Cantinflas
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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.
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Movies (55)
Aún hay más... Homenaje a Raúl Velasco
2006 · Self
El Barrendero
1982 · Napoleon, Story
México de mis amores
1979
Mickey's 50
1978 · Self
El patrullero 777
1978 · Diógenes Bravo, Story
The Minister and Me
1976 · Mateo Melgarejo 'Mateíto', Story
Conserje en condominio
1974 · Ursulo, Idea
Don Quixote Rides Again
1973 · Sancho Panza
El profe
1971 · Sócrates García, Story
A Quixote Without La Mancha
1969 · Justo Leal, Screenplay
The Great Sex War
1969 · Gen. Marcos
Por mis pistolas
1968 · Fidencio Barrenillo, Writer
Your Excellency
1967 · Lopez 'Lopitos' / His Excellency the Ambassador of Los Cocos, Story
El señor doctor
1965 · Salvador Medina / Chava
The Little Priest
1964 · Padre Sebastián
Entrega Inmediata
1963 · Feliciano
The Extra
1962 · Rogaciano
El analfabeto
1961 · Inocencio Prieto y Calvo
Pepe
1960 · Pepe
Love Your Neighbor
1958 · Luis
El cine mexicano de fiesta
1958 · Self
El bolero de Raquel
1957 · Bolero
Around the World in 80 Days
1956 · Passepartout
Up and Down
1956 · Cantinflas
Drop the Curtain
1955 · Cantinflas
Tailored gentleman
1954 · Cantinflas
Mr. Photographer
1953 · Cantinflas
The Atomic Fireman
1952 · Agente 777, Story
Si yo fuera diputado
1952 · Cantinflas, Story
El Siete Machos
1951 · Margarito / El Siete Machos
El Portero
1950 · Cantinflas
The Magician
1949 · Cantinflas / Falso Mago Krishnar
El Supersabio
1948 · Cantinflas
Fly Away, Young Man!
1947 · Cantinflas
Soy un prófugo
1946 · Cantinflas
One Day with the Devil
1945 · Juan Pérez
Gran Hotel
1944 · Cantinflas
Romeo y Julieta
1943 · Romeo
The Circus
1943 · El Zapatero
The Three Musketeers
1942 · Cantinflas / D'Artagnan (as Mario Moreno 'Cantinflas')
Carnaval en el trópico
1942 · Cantinflas
Mexican Moods
1942 · Self
The Unknown Policeman
1941 · Agente 777
Neither Blood Nor Sand
1941 · Cantinflas
You’re Missing the Point
1940 · Cantinflas
Cantinflas y su prima
1940
Cantinflas Ruletero
1940
Cantinflas boxeador
1940
The Sign of Death
1939 · Cantinflas
Siempre listo en las tinieblas
1939
Jengibre contra Dinamita
1939
Festival de Cantinflas
1939
Águila o sol
1938 · Polito Sol
Así es mi tierra
1937 · Tejón
No te engañes corazón
1937 · Canti
