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Cantinflas
Actor, Writer, Additional Credits
Born August 12, 1911Died April 20, 1993 (81 years)
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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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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.
Known For
Filmography
| 1982 | El barrendero · as Napoleon |
| 1978 | El patrullero 777 · as Diógenes Bravo |
| 1976 | El ministro y yo · as Mateo Melgarejo 'mateíto' |
| 1974 | Conserje en condominio · as Ursulo |
| 1973 | Don Quijote cabalga de nuevo · as Sancho Panza |
| 1971 | The Professor · as Sócrates García |
| 1969 | A Quixote Without La Mancha · as Justo Leal |
| 1968 | Por mis pistolas · as Fidencio Barrenillo |
| 1967 | Su excelencia · as Lopez 'lopitos' / His Excellency The Ambassador Of Los Cocos |
| 1965 | El señor doctor · as Salvador Medina / Chava |
| 1964 | The Little Priest · as Padre Sebastián |
| 1963 | Agente XU 777 · as Feliciano |
| 1962 | The Extra · as Rogaciano |
| 1961 | The Illiterate One · as Inocencio Prieto Y Calvo |
| 1960 | Pepe · as Pepe |
| 1958 | Housewife to Your Neighbor · as Luis |
| 1957 | Raquel's Shoeshiner · as Bolero |
| 1956 | Around the World in 80 Days · as Passepartout |
| 1952 | El bombero atómico · as Agente 777 |
| 1951 | El siete machos · as Margarito / El Siete Machos |
| 1945 | One Day with the Devil · as Juan Pérez |
| 1943 | Romeo y Julieta · as Romeo |
| 1943 | El circo · as El Zapatero |
| 1942 | The Three Musketeers · as Cantinflas / D'artagnan (as Mario Moreno 'cantinflas') |
| 1941 | The Unknown Policeman · as Agente 777 |
| 1940 | |
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| 1938 | Eagle or Sun · as Polito Sol |
| 1937 | Such Is My Country · as Tejón |
| 1937 | Don't Fool Yourself Dear · as Canti |