Óscar Ortiz de Pinedo
Also Known As: Óscar O. de Piñedo
Biography: Óscar Ortiz de Pinedo (November 2, 1910 – December 13, 1978) was a Cuban character actor best remembered for his numerous roles as eccentric businessmen. Married to actress Lupita Pallás, he was the father of famous comedian Jorge Ortiz de Pinedo.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: La Habana, Cuba
Birthday: November 02, 1910
Deathday: December 13, 1978
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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The Waltzes came from Vienna and the Children from Paris
Overview: Unmarried opera singer has a baby, and her friends convince her to pass it off as the grandchild of a wealthy old lady.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1966-01-13
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Dos gemelas estupendas
Overview: Rosa Blanca is a Spanish singer and dancer hired for a show in Mexico. She travels with her twin sister, Blanca, but goes undercover as a surprise in the show. The twins also use their resemblance to confuse Herman, a young Mexican-Rosa Blanca's love, and also live moments of tension when receiving a death threat.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-03-14
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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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Póker de reinas
Overview: A musical comedy about a group of pretty girls who meet in Mexico and decide to break into showbiz and make a pact and promise not to get involved with men. But they all are in love with different guys and that complicates things.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1960-05-19
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Mi amorcito de Suecia
Overview: A failed marriage takes in a young niece while the wife tries to take away her inheritance.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1974-01-01
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Los secretos del sexo débil
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1962-05-31
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Amorcito corazón
Overview: Comical crises in the household of a newlywed couple.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-03-30
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Rebelde Sin Casa
Overview: Tin Tan interfered in a bank robbery, then got arrested when the perp.s escaped. Crooks and police are both after him...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-04-18
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Mujeres engañadas
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1961-01-01
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New faces
Overview: Mexican feature film
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1956-01-01
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Una estrella y dos estrellados
Overview: In his eagerness, to be movie extras, Tin Tan and his carnal Marcelo police get into trouble, among other entanglements.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1960-08-03
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El hombre del alazán
Overview: Professional gambler is getting old and jaded; his friends see him becoming a bad person and try to set him on a better path.
Genres: Western Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1959-09-29
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El secreto de una mujer
Overview: Artist has affair with his favorite model. She reveals to him that his wife had a baby before they married. And the-e-en...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1955-09-29
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Golden Wedding
Overview: On their anniversary, a lomg-married couple reminisce about the history of their marriage
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1956-10-24
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The King of México
Overview: A humble tramp is turned, for a couple of days, into the richest and most famous man in México.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1956-04-20
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Dos gallos en palenque
Overview: Venezuelan guy and Mexican rancher get competitive toward each other -- mostly over "the girl".
Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1960-03-03
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Escuela para solteras
Overview: All-star ranchera fest, rom-com style. Four charros, four eligible young ladies.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1965-03-25
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Estoy casado, ja, ja
Overview: Honeymooner has trouble adapting to the idea of consummating her marriage.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1962-04-05
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Veinticuatro horas de vida
Overview: Two cabdrivers accidentally get caught up in criminal/gang activity.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-02-13
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Que hombre tan sin embargo
Overview: Seemingly at random, a hobo dude attaches himself to an upper-middle-class family and starts influencing them for the better in their day-to-day activities
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1967-04-06
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The Moderate Doctor
Overview: Underqualified doofus tries to run a medical clinic.
Genres: Family Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1971-08-12
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El que con niños se acuesta...
Overview: Chón is rejected by his girlfriend Rosario's parents, so they both escape to the capital in search of his friend Manny, a millionaire philanthropist, who helps him but makes him adopt four children from his orphanage.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1959-06-21
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Acapulcan
Overview: Gloria sells dolls in benefit of UNICEF and is interested in putting on an international show. In a hotel in Acapulco the ranchero Javier, the Muslims Mustafa and Ali, the Brazilian Mr. Carioca and the charro José Lorenzo meet to carry out the project. Among the men there will be a series of entanglements to dispute the love of the young woman.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1959-05-14
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Fear Doesn't Ride a Donkey
Overview: This funny Mexican film tell the tale of a family who will do anything to get rid of the rich old lady who sits at the head of the clan. All the hilarious members want a piece of the very lucrative inheritance money. What they don't know, however, is that grandma has left all of the money to her trusty dog.
Genres: Horror Comedy Family
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1976-11-25
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Rosa la tequilera
Overview: The singer Rosa La Tequilera is besieged by a very powerful rancher who wants to get to her at all costs, but finds resistance as there is another who wants the same.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1967-05-04
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3 Lessons of Love
Overview: The rigid professor Germán, president of the League of Honor and Modesty, hates statues of naked women, but the spirit of his ancestor Casanova leads him to episodes of debauchery and conquest. Married to the rigid Severa, he becomes a corrupt mayor. Only the moralistic Rosa will be able to free him from these strange influences to improve his life and that of the town.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1959-01-07
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Un Latin lover en Acapulco
Overview: Roberto is tired of his life as an office worker in Mexico City, so he moves to Acapulco to try his luck as a "Latin lover".
Genres: Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1967-01-02
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House of Terror
Overview: Casimiro, night watchman at a wax museum of horrors, is even more sleepy than his usual laziness makes him - because his boss, the Professor, is secretly draining blood from him while he dozes to use in experiments in raising the dead. These haven't worked so far, and the bodies have been waxened and placed on display in the museum to cover his crimes. His big chance seems to come, however, when he learns that the mummified body of a modern man has been found in an Egyptian sarcophagus. The professor and his two henchmen steal the body and take it back to his lab - where the experiment flops again.
Genres: Science Fiction Horror Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1960-06-05
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La madrecita
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1974-10-17
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Drop the Curtain
Overview: Cantinflas, who owns a cleaning business, cleans the windows of the house of a famous French actress. While carrying out his work he observes how a man steals one of the famous actress necklaces, but he can only see his back.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1955-08-31
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El gran pillo
Overview: A comic movie that involves a guy who sees a kid in his house who escaped from his wealthy grandfather's mansion.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1960-03-17
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El analfabeto
Overview: Inocencio Prieto y Calvo receives a letter telling him he is the heir to his uncle's fortune of two million pesos. Not being able to read he has no idea of who sent the letter or its content. So he goes to the drugstore because the pharmacist can read the letter to him. But while waiting to be helped he sees that a young girl can read. He figures he has to be able to discover the letter's content by himself and decides he will save the letter and go to school, and wait to read the letter on his own.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1961-09-07
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On the dead the crowns
Overview: A family has their daughter marry a dying man in order to get an inheritance, but get into trouble when the man survives his illness.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1961-12-14
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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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La cigüeña distraída
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Genres: Family Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1966-03-13
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Báñame mi amor
Overview: A 1968 film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1968-01-05
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El hombre que me gusta
Overview: A man facing bankruptcy and ruin rehearses a couple of scenarios relating to suicide, until his family convinces him he's worth more alive than dead.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1958-11-13
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Bataclán mexicano
Overview: International showgirl engineers a green-card marriage for herself to avoid being deported.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1956-08-30
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Conquistador de la luna
Overview: Called to the home of a scientist to deal with a simple electrical problem, bumbling electrician Bartolo finds himself aboard a rocket headed for the moon!
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1960-12-25
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Desnúdate, Lucrecia
Overview: Commercial artist and her fiancé go to Acapulco for a weekend, and she discovers that their engagement was a mistake. Lookie-here, Mr. Right just came along! (But he's got his own comical baggage.)
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1958-05-05
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School for Mothers-in-Law
Overview: Dizzy society matron plucks a hobo out of the gutter to rehabilitate him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1958-12-01
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Los amores de Marieta (los fabulosos 20s)
Overview: Young woman and her godfather make up a story about her past in order to trick a suitor into marrying her. Then she becomes a musical comedy star and Mexican Revolution.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1964-05-14
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La casa de las muchachas
Overview: A whore house is transformed into a decent household by a respectable man.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1969-10-30
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Mi mujer necesita marido
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1959-02-05
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Vacaciones en Acapulco
Overview: A busfull of tourists arrives in Acapulco; each passenger has his/her little chunk of drama or comedy.
Genres: Comedy Adventure Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1961-05-22
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El primer paso... de la mujer
Overview: Three girls from different social classes are forced to take that first step into adulthood that leads them to live fun adventures and also unfortunate events.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1974-05-02
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Esta noche si
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1968-05-28
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Three Black Angels
Overview: Three Black Angels (Spanish: Tres angelitos negros) is a 1960 Mexican comedy film directed by Fernando Cortés and starring Miguel Aceves Mejía, Yolanda Varela and Pedro Vargas.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1960-06-09
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The Force of Desire
Overview: Wicked girl uses nude modeling as a way to seduce a wealthy painter into marriage, while still trying to keep an artschool stud piece on the side.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1955-07-22
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Maternidad imposible
Overview: Mother and child are separated during the Spanish Civil War. Believing the mother to be dead, the child is sent to a refugee orphanage in Mexico, then adopted. Meanwhile, Mama recovers from her injuries, and...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-05-05
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La mafia del crimen
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Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1958-01-01
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La vida tiene tres días
Overview: Big-city songwriter and small-town music student conduct a romance by mail, then finally meet.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-09-01
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