Elvira Quintana

Acting

Elvira Quintana

Born 1935-11-07 · Montijo, Spain

Spanish-born Mexican actress, singer, and poet. her family migrated to Mexico when she was 5 years old. She began her career working in theatre and later participated in films as an extra. Her first important role was as Carmen Ochoa in "Una solución inesperada", a segment of the drama film Canasta de cuentos mexicanos (1956). She then enrolled in the National Association of Actors' theatre and film institute (Instituto Teatral y Cinematográfico). She was given her first starring role in El buen ladrón (1957) before her breakthrough in Bolero inmortal (1958), in which she debuted as a singer; the film's soundtrack album, for which she recorded songs, was a commercial success throughout Hispanic America. She starred opposite Pedro Armendáriz, her favorite actor, in Dos hijos desobedientes (1960). Greatly admired by audiences for her beauty and talent, she became one of the most popular Mexican performers of the 1960s.

Acting credits

La mafia del crimen poster
5.0

No synopsis available yet.

La mafia del crimen

1958

Las tapatías nunca pierden poster
5.6

An heiress and some friends pose as gypsies to fight back against some bad-hats who are squatting on her new estate.

Las tapatías nunca pierden

1965

Una pasión me domina poster
6.0

Unscrupulous landowner and his family are trying to deny water rights to the townsfolk. Particular beef with the guy that runs the mill. Ultimately the Revolution rolls through town and helps put everything right.

Una pasión me domina

1961

No artwork available
5.4

A musical comedy about a group of pretty girls who meet in Mexico and decide to break into showbiz and make a pact and promise not to get involved with men. But they all are in love with different guys and that complicates things.

Póker de reinas

1960

800 Leagues Over the Amazon poster
5.3

Family builds a houseboat and sets sail down the Amazon. Based on a novel by Jules Verne.

800 Leagues Over the Amazon

1959

El pueblo sin Dios poster
6.5

Unscrupulous rich guy owns all the businesses in border towns, is challenged by town's new priest.

El pueblo sin Dios

1955

¡Viva Benito Canales! poster
6.7

Campesino with leadership qualities is indecisive about whether he should join the Revolution or concentrate on improving conditions at his farm, also about whether he cares about the nice girl he grew up with or the fancy woman who runs the local brothel. Most of his plot points don't come to a head until after the revolution's over, and then after General Huerta's coup.

¡Viva Benito Canales!

1966

Se alquila marido poster
5.6

Female CEO hires a man to pass as her husband and act as figurehead of her business concerns.

Se alquila marido

1961

Melodías de amor poster
6.7

No synopsis available yet.

Melodías de amor

1955

Basket of Mexican Tales poster
7.3

Strong-willed Luisa attracts lots of men, but her intelligence and sharp tongue often sends them running. When she meets Carlos, who is equally cagey, sparks fly. The two of them marry, and quickly begin clashing on a daily basis, humiliating each other as they try to teach one another lesson after lesson.

Basket of Mexican Tales

1956

Lástima de ropa poster
6.5

Millionaire goes slumming, meets a girl...

Lástima de ropa

1962

La divina garza poster
5.4

Film of 1963 directed by Humberto Gómez Landero, starring Elvira Quintana, Manuel Capetillo and Joaquín García Vargas.

La divina garza

1963

Los tigres del ring poster
5.5

Crooked 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

Las canciones unidas poster
6.0

The delegates of an international conference must decide on a "United Song", capturing the traditions and cultural characteristics of the participating countries. An unprecedented art showcase.

Las canciones unidas

1960

Los amores de Marieta (los fabulosos 20s) poster
6.0

Young woman and her godfather make up a story about her past in order to trick a suitor into marrying her. Then she becomes a musical comedy star and Mexican Revolution.

Los amores de Marieta (los fabulosos 20s)

1964

El 7 de Copas poster
6.3

Professional gambler finds metaphysical meanings in the way he manages the workings of chance.

El 7 de Copas

1960

Amor a balazo limpio poster
5.5

Hired gunman tries and fails to kill The Sheriff. Then the gunman's kid brother coms to town, thinking The Sheriff is to blame for the gunman's death.

Amor a balazo limpio

1961

Tintansón Cruzoe poster
5.8

Tin Tan is marooned on an island full of colorful natives.

Tintansón Cruzoe

1965

Gutierritos poster
6.6

Timid, browbeaten salaryman becomes famous author overnight.

Gutierritos

1959

Juventud sin Dios (La vida del padre Lambert) poster
6.2

An American priest is hired as coach at a Mexican university; he trains his students in the ways of American football and moral rectitude. You ain't gonna sire no babies out of wedlock on Father Lambert's watch, no siree!

Juventud sin Dios (La vida del padre Lambert)

1962

Peligros de juventud poster
5.4

Each of the boys and girls at the coffee shop has something snarled in their love life.

Peligros de juventud

1960

El vestido de novia poster
6.2

A young professional hires a sex-worker to pass as his wife in a situation that requires him to seem married. Later they think about getting married for reals... but mostly they just recite monologues to each other.

El vestido de novia

1959

Me llaman el cantaclaro poster
6.3

The story of the ruthless female boss of a hacienda who meets her match in the city-educated Santos Luzardo.

Me llaman el cantaclaro

1964

Bonitas las Tapatias poster
5.7

No synopsis available yet.

Bonitas las Tapatias

1961