Cantinflas
Mexican actor and filmmaker (1911–1993) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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.
Cantinflas | |
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Born | Mario Fortino Alfonso Moreno Reyes (1911-08-12)12 August 1911 Santa María la Redonda, Mexico City, Mexico |
Died | 20 April 1993(1993-04-20) (aged 81) Mexico City, Mexico |
Burial place | Panteón Español, Mexico City, Mexico |
Other names | Mario Moreno |
Education | Instituto Politecnico Nacional Chapingo Autonomous University (Agronomy, few months) |
Occupation(s) | Comedian, actor, screenwriter, film producer, singer |
Years active | 1937–1993 |
Political party | Institutional Revolutionary Party |
Spouse |
Valentina Ivanova Zubareff
(m. 1936; died 1966) |
Children | Mario Arturo Moreno |
Website | www |
His humor, loaded with Mexican linguistic features of intonation, vocabulary, and syntax, is beloved in all the Spanish-speaking countries of Latin America and in Spain. His abilities gave rise to a range of expressions based on his stage name, including: cantinflear, cantinflada, cantinflesco, cantifleando and cantinflero.
He often portrayed impoverished farmers or peasants of pelado origin.[1] The character allowed Cantinflas to establish a long, successful film career that included a foray into Hollywood. Charlie Chaplin once commented that he was the best comedian alive,[2] and Moreno has been referred to as the "Charlie Chaplin of Mexico".[3][better source needed]
To audiences in most of the world, he is best remembered as co-starring with David Niven in the Oscar-winning film Around the World in 80 Days, for which Moreno won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy.[4]
As a pioneer of the cinema of Mexico, Moreno helped usher in its golden era. In addition to being a business leader, he also became involved in Mexico's complex labor politics. His reputation as a spokesperson for the working class gave his actions authenticity and became important in the early struggle against charrismo, the ruling PRI's practice of co-opting and controlling trade unions.[citation needed]
Moreover, his character Cantinflas, whose identity became enmeshed with his own, was examined by media critics, philosophers, and linguists, who saw him variously as a danger to Mexican society, a bourgeois puppet, a verbal innovator, and a picaresque underdog.[citation needed]