Cantinflas
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Aug 12, 1911
- Died
- Apr 20, 1993 (aged 81)
- Place of birth
- Santa María La Redonda, Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
- Credits
- 58
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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
Around the World in 80 Days
1956Movie
Passepartout
The Little Priest
1964Movie
Padre Sebastián
Cantinflas Show
1972TV
Cantinflas
El profe
1971Movie
Sócrates García
Fly Away, Young Man!
1947Movie
Cantinflas
El patrullero 777
1978Movie
Diógenes Bravo
Filmography
Amigo and Friends
1982TV
cantinflas
El Barrendero
1982Movie
Napoleon
México de mis amores
1979Movie
Mickey's 50
1978Movie
Self
El patrullero 777
1978Movie
Diógenes Bravo
The Minister and Me
1976Movie
Mateo Melgarejo 'Mateíto'
Conserje en condominio
1974Movie
Ursulo
Don Quixote Rides Again
1973Movie
Sancho Panza
Cantinflas Show
1972TV
Cantinflas
V.I.P. Schaukel
1971TV
Self
El profe
1971Movie
Sócrates García
A Quixote Without La Mancha
1969Movie
Justo Leal
Por mis pistolas
1968Movie
Fidencio Barrenillo
Your Excellency
1967Movie
Lopez 'Lopitos' / His Excellency the Ambassador of Los Cocos
El señor doctor
1965Movie
Salvador Medina / Chava
The Little Priest
1964Movie
Padre Sebastián
Entrega Inmediata
1963Movie
Feliciano
The Extra
1962Movie
Rogaciano
El analfabeto
1961Movie
Inocencio Prieto y Calvo
Pepe
1960Movie
Pepe
Love Your Neighbor
1958Movie
Luis
El cine mexicano de fiesta
1958Movie
Self
El bolero de Raquel
1957Movie
Bolero
Around the World in 80 Days
1956Movie
Passepartout
Up and Down
1956Movie
Cantinflas
Drop the Curtain
1955Movie
Cantinflas
Tailored gentleman
1954Movie
Cantinflas
Mr. Photographer
1953Movie
Cantinflas
The Oscars
1953TV
Self
The Atomic Fireman
1952Movie
Agente 777
Si yo fuera diputado
1952Movie
Cantinflas
El Siete Machos
1951Movie
Margarito / El Siete Machos
El Portero
1950Movie
Cantinflas
What's My Line?
1950TV
Self - Mystery Guest
The Magician
1949Movie
Cantinflas
El Supersabio
1948Movie
Cantinflas
Fly Away, Young Man!
1947Movie
Cantinflas
Soy un prófugo
1946Movie
Cantinflas
One Day with the Devil
1945Movie
Juan Pérez
Gran Hotel
1944Movie
Cantinflas
Romeo y Julieta
1943Movie
Romeo
The Circus
1943Movie
El Zapatero
The Three Musketeers
1942Movie
Cantinflas / D'Artagnan (as Mario Moreno 'Cantinflas')
Carnaval en el trópico
1942Movie
Cantinflas
Mexican Moods
1942Movie
Self
The Unknown Policeman
1941Movie
Agente 777
Neither Blood Nor Sand
1941Movie
Cantinflas
You’re Missing the Point
1940Movie
Cantinflas
Cantinflas y su prima
1940Movie
Cantinflas Ruletero
1940Movie
Cantinflas boxeador
1940Movie
The Sign of Death
1939Movie
Cantinflas
Jengibre contra Dinamita
1939Movie
Siempre listo en las tinieblas
1939Movie
Festival de Cantinflas
1939Movie
Águila o sol
1938Movie
Polito Sol
Así es mi tierra
1937Movie
Tejón
No te engañes corazón
1937Movie
Canti