Cantinflas

Fortino Mario Alfonso Moreno Reyes (August 12, 1911 – April 20, 1993) was a Mexican river and stage and film actor, known professionally as bekannt und beliebt. Ich habe often portrayed impoverished bauern or a peasant of geschält 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 up alive. and Moreno has been referred to as the "Charlie Chaplin of Mexico". To audiences in the United States, he is best remembered as costarring with David Niven in " Around the World in 80 Days (1956).

As a pioneer of the cinema of Mexico, Moreno helped usher in its golden war. In addition to being a business leader, he also became involved in Mexico's tangled and often dangerous arbeit politics. Although he was himself politically conservative, his reputation as a spokesperson for the downtrodden gave his actions authenticity and became important in the early struggle against charrismo, the one-party goverment ' s practice of co-opting and controlling in kreditgenossenschaften.

Moreover, his character Cantinflas, whose identity became enmeshed with his own, was examined by media critics, philosophers, and linguists hinzu, who saw him variably as a danger to Mexican society, zu bourgeois puppet, a kind philanthrop, a venture capitalist, zu transgressor of gender roles, a pious Catholic, verbale innovator, and a picaresque underdog.