Cantinflas
Acting
Born 1911-08-12
Died 1993-04-20
Santa María La Redonda, Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
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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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Filmography
Acting
51 credits
What's My Line?
The Oscars
V.I.P. Schaukel
Around the World in 80 Days
Gran Hotel
Your Excellency
Cantinflas Show
El circo
Mickey's 50
El padrecito
¡A volar, joven!
El analfabeto
Amigo and Friends
Pepe
Up and Down
Entrega Inmediata
El profe
Por mis pistolas
El bombero atómico
El patrullero 777
El Barrendero
El señor doctor
El señor fotógrafo
The Unknown Policeman
El Siete Machos
Tailored gentleman
Love Your Neighbor
El Supersabio
Si yo fuera diputado
Conserje en condominio
Águila o sol
You’re Missing the Point
Drop the Curtain
Mexican Moods
El Mago
Así es mi tierra
El bolero de Raquel
One Day with the Devil
The Three Musketeers
Romeo y Julieta
El Portero
Ni sangre ni arena
The Sign of Death
Un Quijote sin mancha
El Extra
Don Quijote cabalga de nuevo
The Minister and Me
Soy un prófugo
Carnaval en el trópico
No te engañes corazón
El cine mexicano de fiesta
Writing
11 credits
Your Excellency
Cantinflas Show
Amigo and Friends
El profe
Por mis pistolas
El bombero atómico
El patrullero 777
El Barrendero
Si yo fuera diputado
Un Quijote sin mancha
The Minister and Me
Other credits
7 credits
Festival de Cantinflas
Jengibre contra Dinamita
México de mis amores
Cantinflas boxeador
Cantinflas Ruletero
Siempre listo en las tinieblas
Cantinflas y su prima
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