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Los valientes no mueren (1962)
Character: N/A
Charro-dude wants his sister to marry into professional city-folk and move into the upper classes... but she's in love with somebody from their own social stratum.
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Novia a la medida (1949)
Character: N/A
Door-to-door salesman falls for a young woman, implements hare-brained schemes to separate her from her fiance.
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Canción del alma (1938)
Character: N/A
Jose and Esperanza got married just before the Revolution blew up, and they got separated in the chaos, each assuming the other was dead. Six or eight years later...
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Las tres alegres comadres (1952)
Character: El norteño
When three poor young women fail in their attempts to break into films and night clubs in Mexico City, they separate from their boyfriends, form a trio and travel the country singing, dancing and bribing older men, but they fall into a trap when they invest their money in an unreliable business.
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Dios los cría (1953)
Character: Asistente de licenciado
Mrs. Nínive Cánovas Cannesi (Marshall) comes back from a long tour visiting Europe and not even realizes that her house is being inhabited by two jobless and homeless bandits (Tin Tán and Tun Tún) with master keys who had been living there worry free. They all share the house for a period of time, unknowingly to each other, in a series of well crafted and perfectly timed scenes where Catita and Tin Tán can be in the same room without seeing each other... When Tin Tán notices her presence, poses as the help, intercepting the real employees and sending to the north pole, literally. So now that Catita has them at her service, she can take time for her real goal, the foundation of a House for old people so they can live happy until the day they die, but Tin Tán and Tun Tún keep getting in her way and complicating everything...
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Medianoche (1949)
Character: El norteño
A villain has his cronies kidnap a teacher and pretends to be him, teaching in a hidden town.
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Vuelta al paraíso (1960)
Character: N/A
All men who arrive on a small island fall in love with the daughters of an old fisherman who live there.
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Los líos de Barba Azul (1955)
Character: Director de periódico
A news reporter falls in love with a millionaire's young daughter, but her father tells him he won't let them marry unless he earns one million Pesos first. Helped by a friend, he tries to earn the money by marrying - and murdering - four rich women.
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Ahí vienen los gorrones (1953)
Character: N/A
Authorities close down a restaurant after a violent crime is committed on the premises; the employees look for new jobs and try to track down the murderer.
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Me ha besado un hombre (1944)
Character: Celoso cabaret
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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Carta Brava (1949)
Character: El Gorila
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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El baúl macabro (1936)
Character: Agente Gavilando
A crazed scientist tries to keep his terminally ill wife alive by transfusing into her the blood of young women he murders.
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Río escondido (1948)
Character: Esbirro de Regino
Called by the Mexican President himself, a rural teacher goes to work in a village that is dominated by a malevolent chieftain.
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Sonora (1968)
Character: N/A
Jorge Martin is relentlessly stalking a gang of outlaws led by the ruthless Slim who raped and murdered his bride.
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El circo (1943)
Character: (uncredited)
A cobbler gets a job in a Circus as a janitor, recommended by the beautiful girl rider of the show. But later, he gets in trouble when he involves in dangerous acts, such as the trapeze. Obviously, our friend will risk his life by the love of his new girlfriend.
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Vera Cruz (1954)
Character: Pedro
After the American Civil War, mercenaries travel to Mexico to fight in their revolution for money. The former soldier and gentleman Benjamin Trane meets the gunman and killer Joe Erin and his men, and together they are hired by the Emperor Maximillian and the Marquis Henri de Labordere to escort the Countess Marie Duvarre to the harbor of Vera Cruz.
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Allá en el Rancho Grande (1936)
Character: Gabino
Two good friends — the owner and general manager of a ranch — fall in love with the same girl at the same time. The owner tries to 'buy' the girl without knowing she is in love with the manager.
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Run for the Sun (1956)
Character: Fernandez
Mike, a Hemingway-esque adventure novelist, is spending his days in a self-imposed exile somewhere in Central America. A reporter for Sight Magazine, Katie, has tracked him down in the hope of getting the biggest scoop of her career. Mike falls for Katie. On a flight to Mexico City, their plane crashes near a remote hideaway of Nazi war criminals in hiding. The Nazis want to stay hidden and plan to dispose of their new guests
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The Undefeated (1969)
Character: Colonel Gomez
After the Civil War, ex-Union Colonel John Henry Thomas and ex-Confederate Colonel James Langdon are leading two disparate groups of people through strife-torn Mexico. John Henry and company are bringing horses to the unpopular Mexican government for $35 a head while Langdon is leading a contingent of displaced southerners, who are looking for a new life in Mexico after losing their property to carpetbaggers. The two men are eventually forced to mend their differences in order to fight off both bandits and revolutionaries, as they try to lead their friends and kin to safety.
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Something Big (1971)
Character: Juan Garcia
Joe Baker has a dream. He wants to do 'something big.' When he needs a Gatling gun to accomplish this, he seeks out a black marketeer. The price he wants for the gun? A woman! So Baker kidnaps a woman off of the stagecoach, only to find that she is the wife of the commandant of the local Cavalry detachment. Things get further complicated when a girl named Dover McBride shows up. She has come to force Baker to marry her and return east, as he promised to do four years earlier
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Romeo y Julieta (1943)
Character: (uncredited)
Verona's peace is disturbed by the rivalry between noble families: the Montesco and the Capuleto, irreconcilable enemies. The two families have continued fighting to make life unbearable in the Italian town. The Prince of Verona informs the chiefs that the two families respond with their lives if there are new struggles. At a ball in honor of Juliet, the daughter of Capuleto, incidentally meets Romeo, son of Montesco. Both fall in love immediately, not knowing that their love is impossible.
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Blowing Wild (1953)
Character: El Gavilan
Wildcatter Jeff Dawson does his best to bring in a gusher in Mexico despite continual bandit raids. He asks for help from his ex-employer Ward Conway, but Conway, now married to Dawson's ex-lover Marina refuses, fearing that his wife will want to renew her romance with the other man.
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The Tall Men (1955)
Character: Luis
Two brothers discharged from the Confederate Army join a businessman for a cattle drive from Texas to Montana where they run into raiding Jayhawkers, angry Sioux, rough terrain and bad weather.
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El rey del barrio (1950)
Character: El Peralvillo
A poor man becomes a modern Robin Hood, robbing the rich to give to the poor.
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Canaima (1945)
Character: Esbirro de Cupira
College-educated emigre has to get macho when he returns home to the Venezuelan outback.
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El gendarme desconocido (1941)
Character: Chusma (uncredited)
A gang of thieves has jeopardized the city and even the police, whose chief urges their forces to captured the band within 48 hours. Meanwhile, band members meet in a cafe run by a widow and her daughter and her suitor, Cantinflas, who maintains a scuffle with the robbers running all at the station. Since then, Cantinflas become a member of the police force for special missions.
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El revoltoso (1951)
Character: Peralvillo
Well-intentioned Tin Tan who is always making trouble for other people, sometimes on purpose and sometimes by accident.
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Ten Days To Tulara (1958)
Character: Piranha
Director George Sherman's 1958 western about gold thieves in Mexico stars Sterling Hayden, Grace Raynor and Rodolfo Hoyos.
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La perla (1947)
Character: N/A
Fisherman Quino and his wife Juana are very poor and desperate because the town's foreign doctor refuses to treat their son Coyotito, who has been bitten by a scorpion. When Quino unexpectedly finds a magnificent pearl in the sea, Juana senses that the discovery will only bring them misfortune and tries to convince her husband to return it to the sea.
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Un día con el Diablo (1945)
Character: N/A
Cantinflas, on a drunken night, becomes Army soldier. Soon, he meets the Devil who tries to make it an evil being.
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The Desperate Mission (1969)
Character: (uncredited)
A man who has lost everything joins others paid to convey a wealthy man's wife - and a mysterious treasure - to safety in San Francisco.
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Enamorada (1946)
Character: Capt. Quiñones
In Mexican Revolution times, a guerrilla general and his troops take the conservative town of Cholula, near by Mexico City. As the revolutionaries mistreat the town's riches, General Reyes falls for beautiful and wild Beatriz Peñafiel, the daughter of one of the town's richest men.
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The Bravados (1958)
Character: N/A
Jim Douglass arrives in the small town of Rio Arriba in order to witness the hanging of the four men he believes murdered his wife. When the convicts escape, Jim tracks them into Mexico, determined to see that justice is done. But the farther Jim goes in his quest for vengeance, the more merciless he becomes, losing himself in an unrelenting spiral of hatred and violence.
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La noche avanza (1952)
Character: Esbirro de Marcial
Marcos is an arrogant jai-alai player who seduces and discards women until he himself becomes the object of a cunning revenge.
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Me traes de un ala (1953)
Character: Jefe de redacción
To conquer the beautiful vedette Rosita, journalist Tin Tan is subject to her whims. Fired along with his friend Narciso from the newspaper they worked, Tin Tan trying to sell a movie plot. A woman looking to buy it and Tin Tan will visit her in a gloomy mansion where a mess is unleashed.
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