Alberto Catalá
Also Known As: Alberto Catalá Pardavé
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Mexico City, México
Birthday: February 18, 1910
Deathday: March 09, 1989
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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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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The Body Snatcher
Overview: A detective and his cowboy friend team up to stop a mad scientist who is stealing the bodies of murdered wrestlers, and bringing them back to life while electronically replacing their minds with those of animals to make them stronger and live longer. Posing as a successful masked wrestler, the cowboy quickly attracts the attention of the scientist and his henchmen as their next experimental subject...
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1957-09-26
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Picardía mexicana
Overview: An academic tags along among a crew of rowdy delivery-truck drivers, taking notes on their colorful and idiomatic use of language.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1978-12-21
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Si yo fuera diputado
Overview: Cantinflas is a unique barber, who trades with an elderly neighbor, a lawyer by profession, laws lessons in exchange for haircuts and shaved. It proposes advice to defend in court the disadvantaged neighborhood. His success deputy seeks the votes as the other candidate, Don Próculo, it is not accepted by anyone but his own bodyguards. Don Próculo will use know how much ruse to win the election by the Council, and also for the love of 'Sarita'
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1952-01-30
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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 bolero de Raquel
Overview: The film tells an episode of the life of a kindly hearted bootblack who becomes accidentally the tutor of an orphan but nevertheless spends all his time and effort for the sake of the boy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1957-10-09
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Sube y baja
Overview: It is the story of a sportsman who is a little bit dumber than most people but nevertheless he succeeds in getting a job at a sports article saler's. Having this job is the beginning of a lot of funny problems he causes due to his dumbness.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1959-01-01
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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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El Extra
Overview: Cantinflas is a man who hangs around the studios and helps anyone who needs his advice while at the same time envisioning his own versions of how certain scenes should be shot. Both angles provide ample opportunities for very witty, subtle barbs at the foibles of the industry.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1962-10-04
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Entrega Inmediata
Overview: Immediate delivery recounts the misadventures of Feliciano Callosum (Cantinflas), a postman who is recruited by the secret counterintelligence service (called XU-777 secret agency), and must uncover an international conspiracy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1963-12-25
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El padrecito
Overview: Young priest Father Sebastián is assigned to a parish in San Jeronimo el Alto, where he is not welcomed by the community, particularly the resident priest Father Damián. The newcomer gradually earns the trust of the people through humor, but firmly captures their hearts by saving the town fiesta by fighting a bull when the hired torero failed to show. Father Sebastián counsels the townspeople, lecturing them on their duties in a modern society. He used the collection plate to redistribute the town's wealth more evenly.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1964-09-03
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El señor doctor
Overview: It's about a country doctor that comes to the city while a clinic is built in his home town... he rubs off his care and compassion on others at the hospital with his humor and wit.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1965-10-07
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Your Excellency
Overview: Lopitos, who is horribly inefficient but quick-witted, is invited (because of the current ambassador's superstition about 13 sitting down to a meal) to a banquet attended by the ambassadors of both superpowers. After the news of a series of coups d'état in Los Cocos arrives throughout the meal, Lopitos becomes the official ambassador. At a summit of world leaders, the representatives of the two world superpowers court the allegiances of third-world diplomats to tilt the balance of global power in their favor. The last diplomat to remain unaligned, Lopitos instead harangues the superpowers for infringing on the rights of developing countries to self determination, talking to them with his point of view as a citizen not as ambassador because he arranged his demise as ambassador one day before his speech.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1967-05-03
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Por mis pistolas
Overview: Fidencio Borer, an apothecary in a village on the northern border of Mexico, discovers some old title of a mine in Arizona and decides to claim them. Trying to cross the border is a border guard intercepted by exaggerating in the line of duty. On the way is captured by a tribe of Apaches and is about to be burned alive, but thanks to the Great Head Horse Lying having toothache and learns that the prisoner it can heal, ordered his release on the condition that the cure. Fidencio would take the wheel and gets the eternal friendship of the Chief apache.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Western
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1968-08-21
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El patrullero 777
Overview: Follows Diogenes as he goes about his day as a police officer. He's prone to do things the right way, surrounded by a pretty much corrupt & citizen distant police department, & always resolves his duties with a personal method.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1978-04-27
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El Barrendero
Overview: A cheerful sweeper collects garbage dancing, and the maids of the neighborhood get jealous because he invites another woman out.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1982-05-05
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Champion Without Crown
Overview: A young ice cream vendor, Roberto Terranova, witnesses a child being beaten and comes to his aid by physically overpowering the aggressor. His strength and natural ability catches the eye of a well-known boxing trainer. Considering him a diamond in the rough, he aims to put Roberto in the professional ring. But Roberto finds that his personal challenges must be overcome before he can achieve professional greatness.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1946-09-05
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Soy un golfo
Overview: Slacker decides to work and create a career for himself after he falls in love with an ambitious woman.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1955-07-08
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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 gitana blanca
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1954-08-18
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Sábado negro
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Genres: Thriller Drama Mystery
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1959-05-13
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Melodías de amor
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Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1955-11-16
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