Edmundo Espino

Edmundo Espino

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El Extra
Title: El Extra
Character: Don Julián
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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Mark of the Dead Man
Title: Mark of the Dead Man
Character: Antonio (uncredited)
Released: October 12, 1961
Type: Movie
Mad scientist brings his dead mad scientist grandfather back to life and makes a Frankenstein-type monster out of him.
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Si yo fuera diputado
Title: Si yo fuera diputado
Character: (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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Love for Life
Title: Love for Life
Character: Juez Luna
Released: June 20, 1951
Type: Movie
An exhausted stranger arrives at a farm and starts to help the owner with the legal status of her land.
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El Siete Machos
Title: El Siete Machos
Character: Maestro (uncredited)
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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El Portero
Title: El Portero
Character: Esposo de Guadalupe (uncredited)
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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Mujeres en mi Vida
Title: Mujeres en mi Vida
Character: Doctor (uncredited)
Released: April 5, 1950
Type: Movie
Mexican romantic musical.
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Hipócrita..!
Title: Hipócrita..!
Character: Juanito
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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El Supersabio
Title: El Supersabio
Character: Doctor (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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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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¡A volar, joven!
Title: ¡A volar, joven!
Character: Redactor periodico (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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Soy un prófugo
Title: Soy un prófugo
Character: Empleador (uncredited)
Released: March 11, 1946
Type: Movie
A janitor in a large bank is accused of pulling of a major heist. He is forced to become a fugitive while hunting for the real culprits.
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¡Ay qué rechula es Puebla!
Title: ¡Ay qué rechula es Puebla!
Character: Don Felipe
Released: January 31, 1946
Type: Movie
Two charros from Hacienda A come a-courtin' to hacienda B, owned by a friend of their father's. Also a horse-race.
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Star Scandal
Title: Star Scandal
Character: Jefe de policía (uncredited)
Released: December 1, 1944
Type: Movie
The story of the adventures and entanglements of the son of a famous film producer who is forced to study law.
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La hija del regimiento
Title: La hija del regimiento
Released: October 6, 1944
Type: Movie
In Fuente Clara over ten years since any man born. The population, mostly female, are desperate and resorts to the reigning prince.
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Gran Hotel
Title: Gran Hotel
Character: Vecino (uncredited)
Released: August 14, 1944
Type: Movie
Cantinflas is a vagrant being evicted for not paying rent, after wandering gets a job at the 'Grand Hotel' through a friend, that's confused by Count Zapatini, who is undercover in the hotel, stealing a gem making this funny movie more complicated.
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Qué hombre tan simpático
Title: Qué hombre tan simpático
Character: Don Ovirio, médico
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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El circo
Title: El circo
Character: (uncredited)
Released: March 12, 1943
Type: Movie
A cobbler gets a job in a Circus as a janitor, recommended by the beautiful girl rider of the show. But later, he gets in trouble when he involves in dangerous acts, such as the trapeze. Obviously, our friend will risk his life by the love of his new girlfriend.
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The Three Musketeers
Title: The Three Musketeers
Character: Padre de D'Artagnan (uncredited)
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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El rápido de las 9.15
Title: El rápido de las 9.15
Character: Nacho
Released: September 11, 1941
Type: Movie
Every passenger boarding The Express has a story.