-22-63: The Day the Nation Cried · as Self |
| 1988 | The 1950's: Music, Memories & Milestones · as Self |
| 1987 | Biography (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1987 | Nadie escuchaba · as Self - President Of Cuba |
| 1986 | Roda Viva (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 1984 | Improper Conduct · as Self - Politician (archive Footage) |
| 1983 | Scarface · as Self |
| 1983 | James Bond: The First 21 Years · as Self |
| 1983 | America Undercover (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1982 | Timewatch (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1980 | On Company Business · as Self - Prime Minister Of Cuba (archive Footage) |
| 1979 | Cuba · as Self |
| 1977 | A Grin Without A Cat · as Self (archive Footage) (uncredited) |
| 1976 | The Spiral · as Self |
| 1974 | General Idi Amin Dada: A Self Portrait · as Himself (archive Footage) (uncredited) |
| 1974 | The Society of the Spectacle · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 1974 | Waiting for Fidel · as Self |
| 1972 | Malcolm X · as Self - Carries Rifle |
| 1971 | Fidel · as Self |
| 1970 | |
| 1969 | Topaz · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 1969 | I Due Kennedy · as Self |
| 1968 | The Hour of the Furnaces · as Himself (archive Footage) |
| 1968 | Vremya (TV Series) · as Self - First Secretary Of The Central Committee Of The Communist Party Of Cuba |
| 1967 | Far from Vietnam · as Self (segment "fidel Castro") |
| 1965 | Cloportes · as Self |
| 1965 | |
| 1965 | The Sin Syndicate · as Self |
| 1963 | Salut les Cubains · as Self (uncredited) |
| 1963 | World in Action (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1961 | ¡Cuba Sí! · as Self - Cuban Politician (uncredited) |
| 1959 | Cuban Rebel Girls · as Himself (uncredited) |
| 1959 | CBS Reports (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1959 | The Truth About Fidel Castro Revolution · as Self |
| 1957 | The Jack Paar Tonight Show (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1953 | Panorama (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1953 | Person to Person (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1948 | The Ed Sullivan Show (TV Series) · as Self - Interviewee (archive Footage) |