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Ramón Menéndez (born January 21, 1950) is a Cuban-American film director and screenwriter. He is best known for writing and directing the 1988 film Stand and Deliver . His other film directing credits include Money for Nothing (1993) starring John Cusack [1] and the Disney Channel original film Gotta Kick It Up! (2002).
Stand and Deliver is a 1988 American drama film directed by Ramón Menéndez, written by Menéndez and Tom Musca, based on the true story of a high school mathematics teacher, Jaime Escalante. For portraying Escalante, Edward James Olmos was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor at the 61st Academy Awards. [3]
Ramón Menéndez was born in 1941 in Mieres, Asturias, Spain. He was an actor, known for Los miserables (1973), Cuartelazo (1977) and Sweet Challenge (1988). He died in 2007 in Mexico City, Mexico.
Stand and Deliver: Directed by Ramón Menéndez. With Edward James Olmos, Estelle Harris, Mark Phelan, Virginia Paris. The story of Jaime Escalante, a high school teacher who successfully inspired his dropout-prone students to learn calculus.
Sep 10, 2023 · Directed by Ramón Menéndez, ‘Stand and Deliver,’ is a 1988 drama film that delves into the life of Jaime Escalante, a tenacious math instructor from an urban high school.
Ramón Menéndez Pidal ( Spanish pronunciation: [raˈmom meˈnendeθ piˈðal]; 13 March 1869 – 14 November 1968) was a Spanish philologist and historian. [1] . He worked extensively on the history of the Spanish language and Spanish folklore and folk poetry. One of his main topics was the history and legend of El Cid.
Directed by Ramón Menéndez. At a tough school, someone had to take a stand…and someone did. Together, one teacher and one class proved to America they could… Jaime Escalante is a mathematics teacher in a school in a hispanic neighbourhood.
