Carlos Martínez Baena

Carlos Martínez Baena

Born: May 7, 1889
Died: May 29, 1971
in Madrid, Spain
Carlos Martinez Baena was a character actor, who was born in Spain. At an early age he moved with his family to Mexico where he became a journalist. By 1920 he decided to become an actor while he was living in Argentina, and shortly afterward moved to Spain where he worked as a stage actor, eventually ppearing in films in Argentina, Spain and the U.S in Spanish language films made in the early and mid 1930s. In 1940 he returned to Mexico, escaping the fascist Franco goverment in Spain. The following year he began appearing in Mexican films in character parts, he was often cast as kindly old men, teachers, priests and appeared in many character parts. He was also very involved in the actor's union, during his career he also wrote and adapted sceenplays as well as writing poetry. In 1970 he completed his last film at the age 80, also a character part.

Movies for Carlos Martínez Baena...

Title: HKM (Hablan, kantan, mienten)
Released: December 8, 2008
Type: TV
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Un año en la luna
Title: Un año en la luna
Character: Javier
Released: May 30, 2004
Type: Movie
In late September, Iñigo comes to Madrid to study psychology and stays at the home of his sister Esther, who lives with a porn story writer called Gabriel and that is not going through its best. The three start a relationships sneaking, but neither will find it easy to tell if it's a simple adventure or if they are living a love story.
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Little Black Angels
Title: Little Black Angels
Released: August 29, 1970
Type: Movie
A racist woman who doesn't know about her own mixed heritage—even though she's lived with her black mother since birth—marries a pop singer. Everybody conspires to protect her from finding out about herself. It's not clear exactly why they do that.
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Perverse Doll
Title: Perverse Doll
Character: Profesor
Released: December 26, 1969
Type: Movie
A troubled woman commits a series of murders that exposes some dark family secrets.
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El analfabeto
Title: El analfabeto
Character: Profesor
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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Mi niño, mi caballo y yo
Title: Mi niño, mi caballo y yo
Released: June 4, 1959
Type: Movie
Nun tries to heal the relationship between a six-year-old boy and his estranged father.
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La mujer que no tuvo infancia
Title: La mujer que no tuvo infancia
Released: July 25, 1957
Type: Movie
Borderline mentally-ill woman with neurotic compulsion to behave like a child and the psychiatrist who looooves her.
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Good Love
Title: Good Love
Released: February 28, 1957
Type: Movie
Mother and son conspire against his sister when she marries against their wishes.
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La sombra vengadora
Title: La sombra vengadora
Character: Dr. Everardo Fuentes
Released: January 1, 1956
Type: Movie
An evil mastermind, known as La mano negra, attempts to steal a formula that creates synthetic drugs but a masked avenger known as La sombra will do anything to stop him.
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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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La sombra vengadora contra la mano negra
Title: La sombra vengadora contra la mano negra
Released: October 15, 1955
Type: Movie
Masked wrestler vs. gothic criminal gang. Third or fourth in a series.
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The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz
Title: The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz
Character: Priest
Released: May 19, 1955
Type: Movie
A bizarre black comedy about a man whose overwhelming ambition in life is to be a renowned serial killer of women, and will stop at nothing to achieve it - but not everything goes according to plan...
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Pecado Mortal
Title: Pecado Mortal
Character: Doctor Robles
Released: March 10, 1955
Type: Movie
Juan Manuel intends his wife Clara, who is blind, sign the will in his favor, but she refuses. With them lives Soledad, goddaughter Clara. A day comes Carlos, nephew of Juan Manuel, who is interested in Soledad. Carlos is going to study medicine in the United States and maintains correspondence with Soledad. Juan Manuel shows interest in Soledad but prevents Clara meet her. She is the daughter of Clara, who hid that Juan Manuel had killed the father of Soledad and also caused her blindness.
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La ciudad de los sueños
Title: La ciudad de los sueños
Released: October 25, 1954
Type: Movie
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The River and Death
Title: The River and Death
Character: Padre Julián
Released: August 22, 1954
Type: Movie
A useless and bloody vendetta has been going on for ages between two families in this Mexican village. Men, sons, have killed each other for generations, for a so-called conception of honor in a revenge that never ends since it is also triggered by people of the village. Now, today, there are only two sons left, one in each family. One has become a doctor in the big city and his culture is modern. The other last one - of the other family - hasn't left the village and is waiting for the doctor to come "home" as he plans to kill him, to settle this war on this matter of honor once and for all. And the people of the village want blood.
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The Intruder
Title: The Intruder
Character: don Pedro Almeida
Released: July 21, 1954
Type: Movie
Upon her arrival to the village San Ignacio, Gabriela meets Raúl, owner of a residence that her grandfather administrates. He doesn't reveal his real identity and they fall madly in love. Tania, Raúl's sister-in-law, secretly loves him and she decides to separate them by simulating a car accident from which Gabriela temporarily becomes paralized. Aware that they will marry, Tania makes the girl believe that Raúl is marrying her out of compassion, causing Gabriela to disappear from the residence...
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Camelia
Title: Camelia
Character: Sacerdote (uncredited)
Released: February 16, 1954
Type: Movie
A sort of meta riff on Alexandre Dumas fils' novel The Lady of the Camellias (La Dame aux Camélias or Camille) here in Mexican melodrama form involving the doomed love of a bullfighter and a beautiful but ailing actress/courtesan.
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Él
Title: Él
Character: Padre Velasco
Released: July 9, 1953
Type: Movie
Gloria encounters Francisco, a man whose social veneer betrays a truer self burrowed underneath.
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Si, Mi vida
Title: Si, Mi vida
Character: Doctor Amado Castellanos
Released: May 14, 1953
Type: Movie
Dr. Castellanos is saved from bankruptcy.
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Monte de piedad
Title: Monte de piedad
Character: Don Cándido Reyes
Released: August 1, 1951
Type: Movie
Anthology-movie, series of anecdotes about the personal tragedies that lead people to take their values posessions to the state-run pawnshop.
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El Siete Machos
Title: El Siete Machos
Character: Padre Guzman
Released: February 5, 1951
Type: Movie
Rosario, the niece of the rancher, returns to the ranch after ten years of absence. She takes in Margarito, a worker at the ranch, who is immediately smitten by her. Rosario is rescued from a runaway horse by the Seven Men, an outlaw a la Robin Hood that steals from the rich and gives to the poor. He also happens to be the twin brother of Margarito, unbeknownst to him. The confusion between Margarito and the Seven Men generates great comical situations in the film.
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Entre tu amor y el cielo
Title: Entre tu amor y el cielo
Character: Padre Juan
Released: November 30, 1950
Type: Movie
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Gema
Title: Gema
Released: May 20, 1950
Type: Movie
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El Portero
Title: El Portero
Character: Don Sebastian, el profe
Released: May 3, 1950
Type: Movie
Cantinflas works as a porter, who writes letters and speeches in his old writing machine to earn an extra money, despite the fact that he still goes to school. The sentimental issues come when Cantinflas falls in love of his pretty neighborhood (Silvia Pinal), who is handicapped and unable to walk. The thing wont be easy, because a young military man also has feelings for the girl. But the porter wants to see her happy, and he will become a sort of Cyrano De Bergerac, writing love letters to her signed by the young soldier. His plan is simple: to win money in the horse races in order to pay the operation which will make her walk again.
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Otra primavera
Title: Otra primavera
Released: April 27, 1950
Type: Movie
His wife dies and now he's free to marry his mistress and adopt their children officially. How will this play out?
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Mujeres en mi Vida
Title: Mujeres en mi Vida
Character: Músico vagabundo (as Carlos M. Baena)
Released: April 5, 1950
Type: Movie
Mexican romantic musical.
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The Bewitched House
Title: The Bewitched House
Released: October 12, 1949
Type: Movie
Stage magician Fu Manchu uses his illusions and trickeries to find a murderer.
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El Charro del Cristo
Title: El Charro del Cristo
Released: October 7, 1949
Type: Movie
Favored son of a wealthy rural family forced to go into hiding after killing someone in a duel.
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Lola Casanova
Title: Lola Casanova
Released: May 25, 1949
Type: Movie
Sonora Mexico, 1880s: Seri Indian tribe splits into two factions after a white woman comes to live in their settlement.
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El Supersabio
Title: El Supersabio
Character: Profesor Archimedes Monteagudo
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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The Well-paid
Title: The Well-paid
Character: Don Jorge Rute
Released: February 20, 1948
Type: Movie
Melodrama about marital infidelity.
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Reina de reinas: La Virgen María
Title: Reina de reinas: La Virgen María
Released: February 11, 1948
Type: Movie
Standard retelling of the the Gospels, with a brief epilogue about the death of Mary.
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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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The Kneeling Goddess
Title: The Kneeling Goddess
Character: Esteban (as Carlos M. Baena)
Released: August 13, 1947
Type: Movie
Legendary superstar María Félix, stars in this melodrama noir playing the role of Raquel, a woman who has a passionate love affair with married aristocrat Antonio. However, a sensual sculpture untitled “The Kneeling Goddess” and modeled after Raquel will lead Antonio down a memory lane he'd rather soon forget.
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Woman Without a Soul
Title: Woman Without a Soul
Character: Rosendo Buendía
Released: October 10, 1944
Type: Movie
Ambitious young woman climbs the social ladder. A bit too fast.
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La abuelita
Title: La abuelita
Released: May 9, 1942
Type: Movie
Granny rules the roost, but little sister's a bit rebellious. She listens to Cuban music, she wears make-up, she goes out un-chaperoned... Granny sees her rubbing up against a married man and it shatters her health.
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Those Were The Days, Senor Don Simon!
Title: Those Were The Days, Senor Don Simon!
Character: Cura Camacho (as Carlos M. Baena)
Released: September 19, 1941
Type: Movie
A not very grief stricken young widow flutters her hand fan between a dashing young soldier and an elderly politician in this Belle Epoque era musical comedy.
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El agua en el suelo
Title: El agua en el suelo
Character: (uncredited)
Released: April 16, 1934
Type: Movie