Cantinflas

Cantinflas

  • Birthday: 1911-08-12
  • Deathday: 1993-04-20
  • Place of birth: Santa María La Redonda, Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
  • Also know as: Mario Moreno

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.

Filmography

El Siete Machos

1951

As Margarito / El Siete Machos

El bolero de Raquel

1957

As Bolero

El Mago

1949

As Cantinflas

El bombero atómico

1952

As Agente 777

Águila o sol

1938

As Polito Sol

One Day with the Devil

1945

As Juan Pérez

El analfabeto

1961

As Inocencio Prieto y Calvo

Gran Hotel

1944

As Cantinflas

El patrullero 777

1978

As Diógenes Bravo

El Supersabio

1948

As Cantinflas

Tailored gentleman

1954

As Cantinflas

Si yo fuera diputado

1952

As Cantinflas

El padrecito

1964

As Padre Sebastián

Por mis pistolas

1968

As Fidencio Barrenillo

Soy un prófugo

1946

As Cantinflas

El barrendero

1982

As Napoleon

Conserje en Condominio

1974

As Ursulo

Romeo y Julieta

1943

As Romeo

You’re Missing the Point

1940

As Cantinflas

Un Quijote sin mancha

1969

As Justo Leal

Ni sangre ni arena

1941

As Cantinflas

Carnaval en el trópico

1942

As cantinflas

The Unknown Policeman

1941

As Agente 777

El señor fotógrafo

1953

As Cantinflas

The Three Musketeers

1942

As Cantinflas / D'Artagnan (as Mario Moreno 'Cantinflas')

El circo

1943

As El Zapatero

Pepe

1960

As Pepe

El Extra

1962

As Rogaciano

El profe

1971

As Sócrates García

¡A volar, joven!

1947

As Cantinflas

El Portero

1950

As Cantinflas

Drop the Curtain

1955

As Cantinflas

Love Your Neighbor

1958

As Luis

Sube y baja

1959

As Cantinflas

Entrega Inmediata

1963

As Feliciano

El señor doctor

1965

As Salvador Medina / Chava

Your Excellency

1967

As Lopez 'Lopitos' / His Excellency the Ambassador of Los Cocos

El ministro y yo

1976

As Mateo Melgarejo 'Mateíto'

Around the World in Eighty Days

1956

As Passepartout

Don Quijote cabalga de nuevo

1973

As Sancho Panza

The Sign of Death

1939

As Cantinflas

Así es mi tierra

1937

As Tejón

Production

El profe

1971

As Story

El patrullero 777

1978

As Story

El bombero atómico

1952

As Story

Por mis pistolas

1968

As Writer

Si yo fuera diputado

1952

As Story

Your Excellency

1967

As Story

Un Quijote sin mancha

1969

As Screenplay

El ministro y yo

1976

As Story

El barrendero

1982

As Story

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