Cantinflas
Acting
Born: August 12, 1911 · Santa María La Redonda, Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
Died: April 20, 1993 (aged 81)
Highest Rated
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.
Known for
Around the World in 80 Days
1956
El padrecito
1964
Cantinflas Show
1972
¡A volar, joven!
1947
El patrullero 777
1978
El profe
1971
El analfabeto
1961
El señor doctor
1965
El Siete Machos
1951
Up and Down
1959
You’re Missing the Point
1940
El bolero de Raquel
1957
Photos (2)
Movies (50)
Around the World in 80 Days
Passepartout
Gran Hotel
Cantinflas
The Circus
El Zapatero
Your Excellency
Lopez 'Lopitos' / His Excellency the Ambassador of Los Cocos
El profe
Sócrates García
¡A volar, joven!
Cantinflas
El padrecito
Padre Sebastián
Up and Down
Cantinflas
El analfabeto
Inocencio Prieto y Calvo
El patrullero 777
Diógenes Bravo
El señor fotógrafo
Cantinflas
Por mis pistolas
Fidencio Barrenillo
The Unknown Policeman
Agente 777
The Atomic Fireman
Agente 777
El señor doctor
Salvador Medina / Chava
El Portero
Cantinflas
Pepe
Pepe
Tailored gentleman
Cantinflas
The Minister and Me
Mateo Melgarejo 'Mateíto'
The Extra
Rogaciano
The Three Musketeers
Cantinflas / D'Artagnan (as Mario Moreno 'Cantinflas')
Así es mi tierra
Tejón
You’re Missing the Point
Cantinflas
El Siete Machos
Margarito / El Siete Machos
Conserje en condominio
Ursulo
Entrega Inmediata
Feliciano
El Barrendero
Napoleon
El bolero de Raquel
Bolero
Romeo y Julieta
Romeo
Águila o sol
Polito Sol
El Supersabio
Cantinflas
Si yo fuera diputado
Cantinflas
El Mago
Cantinflas
One Day with the Devil
Juan Pérez
Ni sangre ni arena
Cantinflas
México de mis amores
1979
The Sign of Death
Cantinflas
Drop the Curtain
Cantinflas
Cantinflas Ruletero
1940
Soy un prófugo
Cantinflas
Un Quijote sin mancha
Justo Leal
Love Your Neighbor
Luis
Don Quijote cabalga de nuevo
Sancho Panza
No te engañes corazón
Canti
Carnaval en el trópico
Cantinflas
Jengibre contra Dinamita
1939
Cantinflas boxeador
1940
Festival de Cantinflas
1939
Cantinflas y su prima
1940
Siempre listo en las tinieblas
1939
TV Shows (2)
Self / Appearances (4)
Writing (10)
Your Excellency
Story
El profe
Story
El patrullero 777
Story
Por mis pistolas
Writer
The Atomic Fireman
Story
The Minister and Me
Story
Conserje en condominio
Idea
El Barrendero
Story
Si yo fuera diputado
Story
Un Quijote sin mancha
Screenplay