Cantinflas

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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.

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1982
Amigo and Friends
TV show cantinflas
1982
El Barrendero
Movie Napoleon
1979
México de mis amores
Movie
1978
Mickey's 50
Movie Self
1978
El patrullero 777
Movie Diógenes Bravo
1976
The Minister and Me
Movie Mateo Melgarejo 'Mateíto'
1974
Conserje en condominio
Movie Ursulo
1973
Don Quixote Rides Again
Movie Sancho Panza
1972
Cantinflas Show
TV show Cantinflas
1971
V.I.P. Schaukel
TV show Self
1971
El profe
Movie Sócrates García
1969
A Quixote Without La Mancha
Movie Justo Leal
1968
Por mis pistolas
Movie Fidencio Barrenillo
1967
Your Excellency
Movie Lopez 'Lopitos' / His Excellency the Ambassador of Los Cocos
1965
El señor doctor
Movie Salvador Medina / Chava
1964
The Little Priest
Movie Padre Sebastián