
Acting
Fanny Schiller
Born — Died
1901-08-03 — 1971-09-26
Place of birth
Mexico City, Mexico
Known for
Acting
Credits
60 titles
Fanny Schiller Hernández (1897–1971) was an award-winning Mexican character actress, television star and also acted in operettas and musicals in the Golden Age of Mexican cinema. She won two best supporting actress awards from the Ariels and was nominated for two additional films. She was a social activist, creating the Actor's Union and inspiring the creation of “Rosa Mexicano”. She was accomplished at dubbing and was the voice of many animated characters as well as the official voice of several other notable Mexican actresses.
Known for
4.2Mexican love stories follow a dying man, a bullfighter's sister and lovers from feuding villages.
Sombrero
1953
5.2Volcanic activity frees giant scorpions from the earth who wreak havoc in the rural countryside and eventually threaten Mexico City.
The Black Scorpion
1957
6.4A widower's young son leads the police to a killer of sinners in Mexico City.
A Life in the Balance
1955
6.0Directed by Juan Ortega and set in 19th Century Victorian England, a struggling single woman of the noble class , named Juana Champion (played by actress Andrea Palma), has absolutely no marriage prospects. After finally resigning herself to becoming a Spinster or "Old Maid", she decides to go live with her very wealthy Aunt, none other than the Dutchess of Meldrum. Not long after her arrival, she quickly becomes infatuated with a charming, good-looking and talented painter named Garth, who works for her prim and proper Aunt. Although there is a mutual attraction between them from the start, Garth does not truly fall in love with Juana until he hears her sing a wonderful song called "The Rosary".
El rosario
1944
7.1Salvador accompanied by two friends of his father whom he calls uncles, they arrive at a fair in the village, there he meets Ana. When he wins a bet he is paid with a mortgaged house, to his surprise upon entering the hom he realizes that Ana and her mother live in it, provoking a funny entanglement with an explosive final.
Watch Out for Love
1954
5.2A woman lives in Acapulco with moochers and a husband who married her for her money.
Love Has Many Faces
1965
Film credits
1970s · 5 titles
4.7A world-famous opera singer returns home following her father's death, only to find greed and evil awaiting.
The Fearmaker
1971
5.8A woman is sent to Mexico to kill the person who presumptly killed her father.
Someone Wants to Kill Us!
1970
7.1This is the story of Rubí, a young, selfish and hypocritical woman who, through ambition and deception, ruins the lives of those around her and her own.
Rubí
1970
Based on the novel by Caridad Bravo Adams.
Estafa de amor
1970
4.6Separated Mom, Dad and son all come into conflict with each other during a brief reunion visit. Everyone learns and grows.
Las figuras de arena
1970
1960s · 14 titles
5.2A woman lives in Acapulco with moochers and a husband who married her for her money.
Love Has Many Faces
1965
6.0Arnulfo is a man weaving baskets. Remedios has given birth in front of the house of a woman and her aid, but the village is spread the word that the child born as a child God and an atheist would think exploit to their advantage the "miracle ".
Miracles Weaver
1962
4.7Repressed middle-aged Catholic gets into a troublesome relationship with the prostitute next door and her little boy.
Savage Sunday
1967
5.6In order to stop a vampire from terrorizing the countryside, some locals decide to break into his coffin at night and steal his ashes. Complications ensue.
Nostradamus: The Genie of Darkness
1962
8.0A woman jumping from the poverty of the countryside to the splendor of wealth in the city without losing its simplicity
María Isabel
1967
6.3The family of a dying man celebrates his wake while the man is still alive, showing their darker, selfish ambitions and trying to take the best part of the inheritance.
The Crows are Grieving
1965
6.7Lawman on horseback cracks a case involving stolen gold bullion, the title to a mine, an evil twin and a plucky pre-adolescent boy. First in a series.
El norteño
1963
5.5Idealistic young teacher takes a post in a small, backwoods town and dedicates her life to schooling the village's children.
La maestra inolvidable
1969
5.8Several lives intertwine: those of a group of vandals, a drug addict, and a girl who works as a waitress in a restaurant where her mother cooks.
Death Arrives on Time
1967
The underside of Mexico City: street performers, factory workers, a drunk, an old man with civic pride, a pickpocket, and others live and interact in a shantytown near the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe.
The Laughter Of The City
1963
Troubled young man meets his father for the first time.
Cielo Rojo
1962
5.4Based on the corrido of Valentín de la Sierra, one of the revolutionary leaders who forged the armed struggle in Mexican history. The abuses of the Porfirista government against the humble people lead Valentín to lead a large-scale armed uprising.
Valentín de la Sierra
1968
6.8Identical cousins with mismatched Odd Couple personalities.
Los Alegres Aguilares
1967
6.0No synopsis available yet.
México de mis recuerdos
1963
1950s · 26 titles
4.2Mexican love stories follow a dying man, a bullfighter's sister and lovers from feuding villages.
Sombrero
1953
5.2Volcanic activity frees giant scorpions from the earth who wreak havoc in the rural countryside and eventually threaten Mexico City.
The Black Scorpion
1957
6.4A widower's young son leads the police to a killer of sinners in Mexico City.
A Life in the Balance
1955
7.1Salvador accompanied by two friends of his father whom he calls uncles, they arrive at a fair in the village, there he meets Ana. When he wins a bet he is paid with a mortgaged house, to his surprise upon entering the hom he realizes that Ana and her mother live in it, provoking a funny entanglement with an explosive final.
Watch Out for Love
1954
5.6Wife-killer narrates flashbacks about how his obsessive jealousy led him to tragedy.
Locura pasional
1956
6.0A USA girl decides to vacation in Mexico and experience first hand all the stereotypical scenes she's seen in movies. When she gets there, everything isn't all charros and bandidos, though -- surprise, surprise!
Una gringuita en México
1951
4.5An artist suffering from mental problems from his experiences during the war goes to Acapulco on his honeymoon. Soon young women are turning up dead in the area, and the ex-GI comes to believe he might be responsible, as he has long stretches where he can't remember anything.
A Woman's Devotion
1956
6.2A 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.
Camelia
1954
6.0A circus dancer marries a famous singer, but is threatened when a figure from her past blackmails her.
The Naked Woman
1953
6.3Adolfo, the son of Dona Mariquita, is committed to Marisa to please his mother, but his real love is Paz.
Doña Mariquita de mi corazón
1953
6.5Don Anastacio, an aristocrat passing through a rough patch,He will make marry his daughter Isabel with wealthy rancher. Isabel and her family refuse to work, Jose Manuel takes them to the ranch, where they are forced to work for food.
Por ellas aunque mal paguen
1952
6.01910: Revolutionary leader escapes military, hides in small town, falls in love.
Duelo en las montañas
1950
5.6Irresponsible playboy seduces a decent young lady with a fake wedding; he continues being a creep for the next 12 or 15 years.
Las engañadas
1955
5.9In 1915, an American adventurer joins the supporters of Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa.
The Treasure of Pancho Villa
1955
7.0A musician is injured and threatened for defending a girl and decides to go to the capital, where fame and success achieved. She is glad to know that he has succeeded, however, has become a street prostitute prone to paralysis. Finally one day he takes courage and decides to look for, since it has become invalid again ...
La mujer que yo amé
1950
5.7Mexican feature film
Dangerous Curves
1950
6.0Melodrama involving a young woman returning to Mexico from abroad after a failed romance and dealing with an unwanted pregnancy and a meddling Aunt.
Stolen Tears
1954
5.5Dedicated, saintly nurse has a twin sister who is a Bad Girl.
The Woman and the Beast
1959
6.5The soul of a dead baseball player finds a human host to occupy so it can achieve some career goals it hadn't accomplished during its lifetime. Riotous hijinks ensue.
El beisbolista fenómeno
1952
6.4Comical misadventures of a film crew trying to get their damn musical filmed.
Singing love is born
1954
6.2A writer is given custody of his editor's daughter after she is orphaned. Once she grows up, they become romantically involved.
Fruto prohibido
1953
6.7In this western, the hero takes a Mexican vacation, gets caught up in a revolutionary plot with the powerful owner of a hacienda, and falls in love with the rancher's daughter all at the same time.
Fury in Paradise
1955
6.7No synopsis available yet.
El gran espectáculo
1958
4.6Four anecdotes involving a mink coat in display in a shop window.
Historia de un abrigo de mink
1955
6.4Mad scientist is trying to transplant the soul of an animated, talking skeleton into a living body. Also, there's a monster. Number three of three in Zorro Escarlata series.
Return of the Monster
1958
4.7Adaptation of Dostoyevsky's novel about a student who plans a conceptual murder and then butts heads with a police detective.
Crimen y castigo
1951
1940s · 13 titles
6.0Directed by Juan Ortega and set in 19th Century Victorian England, a struggling single woman of the noble class , named Juana Champion (played by actress Andrea Palma), has absolutely no marriage prospects. After finally resigning herself to becoming a Spinster or "Old Maid", she decides to go live with her very wealthy Aunt, none other than the Dutchess of Meldrum. Not long after her arrival, she quickly becomes infatuated with a charming, good-looking and talented painter named Garth, who works for her prim and proper Aunt. Although there is a mutual attraction between them from the start, Garth does not truly fall in love with Juana until he hears her sing a wonderful song called "The Rosary".
El rosario
1944
5.7Magicians transfers two peoples' souls (or whatever you want to call them) into each other's bodies.
He Who Died of Love
1945
6.0A 17th century woman, imprisoned for fighting in a bar, recounts her past to a priest. She tells of her father teaching her how to fence, of being sent to a convent by her aunt when her father died, of escaping by dressing as a man, and of her life as a man following the escape.
La monja alférez
1944
5.7Focuses on the emotional life of two women, whose husbands, with labor excuses, make "outings" from 7 to 9 at night.
Los maridos engañan de 7 a 9
1946
6.6Mercedes works as a cabaret performer to pay for her sister's studies. Problems begin when Mercedes and Paco, her exploiter, win a dance contest, but he refuses to share the prize with her.
Salon Mexico
1949
6.7Tuya en cuerpo y alma ("Yours in Body and Soul") is a 1945 Mexican film. It stars Sara García.
Yours and Body in Soul
1945
6.2Santa 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 Hipolito.
Santa
1943
6.3Lena, a beautiful and mysteriously sinister refugee haunted by her past, is chased into the arms of a rich, unsuspecting industrialist not for love, but for information.
May God Forgive Me
1948
6.2The wise men of the kingdom interpret a dream of Pharaoh and decide that Putifar, a victorious general, should marry Lota, a virginal slave.
The Pharaoh's Court
1944
6.3No synopsis available yet.
Mi lupe y mi caballo
1944
6.2Unscrupulous boss frames an employee for a robbery so he can make time with the guy's sister.
Las puertas del presidio
1949
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
6.7Rich city family is close to bankruptcy; rich country cousins come to visit.
Del rancho a la capital
1942
1930s · 2 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
6.0In a small city, talented María was trained as a singer by blind composer Joaquín. They both dream of making it big in the capital but, when they finally make the move, they find that success is not achieved without struggles.
Una luz en mi camino
1939
