Gustavo Miguel Alatriste (25 August 1922 – 22 July 2006) was a Mexican actor, director, and producer of films.
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Biography
Alatriste was married from 1961 through 1967 to the actress Silvia Pinal. They had one daughter, actress Viridiana Alatriste (1963–1982).
He was married several other times, to actresses Ariadne Welter, and Sonia Infante (the latter for 18 years) and had more than 20 other children, most of them in Mexico City and Guadalajara. Multiple sons have his name.
He began his career producing Luis Buñuel's Viridiana (1961), which starred his then-wife, actress Silvia Pinal. The film, considered one of the greatest in Cinema of Spain, was the first of three films by the trio.
In the eighties, Alatriste was named vice president of the Mexican CANACINE film organization.