Cantinflas
Known for
Cantinflas has been in the trade long enough to be called a veteran actor who has seen the business change around him more than once. The count stands at 43 titles, and the range inside it is wide. In cinemas, 'Around the World in 80 Days' is the work that stuck — Passepartout, specifically. 'Cantinflas Show' belongs on any short list of his work. The filmography reaches back well before the best-known title. He has worked in comedy more often than in any other register.
Cantinflas
41 Movies
2 Series
Cantinflas has been in the trade long enough to be called a veteran actor who has seen the business change around him more than once. The count stands at 43 titles, and the range inside it is wide. In cinemas, 'Around the World in 80 Days' is the work that stuck — Passepartout, specifically. 'Cantinflas Show' belongs on any short list of his work. The filmography reaches back well before the best-known title. He has worked in comedy more often than in any other register.
Movies
Plays Passepartout
Around the World in 80 Days
1956
Plays Cantinflas
Gran Hotel
1944
Plays Padre Sebastián
El padrecito
1964
Plays Cantinflas
¡A volar, joven!
1947
Plays El Zapatero
El circo
1943
Plays Inocencio Prieto y Calvo
El analfabeto
1961
Writer
Plays Sócrates García
El profe
1971
Writer
Plays Diógenes Bravo
El patrullero 777
1978
Plays Pepe
Pepe
1960
Writer
Plays Fidencio Barrenillo
Por mis pistolas
1968
Writer
Plays Napoleon
El Barrendero
1982
Plays Cantinflas
El señor fotógrafo
1953
Plays Salvador Medina / Chava
El señor doctor
1965
Plays Agente 777
The Unknown Policeman
1941
Plays Tejón
Así es mi tierra
1937
Plays Cantinflas
Up and Down
1959
Writer
Plays Agente 777
El bombero atómico
1952
Plays Polito Sol
Águila o sol
1938
Plays Cantinflas
El Portero
1950
Writer
Plays Cantinflas
Si yo fuera diputado
1952
Plays Cantinflas
You’re Missing the Point
1940
Plays Cantinflas / D'Artagnan (as Mario Moreno 'Cantinflas')
The Three Musketeers
1942
Plays Cantinflas
Tailored gentleman
1954
Plays Ursulo
Conserje en condominio
1974
Plays Cantinflas
El Mago
1949
Plays Cantinflas
The Sign of Death
1939
Plays Feliciano
Entrega Inmediata
1963
Plays Cantinflas
Drop the Curtain
1955
Plays Juan Pérez
One Day with the Devil
1945
Plays Luis
Love Your Neighbor
1958
Plays Cantinflas
El Supersabio
1948
Plays Cantinflas
Ni sangre ni arena
1941
Writer
Plays Mateo Melgarejo 'Mateíto'
The Minister and Me
1976
Writer
Plays Justo Leal
Un Quijote sin mancha
1969
Plays Romeo
Romeo y Julieta
1943
Plays Margarito / El Siete Machos
El Siete Machos
1951
Plays Bolero
El bolero de Raquel
1957
Plays Sancho Panza
Don Quijote cabalga de nuevo
1973
Plays Cantinflas
Soy un prófugo
1946
Plays Canti
No te engañes corazón
1937
Plays Cantinflas
Carnaval en el trópico
1942
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Conserje en condominio
Full Filmography
Amigo and Friends
cantinflas · 52 episodes
1982–
TV
El Barrendero
Napoleon
1982
Film
El patrullero 777
Diógenes Bravo
1978
Film
The Minister and Me
Mateo Melgarejo 'Mateíto'
1976
Film
Conserje en condominio
Ursulo
1974
Film
Don Quijote cabalga de nuevo
Sancho Panza
1973
Film
Cantinflas Show
Cantinflas · 53 episodes
1972–
TV
El profe
Sócrates García
1971
Film
Un Quijote sin mancha
Justo Leal
1969
Film
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Frequently Asked Questions
Is Cantinflas still alive?
Cantinflas passed away on April 20, 1993 at age 81.
What are the most famous roles of Cantinflas?
Cantinflas is best known for roles in Around the World in 80 Days, El padrecito, ¡A volar, joven!.
How many movies has Cantinflas been in?
Over a 56-year career (since 1937), Cantinflas has appeared in 41 movies and 2 TV shows.
What was Cantinflas's first movie?
The career of Cantinflas began with No te engañes corazón (1937).
What is Cantinflas's most recent movie or series?
Cantinflas's most recent release is Amigo and Friends, which premiered on May 19, 1982.
What TV shows has Cantinflas appeared in?
On television, Cantinflas has appeared in Cantinflas Show, The Oscars, What's My Line?, Amigo and Friends.
Cantinflas
1911-08-12 · Santa María La Redonda, Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
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.Cantinflas,licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.