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Eugenia Grandet (1953)
Character: Pedro López, notario
A miserly father quashes his daughter's marriage plans because he thinks her fiance is a fortune-hunter.
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La estrella vacía (1960)
Character: Señor Fernández
Mourners share their memories of a dead film-star at her wake, a la Citizen Kane. Only melodrama.
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Amor en la sombra (1960)
Character: N/A
A daughter who idolizes her father discovers, just before he dies, that he was leading a double life and had a hidden lover.
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Cuando los hijos se van (1969)
Character: Don Agustín Saldívar (uncredited)
Federico announces that his dream is to become a great singer; his father does not take it well and gradually distances himself from him. Federico is forced to leave his beautiful home after being accused of theft.
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Reto a la vida (1954)
Character: Doctor Suárez (sin créditos)
Self-righteous young Social Services woman puts all her faith in the institutional answers to questions of the Public Good, and she destroys a couple of lives in the process.
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Médico de guardia (1950)
Character: El Droguista (Sr. Bermúdez)
The director of a hospital deceives a poor couple in order to steal their newborn child and sell the baby to a wealthy couple.
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Camelia (1954)
Character: Conde (uncredited)
A sort of meta riff on Alexandre Dumas fils' novel The Lady of the Camellias (La Dame aux Camélias or Camille) here in Mexican melodrama form involving the doomed love of a bullfighter and a beautiful but ailing actress/courtesan.
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Para siempre amor mío (1955)
Character: N/A
A man, annoyed by his wife's interference in the family business, travels to Spain, where he becomes involved with another woman.
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La edad de la inocencia (1962)
Character: Rafael
A poor little girl slips in a circus one day and sees a puppets' show. Later she returns to the empty circus looking for a fairy she was fascinated by.
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El gallo colorado (1957)
Character: N/A
A young street vendor who is a cockfighting aficionado, attracted by the image of one of them, settles on the ranch of its owner where he falls in love with the foreman's daughter. All the problems happen and some that afflicted the ranch in the past are solved by him.
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Padre nuestro (1953)
Character: Don Francisco Fernández (as Enrique Díaz Indiano)
Pops is dismissed from his banking job for embezzlement, and his family have to adjust to a more modest lifestyle.
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Paraíso robado (1951)
Character: Doctor Silva
A young woman loses her mind when she finds out that her uncle and his boyfriend met in a train accident.
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El hombre que logró ser invisible (1958)
Character: Prison Doctor
A man is sentenced to prison for a murder he did not commit. Thanks to a serum invented by his brother, he manages to become invisible and escape from prison in order to prove his innocence, while his brother works feverishly to find an antidote. Theatrically released in USA in Spanish language only; later English-dubbed version syndicated directly to television.
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Reportaje (1953)
Character: Party guest
Reporters compete for cash prize awarded for biggest scoop on New Year's Eve.
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La ausente (1952)
Character: Padre de Isabel
After arguing with her husband, a woman runs out of the house in the car and dies in a mysterious accident
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Ensayo de un crimen (1955)
Character: Señor de la Cruz, Archibaldo's father
A bizarre black comedy about a man whose overwhelming ambition in life is to be a renowned serial killer of women, and will stop at nothing to achieve it - but not everything goes according to plan...
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Por la puerta falsa (1950)
Character: Don Santos Quiroga
Bernardo is in love with Adela and although she does not belong, he has always helped her family although they only care about money and not the virtues of man.
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Cada quién su vida (1960)
Character: Don Pepe
The days go by dizzyingly for the girls who work at the cabaret ´El Paraíso´. However, on New Year's Eve, in the heat of the glasses and cigarette smoke, they narrate their hapless destinies
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