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Castillos en el aire (1938)
Character: Alberto Guzmán
After winning a trip to Hollywood, office typist Lolita Álvarez (Cristina Téllez) travels to the city of dreams on an ocean liner in the company of her aunt Gertrudis (Pilar Arcos). During the trip, she meets and falls for banker Alberto Guzmán (Rafael Alcayde), mistaking him for a prince while she herself pretends to be a well-travelled socialite. The film features a flamenco-inspired tap dancing scene performed by dancer Edith Davis.
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Venus de fuego (1949)
Character: N/A
Wholesome young man falls hard for a woman who's identified as a luxury commodity; gangster/pimp guy in her orbit convinces the nice boy to do crimes so he'll have enough money to move in her circle.
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Pacto con el Diablo (o el socio, Mr. Davis) (1929)
Character: N/A
Juan is summoned by Goldenberg to offer him a job in the cheap business. To get away from him, Pardo evades his proposals justifying himself by saying that he must consult with his partner; who, in reality, does not exist. As the story progresses we can see how this partner, who is called Mr. Davis, takes on a life of his own inside Juan's mind.
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Soledad (1947)
Character: Arturo
Soledad, a maid born in Argentina, works at a Mexican farm. The son of her employer will deceive her, pretending to marry her and leaving her pregnant. When she finds out that she has been tricked, she runs away from the farm. During her flight she meets a group of artists that'll change her life.
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México lindo y querido (1961)
Character: (uncredited)
Tourist's eye overview of some highlights of Mexican history and folk culture, all expressed through interpretive dance.
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Canasta de Cuentos Mexicanos (1956)
Character: Señor Ochoa
Strong-willed Luisa attracts lots of men, but her intelligence and sharp tongue often sends them running. When she meets Carlos, who is equally cagey, sparks fly. The two of them marry, and quickly begin clashing on a daily basis, humiliating each other as they try to teach one another lesson after lesson.
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Las cuatro plumas (1928)
Character: N/A
Venezuelan adaptation of The Four Featehr by A.E.W. Mason. A story of courage and redemption set in the British Empire's colonial era. When Harry Feversham resigns from his military post before a Sudan campaign, he's branded a coward and given four white feathers by his fiancée and friends. To prove his bravery, Harry embarks on a dangerous mission to Sudan to aid his comrades in secret. Overcoming peril and doubt, he redeems himself, eventually returning the feathers.
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La rosa blanca (1954)
Character: Francisco Zayas Bazán
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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Stars Over Broadway (1935)
Character: John - 'At Your Service, Madame' Number
An aggressive agent turns a hotel porter into an overnight sensation.
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Pepita Jiménez (1946)
Character: Conde
On March 22, four days after returning to his home in Andalusia, Luis de Vargas writes the first of his letters to his uncle and favorite professor at the seminary. He reports that his father intends to fatten him up during his vacation, to have him ready to return in the fall to finish his training for the priesthood. He mentions in passing that his father is courting a twenty-year-old, attractive widow, Pepita Jiménez; his father is fifty-five years old. Pepita had been married for only a short time to an eighty-year-old moneylender named Gumersindo. Luis is not eager to see his father marry again, but he promises his uncle not to judge Pepita before he knows her.
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La vorágine: abismos de amor (1949)
Character: N/A
It narrates the adventures of the poet Arturo Cova and his lover Alicia, a story of passion and revenge framed in the plain lands and the Amazon jungle where the two lovers scape from society, and which exposes throughout its plot the harsh living conditions of settlers and Indians enslaved during the rubber rush.
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Los líos de Barba Azul (1955)
Character: don Agustín
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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Thanks for Listening (1937)
Character: Maurice
Homer Tompkins, a trusting young musician with aspirations of becoming a radio star, is installed in a fine set of offices in Reno by a quartet of con artists who have bugged rooms and suites, with the title of "professional listener", and he passes off what he hears to his employers, Lulu, Trixie, Maurice and Champ and they use the information for blackmail purposes. They also so involve his sweetheart, Toots, that he can not withdraw even when he finally learns he is being used as a tool.
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El Colmillo de Buda (1949)
Character: N/A
Burlesque version of The Moonstone; the Prince of Panchistan and his cohorts are in Mexico to retrieve a sacred relic. Wacky hijinks ensue.
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Cantaclaro (1946)
Character: Carlos Jaramillo
A rootless wilderness-dude in the Venezuelan outback gets caught up in some human dramas despite himself.
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Extraña cita (1947)
Character: Roberto de los Ríos
After her father's death, María Eugenia is pressured by Don Remigio Pérez who her father owed debts to, to marry her. Instead, the kindly Roberto de los Ríos pays off her debts and she goes to live at his country house with his two twin nephews Carlos and Leonardo. However, she faces an attempt to murder.
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La venenosa (1949)
Character: Harold
A snake-charmer falls in love with a circus trapeze artist who trains her and has her debut in this discipline.
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Cita con la muerte (1949)
Character: El alacrán
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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Straight, Place and Show (1938)
Character: Boris Borokov - Russian Jockey
The Ritz Brothers go to the race track. They raise training end entrance money in a wrestling match and help a young man train the horse of his fiancée.
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La escondida (1956)
Character: Amo de hacienda
Amid the Mexican Revolution, a woman rises from the depths of poverty and becomes a courtesan who is much-sought-after by high-society men, but she cannot forget her love for a rebel leader.
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The Brave One (1956)
Character: Señor Vargas (uncredited)
A young Mexican boy tirelessly tries to save his pet bull from death at the hands of a celebrated matador.
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Here Comes Cookie (1935)
Character: Ramon del Ramos (as Rafael Storm)
A scatterbrained heiress opens her home to a succession of unemployed actors and vaudeville performers, then decides to produce her own show, much to the consternation of her father, her sister and her sister's boyfriend, who is actually after the young girl's money.
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Wise Girl (1937)
Character: Prince Ivan
Snooty heiress decides to track down her dead sister's kids, who are living a Bohemian life with their uncle in Greenwich Village. Once she finds them, she discovers that the Bohemian life is fun and free of the constraints her country-club life places on her. But she decides to take the uncle to court anyway to free him from the kids so he can paint.
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Kiss and Make-Up (1934)
Character: Rolando
Dr. Maurice Lamar is a noted plastic surgeon who makes his rich clients beautiful, and also makes them. He makes Eve Caron, the wife of Marcel Caron, so satisfied with his skilled hands that she leaves Marcel and marries Maurice. They go on a Mediterranean honeymoon, where he soon finds the effects of his own beauty regulations are more than he can handle. He bids adieu to his new bride, and wings it back to Paris with the intention of giving up his practice and becoming a scientific researcher... after winning back the love of his simple, unadorned secretary, Anne.
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The Bride Wore Red (1937)
Character: Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
A poor singer in a bar masquerades as a rich society woman thanks to a rich benefactor.
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La marca del zorrillo (1950)
Character: Capitán don Gaspar de Cadereyta
In 1840 California, The Texmelucan viscount bizco, offers a feast for his son Tin, who returned from Italy where he studied fencing. The boy turns out to be a coward who flees in terror after refusing to fight a duel with Captain Gaspar. In their flight, Tin rescues a witch was tied to a tree. Grateful, the witch gives him an ointment that will make him invincible for an hour. The coward swordsman will have three opportunities to use it and save his father from the injustices of the evil ruler Marcelo.
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Buenos días, Acapulco (1964)
Character: Guillermo Núñez
Los detectives Viruta y Capulina, viajan al Puerto de Acapulco, para cuidar de Ricardo, joven hijo de un rico. Durante el trayecto levantan a la cantante Mayté. Un tal Guillermo secuestra al muchacho usando de anzuelo a Silvia y lo suben en un bote. Viruta y Capulina los siguen en otro bote, provocando un desorden sin control entre los demás botes que se encuentran en la playa pero a pesar de sus torpesas logran rescatarlo y eliminar a los maleantes.
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Down Argentine Way (1940)
Character: Señor Vallergo (uncredited)
The story—in which an American heiress on holiday in South America falls in love with an Argentine horse breeder against the wishes of their families—takes a backseat to the spectacular location shooting and parade of extravagant musical numbers, which include the larger-than-life Carmen Miranda singing the hit “South American Way” and a showstopping dance routine by the always amazing Nicholas Brothers.
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Torrid Zone (1940)
Character: Man
A Central American plantation manager and his boss battle over a traveling showgirl.
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Villa!! (1958)
Character: Don Alfonso
Biographical south-of-the-border cowboy western adventure thriller of Mexican revolutionary leader Pancho Villa
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El socio (1946)
Character: Luis
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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Bulldog Drummond in Africa (1938)
Character: Policeman Outside Hotel Room
Drummond has to leave for Morocco on his wedding day with his fiancee and trusted friends to rescue his friend Nielsen who is kidnapped by an international criminal.
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Abajo el Telón (1955)
Character: Jefe de banda criminal
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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Arise, My Love (1940)
Character: French Correspondent (uncredited)
A dashing pilot and a vivacious reporter have romantic and dramatic adventures in Europe as World War II begins.
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The Howards of Virginia (1940)
Character: Lafayette
Beautiful young Virginian Jane steps down from her proper aristocratic upbringing when she marries down-to-earth surveyor Matt Howard. Matt joins the Colonial forces in their fight for freedom against England. Matt will meet Jane's father in the battlefield.
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They Met in a Taxi (1936)
Character: Count Petoski
A cab driver takes in a young woman who claims to be a reluctant bride, and becomes involved in the search for a stolen necklace.
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Cinco rostros de mujer (1947)
Character: Miguel (as Rafael Alcaide)
"The great love of his life" happened five times; one of those women just wrote him a letter. Which one will it be?
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The Magnificent Matador (1955)
Character: Guest dinner (uncredited)
Karen Harrison is a spoiled, rich, American predator who falls head-over-heels for the brooding, tormented, about-to-retire matador, Luis Santos who has inexplicably run away prior to a corrida that was to occasion the "alternativa" of a young, up-and-coming bullfighter.
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Meet the Wildcat (1940)
Character: Clerk
Magazine photographer Ann Larkin is snapping photos at Mexico's National Museum when she sees Brod Williams steal a painting from its frame. Convinced that Brod is the notorious art thief known as "The Wildcat," Ann follows him into the street and accuses him of being the thief. Even though the police attest that Brod is a New York City police detective, Ann remains dubious.
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La faraona (1956)
Character: Eduardo
Pastora Heredia is a beautiful gypsy with great character who always tries to help the needy. One day she gots the notice of the death of his grandfather, a millionaire who lived in Mexico and that since his father was angry, she knew nothing of him. However, as Pastora was his only granddaughter and sole heir of all his property, it does not hesitate to cross the pond to claim his inheritance. But once there is that Don Guillermo, grandfather, not dead.
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New Moon (1940)
Character: Monsieur de Piron
A revolutionary leader romances a French aristocrat in Louisiana.
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The Mark of Zorro (1940)
Character: Diego's Manservant (uncredited)
Returning from Spain, the son of a California nobleman comes home to find his native land under a villainous dictatorship. On one hand, he plays the useless fop, while on the other, he is the masked avenger Zorro.
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Two Latins from Manhattan (1941)
Character: Cuban (as Rafael Storm)
Joan Daley, a New York booking/press agent, attempts to recruit two local stand-ins, Jinx Terry and Lois Morgan, when the Cuban sister-act, Marianela and Rosita she as booked into the nightclub for which she works fails to materialize. Complications arrive when the real Cuban sisters show up.
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The Golden Arrow (1936)
Character: Prince Peter
A fake heiress marries a common reporter to thwart the advances of gold-digging playboys.
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Blood and Sand (1941)
Character: Undetermined Role (uncredited)
Bullfighter Juan Gallardo falls for socialite Dona Sol, turning from the faithful Carmen who nevertheless stands by her man as he continues to face real danger in the bullring.
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When Ladies Meet (1941)
Character: Walter Del Canto
Mary, a writer working on a novel about a love triangle, is attracted to her publisher. Her suitor Jimmy is determined to break them up; he introduces Mary to the publisher's wife without telling Mary who she is.
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The Last of the Fast Guns (1958)
Character: Alcade
A rich, dying Easterner hires gunfighter Brad Ellison to find his brother and heir in Mexico. En route, it becomes clear to Ellison that his is a dying profession. At a remote rancho, Ellison enlists ranch foreman Miles Lang to help him search the hills where the missing man is rumored to have lived. They find nothing ...except that someone wants to kill them; and Ellison becomes wrapped in a maze of double crosses.
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Footlight Glamour (1943)
Character: Jerry Grant
Mr. Dithers is trying to encourage a businessman to build a war-time manufacturing plant on land he owns while Dagwood tries to prevent the businessman from learning his daughter is involved in a local theatre production.
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Tambien de dolor se canta (1950)
Character: Alfonso de Madrazo
The movie starts with Braulio Peláez (Pedro Infante), a schoolteacher, having just fallen off his horse, representing the situation he and his family are in. The next scenes introduce the viewer to his family and their poor financial and social situation. As Braulio stumbles around looking for his glasses, he causes a famous film star, Alfonso de Madrazo (Rafael Alcaide) to crash his car. Braulio offers him to eat at his house as an apology. Braulio's sister and mother, big film fans, immediately recognise Alfonso and attempt to get him to bring the girl, Luisa Peláez (Irma Dolores) to Mexico City to become a film star. Alfonso agrees and tells them to come to the capital.
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The Powers Girl (1943)
Character: Vandy Vandergrift
Two small-town sisters who've come to New York City for very different reasons find themselves competing for the affections of a brash magazine photographer. Comedy.
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The Conspirators (1944)
Character: Senhor Gama (uncredited)
A guerilla leader falls in love with a mysterious woman in World War II Lisbon.
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Only Yesterday (1933)
Character: Party Guest (uncredited)
On the back of the Wall Street Crash of 1929, a young businessman is about to commit suicide. With a note to his wife scribbled down and a gun in his hand, he notices an envelope addressed to him on his desk. As he begins to read, we're taken back to World War One and his meeting with a young woman named Mary Lane.
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Ten Days To Tulara (1958)
Character: Mexican colonel
Director George Sherman's 1958 western about gold thieves in Mexico stars Sterling Hayden, Grace Raynor and Rodolfo Hoyos.
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Music Is Magic (1935)
Character: Lopez - Cafe Orchestra Leader (uncredited)
An aging star finally recognizes the truth when she is replaced in her new movie by a girl from the chorus.
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Flight from Destiny (1941)
Character: Monsieur Lascaut
After his doctor informs him he will die in six months, Professor Henry Todhunter decides to spend his last days killing someone who contributes nothing but harm to society. When Henry learns that his friend Betty's husband, Michael, has been painting forgeries of ancient paintings for gallery owner Ketti Moret, he investigates the fraudulent dealer's life. Judging that Ketti is truly evil, Henry prepares to murder her.
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La diosa arrodillada (1947)
Character: N/A
Antonio, a millionaire, gifts his wife a statue of a naked, kneeling woman for their wedding anniversary.
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Secreto entre mujeres (1949)
Character: Mauricio Licona
Marta, a maid at the boarding house run by her aunt Doña Laura, prevents the lodger Elena from committing suicide over the writer Arturo, who has proposed that they live together instead of getting married. Arturo then tries to seduce another lodger, the piano student Claudia, unaware that she is Elena’s younger sister. Claudia is not deceived by him, so he sets his sights on yet another lodger, the model Sara, during a party hosted by the elderly Requena, one of her suitors.
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Pancho Villa Returns (1950)
Character: Serpio Reyna
It's 1913, and noble Mexican General Pancho Villa leads his troops against the assassins of President Madero.
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Soy un prófugo (1946)
Character: El jefe
A janitor in a large bank is accused of pulling of a major heist. He is forced to become a fugitive while hunting for the real culprits.
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Submarine Base (1943)
Character: Felipo
Ship engineer Jim Taggert is rescued from a torpedoed tramp steamer by Joe Morgan, an American gangster that found New York too hot for him, and has become a fisherman operating from an out-of-the-way island off of the coast of South America. Morgan makes his headquarters at the Halfway House run by the parents of Maria Styx as a bar and dance resort catering to the planters and traders of the island. Taggert finds himself practically a prisoner along with a group of American girls acting as entertainers at the resort. Taggert shadows Morgan in his activities in a remote cove and finds that Morgan is supplying German U-boat commanders with torpedoes, but does not know that Morgan has rigged the torpedoes with clock devices that explode when at sea and sinks the U-boats.
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Mexican Spitfire Out West (1940)
Character: Travel Clerk
Dennis heads west to work on an important business deal minus the Mexican Spitfire, Carmelita. His hot-tempered spouse decides to surprise him, but ends up as the surprised one when she sees him with another woman. Instead of a second honeymoon, Carmelita begins divorce proceedings
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The Fighting Pilot (1935)
Character: Robert R. Jones
An inventor develops a new type of aircraft. A crooked businessman attempts to buy it but the inventor refuses to sell it to him, whereupon the rejected businessman and his henchmen steals the plane and its blueprints. The plane's test pilot, who is the boyfriend of the inventor's daughter, and his sidekick set out to get the plane, and the plans, back.
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I Take This Woman (1940)
Character: Raoul Cedro (uncredited)
On return from Europe Dr. Decker foils glamour girl Georgi from jumping overboard. At Decker's suggestion to keep busy, she assists at his clinic in the slums.
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Nosotros los pobres (1948)
Character: Lawyer Montes
Carpenter Pepe El Toro lives peacefully with his daughter Chachita in an impoverished Mexico City neighborhood. He pursues a romance with the pretty Celia, but tragedy comes knocking on his door when he is falsely accused of having perpetrated a felony.
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Another Thin Man (1939)
Character: Gigolo (uncredited)
Nick and Nora Charles are back - and this time, they have a baby, a wealthy new client, and another murder to solve! Retired detective Nick is enjoying family life with Nora and their young son, Nick Jr., when eccentric industrialist Colonel MacFay asks for protection after receiving threatening messages. When MacFay is found dead at his isolated estate, Nick and Nora spring into action, questioning a houseful of suspicious guests and uncovering greed, blackmail, family secrets, and a dangerous inheritance plot. With their trademark wit and sophistication, the glamorous couple balances parenthood, parties, and peril as they race to expose the killer.
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Let's Go Native (1930)
Character: Argentine Producers' Representative (uncredited)
The company of a musical comedy gets shipwrecked on a tropical island inhabited by a "king" from Brooklyn and his coterie of wild native girls.
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The House of a Thousand Candles (1936)
Character: Jules Gregoire
The story of diplomatic courier Tony Carleton, who's been entrusted with a secret message vital to the cause of International peace. En route to Geneva by train, Tony is drugged by sexy cabaret dancer Raquel, who promptly steals the message -- only to be murdered by sinister master spy Sebastian, owner of a posh gambling casino known as The House of a Thousand Candles.
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Repent at Leisure (1941)
Character: Prince Paul Stephanie
Everyone in a large department store knows that a rising star is married to the owner's daughter, except her husband.
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Broadway Gondolier (1935)
Character: Ramon
A taxi driver travels to Venice and poses as a gondolier to land a radio singing job.
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Only Angels Have Wings (1939)
Character: Rafael (uncredited)
A traveling performer arrives at a remote South American port town where the head of an air freight service must risk his pilots' lives to earn a major contract.
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Cynara (1932)
Character: Mario
A London barrister's marriage is under strain after his affair with a shopgirl who is out to have him. The story is told in flashback.
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