
Acting
Miguel Manzano
Born — Died
1907-09-16 — 1992-01-21
Place of birth
Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico
Known for
Acting
Credits
69 titles
Miguel Manzano was a Mexican actor during the Golden Age of Mexican cinema, winning an Ariel Award in 1985, for best supporting actor for the film Las glorias del gran Púas.
Known for
9.0No synopsis available yet.
Tú eres mi destino
1984
8.0Yara is an indigenous woman who comes to Mexico City in search of a better quality of life. Yara suffered the contempt of society and the people around her.
Yara
1979
9.8In the early 20th century, the Montes de Oca family—comprising two sisters and a cousin—finds itself entangled in an intense love triangle. Matilde is in love with her cousin Rodrigo, who loves the other sister, Branca Flor; she, in turn, loves a humble fisherman. Upon discovering this, Rodrigo accuses the fisherman of theft, leading to his arrest. The lovestruck cousin’s malice knows no bounds; learning that Branca Flor is carrying the fisherman's child, he waits for the baby to be born so he can make it disappear.
Yo compro esa mujer
1990
No synopsis available yet.
Aprendiendo a amar
1980
6.0Corazón salvaje is a Mexican telenovela, which was produced by and broadcast on Televisa in 1977. It is the fourth of five screen adaptations of the novel of the same name by Caridad Bravo Adams, and the second telenovela. The first telenovela was starred by singer Julissa while the 1977 production was starred by singer Angélica María who had previously had the role of Mónica in the 1968 film version. Actor Ernesto Alonso produced this version and after not casting Julissa and instead repeating Angélica María the first allegedly declared "Since my father is not employed in this company anymore Ernesto Alonso has forgotten me in his castings".
Corazón salvaje
1977
8.0Antonio Lombardo lives in a huge, luxurious house in Acapulco with Victoria—his stepmother, whom he loves like a real mother—and his sister Camila, who has just married Claudio. Also living there is Maximiliano, Victoria's son from her first marriage, who hides an envious and manipulative personality behind the appearance of a good person.
Tú o Nadie
1985
Film credits
1990s · 2 titles
4.3An altar boy goes to the city and finds himself in raunchy situations.
El inocente y las pecadoras
1990
6.0A bureaucrat gets a house and even a car on credit thanks to the support of a compadre who is a union leader, but then has difficulty paying because he is fired in a job cut despite the many years he has been working.
Golpe de suerte
1992
1980s · 8 titles
4.8Softcore sex-farce about a guy with a really big lump in his underpants...and all the women who flock to him.
El vergonzoso
1988
6.0Journalist becomes a member of a boxing champion's entourage to write a book about the boxer's career.
The Glories of the Great Púas
1984
5.5In Mexico City, a woman is raped every 9 minutes. This film details some of the legal and social problems in the country and how it's often difficult for women to find justice. Awarded Best Film by Mexican Cinema Journalists and nominated for three Ariel Awards.
Violación
1989
5.0Reporter investigating an actress' death gains an overview of her whole biography.
Ángela Morante, ¿crimen o suicidio?
1981
4.4The 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
6.8The Chemos and the Pachecos are two gangs whose adventures are witnessed by the doctor, the assistant and the social worker of a clinic where they know of the young men's problems.
The Scent of Death
1987
5.8Lola finds herself into the world of violence and drug trafficking when her father is murdered for refusing to put his truck to the service of a powerful cartel, with protections at high police levels. Knowing the local officials will not serve out justice, she takes matters into her own hands. Armed with a machine gun, she'll attempt to get revenge by her own hands - but the enemy has more firepower than her.
Lola the Truck Driver
1983
7.2The tragic adventures of a illiterate man named "Milusos" who leaves his family & hometown to go to the big city and try to better his luck. And finds he's unprepared for what he encounters.
El mil usos
1981
1970s · 4 titles
7.2Mateo Melgarejo is a notary public and scribe for the illiterate people of Santo Domingo, a neighborhood north of Mexico City's Zócalo. A squatter friend asks for his help in negotiating with the land census bureau to regularize a land title. After a great deal of frustration with the government bureaucracy, he writes a letter to the cabinet minister, earning an audience with him. The minister hires Melgarejo to reform the bureau, and the appointee proceeds to lecture the officials on their duties in a democratic society. At the end, he gives up the post, returning to Santo Domingo to help its poor residents.
The Minister and Me
1976
6.3Well, there's a guy that runs a stall at A Swap Meet, and... um... I forget.
El fayuquero
1979
5.6No synopsis available yet.
Diamantes, Oro y Amor
1973
5.5Ramon is a guy who lives in a neighborhood, in the " fifth courtyard " in urban poverty. Nevertheless, aspires to the love of the daughter of his employer, a woman of another social class.
Quinto patio
1970
1960s · 9 titles
8.1Lopitos, who is horribly inefficient but quick-witted, is invited (because of the current ambassador's superstition about 13 sitting down to a meal) to a banquet attended by the ambassadors of both superpowers. After the news of a series of coups d'état in Los Cocos arrives throughout the meal, Lopitos becomes the official ambassador. At a summit of world leaders, the representatives of the two world superpowers court the allegiances of third-world diplomats to tilt the balance of global power in their favor. The last diplomat to remain unaligned, Lopitos instead harangues the superpowers for infringing on the rights of developing countries to self determination, talking to them with his point of view as a citizen not as ambassador because he arranged his demise as ambassador one day before his speech.
Your Excellency
1967
7.8Inocencio Prieto y Calvo receives a letter telling him he is the heir to his uncle's fortune of two million pesos. Not being able to read he has no idea of who sent the letter or its content. So he goes to the drugstore because the pharmacist can read the letter to him. But while waiting to be helped he sees that a young girl can read. He figures he has to be able to discover the letter's content by himself and decides he will save the letter and go to school, and wait to read the letter on his own.
El analfabeto
1961
5.5Crooked promoter has a secret weapon who goes around beating fighters to death after their matches if they aren't in line with his rigging schedule. Part one of two.
Los tigres del ring
1960
6.5Before the Spanish Conquest, an Aztec princess does the Romeo and Juliet thing with the Prince of a neighboring tribe. Sixty years later, a colonized subject has visions of the Virgin Mary.
Miracle Roses
1960
6.8The life of Pedro Infante, with scenes from his best films and the chaos that his tragic death caused in the public.
This was Pedro Infante
1963
The discovery of a young woman murdered in her car triggers unrelated problems among a diverse group of people.
Ellas también son rebeldes
1961
5.8Masked horseman avenges the deaths of family members and resolves questions about a contested inheritance. One of four in a series ("Relampago").
La muerte en el desfiladero
1963
Gloomy, fatalistic grown-up western.
Camino de la horca
1962
5.4A daughter who idolizes her father discovers, just before he dies, that he was leading a double life and had a hidden lover.
Amor en la sombra
1960
1950s · 27 titles
5.5After indulging in an affair with a man (a friend of the family) she truly loves, a woman returns to her young son and husband for good, and loses contact with the man. Her husband is unaware of the affair. Twenty years later, there is news that the friend has died and left all of his money to the younger son in the family, which leads us to question this younger son's biological origin.
A Woman Without Love
1952
6.5Confronted with the unfortunate news that their favorite Streetcar, no. 133, is going to be decommissioned, two Municipal Transit workers get drunk and decide to "take 'er for one last spin," as it were. Unfortunately, the "one last spin" ends up being an all-night and all-day scramble to stay out of trouble, as they are confronted with situation after sometimes bizarre situation that prevents them from returning the "borrowed" Streetcar!
Illusion Travels by Streetcar
1954
7.6Cantinflas, who owns a cleaning business, cleans the windows of the house of a famous French actress. While carrying out his work he observes how a man steals one of the famous actress necklaces, but he can only see his back.
Drop the Curtain
1955
8.5Cantinflas is a clumsy fireman, who one day receives the visit of his little goddaughter, whose mother recently died in the jungle. After having work in a few fires, Cantinflas decided to quit and become a policeman, because is less dangerous. Everything goes well until a gang of gangsters kidnap the girl, because of a monetary inheritance.
The Atomic Fireman
1952
6.3A useless and bloody vendetta has been going on for ages between two families in this Mexican village. Men, sons, have killed each other for generations, for a so-called conception of honor in a revenge that never ends since it is also triggered by people of the village. Now, today, there are only two sons left, one in each family. One has become a doctor in the big city and his culture is modern. The other last one - of the other family - hasn't left the village and is waiting for the doctor to come "home" as he plans to kill him, to settle this war on this matter of honor once and for all. And the people of the village want blood.
The River and Death
1954
5.8In rural Mexico, a psychic finds herself caught between warring families while competing with her closest friend for the same man's affections.
María la Voz
1955
6.6Timid, browbeaten salaryman becomes famous author overnight.
Gutierritos
1959
5.7Two very good friends become wrestlers to leave poverty behind, but the arrival of an ambitious woman will tragically change their destinies.
The Magnificent Beast
1953
6.2Son of a ranching family returns home after studying in the city for a law degree. He sides with the peons in a labor dispute and his father disowns him; he sets up a law office in another town. First of three movies in a masked-avenger series.
El puma
1959
5.3Amid the Mexican Revolution, a woman rises from the depths of poverty and becomes a courtesan who is much-sought-after by high-society men, but she cannot forget her love for a rebel leader.
The Hidden One
1956
6.4The Mexican Revolution serves as a backdrop to a torrid love triangle composed of three freedom fighters: a colonel, a widow, and a fiery female soldier.
La Cucaracha
1959
6.2A pregnant and very poor woman has no place to give birth, and turns to a society lady for help.
La culta dama
1957
5.6Irresponsible playboy seduces a decent young lady with a fake wedding; he continues being a creep for the next 12 or 15 years.
Las engañadas
1955
6.7Four interlocking stories about pregnancy all intersecting in an obstetrician's office.
El derecho a la vida
1959
7.1The encounter with an old lover puts a revolutionary general in great danger of death.
My General's Wives
1951
6.4Mexican-American playboy anchors his yacht offshore of a Veracruz fishing village and chases skirts in town.
¡Qué bravas son las costeñas!
1955
6.6The story focuses in on three young boys who, arrested by the authorities, await sentencing in Mexico City's Juvenile Court. One boy has killed his stepfather to protect his mother; the second boy has been goaded into blinding his chief tormentor; and the third resorts to stealing to support his family.
The Road of Life
1956
7.2The disembodied head of Pancho Villa, kept in a glass jar in a research institute, is the narrator of several short stories from his own life, stories that might or might not have happened but are the stuff of legend.
This Was Pancho Villa: First chapter
1957
5.9Evangelina murders her lover Alberto. In prison she meets Dora, Alberto's girlfriend, who was deprived of her freedom for his illicit business. An interesting story is about to be woven.
Cárcel de mujeres
1951
6.0Pepito's father dies in rollover the Ferrari that is winning a race car, so Pepito is about his grandfather and asks him to equip a car to get him to compete.
Pepito as del volante
1957
7.6Left alone after her mother runs off with another man and her father kills himself, Elena attempts to make a new life for herself in a new city. Believing he's a friend, Elena goes to dinner with "Pretty Boy" Lucio, but he drugs her champagne and sells her to Rosaura, who runs a brothel out of her nightclub. Elena becomes a sensation as a dancer, but all the while she nurtures plans of revenge against those who have conspired against her.
Aventurera
1950
5.8A man facing bankruptcy and ruin rehearses a couple of scenarios relating to suicide, until his family convinces him he's worth more alive than dead.
The Man That Pleases Me
1958
6.7An ingenious actor has an idea of making musical numbers without a dialogue when he arrives with a violin and a ladder.
Música en la noche
1958
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
6.4Upper-crust city gal falls for a rough-edged working-class guy, so she follows him to his home town and masquerades as a peasant/Indian local to win him over. All very stalky and classist.
Cuatro copas
1958
6.4Good son takes the blame for father's peculations and goes off to work in the rain forest to pay off Pops' debt. Meanwhile, daughter and bad son neglect their aging parents, whose fortunes decline precipitously.
Todos son mis hijos!...
1951
6.7A beautiful woman will stop at nothing in her quest for money and power. Not even murder.
La mujer de dos caras
1957
1940s · 8 titles
7.5A slapstick fantasy of the amorous adventures of a magician a la Cantinflas.
The Magician
1949
8.0Cantinflas is the apprentice of a renowned scientist, Prof. Arquimides Monteagudo (Carlos Martinez Baena). But Cantinflas has the soul of a poet rather than a serious researcher, and he wants to find the formula that achieves the immortality of the roses. Nevertheless, after the death of Prof. Monteagudo, Cantinflas will be chased by a ferocious corporative group, who wants to steal the secret formula of a cheaper fuel named "carburex", because they think that our friend is the only person who knows the composition
El Supersabio
1948
6.0Argentine woman stranded in plane-crash, falls for Mexican plantation-owner.
Cuando quiere un mexicano
1944
7.8Pepe el Toro is married to Celia la Chorreada and they have two children.
You the Rich
1948
6.9Child whose father was murdered grows up and seeks revenge, also falling in love with a new victim of the same bad guy.
La norteña de mis amores
1948
6.4Driver Gregorio del Prado and fare collector Regalito were suspended for deviating from their route to impress a young woman named Cholita.
Get Off at the Next Corner!
1948
6.6Union-organizing and labor/management conflicts among Mexico City bus-drivers. Sequel to "Esquina, Bajan!"
Hay lugar para... dos
1949
6.4Taxi driver takes the wrong passenger at the wrong time and gets caught up in a murder investigation.
Confidencias de un ruletero
1949
Series credits
9.0No synopsis available yet.
Tú eres mi destino
1984
8.0Yara is an indigenous woman who comes to Mexico City in search of a better quality of life. Yara suffered the contempt of society and the people around her.
Yara
1979
9.8In the early 20th century, the Montes de Oca family—comprising two sisters and a cousin—finds itself entangled in an intense love triangle. Matilde is in love with her cousin Rodrigo, who loves the other sister, Branca Flor; she, in turn, loves a humble fisherman. Upon discovering this, Rodrigo accuses the fisherman of theft, leading to his arrest. The lovestruck cousin’s malice knows no bounds; learning that Branca Flor is carrying the fisherman's child, he waits for the baby to be born so he can make it disappear.
Yo compro esa mujer
1990
No synopsis available yet.
Aprendiendo a amar
1980
6.0Corazón salvaje is a Mexican telenovela, which was produced by and broadcast on Televisa in 1977. It is the fourth of five screen adaptations of the novel of the same name by Caridad Bravo Adams, and the second telenovela. The first telenovela was starred by singer Julissa while the 1977 production was starred by singer Angélica María who had previously had the role of Mónica in the 1968 film version. Actor Ernesto Alonso produced this version and after not casting Julissa and instead repeating Angélica María the first allegedly declared "Since my father is not employed in this company anymore Ernesto Alonso has forgotten me in his castings".
Corazón salvaje
1977
8.0Antonio Lombardo lives in a huge, luxurious house in Acapulco with Victoria—his stepmother, whom he loves like a real mother—and his sister Camila, who has just married Claudio. Also living there is Maximiliano, Victoria's son from her first marriage, who hides an envious and manipulative personality behind the appearance of a good person.
Tú o Nadie
1985
No synopsis available yet.
El amor ajeno
1983
No synopsis available yet.
¿Quién?
1973
7.0No synopsis available yet.
Muchacha italiana viene a casarse
1971

