Antonio Bravo

Antonio Bravo

Born: January 1, 1906
Died: February 28, 1992
in Madrid, Spain
Antonio Bravo (1906–1992) was a Spanish-born Mexican film and television actor. He appeared in more than a hundred and forty productions during a lengthy career.

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El florido pensil
Title: El florido pensil
Character: Matias
Released: March 22, 2002
Type: Movie
"El Florido Pensil" is a humorous reflection of the education of several generations of Spaniards from the 1940s to the 1960s. Based on the book of the same name by Andrés Sopeña, it evokes, from the present, his memories of that time: everyday school, local radio, Roberto Alcázar's comics, Thursday cinema with Franco opening swamps and "Yon Güein" chasing and killing Indians. Through the childish eyes of a child Sopeña (Daniel Rubio) and his schoolmates, we discover a way of understanding the world, society and a Spain "of glories and flowery pensil", as the national anthem of those years used to sing.
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El tío del saco y el inspector Lobatón
Title: El tío del saco y el inspector Lobatón
Released: June 30, 1993
Type: Movie
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El último guateque II
Title: El último guateque II
Released: June 16, 1988
Type: Movie
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El testamento
Title: El testamento
Character: Don Diego Suárez
Released: June 10, 1981
Type: Movie
After the death of her husband the industrialist, unprepared trophy-wife takes over the management of his business concerns.
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Title: Los ricos también lloran
Character: Luis de la Parra
Released: April 9, 1979
Type: TV
Popular telenovela produced in Mexico in 1979, starring Verónica Castro, Rogelio Guerra and Rocío Banquells. Castro also sang the theme Aprendí a Llorar, a song written by Lolita de la Colina. The telenovela was produced by Chilean Valentín Pimstein and Carlos Romero, it was directed by Rafael Banquells. The story was written by Inés Rodena and adapted by Valeria Philips.
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Fear Doesn't Ride a Donkey
Title: Fear Doesn't Ride a Donkey
Character: Doctor
Released: November 25, 1976
Type: Movie
This funny Mexican film tell the tale of a family who will do anything to get rid of the rich old lady who sits at the head of the clan. All the hilarious members want a piece of the very lucrative inheritance money. What they don't know, however, is that grandma has left all of the money to her trusty dog.
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La presidenta municipal
Title: La presidenta municipal
Character: Señor cura
Released: September 11, 1975
Type: Movie
La India Maria becomes the municipal president due to a ballot typo.
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The Holy Inquisition
Title: The Holy Inquisition
Character: Rabino Morales
Released: June 6, 1974
Type: Movie
A plague is spreading through 16th century Mexico, and the Inquisition of the Roman Catholic Church is rooting out Jews, for they are believed to be its cause. At his father's funeral, a monk observes his family practicing Jewish burial rite, and he reports them, leading to devastating consequences for the whole family.
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Queen Doll
Title: Queen Doll
Character: Padre de Amilamia
Released: November 8, 1972
Type: Movie
A man becomes more and more infatuated with his childhood sweetheart leading to a haunting encounter with horror.
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Tonta tonta, pero no tanto
Title: Tonta tonta, pero no tanto
Character: Esteban, mayordomo
Released: September 7, 1972
Type: Movie
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Agente 00 Sexy
Title: Agente 00 Sexy
Character: Romano
Released: July 2, 1968
Type: Movie
The beautiful Agent 00 is sent by the girlfriend of a mafia boss to catch his band of miscreants.
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Simon of the Desert
Title: Simon of the Desert
Character: Priest
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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El rey del tomate
Title: El rey del tomate
Character: Don Cosme
Released: August 7, 1963
Type: Movie
El rey del tomate ("The Tomato King") is a 1964 Mexican comedy-drama film, directed by Miguel M. Delgado and starring Eulalio González, Luz Márquez, and Emma Roldán.
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Tlayucan
Title: Tlayucan
Character: Doctor
Released: December 27, 1962
Type: Movie
Desperate because of his son's illness, the peasant Eufemio steals a pearl from the image of Santa Lucía in the village church.
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El Extra
Title: El Extra
Character: Productor pelicula azteca
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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The Exterminating Angel
Title: The Exterminating Angel
Character: Sergio Russell
Released: May 16, 1962
Type: Movie
A formal dinner party starts out normally enough, but after the bourgeois group retire to the host’s music room, they inexplicably find themselves unable to leave.
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Spiritism
Title: Spiritism
Character: Don Carlos
Released: March 29, 1962
Type: Movie
Satan gives a woman three wishes in this version of the classic tale, "The Monkey's Paw."
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Frankenstein, the Vampire and Company
Title: Frankenstein, the Vampire and Company
Character: Señor La Valle
Released: February 8, 1962
Type: Movie
Two screwballs get mixed up with monsters, mad scientists and vampires.
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Se alquila marido
Title: Se alquila marido
Released: November 30, 1961
Type: Movie
Female CEO hires a man to pass as her husband and act as figurehead of her business concerns.
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Amor en la sombra
Title: Amor en la sombra
Character: Empresario
Released: November 24, 1960
Type: Movie
A daughter who idolizes her father discovers, just before he dies, that he was leading a double life and had a hidden lover.
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The Skeleton of Mrs. Morales
Title: The Skeleton of Mrs. Morales
Character: Padre Artemio Familiar
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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Fever Mounts at El Pao
Title: Fever Mounts at El Pao
Released: December 5, 1959
Type: Movie
Aroused citizens assassinate an unpopular Caribbean despot, then two men vie for his gorgeous widow Ines. Ojeda is a steamy, isolated island, the penal colony for an oppressive dictatorship. A reactionary seizes the murdered governor's post, and rushes to eliminate his romantic rival, an idealistic underling. The bureaucrat Vazquez hopes to marshal the angry residents of the capitol, El Pao, plus the many political prisoners, to oust Governor Gual.
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Nazarin
Title: Nazarin
Character: Don Pablo
Released: June 4, 1959
Type: Movie
After hiding a murderer, a Catholic priest is forced into self-exile and decides to embark on a pilgrimage through the Mexican countryside.
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Path of evil
Title: Path of evil
Character: Horacio Quezada
Released: August 1, 1957
Type: Movie
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La mujer de dos caras
Title: La mujer de dos caras
Character: Felipe, mayordomo
Released: February 13, 1957
Type: Movie
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Love and Sin
Title: Love and Sin
Character: Don Luis
Released: October 3, 1956
Type: Movie
A dramatic encounter between passionate love and fraternal love. Two brothers fall in love with the same woman, played by the beautiful dancer Ninón Sevilla, an orphan they rescued during their childhood. Though she loves only one of them, she decides to give up her happiness rather than destroying the reason of the other she doesn't love.
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The Innocent
Title: The Innocent
Character: Invitado a reunión
Released: September 20, 1956
Type: Movie
After a quarrel with her boyfriend on New Year's Eve, Mane drives her car from Mexico City to Cuernavaca to meet her parents in their country house. The car breaks down in the highway and Mane has to ask for help. Mechanic Cruci arrives and, after testing the car, offers Mane a ride on his motorcycle. Back in Mane's house, she invites him some drinks to celebrate New Year's Eve. They get drunk and, the morning after, Mane's parents arrive and find them sleeping together. Not knowing what happened, Mane and Cruci are forced to get married against their will.
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The Third Word
Title: The Third Word
Character: Tío Alfonso
Released: July 3, 1956
Type: Movie
The English-language title of this Mexican musical was The Third Word. Singer Pedro Infante stars as a pampered young man who is sheltered by his doting aunts. Deciding that their darling boy needs an education, the ladies hire pretty schoolteacher Marga Lopez. Upon discovering that her pupil is 28 years old, Marga is momentarily nonplused, but then settles into her duties. Inevitably, romance blossoms between Pedro and Marga, much to the aunts' dismay.
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Los margaritos
Title: Los margaritos
Character: Juez
Released: April 26, 1956
Type: Movie
Two brothers named Margarito butt heads courting the same woman.
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The King of México
Title: The King of México
Character: Maître d'
Released: April 20, 1956
Type: Movie
A humble tramp is turned, for a couple of days, into the richest and most famous man in México.
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Drop the Curtain
Title: Drop the Curtain
Character: Señor director de empresa (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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The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz
Title: The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz
Character: Antiques dealer (uncredited)
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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Los Fernández de Peralvillo
Title: Los Fernández de Peralvillo
Character: Sr. Cervantes
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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Take Me in Your Arms
Title: Take Me in Your Arms
Character: Don Rubén
Released: April 30, 1954
Type: Movie
Fishing-village girl sacrifices her reputation to the local banker to protect her family; from there, she follows the path of least resistance, but she never forgets the fiance she left behind...
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Frontera norte
Title: Frontera norte
Character: Abogado
Released: October 8, 1953
Type: Movie
Two brothers: one's a cop, one's a gangster.
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Él
Title: Él
Character: Invitado a fiesta (uncredited)
Released: July 9, 1953
Type: Movie
Gloria encounters Francisco, a man whose social veneer betrays a truer self burrowed underneath.
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La extraña pasajera
Title: La extraña pasajera
Character: Tomás Pizarro
Released: June 4, 1953
Type: Movie
Noir-style suspense thriller; three unrelated criminal schemes are happening on board an express train; all three get uncovered/solved/thwarted before they reach their destination.
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The Martyr of Calvary
Title: The Martyr of Calvary
Character: Escriba
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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Los enredos de una gallega
Title: Los enredos de una gallega
Released: October 11, 1951
Type: Movie
Cándida is a Galician who lives in Mexico and has been selling lottery tickets. Her dream is to buy an inn, but doesn't have enough money. In her quest for trying to get it, she runs into a scammer. In a stroke of luck, she wins first prize in the lottery, but the misfortune is merciless with her ​​because she can't find the ticket.
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Una gallega baila mambo
Title: Una gallega baila mambo
Released: May 18, 1951
Type: Movie
Ladylike widow hires a roughneck neighbor to help her marry off her daughter and collect an inheritance by impersonating her husband.
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My Dear Captain
Title: My Dear Captain
Character: Esposo de Guadalajara
Released: December 7, 1950
Type: Movie
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The Great Madcap
Title: The Great Madcap
Character: Alfonso
Released: November 25, 1949
Type: Movie
Portrayal of a family’s attempt to change the spending habit of the indulgent and hedonistic patriarch, Alfredo. The family decides to try to fool him into spending less by telling him that his large fortune is gone.
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Felipe de Jesús
Title: Felipe de Jesús
Character: Cristobal de Villahermosa
Released: August 5, 1949
Type: Movie
Biography of the first Catholic Saint to be born in Mexico.
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Señora Tentación
Title: Señora Tentación
Released: April 29, 1948
Type: Movie
Famous singer hires a pianist/songwriter on the strength of his compositions, then seduces him away from his fiancee and from the paths of righteousness in general.
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Pepita Jimenez
Title: Pepita Jimenez
Character: Poeta
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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Palabras de mujer
Title: Palabras de mujer
Released: January 31, 1946
Type: Movie
Young songwriter falls in love with a singer he writes for... but her jealous manager fucks up both their lives.
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Los misterios del hampa
Title: Los misterios del hampa
Released: October 26, 1945
Type: Movie
Man on death row narrates the story of his life from childhood up through the criminal activities he's being executed for.
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Los miserables
Title: Los miserables
Released: December 1, 1943
Type: Movie
Police officer makes life hell for an ex-convict. Based on that novel.
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El rayo del sur
Title: El rayo del sur
Released: September 30, 1943
Type: Movie
Latter part of the career of Padre Morelos, the 18th/19th century military leader. Sequel to... um... El Padre Morelos.
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El ametralladora
Title: El ametralladora
Character: Radilla
Released: September 28, 1943
Type: Movie
Peasant farmer and landowner are rivals for a woman. Sequel to Ay Jalisco No Te Rajes.
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Cinco fueron escogidos
Title: Cinco fueron escogidos
Released: July 8, 1943
Type: Movie
Cinco fueron escogidos taking place in Slavko, a "peaceful town in Yugoslavia," with only Yugoslavians and Germans as characters, not a Mexican or Spaniard in sight. Another interesting point about Cinco fueron escogidos is the existence of an alternate version, shot in English with a different cast (at least in major roles). Sadly, this film, usually referred to as "Five Were Chosen" but sometimes called "Hostages" (not to be confused with the somewhat similar 1943 Hollywood movie with that title), appears to be lost. García Riera indicates the English-language version was screened in Mexico, at least for the press, but does not seem to have been released commercially in the Mexico or the USA. Since Herbert Kline was well-known for his leftist views, it's not surprising to note that many of the imported Hollywood actors were also left-leaning (and in fact more than one was blacklisted during the Red Scare era).
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The Three Musketeers
Title: The Three Musketeers
Character: Rocha / Rochefort
Released: August 27, 1942
Type: Movie
Cantinflas and three friends return a stolen necklace to an actress who invites them to be extras at Clasa studios. While on the set, he falls asleep and dreams that he is d'Artagnan, fighting on behalf of Queen Anne.
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Passion Island
Title: Passion Island
Character: Doctor
Released: August 6, 1942
Type: Movie
1909, a detachment of the Mexican army commanded by Captain Allende moves to Clipperton, also called the Island of the Passion, in the Pacific. After the outbreak of the revolution, the island becomes administered by the government of France, events that in principle go unnoticed by the islanders.
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La vírgen morena
Title: La vírgen morena
Released: January 7, 1942
Type: Movie
Intensifying skirmishes between a brutally oppressive conquistador imperialist and the last holdouts of Aztec resistance... and meanwhile, miraculous visitations of The Virgin Mary to two of the downtrodden and conquered indigenous peons.
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Dos mexicanos en Sevilla
Title: Dos mexicanos en Sevilla
Released: January 1, 1942
Type: Movie
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El hijo de Cruz Diablo
Title: El hijo de Cruz Diablo
Released: October 4, 1941
Type: Movie
A 1941 film directed by Vicente Oroná.
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You’re Missing the Point
Title: You’re Missing the Point
Character: Bobby Lechuga, el Fox Terrier
Released: September 11, 1940
Type: Movie
Cantinflas, the boyfriend of the servant of a rich industrial man, gets into the house in order to kill a mad dog. Suddenly this man appears so the servant tells him that Cantinflas is his wife's brother (Leonardo), who had been lost for years. The rich man then remembers that his father in law's testament could only be paid when all brothers get together, so treats Cantinflas, a real bum, as a king.
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Los últimos días de Pompeyo
Title: Los últimos días de Pompeyo
Released: August 7, 1940
Type: Movie
A 1940 film directed by Rafael E. Portas.
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Harvest of Hate
Title: Harvest of Hate
Released: February 29, 1940
Type: Movie
A 1940 film directed by William Rowland.
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Los olvidados de Dios
Title: Los olvidados de Dios
Character: Fiscal
Released: January 14, 1940
Type: Movie
A 1940 film directed by Ramón Pereda.