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Cantinflas
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Mario Fortino Alfonso Moreno Reyes (12 August 1911 – 20 April 1993), known by the stage name Cantinflas (), was a Mexican comedian, actor, and filmmaker. He is considered to have been the most widely accomplished Mexican comedian and is well known throughout Latin America and Spain.
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1911
- Died
- 1993
- Works
- 1
Top works
- Su Excelencia
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Film & TV
Acting · Santa María La Redonda, Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
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…
Known for
- El Barrendero — Napoleon1982
- Amigo and Friends — cantinflas1982
- México de mis amores1979
- El patrullero 777 — Diógenes Bravo1978
- Mickey's 50 — Self1978
- The Minister and Me — Mateo Melgarejo 'Mateíto'1976
- Conserje en Condominio — Ursulo1974
- Don Quijote cabalga de nuevo — Sancho Panza1973
- Cantinflas Show — Cantinflas1972
- El profe — Sócrates García1971
via TMDB
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 199
- Total plays
- 625
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Key facts
- Person.name
- Cantinflas
- Person.image
- Cantinflas en 1967 (cropped).webp
- Person.caption
- Cantinflas in 1967
- Person.other_names
- Mario Moreno
- Person.birth_name
- Mario Fortino Alfonso Moreno Reyes
- Person.birth_place
- Santa María la Redonda, Mexico City, Mexico
- Person.death_place
- Mexico City, Mexico
- Person.burial_place
- Panteón Español, Mexico City, Mexico
- Person.education
- Instituto Politecnico Nacional Chapingo Autonomous University (Agronomy, few months)
- Person.years_active
- 1937–1993
- Person.children
- Mario Arturo Moreno
- Person.party
- Institutional Revolutionary Party
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Encyclopedic overview
16 sectionsContents
- Early and personal life
- Origin of name
- Entertainment career
- Film career
- Theater
- Hollywood and beyond
- Death
- Career
- Characterizations
- Critical response
- Filmography
- Awards and nominations
- See also
- References
- Sources
- External links
Mario Fortino Alfonso Moreno Reyes (12 August 1911 – 20 April 1993), known by the stage name Cantinflas (), was a Mexican comedian, actor, and filmmaker. He is considered to have been the most widely accomplished Mexican comedian and is well known throughout Latin America and Spain.
His humor, loaded with Mexican linguistic features of intonation, vocabulary, and syntax, is beloved in all the Spanish-speaking countries of Latin America and in Spain. His abilities gave rise to a range of expressions based on his stage name, including: cantinflear, cantinflada, cantinflesco, cantifleando and cantinflero.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Cantinflas” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.