Acting
Eduardo Alcaraz
Born — Died
1915-04-13 — 1987-04-18
Place of birth
Santiago de Chile, Chile
Known for
Acting
Credits
63 titles
Eduardo Alcaraz was born on April 13, 1915 in Santiago, Chile as Alfredo Vergara Morales. He was an actor, known for Estos zorros locos, locos, locos (1981), El barrendero (1982) and Escuela de vagabundos (1955). He died on April 18, 1987 in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico. His voice was used in hundreds of translations to Spanish of TV series and cartoons from all over the world.
Known for
9.0Mundo de Juguete is a telenovela produced in Mexico by Televisa in 1974. It is a remake of telenovela Papá Corazón. This telenovela holds the record for having the second longest run ever for a Latin American telenovela, with a total of 605 episodes. Most telenovelas run for an average of six to eight months; the shortest ones run about four months, and the longest up to a year. Many "Mundo de Juguete" fans believe that either all or some of the tapes and film from the telenovela were lost when Televisa collapsed during the 1985 earthquake. Televisa has been secretive regarding which tapes were lost during that earthquake, so there is no way of confirming this. However, such claims can be disputed, considering that the Telenovela has been repeated on television several times after 1985. During the nineties, it was repeated on Mexico City Canal 9. For a period of time, it was also shown on Unicable or on Telenovelas Televisa remade the telenovela in 2000, and called it "Carita de Angel".
Mundo de Juguete
1974
8.5No synopsis available yet.
El Engaño
1986
6.0In 19th century Mexico, legendary swordsman Zorro has passed on his weapon and his sense of duty to his noble son, Diego, a dashing swashbuckler like his father. But after an injury sidelines Diego, he is forced to hand the mask over to his twin, Ramon.
Zorro, The Gay Blade
1981
8.1Lopitos, who is horribly inefficient but quick-witted, is invited (because of the current ambassador's superstition about 13 sitting down to a meal) to a banquet attended by the ambassadors of both superpowers. After the news of a series of coups d'état in Los Cocos arrives throughout the meal, Lopitos becomes the official ambassador. At a summit of world leaders, the representatives of the two world superpowers court the allegiances of third-world diplomats to tilt the balance of global power in their favor. The last diplomat to remain unaligned, Lopitos instead harangues the superpowers for infringing on the rights of developing countries to self determination, talking to them with his point of view as a citizen not as ambassador because he arranged his demise as ambassador one day before his speech.
Your Excellency
1967
7.4Cantinflas 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'
Si yo fuera diputado
1952
10.0No synopsis available yet.
Una mujer marcada
1979
Film credits
1980s · 4 titles
6.0In 19th century Mexico, legendary swordsman Zorro has passed on his weapon and his sense of duty to his noble son, Diego, a dashing swashbuckler like his father. But after an injury sidelines Diego, he is forced to hand the mask over to his twin, Ramon.
Zorro, The Gay Blade
1981
4.6Sex-worker tries to pose as a society matron long enough to receive a visit from her daughter, the daughter's fiancé and his family.
Buenas y con... movidas
1983
7.8A cheerful sweeper collects garbage dancing, and the maids of the neighborhood get jealous because he invites another woman out.
El Barrendero
1982
4.0Rigo and la Tulipana meet at the cabaret where they work, he as a singer and she as a fichera. They live an intense love, but Rigo's alcoholism is a source of constant tension.
Rigo is Love
1980
1970s · 10 titles
6.7After reading in the newspaper, Úrsulo runs to seek employment. It is the position of caretaker of a luxury apartment building habited by people more heterogeneous: the professional model, the spiritualist, hippies and all turn to him to solve their problems. But someone in the building, kidnapped an important person and Úrsulo becomes a private investigator.
Conserje en condominio
1974
5.3A terrible disease is found in a Mexican town. A doctor tries to alert the authorities when he discovers its epidemic nature. No one listen to him and soon after the disease spreads. The government tries to control the information in order to prevent panic.
The Year of the Plague
1978
5.3Anthology film: three "sophisticated" rom-com scenarios.
El cuerpazo del delito
1970
6.0Heist movie: bank teller develops an elaborate game plan to lift money from the vault where she works.
La mujer de oro
1970
6.6A man dies of a heart attack and his wife hides the body in order to continue collecting pension.
Who Killed Grandpa?
1972
7.0Newlywed couple are jealous of each other's imagined infidelities.
Departamento de soltero
1971
6.3No synopsis available yet.
Los ángeles de la tarde
1972
6.2Two criminal rivals and two crooked insurance adjusters jockey for ownership of a batch of stolen jewels.
¡Cómo hay gente sinvergüenza!
1972
5.6A guilt-ridden gunslinger seeks redemption after a tragic accident claims his friend's life. As he finds purpose through love, a vengeful shadow from his past threatens his chance at a new beginning.
El tunco Maclovio
1970
6.0Martina is a liberal woman who arrives to a small town, with his godfather. Here, Martina will met with her secret love, a typical "macho-ranchero" man, demanding her hand in matrimony. But he rejects Martina, claiming that she's not virgin and will return her to the godfather. When the godfather dies, Martina finds herself alone, and she'll begin a sexual adventure with almost the last men in the town, even with the shy chaplain.
La Martina
1972
1960s · 11 titles
8.1Lopitos, who is horribly inefficient but quick-witted, is invited (because of the current ambassador's superstition about 13 sitting down to a meal) to a banquet attended by the ambassadors of both superpowers. After the news of a series of coups d'état in Los Cocos arrives throughout the meal, Lopitos becomes the official ambassador. At a summit of world leaders, the representatives of the two world superpowers court the allegiances of third-world diplomats to tilt the balance of global power in their favor. The last diplomat to remain unaligned, Lopitos instead harangues the superpowers for infringing on the rights of developing countries to self determination, talking to them with his point of view as a citizen not as ambassador because he arranged his demise as ambassador one day before his speech.
Your Excellency
1967
7.1A lawyer trying to fix everyone's problems, instead causes problems, which always end up in funny situations.
A Quixote Without La Mancha
1969
7.8Fidencio Borer, an apothecary in a village on the northern border of Mexico, discovers some old title of a mine in Arizona and decides to claim them. Trying to cross the border is a border guard intercepted by exaggerating in the line of duty. On the way is captured by a tribe of Apaches and is about to be burned alive, but thanks to the Great Head Horse Lying having toothache and learns that the prisoner it can heal, ordered his release on the condition that the cure. Fidencio would take the wheel and gets the eternal friendship of the Chief apache.
Por mis pistolas
1968
8.1Biography of the famous composer of children's music Gabilondo Soler. Starts from his childhood, when he worked as a pastor and grandmother tried to teach him to play the piano. Later he went to the city to study music theory and began writing his first songs.
Cri-Cri the Singing little cricket
1963
6.4A man dies and his mistress gives their son to his wife. Twenty years later...
The Sin of a Mother
1960
5.7Rosita and Carlos, two young people who deeply detest each other, despite their parents determination to marry them off to unite their fortunes. Noticing their constant rivalry, the parents feign animosity to try and force the couple to fall in love.
Como perros y gatos
1969
5.8A couple of provincial gas station employees travel to the capital seeking fortune of vehicle mechanics accidental career passing drivers.
Pilotos de la muerte
1962
5.7No synopsis available yet.
Ojos tapatíos
1961
6.2Lorenzo Miguel is an Indian door to door flower seller in Xochimilco. One day he is requested by one of his customers to fix their garden and this becomes a recurring job. His new boss, a well educated woman sets to prove her younger sister wrong about their position in life by polishing the new gardener's education and manners.
El Violetero
1960
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
4.2A woman has several lovers, her husband discovers her with one of them, and both men are mistaken for robbers.
Cuernos debajo de la cama
1969
1950s · 35 titles
7.4Cantinflas 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'
Si yo fuera diputado
1952
7.3A 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...
The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz
1955
5.9A young Mexican boy tirelessly tries to save his pet bull from death at the hands of a celebrated matador.
The Brave One
1956
7.6Cantinflas, 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.
Drop the Curtain
1955
8.5Cantinflas is a clumsy fireman, who one day receives the visit of his little goddaughter, whose mother recently died in the jungle. After having work in a few fires, Cantinflas decided to quit and become a policeman, because is less dangerous. Everything goes well until a gang of gangsters kidnap the girl, because of a monetary inheritance.
The Atomic Fireman
1952
8.3Cantinflas, a traveling photographer, is captured by some gangsters while trying to get some flowers for his girlfriend. The gangsters have confused him with the assistant of Dr. Penongo, a scientist who has discovered the formula of a new atomic bomb. Meanwhile, Penongo has suffered a car accident and has lost his memory ...
Mr. Photographer
1953
7.0A young teacher is sent to a remote estate to educate a wealthy man who has grown up isolated from society. As she introduces him to formal education and social conventions, their contrasting views of the world lead to a series of unexpected encounters.
The Third Word
1956
6.0Mexico miner Pete Carroll is in Acapulco and meets Terry Perreau and falls in love with her after he hears her singing on a recording of "Extraño amor". The troubled Terry decides she wants to go shark fishing, so Pete poses as the skipper of a fishing boat, owned by Thursday, and off they go. Pete lands a mantray and cuts it up for bait and the sharks are soon swarming, and Terry dives in the water. Terry does likewise and fights a few sharks and gets his leg gashed but finally rescues her. Gradually, her friendship also turns into love. But back in Acapulco she learns of Pete's "fake skipper" joke, is all hacked off and goes to Mexico City with her friend Dr. Antez. There, a specialist, Dr. Rivas tells her that unless she has a dangerous operation she has only three months to live. Depressed even more than usual, if possible, she returns to the hotel and is met by!
Silent Fear
1956
8.0Alberto Medina is a famous composer whose car breaks down while he is on a trip. While looking for help, he finds the Valverdes' house and is welcomed in by Emilia, the mother of the family, who is known for taking in tramps.
School for Tramps
1955
6.7A peasant who works in a mahogany camp in the Mexican jungles with his family is disgusted with the miserable living conditions imposed upon himself and his co-workers, the peasant finally spearheads a revolt against the sadistic bosses.
Rebellion of the Hanged
1954
5.5A story of passion and deceit, where love overcomes the misfortunes and finally triumphs.
El gran autor
1954
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
5.0Ernesto, a composer, is madly in love with Amalia. He decides to help her pay the rent and wants her to start singing at the cabaret where he works, but she ends up falling in love with another man.
Lost Love
1951
5.9Evangelina murders her lover Alberto. In prison she meets Dora, Alberto's girlfriend, who was deprived of her freedom for his illicit business. An interesting story is about to be woven.
Cárcel de mujeres
1951
5.3Amid the Mexican Revolution, a woman rises from the depths of poverty and becomes a courtesan who is much-sought-after by high-society men, but she cannot forget her love for a rebel leader.
The Hidden One
1956
4.1In this Mexican comedy, Mr. Lazaro's fashion house is on the brink of bankruptcy and in desperate need of a new model to replace his current business partner's wife, whose appearance is driving customers away. Lazaro's son, Raul, realizes what a diffucult dilemma his father faces and sets out to restore the integrity of the family-owned business by teaming up with his lovely fiancée to put on a fashion show. Domingo Soler and Sara Montiel star.
Se solicitan modelos
1954
6.0Jilted lover takes revenge on her ex's new wife.
La adúltera
1956
6.0A widowed doctor with a sick child marries a famous singer unpremeditatedly, running at first everything fine until she begins to long for his former life and scenic successes representing the only reason for existence.
Nunca es tarde para amar
1953
6.2Tin-Tan wants to builds an ice cream machine.
Las locuras de Tin Tan
1952
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
5.5Catita is a simple and poor woman who dreams of that her son stands out on something important to help her out of his humble. But she opposes to him being boxer, therefore constantly fighting with her husband.
Mi campeón
1952
6.3Movie based on the classic student football competition between UNAM pumas and the Polytechnic donkeys that were popular at that time. A mechanic is mistaken for the best player in the Polytechnic, while in the Unam a student discovers a formula for superpowers to play football. Both compete for the love of a rookie and to win the students classic.
¡Viva la juventud!
1956
5.3No synopsis available yet.
Refifí entre las mujeres
1958
6.0In this movie a couple of comedians try to disappear for a while and end up in an asylum, where confused as the mad, and try to escape, but one of them falls in love and that complicates things.
Trip to the Moon
1958
6.2Ruined alcoholic doctor escapes a tropical plague and begins a new life back in civilization, taking over the identity of a dead man.
Two Faces Have the Destiny
1952
5.9After a long absence, a man returns to his village and recounts all his adventures with a touch of nostalgia.
The Adventures of Pito Pérez
1957
6.2Cándida 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.
Los enredos de una gallega
1951
6.7Going out for a drink with the guys after work, a salaryman get in over his head with a gangster's moll and a murder.
The Medallion of Crime
1955
6.0An older gentleman takes responsibility for molding a young showgirl's career; there seems to be a romantic link between them, but she has lots of side-pieces running around, and a serious boyfriend waiting in the wings...
Una lección de amor
1956
5.7Two married couples' lives are disrupted when the husbands disappear while on vacation. When the men are reported dead, the two women start a dance band... And then...
The Cha Cha Cha Widows
1955
5.9A detective and his cowboy friend team up to stop a mad scientist who is stealing the bodies of murdered wrestlers, and bringing them back to life while electronically replacing their minds with those of animals to make them stronger and live longer. Posing as a successful masked wrestler, the cowboy quickly attracts the attention of the scientist and his henchmen as their next experimental subject...
The Body Snatcher
1957
5.7Mexican feature film
Hijas casaderas
1954
6.0The guy that runs the concession stand at a vaudeville theatre gets tangled up with a gang of thieves.
Comedians of the League
1957
5.4After moving from Guadalajara to Mexico City, a young woman gets embroiled in a series of puzzling mistaken-identity misadventures.
Mi desconocida esposa
1958
6.5Mexican feature film
Aladdin and the Marvelous Lamp
1958
Series credits
9.0Mundo de Juguete is a telenovela produced in Mexico by Televisa in 1974. It is a remake of telenovela Papá Corazón. This telenovela holds the record for having the second longest run ever for a Latin American telenovela, with a total of 605 episodes. Most telenovelas run for an average of six to eight months; the shortest ones run about four months, and the longest up to a year. Many "Mundo de Juguete" fans believe that either all or some of the tapes and film from the telenovela were lost when Televisa collapsed during the 1985 earthquake. Televisa has been secretive regarding which tapes were lost during that earthquake, so there is no way of confirming this. However, such claims can be disputed, considering that the Telenovela has been repeated on television several times after 1985. During the nineties, it was repeated on Mexico City Canal 9. For a period of time, it was also shown on Unicable or on Telenovelas Televisa remade the telenovela in 2000, and called it "Carita de Angel".
Mundo de Juguete
1974
8.5No synopsis available yet.
El Engaño
1986
10.0No synopsis available yet.
Una mujer marcada
1979
