Acting
Armando Velasco
Born — Died
1899-03-05 — 1973-07-10
Place of birth
Mexico City, México
Known for
Acting
Credits
60 titles
Known for
8.0A gang of thieves has jeopardized the city and even the police, whose chief urges their forces to captured the band within 48 hours. Meanwhile, band members meet in a cafe run by a widow and her daughter and her suitor, Cantinflas, who maintains a scuffle with the robbers running all at the station. Since then, Cantinflas become a member of the police force for special missions.
The Unknown Policeman
1941
7.5Cantinflas enjoys the bullfight show, and wants to crash in every of these spectacles. Also, there's a professional bullfighter, Manolete, who is identical to Cantinflas. Manolete has to give a bullfight show in a village, but Cantinflas arrives first as a stowaway in a train, and he'll be mistake by the real bullfighter. Cantinflas will give us a demonstration of courage.
Neither Blood Nor Sand
1941
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
7.5A slapstick fantasy of the amorous adventures of a magician a la Cantinflas.
The Magician
1949
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
Film credits
1960s · 5 titles
5.3No synopsis available yet.
La vida de Pedro Infante
1966
6.9A deaf and mute vagabond finds a large denomination bill in a Mexico City dump, and while he tries to buy something with it, others try to con him into giving it away.
The Paper Man
1963
5.8Mad scientist brings his dead mad scientist grandfather back to life and makes a Frankenstein-type monster out of him.
Mark of the Dead Man
1961
7.4A blind teacher is the victim of endless pranks and pranks from his students.
Simitrio
1960
No synopsis available yet.
Los secretos del sexo débil
1962
1950s · 37 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
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
5.6Working-class girl-next--door type is seduced into a high-glam lifestyle when an oily promoter helps launch her as a nightclub singer; she throws over her decent-simple-guy boyfriend and loses her moral compass.
Por qué peca la mujer
1952
6.0El Pichi, El Trompas and El Orejas are street children who pick up a bill that Fernando has dropped, who prevents them from being arrested and offers them a job at a cake stand. Fernando meets Queta, El Pichi's sister, and they both feel attracted. This will lead Fernando to know the hardness of life for people in the suburbs.
Street Love
1950
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
4.5Young woman elopes with her fiancé; during their honeymoon, things happen that cause them to be separated, and she finds herself alone in a big city with no resources to fall back on.
Mujer de medianoche
1952
6.0Out-of-work actor and his burglar pal get jobs at an agency that pledges to do things the client doesn't want to deal with. Meanwhile, their boss is being stalked by seven Italian brothers who want revenge for something that happened to their great great grandfather.
Si usted no puede, yo sí
1951
5.5Some thieves confront the detectives who surprise them while robbing a factory, but manage to escape.
Dancing, salón de baile
1952
6.3A single mother discovers her daughter getting ready to elope with an unworthy boyfriend, so she sits the girl down and tells her the whole entire story of her own very unhappy marriage.
Inmaculada
1950
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
Clavillazo is a likeable drifter who gets his diploma because his teachers want to lose sight of him. He lives on what he can find in the street. However, nothing can stop him from helping those around him.
Vivir a todo dar
1956
6.7No synopsis available yet.
Pecado
1951
3.8In Havana, humble office girl Maria Caridad becomes the victim of rich playboy Arturo who seduces her and takes her to bed under false pretenses.
Yo no creo en los hombres
1955
6.7Sometimes parents make the mistake of loving one child more than the others. Don José places blind trust in his son Pepe, who turns out to be the one committing the most serious faults within the family, while Raymundo is the one who pays for them. Remake of Cuando los hijos se van (1941).
Every Child a Cross to Bear
1957
5.3On vacation, an old lady and her niece pick up a hitch-hiker.
Por el mismo camino
1953
5.6A man, annoyed by his wife's interference in the family business, travels to Spain, where he becomes involved with another woman.
Para siempre amor mío
1955
6.2No synopsis available yet.
Entre tu amor y el cielo
1950
5.4Working-class girl marries rich playboy, gets implicated in his criminal activities.
Arrabalera
1951
7.4The movie starts with Braulio Peláez (Pedro Infante), a schoolteacher, having just fallen off his horse, representing the situation he and his family are in. The next scenes introduce the viewer to his family and their poor financial and social situation. As Braulio stumbles around looking for his glasses, he causes a famous film star, Alfonso de Madrazo (Rafael Alcaide) to crash his car. Braulio offers him to eat at his house as an apology. Braulio's sister and mother, big film fans, immediately recognise Alfonso and attempt to get him to bring the girl, Luisa Peláez (Irma Dolores) to Mexico City to become a film star. Alfonso agrees and tells them to come to the capital.
They also sing of pain
1950
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
3.8Mexican romantic musical.
Mujeres en mi Vida
1950
5.8Police detective and his plucky girl-reporter fiancée go after the gang that committed a train robbery.
El misterio del carro express
1953
6.8Melodrama based on the homonymous novel by the Spanish writer José María Carretero Novillo (El Caballero Audaz), which tells a romantic story about a pair of lovers who endure great suffering in their attempt to be together.
La virgen desnuda
1950
5.8Journalist meets an unforgettable woman, tracks her down and discovers all her tragic past.
La noche es nuestra
1952
7.8Tin Tan just won the lottery and wants to donate it to an orphanage. Sataela and Riverita want to keep the money for themselves. In an attenpt to do so, they convince him of having a terminal disease and suggest that committing suicide is his best option.
Kill Me Because I'm Dying!!!
1951
6.6No synopsis available yet.
Orquídeas para mi esposa
1954
7.1A woman, after committing a murder, flees into a church, confessing her life story to a priest.
Doña Diabla
1950
6.5The film is based on real events, from a case investigated by Detective Valente Quintana.
El mensaje de la muerte
1953
6.0Through hard work, the Spaniard Alejandro has become wealthy and powerful. In contrast, the banker Don Victorino—who once refused a loan to the then-poor Alejandro—has fallen on difficult times. Victorino is married to Ana, who spends her life playing the piano, and they are the parents of the proud Julia, who is engaged to Enrique Régules. Julia is forced to marry Alejandro in order to save her family’s financial situation. Despite her husband’s blunt and often harsh honesty, Julia gradually finds herself falling in love with him, and vainly tries to make him jealous with Licenciado Héctor, who courts her. Julia becomes nervously ill, troubled by the fact that Alejandro does not love her in the romantic, storybook way she longs for.
La entrega
1954
5.6Nightclub singer has to choose between marrying again or reuniting with her divorced husband.
Forbidden Kisses
1956
7.1Martin retired from his job as a hero because of his marriage to Rosario, a beautiful and ambitious girl who passed through the workshop where he works. However, Martin has to return in principle to help a friend from robbers.
El enamorado
1952
7.8Manuel is a mechanic in love with the beautiful Maria Teresa. When the rich Jose Antonio courts his beloved Maria, Manuel realizes that he needs money and gets into trouble to get it.
I Need Money
1951
6.2Father and adult sons give help to an orphaned teenage girl.
What a Man
1955
6.0Mariachi with dual vocalists is broken up by a promoter who wants one of them as a solo act.
Serenata en México
1956
6.7A miserly father quashes his daughter's marriage plans because he thinks her fiance is a fortune-hunter.
Eugenia Grandet
1953
6.0Upon her arrival to the village San Ignacio, Gabriela meets Raúl, owner of a residence that her grandfather administrates. He doesn't reveal his real identity and they fall madly in love. Tania, Raúl's sister-in-law, secretly loves him and she decides to separate them by simulating a car accident from which Gabriela temporarily becomes paralized. Aware that they will marry, Tania makes the girl believe that Raúl is marrying her out of compassion, causing Gabriela to disappear from the residence...
The Intruder
1954
1940s · 17 titles
8.0A gang of thieves has jeopardized the city and even the police, whose chief urges their forces to captured the band within 48 hours. Meanwhile, band members meet in a cafe run by a widow and her daughter and her suitor, Cantinflas, who maintains a scuffle with the robbers running all at the station. Since then, Cantinflas become a member of the police force for special missions.
The Unknown Policeman
1941
7.5Cantinflas enjoys the bullfight show, and wants to crash in every of these spectacles. Also, there's a professional bullfighter, Manolete, who is identical to Cantinflas. Manolete has to give a bullfight show in a village, but Cantinflas arrives first as a stowaway in a train, and he'll be mistake by the real bullfighter. Cantinflas will give us a demonstration of courage.
Neither Blood Nor Sand
1941
7.5A slapstick fantasy of the amorous adventures of a magician a la Cantinflas.
The Magician
1949
7.4Cantinflas is a vagrant being evicted for not paying rent, after wandering gets a job at the 'Grand Hotel' through a friend, that's confused by Count Zapatini, who is undercover in the hotel, stealing a gem making this funny movie more complicated.
Gran Hotel
1944
6.6A ruffian sends his assistant to force a peasant girl to marry him, but while he is bringing her to him, he falls in love with her.
Rosenda
1948
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
6.8A not very grief stricken young widow flutters her hand fan between a dashing young soldier and an elderly politician in this Belle Epoque era musical comedy.
Those Were The Days, Senor Don Simon!
1941
5.6Based on the famous novel by Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo tells the story of a man who is unjustly imprisoned alongside an old man, who before dying reveals the location of a buried treasure. When the man manages to escape from his miserable cell, he changes his identity, becoming the wealthy Count of Monte Cristo, an identity he uses to take revenge on those who betrayed him and sent him to prison.
El conde de Montecristo
1942
6.3A man hired to impersonate a bankrupt business mogul who is currently on the run from creditors sets out organize a musical starring beauties from Brazil, Mexico, and Spain in this Spanish-language comedy starring popular funnyman Tin Tan (Germán Valdés). Now, as the hapless imposter attempts to finance a musical without any money, he also discovers just how difficult it can be to juggle three beautiful starlets who all have eyes for their presumably wealthy producer. Another common English translation of the title of this film is Tender Pumpkins or Tender Little Pumpkins (although a direct translation is Baby Zucchini).
Oh What Beautiful Legs!
1949
5.2A 1941 film.
Lo que el viento trajo
1941
6.3No synopsis available yet.
La mujer del otro
1948
6.4Taxi driver takes the wrong passenger at the wrong time and gets caught up in a murder investigation.
Confidencias de un ruletero
1949
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
6.8Frivolous young dandy is trying to score with an operetta singer, but she ends up with his uncle.
Las tandas del principal
1949
5.2A 1940 film directed by Boris Maicon.
Infidelidad
1940
5.8It tells the stories of the passengers aboard a nonstop train. Each character is portrayed one by one, and the only thing they have in common is the journey they will take that night.
El rápido de las 9.15
1941
5.8In mid-nineteenth century Guanajuato, the beauty and charm of the young heiress Amalia conquers the lowly foreman Ricardo with fatal results. Prevented from consummating their love, Ricardo is going to Guanajuato where again later become the rich owner of a mine. On his return, fate has prepared a tragic encounter with Amalia.
Bugambilia
1945

