Cantinflas
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- August 12, 1911
- Died
- April 20, 1993 (aged 81)
- Birthplace
- Santa María La Redonda, Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Fortino Mario Alfonso Moreno Reyes (August 12, 1911 – April 20, 1993) was a Mexican comedian and stage and film actor, known professionally as Cantinflas. He often portrayed impoverished campesinos or a peasant of pelado origin. The character came to be associated with the national identity of Mexico, and allowed Cantinflas to establish a long, successful film career that included a foray into Hollywood. Charlie Chaplin once commented that he was the best comedian alive. and Moreno has been referred to as the "Charlie Chaplin of Mexico". To audiences in the United States, he is best remembered as costarring with David Niven in Around the World in 80 Days (1956). As a pioneer of the cinema of Mexico, Moreno helped usher in its golden era. In addition to being a business leader, he also became involved in Mexico's tangled and often dangerous labor politics. Although he was himself politically conservative, his reputation as a spokesperson for the downtrodden gave his actions authenticity and became important in the early struggle against charrismo, the one-party government's practice of co-opting and controlling unions. Moreover, his character Cantinflas, whose identity became enmeshed with his own, was examined by media critics, philosophers, and linguists, who saw him variably as a danger to Mexican society, a bourgeois puppet, a kind philanthropist, a venture capitalist, a transgressor of gender roles, a pious Catholic, a verbal innovator, and a picaresque underdog. Description above from the Wikipedia article Cantinflas,licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Filmography
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Movie · as Self
El Barrendero
Movie · as Napoleon
Amigo and Friends
TV · as cantinflas · 52 eps
México de mis amores
Movie
El patrullero 777
Movie · as Diógenes Bravo
Mickey's 50
Movie · as Self
The Minister and Me
Movie · as Mateo Melgarejo 'Mateíto'
Conserje en condominio
Movie · as Ursulo
Don Quixote Rides Again
Movie · as Sancho Panza
Cantinflas Show
TV · as Cantinflas · 53 eps
El profe
Movie · as Sócrates García
V.I.P. Schaukel
TV · as Self · 1 ep
A Quixote Without La Mancha
Movie · as Justo Leal
The Great Sex War
Movie · as Gen. Marcos
Por mis pistolas
Movie · as Fidencio Barrenillo
Your Excellency
Movie · as Lopez 'Lopitos' / His Excellency the Ambassador of Los Cocos
El señor doctor
Movie · as Salvador Medina / Chava
The Little Priest
Movie · as Padre Sebastián
Entrega Inmediata
Movie · as Feliciano
The Extra
Movie · as Rogaciano
El analfabeto
Movie · as Inocencio Prieto y Calvo
Pepe
Movie · as Pepe
El cine mexicano de fiesta
Movie · as Self
Love Your Neighbor
Movie · as Luis
El bolero de Raquel
Movie · as Bolero
Around the World in 80 Days
Movie · as Passepartout
Up and Down
Movie · as Cantinflas
Drop the Curtain
Movie · as Cantinflas
Tailored gentleman
Movie · as Cantinflas
Mr. Photographer
Movie · as Cantinflas
The Oscars
TV · as Self · 1 ep
The Atomic Fireman
Movie · as Agente 777
Si yo fuera diputado
Movie · as Cantinflas
El Siete Machos
Movie · as Margarito / El Siete Machos
El Portero
Movie · as Cantinflas
What's My Line?
TV · as Self - Mystery Guest · 1 ep
The Magician
Movie · as Cantinflas / Falso Mago Krishnar
El Supersabio
Movie · as Cantinflas
Fly Away, Young Man!
Movie · as Cantinflas
Soy un prófugo
Movie · as Cantinflas
One Day with the Devil
Movie · as Juan Pérez
Gran Hotel
Movie · as Cantinflas
Romeo y Julieta
Movie · as Romeo
The Circus
Movie · as El Zapatero
The Three Musketeers
Movie · as Cantinflas / D'Artagnan (as Mario Moreno 'Cantinflas')
Carnaval en el trópico
Movie · as Cantinflas
Mexican Moods
Movie · as Self
Neither Blood Nor Sand
Movie · as Cantinflas
The Unknown Policeman
Movie · as Agente 777
You’re Missing the Point
Movie · as Cantinflas
Cantinflas Ruletero
Movie
Cantinflas boxeador
Movie
Cantinflas y su prima
Movie
The Sign of Death
Movie · as Cantinflas
Jengibre contra Dinamita
Movie
Siempre listo en las tinieblas
Movie
Festival de Cantinflas
Movie
Águila o sol
Movie · as Polito Sol
Así es mi tierra
Movie · as Tejón
No te engañes corazón
Movie · as Canti