Mario Moreno "Cantinflas’" History Biografia and Career

Mario Fortino Alfonso Moreno Reyes, known casually as Mario Moreno, and known professionally as Cantinflas (August 12, 1911 – April 20, 1993), was a Mexican comic film actor, producer, and screenwriter and an iconic figure in Mexico and Latin America.

He often portrayed impoverished farmers or a peasant of pelado origin. The character came to be associated with the national identity of Mexico, and 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, and Moreno has been referred to as the "Charlie Chaplin of Mexico".

Mario Moreno "Cantinflas’" History Biografia and Career


To audiences in the United States, he is best remembered as co-starring with David Niven in the Academy Award winner for Best Picture film Around the World in 80 Days, for which Moreno won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy.

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 tangled and often dangerous labor politics. His reputation as a spokesperson for the downtrodden gave his actions authenticity and became important in the early struggle against charrismo, the one-party government's practice of co-opting and controlling unions.

In 1961, Cantinflas appeared with Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson at shopping centers and supermarkets in San Antonio, Texas, to support the successful Democratic nominee to the United States House of Representatives for Texas' 20th congressional district, Henry B. Gonzalez, who defeated his Republican challenger, John W. Goode. Gonzalez was the first Hispanic elected to the Texas State Senate and as a U.S. congressman from Texas.

Moreover, his character Cantinflas, whose identity became enmeshed with his own, was examined by media critics, philosophers, and linguists, who saw him variably as a danger to Mexican society, a bourgeois puppet, a kind philanthropist, a pious Catholic, a verbal innovator, and a picaresque underdog

With a twitch of his slender mustache and a burst of witty doublespeak, Cantinflas captured the hearts of film audiences in Mexico, where he appeared in some four dozen films beginning in 1937. The rest of the world discovered his talents as David Niven’s bumbling valet in the 1956 film Around the World in 80 Days. In Latin America he was beloved by generations of filmgoers, not just for his work as a comedic actor/singer/writer/producer, but for his philanthropy.

Born Mario Moreno Reyes on this day in 1911, he earned money in the streets of Mexico City singing and dancing. There, he worked briefly as a prize fighter, discovering ways to make audiences laugh at his antics. After honing his comedic pratfalls in circus tent shows, he began making films at age 26.

Cantinflas often portrayed a destitute individual (el peladito) who overcame the challenges of life in urban slums. His genius was recognized by the silent film legend Charlie Chaplin, who hailed Cantinflas as the “greatest comedian alive.”

Despite his success, Cantinflas never forgot his roots, at one time providing quality housing for more than 250 low-income families in Mexico City. For this legacy, and his work on screen, he is remembered as a national hero.

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