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Mexico, Distrito Federal, Mexico |
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From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia
Mario Moreno Reyes (August 12, 1911 - April 20, 1993), better known as Cantinflas, was a Mexican actor, circus performer and comedian. Charlie Chaplin once called him "the funniest man in the world."
Cantinflas did not start his professional life as an entertainer, but was an infantryman and later a professional boxer before he joined the entertainment world as a dancer. He started out performing at a circus in the 1930s. In 1935, he joined the Folies Bergere theater, becoming a popular figure on Mexico's theater scene. He also appeared in a few movies during that time, but it was in 1940 that he finally became a movie star, after shooting Ahà está el detalle ("There's the rub," literally "There is the detail"). The phrase that gave that movie its name became a Cantinflas catch phrase for the rest of his career. From there on, he went on to make more than 50 feature films, becoming a widely known entertainer and legendary comic all over Latin America and in Spain.
He went to Hollywood in the 1950s, making two popular movies in English, Around the World in Eighty Days and Pepe.
Later, he became President of the Mexican actors' union as well as Secretary of their filmworkers' union. He invested his earnings in real estate and in the sport of bullfighting. He was so fond of bullfighting that he played his torero scenes himself.
Cantinflas has a star in the Hollywood Walk of Fame and when he died in 1993, the US Senate held a minute of silence to honor his memory.
Among the things that endeared him to his public was his comic use of language in his films; his characters, such as El Barrendero, loved to strike up a normal conversation with anyone in the movie, and then complicate the conversation to the point where no one understood what they were talking about. This manner of talking became known as Cantinfleada, and it became common parlance for Spanish speakers to say ¡estas! (loosely translated as you're pulling a 'Cantinflas'! or you're 'Cantinflassing'!) whenever someone became hard to understand in conversation. The Real Academia Española has included the verb cantinflear in its dictionary.
On October 16, 2003, a controversy surfaced over alleged abusive behaviour by Cantinflas's son toward him.
The band Mindless Self Indulgence released a song on their album Frankenstein Girls Will Seem Strangely Sexy about Cantinflas called "Whipstickagostop."
Great Grandfather of Gregory Thomas Garcia
Films
- El barrendero (1981) .... Napoleón
- El patrullero 777 (1977) .... Diógenes Bravo
- El ministro y yo (1975) .... Mateo Melgarejo
- Conserje en condominio (1973) .... Úrsulo
- Don Quijote cabalga de nuevo (1972) .... Sancho Panza (Spanish co-production)
- El profe (1970) .... Sócrates GarcÃa
- Un Quijote sin mancha (1969) .... Justo Leal y Aventado
- Por mis pistolas (1968) .... Fidencio Barrenillo
- Su excelencia (1966) .... Lopitos
- El señor doctor (1965) .... doctor Salvador Medina
- El padrecito (1964) .... padre Sebastián, or Sebas
- Entrega inmediata (1963) .... Feliciano Calloso
- El extra (1962) .... Rogaciano
- El analfabeto (1960) .... Inocencio Prieto y Calvo
- Pepe (1960) .... Pepe (American co-production)
- Sube y baja (1958) .... Cantinflas
- Ama a tu prójimo (1958) .... Cantinflas
- Around the World in Eighty Days (La vuelta al mundo en ochenta dÃas) (1956) .... Paspartout (American production)
- El bolero de Raquel (1956) .... Cantinflas
- Abajo el telón (1954) .... Cantinflas
- Caballero a la medida (1953) .... Cantinflas
- El señor fotógrafo (1952) .... Cantinflas
- Lluvia de estrellas (1951) .... appearance
- Si yo fuera diputado (1951) .... Cantinflas
- El bombero atómico (1950) .... El bombero atómico, el 777 (The Atomic Fireman, #777)
- El Siete Machos (1950) .... Margarito/El Siete Machos
- Puerta, joven (El portero) (1949) .... Cantinflas
- El mago (1948) .... Cantinflas
- El supersabio (1948) .... Cantinflas
- ¡A volar joven! (1947) .... Cantinflas
- Soy un prófugo (1946) .... Cantinflas
- Un dÃa con el diablo (1945) .... el voceador (screamer)
- Gran Hotel (1944) .... Cantinflas
- Romeo y Julieta (1943) .... ruletero (cab driver)/Romeo de Montesco
- El circo (1942) .... el zapatero
- Los tres mosqueteros (1942) .... Cantinflas/D'Artagnan
- Carnaval en el trópico (Fiesta en Veracruz) (1941) .... involuntary cameo apparance
- El gendarme desconocido (1941) .... Cantinflas, el 777 (#777)
- Ni sangre ni arena (1941) .... El Chato/Manuel Márquez "Manolete"
- Ahà está el detalle (1940) http://cinemexicano.mty.itesm.mx/peliculas/detalle.html .... Cantinflas/"Leonardo del Paso"
- Cantinflas y su prima (La prima de Cantinflas) (1940) .... Cantinflas (short)
- Cantinflas ruletero (1940) .... Cantinflas (publicity short)
- Cantinflas boxeador (1940) .... Cantinflas (publicity short)
- Cantinflas en los censos (1940) .... Cantinflas (publicity short)
- Jengibre contra dinamita (1939) .... Bala FrÃa (Cold Bullet) (publicity short)
- Siempre listo en las tinieblas (1939) .... Chencho Albondigón (publicity short)
- El signo de la muerte (1939) .... Cantinflas
- Ãguila o sol (1937) http://cinemexicano.mty.itesm.mx/peliculas/aguila.html .... Polito Sol
- ¡Asà es mi tierra! (1937) .... El Tejón
- No te engañes corazón (1936) .... Cantinflas
External link
- Cantinflas at the Internet Movie Database
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