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

Mickey's 50

El bombero atómico

El señor fotógrafo

El padrecito

El Siete Machos

Your Excellency

El profe

Up and Down

El patrullero 777

El señor doctor

You’re Missing the Point

¡A volar, joven!

Cantinflas Show

Por mis pistolas

Festival de Cantinflas

V.I.P. Schaukel

El analfabeto

El Barrendero

El circo

The Unknown Policeman

El Portero

Soy un prófugo

Así es mi tierra

El Supersabio

One Day with the Devil

Drop the Curtain

Don Quijote cabalga de nuevo

Si yo fuera diputado

Un Quijote sin mancha

El Mago

The Three Musketeers

Entrega Inmediata

Cantinflas Ruletero

El bolero de Raquel

The Minister and Me

Ni sangre ni arena

Cantinflas y su prima

Tailored gentleman

Amigo and Friends

Gran Hotel

What's My Line?

The Oscars

El Extra

Jengibre contra Dinamita

Carnaval en el trópico

Around the World in 80 Days

Águila o sol

Romeo y Julieta