Director · Writer · Actor · Producer

Guillermo del Toro

Guillermo del Toro’s screen credits include director and producer and writer work on Pan's Labyrinth, writer work on The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, and Comandante / Hombre del bigote (voice) in Puss in Boots.

Born October 9, 1964 Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico6 movies on MoviHero

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Pan's Labyrinth

2006 · 1h 58m · Drama · Fantasy

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The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

2013 · 2h 41m · Action · Adventure

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Puss in Boots

2011 · 1h 30m · Action · Adventure

A voice performance as Comandante / Hombre del bigote (voice).

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About Guillermo del Toro

Guillermo del Toro Gómez (Spanish: [ɡiˈʝeɾmo ðelˈtoɾo]; born 9 October 1964) is a Mexican filmmaker, author, and artist. His work has been characterized by a strong connection to fairy tales, gothicism, and horror, often blending the genres to infuse visual or poetic beauty into the grotesque. He has had a lifelong fascination with monsters, which he considers symbols of great power. He is known for pioneering dark fantasy in the film industry and using insectile and religious imagery, his themes of Catholicism, and celebrating imperfection, underworld motifs, practical special effects, and dominant amber lighting. Throughout his career, del Toro has shifted between Spanish-language films—such as Cronos (1993), The Devil's Backbone (2001), and Pan's Labyrinth (2006)—and English-language films, including Mimic (1997), Blade II (2002), Hellboy (2004) and its sequel Hellboy II: The Golden Army(2008), Pacific Rim (2013), Crimson Peak (2015), The Shape of Water (2017), Nightmare Alley (2021), and Pinocchio (2022). …

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As a producer or writer, he worked on the films The Orphanage (2007), Don't Be Afraid of the Dark (2010), The Hobbit film series (2012–2014), Mama (2013), The Book of Life (2014), Pacific Rim: Uprising (2018), Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (2019), and The Witches (2020). In 2022, he created the Netflix anthology horror series Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities, featuring a collection of classical horror stories.

With Chuck Hogan, he co-authored The Strain trilogy of novels (2009–2011), which was later adapted into a comic book series (2011–15) and a live-action television series (2014–17). With DreamWorks Animation and Netflix, he created the animated franchise Tales of Arcadia, which includes the series Trollhunters (2016–18), 3Below (2018–19), and Wizards (2020) and the sequel film Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans (2021).

Del Toro is close friends with fellow Mexican filmmakers Alfonso Cuarón and Alejandro G. Iñárritu, collectively known as "The Three Amigos of Mexican Cinema". He has received several awards, including three Academy Awards, three BAFTA Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, a Daytime Emmy Award, and a Golden Lion. He was included in Time magazine's list of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2018, and he received a motion picture star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2019.

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2026
The Anatomy Lesson: Director’s Cut
Self
2026
THE ORIGIN OF ULTRAMAN
Self
2026
The Thing Expanded
Self
2025
Avatar: A New Era - Special Edition of 20/20
Self
2025
Frankenstein: The Anatomy Lesson
Self - Writer / Director
2025
Mollusk
Actor
2025
The Hanging of Stuart Cornfeld
Actor
2025
Frankenstein
Director · Producer · Writer
2025
Sangre del Toro
Self
2025
It’s a Mad Max World
Self
2025
Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story
Self
2025
Netflix Tudum 2025
Self
2025
Surrealistic Nightmares: An In-Depth Look at Walloon Horror Cinema
Self
2024
Dario Argento: Panico
Self
2023
Temple of Film: 100 Years of the Egyptian Theatre
Self
2023
Hideo Kojima: Connecting Worlds
Self
2023
George Pal: Un Marciano De Hollywood En Argentina
Actor
2022
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio: Handcarved Cinema
Producer · Self
2022
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
Writer · Director · Producer
2022
Boris Karloff: The Rest of the Story
Self
2022
Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters
Self
2021
Nightmare Alley
Director · Writer · Producer
2021
Antlers
Producer
2021
Boris Karloff: The Man Behind the Monster
Self
2021
Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans
Writer · Producer
2020
I'm No Longer Here: A Discussion with Guillermo del Toro and Alfonso Cuarón
Self
2020
Roald Dahl's The Witches
Producer · Writer
2020
Clapboard Jungle: Surviving the Independent Film Business
Self
2019
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
Writer · Producer
2019
Love, Antosha
Self
2019
Making Apes: The Artists Who Changed Film
Self
2019
The House Is Alive: Constructing 'Crimson Peak'
Self
2018
Guillermo del Toro: Un director y su Oscar
Guillermo del Toro
2018
Bloody And Groovy Baby! A Tribute to Sam Raimi's Evil Dead 2
Self
2018
Pacific Rim: Uprising
Producer
2018
Ayotzinapa: The Turtle's Pace
Producer
2018
Light in the Darkness: The Impact of Night of The Living Dead
Self
2017
When Romero Met Del Toro
Actor
2017
78/52
Self
2017
Five Came Back
Self
2016
The Giant's Dream: The Making of the Iron Giant
Self
2016
A Living Thing
Actor
2016
Crimson Phantoms
Actor
2016
Hand Tailored Gothic
Self
2016
I Remember Crimson Peak
Himself
2016
The Light and Dark of Crimson Peak
Self
2016
Kung Fu Panda 3
Producer
2015
Creature Designers: The Frankenstein Complex
Self
2015
The First Hundred Feet, the Last Hundred Feet
Self
2015
Crimson Peak
Director · Writer · Producer
2015
Metal Gear Solid: Legacy
Self
2015
Extraordinary Tales
Narrator (voice) (segment 'The Pit and the Pendulum')
2015
The Thin Yellow Line
Producer
2014
Lennon or McCartney
Self
2014
The Book of Life
Producer · Land of Remembered Captain's Wife (voice)
2014
Guillermo del Toro Interviews Paul Williams
Self
2013
Necessary Evil: Super-Villains of DC Comics
Actor
2013
The Digital Artistry of Pacific Rim
Self
2013
The Fire Rises: The Creation and Impact of The Dark Knight Trilogy
Self
2013
Spanish Gothic
Self
2013
Drew: The Man Behind the Poster
Self
2013
Mama
Producer
2012
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Writer
2012
El Santos vs la Tetona Mendoza
Gamborimbo Ponx (voice)
2012
Men in Suits
Self
2012
Rise of the Guardians
Producer
2012
Horror Europa with Mark Gatiss
Self
2012
Ray Harryhausen: Special Effects Titan
Self
2012
The Captured Bird
Producer
2011
Zombie Lover
Interviewee
2011
A Leap in Evolution: The Creatures of 'Mimic'
Self
2011
Back Into the Tunnels: The Making of 'Mimic'
Self
2011
Reclaiming 'Mimic'
Self
2011
Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan's Hope
Self
2011
Bob Burns' Hollywood Haloween
Self
2010
Don't Be Afraid of the Dark
Writer · Producer · Creature (Voice)
2010
Biutiful
Producer
2010
Julia's Eyes
Producer
2010
Splice
Producer
2009
Fasten Your Seatbelt: The Thrilling Art of Alfred Hitchcock
Self
2009
North by Northwest: One for the Ages
Self
2009
The Master's Touch: Hitchcock's Signature Style
Self
2009
Rage
Producer
2008
Rudo & Cursi
Producer
2008
El último truco
Self
2008
Hellboy II: The Golden Army - Zinco Epilogue
Writer
2008
Hellboy: In Service of the Demon
Self
2008
Quantum of Solace
Additional Voices (voice)
2008
While She Was Out
Producer
2008
Bernard Herrmann: Hitchcock's Maestro
Self
2008
Edith Head: Dressing the Master's Movies
Self
2008
In the Master's Shadow: Hitchcock's Legacy
Self
2008
Partners in Crime: Hitchcock's Collaborators
Self
2008
Pure Cinema: Through the Eyes of Hitchcock
Self
2008
Saul Bass: Title Champ
Self

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Benedict Cumberbatch

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Doug Jones

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The Shape of Water Pan's Labyrinth

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Evangeline Lilly

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The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies

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Fran Walsh

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The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies

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Guillermo del Toro

Born October 9, 1964 Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico6 movies on MoviHero

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