Cantinflas
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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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Acting
Movie
Around the World in 80 Days
as Passepartout
1956
Movie
El padrecito
as Padre Sebastián
1964
TV
Cantinflas Show
as Cantinflas
1972
Movie
¡A volar, joven!
as Cantinflas
1947
Movie
El patrullero 777
as Diógenes Bravo
1978
Movie
El profe
as Sócrates García
1971
Movie
El analfabeto
as Inocencio Prieto y Calvo
1961
Movie
El señor doctor
as Salvador Medina / Chava
1965
Movie
Up and Down
as Cantinflas
1959
Movie
El Siete Machos
as Margarito / El Siete Machos
1951
Movie
You’re Missing the Point
as Cantinflas
1940
Movie
El bolero de Raquel
as Bolero
1957
Movie
El bombero atómico
as Agente 777
1952
Movie
Soy un prófugo
as Cantinflas
1946
Movie
Por mis pistolas
as Fidencio Barrenillo
1968
TV
The Oscars
as Self
1953
Movie
El señor fotógrafo
as Cantinflas
1953
Movie
Si yo fuera diputado
as Cantinflas
1952
Movie
The Unknown Policeman
as Agente 777
1941
Movie
One Day with the Devil
as Juan Pérez
1945
Movie
Cantinflas Ruletero
1940
Movie
Your Excellency
as Lopez 'Lopitos' / His Excellency the Ambassador of Los Cocos
1967
Movie
El Portero
as Cantinflas
1950
Movie
Entrega Inmediata
as Feliciano
1963
Crew
TV
Cantinflas Show
Creator
1972
Movie
El profe
Story
1971
Movie
El patrullero 777
Story
1978
Movie
El bombero atómico
Story
1952
Movie
Por mis pistolas
Writer
1968
Movie
Si yo fuera diputado
Story
1952
Movie
Your Excellency
Story
1967
Movie
El Barrendero
Story
1982
Movie
Un Quijote sin mancha
Screenplay
1969
Movie
The Minister and Me
Story
1976
TV
Amigo and Friends
Creator
1982