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

The Atomic Fireman

Mr. Photographer

The Little Priest

El Siete Machos

V.I.P. Schaukel

Up and Down

Your Excellency

El profe

El señor doctor

El patrullero 777

You’re Missing the Point

El Barrendero

Fly Away, Young Man!

Cantinflas Show

Por mis pistolas

Festival de Cantinflas

El analfabeto

El Supersabio

The Unknown Policeman

The Circus

Drop the Curtain

El Portero

Soy un prófugo

One Day with the Devil

Así es mi tierra

The Three Musketeers

The Minister and Me

Si yo fuera diputado

Entrega Inmediata

El bolero de Raquel

Don Quixote Rides Again

Neither Blood Nor Sand

The Magician

Cantinflas Ruletero

A Quixote Without La Mancha

Tailored gentleman

Gran Hotel

Jengibre contra Dinamita

The Extra

Carnaval en el trópico

Amigo and Friends

Cantinflas y su prima

The Oscars

What's My Line?

Love Your Neighbor

Around the World in 80 Days

Águila o sol