Known For
Acting
Born
Aug 12, 1911
Died
Apr 20, 1993
Place of Birth
Santa María La Redonda, Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
Credits
58 titles
Cantinflas
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
Filmography
Amigo and Friends
cantinflas
El Barrendero
Napoleon
México de mis amores
Mickey's 50
Self
El patrullero 777
Diógenes Bravo
The Minister and Me
Mateo Melgarejo 'Mateíto'
Conserje en Condominio
Ursulo
Don Quijote cabalga de nuevo
Sancho Panza
Cantinflas Show
Cantinflas
V.I.P. Schaukel
Self
El profe
Sócrates García
Un Quijote sin mancha
Justo Leal
Por mis pistolas
Fidencio Barrenillo
Your Excellency
Lopez 'Lopitos' / His Excellency the Ambassador of Los Cocos
El señor doctor
Salvador Medina / Chava
El padrecito
Padre Sebastián
Entrega Inmediata
Feliciano
El Extra
Rogaciano
El analfabeto
Inocencio Prieto y Calvo
Pepe
Pepe
Up and Down
Cantinflas
Love Your Neighbor
Luis
El cine mexicano de fiesta
Self
El bolero de Raquel
Bolero
Around the World in 80 Days
Passepartout
Drop the Curtain
Cantinflas
Tailored gentleman
Cantinflas
El señor fotógrafo
Cantinflas
The Oscars
Self
El bombero atómico
Agente 777
Si yo fuera diputado
Cantinflas
El Siete Machos
Margarito / El Siete Machos
El Portero
Cantinflas
What's My Line?
Self - Mystery Guest
El Mago
Cantinflas
El Supersabio
Cantinflas
¡A volar, joven!
Cantinflas
Soy un prófugo
Cantinflas
One Day with the Devil
Juan Pérez
Gran Hotel
Cantinflas
Romeo y Julieta
Romeo
El circo
El Zapatero
The Three Musketeers
Cantinflas / D'Artagnan (as Mario Moreno 'Cantinflas')
Carnaval en el trópico
Cantinflas
Mexican Moods
Self
The Unknown Policeman
Agente 777
Ni sangre ni arena
Cantinflas
You’re Missing the Point
Cantinflas
Cantinflas y su prima
Cantinflas boxeador