Francisco Reiguera

Acting

Francisco Reiguera

Born — Died

1899-11-09 — 1969-03-15

Place of birth

Madrid, Spain

Known for

Acting

Credits

63 titles

Francisco Reiguera (November 9, 1899 – March 15, 1969) was a Spanish actor who is best known for playing the title role in Orson Welles’ unfinished film version of Don Quixote. He also appeared in the films Simon of the Desert (1965), Major Dundee (1965) and Guns for San Sebastian (1968). Description above from the Wikipedia article Francisco Reiguera, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known for

Guns for San Sebastian poster
7.0

Leon Alastray is an outlaw who has been given sanctuary by Father John, whom he then escorts to the village of San Sebastian. The village is deserted, with its cowardly residents hiding in the hills from Indians, who regularly attack the village and steal all their supplies. When Father John is murdered, the villagers mistakenly think the outlaw is the priest. Alastray at first tells them he is not a priest, but they don't believe it, and an apparent miracle seems to prove they are correct. Eventually, he assists them in regaining their confidence and defending themselves.

Guns for San Sebastian

1967

Major Dundee poster
6.7

During the last winter of the Civil War, cavalry officer Amos Dundee leads a contentious troop of Army regulars, Confederate prisoners and scouts on an expedition into Mexico to destroy a band of Apaches who have been raiding U.S. bases in Texas.

Major Dundee

1965

Viva Maria! poster
6.1

1907 Central America: Maria II is the daughter of an Irish terrorist. After her father's death, she meets Maria I, a performer, and decides to stay with the circus, and on her debut as a singer, unintentionally invents the striptease and makes the circus famous. Their inadvertent encounter with a socialist revolutionary lands them leading a revolution against the dictator, the capitalists, and the Church.

Viva Maria!

1965

The Last of the Fast Guns poster
5.5

A rich, dying Easterner hires gunfighter Brad Ellison to find his brother and heir in Mexico. En route, it becomes clear to Ellison that his is a dying profession. At a remote rancho, Ellison enlists ranch foreman Miles Lang to help him search the hills where the missing man is rumored to have lived. They find nothing ...except that someone wants to kill them; and Ellison becomes wrapped in a maze of double crosses.

The Last of the Fast Guns

1958

Hermoso ideal poster
6.0

Two Spanish children, boy and girl, make friends with a Mexican boy while on vacation. In adulthood, their friendship turns into a romantic triangle. Then bullfighting and the Foreign legion and stuff.

Hermoso ideal

1948

Entrega Inmediata poster
7.3

Immediate delivery recounts the misadventures of Feliciano Callosum (Cantinflas), a postman who is recruited by the secret counterintelligence service (called XU-777 secret agency), and must uncover an international conspiracy.

Entrega Inmediata

1963

Film credits

1960s · 15 titles

Guns for San Sebastian poster
7.0

Leon Alastray is an outlaw who has been given sanctuary by Father John, whom he then escorts to the village of San Sebastian. The village is deserted, with its cowardly residents hiding in the hills from Indians, who regularly attack the village and steal all their supplies. When Father John is murdered, the villagers mistakenly think the outlaw is the priest. Alastray at first tells them he is not a priest, but they don't believe it, and an apparent miracle seems to prove they are correct. Eventually, he assists them in regaining their confidence and defending themselves.

Guns for San Sebastian

1967

Major Dundee poster
6.7

During the last winter of the Civil War, cavalry officer Amos Dundee leads a contentious troop of Army regulars, Confederate prisoners and scouts on an expedition into Mexico to destroy a band of Apaches who have been raiding U.S. bases in Texas.

Major Dundee

1965

Viva Maria! poster
6.1

1907 Central America: Maria II is the daughter of an Irish terrorist. After her father's death, she meets Maria I, a performer, and decides to stay with the circus, and on her debut as a singer, unintentionally invents the striptease and makes the circus famous. Their inadvertent encounter with a socialist revolutionary lands them leading a revolution against the dictator, the capitalists, and the Church.

Viva Maria!

1965

Entrega Inmediata poster
7.3

Immediate delivery recounts the misadventures of Feliciano Callosum (Cantinflas), a postman who is recruited by the secret counterintelligence service (called XU-777 secret agency), and must uncover an international conspiracy.

Entrega Inmediata

1963

Simon of the Desert poster
7.6

Simon, a deeply religious man living in the 4th century, wants to be nearer to God so he climbs a column. The Devil wants him come down to Earth and is trying to seduce him.

Simon of the Desert

1965

El analfabeto poster
7.8

Inocencio 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

The Getaway Face poster
6.7

No synopsis available yet.

The Getaway Face

1963

The Brainiac poster
5.5

In 1661 Mexico, Baron Vitelius is executed for witchcraft. 300 years later, during a comet's return, he resurfaces as a brain-eating monster seeking revenge on the Inquisitors' descendants.

The Brainiac

1962

No artwork available
5.7

Three Black Angels (Spanish: Tres angelitos negros) is a 1960 Mexican comedy film directed by Fernando Cortés and starring Miguel Aceves Mejía, Yolanda Varela and Pedro Vargas.

Three Black Angels

1960

No artwork available
4.6

No synopsis available yet.

Jóvenes y rebeldes

1961

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

Seis días para morir poster
6.7

Public health thriller: rabies in Mexico City.

Seis días para morir

1967

No artwork available
6.9

Crown-prince of a primitive country goes to Mexico for college. Wacky hijinks ensue.

Dos tontos y un loco

1961

The Phantom of the Operetta poster
6.8

Aldo and his girlfriend Lucy reopen an abandoned opera house, but find out that the place is inhabited by a group of Phantoms.

The Phantom of the Operetta

1960

Super Colt 38 poster
5.6

Billy Hayes, the marshal, discovers that the bandit whom he has been pursuing so long, and who has for months been torching his county, is none other than an old friend from childhood. Upon being confronted with the truth, the friend draws his gun, and Billy is forced to kill him in justifiable defense. Overwhelmed by guilt, he renounces his office and swears to never use arms again. He rides off toward the town where he and his old friend grew up together. Upon arriving there, he soon becomes involved in a dangerous situation, where Billy must decide whether he will fulfill his promise to keep away from arms, or intervene to save the honor of a woman and the life of an innocent man.

Super Colt 38

1969

1950s · 24 titles

The Last of the Fast Guns poster
5.5

A rich, dying Easterner hires gunfighter Brad Ellison to find his brother and heir in Mexico. En route, it becomes clear to Ellison that his is a dying profession. At a remote rancho, Ellison enlists ranch foreman Miles Lang to help him search the hills where the missing man is rumored to have lived. They find nothing ...except that someone wants to kill them; and Ellison becomes wrapped in a maze of double crosses.

The Last of the Fast Guns

1958

Wuthering Heights poster
6.2

In 19th-century Mexico, young orphan Alejandro is adopted by the wealthy, landowning Earnshaw family and moves into their estate, Wuthering Heights. Soon, the new resident falls for his compassionate foster sister, Catalina. The two share a remarkable bond that seems unbreakable until Catalina, feeling the pressure of social convention, suppresses her feelings and marries Eduardo, a man of means who befits her stature. Alejandro vows to win her back.

Wuthering Heights

1954

Rebellion of the Hanged poster
6.7

A peasant who works in a mahogany camp in the Mexican jungles with his family is disgusted with the miserable living conditions imposed upon himself and his co-workers, the peasant finally spearheads a revolt against the sadistic bosses.

Rebellion of the Hanged

1954

El sol sale para todos poster
6.7

A bullfighter suffers an accident during an afternoon of bullfighting in a town square and his ex-lover tells his story.

El sol sale para todos

1950

Me traes de un ala poster
6.4

To conquer the beautiful vedette Rosita, journalist Tin Tan is subject to her whims. Fired along with his friend Narciso from the newspaper they worked, Tin Tan trying to sell a movie plot. A woman looking to buy it and Tin Tan will visit her in a gloomy mansion where a mess is unleashed.

Me traes de un ala

1953

La bienamada poster
6.2

Civic-minded elementary-school teacher marries and sets up home with wife and her little brother. The-e-n...

La bienamada

1951

Victims of Sin poster
7.0

A nightclub performer decides to raise the baby boy she found abandoned in a trash can, putting her job and social life in jeopardy.

Victims of Sin

1951

Las locuras de Tin Tan poster
6.2

Tin-Tan wants to builds an ice cream machine.

Las locuras de Tin Tan

1952

The Head of Pancho Villa poster
5.8

Rival factions struggle over a box that was entrusted by Pancho Villa to several members of his higher command. Second of three films in series "El jinete sin cabeza."

The Head of Pancho Villa

1957

Mysteries of Black Magic poster
5.6

Six hundred year old witch butts heads with a scholar over the possession of a rare ancient grimoire and then discovers that his daughter's fiance is the reincarnation of her first boyfriend.

Mysteries of Black Magic

1958

La faraona poster
4.4

Pastora Heredia is a beautiful gypsy with great character who always tries to help the needy. One day she gots the notice of the death of his grandfather, a millionaire who lived in Mexico and that since his father was angry, she knew nothing of him. However, as Pastora was his only granddaughter and sole heir of all his property, it does not hesitate to cross the pond to claim his inheritance. But once there is that Don Guillermo, grandfather, not dead.

La faraona

1956

The Martyr of Calvary poster
8.1

The life of Jesus from the beginning of his ministry, his miracles, the Sermon on the Mount and his death on the cross.

The Martyr of Calvary

1952

The Devil's Money poster
6.0

Los dineros del diablo (The Devil's Money) is a Mexican drama film directed by Alejandro Galindo. It was released in 1953 and starring Amalia Aguilar and Roberto Cañedo.

The Devil's Money

1953

Mexican Bus Ride poster
6.6

Newlywed Oliverio receives disturbing news that his mother is on her deathbed. He travels to a remote part of Mexico to fetch a lawyer who can sort out her will. Leaving his wife behind, he embarks on a bus ride that’s interrupted by an increasingly absurd series of episodes, including an impromptu birthday celebration; a one-legged man writhing in the mud; come-ons from an insatiable small-town belle, Raquel; and Oliverio’s frequent, Freudian nightmares.

Mexican Bus Ride

1952

The Port of the Seven Sins poster
6.2

Career criminals vie for ownership of a disreputable waterfront dive and for the love of the cabaret-gal that sings there.

The Port of the Seven Sins

1951

Pobres millonarios poster
5.7

Squatter neighborhood finds a wealthy sponsor.

Pobres millonarios

1957

Kill Me Because I'm Dying!!! poster
7.8

Tin 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

No artwork available
6.7

A down in his luck film director falls in love with an attractive waitress and decides to launch her as a big singing star. Once the goal is reached, the girl runs away and becomes involved with a gangster who leads her into prostitution.

Plazos traicioneros

1958

Apartment house poster
6.3

Personal dramas among the residents of an apartment house.

Apartment house

1951

Vino el remolino y nos alevantó poster
6.8

Three generations of a stable, middle-class family in the capitol are scattered to the four winds by blowback from the Mexican Revolution.

Vino el remolino y nos alevantó

1950

Enchanted Island poster
4.9

To avoid the wrath and punishment of their ruthless captain, two 19th-century sailors jump ship only to discover their tropical paradise may include a cannibal tribe.

Enchanted Island

1958

Casadas en Apuros poster
NR

Comedy about infidelities between several engaged couples.

Casadas en Apuros

1958

With my finger on the trigger poster
6.0

The Private detective Raúl Marín with the help of his grandmother and the police commander Aragón try to find out the murder of several homicides in three episodes: El Anónimo, El Ídolo and El Hipnotizador.

With my finger on the trigger

1958

Misericordia poster
6.3

Faded rich family has a housekeeper who struggles to keep them fed and comfortable after their fortune disappears; she also sacrifices herself on behalf of sick and disabled friends.

Misericordia

1953

1940s · 17 titles

Hermoso ideal poster
6.0

Two Spanish children, boy and girl, make friends with a Mexican boy while on vacation. In adulthood, their friendship turns into a romantic triangle. Then bullfighting and the Foreign legion and stuff.

Hermoso ideal

1948

Los amores de una viuda poster
6.0

A widow remarries... and then her missing-presumed-dead first husband reappears.

Los amores de una viuda

1949

El Supersabio poster
8.0

Cantinflas 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

Rosenda poster
6.6

A 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

Ahí vienen los Mendoza poster
6.3

Two brothers "out on the ranch" fight over girls and stuff.

Ahí vienen los Mendoza

1948

Hipócrita..! poster
6.1

A disfigured woman is helped by a talented composer to recover her face with plastic surgery. Then he discovers that she's a beautiful woman and a talented singer.

Hipócrita..!

1949

¡No me defiendas, compadre! poster
6.3

A bungling wannabe-lawyer keeps interfering in his friend's lives; his desire to help always makes things worse.

¡No me defiendas, compadre!

1949

Oh What Beautiful Legs! poster
6.3

A 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

Confidencias de un ruletero poster
6.4

Taxi driver takes the wrong passenger at the wrong time and gets caught up in a murder investigation.

Confidencias de un ruletero

1949

Las tandas del principal poster
6.8

Frivolous young dandy is trying to score with an operetta singer, but she ends up with his uncle.

Las tandas del principal

1949

An Adventure in the Night poster
6.3

After a party, two friends pick up two beautiful girls with whom they spend a wonderful night. The next day, the two friends return to look for them and a neighbor surprises them when she tells them that the girls died some time before. Intrigued by the events of the previous night, one of them decides to investigate the mystery of the two dead girls.

An Adventure in the Night

1948

Jesus of Nazareth poster
7.7

The biblical story of The Messiah from his baptism through his crucifixion.

Jesus of Nazareth

1942

The Noiseless Dead poster
7.3

Tin-tan gets involved in what seem to be a murder at the local house of wax.

The Noiseless Dead

1946

Salon Mexico poster
6.6

Mercedes works as a cabaret performer to pay for her sister's studies. Problems begin when Mercedes and Paco, her exploiter, win a dance contest, but he refuses to share the prize with her.

Salon Mexico

1949

Nocturno de amor poster
6.6

Luis Aguilar is a talented piano student who struggles to make ends meet. At the conservatory he meets the beautiful, rich, and also talented piano student Marta Reyes and romance ensues. One day, a full scholarship to study piano abroad is announced and both Luis and Marta fill out the necessary paperwork--but only one place is available. Luis is torn apart by his love for both the piano and Marta.

Nocturno de amor

1948

El superhombre poster
6.0

1946 Mexican film directed by Chano Urueta.

El superhombre

1946

Arsenio Lupin poster
5.0

Arsenio Lupin is an audacious Parisian thief who mocks the police, especially Inspector Ganimard, but turns over most of his ill-gotten gains to charity. One night, he attends a party disguised as a newspaper writer who also mocks Ganimard; the next morning, the host's wife and a male guest are found murdered, and Ganimard arrives to solve the crime. A Mexican version of the Arsene Lupin character, with Sherlock Holmes tossed in as a cameo at the end.

Arsenio Lupin

1947

Behind the camera