
Acting
Arturo Castro 'Bigotón'
Born — Died
1918-03-21 — 1975-03-06
Place of birth
Mexico City, Mexico
Known for
Acting
Credits
61 titles
Known for
7.6A Catholic priest in a poor community lives a charitable life in accordance with his religious principles, but others do not return the favor.
Nazarín
1959
8.2Young priest Father Sebastián is assigned to a parish in San Jeronimo el Alto, where he is not welcomed by the community, particularly the resident priest Father Damián. The newcomer gradually earns the trust of the people through humor, but firmly captures their hearts by saving the town fiesta by fighting a bull when the hired torero failed to show. Father Sebastián counsels the townspeople, lecturing them on their duties in a modern society. He used the collection plate to redistribute the town's wealth more evenly.
The Little Priest
1964
8.5Los Beverly de Peralvillo is a Mexican family television sitcom that originally aired from 1968 to 1973 on the Canal de las Estrellas network. The series stars Guillermo Rivas, Leonorilda Ochoa, Arturo Castro, and Amparo Arozamena. As Mexico's answer to The Beverly Hillbillies, the sitcom was probably the most popular family television series in Mexico before El Chavo. The cast members, who usually had minor insignificant roles before, were offered principal roles in the series. The series spawned two theatrical releases, Los Beverly de Peralvillo and Que familia tan cotorra!. Both films featured the same series' cast.
Los Beverly de Peralvillo
1969
8.0It's about a country doctor that comes to the city while a clinic is built in his home town... he rubs off his care and compassion on others at the hospital with his humor and wit.
El señor doctor
1965
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
6.0A humble tramp is turned, for a couple of days, into the richest and most famous man in México.
The King of México
1956
Film credits
1970s · 5 titles
6.1Saucy-but-naive country girl moves to the big city to look for work.
La criada bien criada
1972
5.8Three girls from different social classes are forced to take that first step into adulthood that leads them to live fun adventures and also unfortunate events.
El primer paso... de la mujer
1974
A young woman who lives with a married man falls in love with another, and maintains a friendly correspondence with him.
Una mujer para los sábados
1970
5.8A completely illiterate general from the Mexican Revolution “wins” a teacher in a game of dice. What happens to him with this woman is something unexpected.
...And Woman Made Man
1975
6.8El Borras marries La Pecas, unaware of her mother's (Doña Chole) scheme against Borras. That of Borras to provide for all her family members who are a lazy bunch composed of her father and brothers.
Los Beverly de Peralvillo
1971
1960s · 27 titles
8.2Young priest Father Sebastián is assigned to a parish in San Jeronimo el Alto, where he is not welcomed by the community, particularly the resident priest Father Damián. The newcomer gradually earns the trust of the people through humor, but firmly captures their hearts by saving the town fiesta by fighting a bull when the hired torero failed to show. Father Sebastián counsels the townspeople, lecturing them on their duties in a modern society. He used the collection plate to redistribute the town's wealth more evenly.
The Little Priest
1964
8.0It's about a country doctor that comes to the city while a clinic is built in his home town... he rubs off his care and compassion on others at the hospital with his humor and wit.
El señor doctor
1965
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
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
5.8Two ranch owners promised their offspring would marry. The intended refused and switched places with their respective servants. They don't discover their real identities till they marry.
Yo no me caso compadre
1960
No synopsis available yet.
El misterio de los hongos alucinantes
1968
7.3No synopsis available yet.
El ojo de vidrio
1969
7.2Developmentally-challenged guy and is caretaker get drafted into he police force and take part in the manhunt for a bank robber.
Pegando con tubo
1961
5.6Two young homeless people meet and fall in love, but bad luck separates them again every time they find each other.
La chamaca
1961
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
6.0Comedy about two friends (Viruta and Capulina) who are swindled when they buy a plot of land. It turns out that the land they just purchased is actually the cemetery of a small town. Moreover, the two bumbling stooges cross paths with the local criminal, a masked robber known as "El Esqueleto" (the Skeleton). The film also stars Dacia Gonzalez.
Un par a todo dar
1961
From the hill of Tepeyac arise the most extraordinary miracles.
Retablos de la Guadalupana
1967
6.9A poor little girl slips in a circus one day and sees a puppets' show. Later she returns to the empty circus looking for a fairy she was fascinated by.
La edad de la inocencia
1962
5.2Three monks raise the boy Antonio, who was abandoned at the convent door. The monks are criticized for the way they have educated Antonio, who ends up being a joker.
De hombre a hombre
1961
5.8Bakery employees chase all over the city trying too find the bomb planted in one of their wedding cakes.
La batalla de los pasteles
1966
7.0While waiting for a train which will take them on their honeymoon, two newlyweds, Juan and Lázara, are separated by a federal army commander who is going around enlisting men to fight against the revolutionaries. Traveling with the troops, Lázara follows Juan until he dies in a battle against the Villistas. From that moment on, the young woman's fate will be in the hands of whoever happens to win the latest contest, an uncertain fate for someone whose only wish is for a home of her own.
La soldadera
1967
6.5Child suffers a brain injury and falls into a coma. When he regains consciousness, twenty years later, he has to deal with having become a grown-up 'overnight'.
Héroe a la fuerza
1964
6.2Chief of police fakes his death and returns as a masked avenger. On horseback. And stuff.
El halcón solitario
1964
Loose remake of Chaplin's The Kid.
El globero
1961
6.0Singing duo waiting for their big break, committing petty crimes to get by. Adopting a baby and meeting a priest's niece are civilizing influences.
Rateros último modelo
1965
Two bandits hide from the law by posing as doctor's in a small town without medical care.
Ladrón que roba a ladrón
1960
5.8Bush-league actor allows two adorable grannies to believe he's their long-lost grandson. Then: complications!
Mis abuelitas... no más!
1961
5.6Drifter returns to his home town for revenge, but he get caught up in the town's interpersonal dramas.
El fugitivo
1966
7.0Low-rent vaudeville entertainers lose their venue and try to find mainstream jobs to support the foundling child they're raising.
Limosneros con garrote
1961
6.2Rom-com about two horses. And some humans.
Alazán y enamorado
1966
5.1Santo investigates a series of grave robberies.
The Grave Robbers
1966
6.5Two con-artists run roughshod over the local economy of a small town they visit... but then they fall in love with two young women related to the rich landowners who are the target of their primary swindle.
Los apuros de dos gallos
1963
1950s · 25 titles
7.6A Catholic priest in a poor community lives a charitable life in accordance with his religious principles, but others do not return the favor.
Nazarín
1959
6.0A humble tramp is turned, for a couple of days, into the richest and most famous man in México.
The King of México
1956
6.0Trumpet-player in a club band falls for a streety young woman; she dumps him to become a kept woman... and his roommate the pianist is dealing weed... and...
Love of a Cabaret Singer
1958
6.4The Postman Adalberto is involved by chance in the filming of a scene, which gives the film director the idea of including him as an actor, but without his knowledge.
Yo quiero ser artista
1958
6.2Lonelyhearts advisor on a tv show becomes feminist icon and movement-leader.
Ladies Club
1956
5.2Poetic-type dude gets mixed up with gangsters, a millionaire's dog and some stolen jewels.
Del suelo no paso
1959
6.7No synopsis available yet.
Melodías de amor
1955
6.8Chón is rejected by his girlfriend Rosario's parents, so they both escape to the capital in search of his friend Manny, a millionaire philanthropist, who helps him but makes him adopt four children from his orphanage.
El que con niños se acuesta...
1959
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
6.0Chofi marry Alberto and very much in love, but her mother continues to intervene in the couple's relationship, which will lead to divorce.
Esposa te doy
1957
Ice-cream vendor gets caught up in wacky misadventures.
El joven del carrito
1959
5.4Inspired by Alexander Dumas's novel The Corsican Brothers, Alma de Acero presents a delightful spin on the classic story of twin brothers (both played by Luis Aguilar) and their contrasting lives. As a singer in a nightclub, one brother has chosen a life of peaceful simplicity; the other, however, has chosen a troublesome lifestyle that leads to numerous run-ins with the law, forcing the vocalist to risk his own life to save his sibling.
Soul of Steel
1957
6.4A tale of two families, the Mendozas and Alzagas, faced for generations by the water of a river separating their adjoining properties. Old grudges reappear when the two heirs fall in love.
Pride
1955
5.9A 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
5.8A craftsman who sculpts religious figures goes deaf.
El sordo
1959
Carnival worker is recruited by police to impersonate an old lady whose relatives want to kill her.
Dying of Laughter
1957
7.7The police plan to capture a killer by using a double that looks exactly as one of his victims.
School for Buglars
1958
5.7Fretful granny is upset when her granddaughter isn't home by 9 PM on Saturday night, so she teams up with a gangster to tour Mexico City nightclubs looking for her.
México nunca duerme
1959
5.8A dancer is accused of killing a businessman. When her husband finds out, he decides to take her kid away from her.
Noche de perdición
1951
6.5A worker overwhelmed by the economic crisis and the cost of living is accidentally propaganda of a political party, apparently from left, who convinces him to join their ranks and defending the working class. After entering through a ritual as mysterious as typical, you will realize demagoguery and arrangements existing between union leaders to maintain the status quo unchanged and profit from mafia practices.
They Say I'm a Communist
1951
5.8Unassuming, milquetoast-y shepherd-boy is pressured into posing as a dangerous gunslinger.
Hora y media de balazos
1957
5.5A guy and his girlfriend pretend to come from Mars.
The Flying Saucers
1956
5.7Good-hearted simpleton opens his home to a street urchin escaping from an Oliver Twist-style kid-gang of pickpockets beggars and paperboys.
Pepito y los robachicos
1958
6.3Lorenzo Inclán, a famous Mexican songwriter, is torn between helping a girl become a famous singer or having a romantic relationship with her.
Cuando Mexico canta
1958
5.8Revolutionist and Army General compete for a woman
Pretty sky!
1957
1940s · 3 titles
6.01946 Mexican film directed by Chano Urueta.
El superhombre
1946
4.5In Ciudad Juárez, a prostitute decides to go straight when her drug-dealer lover is trapped. She marries a rich man, but a pimp from her past reappears unexpectedly.
Back Streets of Juarez
1947
Alcoholic hobo drifts across the border and has a series of random adventures.
Pito Pérez se va de bracero
1948
