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Yo fui una usurpadora (1946)
Character: N/A
Brilliant young doctor discovers his wife doesn't want to bear children, so he finds someone else to exxperience fatherhood with.
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Festín de buitres (1949)
Character: Julián
When the father of the struggling painter Ernesto passes away, he is left in misery. The banker Julián, a friend of the deceased, intends to help Ernesto: he appoints him as his secretary and takes him to live in his house. There, Ernesto meets Teodora, Julián's wife. People gossip about a supposed love affair between Ernesto and Teodora, who go together, without Julián, to see the opera The Thieving Magpie at the Principal Theater.
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Duda (1951)
Character: Juez
A newly remarried widow is accused of having murdered her first husband, who died from arsenical poisoning. Being her present husband a lawyer he takes charge of her defense.
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La fuente enterrada (1950)
Character: N/A
A woman returns home from a mental hospital, to find his husband has used her case to write a play.
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La estrella del rey (1957)
Character: N/A
When a movie star arrives in the small kingdom of Montaña, the queen sees a chance to increase tourism by plotting an affair between her son and the actress.
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¡Salga de la cocina! (1931)
Character: Fernando
A once-wealthy sister and brother rent out their Southern mansion and stay on as cook and butler. Spanish language version of the 1930 film "Honey".
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Arsenio Lupin (1947)
Character: Victor Leclerc
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 deseo (1948)
Character: Padre de Marta y Olga
Two sisters fall in love with the same man while one of them suffers from an incurable illness. Based on Hermann Sudermann's novel Der Wunsch, the film explores love, jealousy, sacrifice, and the moral conflicts that arise when desire threatens family bonds.
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Me ha besado un hombre (1944)
Character: Ing. Manzanares
Spanish refugee could only get across the border using fake documents that belonged to her brother and now she's stuck with the male identity...
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Apartado de correos 1001 (1950)
Character: Postmaster
Barcelona, Spain. A young man is murdered in the middle of the street in front of the police headquarters. Miguel and Marcial, two agents of the Criminal Brigade in charge of the investigation, find in the victim's room a newspaper where a cryptic classified ad appears.
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El barbero prodigioso (1942)
Character: Antonio Flores
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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¡Mexicanos al Grito de Guerra! (1943)
Character: Mr. Wyckie
In times of the French Intervention, a student of Nunó, author of the Mexican National Anthem, falls in love with the niece of the French Ambassador, which causes quite amusing complications.
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Honeymoon (1947)
Character: Dr. Diego
A prospective bride and groom have misadventures in Mexico City.
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Amok (1944)
Character: Luis Blumenthal
A doctor embezzles the proceeds of his Parisian clinic in order to better support the manipulative woman with whom he is having an affair. After losing all the money while gambling, he is forced to flee to an undeveloped region of India. There, he tries to mitigate the onslaught of a disease the natives term "Amok," while his past mistakes still plague him.
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La monja alférez (1944)
Character: Don Claudio
A 17th century woman, imprisoned for fighting in a bar, recounts her past to a priest. She tells of her father teaching her how to fence, of being sent to a convent by her aunt when her father died, of escaping by dressing as a man, and of her life as a man following the escape.
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