Arturo Castro 'Bigotón'

Acting

Arturo Castro 'Bigotón'

Born 1918-03-21 · Mexico City, Mexico

Acting credits

The Little Priest poster
8.1

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

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

No artwork available
6.0

Itinerant folk-singer returns to his home town, gets caught in two intersecting love triangles. It ends badly.

Rogaciano el huapanguero

1957

The Flying Saucers poster
5.5

A guy and his girlfriend pretend to come from Mars.

The Flying Saucers

1956

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

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

Alazán y enamorado poster
6.3

Rom-com about two horses. And some humans.

Alazán y enamorado

1966

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

Por mis pistolas poster
7.7

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

No artwork available
5.6

Comical mix-up in the operating room: by mistake, a notorious gangster's arm is grafted onto an accident-victim's stump.

Échenme al gato

1958

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

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

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

Ladies Club poster
6.2

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

Ladies Club

1956

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

Melodías de amor poster
6.7

No synopsis available yet.

Melodías de amor

1955

La criada bien criada poster
6.1

Saucy-but-naive country girl moves to the big city to look for work.

La criada bien criada

1972

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

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

No artwork available
5.2

Incompetent clown is drafted into a Murder Incorporated style squad of hitmen.

Asesinos, S.A.

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

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

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

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