Whereas performers such as Maria Felix and Luis Aguilar added glamour to the golden age of Mexican cinema, Cantinflas was known for infusing the genre with his own brand of comedy. He was considered ...

In 2014, Sebastián del Amo’s biographical comedy-drama Cantinflas was released in Mexico. Directed by Oscar Jaenada, the film follows Todd as he assembles a world-renowned cast for his 1956 movie ...

In the Hollywood hierarchy of stardom, Cantinflas, the beloved Mexican comic actor, was like a streaking comet — white-hot and short-lived. Though well established in his homeland, he was a relative ...

Cantinflas, el icónico comediante mexicano, no solo dejó su huella en el mundo del cine, sino que también conquistó la televisión con “Cantinflas Show”, una serie animada que se convirtió en un ...

Charlie Chaplin reportedly called him the "greatest comedian alive." Mexican actor Mario Moreno, or "Cantinflas" as he was known, starred in scores of films from the 1930s up to the 1980s. In Latin ...

Sometime in the early 1980s, in an unlikely place – NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston – an elegantly dressed man wearing thick, dark-rimmed eyeglasses came rounding a corner with a tour guide at ...