Fidel Castro

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

8/13/1926

Place of Birth

Birán, Cuba

Also Known As

Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz

Fidel Castro

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 an...

Known For

Wasp Network

Wasp Network

as Self (archive footage)

Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)

Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)

as Self (archive footage)

RFK Must Die: The Assassination of Bobby Kennedy

RFK Must Die: The Assassination of Bobby Kennedy

as Self (archive footage)

Comandante

Comandante

as Self

El Che

El Che

as Self (archive footage)

JFK

JFK

as Self (archive footage)

Ethel

Ethel

as Self (archive footage)

Naqoyqatsi

Naqoyqatsi

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Elián

Elián

as himself

Palme

Palme

as Self (archive footage)

The War on Democracy

The War on Democracy

as Self (archive footage)

Topaz

Topaz

as Self (archive footage)

8A

as Self

I Am Cuba, the Siberian Mammoth

I Am Cuba, the Siberian Mammoth

as Self (archive footage)

Chop Chop Chang: Operation C.H.I.M.P

Chop Chop Chang: Operation C.H.I.M.P

as Self (archive footage)

Another Day of Life

Another Day of Life

as Himself (archive footage)

Rat Pack

Rat Pack

as Self (archive footage)

The Society of the Spectacle

The Society of the Spectacle

as Self (archive footage)

The Boys from Brazil: Rise of the Bolsonaros

The Boys from Brazil: Rise of the Bolsonaros

as Self (archive footage)

Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat

Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat

as Self (archive footage)

Career Timeline

2025

Germán Araújo

as Himself (archival footage)

JFK Assassination: A New Perspective

as Self (Archive Footage)

2024

Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat

as Self (archive footage)

História do Comunismo

as Self

The Queen and the Prime Ministers

as Sig selv (arkiv)

2023

The Padilla Affair

as Self (archive footage)

2022

The Century of Icons

as Self (archive footage)

Andança: Os Encontros e as Memórias de Beth Carvalho

as Self (archive footage)

The Boys from Brazil: Rise of the Bolsonaros

as Self (archive footage)

Rat Pack

as Self (archive footage)

2021

Becoming Cousteau

as Self (archive footage)

A History of an Assignment

as Self (archive footage)

How to Become a Tyrant

as Self (archive footage)

Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)

as Self (archive footage)

Spycraft

as Self

2020

537 Votes

as Self (archive footage)

Wasp Network

as Self (archive footage)

2019

Laboratory Greece

as Self (archive footage)

Castro's Revolution vs. The World

Role unknown

Amérique latine, l'année de tous les dangers

as Self (archive footage)

Chop Chop Chang: Operation C.H.I.M.P

as Self (archive footage)

ReMastered: Massacre at the Stadium

as Self (archive footage)

2018

Cuba, un aller et un retour

as Himself (archive footage)

Another Day of Life

as Himself (archive footage)

Minnesota Experience

as Self (archive footage)

Chavismo: The Plague of the 21st Century

as Self (archive footage)

Explained

as Self (archive footage)

Karl Marx und seine Erben

as Self (archive footage)

Bobby Kennedy for President

as Self (archive footage)

2017

Che Guevara, naissance d'un mythe

Role unknown

Cuba and the Cameraman

as Self

El Che

as Self (archive footage)

Two Meetings and a Funeral

Role unknown

Angola: The War

as Himself - President of Cuba (archive footage)

Код доступа

as Self

Elián

as himself

Nobody

as Himself

2016

Historien ska frikänna mig

as Self

Franco and Fidel: A Strange Friendship

as Himself

Fidel Castro: America's Nemesis

as Himself (Archive Footage)

Assassinating Franco

as Self

Легенды кино

as Self (archive footage)

2015

Castro: The World's Most Watched Man

as Himself (archive footage)

Celia - la más hermosa flor

Role unknown

Guerilleros

as Self (archive footage)

Laissez-faire

as Self (archive footage)

2013

Lee Harvey Oswald: 48 Hours to Live

as Self (archive footage)

2012

The Man Who Saved the World

as Self (archive footage)

The Day That Lasted 21 Years

as Self (archive footage)

Palme

as Self (archive footage)

The Mayor

Role unknown

7 Days in Havana

as Self (segment "Diary of a Beginner") (archive footage)

Castro in Winter

as Self

Ethel

as Self (archive footage)

2011

Memories of Overdevelopment

as Self (archive footage)

Mentiras verdaderas

as Self (archive footage)

Santiago Files

as Self (archive footage)

El día más largo

Role unknown

2010

Memória Cubana

as Self (archive footage)

La Case du siècle

as Self (archive footage)

CUBA: Defending Socialism, Resisting Imperialism

as Himself

Being Fidel Castro

as Himself (archive footage)

The Inconclusive Independence

as Self (archive footage)

2009

Did the Mob Kill JFK?

as Self (archive footage)

South of the Border

as Self (archive footage)

2008

Året var 1958

as Self (archive footage)

2007

RFK Must Die: The Assassination of Bobby Kennedy

as Self (archive footage)

Tasmanian Devil: The Fast and Furious Life of Errol Flynn

as Self (archive footage)

Oswald's Ghost

as Self (archive footage)

The War on Democracy

as Self (archive footage)

Lejos de la isla

as Himself (archive footage)

Un Giorno con Fidel

as Himself

2006

Cuba, el valor de una utopía

as Himself

638 Ways to Kill Castro

as Self (archive footage)

Looking for Fidel

as Himself

2005

I Am Cuba, the Siberian Mammoth

as Self (archive footage)

Kordavision: The man who shot Che Guevara

Role unknown

The Adventures of Errol Flynn

as Self (archive footage)

2004

Salvador Allende

as Self (archive footage)

Fidel Castro: Life for the Revolution

as Self

Looking for Fidel

as Self

2003

Jack Paar: Smart Television

as Self

Surplus: Terrorized Into Being Consumers

as Self

The Fog of War

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Comandante

as Self

Che Guevara - Hasta La Victoria Siempre

Role unknown

2002

Naqoyqatsi

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Cuban Rafters

as Self (archive footage)

Reel Radicals: The Sixties Revolution in Film

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

2001

The Cuban Game

as Himself (footage)

Dear Fidel: Marita's Story

as Self (archive footage)

2000

Kubánske otázniky

as archívne zábery

1999

Faith of the Century: A History of Communism

as Self (archive footage)

The Secret KGB JFK Assassination Files

as Self (archive footage)

1996

Soviet Union: The Rise and Fall - Part 2

as Self (archive footage)

1995

Ernesto Che Guevara - Uomo, Compagno, Amico

Role unknown

1993

8A

as Self

1992

The JFK Conspiracy

as Self

1991

JFK

as Self (archive footage)

Portrait of Castro's Cuba

as Himself

1990

Hồ Chí Minh - Portrait of A Man

as Self (archival footage)

Cuba 30 Anni Dopo

as Himself

1988

American Expose: Who Murdered JFK?

as Self (archive footage)

The Uncompromising Revolution

as Self

1987

Brascuba

as Self (archive footage)

The CIA's War Against Cuba

Role unknown

Fidel Racconta il Che

as Himself

1986

Cuba: In the Shadow of Doubt

Role unknown

Chile: A Genral Record

Role unknown

1984

Informe especial

as Self (archive footage)

Improper Conduct

as Self - Politician (archive footage)

Anxiety. Thoughts of an Old Man

as Self (archive footage)

1983

James Bond: The First 21 Years

as Self (archive footage)

Che, Today and Always

as Fidel Castro

1980

On Company Business

as Self - Prime Minister of Cuba (archive footage)

The Necessary War

as Himself

1979

Mission Mind Control

as Self (archive footage)

1977

A Grin Without a Cat

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

The CIA's Secret Army

as Self

My Brother, Fidel

as Self

1975

Waiting for Fidel

as Self

1974

General Idi Amin Dada

as Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)

The Society of the Spectacle

as Self (archive footage)

Cuba and Fidel

as Self

1973

Venceremos, solidaridad

as Self (archive footage)

Chile, el gran desafío

as Self

And Heaven Was Taken by Storm

as Self

1972

The Exploitation of Man by Man

as Self

Compromiso con Chile

Role unknown

The First Year

as Self

El Diálogo de América

as Él mismo

I Am a Son of America

as Él mismo

1971

Fidel

as Self

Cuba: Battle of the 10,000,000

Role unknown

1970

Report on Brazil: Carlos Marighella

as Himself (archive footage)

1969

Topaz

as Self (archive footage)

1968

The Hour of the Furnaces

as Self (archive footage)

1967

Far from Vietnam

as Self (segment "Fidel Castro")

1963

Hello Cubans

as Self (uncredited)

1962

Muerte al invasor

as Self (archive footage)

1961

¡Cuba Sí!

as Self - Cuban Politician (uncredited)

Island Ablazed

as Self

1960

Yanki No!

as Self

General Assembly

as Fidel Castro

1959

Cuban Rebel Girls

as Self (uncredited)