Francisco Reiguera

Francisco Reiguera

Born: November 9, 1899
Died: March 15, 1969
in Madrid, Spain
Francisco Reiguera (November 9, 1899 – March 15, 1969) was a Spanish actor who is best known for playing the title role in Orson Welles’ unfinished film version of Don Quixote. He also appeared in the films Simon of the Desert (1965), Major Dundee (1965) and Guns for San Sebastian (1968).

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Don Quixote
Title: Don Quixote
Character: Don Quijote
Released: April 20, 1992
Type: Movie
Don Quixote, accompanied by Sancho Panza, wander the roads of Spain protecting the weak and doing good deeds in the name of his beloved Dulcinea.
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Super Colt 38
Title: Super Colt 38
Released: September 5, 1969
Type: Movie
Billy Hayes, the marshal, discovers that the bandit whom he has been pursuing so long, and who has for months been torching his county, is none other than an old friend from childhood. Upon being confronted with the truth, the friend draws his gun, and Billy is forced to kill him in justifiable defense. Overwhelmed by guilt, he renounces his office and swears to never use arms again. He rides off toward the town where he and his old friend grew up together. Upon arriving there, he soon becomes involved in a dangerous situation, where Billy must decide whether he will fulfill his promise to keep away from arms, or intervene to save the honor of a woman and the life of an innocent man.
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Guns for San Sebastian
Title: Guns for San Sebastian
Character: Bishop
Released: March 20, 1968
Type: Movie
Leon Alastray is an outlaw who has been given sanctuary by Father John, whom he then escorts to the village of San Sebastian. The village is deserted, with its cowardly residents hiding in the hills from Indians, who regularly attack the village and steal all their supplies. When Father John is murdered, the villagers mistakenly think the outlaw is the priest. Alastray at first tells them he is not a priest, but they don't believe it, and an apparent miracle seems to prove they are correct. Eventually, he assists them in regaining their confidence and defending themselves.
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Seis días para morir
Title: Seis días para morir
Character: Don Joaquín
Released: November 9, 1967
Type: Movie
Public health thriller: rabies in Mexico City.
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Viva Maria!
Title: Viva Maria!
Character: Father Superior
Released: November 22, 1965
Type: Movie
Gorgeous IRA operative Marie flees the British authorities and finds herself somewhere in the American continent, where she meets a stunning woman also named Marie, a singer in a traveling circus. The new friends start a vaudeville act that grows exponentially more popular after they incorporate striptease into their routine. When the singer Maria falls for a charismatic rebel, the girls leave the circus behind and recreate themselves as wild-eyed revolutionaries.
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Simon of the Desert
Title: Simon of the Desert
Character: The Devil as an Old Witch
Released: August 27, 1965
Type: Movie
Simon, a deeply religious man living in the 4th century, wants to be nearer to God so he climbs a column. The Devil wants him come down to Earth and is trying to seduce him.
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Major Dundee
Title: Major Dundee
Character: Old Apache
Released: April 7, 1965
Type: Movie
During the last winter of the Civil War, cavalry officer Amos Dundee leads a contentious troop of Army regulars, Confederate prisoners and scouts on an expedition into Mexico to destroy a band of Apaches who have been raiding U.S. bases in Texas.
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Entrega Inmediata
Title: Entrega Inmediata
Character: Odilon Campos Santos
Released: December 25, 1963
Type: Movie
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.
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Dos tontos y un loco
Title: Dos tontos y un loco
Character: Guitarrón I
Released: December 21, 1961
Type: Movie
Crown-prince of a primitive country goes to Mexico for college. Wacky hijinks ensue.
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Jóvenes y rebeldes
Title: Jóvenes y rebeldes
Character: Don Celso, dueño del Cafe
Released: November 30, 1961
Type: Movie
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El analfabeto
Title: El analfabeto
Character: Juez (uncredited)
Released: September 7, 1961
Type: Movie
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.
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Pegando con tubo
Title: Pegando con tubo
Character: Doctor
Released: July 19, 1961
Type: Movie
Developmentally-challenged guy and is caretaker get drafted into he police force and take part in the manhunt for a bank robber.
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The Phantom of the Operetta
Title: The Phantom of the Operetta
Character: Jeremias (uncredited)
Released: December 22, 1960
Type: Movie
Aldo and his girlfriend Lucy reopen an abandoned opera house, but find out that the place is inhabited by a group of Phantoms wearing the Claude Rains 1943 Phantom of the Opera costume.
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Three Black Angels
Title: Three Black Angels
Character: Doctor
Released: June 9, 1960
Type: Movie
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.
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Mysteries of Black Magic
Title: Mysteries of Black Magic
Character: Director funeraria
Released: November 26, 1958
Type: Movie
Six hundred year old witch butts heads with a scholar over the possession of a rare ancient grimoire and then discovers that his daughter's fiance is the reincarnation of her first boyfriend.
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Enchanted Island
Title: Enchanted Island
Character: Medicine Man
Released: November 8, 1958
Type: Movie
Two 19th-century sailors jump ship only to discover their tropical paradise is a cannibal stronghold.
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With my finger on the trigger
Title: With my finger on the trigger
Character: Licenciado Lara
Released: October 8, 1958
Type: Movie
The Private detective Raúl Marín with the help of his grandmother and the police commander Aragón try to find out the murder of several homicides in three episodes: El Anónimo, El Ídolo and El Hipnotizador.
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Plazos traicioneros
Title: Plazos traicioneros
Released: July 3, 1958
Type: Movie
A down in his luck film director falls in love with an attractive waitress and decides to launch her as a big singing star. Once the goal is reached, the girl runs away and becomes involved with a gangster who leads her into prostitution.
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The Last of the Fast Guns
Title: The Last of the Fast Guns
Character: Pablo
Released: July 1, 1958
Type: Movie
A rich, dying Easterner hires gunfighter Brad Ellison to find his brother and heir in Mexico. En route, it becomes clear to Ellison that his is a dying profession. At a remote rancho, Ellison enlists ranch foreman Miles Lang to help him search the hills where the missing man is rumored to have lived. They find nothing ...except that someone wants to kill them; and Ellison becomes wrapped in a maze of double crosses.
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Pobres millonarios
Title: Pobres millonarios
Character: Simón, el enterrador
Released: December 25, 1957
Type: Movie
Squatter neighborhood finds a wealthy sponsor.
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The Head of Pancho Villa
Title: The Head of Pancho Villa
Released: November 29, 1957
Type: Movie
Rival factions struggle over a box that was entrusted by Pancho Villa to several members of his higher command. Second of three films in series "El jinete sin cabeza."
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La faraona
Title: La faraona
Character: Don Isaac
Released: December 10, 1956
Type: Movie
Pastora Heredia is a beautiful gypsy with great character who always tries to help the needy. One day she gots the notice of the death of his grandfather, a millionaire who lived in Mexico and that since his father was angry, she knew nothing of him. However, as Pastora was his only granddaughter and sole heir of all his property, it does not hesitate to cross the pond to claim his inheritance. But once there is that Don Guillermo, grandfather, not dead.
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Wuthering Heights
Title: Wuthering Heights
Character: José
Released: June 30, 1954
Type: Movie
Gone several years, the brooding Alejandro returns to the hacienda of his foster sister, Catalina, whom he loves, to find her married to the wealthy and effete Eduardo.
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Rebellion of the Hanged
Title: Rebellion of the Hanged
Character: Director funerario
Released: January 20, 1954
Type: Movie
A peasant who works in a mahogany camp in the Mexican jungles with his family is disgusted with the miserable living conditions imposed upon himself and his co-workers, the peasant finally spearheads a revolt against the sadistic bosses.
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The Devil's Money
Title: The Devil's Money
Character: El papi
Released: September 11, 1953
Type: Movie
Los dineros del diablo (The Devil's Money) is a Mexican drama film directed by Alejandro Galindo. It was released in 1953 and starring Amalia Aguilar and Roberto Cañedo.
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Me traes de un ala
Title: Me traes de un ala
Character: (uncredited)
Released: February 5, 1953
Type: Movie
To conquer the beautiful vedette Rosita, journalist Tin Tan is subject to her whims. Fired along with his friend Narciso from the newspaper they worked, Tin Tan trying to sell a movie plot. A woman looking to buy it and Tin Tan will visit her in a gloomy mansion where a mess is unleashed.
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Mexican Bus Ride
Title: Mexican Bus Ride
Character: Miguel Suárez (uncredited)
Released: June 25, 1952
Type: Movie
Newlywed Oliverio receives disturbing news that his mother is on her deathbed. He travels to a remote part of Mexico to fetch a lawyer who can sort out her will. Leaving his wife behind, he embarks on a bus ride that’s interrupted by an increasingly absurd series of episodes, including an impromptu birthday celebration; a one-legged man writhing in the mud; come-ons from an insatiable small-town belle, Raquel; and Oliverio’s frequent, Freudian nightmares.
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The Martyr of Calvary
Title: The Martyr of Calvary
Character: Anás el Viejo
Released: April 2, 1952
Type: Movie
The life of Jesus from the beginning of his ministry, his miracles, the Sermon on the Mount and his death on the cross.
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Las locuras de Tin Tan
Title: Las locuras de Tin Tan
Character: Lucas de Mente
Released: January 9, 1952
Type: Movie
Tin-Tan wants to builds an ice cream machine.
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The Port of the Seven Sins
Title: The Port of the Seven Sins
Character: Capitán
Released: November 11, 1951
Type: Movie
Career criminals vie for ownership of a disreputable waterfront dive and for the love of the cabaret-gal that sings there.
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Apartment house
Title: Apartment house
Released: February 8, 1951
Type: Movie
Personal dramas among the residents of an apartment house.
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Victims of Sin
Title: Victims of Sin
Character: Don Gonzalo
Released: February 2, 1951
Type: Movie
A nightclub performer decides to raise the baby boy she found abandoned in a trash can, putting her job and social life in jeopardy.
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Confidencias de un ruletero
Title: Confidencias de un ruletero
Character: Joyero (uncredited)
Released: November 16, 1949
Type: Movie
Taxi driver takes the wrong passenger at the wrong time and gets caught up in a murder investigation.
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Hipócrita..!
Title: Hipócrita..!
Character: Don Simón
Released: October 11, 1949
Type: Movie
A disfigured woman is helped by a talented composer to recover her face with plastic surgery. Then he discovers that she's a beautiful woman and a talented singer.
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Salon Mexico
Title: Salon Mexico
Character: Complice de Paco (uncredited)
Released: February 25, 1949
Type: Movie
Mercedes works as a cabaret performer to pay for her sister's studies. Problems begin when Mercedes and Paco, her exploiter, win a dance contest, but he refuses to share the prize with her.
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What a Beautiful Legs!
Title: What a Beautiful Legs!
Character: El muerto
Released: February 24, 1949
Type: Movie
A man hired to impersonate a bankrupt business mogul who is currently on the run from creditors sets out organize a musical starring beauties from Brazil, Mexico, and Spain in this Spanish-language comedy starring popular funnyman Tin Tan. Now, as the hapless imposter attempts to finance a musical without any money, he also discovers just how difficult it can be to juggle three beautiful starlets who all have eyes for their presumably wealthy producer.
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Ahí vienen los Mendoza
Title: Ahí vienen los Mendoza
Character: Don Gorgonio, boticario
Released: November 1, 1948
Type: Movie
Two brothers "out on the ranch" fight over girls and stuff.
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Rosenda
Title: Rosenda
Character: Padre Rubio
Released: October 20, 1948
Type: Movie
A ruffian sends his assistant to force a peasant girl to marry him, but while he is bringing her to him, he falls in love with her.
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El Supersabio
Title: El Supersabio
Character: Profesor Peralta (uncredited)
Released: September 4, 1948
Type: Movie
Cantinflas is the apprentice of a renowned scientist, Prof. Arquimides Monteagudo (Carlos Martinez Baena). But Cantinflas has the soul of a poet rather than a serious researcher, and he wants to find the formula that achieves the immortality of the roses. Nevertheless, after the death of Prof. Monteagudo, Cantinflas will be chased by a ferocious corporative group, who wants to steal the secret formula of a cheaper fuel named "carburex", because they think that our friend is the only person who knows the composition
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Una aventura en la noche
Title: Una aventura en la noche
Character: Malachias el mayordomo
Released: July 9, 1948
Type: Movie
Film version of the 'hitchhiking ghost' urban legend.
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Nocturno de amor
Title: Nocturno de amor
Released: January 11, 1948
Type: Movie
Venice Film Festival 1948
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Arsenio Lupin
Title: Arsenio Lupin
Character: Napoleon Manicornio, aka Francisco, the servant
Released: January 1, 1947
Type: Movie
Arsenio Lupin is an audacious Parisian thief who mocks the police, especially Inspector Ganimard, but turns over most of his ill-gotten gains to charity. One night, he attends a party disguised as a newspaper writer who also mocks Ganimard; the next morning, the host's wife and a male guest are found murdered, and Ganimard arrives to solve the crime. A Mexican version of the Arsene Lupin character, with Sherlock Holmes tossed in as a cameo at the end.
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El superhombre
Title: El superhombre
Released: January 1, 1946
Type: Movie
1946 Mexican film directed by Chano Urueta.
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Jesus of Nazareth
Title: Jesus of Nazareth
Character: Apostol
Released: March 26, 1942
Type: Movie
The biblical story of The Messiah from his baptism through his crucifixion.