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Mujeres sin mañana (1951)
Character: Jacobo
Loosely-plotted melodrama about five "hostesses" and the owners of a waterfront nightclub.
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La entrega (1954)
Character: Obrero (uncredited)
Through hard work, the Spaniard Alejandro has become wealthy and powerful. In contrast, the banker Don Victorino—who once refused a loan to the then-poor Alejandro—has fallen on difficult times. Victorino is married to Ana, who spends her life playing the piano, and they are the parents of the proud Julia, who is engaged to Enrique Régules. Julia is forced to marry Alejandro in order to save her family’s financial situation. Despite her husband’s blunt and often harsh honesty, Julia gradually finds herself falling in love with him, and vainly tries to make him jealous with Licenciado Héctor, who courts her. Julia becomes nervously ill, troubled by the fact that Alejandro does not love her in the romantic, storybook way she longs for.
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La dama del velo (1949)
Character: Director de escuela
Andrea loves Esteban. Esteban murders his wife and goes go jail. Andrea marries Esteban's lawyer. Twenty years later...
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La vida tiene tres días (1955)
Character: Sacerdote (uncredited)
María dreams of going to the capital to study piano and begins exchanging letters with Alberto, a composer. He takes advantage of the situation by sending his family away so he can deceive María and make her fall in love with him.
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La mujer X (1955)
Character: Sr. Torres (uncredited)
A woman accused of murder refuses to defend herself in any way, in order to avoid tarnishing the family name and the reputation of her long-lost son.
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Inmaculada (1950)
Character: Cliente borracho (uncredited)
A single mother discovers her daughter getting ready to elope with an unworthy boyfriend, so she sits the girl down and tells her the whole entire story of her own very unhappy marriage.
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Que idiotas son los hombres (1951)
Character: N/A
After divorcing her cheating husband, a newly single still and beautiful woman, (played by Actress Rosa Carmina), travels to Acapulco. She soon becomes the center of attention and spoiled for choice when she finds herself wooed by no less than four handsome suitors, three of whom are very wealthy and prominent men. Initially torn between her head and her heart, but mindful of past mistakes, Carmina's character chooses love over money and picks a humble and hard-working waiter. Directed by Juan Orol, (Carmina's soon-to-be ex-husband in real-life), this drama features the long, drawn-out scenes and shadowy film noir techniques which he became well- known for.
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La rosa blanca (1954)
Character: Guajiro del teatro
For the centenary of Cuban patriot Jose Marti, the 1950s pre-Castro dictator Batista collected funds for an official film commemoration and hired renowned director Fernandez from Mexico to erect this memorial work.
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Arsenio Lupin (1947)
Character: Inspector Ganimard
Arsenio Lupin is an audacious Parisian thief who mocks the police, especially Inspector Ganimard, but turns over most of his ill-gotten gains to charity. One night, he attends a party disguised as a newspaper writer who also mocks Ganimard; the next morning, the host's wife and a male guest are found murdered, and Ganimard arrives to solve the crime. A Mexican version of the Arsene Lupin character, with Sherlock Holmes tossed in as a cameo at the end.
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El amor de mi bohío (1947)
Character: Don Antonio del Valle
El Amor de M Bohio, which translates to "The Love of My Hut" (or shack ) and it comes from the lyrics o a popular love ballad of the same name. It is Director Juan Orol's tale of a violent love triangle where two farm hands out to prove who is the most macho, and thereby win the affections of a woman. This tragic love story takes place on a tropical plantation located just outside of Havana, where its workers are housed in small, thatched-roof "bohios". The two rival suitors are driven by passion for the girl they both love, and soon engage in a series of challenges designed to help this young woman choose the right guy in the end. These competitions start out to include simple and benign activities at first, like dancing, singing and dueling guitars, or betting on the winning bird at a cock-fight, However, they soon escalate to more violent activities, like public brawls, and saber dueling, which set life changing events into motion for everyone.
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Opio (1949)
Character: N/A
A doctor becomes entangled in the world of opium, leading to a series of tragic events that affect his personal and professional life.
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Tania la bella salvaje (1948)
Character: Don Diego
Rolando, a millionare, travels to a remote island and meets the young and tough Tania, a local woman with great dancing skills. He falls in love with her and takes the girl to Mexico, but their relationship gets awry when Tania cheats on him with another man.
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Carta Brava (1949)
Character: Jefe policía
Safe-cracker sets up a gangster rival to get arrested; after some unrelated adventures, that guy escapes from jail and pays him back.
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Necesito dinero (1951)
Character: Entrenador boxeo
Manuel is a mechanic in love with the beautiful Maria Teresa. When the rich Jose Antonio courts his beloved Maria, Manuel realizes that he needs money and gets into trouble to get it.
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Cita con la muerte (1949)
Character: Doctor
A physician launches his own investigation into a gang of opium traffickers, while a mother who lost her son to the drug vows revenge against those who led him into that world.
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A la sombra del puente (1948)
Character: Miembro jurado (uncredited)
In this Mexican version of Winterset (inspired by the 20s Sacco Vanzetti case) an idealistic youth searches for the culprit behind a crime that his father was wrongly accused of several years before.
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Paramount on Parade (1930)
Character: Juan Pulido (uncredited)
This 1930 film, a collection of songs and sketches showcasing Paramount Studios' contract stars, credits 11 directors
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El socio (1946)
Character: Inventor
A former singer, determined to succeed in business, comes up with a partner and just believing their existence. In the end, wake up ...
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¡¡¡Mátenme porque me muero!!! (1951)
Character: (uncredited)
Tin Tan just won the lottery and wants to donate it to an orphanage. Sataela and Riverita want to keep the money for themselves. In an attenpt to do so, they convince him of having a terminal disease and suggest that committing suicide is his best option.
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La ilusión viaja en tranvía (1954)
Character: Farmacéutico (uncredited)
Confronted with the unfortunate news that their favorite Streetcar, no. 133, is going to be decommissioned, two Municipal Transit workers get drunk and decide to "take 'er for one last spin," as it were. Unfortunately, the "one last spin" ends up being an all-night and all-day scramble to stay out of trouble, as they are confronted with situation after sometimes bizarre situation that prevents them from returning the "borrowed" Streetcar!
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El ladrón (1947)
Character: Del Río (banquero) (uncredited)
Bank employee is tempted to make use of banknotes scheduled for destruction.
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Cuando los padres se quedan solos (1949)
Character: Don Pedro (uncredited)
Some elderly people mortgage their house to pay the debts of their children, but they do not return the money and lose their house.
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Dicen que soy mujeriego (1949)
Character: Maximino
Pedro has had many lovers but he only loves one of them, but this romance stop going on for his flirts with other women.
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El gran autor (1954)
Character: Empleado teatro (sin créditos)
A story of passion and deceit, where love overcomes the misfortunes and finally triumphs.
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Angelitos Negros (1948)
Character: Ildefonso Sánchez
Starring Mexican star Pedro Infante, "Black Angels" is about a couple formed by a beautiful woman and a singer, both white, who are parents of a black girl. The woman blames him, but the girl will suffer the racist treatment from her own mother. Mexican version of the famous novel by Fannie Hurst "Imitation of Life"
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Ustedes los ricos (1948)
Character: Archibaldo
Pepe el Toro is married to Celia la Chorreada and they have two children.
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El gran calavera (1949)
Character: (uncredited)
Portrayal of a family’s attempt to change the spending habit of the indulgent and hedonistic patriarch, Alfredo. The family decides to try to fool him into spending less by telling him that his large fortune is gone.
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