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Mario Fortino Alfonso Moreno Reyes, known casually as Mario Moreno and professionally as Cantinflas, was a Mexican film actor, producer, and screenwriter. He is considered to have been the most accomplished Mexican comedian and is celebrated throughout Latin America and in 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 and has given rise to a range of expressions including cantinflear, cantinflada, cantinflesco, and cantinflero.
Birth Name
Fortino Mario Alfonso Moreno Reyes
Born
Saturday, 12 August 1911
Died
Tuesday, 20 April 1993
Actor Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| Patricia, Return of the Dream | Self | 2017 |
| E! True Hollywood Story | Self | 1996 |
| The 66th Annual Academy Awards | Self - Memorial Tribute | 1994 |
| El barrendero | Napoleón Pérez García 'Don Napo' / Napoleon | 1982 |
| Cantinflas | Cantiflas | 1979 |
| El patrullero 777 | Diógenes Bravo / Diógenes Bravo (agente 777) | 1978 |
| El ministro y yo | Mateo Melgarejo 'Mateíto' | 1976 |
| Conserje en condominio | Úrsulo / Ursulo | 1974 |
| Don Quijote cabalga de nuevo | Sancho Panza | 1973 |
| The Professor | Prof. Sócrates García / Sócrates García | 1971 |
Actor Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| Patricia, Return of the Dream | Self | 2017 |
| E! True Hollywood Story | Self | 1996 |
| The 66th Annual Academy Awards | Self - Memorial Tribute | 1994 |
| El barrendero | Napoleón Pérez García 'Don Napo' / Napoleon | 1982 |
| Cantinflas | Cantiflas | 1979 |
| El patrullero 777 | Diógenes Bravo / Diógenes Bravo (agente 777) | 1978 |
| El ministro y yo | Mateo Melgarejo 'Mateíto' | 1976 |
| Conserje en condominio | Úrsulo / Ursulo | 1974 |
| Don Quijote cabalga de nuevo | Sancho Panza | 1973 |
| The Professor | Prof. Sócrates García / Sócrates García | 1971 |
| A Quixote Without La Mancha | Justo Leal y Aventado / Justo Leal | 1969 |
| Por mis pistolas | Fidencio Barrenillo | 1968 |
| Su excelencia | Lopez 'Lopitos' / His Excellency the Ambassador of Los Cocos | 1967 |
| El señor doctor | Salvador Medina / Chava | 1965 |
| The Little Priest | Padre Sebastián | 1964 |
| Agente XU 777 | Feliciano | 1963 |
| The Extra | Rogaciano | 1962 |
| The Illiterate One | Inocencio Prieto y Calvo | 1961 |
| Pepe | Pepe | 1960 |
| Ups and Downs | Cantinflas / El falso Jorge Maciel | 1959 |
| Housewife to Your Neighbor | Luis | 1958 |
| Raquel's Shoeshiner | El Bolero / Bolero | 1957 |
| Around the World in 80 Days | Passepartout | 1956 |
| Drop the Curtain | Cantinflas | 1955 |
| Producers' Showcase | Self | 1954 |
| Caballero a la medida | Cantinflas | 1954 |
| Mr. Photographer | Cantinflas | 1953 |
| Bella, la salvaje | 1953 | |
| El bombero atómico | Agente 777 | 1952 |
| Si yo fuera diputado | Cantinflas | 1952 |
| El siete machos | Margarito / El Siete Machos | 1951 |
| El portero | El Portero / Cantinflas | 1950 |
| The Bob Hope Show | Self | 1950 |
| What's My Line? | Himself - Mystery Guest | 1950 |
| El mago | Cantinflas | 1949 |
| El supersabio | Cantinflas | 1948 |
| ¡A volar joven! | Cantinflas | 1947 |
| Soy un prófugo | Cantinflas | 1946 |
| One Day with the Devil | Juan Pérez | 1945 |
| Gran Hotel | Cantinflas / el trece | 1944 |
| Romeo y Julieta | Romeo | 1943 |
| El circo | El zapatero | 1943 |
| The Three Musketeers | D'Artagnan (as Mario Moreno 'Cantinflas') / Cantinflas / D'Artagnan | 1942 |
| Carnaval en el trópico | cantinflas | 1942 |
| The Unknown Policeman | Agente 777 | 1941 |
| Neither Blood Nor Sand | Cantinflas / Manolete | 1941 |
| You're Missing the Point | Cantinflas | 1940 |
| The Sign of Death | Cantinflas | 1939 |
| Cantinflas jengibre contra dinamita | Bala-Fría | 1939 |
| Siempre listo en las tinieblas | Chencho Albondigon | 1939 |
| Águila o sol | Polito Sol | 1938 |
| Such Is My Country | Tejón | 1937 |
| Don't Fool Yourself Dear | Canti | 1937 |
| Year | Type | Category | Won |
|---|
| 1961 | Golden Globe | Best Actor - Comedy or Musical | Nominated |
| 1957 | Golden Globe | Best Actor - Comedy or Musical | Won |
