Luis Valdez Autographs
Luis Miguel Valdez (born June 26, 1940) is an American playwright, screenwriter, film director and actor. Regarded as the father of Chicano film and playwriting, Valdez is best known for his play Zoot Suit, his movie La Bamba, and his creation of El Teatro Campesino. A pioneer in the Chicano Movement, Valdez broadened the scope of theatre and arts of the Chicano community.
Valdez was born in Delano, California, to migrant farm worker parents from Mexico, Armeda and Francisco Valdez. The second of 10 children in his family, Valdez began to work the fields at the age of 6. One of his brothers is actor Daniel Valdez. Throughout his childhood, the family moved from harvest to harvest around the central valleys of California. Due to this peripatetic existence, he attended many different schools before the family finally settled in San Jose, California.
Valdez began school in Stratford, California. His interest in theatre began in the first grade. Throughout grammar school, Valdez organized plays at school and put on puppet shows in his garage, which, he recalls, were usually about fairy tales. In high school, Valdez was part of the Speech and Drama department and acted in several plays. He described himself as "a very serious student." Valdez graduated from James Lick High School in San Jose and went on to attend San José State University (SJSU) on a scholarship for math and physics. During his second year of college, he switched his major to English. While in college, Valdez won a playwriting contest with his one-act play The Theft in 1961. Two years later, in 1963, Valdez's first full-length play, The Shrunken Head of Pancho Villa, was produced by the drama department and debuted at SJSU.
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Traded items with a signature of Luis Valdez
The most expensive item with a signature of Luis Valdez (Pen & Ink Drawing Signed Luis Valdez Ibiza 1976 Minimalist Art Modernism Spain) was sold in May 2025 for $540.00 while the cheapest item (LUIS VALDEZ JAIRO ASENSIO signed ORIOLES CUBS BRAVES INDIANS AUTO baseball card) found a new owner for $1.29 in January 2014. The month with the most items sold (10) was March 2026 with an average selling price of $257.99 for an autographed item of Luis Valdez. Sold items reached their highest average selling price in March 2026 with $257.99 and the month that saw the lowest prices with $24.99 was October 2017. In average, an autographed item from Luis Valdez is worth $114.98.
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