Fidel Castro

Actor Aug 13 (died age 90) Birán, Cuba 1959–2025 (66 year career)

6.6 avg rating

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 through…

Known For

Film

JFK

Self (archive footage)

Film

The Fog of War

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Film

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

Self (archive footage)

Film

Topaz

Self (archive footage)

Film

Wasp Network

Self (archive footage)

Film

Cuba and the Cameraman

Self

Film

Another Day of Life

Himself (archive footage)

Film

Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat

Self (archive footage)

Filmography

Acting (153)

Movies (136)

JFK Assassination: A New Perspective

2025

as Self (Archive Footage)

Germán Araújo

2025

as Himself (archival footage)

Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat

2024

as Self (archive footage)

7.7

The Queen and the Prime Ministers

2024

as Sig selv (arkiv)

Suite Tortilla #59: The Celluloid Women

2024

as Self (Voice)

The Padilla Affair

2023

as Self (archive footage)

7.0

Rat Pack

2022

as Self (archive footage)

9.0

Andança: Os Encontros e as Memórias de Beth Carvalho

2022

as Self (archive footage)

8.1

The Boys from Brazil: Rise of the Bolsonaros

2022

as Self (archive footage)

8.5

A History of an Assignment

2021

as Self (archive footage)

Becoming Cousteau

2021

as Self (archive footage)

7.0

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

2021

as Self (archive footage)

7.6

Wasp Network

2020

as Self (archive footage)

6.0

537 Votes

2020

as Self (archive footage)

7.1

ReMastered: Massacre at the Stadium

2019

as Self (archive footage)

7.4

Laboratory Greece

2019

as Self (archive footage)

8.0

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

2019

as Self (archive footage)

6.0

Amérique latine, l'année de tous les dangers

2019

as Self (archive footage)

Cuba, un aller et un retour

2018

as Himself (archive footage)

Another Day of Life

2018

as Himself (archive footage)

7.4

Chavismo: The Plague of the 21st Century

2018

as Self (archive footage)

6.0

Karl Marx und seine Erben

2018

as Self (archive footage)

7.0

Angola: The War

2017

as Himself - President of Cuba (archive footage)

Two Meetings and a Funeral

2017

Elián

2017

as himself

6.5

Cuba and the Cameraman

as Self

Nobody

as Himself

El Che

as Self (archive footage)

5.8

Che Guevara, naissance d'un mythe

2017

Franco and Fidel: A Strange Friendship

2016

as Himself

Fidel Castro: America's Nemesis

2016

as Himself (Archive Footage)

Assassinating Franco

2016

as Self

Historien ska frikänna mig

2016

as Self

Castro: The World's Most Watched Man

2015

as Himself (archive footage)

7.3

Laissez-faire

2015

as Self (archive footage)

10.0

Celia - la más hermosa flor

2015

Lee Harvey Oswald: 48 Hours to Live

2013

as Self (archive footage)

6.0

The Man Who Saved the World

2012

as Self (archive footage)

Castro in Winter

as Self

Ethel

as Self (archive footage)

6.9

7 Days in Havana

2012

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

5.6

Palme

2012

as Self (archive footage)

7.6

The Mayor

2012

6.4

The Day That Lasted 21 Years

2012

as Self (archive footage)

7.7

Cuba, Batista et la mafia

2012

as Fidel Castro

El día más largo

2011

Santiago Files

2011

as Self (archive footage)

Memories of Overdevelopment

2011

as Self (archive footage)

5.8

Being Fidel Castro

2010

as Himself (archive footage)

CUBA: Defending Socialism, Resisting Imperialism

2010

as Himself

The Inconclusive Independence

2010

as Self (archive footage)

6.5

Memória Cubana

2010

as Self (archive footage)

South of the Border

2009

as Self (archive footage)

5.9

Did the Mob Kill JFK?

2009

as Self (archive footage)

6.0

Året var 1958

2008

as Self (archive footage)

Un Giorno con Fidel

2007

as Himself

Lejos de la isla

2007

as Himself (archive footage)

Oswald's Ghost

2007

as Self (archive footage)

6.0

The War on Democracy

2007

as Self (archive footage)

7.5

Tasmanian Devil: The Fast and Furious Life of Errol Flynn

2007

as Self (archive footage)

9.0

RFK Must Die: The Assassination of Bobby Kennedy

2007

as Self (archive footage)

7.0

638 Ways to Kill Castro

2006

as Self (archive footage)

6.2

Looking for Fidel

2006

as Himself

Cuba, el valor de una utopía

2006

as Himself

The Adventures of Errol Flynn

2005

as Self (archive footage)

7.8

I Am Cuba, the Siberian Mammoth

2005

as Self (archive footage)

7.2

Kordavision: The man who shot Che Guevara

Looking for Fidel

as Self

Salvador Allende

as Self (archive footage)

6.7

Fidel Castro: Life for the Revolution

2004

as Self

6.5

Surplus: Terrorized Into Being Consumers

2003

as Self

6.5

Che Guevara - Hasta La Victoria Siempre

2003

The Fog of War

2003

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

7.7

Comandante

2003

as Self

6.5

Jack Paar: Smart Television

2003

as Self

Naqoyqatsi

2002

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

6.1

Cuban Rafters

2002

as Self (archive footage)

6.3

Reel Radicals: The Sixties Revolution in Film

2002

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

The Cuban Game

2001

as Himself (footage)

Dear Fidel: Marita's Story

2001

as Self (archive footage)

5.3

Kubánske otázniky

2000

as archívne zábery

The Secret KGB JFK Assassination Files

1999

as Self (archive footage)

3.0

Soviet Union: The Rise and Fall - Part 2

1996

as Self (archive footage)

Ernesto Che Guevara - Uomo, Compagno, Amico

1995

1993

as Self

The JFK Conspiracy

1992

as Self

6.0

JFK

1991

as Self (archive footage)

7.6

Portrait of Castro's Cuba

1991

as Himself

Tribulation 99: Alien Anomalies Under America

1991

as Self(archive footage)

4.8

Cuba 30 Anni Dopo

1990

as Himself

Hồ Chí Minh - Portrait of A Man

1990

as Self (archival footage)

American Expose: Who Murdered JFK?

1988

as Self (archive footage)

The Uncompromising Revolution

1988

as Self

The CIA's War Against Cuba

1987

Brascuba

1987

as Self (archive footage)

Fidel Racconta il Che

1987

as Himself

Chile: A Genral Record

1986

6.0

Cuba: In the Shadow of Doubt

1986

Improper Conduct

1984

as Self - Politician (archive footage)

4.8

Anxiety. Thoughts of an Old Man

1984

as Self (archive footage)

Che, Today and Always

1983

as Fidel Castro

10.0

James Bond: The First 21 Years

1983

as Self (archive footage)

5.0

On Company Business

1980

as Self - Prime Minister of Cuba (archive footage)

The Necessary War

as Himself

Mission Mind Control

as Self (archive footage)

A Grin Without a Cat

1977

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

7.8

My Brother, Fidel

1977

as Self

5.2

The CIA's Secret Army

1977

as Self

Waiting for Fidel

1975

as Self

5.8

General Idi Amin Dada

1974

as Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)

7.0

The Society of the Spectacle

1974

as Self (archive footage)

6.7

Cuba and Fidel

1974

as Self

Chile, el gran desafío

1973

as Self

And Heaven Was Taken by Storm

1973

as Self

6.0

Venceremos, solidaridad

1973

as Self (archive footage)

El Diálogo de América

1972

as Él mismo

I Am a Son of America

1972

as Él mismo

5.0

The First Year

1972

as Self

Compromiso con Chile

1972

The Exploitation of Man by Man

1972

as Self

Fidel

1971

as Self

4.0

Cuba: Battle of the 10,000,000

1971

6.5

Report on Brazil: Carlos Marighella

1970

as Himself (archive footage)

5.0

Topaz

1969

as Self (archive footage)

6.0

The Hour of the Furnaces

1968

as Self (archive footage)

7.1

Far from Vietnam

1967

as Self (segment "Fidel Castro")

Hello Cubans

as Self (uncredited)

Muerte al invasor

as Self (archive footage)

5.3

Island Ablazed

1961

as Self

¡Cuba Sí!

1961

as Self - Cuban Politician (uncredited)

7.6

ABC Close-Up: Yanki, No!

as Self

General Assembly

as Fidel Castro

Cuban Rebel Girls

as Self (uncredited)

Fidel Castro no Rio de Janeiro, 1959

Revolution's Daughter

as Self (archive footage)

Attack on the Americas

as Himself

Television (17)

História do Comunismo

2024

as Self

10.0

The Century of Icons

2022

as Self (archive footage)

7.0

How to Become a Tyrant

2021

as Self (archive footage)

7.4

Spycraft

2021

as Self

6.9

Castro's Revolution vs. The World

2019

7.5

Explained

2018

as Self (archive footage)

7.5

Minnesota Experience

2018

as Self (archive footage)

Bobby Kennedy for President

2018

as Self (archive footage)

7.8

Код доступа

2017

as Self

Легенды кино

2016

as Self (archive footage)

Guerilleros

2015

as Self (archive footage)

Mentiras verdaderas

2011

as Self (archive footage)

5.5

La Case du siècle

2010

as Self (archive footage)

7.3

Faith of the Century: A History of Communism

1999

as Self (archive footage)

8.5

Rogues Gallery

1997

as Self (archive footage)

Informe especial

1984

as Self (archive footage)

2.0

World in Action

1963

7.0