Fidel Castro
Known for Acting · 162 credits
- Born
- 1926-08-13
- Died
- 2016-11-25
- Place of birth
- Birán, Cuba
- Also known as
- Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz
Biography
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.
Known For
TV Shows (18)
Mentiras verdaderas
2011
as Self (archive footage)
World in Action
1963
Explained
2018
as Self (archive footage)
The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien
2009
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
La Case du siècle
2010
as Self (archive footage)
Bobby Kennedy for President
2018
as Self (archive footage)
How to Become a Tyrant
2021
as Self (archive footage)
Spycraft
2021
as Self
Informe especial
1984
as Self (archive footage)
Legends of Cinema
2016
as Self (archive footage)
The Century of Icons
2022
as Self (archive footage)
Minnesota Experience
2018
as Self (archive footage)
Faith of the Century: A History of Communism
1999
as Self (archive footage)
Код доступа
2017
as Self
Rogues Gallery
1997
as Self (archive footage)
Guerilleros
2015
as Self (archive footage)
História do Comunismo
2024
as Self
Castro's Revolution vs. The World
2019
Movies (144)
JFK
1991
as Self (archive footage)
Wasp Network
2020
as Self (archive footage)
Topaz
1969
as Self (archive footage)
Naqoyqatsi
2002
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Rat Pack
2022
as Self (archive footage)
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
2021
as Self (archive footage)
James Bond: The First 21 Years
1983
as Self (archive footage)
The Adventures of Errol Flynn
2005
as Self (archive footage)
Palme
2012
as Self (archive footage)
Balseros
2002
as Self (archive footage)
Becoming Cousteau
2021
as Self (archive footage)
The Fog of War
2003
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
537 Votes
2020
as Self (archive footage)
Laissez-faire
2015
as Self (archive footage)
7 Days in Havana
2012
as Self (segment "Diary of a Beginner") (archive footage)
Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat
2024
as Self (archive footage)
A Grin Without a Cat
1977
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Cuba and the Cameraman
2017
as Self
Tasmanian Devil: The Fast and Furious Life of Errol Flynn
2007
as Self (archive footage)
Far from Vietnam
1967
as Self (segment "Fidel Castro")
South of the Border
2009
as Self (archive footage)
Reel Radicals: The Sixties Revolution in Film
2002
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
General Idi Amin Dada
1974
as Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Another Day of Life
2018
as Himself (archive footage)
Laboratory Greece
2019
as Self (archive footage)
Memories of Overdevelopment
2011
as Self (archive footage)
Fidel Castro: America's Nemesis
2016
as Himself (Archive Footage)
Comandante
2003
as Self
Chile: A Genral Record
1986
Nostalgia for the Future
2026
as Self (Archive Footage)
638 Ways to Kill Castro
2006
as Self (archive footage)
Assassinating Franco
2016
as Self
Salvador Allende
2004
as Self (archive footage)
The Hour of the Furnaces
1968
as Self (archive footage)
Looking for Fidel
2004
as Self
The War on Democracy
2007
as Self (archive footage)
El día más largo
2011
The Society of the Spectacle
1974
as Self (archive footage)
Hello Cubans
1963
as Self (uncredited)
The Queen and the Prime Ministers
2024
as Sig selv (arkiv)
Franco and Fidel: A Strange Friendship
2016
as Himself
Lest We Forget
1991
as Self (segment "Pour Esteban González González, Cuba") (archive footage) (uncredited)
Island Ablazed
1961
as Self
Ethel
2012
as Self (archive footage)
Andança: Os Encontros e as Memórias de Beth Carvalho
2022
as Self (archive footage)
Fidel Castro no Rio de Janeiro, 1959
Muerte al invasor
1962
as Self (archive footage)
The Mayor
2012
JFK Assassination: A New Perspective
2025
as Self (archive footage)
Jack Paar: Smart Television
2003
as Self
ReMastered: Massacre at the Stadium
2019
as Self (archive footage)
¡Cuba Sí!
1961
as Self - Cuban Politician (uncredited)
The Secret KGB JFK Assassination Files
1999
as Self (archive footage)
World in Action: End of a Revolution
1967
Santiago Files
2011
as Self (archive footage)
Surplus: Terrorized Into Being Consumers
2003
as Self
The CIA's War Against Cuba
1987
The Inconclusive Independence
2010
as Self (archive footage)
Waiting for Fidel
1975
as Self
Angola: The War
2017
as Himself - President of Cuba (archive footage)
The Man Who Saved the World
2012
as Self (archive footage)
Elián
2017
as himself
Memória Cubana
2010
as Self (archive footage)
Algiers, the Mecca of Revolutionaries (1962-1974)
2016
as Self
Anxiety. Thoughts of an Old Man
1984
as Self (archive footage)
The First Year
1972
as Self
ABC Close-Up: Yanki, No!
1960
as Self
On Company Business
1980
as Self - Prime Minister of Cuba (archive footage)
Amérique latine, l'année de tous les dangers
2019
as Self (archive footage)
Chop Chop Chang: Operation C.H.I.M.P
2019
as Self (archive footage)
American Expose: Who Murdered JFK?
1988
as Self (archive footage)
I Am Cuba, the Siberian Mammoth
2005
as Self (archive footage)
Karl Marx und seine Erben
2018
as Self (archive footage)
Mission Mind Control
1979
as Self (archive footage)
RFK Must Die: The Assassination of Bobby Kennedy
2007
as Self (archive footage)
Kordavision: The man who shot Che Guevara
2005
Cuba 30 Anni Dopo
1990
as Himself
Chavismo: The Plague of the 21st Century
2018
as Self (archive footage)
The CIA's Secret Army
1977
as Self
Oswald's Ghost
2007
as Self (archive footage)
Soviet Union: The Rise and Fall - Part 2
1996
as Self (archive footage)
The Padilla Affair
2023
as Self (archive footage)
Nobody
2017
as Himself
Castro in Winter
2012
as Self
Report on Brazil: Carlos Marighella
1970
as Himself (archive footage)
Being Fidel Castro
2010
as Himself (archive footage)
Revolution's Daughter
2026
as Self (archive footage)
El Che
2017
as Self (archive footage)
Tribulation 99: Alien Anomalies Under America
1991
as Self(archive footage)
The Day That Lasted 21 Years
2012
as Self (archive footage)
La marcha del pueblo combatiente
1980
Cuban Rebel Girls
1959
as Self (uncredited)
Che Guevara - Hasta La Victoria Siempre
2003
Fidel Castro: Life for the Revolution
2004
as Self
Ernesto Che Guevara - Uomo, Compagno, Amico
1995
Cuba, Batista et la mafia
2012
as Fidel Castro
Castro: The World's Most Watched Man
2015
as Himself (archive footage)
Cuba, el valor de una utopía
2006
as Himself
Cuba and Fidel
1974
as Self
Hồ Chí Minh - Portrait of A Man
1990
as Self (archival footage)
Cuba: In the Shadow of Doubt
1986
Lejos de la isla
2007
as Himself (archive footage)
Celia - la más hermosa flor
2015
8A
1993
as Self
Improper Conduct
1984
as Self - Politician (archive footage)
The Exploitation of Man by Man
1972
as Self
Two Meetings and a Funeral
2017
General Assembly
1960
as Fidel Castro
Portrait of Castro's Cuba
1991
as Himself
My Brother, Fidel
1977
as Self
Lee Harvey Oswald: 48 Hours to Live
2013
as Self (archive footage)
Germán Araújo
2025
as Himself (archival footage)
Chile, el gran desafío
1973
as Self
Che Guevara, naissance d'un mythe
2017
Did the Mob Kill JFK?
2009
as Self (archive footage)
CUBA: Defending Socialism, Resisting Imperialism
2010
as Himself
Venceremos, solidaridad
1973
as Self (archive footage)
Kubánske otázniky
2000
as archívne zábery
Brascuba
1987
as Self (archive footage)
Un Giorno con Fidel
2007
as Himself
About Fidel Castro
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… With 162 credits spanning from 1959 to 2026, Fidel Castro has appeared in 144 films and 18 TV shows.
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- JFK (1991) — as Self (archive footage)
- Wasp Network (2020) — as Self (archive footage)
- Topaz (1969) — as Self (archive footage)
- Naqoyqatsi (2002) — as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Rat Pack (2022) — as Self (archive footage)
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