Cantinflas
Acting • Born 1911-08-12 – Died 1993-04-20
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
58 credits
Around the World in 80 Days
Movie • 1956
Passepartout
El Siete Machos
Movie • 1951
Margarito / El Siete Machos
El bolero de Raquel
Movie • 1957
Bolero
Águila o sol
Movie • 1938
Polito Sol
El bombero atómico
Movie • 1952
Agente 777
El Extra
Movie • 1962
Rogaciano
El señor doctor
Movie • 1965
Salvador Medina / Chava
El Mago
Movie • 1949
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El cine mexicano de fiesta
Movie • 1958
Self
El patrullero 777
Movie • 1978
Diógenes Bravo
Tailored gentleman
Movie • 1954
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Si yo fuera diputado
Movie • 1952
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Gran Hotel
Movie • 1944
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The Sign of Death
Movie • 1939
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Por mis pistolas
Movie • 1968
Fidencio Barrenillo
El Supersabio
Movie • 1948
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One Day with the Devil
Movie • 1945
Juan Pérez
El padrecito
Movie • 1964
Padre Sebastián
El analfabeto
Movie • 1961
Inocencio Prieto y Calvo
El Barrendero
Movie • 1982
Napoleon
Up and Down
Movie • 1959
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El profe
Movie • 1971
Sócrates García
Your Excellency
Movie • 1967
Lopez 'Lopitos' / His Excellency the Ambassador of Los Cocos
Un Quijote sin mancha
Movie • 1969
Justo Leal
Ni sangre ni arena
Movie • 1941
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You’re Missing the Point
Movie • 1940
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Conserje en Condominio
Movie • 1974
Ursulo
Romeo y Julieta
Movie • 1943
Romeo
Así es mi tierra
Movie • 1937
Tejón
Entrega Inmediata
Movie • 1963
Feliciano
Pepe
Movie • 1960
Pepe
Cantinflas Ruletero
Movie • 1940
The Minister and Me
Movie • 1976
Mateo Melgarejo 'Mateíto'
El señor fotógrafo
Movie • 1953
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Drop the Curtain
Movie • 1955
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Love Your Neighbor
Movie • 1958
Luis
Soy un prófugo
Movie • 1946
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El Portero
Movie • 1950
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¡A volar, joven!
Movie • 1947
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El circo
Movie • 1943
El Zapatero
The Three Musketeers
Movie • 1942
Cantinflas / D'Artagnan (as Mario Moreno 'Cantinflas')
Don Quijote cabalga de nuevo
Movie • 1973
Sancho Panza
Jengibre contra Dinamita
Movie • 1939
No te engañes corazón
Movie • 1937
Canti
Siempre listo en las tinieblas
Movie • 1939
Carnaval en el trópico
Movie • 1942
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The Unknown Policeman
Movie • 1941
Agente 777
Cantinflas boxeador
Movie • 1940
Cantinflas y su prima
Movie • 1940
Festival de Cantinflas
Movie • 1939
Mexican Moods
Movie • 1942
Self
Mickey's 50
Movie • 1978
Self
México de mis amores
Movie • 1979
The Oscars
TV • 1953
Self
V.I.P. Schaukel
TV • 1971
Self
Amigo and Friends
TV • 1982
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Cantinflas Show
TV • 1972
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What's My Line?
TV • 1950
Self - Mystery Guest