Carlos Orellana

Carlos Orellana

Born: December 28, 1900
Died: January 24, 1960
in Santiago Tezontlale, Mexico
Carlos Orellana was born on December 28, 1900 in Santiago Tezontlale, Hidalgo, Mexico as Carlos Orellana Martinez. He was an actor, director and writer.

Movies for Carlos Orellana...

Dos corazones y un cielo
Title: Dos corazones y un cielo
Released: October 27, 1959
Type: Movie
The marriage of a husb-and-wife singing duo hits the rock, brother-in-law tries to restore family harmony.
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Beneath the Sky of Mexico
Title: Beneath the Sky of Mexico
Released: October 22, 1958
Type: Movie
Romantic triangle. One of the guys is a very bad man.
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Castle of the Monsters
Title: Castle of the Monsters
Character: Don Melchor
Released: October 16, 1958
Type: Movie
A couple are forced to stay in a scary castle, and the castle is filled with monsters!
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Tizoc
Title: Tizoc
Character: Don Pancho García
Released: October 23, 1957
Type: Movie
An Indian arouses envy for his expertise in hunting animals without ruining their skins, for his wisdom and his kindness.
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Las medias de seda
Title: Las medias de seda
Released: November 2, 1956
Type: Movie
Vineyard worker is happy when her long-estranged artist brother comes to visit her. But then...
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Tú y las nubes
Title: Tú y las nubes
Released: December 1, 1955
Type: Movie
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Cupido pierde a Paquita
Title: Cupido pierde a Paquita
Released: October 19, 1955
Type: Movie
Rich family's maid thinks that maybe if she plays her cards right, she can land a moneybags husband. There's also a really cute auto mechanic, though, and...
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Los paquetes de Paquita
Title: Los paquetes de Paquita
Released: February 4, 1955
Type: Movie
Maid tries to smooth over the difficulties in her employers' marriage while juggling five or six potential boyfriends of her own.
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La calle de los amores
Title: La calle de los amores
Released: August 18, 1954
Type: Movie
Hubby latches onto a series of side-pieces and wifey finds it increasingly hard to put up with his behavior.
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Storm in the souls
Title: Storm in the souls
Released: June 24, 1954
Type: Movie
Lives in a "model factory," designed to create a progressive community among the workers.
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Romance de fieras
Title: Romance de fieras
Released: June 24, 1954
Type: Movie
Newly-graduated lawyer gets caught up in the personal drama surrounding a rich industrialist and his sociopathic son.
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Damned City!
Title: Damned City!
Character: Lucas
Released: February 28, 1954
Type: Movie
A humble provincial writer who wants to publish his first book offers it to a film producer who is looking for locations for a film at that time. The novelist's family then moves to the big city, where they will have to face many adversities that will make them wish they had never left their village.
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Reportaje
Title: Reportaje
Character: Policeman
Released: November 13, 1953
Type: Movie
Reporters compete for cash prize awarded for biggest scoop on New Year's Eve.
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Dos tipos de cuidado
Title: Dos tipos de cuidado
Character: Don Elías
Released: November 5, 1953
Type: Movie
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.
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From the Village to TV
Title: From the Village to TV
Character: Mr. Cecilio Zarraga
Released: January 22, 1953
Type: Movie
A young man goes to the capital to prove himself as an opera singer, after being rejected he must find other means to achieve fame
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When Children Sin
Title: When Children Sin
Character: Don Evaristo López
Released: November 20, 1952
Type: Movie
Bad girl makes lives miserable.
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Sandwiches Here!
Title: Sandwiches Here!
Character: Don Chente Mendoza
Released: October 12, 1951
Type: Movie
College students, ready to start entering adult society, are ashamed of their working-class backgrounds.
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Anacleto Gets Divorced
Title: Anacleto Gets Divorced
Released: September 7, 1950
Type: Movie
Anacleto and Baldomira are a couple who have problems because of gossip from their compadre who wants Baldomira. The marriage is separated for a short time because they realize that they love each other.
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Cuando los hijos odian
Title: Cuando los hijos odian
Released: February 9, 1950
Type: Movie
Woman and her daughter try to get on with their lives and run their family bakery while dealing with abusive alcoholic husband/father and other family problems.
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Café de chinos
Title: Café de chinos
Released: September 2, 1949
Type: Movie
Naive Chinese immigrant has feelings for a young woman of loose morals whom he hires at his restaurant.
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Los tres García
Title: Los tres García
Character: Priest
Released: August 15, 1947
Type: Movie
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.
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Vuelven los García
Title: Vuelven los García
Character: Priest
Released: August 15, 1947
Type: Movie
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.
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La barca de oro
Title: La barca de oro
Released: August 13, 1947
Type: Movie
Ranch-heiress chooses a husband.
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Crimen en la alcoba
Title: Crimen en la alcoba
Character: Don Trinidad Rojas
Released: October 16, 1946
Type: Movie
A man's on trial for murder; a friend who could prove his innocence chooses not to come forward. An interested detective starts working to discover the how-come of all of that.
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Pepita Jimenez
Title: Pepita Jimenez
Character: Padre Belisario
Released: February 22, 1946
Type: Movie
On March 22, four days after returning to his home in Andalusia, Luis de Vargas writes the first of his letters to his uncle and favorite professor at the seminary. He reports that his father intends to fatten him up during his vacation, to have him ready to return in the fall to finish his training for the priesthood. He mentions in passing that his father is courting a twenty-year-old, attractive widow, Pepita Jiménez; his father is fifty-five years old. Pepita had been married for only a short time to an eighty-year-old moneylender named Gumersindo. Luis is not eager to see his father marry again, but he promises his uncle not to judge Pepita before he knows her.
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La casa de la zorra
Title: La casa de la zorra
Released: December 6, 1945
Type: Movie
The owner of an illegal gambling casino witnesses all the problems in the life of her dissolute son and finally acts in a way that'll help him rehabilitate himself.
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Escuadrón 201
Title: Escuadrón 201
Released: November 30, 1945
Type: Movie
Personal stories of a handful of Air Force recruits.
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Amor Prohibido
Title: Amor Prohibido
Released: November 19, 1945
Type: Movie
Family life of a widowed father with four teenaged and young-adult children.
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La Fuga
Title: La Fuga
Character: Neftali
Released: July 4, 1944
Type: Movie
A stagecoach full of conflictive passengers makes its dangerours way from Mexico to Veracruz during the days of the French Intervention.
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¡Arriba las mujeres!
Title: ¡Arriba las mujeres!
Character: Laureano
Released: July 9, 1943
Type: Movie
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.
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Tierra De Pasiones
Title: Tierra De Pasiones
Released: May 20, 1943
Type: Movie
Romantic melodrama; hero and rich landowner are both after the same woman.
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Qué hombre tan simpático
Title: Qué hombre tan simpático
Character: Don Pancho
Released: March 19, 1943
Type: Movie
Amable is the drinking buddy of Paquito, a former medical student who plays Fanny's love, a cabaret singer and also with Conchita, a showgirl. One day, Paquito receives a telegram that his uncle Pancho vayaa asked to see his wife and other medical eminence to heal him his kidney ailment. Among all a hoax to mount Paquino not lose the inheritance from his uncle.
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Secreto Eterno
Title: Secreto Eterno
Released: March 16, 1942
Type: Movie
The Story of a Woman's Redemption
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Simón Bolívar
Title: Simón Bolívar
Character: General José Antonio Páez
Released: January 1, 1942
Type: Movie
Biopic of the revolutionary Simón Bolívar who fought to end Spanish rule over much of Latin America.
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Cinco minutos de amor
Title: Cinco minutos de amor
Character: Don Ataulfo
Released: December 11, 1941
Type: Movie
Bedroom farce, with three men claiming the same woman as their mistress.
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Borrasca humana
Title: Borrasca humana
Released: August 2, 1940
Type: Movie
A 1940 film directed by José Bohr.
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Miente y serás feliz
Title: Miente y serás feliz
Character: Don Luis
Released: May 31, 1940
Type: Movie
A Spanish, Juan, is obsessed with telling the truth always. As a result he is consistently in the middle of troubles...
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The Miracle Song
Title: The Miracle Song
Character: Isaac
Released: May 10, 1940
Type: Movie
A 1940 film directed by Rolando Aguilar.
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Pobre diablo
Title: Pobre diablo
Character: Ponciano Luque
Released: April 24, 1940
Type: Movie
An elderly homeless dude lucks into a situation where a young woman's uncle and her boyfriend ask him to impersonate her long-lost father and give her some nurturing parent attention.
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The Sign of Death
Title: The Sign of Death
Character: Dr. Gallardo
Released: December 23, 1939
Type: Movie
Two journalists, Carlos and Lola, investigate the murder of a young woman whose body appeared with her heart torn out, in what seems to be a human sacrifice. The investigation leads the reporters to a museum, whose director is the famous Doctor Gallardo.
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En un burro tres baturros
Title: En un burro tres baturros
Released: November 11, 1939
Type: Movie
Three Spaniards emigrate to Mexico and become prosperous landowners.
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El Capitan Aventurero
Title: El Capitan Aventurero
Character: Sargento Carrasquilla
Released: October 7, 1939
Type: Movie
Don Gil de Alacala (José Mojica), a swashbuckler also known as Captain Adventure, must overcome a series of difficult trials and tribulations in order to save the love of his life, Carmina (Manolita Saval), who is engaged to marry a terrible nobleman. Based upon the libretto "Don Gil de Alcala" by Manuel Penella, this classic black-and-white romance also stars Margarita Mora, Carlos Orellana and Sara García.
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Calumnia
Title: Calumnia
Released: January 1, 1939
Type: Movie
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It Happened in Havana
Title: It Happened in Havana
Released: December 5, 1938
Type: Movie
Wicked man seduces an innocent country girl into a life of degradation and nightclubs.
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La paloma
Title: La paloma
Character: Coronel Refugio Romero
Released: August 20, 1937
Type: Movie
Dazzled by the Empress Carlotta's graciousness, magnanimity and charm, a young officer in the Mexican army switches his allegiance to the Imperial government with Maximilian as figurehead. Bad move, space cadet.
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No te engañes corazón
Title: No te engañes corazón
Character: Don Boni
Released: May 19, 1937
Type: Movie
No te engañes corazón (released in English as Don't Fool Yourself Dear) is the first full-feature film of Cantinflas after becoming a star of the carpa circuit (folk theater). It was also one of the earliest films of Sara García and Carlos Orellana and the first where they share the screen. Don Boni (Orellana) is diagnosed with a deadly disease and decides to spend his last days doing good deeds. He leaves his wife and decides to help people. He then gets drunk and wakes up with a winning lottery ticket and realizes that the doctor who diagnosed him has been sent to prison for fraud.
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Juarez and Maximilian
Title: Juarez and Maximilian
Released: June 28, 1934
Type: Movie
The story of Mexican President Benito Juárez and the emperor Maximilian of Habsburg and the empress Carlota.
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The Crying Woman
Title: The Crying Woman
Character: Mario - criado
Released: March 31, 1933
Type: Movie
Llorona is a figure unique to Mexican folklore -- the wailing spirit of a woman who lost or killed her child and now returns to seek revenge and haunt the living. With its framing story and flashback structure, this film sets forth a couple of variations of the story.
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Santa
Title: Santa
Character: Hipólito
Released: March 30, 1932
Type: Movie
Santa is a beautiful and very humble young girl living in Chimalistac, a small and quiet spot south of the 1930's Mexico City. After Santa is cheated by arrogant soldier Marcelino, she's rejected by her family and friends and expelled of Chimalistac. Santa finds shelter in a whorehouse and becomes a cinic and bitter woman, mistreated by bullfighter "Jarameno" and silently loved by blind pianist Hipólito.