CantinflasMario Moreno Reyes (August 12, 1911 - April 20, 1993), better known as Cantinflas, was a Mexican actor, circus performer and comedian. Charlie Chaplin once called Cantinflas the 'funniest man in the world'. Cantinflas did not start his professional life as an entertainer. It is a little known fact that Cantinflas was in the military and later, also a professional boxer before he joined to the entertainment world as a dancer. Cantinflas started out performing at a circus in the 1930s. In 1935, he joined the Follies Bergere theater, becoming a popular figure on Mexico's theater scene. He also appeared in a few movies during that time, but it was in 1940, that Cantinflas finally became a movie star, after shooting Ahí está el detalle. The phrase that gave that movie its name became a Cantinflas catch phrase for the rest of his career. From there on, Cantinflas went on to make more than 50 feature films, becoming a widely known entertainer and legendary comic all over Latin America and in Spain. Cantinflas went to Hollywood in the 1950s, making two popular movies in English, Around the World in Eighty Days and Pepe. Later, Cantinflas became President of the Mexican actors' union as well as Secretary of their filmworkers' union. He invested his earnings in real estate and in the sport of bullfighting. Cantinflas was so fond of bullfighting that he played his torero scenes himself . Cantinflas has a star in the Hollywood Walk of Fame and when he died in 1993, the US Senate held a minute of silence to honor his memory. Among the things that endeared him to his public was his comic use of language in his films: his characters, like El Barrendero, loved to strike up a normal conversation with anyone in the movie, and then complicate the conversation to the point where no one understood what they were talking about. This manner of talking became known as Cantinfleada, and it became common parlance for Spanish speakers to say ¡estas cantinfleando! (loosely translated as you're pulling a 'Cantinflas'! or you're 'Cantinflassing'!) whenever someone became hard to understand in conversation. The Real Academia Española has included the verb cantinflear in its dictionary . On October 16, 2003, a controversy surfaced over alleged abusive behaviour by Cantinflas’s son towards Cantinflas. Filmography
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On October 16, 2003, a controversy surfaced over alleged abusive behaviour by Cantinflas’s son towards Cantinflas. Coltrane lives near Glasgow, is married and has two children, and collects vintage cars. The Real Academia Española has included the verb cantinflear in its dictionary . His roles went from strength to strength in the 1990s with the TV series Cracker (1993-1996) and a BAFTA award as the stepping stone to parts in bigger films such as the James Bond films Goldeneye (1995) and The World Is Not Enough (1999), as well as giant Rubeus Hagrid in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001), Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002) and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004). This manner of talking became known as Cantinfleada, and it became common parlance for Spanish speakers to say ¡estas cantinfleando! (loosely translated as you're pulling a 'Cantinflas'! or you're 'Cantinflassing'!) whenever someone became hard to understand in conversation. He also played a would-be private detective obsessed with Humphrey Bogart in the TV play The Bogie Man. Among the things that endeared him to his public was his comic use of language in his films: his characters, like El Barrendero, loved to strike up a normal conversation with anyone in the movie, and then complicate the conversation to the point where no one understood what they were talking about. He co-starred with Eric Idle in Nuns on the Run (1990), and played the Pope in The Pope Must Die (1991). Cantinflas has a star in the Hollywood Walk of Fame and when he died in 1993, the US Senate held a minute of silence to honor his memory. On television he also appeared in Tutti Frutti (1987), as Samuel Johnson in Blackadder (1987) (a role he later reprised in the more serious Boswell and Johnson's Tour of the Western Islands (1993)), and in a number of stand-up and sketch comedy shows. Cantinflas was so fond of bullfighting that he played his torero scenes himself . He soon moved into films, obtaining small roles in a number of movies such as Death Watch (1980), Scrubbers (1983), Absolute Beginners (1986) and Mona Lisa (1986). He invested his earnings in real estate and in the sport of bullfighting. His comic skills brought him roles in the television series The Comic Strip Presents (1982) and he was one of the stars of Laugh? I Nearly Paid My Licence Fee (1984). Later, Cantinflas became President of the Mexican actors' union as well as Secretary of their filmworkers' union. He moved into acting in his early twenties, taking the stage name Coltrane (in tribute to jazz saxophonist John Coltrane) and working in theatre and stand-up comedy. Cantinflas went to Hollywood in the 1950s, making two popular movies in English, Around the World in Eighty Days and Pepe. He was born in Rutherglen, Glasgow and educated (sporadically) at Glenalmond school in Perthshire, Glasgow School of Art, and the Moray House College Of Education in Edinburgh. From there on, Cantinflas went on to make more than 50 feature films, becoming a widely known entertainer and legendary comic all over Latin America and in Spain. Robbie Coltrane (birth name Robert MacMillan, some sources say Anthony MacMillan) (born March 30, 1950) is a Scottish actor. The phrase that gave that movie its name became a Cantinflas catch phrase for the rest of his career. He also appeared in a few movies during that time, but it was in 1940, that Cantinflas finally became a movie star, after shooting Ahí está el detalle. In 1935, he joined the Follies Bergere theater, becoming a popular figure on Mexico's theater scene. Cantinflas started out performing at a circus in the 1930s. It is a little known fact that Cantinflas was in the military and later, also a professional boxer before he joined to the entertainment world as a dancer. Cantinflas did not start his professional life as an entertainer. Charlie Chaplin once called Cantinflas the 'funniest man in the world'. Mario Moreno Reyes (August 12, 1911 - April 20, 1993), better known as Cantinflas, was a Mexican actor, circus performer and comedian. Cantinflas. No te engañes corazón (1936) ... El Tejón. ¡Así es mi tierra! (1937) ... Polito Sol. Águila o sol (1937) http://cinemexicano.mty.itesm.mx/peliculas/aguila.html ... Cantinflas. El signo de la muerte (1939) ... Chencho Albondigón (cortometraje publicitario). Siempre listo en las tinieblas (1939) ... Bala Fría (cortometraje publicitario). Jengibre contra dinamita (1939) ... Cantinflas (cortometraje publicitario). Cantinflas en los censos (1940) ... Cantinflas (cortometraje publicitario). Cantinflas boxeador (1940) ... Cantinflas (cortometraje publicitario). Cantinflas ruletero (1940) ... Cantinflas (cortometraje). Cantinflas y su prima (La prima de Cantinflas) (1940) ... Cantinflas/"Leonardo del Paso". Ahí está el detalle (1940) http://cinemexicano.mty.itesm.mx/peliculas/detalle.html... El Chato/Manuel Márquez "Manolete". Ni sangre ni arena (1941) ... Cantinflas, el 777. El gendarme desconocido (1941) ... participación involuntaria. Carnaval en el trópico (Fiesta en Veracruz) (1941) ... Cantinflas/D'Artagnan. Los tres mosqueteros (1942) ... el zapatero. El circo (1942) ... ruletero/Romeo de Montesco. Romeo y Julieta (1943) ... Cantinflas. Gran Hotel (1944) ... el voceador. Un día con el diablo (1945) ... Cantinflas. Soy un prófugo (1946) ... Cantinflas. ¡A volar joven! (1947) ... Cantinflas. El supersabio (1948) ... Cantinflas. El mago (1948) ... Cantinflas. Puerta, joven (El portero) (1949) ... Margarito/El Siete Machos. El Siete Machos (1950) ... El bombero atómico, el 777. El bombero atómico (1950) ... Cantinflas. Si yo fuera diputado (1951) ... participación. Lluvia de estrellas (1951) ... Cantinflas. El señor fotógrafo (1952) ... Cantinflas. Caballero a la medida (1953) ... Cantinflas. Abajo el telón (1954) ... Cantinflas. El bolero de Raquel (1956) ... Paspartout (producción estadounidense). Around the World in Eighty Days (La vuelta al mundo en ochenta días) (1956) ... Cantinflas. Ama a tu prójimo (1958) ... Cantinflas. Sube y baja (1958) ... Pepe (coproducción con los Estados Unidos). Pepe (1960) ... Inocencio Prieto y Calvo. El analfabeto (1960) ... Rogaciano. El extra (1962) ... Feliciano Calloso. Entrega inmediata (1963) ... padre Sebastián o Sebas. El padrecito (1964) ... doctor Salvador Medina. El señor doctor (1965) ... Lopitos. Su excelencia (1966) ... Fidencio Barrenillo. Por mis pistolas (1968) ... Justo Leal y Aventado. Un Quijote sin mancha (1969) ... Sócrates García. El profe (1970) ... Sancho Panza (coproducción con España). Don Quijote cabalga de nuevo (1972) ... Úrsulo. Conserje en condominio (1973) ... Mateo Melgarejo. El ministro y yo (1975) ... Diógenes Bravo. El patrullero 777 (1977) ... Napoleón. El barrendero (1981) ... |