Cantinflas
Known For
Acting
Born
1911-08-12 in Santa María La Redonda, Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
Died
1993-04-20
Biography
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.
Most Known For
What's My Line?
as Self - Mystery Guest
The Oscars
as Self
El circo
as El Zapatero
Cantinflas Show
as Cantinflas
V.I.P. Schaukel
as Self
Around the World in 80 Days
as Passepartout
Your Excellency
as Lopez 'Lopitos' / His Excellency the Ambassador of Los Cocos
Mexican Moods
as Self
El padrecito
as Padre Sebastián
Pepe
as Pepe
Cantinflas y sus amigos
as cantinflas
El señor fotógrafo
as Cantinflas
El profe
as Sócrates García
Gran Hotel
as Cantinflas
¡A volar, joven!
as Cantinflas
Por mis pistolas
as Fidencio Barrenillo
El Barrendero
as Napoleon
El analfabeto
as Inocencio Prieto y Calvo
The Three Musketeers
as Cantinflas / D'Artagnan (as Mario Moreno 'Cantinflas')
El patrullero 777
as Diógenes Bravo