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.
Passepartout
Around the World in Eighty Days
Margarito / El Siete Machos
El Siete Machos
Bolero
El bolero de Raquel
Polito Sol
Águila o sol
Agente 777
El bombero atómico
Rogaciano
El Extra
Salvador Medina / Chava
El señor doctor
Cantinflas
El Mago
Self
El cine mexicano de fiesta
Diógenes Bravo
El patrullero 777
Cantinflas
Caballero a la medida
Cantinflas
Si yo fuera diputado
Cantinflas
Gran Hotel
Cantinflas
El Signo de la Muerte
Fidencio Barrenillo
Por mis pistolas
Cantinflas
El Supersabio
Juan Pérez
Un día con el Diablo
Padre Sebastián
El padrecito
Inocencio Prieto y Calvo
El analfabeto
Napoleon
El barrendero
Cantinflas
Sube y baja
Sócrates García
El profe
Lopez 'Lopitos' / His Excellency the Ambassador of Los Cocos
Su Excelencia
Justo Leal
Un Quijote sin mancha
Cantinflas
Ni sangre ni arena
Cantinflas
Ahí está el detalle
Ursulo
Conserje en Condominio
Romeo
Romeo y Julieta
Tejón
Así es mi tierra
Feliciano
Entrega Inmediata
Pepe
Pepe
Cantinflas Ruletero
Mateo Melgarejo 'Mateíto'
El ministro y yo
Cantinflas
El señor fotógrafo
Cantinflas
Abajo el Telón
Luis
Ama a tu prójimo
Cantinflas
Soy un prófugo
Cantinflas
El Portero
Cantinflas
¡A volar, joven!
El Zapatero
El circo
Cantinflas / D'Artagnan (as Mario Moreno 'Cantinflas')
Los Tres Mosqueteros
Sancho Panza
Don Quijote cabalga de nuevo
Jengibre contra Dinamita
Canti
No te engañes corazón
Siempre listo en las tinieblas
Cantinflas
Carnaval en el trópico
Agente 777
El gendarme desconocido
Cantinflas boxeador
Cantinflas y su prima
Festival de Cantinflas
Self
Mexican Moods
Self
Mickey's 50
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
52
Gender
Male
Birthday
1911-08-12
Place of Birth
Santa María La Redonda, Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
Also Known As
Mario Moreno