Cantinflas
Mario Fortino Alfonso Moreno Reyes (12 August 1911 – 20 April 1993), known by the stage name Cantinflas (Spanish pronunciation: [kanˈtiɱflas]), was a Mexican comedian and stage and movie actor. He often played poor peasants. He became associated with Mexico, and had a long, successful movie career, including some time in Hollywood. Charlie Chaplin once said that Moreno was the best comedian alive, and Moreno has been called the "Charlie Chaplin of Mexico". To audiences in the United States, he is best remembered as costarring with David Niven in Around the World in 80 Days (1956).
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| Born | Mario Alfonso Fortino Moreno Reyes August 12, 1911 |
| Died | April 20, 1993 (aged 81) Mexico City, Mexico |
| Years active | 1937–82 |
| Spouse(s) | Valentina Ivanova (1936–66) |
| Website | http://www.cantinflas.tv |
Moreno also was involved in Mexico's labor politics, which were often dangerous. Although he was a political conservative, his reputation as somebody who spoke for the poor made him seem real, and became important in the early struggle against charrismo, the one-party government's practice of taking over unions.
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Apartment building that occupies the premises of the "vecindad" where Mario Moreno "Cantinflas" was born, former Sexta Calle de Santa María la Redonda (Sixth Street of Santa María la Redonda), today Eje Central Lázaro Cardenas 182.
Cantinflas (left) with Manuel Medel, c. 1938
Mario Moreno "Cantinflas" by Rufino Tamayo, 1948, exhibition "The Collection of Mexican Painting by Jacques and Natasha Gelman" poster, 1992, Cultural Center of Contemporary Art (defunct) City of Mexico.
Meeting with Mexican president Miguel Alemán Valdés, seated from left to right: Jorge Negrete, the president Miguel Alemán Valdés, Cantinflas and María Tereza Montoya
Cantinflas' star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles
Hand and Foot Prints at Graumanns Chinese Theater in Los Angeles, CA. USA.
Work called Tribute to Mario Moreno "Cantinflas" made in 1952 by the Chilean muralist Fernando Marcos Miranda.
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