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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| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 12.413 |
| Birthday | 1911-08-12 |
| Place of Birth | Santa María La Redonda, Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico |
| Also Known As | Mario Moreno, Fortino Mario Alfonso Moreno Reyes, Mario Moreno "Cantinflas", Mario Moreno Reyes, |
1956
Around the World in Eighty Days
6.6/515
Based on the famous book by Jules Verne the movie follows Phileas Fogg on his journey around the world. Which has to be completed within 80 days, a ve...
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Around the World in Eighty Days
1951
El Siete Machos
8.1/96
Rosario, the niece of the rancher, returns to the ranch after ten years of absence. She takes in Margarito, a worker at the ranch, who is immediately...
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El Siete Machos
1957
El bolero de Raquel
7.2/90
The film tells an episode of the life of a kindly hearted bootblack who becomes accidentally the tutor of an orphan but nevertheless spends all his ti...
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El bolero de Raquel
1938
Águila o sol
6.4/21
At birth, three children are abandoned in a convent. They are Polito Sol and his siblings, Adriana and Carmelo Águila and they grow up to become the "...
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Águila o sol
1952
El bombero atómico
8.4/80
Cantinflas is a clumsy fireman, who one day receives the visit of his little goddaughter, whose mother recently died in the jungle. After having work...
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El bombero atómico
1962
El Extra
6.7/21
Cantinflas is a man who hangs around the studios and helps anyone who needs his advice while at the same time envisioning his own versions of how cert...
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El Extra
1949
El Mago
7.5/25
A slapstick fantasy of the amorous adventures of a magician a la Cantinflas.
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El Mago
1965
El señor doctor
7.8/97
It's about a country doctor that comes to the city while a clinic is built in his home town... he rubs off his care and compassion on others at the ho...
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El señor doctor
1958
El cine mexicano de fiesta
0/0
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El cine mexicano de fiesta
1954
Tailored gentleman
6.8/34
Cantinflas works as a model of tuxedos in a prestigious store, your job is to use the smoking in the street along with an advertising sign on his back...
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Tailored gentleman
1968
Por mis pistolas
7.7/82
Fidencio Borer, an apothecary in a village on the northern border of Mexico, discovers some old title of a mine in Arizona and decides to claim them....
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Por mis pistolas
1944
Gran Hotel
7/21
Cantinflas is a vagrant being evicted for not paying rent, after wandering gets a job at the 'Grand Hotel' through a friend, that's confused by Count...
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Gran Hotel
1978
El patrullero 777
7.8/101
Follows Diogenes as he goes about his day as a police officer. He's prone to do things the right way, surrounded by a pretty much corrupt & citize...
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El patrullero 777
1952
Si yo fuera diputado
7.4/69
Cantinflas is a unique barber, who trades with an elderly neighbor, a lawyer by profession, laws lessons in exchange for haircuts and shaved. It propo...
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Si yo fuera diputado
1945
One Day with the Devil
7.3/60
Cantinflas, on a drunken night, becomes Army soldier. Soon, he meets the Devil who tries to make it an evil being.
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One Day with the Devil
1939
The Sign of Death
5.9/21
Two journalists, Carlos and Lola, investigate the murder of a young woman whose body appeared with her heart torn out, in what seems to be a human sac...
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The Sign of Death
1964
El padrecito
8/160
Young priest Father Sebastián is assigned to a parish in San Jeronimo el Alto, where he is not welcomed by the community, particularly the resident pr...
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El padrecito
1948
El Supersabio
7.5/25
Cantinflas is the apprentice of a renowned scientist, Prof. Arquimides Monteagudo (Carlos Martinez Baena). But Cantinflas has the soul of a poet rathe...
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El Supersabio
1961
El analfabeto
7.7/104
Inocencio Prieto y Calvo receives a letter telling him he is the heir to his uncle's fortune of two million pesos. Not being able to read he has no id...
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El analfabeto
1959
Sube y baja
8/98
It is the story of a sportsman who is a little bit dumber than most people but nevertheless he succeeds in getting a job at a sports article saler's....
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Sube y baja
1967
Your Excellency
7.8/52
Lopitos, who is horribly inefficient but quick-witted, is invited (because of the current ambassador's superstition about 13 sitting down to a meal) t...
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Your Excellency
1982
El barrendero
7.5/46
A cheerful sweeper collects garbage dancing, and the maids of the neighborhood get jealous because he invites another woman out.
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El barrendero
1971
El profe
7.745/106
Mario Moreno portrays a professor in this movie. A small town in the middle of no where requests the school Mario Moreno is working in for a teacher....
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El profe
1941
Ni sangre ni arena
7.2/18
Cantinflas enjoys the bullfight show, and wants to crash in every of these spectacles. Also, there's a professional bullfighter, Manolete, who is iden...
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Ni sangre ni arena
1969
Un Quijote sin mancha
7.1/40
A lawyer trying to fix everyone's problems, instead causes problems, which always end up in funny situations.
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Un Quijote sin mancha
1974
Conserje en Condominio
5.7/17
After reading in the newspaper, Úrsulo runs to seek employment. It is the position of caretaker of a luxury apartment building habited by people more...
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Conserje en Condominio
1943
Romeo y Julieta
6.1/26
Verona's peace is disturbed by the rivalry between noble families: the Montesco and the Capuleto, irreconcilable enemies. The two families have contin...
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Romeo y Julieta
1940
You’re Missing the Point
8.1/92
Cantinflas, the boyfriend of the servant of a rich industrial man, gets into the house in order to kill a mad dog. Suddenly this man appears so the se...
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You’re Missing the Point
1947
¡A volar, joven!
8/110
Cantinflas is a private in the military, who doesn't know anything about discipline or following rules. He only wants to think about his girlfriend, t...
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¡A volar, joven!
1955
Drop the Curtain
6.8/18
Cantinflas, who owns a cleaning business, cleans the windows of the house of a famous French actress. While carrying out his work he observes how a ma...
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Drop the Curtain
1958
Love Your Neighbor
5.3/6
This film tells several short stories that end up lapsing in the emergency room of a hospital, because it is dedicated to nurses. Cantinflas appears a...
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Love Your Neighbor
1937
Así es mi tierra
7.5/31
With revolutionary Mexico as a backdrop, a successful local rancher returns triumphant from the war to the praise of townsfolk, and "El General" is re...
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Así es mi tierra
1943
El circo
7.7/45
A cobbler gets a job in a Circus as a janitor, recommended by the beautiful girl rider of the show. But later, he gets in trouble when he involves in...
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El circo
1976
El ministro y yo
6.8/33
Mateo Melgarejo is a notary public and scribe for the illiterate people of Santo Domingo, a neighborhood north of Mexico City's Zócalo. A squatter fri...
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El ministro y yo
1950
El Portero
7.5/48
Cantinflas works as a porter, who writes letters and speeches in his old writing machine to earn an extra money, despite the fact that he still goes t...
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El Portero
1953
El señor fotógrafo
8.221/70
Cantinflas, a traveling photographer, is captured by some gangsters while trying to get some flowers for his girlfriend. The gangsters have confused h...
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El señor fotógrafo
1963
Entrega Inmediata
7.167/51
Immediate delivery recounts the misadventures of Feliciano Callosum (Cantinflas), a postman who is recruited by the secret counterintelligence service...
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Entrega Inmediata
1946
Soy un prófugo
7.6/87
A janitor in a large bank is accused of pulling of a major heist. He is forced to become a fugitive while hunting for the real culprits.
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Soy un prófugo
1940
Cantinflas Ruletero
7.4/61
Cantinflas Ruletero is one of his most famous short films, where the great comedian acts as a taxi driver, making his passengers work without taking t...
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Cantinflas Ruletero
1960
Pepe
6.1/46
Mario "Cantinflas" Moreno is a hired hand, Pepe, employed on a ranch. A boozing Hollywood director buys a white stallion that belongs to Pepe's boss....
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Pepe
1942
The Three Musketeers
7.2/22
Cantinflas and three friends return a stolen necklace to an actress who invites them to be extras at Clasa studios. While on the set, he falls asleep...
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The Three Musketeers
1973
Don Quijote cabalga de nuevo
7.1/37
A new vision of the Knight of the sad figure, which lives obsessed by the chivalry and its codes of honor. Accompanied by his unusual squire Sancho Pa...
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Don Quijote cabalga de nuevo
1939
Jengibre contra Dinamita
5.5/2
He shows us a poor Cantinflas like a rat that walks with a sad hatter and ends up in a bar where he will have a clash with the dangerous bandit "Ojo T...
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Jengibre contra Dinamita
1937
No te engañes corazón
4.4/5
No te engañes corazón (released in English as Don't Fool Yourself Dear) is the first full-feature film of Cantinflas after becoming a star of the carp...
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No te engañes corazón
1939
Siempre listo en las tinieblas
5/3
Cantinflas will face a thief who enters his house while he sleeps.
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Siempre listo en las tinieblas
1942
Carnaval en el trópico
7/6
Three Mexican friends decide to go to Vercacruz Carnaval to celebrate. There they watch Cantinflas' show of torero and boxer.
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Carnaval en el trópico
1941
The Unknown Policeman
7.8/64
A gang of thieves has jeopardized the city and even the police, whose chief urges their forces to captured the band within 48 hours. Meanwhile, band m...
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The Unknown Policeman
1940
Cantinflas boxeador
6.6/9
We see a young Mario Moreno making us laugh while he trying to fight against an opponent on a ring.
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Cantinflas boxeador
1940
Cantinflas y su prima
7.3/7
Cantinflas appears flirting with a lady until her lover arrives. Angry, Cantinflas call the husband causing a number of situations.
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Cantinflas y su prima
1939
Festival de la comedia
8/6
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Festival de la comedia
1942
Mexican Moods
0/0
This 1942 travelogue film, directed by Aldo Ermini and sponsored by the Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs, showcases Mexican culture...
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