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Acting
Alfredo Varela
Born January 1, 1884 · Mexico
Died March 31, 1962 · aged 78
No biography available.
Known For
In the Shadow of the Bridge · 1948In the Shadow of the Bridge
★ 6.01948
MovieCrimeDrama
In this Mexican version of Winterset (inspired by the 20s Sacco Vanzetti case) an idealistic youth searches for the culprit behind a crime that his father was wrongly accused of several years before.
Noche de perdición · 1951Noche de perdición
★ 5.81951
MovieDramaCrime
A dancer is accused of killing a businessman. When her husband finds out, he decides to take her kid away from her.
Abismos · 1931Abismos
★ 6.31931
MovieDrama
Si yo fuera diputado · 1952Si yo fuera diputado
★ 7.51952
MovieComedy
Cantinflas is a unique barber, who trades with an elderly neighbor, a lawyer by profession, laws lessons in exchange for haircuts and shaved. It proposes advice to defend in court the disadvantaged neighborhood. His success deputy seeks the votes as the other candidate, Don Próculo, it is not accepted by anyone but his own bodyguards. Don Próculo will use know how much ruse to win the election by the Council, and also for the love of 'Sarita'
Lost Love · 1951Lost Love
★ 5.01951
MovieDramaMusic
Ernesto, a composer, is madly in love with Amalia. He decides to help her pay the rent and wants her to start singing at the cabaret where he works, but she ends up falling in love with another man.
¿Qué te ha dado esa mujer? · 1951¿Qué te ha dado esa mujer?
★ 8.21951
MovieComedy
This musical comedy tells the story of two men whose friendship (whose beginning is told in "A toda máquina") is affected by assumptions love triangles and misunderstandings between the two, however, the value of that friendship overcomes all difficulties.
Love Your Neighbor · 1958Love Your Neighbor
★ 6.71958
MovieComedy
This film tells several short stories that end up lapsing in the emergency room of a hospital, because it is dedicated to nurses. Cantinflas appears at the end of the film playing the role of Luis, a man who has five daughters and looks forward to a boy, but fate plays a trick and the child dies at birth, but history gives a nice twist and a message of hope.
La pícara Susana · 1945La pícara Susana
★ 5.71945
MovieComedyDrama
Socialist librarian gets mixed up in the family life of a spoiled rich girl and her screwball family.
Filmography
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In the Shadow of the Bridge · 1948In the Shadow of the Bridge
★ 6.01948
MovieCrimeDrama
In this Mexican version of Winterset (inspired by the 20s Sacco Vanzetti case) an idealistic youth searches for the culprit behind a crime that his father was wrongly accused of several years before.
Miembro de la comisión (uncredited)
Abismos · 1931Abismos
★ 6.31931
MovieDrama
(as Alfredo Varela)
Doña Diabla · 1950Doña Diabla
★ 7.11950
MovieDrama
A woman, after committing a murder, flees into a church, confessing her life story to a priest.
Invitado a fiesta (uncredited)
The Other · 1946The Other
★ 6.91946
MovieDramaThriller
A mousy, poor manicurist seeks to switch places with her more glamorous, wealthy twin sister.
Hombre en funeral (uncredited)
Arrabalera · 1951Arrabalera
★ 5.41951
MovieDramaComedy
Working-class girl marries rich playboy, gets implicated in his criminal activities.
Cobrador (uncredited)
Revolt of the Ghosts · 1949Revolt of the Ghosts
★ 6.01949
MovieComedyDrama
When an old house is about to be demolished to make room for a new radio station the famous ghosts which resides in the house start a revolt to alter the decision.
Cliente cabaret (uncredited)
Canaima · 1945Canaima
★ 6.11945
MovieAdventureDrama
Marcos Vargas returns home to Ciudad Bolívar after finishing his studies in Trinidad. There he decides to start a business transporting merchandise to the interior of the jungle. A local chieftain will not make things easy for him.
Pedro, empleado de Vellorini (uncredited)
Pecado · 1951Pecado
★ 6.71951
MovieCrimeDrama
Empleado de Miguel (uncredited)









