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La Diana Cazadora (1957)
Character: Don Francisco
A great love story based on the idea and development of the famous monument that decorating Mexico City.
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Doña Diabla (1950)
Character: Empleado del casino (uncredited)
A woman, after committing a murder, flees into a church, confessing her life story to a priest.
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Cuando me vaya (1954)
Character: Señor Davis (uncredited)
Fictionalized version of the life of songwriter Maria Grever.
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La vida tiene tres días (1955)
Character: Representante de Rosas (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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Sol y sombra (1946)
Character: Periodista
Manuel retires from bullfighting and, years later, runs a fighting bull ranch.
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Adulterio (1945)
Character: Invitado tertulia (uncredited)
Man commits suicide over his wife's infidelity. His father spends the rest of his life trying to figure out which of son's two children is illegitimate.
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Por qué peca la mujer (1952)
Character: Don Ramón (uncredited)
Working-class girl-next--door type is seduced into a high-glam lifestyle when an oily promoter helps launch her as a nightclub singer; she throws over her decent-simple-guy boyfriend and loses her moral compass.
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Vino el remolino y nos alevantó (1950)
Character: Doctor
Three generations of a stable, middle-class family in the capitol are scattered to the four winds by blowback from the Mexican Revolution.
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Virgen de medianoche (1942)
Character: Reyes (sin créditos)
A gangster melodrama set in the slums of Mexico City, following the criminal exploits of a fur smuggler and his attraction to an innocent but determined young woman.
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Si, Mi vida (1953)
Character: Cobrador (uncredited)
Dr. Castellanos is saved from bankruptcy.
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Romance de fieras (1954)
Character: Federico de Alba
Newly-graduated lawyer gets caught up in the personal drama surrounding a rich industrialist and his sociopathic son.
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La reina de la opereta (1946)
Character: Amigo de Margarito (uncredited)
Mario marries Blanca, the queen of operetta, but after their daughter is born, they separate and she leaves on a world tour to continue her artistic career. Meanwhile, he stays behind and waits with the baby until they reunite again.
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La rebelión de los fantasmas (1949)
Character: Transeúnte (uncredited)
When an old house is about to be demolished to make room for a new radio station the famous ghosts which resides in the house start a revolt to alter the decision.
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El que murió de amor (1945)
Character: Padrino duelo (uncredited)
Magicians transfers two peoples' souls (or whatever you want to call them) into each other's bodies.
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Aventura en Río (1953)
Character: Cantinero
Tourist gets bonked on the head, suffers an amnesiac fugue, wanders away from her husband and children, becomes an evil prostitute-y thief-y saloon gal.
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El hombre sin rostro (1950)
Character: Jefe de Detectives
A faceless killer who hunts women can only be stopped by a detective with a disturbing past.
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Abajo el Telón (1955)
Character: Conductor música teatro (uncredited)
Cantinflas, who owns a cleaning business, cleans the windows of the house of a famous French actress. While carrying out his work he observes how a man steals one of the famous actress necklaces, but he can only see his back.
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Yo no creo en los hombres (1955)
Character: Denario, mayordomo (uncredited)
In Havana, humble office girl Maria Caridad becomes the victim of rich playboy Arturo who seduces her and takes her to bed under false pretenses.
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El barbero prodigioso (1942)
Character: Proveedor de ropa (sin créditos)
Benedito the barber, mocked by everyone in the village, lathers the head of a blind customer just as the man regains his sight. Benedito becomes a celebrity, and everyone seeks his services.
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El gato sin botas (1957)
Character: Reportero (uncredited)
Target of ridicule from fellow military academy, the cowardly Augustin did not want to return to their village for fear of confronting his grandfather, a revolutionary colonel. In love with the movie star Laura, Agustin flee to the capital but encounters the dangerous Humberto, another in love with the actress. Thanks to his "nine lives", he attains overcome perilous adventures and, incidentally, overcome their fears.
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Camino del infierno (1951)
Character: Cantinero (sin créditos)
When a robbery goes wrong, the thief takes a singer as hostage, they fall in love and try to rebuild their lives, but tragedy surges in the most unexpected way.
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¡No me defiendas, compadre! (1949)
Character: Don Luis (dueño restaurante)
A bungling wannabe-lawyer keeps interfering in his friend's lives; his desire to help always makes things worse.
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Canaima (1945)
Character: Empleado (uncredited)
Marcos Vargas returns home to Ciudad Bolívar after finishing his studies in Trinidad. There he decides to start a business transporting merchandise to the interior of the jungle. A local chieftain will not make things easy for him.
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Las Aventuras de Pito Perez (1957)
Character: Cantinero (uncredited)
After a long absence, a man returns to his village and recounts all his adventures with a touch of nostalgia.
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El Supersabio (1948)
Character: Miembro directivo petroleo (uncredited)
Cantinflas is the apprentice of a renowned scientist, Prof. Arquimides Monteagudo (Carlos Martinez Baena). But Cantinflas has the soul of a poet rather than a serious researcher, and he wants to find the formula that achieves the immortality of the roses. Nevertheless, after the death of Prof. Monteagudo, Cantinflas will be chased by a ferocious corporative group, who wants to steal the secret formula of a cheaper fuel named "carburex", because they think that our friend is the only person who knows the composition
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Las tandas del principal (1949)
Character: Coronel Vega (uncredited)
Frivolous young dandy is trying to score with an operetta singer, but she ends up with his uncle.
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La otra (1946)
Character: Señor Domínguez (uncredited)
A mousy, poor manicurist seeks to switch places with her more glamorous, wealthy twin sister.
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