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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 (Movies)
El Barrendero
Character:Napoleon
Release Date:05/05/1982
México de mis amores
Character:
Release Date:12/10/1979
Mickey's 50
Character:Self
Release Date:19/11/1978
El patrullero 777
Character:Diógenes Bravo
Release Date:27/04/1978
The Minister and Me
Character:Mateo Melgarejo 'Mateíto'
Release Date:01/07/1976
Conserje en Condominio
Character:Ursulo
Release Date:11/04/1974
Don Quijote cabalga de nuevo
Character:Sancho Panza
Release Date:09/03/1973
El profe
Character:Sócrates García
Release Date:07/04/1971
Un Quijote sin mancha
Character:Justo Leal
Release Date:17/09/1969
Por mis pistolas
Character:Fidencio Barrenillo
Release Date:21/08/1968
Your Excellency
Character:Lopez 'Lopitos' / His Excellency the Ambassador of Los Cocos
Release Date:03/05/1967
El señor doctor
Character:Salvador Medina / Chava
Release Date:07/10/1965
El padrecito
Character:Padre Sebastián
Release Date:03/09/1964
Entrega Inmediata
Character:Feliciano
Release Date:25/12/1963
El Extra
Character:Rogaciano
Release Date:04/10/1962
El analfabeto
Character:Inocencio Prieto y Calvo
Release Date:07/09/1961
Pepe
Character:Pepe
Release Date:21/12/1960
Sube y baja
Character:Cantinflas
Release Date:01/01/1959
Love Your Neighbor
Character:Luis
Release Date:23/10/1958
El cine mexicano de fiesta
Character:Self
Release Date:01/09/1958
El bolero de Raquel
Character:Bolero
Release Date:09/10/1957
Around the World in 80 Days
Character:Passepartout
Release Date:17/10/1956
Drop the Curtain
Character:Cantinflas
Release Date:31/08/1955
Tailored gentleman
Character:Cantinflas
Release Date:01/09/1954
El señor fotógrafo
Character:Cantinflas
Release Date:02/09/1953
El bombero atómico
Character:Agente 777
Release Date:10/09/1952
Si yo fuera diputado
Character:Cantinflas
Release Date:30/01/1952
El Siete Machos
Character:Margarito / El Siete Machos
Release Date:05/02/1951
El Portero
Character:Cantinflas
Release Date:03/05/1950
El Mago
Character:Cantinflas
Release Date:04/05/1949
El Supersabio
Character:Cantinflas
Release Date:04/09/1948
¡A volar, joven!
Character:Cantinflas
Release Date:23/12/1947
Soy un prófugo
Character:Cantinflas
Release Date:11/03/1946
One Day with the Devil
Character:Juan Pérez
Release Date:30/11/1945
Gran Hotel
Character:Cantinflas
Release Date:14/08/1944
Romeo y Julieta
Character:Romeo
Release Date:02/09/1943
El circo
Character:El Zapatero
Release Date:12/03/1943
The Three Musketeers
Character:Cantinflas / D'Artagnan (as Mario Moreno 'Cantinflas')
Release Date:27/08/1942
Carnaval en el trópico
Character:Cantinflas
Release Date:07/06/1942
Mexican Moods
Character:Self
Release Date:01/01/1942
The Unknown Policeman
Character:Agente 777
Release Date:22/10/1941
Ni sangre ni arena
Character:Cantinflas
Release Date:22/05/1941
You’re Missing the Point
Character:Cantinflas
Release Date:11/09/1940
Cantinflas y su prima
Character:
Release Date:14/07/1940
Cantinflas boxeador
Character:
Release Date:11/07/1940
Cantinflas Ruletero
Character:
Release Date:01/01/1940
The Sign of Death
Character:Cantinflas
Release Date:23/12/1939
Jengibre contra Dinamita
Character:
Release Date:03/10/1939
Siempre listo en las tinieblas
Character:
Release Date:03/10/1939
Festival de Cantinflas
Character:
Release Date:22/07/1939
Águila o sol
Character:Polito Sol
Release Date:04/05/1938
Así es mi tierra
Character:Tejón
Release Date:15/09/1937
No te engañes corazón
Character:Canti
Release Date:19/05/1937
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