Carlos Orellana

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

Dos tipos de cuidado poster
8.4

Jorge 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

Amor Prohibido poster
6.0

Family life of a widowed father with four teenaged and young-adult children.

Amor Prohibido

1945

Tizoc poster
7.6

An Indian arouses envy for his expertise in hunting animals without ruining their skins, for his wisdom and his kindness.

Tizoc

1957

No te engañes corazón poster
6.5

No 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

Santa poster
5.6

Santa 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

La casa de la Troya poster
6.8

Adaptation 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

Dos tipos de cuidado poster
8.4

Jorge 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

Tizoc poster
7.6

An Indian arouses envy for his expertise in hunting animals without ruining their skins, for his wisdom and his kindness.

Tizoc

1957

Castle of the Monsters poster
5.7

A couple are forced to stay in a scary castle, and the castle is filled with monsters!

Castle of the Monsters

1958

Dos corazones y un cielo poster
6.8

Husband 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

Cuando los hijos odian poster
5.8

Woman 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

Damned City! poster
8.2

A 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

Los paquetes de Paquita poster
6.0

Maid 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

Cupido pierde a Paquita poster
6.6

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...

Cupido pierde a Paquita

1955

La calle de los amores poster
5.6

Hubby 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

Storm in the souls poster
5.1

Lives in a "model factory," designed to create a progressive community among the workers.

Storm in the souls

1954

From the Village to TV poster
5.9

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

From the Village to TV

1953

Reportaje poster
7.3

Reporters compete for cash prize awarded for biggest scoop on New Year's Eve.

Reportaje

1953

El cardenal poster
5.7

Mexican feature film

El cardenal

1951

Tú y las nubes poster
5.6

No synopsis available yet.

Tú y las nubes

1955

Las medias de seda poster
5.8

Vineyard worker is happy when her long-estranged artist brother comes to visit her. But then...

Las medias de seda

1956

When Children Sin poster
6.0

Bad girl makes lives miserable.

When Children Sin

1952

Romance de fieras poster
6.8

Newly-graduated lawyer gets caught up in the personal drama surrounding a rich industrialist and his sociopathic son.

Romance de fieras

1954

No artwork available
5.4

Romantic triangle. One of the guys is a very bad man.

Beneath the Sky of Mexico

1958

Anacleto Gets Divorced poster
6.8

Anacleto 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

Un principe de la iglesia poster
5.7

No synopsis available yet.

Un principe de la iglesia

1952

¡Acá las Tortas! poster
8.0

College students, ready to start entering adult society, are ashamed of their working-class backgrounds.

¡Acá las Tortas!

1951

1940s · 22 titles

Amor Prohibido poster
6.0

Family life of a widowed father with four teenaged and young-adult children.

Amor Prohibido

1945

The Three Garcías poster
8.2

Ruled 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

Hooray for Women! poster
7.0

Movie 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

Miente y serás feliz poster
5.0

A 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

La casa de la zorra poster
6.4

The 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

Vuelven los García poster
6.6

Ruled 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

No artwork available
6.7

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

Qué hombre tan simpático poster
6.2

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.

Qué hombre tan simpático

1943

Escuadrón 201 poster
6.0

Fictional 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

Café de chinos poster
5.8

Naive Chinese immigrant has feelings for a young woman of loose morals whom he hires at his restaurant.

Café de chinos

1949

Crimen en la alcoba poster
5.8

A 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

Cinco minutos de amor poster
6.3

Bedroom farce, with three men claiming the same woman as their mistress.

Cinco minutos de amor

1941

La barca de oro poster
6.2

Ranch-heiress chooses a husband.

La barca de oro

1947

La canción del milagro poster
6.0

A 1940 film directed by Rolando Aguilar.

La canción del milagro

1940

La fuga poster
5.8

A stagecoach full of conflictive passengers makes its dangerours way from Mexico to Veracruz during the days of the French Intervention.

La fuga

1944

Pobre diablo poster
6.0

An 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

Pepita Jiménez poster
5.9

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.

Pepita Jiménez

1946

Secreto Eterno poster
6.3

The Story of a Woman's Redemption

Secreto Eterno

1942

Simón Bolívar poster
6.7

Biopic of the revolutionary Simón Bolívar who fought to end Spanish rule over much of Latin America.

Simón Bolívar

1942

Enrédate y verás poster
6.7

A young woman disguises herself as a soldier when her boyfriend arrives to propose.

Enrédate y verás

1948

Tierra De Pasiones poster
6.0

Romantic melodrama; hero and rich landowner are both after the same woman.

Tierra De Pasiones

1943

Borrasca humana poster
6.0

A 1940 film directed by José Bohr.

Borrasca humana

1940

1930s · 13 titles

No te engañes corazón poster
6.5

No 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

Santa poster
5.6

Santa 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

El hotel de los chiflados poster
6.7

No synopsis available yet.

El hotel de los chiflados

1939

El rosario de Amozoc poster
6.3

No synopsis available yet.

El rosario de Amozoc

1938

The Sign of Death poster
6.4

Two 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

No basta ser madre poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

No basta ser madre

1937

Juarez and Maximilian poster
7.0

The story of Mexican President Benito Juárez and the emperor Maximilian of Habsburg and the empress Carlota.

Juarez and Maximilian

1934

It Happened in Havana poster
6.0

Wicked man seduces an innocent country girl into a life of degradation and nightclubs.

It Happened in Havana

1938

En un burro tres baturros poster
6.2

Three Spaniards emigrate to Mexico and become prosperous landowners.

En un burro tres baturros

1939

Calumnia poster
5.7

No synopsis available yet.

Calumnia

1939

The Crying Woman poster
5.7

In 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

El Capitan Aventurero poster
5.8

Don 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

La paloma poster
5.3

Dazzled 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

Dos tipos de cuidado poster
8.4

Jorge 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

Tizoc poster
7.6

An Indian arouses envy for his expertise in hunting animals without ruining their skins, for his wisdom and his kindness.

Tizoc

1957

La casa de la Troya poster
6.8

Adaptation 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

La casa de la Troya poster
6.8

Adaptation 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

The Three Garcías poster
8.2

Ruled 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

Como México no hay dos poster
6.7

Two 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

Un trío de tres poster
5.8

Three 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

Pepe El Toro poster
6.5

The 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

Damned City! poster
8.2

A 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

Hooray for Women! poster
7.0

Movie 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

Hooray for Women! poster
7.0

Movie 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

El que tenga un amor poster
6.6

Victor 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

El que tenga un amor poster
6.6

Victor 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

Vuelven los García poster
6.6

Ruled 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

No artwork available
6.7

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

No artwork available
6.7

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

Mi esposa busca novio poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Mi esposa busca novio

1948

Mi esposa busca novio poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Mi esposa busca novio

1948

¡… Y murío por nosotros! poster
5.2

No synopsis available yet.

¡… Y murío por nosotros!

1951

El gran premio poster
6.4

Elderly 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

El gran premio poster
6.4

Elderly 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

From the Village to TV poster
5.9

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

From the Village to TV

1953

Morenita clara poster
5.7

Priest nags a crusty old man into reconciling with his daughter-in-law and granddaughter after the death of his son.

Morenita clara

1943

Cinco minutos de amor poster
6.3

Bedroom farce, with three men claiming the same woman as their mistress.

Cinco minutos de amor

1941

La barca de oro poster
6.2

Ranch-heiress chooses a husband.

La barca de oro

1947

Land of Men poster
7.2

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.

Land of Men

1959

Loco y vagabundo poster
6.0

Mexican movie

Loco y vagabundo

1946

El capitán Malacara poster
6.8

Misogynist 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

Flor de caña poster
6.8

Rural-community gal is being courted by a peon and by a land-owner.

Flor de caña

1948

Noche de recién casados poster
5.7

No synopsis available yet.

Noche de recién casados

1941

Pobre diablo poster
6.0

An 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

When Children Sin poster
6.0

Bad girl makes lives miserable.

When Children Sin

1952

Secreto Eterno poster
6.3

The Story of a Woman's Redemption

Secreto Eterno

1942

Romance de fieras poster
6.8

Newly-graduated lawyer gets caught up in the personal drama surrounding a rich industrialist and his sociopathic son.

Romance de fieras

1954

Dirty Face poster
6.3

Mexican movie

Dirty Face

1949

Marry And You'll See poster
6.3

No synopsis available yet.

Marry And You'll See

1946

No artwork available
6.5

No synopsis available yet.

Carnaval en mi barrio

1961

Enrédate y verás poster
6.7

A young woman disguises herself as a soldier when her boyfriend arrives to propose.

Enrédate y verás

1948

El gran pillo poster
5.5

A 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

La gallina clueca poster
6.2

The 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