Gabriel Figueroa was born into a wealthy family rundown. His mother died after giving birth to him and his father, unable to overcome this loss, eventually leave along with his brother Robert in the care of aunts. He studied painting at the Academy of San Carlos and at 16 he discovered portrait photography thanks to José Guadalupe Velasco. Years later he would make friends with the photographers and Raul Gilberto Martinez Solares who as he left the still photography for film.
His entry into films occurred in 1932 as a stills photographer Revolution of Miguel Contreras Torres . A year later became one of the twenty cameramen hired for the filming of Viva Villa! of Howard Hawks. After some work as illuminator, Figueroa received a scholarship to study in the United States. There he came in contact with Gregg Toland, one of the best photographers film of all time, who taught his unique style of lighting.
His first film as photographer -en el Rancho Grande (1936) of Fernando de Fuentes - was also the first for which he won an international award at the Venice Film Festival. In total, more than two hundred photographs Figueroa films and received dozens of awards. In addition to the tape he filmed with Emilio Fernandez, two of his most memorable were The Forgotten (1950) Luis Buñuel of and Night of the Iguana (1964) of John Huston.
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