
Cantinflas
Known for ActingBorn 1911-08-12Died 1993-04-20Santa María La Redonda, Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
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.Read more
Movies & web series
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Mickey's 50
1978 · Movie
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El bombero atómico
1952 · Movie
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El señor fotógrafo
1953 · Movie
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El padrecito
1964 · Movie
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El Siete Machos
1951 · Movie
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Your Excellency
1967 · Movie
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El profe
1971 · Movie
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Up and Down
1959 · Movie
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El patrullero 777
1978 · Movie
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El señor doctor
1965 · Movie
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You’re Missing the Point
1940 · Movie
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¡A volar, joven!
1947 · Movie
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Cantinflas Show
1972 · Series
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Por mis pistolas
1968 · Movie
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Festival de Cantinflas
1939 · Movie
V.I.P. Schaukel
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V.I.P. Schaukel
1971 · Series
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El analfabeto
1961 · Movie
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El Barrendero
1982 · Movie
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El circo
1943 · Movie
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The Unknown Policeman
1941 · Movie
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El Portero
1950 · Movie
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Soy un prófugo
1946 · Movie
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Así es mi tierra
1937 · Movie
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El Supersabio
1948 · Movie
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One Day with the Devil
1945 · Movie
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Drop the Curtain
1955 · Movie
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Don Quijote cabalga de nuevo
1973 · Movie
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Si yo fuera diputado
1952 · Movie
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Un Quijote sin mancha
1969 · Movie
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El Mago
1949 · Movie
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The Three Musketeers
1942 · Movie
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Entrega Inmediata
1963 · Movie
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Cantinflas Ruletero
1940 · Movie
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El bolero de Raquel
1957 · Movie
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The Minister and Me
1976 · Movie
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Ni sangre ni arena
1941 · Movie
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Cantinflas y su prima
1940 · Movie
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Tailored gentleman
1954 · Movie
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Amigo and Friends
1982 · Series
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Gran Hotel
1944 · Movie
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What's My Line?
1950 · Series
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The Oscars
1953 · Series
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El Extra
1962 · Movie
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Jengibre contra Dinamita
1939 · Movie
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Carnaval en el trópico
1942 · Movie
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Around the World in 80 Days
1956 · Movie
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Águila o sol
1938 · Movie
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Romeo y Julieta
1943 · Movie