Arturo Castro 'Bigotón'

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

Nazarín poster
7.6

A 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

The Little Priest poster
8.2

Young 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

Los Beverly de Peralvillo poster
8.5

Los 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

El señor doctor poster
8.0

It'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

Por mis pistolas poster
7.8

Fidencio 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

The King of México poster
6.0

A 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

1960s · 27 titles

The Little Priest poster
8.2

Young 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

El señor doctor poster
8.0

It'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

Por mis pistolas poster
7.8

Fidencio 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

The Paper Man poster
6.9

A 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

Yo no me caso compadre poster
5.8

Two 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 artwork available
6.3

No synopsis available yet.

El misterio de los hongos alucinantes

1968

El ojo de vidrio poster
7.3

No synopsis available yet.

El ojo de vidrio

1969

Pegando con tubo poster
7.2

Developmentally-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

La chamaca poster
5.6

Two young homeless people meet and fall in love, but bad luck separates them again every time they find each other.

La chamaca

1961

Pilotos de la muerte poster
5.8

A couple of provincial gas station employees travel to the capital seeking fortune of vehicle mechanics accidental career passing drivers.

Pilotos de la muerte

1962

Un par a todo dar poster
6.0

Comedy 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

No artwork available
5.7

From the hill of Tepeyac arise the most extraordinary miracles.

Retablos de la Guadalupana

1967

La edad de la inocencia poster
6.9

A 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

De hombre a hombre poster
5.2

Three 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

La batalla de los pasteles poster
5.8

Bakery employees chase all over the city trying too find the bomb planted in one of their wedding cakes.

La batalla de los pasteles

1966

La soldadera poster
7.0

While 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

Héroe a la fuerza poster
6.5

Child 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

El halcón solitario poster
6.2

Chief of police fakes his death and returns as a masked avenger. On horseback. And stuff.

El halcón solitario

1964

No artwork available
6.2

Loose remake of Chaplin's The Kid.

El globero

1961

Rateros último modelo poster
6.0

Singing 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

No artwork available
5.8

Two bandits hide from the law by posing as doctor's in a small town without medical care.

Ladrón que roba a ladrón

1960

Mis abuelitas... no más! poster
5.8

Bush-league actor allows two adorable grannies to believe he's their long-lost grandson. Then: complications!

Mis abuelitas... no más!

1961

El fugitivo poster
5.6

Drifter returns to his home town for revenge, but he get caught up in the town's interpersonal dramas.

El fugitivo

1966

Limosneros con garrote poster
7.0

Low-rent vaudeville entertainers lose their venue and try to find mainstream jobs to support the foundling child they're raising.

Limosneros con garrote

1961

Alazán y enamorado poster
6.2

Rom-com about two horses. And some humans.

Alazán y enamorado

1966

The Grave Robbers poster
5.1

Santo investigates a series of grave robberies.

The Grave Robbers

1966

Los apuros de dos gallos poster
6.5

Two 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

Nazarín poster
7.6

A 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

The King of México poster
6.0

A humble tramp is turned, for a couple of days, into the richest and most famous man in México.

The King of México

1956

Love of a Cabaret Singer poster
6.0

Trumpet-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

Yo quiero ser artista poster
6.4

The 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

Ladies Club poster
6.2

Lonelyhearts advisor on a tv show becomes feminist icon and movement-leader.

Ladies Club

1956

Del suelo no paso poster
5.2

Poetic-type dude gets mixed up with gangsters, a millionaire's dog and some stolen jewels.

Del suelo no paso

1959

Melodías de amor poster
6.7

No synopsis available yet.

Melodías de amor

1955

El que con niños se acuesta... poster
6.8

Chón 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

Comedians of the League poster
6.0

The guy that runs the concession stand at a vaudeville theatre gets tangled up with a gang of thieves.

Comedians of the League

1957

Esposa te doy poster
6.0

Chofi 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

No artwork available
6.2

Ice-cream vendor gets caught up in wacky misadventures.

El joven del carrito

1959

Soul of Steel poster
5.4

Inspired 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

Pride poster
6.4

A 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

From the Village to TV poster
5.9

A 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

El sordo poster
5.8

A craftsman who sculpts religious figures goes deaf.

El sordo

1959

No artwork available
5.4

Carnival worker is recruited by police to impersonate an old lady whose relatives want to kill her.

Dying of Laughter

1957

School for Buglars poster
7.7

The police plan to capture a killer by using a double that looks exactly as one of his victims.

School for Buglars

1958

México nunca duerme poster
5.7

Fretful 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

Noche de perdición poster
5.8

A 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

They Say I'm a Communist poster
6.5

A 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

Hora y media de balazos poster
5.8

Unassuming, milquetoast-y shepherd-boy is pressured into posing as a dangerous gunslinger.

Hora y media de balazos

1957

The Flying Saucers poster
5.5

A guy and his girlfriend pretend to come from Mars.

The Flying Saucers

1956

Pepito y los robachicos poster
5.7

Good-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

Cuando Mexico canta poster
6.3

Lorenzo 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

Pretty sky! poster
5.8

Revolutionist and Army General compete for a woman

Pretty sky!

1957

Series credits