Cantinflas
Born
August 12, 1911
Died
April 20, 1993 (81 years old)
Known For
Acting
Place of Birth
Santa 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.
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Known For
Cantinflas y sus amigos
cantinflas · (52 episodes)
1982
El Barrendero
Napoleon
1982
Mickey's 50
Self
1978
El patrullero 777
Diógenes Bravo
1978
El ministro y yo
Mateo Melgarejo 'Mateíto'
1976
Conserje en Condominio
Ursulo
1974
Don Quijote cabalga de nuevo
Sancho Panza
1973
Cantinflas Show
Cantinflas · (53 episodes)
1972
V.I.P. Schaukel
Self · (1 episode)
1971
El profe
Sócrates García
1971
Un Quijote sin mancha
Justo Leal
1969
Por mis pistolas
Fidencio Barrenillo
1968
Your Excellency
Lopez 'Lopitos' / His Excellency the Ambassador of Los Cocos
1967
El señor doctor
Salvador Medina / Chava
1965
El padrecito
Padre Sebastián
1964
Entrega Inmediata
Feliciano
1963
El Extra
Rogaciano
1962
El analfabeto
Inocencio Prieto y Calvo
1961
Pepe
Pepe
1960
Sube y baja
Cantinflas
1959
Love Your Neighbor
Luis
1958
El cine mexicano de fiesta
Self
1958
El bolero de Raquel
Bolero
1957
Around the World in Eighty Days
Passepartout
1956
Drop the Curtain
Cantinflas
1955
Tailored gentleman
Cantinflas
1954
El señor fotógrafo
Cantinflas
1953
The Oscars
Self · (1 episode)
1953
El bombero atómico
Agente 777
1952
Si yo fuera diputado
Cantinflas
1952
El Siete Machos
Margarito / El Siete Machos
1951
El Portero
Cantinflas
1950
What's My Line?
Self - Mystery Guest · (1 episode)
1950
El Mago
Cantinflas
1949
El Supersabio
Cantinflas
1948
¡A volar, joven!
Cantinflas
1947
Soy un prófugo
Cantinflas
1946
One Day with the Devil
Juan Pérez
1945
Gran Hotel
Cantinflas
1944
Romeo y Julieta
Romeo
1943
El circo
El Zapatero
1943
The Three Musketeers
Cantinflas / D'Artagnan (as Mario Moreno 'Cantinflas')
1942
Carnaval en el trópico
Cantinflas
1942
Mexican Moods
Self
1942
The Unknown Policeman
Agente 777
1941
Ni sangre ni arena
Cantinflas
1941
You’re Missing the Point
Cantinflas
1940
Cantinflas y su prima
1940
Cantinflas boxeador
1940
Cantinflas Ruletero
1940
The Sign of Death
Cantinflas
1939
Jengibre contra Dinamita
1939
Siempre listo en las tinieblas
1939
Festival de Cantinflas
1939
Águila o sol
Polito Sol
1938
Así es mi tierra
Tejón
1937
No te engañes corazón
Canti
1937