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
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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Born
Aug 12, 1911
Santa María La Redonda, Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
Died
Apr 20, 1993
Known For
Acting
Movies
53 acting
10 crew
Popularity
1.3
Known For
Around the World in 80 Days
1956
as Passepartout
El padrecito
1964
as Padre Sebastián
El profe
1971
as Sócrates García
El señor doctor
1965
as Salvador Medina / Chava
El analfabeto
1961
as Inocencio Prieto y Calvo
Up and Down
1959
as Cantinflas
¡A volar, joven!
1947
as Cantinflas
El Siete Machos
1951
as Margarito / El Siete Machos
El patrullero 777
1978
as Diógenes Bravo
You’re Missing the Point
1940
as Cantinflas
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