1911-08-12 ( 113 years old ) in Santa María La Redonda, Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
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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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Movies
El Barrendero
1982-05-05
Mickey's 50
1978-11-19
El patrullero 777
1978-04-27
El ministro y yo
1976-07-01
Conserje en Condominio
1974-04-11
Don Quijote cabalga de nuevo
1973-03-09
El profe
1971-04-07
Un Quijote sin mancha
1969-09-17
Por mis pistolas
1968-08-21
Your Excellency
1967-05-03
El señor doctor
1965-10-07
El padrecito
1964-09-03
Entrega Inmediata
1963-12-25
El Extra
1962-10-04
El analfabeto
1961-09-07
Pepe
1960-12-21
Sube y baja
1959-01-01
Love Your Neighbor
1958-10-23
El cine mexicano de fiesta
1958-09-01
El bolero de Raquel
1957-10-09
Around the World in Eighty Days
1956-10-17
Drop the Curtain
1955-08-31
Tailored gentleman
1954-09-01
El señor fotógrafo
1953-09-02
El bombero atómico
1952-09-10
Si yo fuera diputado
1952-01-30
El Siete Machos
1951-02-05
El Portero
1950-05-03
El Mago
1949-05-04
El Supersabio
1948-09-04
¡A volar, joven!
1947-12-23
Soy un prófugo
1946-03-11
One Day with the Devil
1945-11-30
Gran Hotel
1944-08-14
Romeo y Julieta
1943-09-02
El circo
1943-03-12
The Three Musketeers
1942-08-27
Carnaval en el trópico
1942-06-07
Mexican Moods
1942-01-01
The Unknown Policeman
1941-10-22
Ni sangre ni arena
1941-05-22
You’re Missing the Point
1940-09-11
Cantinflas y su prima
1940-07-14
Cantinflas boxeador
1940-07-11
Cantinflas Ruletero
1940-01-01
The Sign of Death
1939-12-23
Siempre listo en las tinieblas
1939-10-03
Jengibre contra Dinamita
1939-10-03
Festival de la comedia
1939-07-22
Águila o sol
1938-05-04
Así es mi tierra
1937-09-15
No te engañes corazón
1937-05-19
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