Cast & creator
Alejandro Jodorowsky
Best known for The Dick Cavett Show, Eurotrash, Through the Night with...
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".
Also known as: Alexandro Jodorowsky, Alexandre Jodorowski, 알레한드로 호도로프스키, 알레한드로 조도로프스키, 알레한도로 호도로프스키
96
film credits
7
television credits
55
1957–2025 · acting roles
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Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (103)
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The Dick Cavett Show
Self - Guest
1968
Eurotrash
1993
Through the Night with...
Self
2002
Drive
Thanks
2011
De pé a pá
Self
1996
Le Cercle
Self
2005
Only God Forgives
Thanks
2013
The Holy Mountain
The Alchemist
1973The Holy Mountain
Director
1973The Holy Mountain
Screenplay
1973The Holy Mountain
Producer
1973The Holy Mountain
Costume Design
1973The Holy Mountain
Original Music Composer
1973The Holy Mountain
Production Design
1973The Holy Mountain
Painter
1973The Holy Mountain
Sculptor
1973The Holy Mountain
Set Designer
1973
Una belleza nueva
Self
2006
Santa Sangre
Director
1989Santa Sangre
Screenplay
1989Santa Sangre
Story
1989
El Topo
El Topo
1970El Topo
Director
1970El Topo
Original Music Composer
1970El Topo
Production Design
1970El Topo
Costume Design
1970El Topo
Writer
1970
Jodorowsky's Dune
Self - Writer / Filmmaker
2013
The Severed Heads
1957The Severed Heads
Director
1957The Severed Heads
Writer
1957
Léemelo
Self
2022
Endless Poetry
Old Alejandro
2016Endless Poetry
Director
2016Endless Poetry
Screenplay
2016Endless Poetry
Executive Producer
2016Endless Poetry
Production Design
2016
Kaena: The Prophecy
Dialogue
2003
NWR
Self
2012
My Life Directed by Nicolas Winding Refn
Self
2015
The Dance of Reality
Old Alejandro
2013The Dance of Reality
Director
2013The Dance of Reality
Writer
2013The Dance of Reality
Producer
2013The Dance of Reality
Production Design
2013
Doggiewoggiez! Poochiewoochiez!
Original Story
2012
Born Without
2008
Fando and Lis
Puppeteer (uncredited)
1972Fando and Lis
Director
1972Fando and Lis
Dialogue
1972Fando and Lis
Screenplay
1972
The Rainbow Thief
Director
1994
Midnight Movies: From the Margin to the Mainstream
Self
2006
Niente è come sembra
2007
A Tar
2010
John Lilly and the Earth Coincidence Control Office
Self
2025
Moebius Redux: A Life in Pictures
Self
2007
La colorina
Self
2008
Jonathan Ross Presents for One Week Only: Alejandro Jodorowsky
Self
1991
The Source Family
Thanks
2013
Jean Cocteau: Lies and Truths
Self
1997Cherif
Prophet
2002
Tusk
Director
1980Tusk
Screenplay
1980Bouncer
Story
Fake News
Mysterious man
2021
Rush to War
Self
2004
Electric Yakuza, Go to Hell!
Self
2004
Violeta más viva que nunca
Himself (archive footage)
2017
Musikanten
Ludwig van Beethoven
2006
Psychomagic: A Healing Art
Himself
2019Psychomagic: A Healing Art
Director
2019Psychomagic: A Healing Art
Book
2019Psychomagic: A Healing Art
Writer
2019
The Dark Fantastic
Self
2025
No Big Deal
Pablo
2003
Ritual - A Psychomagic Story
Fernando
2013
Helicopter
Himself
2024
The Island
Jodo
2011
Tripping The Dark Fantastic
Himself
2022
Forget Everything You Have Ever Seen: The World of Santa Sangre
Himself
2011
Melodrama Sacramental
Himself
1965Melodrama Sacramental
Director
1965
Psicotaxi
Himself
2002
He! Viva Dada
Self
1965He! Viva Dada
Writer
1965Arrabal, Panik Cineast
Self
2007
The Jodorowsky Constellation
Self
1994
Pubertinaje
Producer
1978
What the Forest conceals
self
2023
The Voice Thief
Story
2013
Anticlimax
1969Blink Jodorowsky
Himself
2002
Jodorowsky's Phylosophycal Tales
Alejandro
1997
Apolinar
Producer
1972Una hora con Alejandro Jodorowsky
Self
2007
Alejandro Jodorowsky - Conversations on the Way of the Tarot
himself
Alejandro Jodorowsky and the Seagulls
Himself
2016
A Conversation with Alejandro Jodorowsky
2007
Alejandro Jodorowsky's Social Psychomagic
Himself
2014
The Family Forest
Himself
Alejandro Jodorowsky: Interview at ICA London December 2002
2003Alejandro Jodorowsky: Interview at ICA London December 2002
Director
2003