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Bodas trágicas (1946)
Character: Juan Manuel
Jalisco, 19th century. Diego, a wealthy landowner, secretly marries Amparo, defying her father Juan Manuel, who fiercely opposes the union. Juan Manuel still holds a grudge against Diego, having once been his employer when Diego was just a laborer. Their secret marriage stirs jealousy and resentment, particularly in Octavio, Diego’s servant, and his wife Laura, who harbors unspoken feelings for him. As Diego departs for a military mission in Guadalajara, Juan Manuel, unaware of the marriage, attempts to arrange a match between Amparo and the Spaniard José Luis.
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La casa de la Troya (1948)
Character: Don Ventura
Adaptation of the novel by Alejandro Pérez Lujín, centered on the university adventures in Santiago de Compostela of Gerardo Roquer from Madrid, who stays in a boarding house known as "La Casa de la Troya".
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El conde de Montecristo (1942)
Character: Gaspard Caderousse
Based on the famous novel by Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo tells the story of a man who is unjustly imprisoned alongside an old man, who before dying reveals the location of a buried treasure. When the man manages to escape from his miserable cell, he changes his identity, becoming the wealthy Count of Monte Cristo, an identity he uses to take revenge on those who betrayed him and sent him to prison.
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Felipe de Jesús (1949)
Character: Don Lope, padre de Rosalia
Biography of the first Catholic Saint to be born in Mexico.
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Pepita Jiménez (1946)
Character: Don Gumersindo
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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El baisano Jalil (1942)
Character: Don Guillermo
Aristocratic but penniless, the Veradada have to resort to loans Lebanese businessman Jalil, whose son Selim, suffers the scorn of Martha, the daughter of the Veradada wasteful. Being invited to the house of Don Guillermom, Jalil and his wife Suan and Selim are teased and contempt. Finally, the Lebanese family worker puts in place the family of Don Guillermo ridiculous.
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El sombrero de tres picos (1944)
Character: N/A
The corregidor, or magistrate, of a small Spanish village tries to seduce the miller's wife, with rather humorous results.
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Alejandra (1942)
Character: Don Roberto
There's a lot of confusion about who Alejandra's parents are, and until those questions are resolved, she may not be able to get married.
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Su última aventura (1946)
Character: Jefe de policía
All of Mexico asks the same question, who has won the lottery jackpot of five million pesos? If the lucky person who won them does not show up soon to collect the prize, it will have to be raffled again.
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Crimen en la alcoba (1946)
Character: Señor Carbajal
A man's on trial for murder; a friend who could prove his innocence chooses not to come forward. An interested detective starts working to discover the how-come of all of that.
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El socio (1946)
Character: Coronel Ramírez
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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Maclovia (1948)
Character: Don Jerónimo
On a small Mexican island dwells a group of Indians who live in the traditional manner and who disdain outsiders. The beautiful Maclovia and the poverty-stricken Jose Maria are in love, but her father refuses to allow their marriage, or even any communication between them, due to Jose Maria's lack of means.
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Cinco rostros de mujer (1947)
Character: Oficial policía portugues
"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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La virgen que forjó una patria (1942)
Character: Nuño de Guzmán
On the eve of the Grito de Dolores and faced with the threat of being arrested by the viceregal government, Miguel Hidalgo suggested to Captain Allende that the flag of the insurgent movement be the banner of the Virgin of Guadalupe.
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La Barraca (1945)
Character: don Joaquin, maestro de escuela
The film chronicles the adventures of a peasant family of the late nineteenth century to push through his work with the opposition and hatred of the rest of the villagers.
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Enamorada (1946)
Character: Carlos Peñafiel
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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