Armando Arriola

Armando Arriola

Born: July 28, 1905
Died: November 1, 1978
in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
Armando Arriola was born in July 28, 1905 in Mexico, Distrito Federal, Mexico. He was an actor, known for Santa Claus (1959), La dulce enemiga (1957) and El organillero (1957). He died on November 1, 1978 in Mexico.

Movies for Armando Arriola...

El rediezcubrimiento de México
Title: El rediezcubrimiento de México
Character: Secretario del capitán
Released: September 12, 1979
Type: Movie
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Son tus perjúmenes mujer
Title: Son tus perjúmenes mujer
Released: November 23, 1978
Type: Movie
Marginal/unemployed dude with heart of gold tries to make life better for crippled niece, unapproachable girlfriend, others.
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Las ficheras (Bellas de noche II)
Title: Las ficheras (Bellas de noche II)
Released: July 3, 1977
Type: Movie
Bellas de noche continues. The ex-fichera who bought the cabaret continues to work with several of her former companions, the waiter Fabian, the pugilist Bronco who returns to boxing, Carmen, his wife, who returns to booking, the drunk “La Corcholata”, in love with an old man, and a French woman and the pimp “El Vaselinas”, whose favors are disputed by all the women, but who loses his virility and fights to regain it.
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La presidenta municipal
Title: La presidenta municipal
Character: Don Casimiro Buenavista
Released: September 11, 1975
Type: Movie
La India Maria becomes the municipal president due to a ballot typo.
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Anonymous Death Threat
Title: Anonymous Death Threat
Character: Campos
Released: April 11, 1975
Type: Movie
Men are turning up dead after receiving anonymous threats that include the date of their deaths. The latest person to receive one of these threats decides to call Santo the crime fighting wrestler for help. Santo must solve the mystery of the men's murders and confront a gang of Nazis operating in Mexico City.
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Una vez, un hombre...
Title: Una vez, un hombre...
Released: May 13, 1971
Type: Movie
Young factory worker becomes apprentice to an alchemist, and he ends up going to the moon to repair equipment belonging to The Three Fates.
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El Quelite
Title: El Quelite
Character: Gerente de hotel
Released: December 10, 1970
Type: Movie
Agapito, leader of the revolutionary movement of his state, comes to a town, kills all the federales, and gets a girl who was promised to him for his heroic deeds.
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Ambición sangrienta
Title: Ambición sangrienta
Character: Nacho
Released: August 29, 1968
Type: Movie
A lawman and two sidekicks clear up a series of crimes related to mining rights.
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Crown of Tears
Title: Crown of Tears
Character: Abogado defensor
Released: July 25, 1968
Type: Movie
Doña Refugio works in an office until the bounce and has three children: Fernando who is studying to be a lawyer, doctor and Nacho Edmundo to work in a company as a truck driver gas. Things become difficult within the family and each seek solutions to economic oppression living.
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Chewing Gum
Title: Chewing Gum
Released: January 1, 1968
Type: Movie
Two little poor kids, who work selling chewing gum in the streets, must face the true nature of the horror surrounding them
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Damiana and the Men
Title: Damiana and the Men
Released: October 26, 1967
Type: Movie
Damiana, a girl who has grown up with her grandmother and a friend, is discovered by photographer and launched as supermodel.
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Los perversos a-go-go
Title: Los perversos a-go-go
Released: January 11, 1967
Type: Movie
Priest is sympathetic and understanding toward mod-era young folks and their new world-view... but he gets in trouble with a biker gang and with a young woman who crushes unhealthily on him.
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El temerario
Title: El temerario
Released: September 28, 1966
Type: Movie
Crooked dude schemes to deprive stepdaughter of her inheritance after her mother dies.
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La maldición del oro
Title: La maldición del oro
Released: November 28, 1965
Type: Movie
Local rowdies roll a drunk and get away with his life savings. Felipe Reyes El Justiciero rides into town on his faithful sidekick Macario and sets things aright.
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Las tapatías nunca pierden
Title: Las tapatías nunca pierden
Released: September 22, 1965
Type: Movie
An heiress and some friends pose as gypsies to fight back against some bad-hats who are squatting on her new estate.
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Los tres calaveras
Title: Los tres calaveras
Released: June 23, 1965
Type: Movie
A Mexican music trío go through friendships and hardships in order to be famous and travel to Spain.
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Bring Me the Vampire
Title: Bring Me the Vampire
Character: Tomas
Released: June 14, 1963
Type: Movie
A group of would-be beneficiaries gather for the reading of a will, and discover that they must spend the night in a spooky castle to gain their inheritance. A spooky housekeeper and a man who seems to be a vampire are just two of the obstacles that might deter them.
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House of the Frights
Title: House of the Frights
Character: Tomás Alva Madison
Released: March 22, 1963
Type: Movie
Half-dozen comic actors in a spooky house.
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El Extra
Title: El Extra
Character: Doctor
Released: October 4, 1962
Type: Movie
Cantinflas is a man who hangs around the studios and helps anyone who needs his advice while at the same time envisioning his own versions of how certain scenes should be shot. Both angles provide ample opportunities for very witty, subtle barbs at the foibles of the industry.
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Twist locura de la juventud
Title: Twist locura de la juventud
Released: June 7, 1962
Type: Movie
The Legion Of Decent Decency is determined to shut down a nightclub where live rock and roll bands play and young people dance The Twist.
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Pilotos de la muerte
Title: Pilotos de la muerte
Character: (uncredited)
Released: May 2, 1962
Type: Movie
A couple of provincial gas station employees travel to the capital seeking fortune of vehicle mechanics accidental career passing drivers.
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El analfabeto
Title: El analfabeto
Character: Asistente de Notario
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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El jinete negro
Title: El jinete negro
Released: January 1, 1961
Type: Movie
A rancher disguises himself as a generous bandit and murders a tax collector, but is discovered.
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Bala Perdida
Title: Bala Perdida
Released: October 3, 1960
Type: Movie
Daniel is let out of jail for his mothers funeral. During his furlough he kidnaps his son and takes him to a movie set where a western is being shot.
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The Skeleton of Mrs. Morales
Title: The Skeleton of Mrs. Morales
Character: Don Amado
Released: May 26, 1960
Type: Movie
A taxidermist decides to murder his wife after having to put up with her after twenty years of hellish marriage.
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Santa Claus
Title: Santa Claus
Character: Merlin
Released: November 26, 1959
Type: Movie
Pitch, the mean-spirited devil, is trying to ruin Christmas. Santa Claus teams up with Merlin the Magician and the children of the world in order to save the day!
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Manicomio
Title: Manicomio
Character: Paciente anciano
Released: August 6, 1959
Type: Movie
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El cariñoso
Title: El cariñoso
Released: May 5, 1959
Type: Movie
Romcom with music: owner of an auto-repair shop woos the owner of a beauty parlor.
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Vístete Cristina
Title: Vístete Cristina
Released: April 23, 1959
Type: Movie
Aspiring big-band singer who doubles as an art forger takes in a teenaged runaway who wants to be a showgirl.
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La rebelión de los adolescentes
Title: La rebelión de los adolescentes
Released: April 8, 1959
Type: Movie
College student returns home after the death of his father, then discovers Pops was killed by members of a crime syndicate.
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El cofre del pirata
Title: El cofre del pirata
Released: March 25, 1959
Type: Movie
Bankrupt millionaire discovers a treasure map belonging to a distant ancestor.
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Mi mujer necesita marido
Title: Mi mujer necesita marido
Released: February 5, 1959
Type: Movie
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La máscara de carne
Title: La máscara de carne
Released: June 3, 1958
Type: Movie
Mexican feature film
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La feria de San Marcos
Title: La feria de San Marcos
Released: June 2, 1958
Type: Movie
Two men and two women meet and pair off (m/w x 2) during the town Festival in San Marcos. Later, weddings.
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The Witch Suckled Them
Title: The Witch Suckled Them
Released: February 26, 1958
Type: Movie
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Land of Men
Title: Land of Men
Character: Don Jesusito
Released: January 7, 1958
Type: Movie
On his family's farm, Gilberto keeps weapons to support the revolutionaries. When his father find out, he runs out from the hacienda to join them.
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La mafia del crimen
Title: La mafia del crimen
Released: January 1, 1958
Type: Movie
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Los tres mosqueteros y medio
Title: Los tres mosqueteros y medio
Released: October 29, 1957
Type: Movie
Spoofy adaptation of The Three Musketeers, follows the original very closely.
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Dying of Laughter
Title: Dying of Laughter
Character: Dimas
Released: July 18, 1957
Type: Movie
Carnival worker is recruited by police to impersonate an old lady whose relatives want to kill her.
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La virtud desnuda
Title: La virtud desnuda
Released: May 5, 1957
Type: Movie
A certain young woman won't allow her virtuous reputation to be compromised... until her suitors agree to the price she sets on it. Twist ending.
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La flecha envenenada
Title: La flecha envenenada
Released: March 8, 1957
Type: Movie
Bad hats try to conduct a land-grab when it's announced that a dam's going to be built.
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La faraona
Title: La faraona
Character: Doctor (uncredited)
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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Unfaithful Wives
Title: Unfaithful Wives
Released: November 1, 1956
Type: Movie
A bunch of stories where wives are unfaithful for different reasons: money, revenge or pleasure.
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Pensión de artistas
Title: Pensión de artistas
Released: August 24, 1956
Type: Movie
Between-engagements troupers at a theatrical boarding-house con a rich acquaintance into financing a show.
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Where the Circle Ends
Title: Where the Circle Ends
Character: Martínez
Released: April 11, 1956
Type: Movie
A woman murders her lover. Her husband and his mistress are also having murder-shaped thoughts, and their three counterplots all get tangled together. Everybody loses.
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El gavilan vengador
Title: El gavilan vengador
Released: October 27, 1955
Type: Movie
Masked rider exposes the criminal misdeeds of a wealthy land-owner and his henchmen.
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Pueblo quieto
Title: Pueblo quieto
Released: September 30, 1955
Type: Movie
Son of a first family returns to his home town, reconciles with his pops, pitches woo at the young lady from another First Family and gets rampy with his rival for her affections.
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Drop the Curtain
Title: Drop the Curtain
Character: Empleado del teatro (uncredited)
Released: August 31, 1955
Type: Movie
Cantinflas, who owns a cleaning business, cleans the windows of the house of a famous French actress. While carrying out his work he observes how a man steals one of the famous actress necklaces, but he can only see his back.
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El rayo justiciero
Title: El rayo justiciero
Released: August 11, 1955
Type: Movie
New sheriff cleans up the town. First (?) in "Mauricio Rosales" series.
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Las engañadas
Title: Las engañadas
Character: Señor López
Released: August 10, 1955
Type: Movie
Irresponsible playboy seduces a decent young lady with a fake wedding; he continues being a creep for the next 12 or 15 years.
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Qué lindo Cha Cha Cha
Title: Qué lindo Cha Cha Cha
Released: July 14, 1955
Type: Movie
Satan opens a nightclub in a small town, scheming to seduce the townsfolk into naughtiness.
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Los Fernández de Peralvillo
Title: Los Fernández de Peralvillo
Character: Ramón, criado (uncredited)
Released: September 14, 1954
Type: Movie
A young man fails as a seller of household goods and his sister, tired of poverty, elopes with a criminal.
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La sobrina del señor cura
Title: La sobrina del señor cura
Released: August 18, 1954
Type: Movie
A pregnant parishioner can't get her boyfriend to marry her and the home office thinks that foundling girl the priest took in is too old now to live under the same roof with him. It's always something, ain't it?
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Camelia
Title: Camelia
Character: Invitado a cena (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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From the Village to TV
Title: From the Village to TV
Character: Teacher
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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Si yo fuera diputado
Title: Si yo fuera diputado
Character: Abogado en derecho (uncredited)
Released: January 30, 1952
Type: Movie
Cantinflas is a unique barber, who trades with an elderly neighbor, a lawyer by profession, laws lessons in exchange for haircuts and shaved. It proposes advice to defend in court the disadvantaged neighborhood. His success deputy seeks the votes as the other candidate, Don Próculo, it is not accepted by anyone but his own bodyguards. Don Próculo will use know how much ruse to win the election by the Council, and also for the love of 'Sarita'
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Oh, Love… How Have You Put Me!
Title: Oh, Love… How Have You Put Me!
Character: Nurse (uncredited)
Released: November 23, 1951
Type: Movie
A low-class baker accidentally gets to know an attractive but bitter fiancée. By getting her snobby, dead-pan family to spend some time with his scumbag friends, he changes their lives, while at the time stealing the girl's heart.
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Daughter of Deceit
Title: Daughter of Deceit
Character: Jugador (uncredited)
Released: August 28, 1951
Type: Movie
In the drama, a father, firmly believing that the baby daughter in his arms is not his own, abandons her upon the doorstep of the town drunk. Many years pass, and the man finds himself continually wracked with guilt about deserting her.
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The Troublemaker
Title: The Troublemaker
Character: Old Man (uncredited)
Released: August 15, 1951
Type: Movie
Well-intentioned Tin Tan who is always making trouble for other people, sometimes on purpose and sometimes by accident.
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Mujeres sacrificadas
Title: Mujeres sacrificadas
Released: May 6, 1951
Type: Movie
Nightclub dancer comes unglued after killing a man.
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The Poulterer Hawk
Title: The Poulterer Hawk
Character: Don Próspero
Released: January 26, 1951
Type: Movie
Two bumpkins in the big city fight over the same girl, until they realize that she's playing them against each other.
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Esposa o amante
Title: Esposa o amante
Released: June 21, 1950
Type: Movie
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Mariachis
Title: Mariachis
Released: February 8, 1950
Type: Movie
Two rival combos play practical jokes on each other during a festival where they're performing... then a sideshow artist is murdered and several of them fall under suspicion for the crime.
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Una gallega en México
Title: Una gallega en México
Released: December 31, 1949
Type: Movie
The Galician Candida has a bakery in front of the butcher Robustito, who constantly berates although children of both Aurora and Rodolfo are in love. In the neighborhood where they live, the neighbors prepared a joke to the galician girl. She gets angry Robustito hard time believing him guilty of what happened.
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Nosotros los rateros
Title: Nosotros los rateros
Character: Conserje de día
Released: September 7, 1949
Type: Movie
A young woman, a thief and a lawyer find themselves in the same hotel room without planning it. Mercedes, the thief, has a brother who, by mistake, kidnaps the lawyer Alberto, which will cause a mess.
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El Colmillo de Buda
Title: El Colmillo de Buda
Released: April 16, 1949
Type: Movie
Burlesque version of The Moonstone; the Prince of Panchistan and his cohorts are in Mexico to retrieve a sacred relic. Wacky hijinks ensue.
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El Supersabio
Title: El Supersabio
Character: Ayudante de el Rosca
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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¡A volar, joven!
Title: ¡A volar, joven!
Character: Soldado (uncredited)
Released: December 23, 1947
Type: Movie
Cantinflas is a private in the military, who doesn't know anything about discipline or following rules. He only wants to think about his girlfriend, the maid in an opulent hacienda. The owner of the hacienda has an ugly and shy daughter, who is in love with Cantinflas. The problems arrive when the family arranges a wedding between the ugly girl and Cantinflas, who in order to avoid the commitment gets himself arrested. During his punishment, Cantinflas learns to fly with a silly and poorly trained flight instructor.
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Viejo nido
Title: Viejo nido
Released: January 1, 1944
Type: Movie
Mexican movie
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Ni sangre ni arena
Title: Ni sangre ni arena
Character: Anunciador (uncredited)
Released: May 22, 1941
Type: Movie
Cantinflas enjoys the bullfight show, and wants to crash in every of these spectacles. Also, there's a professional bullfighter, Manolete, who is identical to Cantinflas. Manolete has to give a bullfight show in a village, but Cantinflas arrives first as a stowaway in a train, and he'll be mistake by the real bullfighter. Cantinflas will give us a demonstration of courage.
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The Mad Monk
Title: The Mad Monk
Released: December 19, 1940
Type: Movie
A 1940 film directed by Alejandro Galindo.
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El muerto murió
Title: El muerto murió
Released: July 28, 1938
Type: Movie
The paths of a young woman and her late husband's mistress cross without their knowing it, which causes much confusion for the two women and their new partners.