Polo Ortín

Acting

Polo Ortín

Born — Died

1928-04-16 — 2016-08-16

Place of birth

Mexico City, Mexico

Known for

Acting

Credits

67 titles

Polo Ortín was born on April 16, 1928 in Mexico City, Mexico as Leopoldo Ortin Campuzano. He was an actor and director.

Known for

Vecinos poster
8.2

The everyday life of people in Mexican neighborhoods, where anything can be found. Each episode interacts between these peculiar neighbors, where they encounter real and fictitious problems.

Vecinos

2005

Little Angel Face poster
7.8

Dulce María is like her name, a sweet 5-year-old girl, full of joy and good feelings. With the death of his mother, his father, Luciano Larios, sinks into depression and pain, and decides to distance himself from everything and everyone. He admits Dulce María to the "Queen of America" ​​nuns' school and goes abroad, leaving her in the care of her brother Gabriel, who is a priest. The only visit the girl receives is from her beloved Aunt Estefanía, whom she affectionately calls "Aunt Wigs" because instead of showing her hair, she wears colored wigs that match her clothes.

Little Angel Face

2000

María Isabel poster
7.3

Native American girl Maria Isabel makes friends with Graciela, a rich white girl, despite Graciela's father's opposition; their friendship lasts into their adulthood.

María Isabel

1997

Serafín poster
NR

Serafín is a Mexican children's telenovela produced by José Alberto Castro for Televisa and originally broadcast on Canal de las Estrellas from August 30 to December 17, 1999. It stars Maribel Guardia, Eduardo Santamarina, Jordi Landeta, and features the voice of María Fernanda Morales as Serafín. The telenovela was the first Mexican production to incorporate digitally created animated characters into a live-action telenovela. The story follows Serafín, a cheerful but mischievous little angel who is sent to Earth to learn how to become a Guardian Angel. In Mexico City, he meets Pepe, an unhappy boy living with his mother, grandfather, and abusive stepfather. Determined to bring hope and happiness into Pepe's life, Serafín helps him and his friends overcome family conflicts, fear, and adversity while teaching lessons about love, friendship, kindness, and faith.

Serafín

1999

La casa en la playa poster
8.5

La casa en la playa is a Mexican telenovela produced by Yuri Breña and Pinkye Morris for Televisa and originally broadcast on Canal de las Estrellas from April 10 to July 7, 2000. The story follows the wealthy Villarreal family after the death of its patriarch, whose final wishes ignite conflicts over inheritance, power, and loyalty. As hidden secrets and old rivalries emerge, the family becomes entangled in a web of love, betrayal, ambition, and revenge.

La casa en la playa

2000

Una Macho En El Salon de Belleza poster
6.8

Our protagonist has a stall in a market and a bride in place of meat. The butcher does not want and diamond smuggler gets him in trouble with the police. Hides in a beauty salon pretending to be gay

Una Macho En El Salon de Belleza

1987

Film credits

1990s · 8 titles

1980s · 34 titles

Una Macho En El Salon de Belleza poster
6.8

Our protagonist has a stall in a market and a bride in place of meat. The butcher does not want and diamond smuggler gets him in trouble with the police. Hides in a beauty salon pretending to be gay

Una Macho En El Salon de Belleza

1987

Ese loco, loco hospital poster
6.2

No synopsis available yet.

Ese loco, loco hospital

1986

Buenas y con... movidas poster
4.6

Sex-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

D.F./Distrito Federal poster
6.3

Anthology film, six little anecdotes about life in the big city.

D.F./Distrito Federal

1981

El Pichichi del barrio poster
4.0

Pichichi tries to put together a female soccer team as the mafia uses it as a front to distribute drugs.

El Pichichi del barrio

1989

Huevos rancheros poster
4.6

Two "naughty" comedy episodes with naked women and bodies of water.

Huevos rancheros

1982

El ratero de la vecindad 2 poster
7.9

Roberto y su nueva familia estan pasando por dificultades economicas por lo que decide formar otra vez su vieja banda y comienzan a tratar de organizar algunos robos que resultan mal. La esposa de Roberto y su abuelita recurren al engaño disfrazandose de monjitas para poder vender galletas y rompope, sin embargo la abuelita hace de las suyas y se meten en problemas.

El ratero de la vecindad 2

1985

Las Perfumadas poster
4.8

A gang of robbers sowing unrest in the city are attempting dislodge the police for a crime kingpin; the band are composed of three women and a business magnate.

Las Perfumadas

1983

Lagunilla 2 poster
6.3

No synopsis available yet.

Lagunilla 2

1982

Las modelos de desnudos poster
4.8

Three interlocking anecdotes about boy/girl stuff. Two gigolos make a bet to see which can boff an heiress first, a young artist tries to persuade his upper-class parents that his artist's-model fiance is a good choice for marriage, and a guy on the run from the mafia hides from them by cross-dressing.

Las modelos de desnudos

1983

El garañón poster
5.2

No synopsis available yet.

El garañón

1989

Las Fabulosas Del Reventón poster
4.6

Love triangles, romantic entanglements, and spectacular bodies! All this to the rhythm of laughter & the sounds of La Sonora Santanera.

Las Fabulosas Del Reventón

1982

Tragic Deaths poster
4.3

No synopsis available yet.

Tragic Deaths

1987

Para que dure no se apure poster
4.3

The bureaucrat Victor manages to acquire an apartment and, by lending it to his bosses for their affairs, earns money and promotions, though he suffers inconveniences by leaving the apartment at inconvenient hours, enduring robberies and colds. The office director also asks for the apartment to take Patricia, the elevator girl Victor loves. He is disappointed in her but discovers she attempted suicide. The director rewards him by appointing him manager, but he refuses the position, disgusted by the rampant corruption.

Para que dure no se apure

1988

De Todas... Todas! poster
4.7

No synopsis available yet.

De Todas... Todas!

1985

El vergonzoso poster
4.8

Softcore sex-farce about a guy with a really big lump in his underpants...and all the women who flock to him.

El vergonzoso

1988

Entre Compadres Te Veas poster
6.9

After a year spent mourning his wife's death, a father and two sons cut loose for some wild living. Loose remake of Los Tres Alegres Compadres.

Entre Compadres Te Veas

1986

Macho Que Ladra No Muerde poster
6.3

An old man punishes his son for not having children, so he tells him his inheritance will go to someone else if he doesn't have a child in a year.

Macho Que Ladra No Muerde

1984

Las fabulosas del Reventón 2 poster
6.7

Mexican feature film

Las fabulosas del Reventón 2

1983

La pulquería 3: Entre ficheras anda el diablo poster
6.6

After regaining his manliness, he escapes from hell Satan for embezzling Secretary of infernal hacienda, being chased by a couple of poor devils good for nothing, and took refuge in the cabaret ends up working as a transvestite.

La pulquería 3: Entre ficheras anda el diablo

1984

Se me sale cuando me río poster
6.7

Mexican feature film

Se me sale cuando me río

1983

La Pulquería Ataca de Nuevo poster
4.4

The film continues the outrageous antics of its eccentric patrons and staff, blending slapstick humor, misadventures, and love triangles. As the bar faces more outrageous situations, the characters find themselves in increasingly absurd and funny circumstances, maintaining the lively spirit of the previous films in the series.

La Pulquería Ataca de Nuevo

1985

La golfa del barrio poster
4.8

Left grief-stricken when his bride dies unexpectedly on their wedding night, desperate newlywed Juan Pablo jumps into a relationship with a sexy pickpocket in this romantic Mexican drama. At first, Juan Pablo desires only the touch of a woman, but things change when he begins to have strong feelings for Rosa. Sasha Montenegro, Susana Cabrera, Roberto Montiel, Eduardo de la Peña, Anaís de Melo and Delia Magaña star.

La golfa del barrio

1982

El gran relajo mexicano poster
6.7

Mexican feature film

El gran relajo mexicano

1988

Lagunilla, mi barrio poster
6.3

After 42 years of working as an antiquarian , Abel is fired by the children of his recently deceased employer; however, after this unexpected situation that leaves him in solitude and with little chance to get a new job, he decides to start again as antiques dealer in the popular Lagunilla market . There he will find real friends ; a humble life and, above all , a new opportunity to fall in love regardless of social differences.

Lagunilla, mi barrio

1981

5 pollas en peligro poster
6.0

Five young women visiting relatives in Acapulco are targetted by white-slave kidnappers.

5 pollas en peligro

1986

La ruletera poster
6.0

Comical misadventures: lady taxi-driver + doofus policemen.

La ruletera

1987

Nos reimos de la migra (Destrampados y mojados) poster
4.6

No synopsis available yet.

Nos reimos de la migra (Destrampados y mojados)

1987

Two Kinds of Schemes poster
4.9

Gold-digger conspires with gal-pal to snag herself a rich husband.

Two Kinds of Schemes

1989

La pulquería poster
7.1

The Devil offers a man to help him if he can show him to love.

La pulquería

1981

El chorizo del carnicero poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

El chorizo del carnicero

1989

Sexo contra sexo poster
5.4

The engineer José Luis, husband of the fichera and dancer Estrella Raleigh, dies in a plane crash. During the burial, Estrella discovers that her husband was having an affair. It's quickly revealed that things are a bit more complicated than they initially appear.

Sexo contra sexo

1983

La pulquería 2 poster
6.3

In this second part, the devil (Alfonso Zayas) returns to earth in search of a cure for his loss of masculinity; while Gerardo (Jorge Rivero), the rich and handsome character, continues to seduce his beloved.

La pulquería 2

1982

Dos machos que ladran no muerden poster
4.7

Constancio has to leave his wife and son because they're making him crazy. He leaves his fortune behind and falls in love with another woman.

Dos machos que ladran no muerden

1988

1970s · 7 titles

1950s · 5 titles

Series credits

Vecinos poster
8.2

The everyday life of people in Mexican neighborhoods, where anything can be found. Each episode interacts between these peculiar neighbors, where they encounter real and fictitious problems.

Vecinos

2005

Little Angel Face poster
7.8

Dulce María is like her name, a sweet 5-year-old girl, full of joy and good feelings. With the death of his mother, his father, Luciano Larios, sinks into depression and pain, and decides to distance himself from everything and everyone. He admits Dulce María to the "Queen of America" ​​nuns' school and goes abroad, leaving her in the care of her brother Gabriel, who is a priest. The only visit the girl receives is from her beloved Aunt Estefanía, whom she affectionately calls "Aunt Wigs" because instead of showing her hair, she wears colored wigs that match her clothes.

Little Angel Face

2000

María Isabel poster
7.3

Native American girl Maria Isabel makes friends with Graciela, a rich white girl, despite Graciela's father's opposition; their friendship lasts into their adulthood.

María Isabel

1997

Serafín poster
NR

Serafín is a Mexican children's telenovela produced by José Alberto Castro for Televisa and originally broadcast on Canal de las Estrellas from August 30 to December 17, 1999. It stars Maribel Guardia, Eduardo Santamarina, Jordi Landeta, and features the voice of María Fernanda Morales as Serafín. The telenovela was the first Mexican production to incorporate digitally created animated characters into a live-action telenovela. The story follows Serafín, a cheerful but mischievous little angel who is sent to Earth to learn how to become a Guardian Angel. In Mexico City, he meets Pepe, an unhappy boy living with his mother, grandfather, and abusive stepfather. Determined to bring hope and happiness into Pepe's life, Serafín helps him and his friends overcome family conflicts, fear, and adversity while teaching lessons about love, friendship, kindness, and faith.

Serafín

1999

La casa en la playa poster
8.5

La casa en la playa is a Mexican telenovela produced by Yuri Breña and Pinkye Morris for Televisa and originally broadcast on Canal de las Estrellas from April 10 to July 7, 2000. The story follows the wealthy Villarreal family after the death of its patriarch, whose final wishes ignite conflicts over inheritance, power, and loyalty. As hidden secrets and old rivalries emerge, the family becomes entangled in a web of love, betrayal, ambition, and revenge.

La casa en la playa

2000

Behind the camera