Acting
Miguel Manzano
Born September 16, 1907 · Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico
Died January 21, 1992 · aged 84
Miguel Manzano was a Mexican actor during the Golden Age of Mexican cinema, winning an Ariel Award in 1985, for best supporting actor for the film Las glorias del gran Púas.
Known For
Drop the Curtain · 1955Drop the Curtain
★ 7.61955
MovieComedy
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.
The Minister and Me · 1976The Minister and Me
★ 7.21976
MovieComedyDrama
Mateo Melgarejo is a notary public and scribe for the illiterate people of Santo Domingo, a neighborhood north of Mexico City's Zócalo. A squatter friend asks for his help in negotiating with the land census bureau to regularize a land title. After a great deal of frustration with the government bureaucracy, he writes a letter to the cabinet minister, earning an audience with him. The minister hires Melgarejo to reform the bureau, and the appointee proceeds to lecture the officials on their duties in a democratic society. At the end, he gives up the post, returning to Santo Domingo to help its poor residents.
The Magician · 1949The Magician
★ 7.51949
MovieComedy
A slapstick fantasy of the amorous adventures of a magician a la Cantinflas.
Your Excellency · 1967Your Excellency
★ 8.11967
MovieComedyDrama
Lopitos, who is horribly inefficient but quick-witted, is invited (because of the current ambassador's superstition about 13 sitting down to a meal) to a banquet attended by the ambassadors of both superpowers. After the news of a series of coups d'état in Los Cocos arrives throughout the meal, Lopitos becomes the official ambassador. At a summit of world leaders, the representatives of the two world superpowers court the allegiances of third-world diplomats to tilt the balance of global power in their favor. The last diplomat to remain unaligned, Lopitos instead harangues the superpowers for infringing on the rights of developing countries to self determination, talking to them with his point of view as a citizen not as ambassador because he arranged his demise as ambassador one day before his speech.
A Woman Without Love · 1952A Woman Without Love
★ 5.51952
MovieDramaRomance
After indulging in an affair with a man (a friend of the family) she truly loves, a woman returns to her young son and husband for good, and loses contact with the man. Her husband is unaware of the affair. Twenty years later, there is news that the friend has died and left all of his money to the younger son in the family, which leads us to question this younger son's biological origin.
Gutierritos · 1959Gutierritos
★ 6.61959
Movie
Timid, browbeaten salaryman becomes famous author overnight.
You the Rich · 1948You the Rich
★ 7.81948
MovieDramaComedy
Pepe el Toro is married to Celia la Chorreada and they have two children.
The River and Death · 1954The River and Death
★ 6.31954
MovieDrama
A useless and bloody vendetta has been going on for ages between two families in this Mexican village. Men, sons, have killed each other for generations, for a so-called conception of honor in a revenge that never ends since it is also triggered by people of the village. Now, today, there are only two sons left, one in each family. One has become a doctor in the big city and his culture is modern. The other last one - of the other family - hasn't left the village and is waiting for the doctor to come "home" as he plans to kill him, to settle this war on this matter of honor once and for all. And the people of the village want blood.
Filmography
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Gutierritos · 1959Gutierritos
★ 6.61959
Movie
Timid, browbeaten salaryman becomes famous author overnight.
Señor Martínez
You the Rich · 1948You the Rich
★ 7.81948
MovieDramaComedy
Pepe el Toro is married to Celia la Chorreada and they have two children.
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