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Mario Fortino Alfonso Moreno Reyes (12 August 1911 – 20 April 1993), known by the stage name Cantinflas (Spanish pronunciation: [kanˈtiɱflas]), was a Mexican comedian, actor, and filmmaker. He is considered to have been the most widely accomplished Mexican comedian and is well known throughout Latin America and Spain.
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Aug 29, 2014 · Mexican actor Mario Moreno, known as Cantinflas, made dozens of films between the 1930s and 1980s. A biopic about the comic, whose humor tweaked the rich and powerful, opens in the U.S. this...
- Jasmine Garsd
Jan 17, 2021 · Mario Moreno, “Cantinflas”, was perhaps the most important comedian in the history of Latin America. Even his particular, often chaotic, way of using language, combining rhetoric, demagogy and words, gave rise to the verb cantinflear, which was accepted by the Royal Spanish Academy in 1990.
Aug 15, 2017 · Often referred to as the Charlie Chaplin of Mexico, Cantinflas won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a musical or comedy for his role in the 1956 film Around the World in 80 Days, and has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Aug 8, 2024 · An internationally known clown, acrobat, musician, bullfighter, and satirist, he was identified with the comic figure of a poor Mexican slum dweller, a pelado, who wears trousers held up with a rope, a battered felt hat, a handkerchief tied around his neck, and a ragged coat.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Who was Cantinflas, and why did he visit our Museum? Cantinflas was the stage name of Mario Moreno Reyes. Although virtually unknown in the United States, Moreno’s fame and continuing popularity as a comedian is without peer in Latin America.
May 29, 2018 · Cantinflas (1911–1993) was one of Mexico's most beloved cinematic figures, a masterful comedian who cast himself as the resourceful voice of the common people. With a stream of his trademark non-sense talk, he could neutralize the powerful or work around the most absurd forms of bureaucracy.