Acting

Gerardo del Castillo

Born 1920-01-01 · Mexico City, México

Acting credits

Your Excellency poster
8.0

Lopitos, 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

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

Daughter of Deceit poster
5.9

In the drama, a father, firmly believing that the baby daughter in his arms is not his own, abandons her upon the doorstep of the town drunk. Many years pass, and the man finds himself continually wracked with guilt about deserting her.

Daughter of Deceit

1951

The Extra poster
6.9

Cantinflas is a man who hangs around the studios and helps anyone who needs his advice while at the same time envisioning his own versions of how certain scenes should be shot. Both angles provide ample opportunities for very witty, subtle barbs at the foibles of the industry.

The Extra

1962

El profe poster
8.0

Mario Moreno portrays a professor in this movie. A small town in the middle of no where requests the school Mario Moreno is working in for a teacher. He ends up going to give the town a hand. When he arrives he comes to know the corrupt leaders who through out the movie try to make him leave. Although he is being harassed you can see how much he cares for the kids and their circumstances. He deals with problems by using his hilarious comments.

El profe

1971

Coqueta poster
5.5

Blind nightclub pianist takes in a young singer/entertainer when she hits bottom... but once she gets stable and starts thinking about maybe a boyfriend, his unspoken intentions start to surface.

Coqueta

1949

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

Me ha besado un hombre poster
6.3

Spanish refugee could only get across the border using fake documents that belonged to her brother and now she's stuck with the male identity...

Me ha besado un hombre

1944

Divorciadas poster
6.2

Divorciadas tells the story of three women: Cristina, recently divorced after refusing to endure her husband's lack of love, especially following the death of their young son; Carmen, divorced for many years and living on the fortune left to her by her late husband, leading a free and unconventional life; and Juanita, an employee at the courthouse where she meets Cristina, married but long abandoned by her husband.

Divorciadas

1943

El pecado de ser pobre poster
6.7

Ex-con rebuilds his life after being discharged from prison.

El pecado de ser pobre

1950

El Barrendero poster
7.7

A cheerful sweeper collects garbage dancing, and the maids of the neighborhood get jealous because he invites another woman out.

El Barrendero

1982

Conserje en condominio poster
6.1

After reading in the newspaper, Úrsulo runs to seek employment. It is the position of caretaker of a luxury apartment building habited by people more heterogeneous: the professional model, the spiritualist, hippies and all turn to him to solve their problems. But someone in the building, kidnapped an important person and Úrsulo becomes a private investigator.

Conserje en condominio

1974

Canoa: A Shameful Memory poster
7.8

A group of students arrives in a small town during a hiking expedition. Once there, the local priest accuses them of being communist agitators on the run from an army crack-down against student demonstrations in nearby Mexico City and rallies the townsfolk to lynch them. Based on a true story.

Canoa: A Shameful Memory

1976

In the Shadow of the Bridge poster
6.0

In this Mexican version of Winterset (inspired by the 20s Sacco Vanzetti case) an idealistic youth searches for the culprit behind a crime that his father was wrongly accused of several years before.

In the Shadow of the Bridge

1948

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

Los miserables poster
5.6

An ex-convict struggling to start anew faces relentless pursuit by a remorseless cop while protecting an orphan amid the 1832 Paris student uprisings.

Los miserables

1943

Omen poster
5.0

While attending the birth of Isabel, the wife of foreigner Felipe, Mama Santos predicts that "something terrible is going to happen in the town." From this omen, calamities will torment the locals.

Omen

1974

The Headless Woman poster
5.7

Fu Man Chu must find a murderer, the only clue he has is a series of wax heads that have appeared.

The Headless Woman

1944

Ave sin rumbo poster
5.6

A woman with a past meets a man with a past; the back story of each one represents an obstacle to their couple-bonding. Will they work through their traumas?

Ave sin rumbo

1937

The Girls Aunt poster
4.5

Two middle-aged no-goodniks are trying to marry two young ladies; two age-appropriate young men concoct a scheme to prevent it, which involves one of them masquerading as the young ladies' aunt.

The Girls Aunt

1938

The Heist poster
6.5

In Mexico City's infamous Lecumberri prison, three drug-addicted convicts celebrate getting drugs from one of their the mothers. They are found out and locked up in the "apando," the dreaded punishment cell. Protests over the treatment of those held in the cell lead to a bloody confrontation.

The Heist

1976

The Prodigious Barber poster
6.0

Benedito the barber, mocked by everyone in the village, lathers the head of a blind customer just as the man regains his sight. Benedito becomes a celebrity, and everyone seeks his services.

The Prodigious Barber

1942

Las Fuerzas Vivas poster
6.0

It narrates the phenomenon of the Mexican Revolution, satirically reflected through what happens in a town far from the places where the true Revolution was fiercely fought.

Las Fuerzas Vivas

1975

La gallina clueca poster
6.2

The story follows Teresa, a widowed and protective mother who travels with her children to Mexico City, where she meets a merchant named Ángel, who helps her build a new life.

La gallina clueca

1941