
Acting
Carlos Orellana
Born — Died
1900-12-28 — 1960-01-24
Place of birth
Santiago Tezontlale, Mexico
Known for
Acting
Credits
96 titles
Carlos Orellana was born on December 28, 1900 in Santiago Tezontlale, Hidalgo, Mexico as Carlos Orellana Martinez. He was an actor, director and writer.
Known for
8.4Jorge Bueno and Pedro Malo are best friends who consider giving up their womanizing ways when they each fall in love. As fate would have it, Pedro Malo unexpectedly marries Jorge Bueno's girlfriend, and the conflict between the former buddies begins.
Dos tipos de cuidado
1953
6.0Family life of a widowed father with four teenaged and young-adult children.
Amor Prohibido
1945
7.6An Indian arouses envy for his expertise in hunting animals without ruining their skins, for his wisdom and his kindness.
Tizoc
1957
6.5No te engañes corazón (released in English as Don't Fool Yourself Dear) is the first full-feature film of Cantinflas after becoming a star of the carpa circuit (folk theater). It was also one of the earliest films of Sara García and Carlos Orellana and the first where they share the screen. Don Boni (Orellana) is diagnosed with a deadly disease and decides to spend his last days doing good deeds. He leaves his wife and decides to help people. He then gets drunk and wakes up with a winning lottery ticket and realizes that the doctor who diagnosed him has been sent to prison for fraud.
No te engañes corazón
1937
5.6Santa is a beautiful and very humble young girl living in Chimalistac, a small and quiet spot south of the 1930's Mexico City. After Santa is cheated by arrogant soldier Marcelino, she's rejected by her family and friends and expelled of Chimalistac. Santa finds shelter in a whorehouse and becomes a cinic and bitter woman, mistreated by bullfighter "Jarameno" and silently loved by blind pianist Hipólito.
Santa
1932
6.8Adaptation of the novel by Alejandro Pérez Lujín, centered on the university adventures in Santiago de Compostela of Gerardo Roquer from Madrid, who stays in a boarding house known as "La Casa de la Troya".
La casa de la Troya
1948
Film credits
1950s · 21 titles
8.4Jorge Bueno and Pedro Malo are best friends who consider giving up their womanizing ways when they each fall in love. As fate would have it, Pedro Malo unexpectedly marries Jorge Bueno's girlfriend, and the conflict between the former buddies begins.
Dos tipos de cuidado
1953
7.6An Indian arouses envy for his expertise in hunting animals without ruining their skins, for his wisdom and his kindness.
Tizoc
1957
5.7A couple are forced to stay in a scary castle, and the castle is filled with monsters!
Castle of the Monsters
1958
6.8Husband and wife share the spotlight as two of Mexico's most famous ranchera singers, but when they decide to pursue solo careers, a Spanish theatrical empresario and an Italian female chocolatier will threaten their marriage.
Dos corazones y un cielo
1959
5.8Woman and her daughter try to get on with their lives and run their family bakery while dealing with abusive alcoholic husband/father and other family problems.
Cuando los hijos odian
1950
8.2A humble provincial writer who wants to publish his first book offers it to a film producer who is looking for locations for a film at that time. The novelist's family then moves to the big city, where they will have to face many adversities that will make them wish they had never left their village.
Damned City!
1954
6.0Maid tries to smooth over the difficulties in her employers' marriage while juggling five or six potential boyfriends of her own.
Los paquetes de Paquita
1955
6.6Rich 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...
Cupido pierde a Paquita
1955
5.6Hubby latches onto a series of side-pieces and wifey finds it increasingly hard to put up with his behavior.
La calle de los amores
1954
5.1Lives in a "model factory," designed to create a progressive community among the workers.
Storm in the souls
1954
5.9A young man goes to the capital to prove himself as an opera singer, after being rejected he must find other means to achieve fame
From the Village to TV
1953
7.3Reporters compete for cash prize awarded for biggest scoop on New Year's Eve.
Reportaje
1953
5.7Mexican feature film
El cardenal
1951
5.6No synopsis available yet.
Tú y las nubes
1955
5.8Vineyard worker is happy when her long-estranged artist brother comes to visit her. But then...
Las medias de seda
1956
6.0Bad girl makes lives miserable.
When Children Sin
1952
6.8Newly-graduated lawyer gets caught up in the personal drama surrounding a rich industrialist and his sociopathic son.
Romance de fieras
1954
Romantic triangle. One of the guys is a very bad man.
Beneath the Sky of Mexico
1958
6.8Anacleto and Baldomira are a couple who have problems because of gossip from their compadre who wants Baldomira. The marriage is separated for a short time because they realize that they love each other.
Anacleto Gets Divorced
1950
5.7No synopsis available yet.
Un principe de la iglesia
1952
8.0College students, ready to start entering adult society, are ashamed of their working-class backgrounds.
¡Acá las Tortas!
1951
1940s · 22 titles
6.0Family life of a widowed father with four teenaged and young-adult children.
Amor Prohibido
1945
8.2Ruled by a tough grandma, the Garcías are three charro cousins who fall in love with young American-born Lupita and fight for her love until grandma quiets them.
The Three Garcías
1947
7.0Movie in which funny situations based on the entanglements caused by a woman named Felicidad to her family because of her feminist ideology are presented, to the extent of bringing her daughters and herself to a divorce trial.
Hooray for Women!
1943
5.0A Spanish, Juan, is obsessed with telling the truth always. As a result he is consistently in the middle of troubles...
Miente y serás feliz
1940
6.4The owner of an illegal gambling casino witnesses all the problems in the life of her dissolute son and finally acts in a way that'll help him rehabilitate himself.
La casa de la zorra
1945
6.6Ruled by a tough grandma, the Garcías are three charro cousins who fall in love with young American-born Lupita and fight for her love until grandma quiets them.
Vuelven los García
1947
After many setbacks, Mr. Prudenciano, in Mexico, came to the conclusion that he had no great future as a bullfighter. He sold what little he had and, along with his wife, settled in Seville. Things didn’t go much better for him in Spain either, although at least he can spend all day doing what he likes best: doing nothing.
Dos mexicanos en Sevilla
1942
6.2Amable 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.
Qué hombre tan simpático
1943
6.0Fictional story about the Escuadron 201 de Caza (201st Mexican Fighter Squadron), which participated in military campaigns in the Phillipines during WWII. It focuses primarily on two brothers, one who has a promising future as a doctor, who volunteer for this unit after Mexico declares war on Germany after the sinking of Mexican merchants by U-boats. The story also follows another young man, the son of a Spanish immigrant baker. He volunteers to pay what he feels is an unpaid debt to their new adopted country.
Escuadrón 201
1945
5.8Naive Chinese immigrant has feelings for a young woman of loose morals whom he hires at his restaurant.
Café de chinos
1949
5.8A man's on trial for murder; a friend who could prove his innocence chooses not to come forward. An interested detective starts working to discover the how-come of all of that.
Crimen en la alcoba
1946
6.3Bedroom farce, with three men claiming the same woman as their mistress.
Cinco minutos de amor
1941
6.2Ranch-heiress chooses a husband.
La barca de oro
1947
6.0A 1940 film directed by Rolando Aguilar.
La canción del milagro
1940
5.8A stagecoach full of conflictive passengers makes its dangerours way from Mexico to Veracruz during the days of the French Intervention.
La fuga
1944
6.0An elderly homeless dude lucks into a situation where a young woman's uncle and her boyfriend ask him to impersonate her long-lost father and give her some nurturing parent attention.
Pobre diablo
1940
5.9On 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.
Pepita Jiménez
1946
6.3The Story of a Woman's Redemption
Secreto Eterno
1942
6.7Biopic of the revolutionary Simón Bolívar who fought to end Spanish rule over much of Latin America.
Simón Bolívar
1942
6.7A young woman disguises herself as a soldier when her boyfriend arrives to propose.
Enrédate y verás
1948
6.0Romantic melodrama; hero and rich landowner are both after the same woman.
Tierra De Pasiones
1943
6.0A 1940 film directed by José Bohr.
Borrasca humana
1940
1930s · 13 titles
6.5No te engañes corazón (released in English as Don't Fool Yourself Dear) is the first full-feature film of Cantinflas after becoming a star of the carpa circuit (folk theater). It was also one of the earliest films of Sara García and Carlos Orellana and the first where they share the screen. Don Boni (Orellana) is diagnosed with a deadly disease and decides to spend his last days doing good deeds. He leaves his wife and decides to help people. He then gets drunk and wakes up with a winning lottery ticket and realizes that the doctor who diagnosed him has been sent to prison for fraud.
No te engañes corazón
1937
5.6Santa is a beautiful and very humble young girl living in Chimalistac, a small and quiet spot south of the 1930's Mexico City. After Santa is cheated by arrogant soldier Marcelino, she's rejected by her family and friends and expelled of Chimalistac. Santa finds shelter in a whorehouse and becomes a cinic and bitter woman, mistreated by bullfighter "Jarameno" and silently loved by blind pianist Hipólito.
Santa
1932
6.7No synopsis available yet.
El hotel de los chiflados
1939
6.3No synopsis available yet.
El rosario de Amozoc
1938
6.4Two journalists, Carlos and Lola, investigate the murder of a young woman whose body appeared with her heart torn out, in what seems to be a human sacrifice. The investigation leads the reporters to a museum, whose director is the famous Doctor Gallardo.
The Sign of Death
1939
6.0No synopsis available yet.
No basta ser madre
1937
7.0The story of Mexican President Benito Juárez and the emperor Maximilian of Habsburg and the empress Carlota.
Juarez and Maximilian
1934
6.0Wicked man seduces an innocent country girl into a life of degradation and nightclubs.
It Happened in Havana
1938
6.2Three Spaniards emigrate to Mexico and become prosperous landowners.
En un burro tres baturros
1939
5.7No synopsis available yet.
Calumnia
1939
5.7In modern Mexico, a malevolent spirit targets a family, linking tragic past events of abandoned, infanticidal mothers to a possessed intruder's attempt to sacrifice their son.
The Crying Woman
1933
5.8Don Gil de Alacala (José Mojica), a swashbuckler also known as Captain Adventure, must overcome a series of difficult trials and tribulations in order to save the love of his life, Carmina (Manolita Saval), who is engaged to marry a terrible nobleman. Based upon the libretto "Don Gil de Alcala" by Manuel Penella, this classic black-and-white romance also stars Margarita Mora, Carlos Orellana and Sara García.
El Capitan Aventurero
1939
5.3Dazzled by the Empress Carlotta's graciousness, magnanimity and charm, a young officer in the Mexican army switches his allegiance to the Imperial government with Maximilian as figurehead. Bad move, space cadet.
La paloma
1937
Behind the camera
8.4Jorge Bueno and Pedro Malo are best friends who consider giving up their womanizing ways when they each fall in love. As fate would have it, Pedro Malo unexpectedly marries Jorge Bueno's girlfriend, and the conflict between the former buddies begins.
Dos tipos de cuidado
1953
7.6An Indian arouses envy for his expertise in hunting animals without ruining their skins, for his wisdom and his kindness.
Tizoc
1957
6.8Adaptation of the novel by Alejandro Pérez Lujín, centered on the university adventures in Santiago de Compostela of Gerardo Roquer from Madrid, who stays in a boarding house known as "La Casa de la Troya".
La casa de la Troya
1948
6.8Adaptation of the novel by Alejandro Pérez Lujín, centered on the university adventures in Santiago de Compostela of Gerardo Roquer from Madrid, who stays in a boarding house known as "La Casa de la Troya".
La casa de la Troya
1948
8.2Ruled by a tough grandma, the Garcías are three charro cousins who fall in love with young American-born Lupita and fight for her love until grandma quiets them.
The Three Garcías
1947
6.7Two farmworkers emigrate to USA to work on a Texas ranch, then go home and put their lives back in order.
Como México no hay dos
1945
5.8Three murder-mystery fans team up to play detective together; they catch some thieves at the workplace of one of them, then get caught up in an old-dark-house situation...
Un trío de tres
1960
6.5The simple life and the values of loyalty and solidarity of the poor people in the environment of professional boxing, is the plot of this film, where Pepe el Toro shows the effort and tragedies that are experienced in this profession.
Pepe El Toro
1953
8.2A humble provincial writer who wants to publish his first book offers it to a film producer who is looking for locations for a film at that time. The novelist's family then moves to the big city, where they will have to face many adversities that will make them wish they had never left their village.
Damned City!
1954
7.0Movie in which funny situations based on the entanglements caused by a woman named Felicidad to her family because of her feminist ideology are presented, to the extent of bringing her daughters and herself to a divorce trial.
Hooray for Women!
1943
7.0Movie in which funny situations based on the entanglements caused by a woman named Felicidad to her family because of her feminist ideology are presented, to the extent of bringing her daughters and herself to a divorce trial.
Hooray for Women!
1943
6.6Victor must leave his life of partying and change his girlfriend, Lucero, for the bride that awaits him in his hometown.
El que tenga un amor
1942
6.6Victor must leave his life of partying and change his girlfriend, Lucero, for the bride that awaits him in his hometown.
El que tenga un amor
1942
6.6Ruled by a tough grandma, the Garcías are three charro cousins who fall in love with young American-born Lupita and fight for her love until grandma quiets them.
Vuelven los García
1947
After many setbacks, Mr. Prudenciano, in Mexico, came to the conclusion that he had no great future as a bullfighter. He sold what little he had and, along with his wife, settled in Seville. Things didn’t go much better for him in Spain either, although at least he can spend all day doing what he likes best: doing nothing.
Dos mexicanos en Sevilla
1942
After many setbacks, Mr. Prudenciano, in Mexico, came to the conclusion that he had no great future as a bullfighter. He sold what little he had and, along with his wife, settled in Seville. Things didn’t go much better for him in Spain either, although at least he can spend all day doing what he likes best: doing nothing.
Dos mexicanos en Sevilla
1942
6.0No synopsis available yet.
Mi esposa busca novio
1948
6.0No synopsis available yet.
Mi esposa busca novio
1948
5.2No synopsis available yet.
¡… Y murío por nosotros!
1951
6.4Elderly home is struggling for funds; one of the residents competes on a game show to win a jackpot she can donate.
El gran premio
1958
6.4Elderly home is struggling for funds; one of the residents competes on a game show to win a jackpot she can donate.
El gran premio
1958
5.9A young man goes to the capital to prove himself as an opera singer, after being rejected he must find other means to achieve fame
From the Village to TV
1953
5.7Priest nags a crusty old man into reconciling with his daughter-in-law and granddaughter after the death of his son.
Morenita clara
1943
6.3Bedroom farce, with three men claiming the same woman as their mistress.
Cinco minutos de amor
1941
6.2Ranch-heiress chooses a husband.
La barca de oro
1947
7.2On 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.
Land of Men
1959
6.0Mexican movie
Loco y vagabundo
1946
6.8Misogynist military man is laid up for a month with a broken leg and during his convalescence he learns all the needed life-lessons.
El capitán Malacara
1945
6.8Rural-community gal is being courted by a peon and by a land-owner.
Flor de caña
1948
5.7No synopsis available yet.
Noche de recién casados
1941
6.0An elderly homeless dude lucks into a situation where a young woman's uncle and her boyfriend ask him to impersonate her long-lost father and give her some nurturing parent attention.
Pobre diablo
1940
6.0Bad girl makes lives miserable.
When Children Sin
1952
6.3The Story of a Woman's Redemption
Secreto Eterno
1942
6.8Newly-graduated lawyer gets caught up in the personal drama surrounding a rich industrialist and his sociopathic son.
Romance de fieras
1954
6.3Mexican movie
Dirty Face
1949
6.3No synopsis available yet.
Marry And You'll See
1946
No synopsis available yet.
Carnaval en mi barrio
1961
6.7A young woman disguises herself as a soldier when her boyfriend arrives to propose.
Enrédate y verás
1948
5.5A comic movie that involves a guy who sees a kid in his house who escaped from his wealthy grandfather's mansion.
El gran pillo
1960
6.2The story follows Teresa, a widowed and protective mother who travels with her children to Mexico City, where she meets a merchant named Ángel, who helps her build a new life.
La gallina clueca
1941
