Fidel Castro

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

147

Gender

Male

Birthday

1926-08-13

Day of death

2016-11-25 (90 years old)

Place of Birth

Birán, Cuba

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 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

  • Mentiras verdaderas

    Mentiras verdaderas

  • Explained

    Explained

  • Wasp Network

    Wasp Network

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

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

  • RFK Must Die: The Assassination of Bobby Kennedy

    RFK Must Die: The Assassination of Bobby Kennedy

  • Comandante

    Comandante

  • El Che

    El Che

  • JFK

    JFK

  • Ethel

    Ethel

  • Naqoyqatsi

    Naqoyqatsi

  • Elián

    Elián

  • Palme

    Palme

  • The War on Democracy

    The War on Democracy

  • La Case du siècle

    La Case du siècle

  • Topaz

    Topaz

  • 8A

    8A

  • I Am Cuba, the Siberian Mammoth

    I Am Cuba, the Siberian Mammoth

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

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

  • Another Day of Life

    Another Day of Life

  • Rat Pack

    Rat Pack

  • Informe especial

    Informe especial

  • The Society of the Spectacle

    The Society of the Spectacle

  • The Boys from Brazil: Rise of the Bolsonaros

    The Boys from Brazil: Rise of the Bolsonaros

  • How to Become a Tyrant

    How to Become a Tyrant

  • Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat

    Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat

  • The Inconclusive Independence

    The Inconclusive Independence

  • Brascuba

    Brascuba

  • The Exploitation of Man by Man

    The Exploitation of Man by Man

  • Cuba and the Cameraman

    Cuba and the Cameraman

  • The Fog of War

    The Fog of War

  • American Expose: Who Murdered JFK?

    American Expose: Who Murdered JFK?

  • Soviet Union: The Rise and Fall - Part 2

    Soviet Union: The Rise and Fall - Part 2

  • ¡Cuba Sí!

    ¡Cuba Sí!

  • General Idi Amin Dada

    General Idi Amin Dada

  • James Bond: The First 21 Years

    James Bond: The First 21 Years

  • South of the Border

    South of the Border

  • The CIA's Secret Army

    The CIA's Secret Army

  • Franco and Fidel: A Strange Friendship

    Franco and Fidel: A Strange Friendship

  • Portrait of Castro's Cuba

    Portrait of Castro's Cuba

  • Hello Cubans

    Hello Cubans

  • Far from Vietnam

    Far from Vietnam

  • Yanki No!

    Yanki No!

  • Код доступа

    Код доступа

  • Waiting for Fidel

    Waiting for Fidel

  • Oswald's Ghost

    Oswald's Ghost

  • The Man Who Saved the World

    The Man Who Saved the World

  • ReMastered: Massacre at the Stadium

    ReMastered: Massacre at the Stadium

  • The Adventures of Errol Flynn

    The Adventures of Errol Flynn

  • A Grin Without a Cat

    A Grin Without a Cat

  • On Company Business

    On Company Business

  • Spycraft

    Spycraft

  • Assassinating Franco

    Assassinating Franco

  • 7 Days in Havana

    7 Days in Havana

  • The Day That Lasted 21 Years

    The Day That Lasted 21 Years

  • Bobby Kennedy for President

    Bobby Kennedy for President

  • Lee Harvey Oswald: 48 Hours to Live

    Lee Harvey Oswald: 48 Hours to Live

  • The Padilla Affair

    The Padilla Affair

  • 638 Ways to Kill Castro

    638 Ways to Kill Castro

  • The First Year

    The First Year

  • The CIA's War Against Cuba

    The CIA's War Against Cuba

  • Memories of Overdevelopment

    Memories of Overdevelopment

  • Surplus: Terrorized Into Being Consumers

    Surplus: Terrorized Into Being Consumers

  • A History of an Assignment

    A History of an Assignment

  • Becoming Cousteau

    Becoming Cousteau

  • Salvador Allende

    Salvador Allende

  • JFK Assassination: A New Perspective

    JFK Assassination: A New Perspective

  • Being Fidel Castro

    Being Fidel Castro

  • Laboratory Greece

    Laboratory Greece

  • Castro in Winter

    Castro in Winter

  • Amérique latine, l'année de tous les dangers

    Amérique latine, l'année de tous les dangers

  • Chile: A Genral Record

    Chile: A Genral Record

  • Looking for Fidel

    Looking for Fidel

  • Laissez-faire

    Laissez-faire

  • 537 Votes

    537 Votes

  • Cuban Rafters

    Cuban Rafters

  • The Hour of the Furnaces

    The Hour of the Furnaces

  • Castro's Revolution vs. The World

    Castro's Revolution vs. The World

  • The Uncompromising Revolution

    The Uncompromising Revolution

  • Ernesto Che Guevara - Uomo, Compagno, Amico

    Ernesto Che Guevara - Uomo, Compagno, Amico

  • Faith of the Century: A History of Communism

    Faith of the Century: A History of Communism

  • The Queen and the Prime Ministers

    The Queen and the Prime Ministers

  • Minnesota Experience

    Minnesota Experience

  • Santiago Files

    Santiago Files

  • Легенды кино

    Легенды кино

  • Cuba, un aller et un retour

    Cuba, un aller et un retour

  • The Century of Icons

    The Century of Icons

  • The Cuban Game

    The Cuban Game

  • Muerte al invasor

    Muerte al invasor

  • Cuban Rebel Girls

    Cuban Rebel Girls

  • História do Comunismo

    História do Comunismo

  • Mission Mind Control

    Mission Mind Control

  • General Assembly

    General Assembly

  • Che, Today and Always

    Che, Today and Always

  • The Secret KGB JFK Assassination Files

    The Secret KGB JFK Assassination Files

  • Guerilleros

    Guerilleros

  • The Necessary War

    The Necessary War

  • Did the Mob Kill JFK?

    Did the Mob Kill JFK?

  • I Am a Son of America

    I Am a Son of America

  • El Diálogo de América

    El Diálogo de América

  • Revolution's Daughter

    Revolution's Daughter

  • Memória Cubana

    Memória Cubana

  • Compromiso con Chile

    Compromiso con Chile

  • Chavismo: The Plague of the 21st Century

    Chavismo: The Plague of the 21st Century

  • Che Guevara, naissance d'un mythe

    Che Guevara, naissance d'un mythe

  • Germán Araújo

    Germán Araújo

  • El día más largo

    El día más largo

  • Jack Paar: Smart Television

    Jack Paar: Smart Television

  • Cuba: Battle of the 10,000,000

    Cuba: Battle of the 10,000,000

  • Karl Marx und seine Erben

    Karl Marx und seine Erben

  • Chile, el gran desafío

    Chile, el gran desafío

  • Two Meetings and a Funeral

    Two Meetings and a Funeral

  • Fidel Racconta il Che

    Fidel Racconta il Che

  • Angola: The War

    Angola: The War

  • And Heaven Was Taken by Storm

    And Heaven Was Taken by Storm

  • Tasmanian Devil: The Fast and Furious Life of Errol Flynn

    Tasmanian Devil: The Fast and Furious Life of Errol Flynn

  • Cuba: In the Shadow of Doubt

    Cuba: In the Shadow of Doubt

  • The JFK Conspiracy

    The JFK Conspiracy

  • Reel Radicals: The Sixties Revolution in Film

    Reel Radicals: The Sixties Revolution in Film

  • Andança: Os Encontros e as Memórias de Beth Carvalho

    Andança: Os Encontros e as Memórias de Beth Carvalho

  • Island Ablazed

    Island Ablazed

  • Nobody

    Nobody

  • Anxiety. Thoughts of an Old Man

    Anxiety. Thoughts of an Old Man

  • Report on Brazil: Carlos Marighella

    Report on Brazil: Carlos Marighella

  • My Brother, Fidel

    My Brother, Fidel

  • Improper Conduct

    Improper Conduct

  • Fidel

    Fidel

  • Looking for Fidel

    Looking for Fidel

  • Cuba and Fidel

    Cuba and Fidel

  • Un Giorno con Fidel

    Un Giorno con Fidel

  • Castro: The World's Most Watched Man

    Castro: The World's Most Watched Man

  • The Mayor

    The Mayor

  • Fidel Castro: America's Nemesis

    Fidel Castro: America's Nemesis

  • CUBA: Defending Socialism, Resisting Imperialism

    CUBA: Defending Socialism, Resisting Imperialism

  • Hồ Chí Minh - Portrait of A Man

    Hồ Chí Minh - Portrait of A Man

  • Kubánske otázniky

    Kubánske otázniky

  • Celia - la más hermosa flor

    Celia - la más hermosa flor

  • Che Guevara - Hasta La Victoria Siempre

    Che Guevara - Hasta La Victoria Siempre

  • Kordavision: The man who shot Che Guevara

    Kordavision: The man who shot Che Guevara

  • Fidel Castro: Life for the Revolution

    Fidel Castro: Life for the Revolution

  • Året var 1958

    Året var 1958

  • Venceremos, solidaridad

    Venceremos, solidaridad

  • Cuba 30 Anni Dopo

    Cuba 30 Anni Dopo

  • Dear Fidel: Marita's Story

    Dear Fidel: Marita's Story

  • Cuba, el valor de una utopía

    Cuba, el valor de una utopía

  • Historien ska frikänna mig

    Historien ska frikänna mig

  • Fidel Castro no Rio de Janeiro, 1959

    Fidel Castro no Rio de Janeiro, 1959

  • Lejos de la isla

    Lejos de la isla