Pedro Infante
Also Known As: Pedro Infante Cruz
Biography: Pedro Infante Cruz (18 November 1917 – 15 April 1957), better known as Pedro Infante, was a Mexican actor and singer. Hailed as one of the greatest actors of the Golden Age of Mexican cinema, he is considered an idol of the Latin American people, together with Jorge Negrete and Javier Solís, who were styled as the Tres Gallos Mexicanos (the Three Mexican Roosters). Infante was born in Mazatlán, Sinaloa, Mexico and was raised in Guamúchil. He died on 15 April 1957, in Mérida, Yucatán, in a plane crash during a flight en route to Mexico City. His film career began in 1939 with him appearing in more than 60 films, and starting in 1943, he recorded about 350 songs. For his performance in the movie Tizoc, he was awarded the Silver Bear for Best Actor at the 7th Berlin International Film Festival.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Mazatlan, Sinaloa, Mexico
Adult: No
Birthday: November 19, 1917
Age: 107 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: April 15, 1957
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The Black Sheep
Overview: The Trevino family tries to overcome the irresponsible behavior of Don Cruz, an erratic father with numerous defects that contrast with his son Silvano, a young kid man that is incapable of passing judgment on his own father.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1949-12-24
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No desearás la mujer de tu hijo
Overview: An elderly man falls in love with a beautiful young woman, without knowing that she is in love with his son.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1950-05-18
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Pepe El Toro
Overview: The simple life and the values of loyalty and solidarity of the poor people in the environment of professional boxing, is the plot of this film, where Pepe el Toro shows the effort and tragedies that are experienced in this profession.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1953-08-21
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Over the Waves
Overview: The life of the musician Juventino Rosas, who despite his talent lived an existence of misfortune and poverty.
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1950-09-13
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You the Rich
Overview: Pepe el Toro is married to Celia la Chorreada and they have two children.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1948-12-31
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Mexicanos al Grito de Guerra
Overview: In times of the French Intervention, a student of Nunó, author of the Mexican National Anthem, falls in love with the niece of the French Ambassador, which causes quite amusing complications.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1943-09-16
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We the Poor
Overview: Carpenter Pepe El Toro lives peacefully with his daughter Chachita in an impoverished Mexico City neighborhood. He pursues a romance with the pretty Celia, but tragedy comes knocking on his door when he is falsely accused of having perpetrated a felony.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1948-03-25
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El hombre cine mexicano: Pedro Infante, el mito
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1994-01-01
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My General's Wives
Overview: The encounter with an old lover puts a revolutionary general in great danger of death.
Genres: Drama Romance War Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1951-07-13
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Vuelven los García
Overview: Ruled by a tough grandma, the Garcías are three charro cousins who fall in love with young American-born Lupita and fight for her love until grandma quiets them.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1947-08-15
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The Three Garcías
Overview: Ruled by a tough grandma, the Garcías are three charro cousins who fall in love with young American-born Lupita and fight for her love until grandma quiets them.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1947-08-15
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Dicen que soy mujeriego
Overview: Pedro has had many lovers but he only loves one of them, but this romance stop going on for his flirts with other women.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1949-04-14
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Gitana tenías que ser
Overview: Pastora de los Reyes is a beautiful Spanish that goes to Mexico with a contract to film a movie. The main actors will receive her at the airport, among them is Paul, a little-known mariachi that has been chosen to become a new idol. Automatically, both had bad relations and during filming many discussions happens. This arguments gives way to a deep love.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1953-11-19
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Angelitos Negros
Overview: Starring Mexican star Pedro Infante, "Black Angels" is about a couple formed by a beautiful woman and a singer, both white, who are parents of a black girl. The woman blames him, but the girl will suffer the racist treatment from her own mother. Mexican version of the famous novel by Fannie Hurst "Imitation of Life"
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1948-11-19
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La vida de Pedro Infante
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Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1966-04-20
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Full Spead Ahead
Overview: A drifter lands a job as an officer in México City's elite motorcycle police unit and gets home with a mate of this unit. The mate is in love with a girl, but he and she are always making jealous to each other. The drifter and the mate get involved themselves in a fight to become the winner of conquering ladies and performing unit acrobatic tricks, interfering with their friendship and profession.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1951-09-13
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Cuidado con el amor
Overview: Salvador accompanied by two friends of his father whom he calls uncles, they arrive at a fair in the village, there he meets Ana. When he wins a bet he is paid with a mortgaged house, to his surprise upon entering the hom he realizes that Ana and her mother live in it, provoking a funny entanglement with an explosive final.
Genres: Comedy Drama Western
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1954-12-08
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School for Tramps
Overview: Alberto Medina is a famous composer whose car breaks down while he is on a trip. While looking for help, he finds the Valverdes' house and is welcomed in by Emilia, the mother of the family, who is known for taking in tramps.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1955-01-27
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School for Buglars
Overview: The police plan to capture a killer by using a double that looks exactly as one of his victims.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1958-05-09
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Pablo y Carolina
Overview: Torn between three lovers and bored by her typewriting classes, Carolina (Dillian) writes a passionate love letter to fictional Pablo Garza from Monterrey. The letter is sent by mistake and received by real Pablo Garza's girlfriend. Pablo himself (Infante) flies to Mexico City looking for an explanation. Carolina is rehearsing a musical show for her school dressed as a man. When Pablo meets her, she pretends to be her brother Anibal, a shy and feminine sailor. Pablo likes Anibal and invites "him" to a cabaret. After that, Carolina falls inlove with Pablo but resists to unveil her real self. Meanwhile, Pablo feels himself confused, because young "Anibal" is cute as an angel and has "those blue eyes..."
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1957-04-27
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The Innocent
Overview: After a quarrel with her boyfriend on New Year's Eve, Mane drives her car from Mexico City to Cuernavaca to meet her parents in their country house. The car breaks down in the highway and Mane has to ask for help. Mechanic Cruci arrives and, after testing the car, offers Mane a ride on his motorcycle. Back in Mane's house, she invites him some drinks to celebrate New Year's Eve. They get drunk and, the morning after, Mane's parents arrive and find them sleeping together. Not knowing what happened, Mane and Cruci are forced to get married against their will.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1956-09-20
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Tizoc
Overview: An Indian arouses envy for his expertise in hunting animals without ruining their skins, for his wisdom and his kindness.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1957-10-23
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The Hawks
Overview: The story of two half brothers who do not know they are such, who fight over a woman and nearly kill each other. One of them belongs to Los Gavilanes, a group of men who live live hidden and looting to give to the poor. Revenge, love and hate will at the end bring out the truth and everyone will get what he deserves.
Genres: Western
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1956-02-10
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La vida no vale nada
Overview: Pablo, a wandering laborer, has imprisoned himself in a hell of alcoholism. Cruz, a widow, reaches out to the troubled man, but even her compassion may not be enough to save him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1955-05-04
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Dos tipos de cuidado
Overview: Jorge Bueno and Pedro Malo are best friends who consider giving up their womanizing ways when they each fall in love. As fate would have it, Pedro Malo unexpectedly marries Jorge Bueno's girlfriend, and the conflict between the former buddies begins.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1953-11-05
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Anxiety
Overview: Twins (both played by Infante) are separated while very young, one raised as a singer by their widowed mother and another as the heir to one of Mexico's richest families. Their paths cross in the future, but they are unable to recognize each other due to their very different social backgrounds.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-10-02
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Había una vez un marido
Overview: Due to confusion, Rafael is believed responsible for the death of Teresa. His wife Lilia and his brother looking for the real culprits.
Genres: Crime Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1953-03-05
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El enamorado
Overview: Martin retired from his job as a hero because of his marriage to Rosario, a beautiful and ambitious girl who passed through the workshop where he works. However, Martin has to return in principle to help a friend from robbers.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance Western
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1952-09-05
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A Place Close to Heaven
Overview: On reaching the capital, Pedro Gonzalez gets a lowly job and marries Margaret. After losing that job, get a new one as a bodyguard but is fired again. With so much poverty and despair Pedro believes that his only way out is suicide.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1952-08-22
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Por ellas aunque mal paguen
Overview: Don Anastacio, an aristocrat passing through a rough patch,He will make marry his daughter Isabel with wealthy rancher. Isabel and her family refuse to work, Jose Manuel takes them to the ranch, where they are forced to work for food.
Genres: Romance Comedy Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1952-08-16
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Ahí viene Martín Corona
Overview: Martin Corona, player and womanizer, defends the underprivileged, the poor and the needy. He will have to defend a Spanish girl and her servant from the clutches of the villainous of the town. Not only will he have to fight the bad guy, but against the pride of the girl who initially believes that he is the bad character and distrusts him. She was very proud to put him at her feet, but there was a problem, Martin Corona was due more to his people than anyone and she was not willing to risk losing it, so before marrying him, made him swear he would not intervene In other problems.
Genres: Comedy Drama Western
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1952-05-23
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¿Qué te ha dado esa mujer?
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1951-12-20
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The Seminarian
Overview: Returning to his home town, seminarist Miguel is forced to trade the robes for a charro costume in order to solve several problems that appear in his way, including the female kind.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1949-11-02
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Los Tres Huastecos
Overview: This is the story of three brothers - a priest, a soldier, and an outlaw - that are raised separately by their godfathers once their mother dies. They cross their paths again when the soldier and the priest move into two towns near the town the outlaw lives in. The drama will unfold once the three brothers meet each other.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1948-08-05
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Cuando lloran los valientes
Overview: A farmer is in love during revolutionary times.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1947-01-08
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Escándalo de estrellas
Overview: The story of the adventures and entanglements of the son of a famous film producer who is forced to study law.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1944-12-01
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La razón de la culpa
Overview: Romantic comedy.
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 1943-04-02
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La feria de las flores
Overview: Ranchera melodrama/romance.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1943-01-16
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Jesusita en Chihuahua
Overview: Ranchera comedy.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1942-10-08
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En un burro tres baturros
Overview: Three Spaniards emigrate to Mexico and become prosperous landowners.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1939-11-11
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El ametralladora
Overview: Peasant farmer and landowner are rivals for a woman. Sequel to Ay Jalisco No Te Rajes.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1943-09-28
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Cuando Habla El Corazon
Overview: Historical drama about the period just before the beginning of the Mexican Revolution.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-10-21
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Los hijos de María Morales
Overview: Two brothers known in town for their womanizing, drinking and rowdiness meet their matches when two girls who like them decide to tame the two machos.
Genres: Comedy Romance Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1952-08-13
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Si me han de matar mañana
Overview: Romantic triangle during the Mexican Revolution.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1947-05-26
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La barca de oro
Overview: Ranch-heiress chooses a husband.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1947-08-13
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Music School
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Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1955-10-12
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Cartas Marcadas
Overview: A tale of intrigue and deceit concerning two young lovers who, despite the fact that their relationship was originally founded on greed, soon discover that their feelings for one and other have grown more genuine than they ever expected.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1948-03-14
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The Poulterer Hawk
Overview: Two bumpkins in the big city fight over the same girl, until they realize that she's playing them against each other.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1951-01-26
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Necesito dinero
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Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1952-01-01
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Soy charro de Rancho Grande
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Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1947-11-06
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They also sing of pain
Overview: The movie starts with Braulio Peláez (Pedro Infante), a schoolteacher, having just fallen off his horse, representing the situation he and his family are in. The next scenes introduce the viewer to his family and their poor financial and social situation. As Braulio stumbles around looking for his glasses, he causes a famous film star, Alfonso de Madrazo (Rafael Alcaide) to crash his car. Braulio offers him to eat at his house as an apology. Braulio's sister and mother, big film fans, immediately recognise Alfonso and attempt to get him to bring the girl, Luisa Peláez (Irma Dolores) to Mexico City to become a film star. Alfonso agrees and tells them to come to the capital.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1950-08-31
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The Third Word
Overview: The English-language title of this Mexican musical was The Third Word. Singer Pedro Infante stars as a pampered young man who is sheltered by his doting aunts. Deciding that their darling boy needs an education, the ladies hire pretty schoolteacher Marga Lopez. Upon discovering that her pupil is 28 years old, Marga is momentarily nonplused, but then settles into her duties. Inevitably, romance blossoms between Pedro and Marga, much to the aunts' dismay.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1956-07-03
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El mil amores
Overview: Carmen has a daughter, Patricia, who attends a school for young ladies where they think Carmen is married to a sailor. Viviano is a friend of Carmen and when she needs it, he poses as the father of Patricia and she believes is her father. Actually, Viviano is engaged with Marilu
Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1954-11-19
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La Mujer Que Yo Perdí
Overview: A political revolutionary fights against injustice, his adoring wife by his side. But only in her death does he realize the depth of her love for him and their country. A dramatic romance from the 23 film library of the most iconic classic Mexican film and recording star, Pedro Infante.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1949-07-12
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Pueblo Canto y Esperanza
Overview: Anthology-movie with episodes set in Cuba, Mexico and Colombia.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1956-05-17
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Far from Heaven
Overview: Pedro Gonzalez first gets into trouble as part of a criminal gang and then works honourably to become rich. Money is his undoing allowing him to become a womanizer and drinker, almost losing his wife. Finally he rejoins her, they have a son and he pays for his mistakes.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1952-02-27
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Las Islas Marias
Overview: Las Islas Marias stars Pedro Infante as a man who must face time in jail, even though he never committed the crime. While on the inside, he learns important life lessons that actually make him a better man.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1951-08-10
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Hooray for Women!
Overview: Movie in which funny situations based on the entanglements caused by a woman named Felicidad to her family because of her feminist ideology are presented, to the extent of bringing her daughters and herself to a divorce trial.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1943-07-09
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Viva Mi Desgracia
Overview: After drinking a special concoction made of various types of alcohol, the once-timid Ramon (Pedro Infante) suddenly turns into a brawler and extroverted ladies' man. With his newfound confidence, Ramon attempts to win the heart of the woman (María Antonieta Pons) he loves. Full of enjoyable songs and funny scenes, this entertaining Mexican musical centers on a wealthy man who finally realizes that money can't buy him love.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1944-01-01
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Si, Mi vida
Overview: Dr. Castellanos is saved from bankruptcy.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1953-05-14
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This was Pedro Infante
Overview: The life of Pedro Infante, with scenes from his best films and the chaos that his tragic death caused in the public.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1963-01-01
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Reportaje
Overview: Reporters compete for cash prize awarded for biggest scoop on New Year's Eve.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1953-11-13
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