Carlos Martínez Baena

Acting

Carlos Martínez Baena

Born 1889-05-07 · Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Carlos Martinez Baena was a character actor, who was born in Spain. At an early age he moved with his family to Mexico where he became a journalist. By 1920 he decided to become an actor while he was living in Argentina, and shortly afterward moved to Spain where he worked as a stage actor, eventually ppearing in films in Argentina, Spain and the U.S in Spanish language films made in the early and mid 1930s. In 1940 he returned to Mexico, escaping the fascist Franco goverment in Spain. The following year he began appearing in Mexican films in character parts, he was often cast as kindly old men, teachers, priests and appeared in many character parts. He was also very involved in the actor's union, during his career he also wrote and adapted sceenplays as well as writing poetry. In 1970 he completed his last film at the age 80, also a character part.

Acting credits

Perverse Doll poster
6.9

A troubled woman commits a series of murders that exposes some dark family secrets.

Perverse Doll

1969

El rey se divierte poster
6.0

Mexican movie

El rey se divierte

1944

Mi niño, mi caballo y yo poster
6.0

Nun tries to heal the relationship between a six-year-old boy and his estranged father.

Mi niño, mi caballo y yo

1959

The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz poster
7.3

A bizarre black comedy about a man whose overwhelming ambition in life is to be a renowned serial killer of women, and will stop at nothing to achieve it - but not everything goes according to plan...

The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz

1955

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

Cupido pierde a Paquita poster
6.6

Rich family's maid thinks that maybe if she plays her cards right, she can land a moneybags husband. There's also a really cute auto mechanic, though, and...

Cupido pierde a Paquita

1955

Gema poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Gema

1950

El Portero poster
7.6

Cantinflas works as a porter, who writes letters and speeches in his old writing machine to earn an extra money, despite the fact that he still goes to school. The sentimental issues come when Cantinflas falls in love of his pretty neighborhood (Silvia Pinal), who is handicapped and unable to walk. The thing wont be easy, because a young military man also has feelings for the girl. But the porter wants to see her happy, and he will become a sort of Cyrano De Bergerac, writing love letters to her signed by the young soldier. His plan is simple: to win money in the horse races in order to pay the operation which will make her walk again.

El Portero

1950

Él poster
7.7

Gloria encounters Francisco, a man whose social veneer betrays a truer self burrowed underneath.

Él

1953

The Well-paid poster
5.6

Melodrama about marital infidelity.

The Well-paid

1948

The River and Death poster
6.4

A 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

El Siete Machos poster
8.2

Rosario, the niece of the rancher, returns to the ranch after ten years of absence. She takes in Margarito, a worker at the ranch, who is immediately smitten by her. Rosario is rescued from a runaway horse by the Seven Men, an outlaw a la Robin Hood that steals from the rich and gives to the poor. He also happens to be the twin brother of Margarito, unbeknownst to him. The confusion between Margarito and the Seven Men generates great comical situations in the film.

El Siete Machos

1951

The Bewitched House poster
6.1

Magician Fu Manchu must find a way out of a supposed haunted house.

The Bewitched House

1949

The Kneeling Goddess poster
6.8

Antonio, a millionaire, gifts his wife a statue of a naked, kneeling woman for their wedding anniversary.

The Kneeling Goddess

1947

El Supersabio poster
7.8

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

El Charro del Cristo poster
6.7

Favored son of a wealthy rural family forced to go into hiding after killing someone in a duel.

El Charro del Cristo

1949

Camelia poster
6.2

A sort of meta riff on Alexandre Dumas fils' novel The Lady of the Camellias (La Dame aux Camélias or Camille) here in Mexican melodrama form involving the doomed love of a bullfighter and a beautiful but ailing actress/courtesan.

Camelia

1954

Si, Mi vida poster
5.8

Dr. Castellanos is saved from bankruptcy.

Si, Mi vida

1953

Entre tu amor y el cielo poster
6.3

No synopsis available yet.

Entre tu amor y el cielo

1950

Espinas de una flor poster
6.3

Mexican movie

Espinas de una flor

1945

Prefiero a tu papá poster
4.8

Theatre director macks on his sons' girlfriends.

Prefiero a tu papá

1952

Good Love poster
6.0

Mother and son conspire against his sister when she marries against their wishes.

Good Love

1957

No artwork available
6.0

Borderline mentally-ill woman with neurotic compulsion to behave like a child and the psychiatrist who looooves her.

La mujer que no tuvo infancia

1957

No artwork available
6.5

Juan Manuel intends his wife Clara, who is blind, sign the will in his favor, but she refuses. With them lives Soledad, goddaughter Clara. A day comes Carlos, nephew of Juan Manuel, who is interested in Soledad. Carlos is going to study medicine in the United States and maintains correspondence with Soledad. Juan Manuel shows interest in Soledad but prevents Clara meet her. She is the daughter of Clara, who hid that Juan Manuel had killed the father of Soledad and also caused her blindness.

Pecado Mortal

1955

Behind the camera