
Acting
Fernando Soto
Born — Died
1911-04-15 — 1980-05-11
Place of birth
Puebla, Mexico
Known for
Acting
Credits
60 titles
Fernando Soto was a Mexican film actor. He was born on April 15, 1911 in Puebla, Mexico as Fernando Soto Astol. He was an actor, known for Campeón sin corona (1946), Extraña cita (1947) and La presidenta municipal (1975). He died on May 11, 1980 in Mexico City, Mexico.
Known for
7.5Cantinflas enjoys the bullfight show, and wants to crash in every of these spectacles. Also, there's a professional bullfighter, Manolete, who is identical to Cantinflas. Manolete has to give a bullfight show in a village, but Cantinflas arrives first as a stowaway in a train, and he'll be mistake by the real bullfighter. Cantinflas will give us a demonstration of courage.
Neither Blood Nor Sand
1941
5.5Carmela is a Gypsy singer who sells lottery tickets. She meets two penniless Mexican brothers and they buy a ticket between the three: if it is awarded, could share the prize and go to Mexico, they to return to their homeland and her for bullfighter boyfriend whom has no news. The fate accompanies them, but, on reaching Mexico, her boyfriend rejects her. This way, she ends up acting in a cafe where reaps many successes.
Oh Pain, Little Pain, Pain!
1953
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
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
7.8Two men and two women meet and pair off (m/w x 2) during the town Festival in San Marcos. Later, weddings.
La feria de San Marcos
1958
5.8Aspiring big-band singer who doubles as an art forger takes in a teenaged runaway who wants to be a showgirl.
Vístete Cristina
1959
Film credits
1970s · 6 titles
6.5Three episodes. Faith: a woman is attacked. Hope: a fakir is crucified. Charity: a woman faces bureaucracy.
Faith, Hope and Charity
1974
A devoted woman sets out on a long pilgrimage, pleading for a miracle to save her husband. Along the road, her faith is tested by hardship, temptation, and the people she meets.
Faith
1974
7.4Juan returns home to Mexico after working in the USA for awhile, and gets caught up in cowboy problems among his townsfolk.
Juan Armenta El Repatriado
1976
5.2Agapito, leader of the revolutionary movement of his state, comes to a town, kills all the federales, and gets a girl who was promised to him for his heroic deeds.
El Quelite
1970
4.6She rejects him, but he's there for her, even after she gets married and then is abandoned by her babydaddy. Remake of Bajo El Cielo De Mexico (1958) (and also 1937?).
Tu camino y el mio
1973
5.5Young man returns from college to his family estate; when he learns that a rival family is trying to take over all available acreage, he gradually warms up to the idea of defending his turf.
Como gallos de pelea
1977
1960s · 13 titles
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
5.3No synopsis available yet.
La vida de Pedro Infante
1966
6.7Lawman on horseback cracks a case involving stolen gold bullion, the title to a mine, an evil twin and a plucky pre-adolescent boy. First in a series.
El norteño
1963
Romantic comedy about two school-teachers with show-biz aspirations.
La comezón del amor
1961
5.5A doctor and his assistant hunt down a vampire named Count Frankenhausen, who is terrorizing the populace.
The Invasion of the Vampires
1963
5.8Two ranch owners promised their offspring would marry. The intended refused and switched places with their respective servants. They don't discover their real identities till they marry.
Yo no me caso compadre
1960
5.8Jungle adventure about the search for a lost treasure.
The Jade Mask
1963
5.8The new Sheriff is framed for a series of stagecoach robberies, but he succeeds in finding the real thieves.
El rayo de Jalisco
1962
5.6Two brothers are trying to raise emergency cash by doing cockfights and horse-races. They meet two sisters.
Dos gallos y dos gallinas
1963
5.6Border town is overrun with wastrels and scofflaws, so the City Council decides to hire a notorious gunslinger to help them clean up their streets.
Los resbalosos
1960
Cowboy hero tries to track down the deed to Pappy's mine.
Bala de Plata en el pueblo maldito
1960
6.2Half-dozen comic actors in a spooky house.
House of the Frights
1963
6.2Rom-com about two horses. And some humans.
Alazán y enamorado
1966
1950s · 19 titles
5.5Carmela is a Gypsy singer who sells lottery tickets. She meets two penniless Mexican brothers and they buy a ticket between the three: if it is awarded, could share the prize and go to Mexico, they to return to their homeland and her for bullfighter boyfriend whom has no news. The fate accompanies them, but, on reaching Mexico, her boyfriend rejects her. This way, she ends up acting in a cafe where reaps many successes.
Oh Pain, Little Pain, Pain!
1953
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
7.8Two men and two women meet and pair off (m/w x 2) during the town Festival in San Marcos. Later, weddings.
La feria de San Marcos
1958
5.8Aspiring big-band singer who doubles as an art forger takes in a teenaged runaway who wants to be a showgirl.
Vístete Cristina
1959
5.8In 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
6.0Out-of-work actor and his burglar pal get jobs at an agency that pledges to do things the client doesn't want to deal with. Meanwhile, their boss is being stalked by seven Italian brothers who want revenge for something that happened to their great great grandfather.
Si usted no puede, yo sí
1951
5.8Authorities close down a restaurant after a violent crime is committed on the premises; the employees look for new jobs and try to track down the murderer.
Here Come The Freeloaders
1953
5.4Sculptor becomes infatuated with model. Everyone suffers.
La estatua de carne
1951
6.5The simple life and the values of loyalty and solidarity of the poor people in the environment of professional boxing, is the plot of this film, where Pepe el Toro shows the effort and tragedies that are experienced in this profession.
Pepe El Toro
1953
6.4To 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
6.6Rich 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
6.2Cándida is a Galician who lives in Mexico and has been selling lottery tickets. Her dream is to buy an inn, but doesn't have enough money. In her quest for trying to get it, she runs into a scammer. In a stroke of luck, she wins first prize in the lottery, but the misfortune is merciless with her because she can't find the ticket.
Los enredos de una gallega
1951
6.4Mexican singer touring Argentina wins a country estate in a poker game.
Amor se dice cantando
1958
5.4Inspired by Alexander Dumas's novel The Corsican Brothers, Alma de Acero presents a delightful spin on the classic story of twin brothers (both played by Luis Aguilar) and their contrasting lives. As a singer in a nightclub, one brother has chosen a life of peaceful simplicity; the other, however, has chosen a troublesome lifestyle that leads to numerous run-ins with the law, forcing the vocalist to risk his own life to save his sibling.
Soul of Steel
1957
5.3Series western, Masked Avenger on horseback.
El tesoro de la muerte
1954
6.3No synopsis available yet.
Esposa o amante
1950
6.6To help her pilot brother, Maria disguises as a man to take his place, and must live in the jungle with a very "macho" captain, eventually falling in love.
I Am Very Macho
1953
4.6A boxer wins a championship but he is injured and forced to retire. After that he falls in love with a blind girl.
El amor no es ciego
1950
5.8Woman and her daughter try to get on with their lives and run their family bakery while dealing with abusive alcoholic husband/father and other family problems.
Cuando los hijos odian
1950
1940s · 22 titles
7.5Cantinflas enjoys the bullfight show, and wants to crash in every of these spectacles. Also, there's a professional bullfighter, Manolete, who is identical to Cantinflas. Manolete has to give a bullfight show in a village, but Cantinflas arrives first as a stowaway in a train, and he'll be mistake by the real bullfighter. Cantinflas will give us a demonstration of courage.
Neither Blood Nor Sand
1941
7.4Cantinflas is a vagrant being evicted for not paying rent, after wandering gets a job at the 'Grand Hotel' through a friend, that's confused by Count Zapatini, who is undercover in the hotel, stealing a gem making this funny movie more complicated.
Gran Hotel
1944
5.8A couple in crisis receives a mysterious visit from the devil, who offers them a tempting solution to their problems-but his true intention is to claim their souls in exchange.
El diablo no es tan diablo
1949
6.2After a vengeance taken too far costs his father his Hacienda and his life, young Juan Manuel Mendoza becomes a bandit. He will get a chance for revenge and for love after he infiltrates his enemy house as a piano teacher.
El rebelde (Romance de Antaño)
1943
5.7A father imposes conditions on his son in order to inherit his fortune, unaware of what true love is capable of. The son accepts his father's terms and faces a series of challenges that ultimately lead him to become the heir.
Soltera y con gemelos
1945
7.8Pepe el Toro is married to Celia la Chorreada and they have two children.
You the Rich
1948
6.7No synopsis available yet.
Por culpa de una mujer
1947
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
6.3Roving cowboy good-guys defend a farm family from the outlaw gang that's trying to take over their homestead.
La bandida
1948
6.6Ruled by a tough grandma, the Garcías are three charro cousins who fall in love with young American-born Lupita and fight for her love until grandma quiets them.
Vuelven los García
1947
8.3This is the story of three brothers - a priest, a soldier, and an outlaw - that are raised separately by their godfathers once their mother dies. They cross their paths again when the soldier and the priest move into two towns near the town the outlaw lives in. The drama will unfold once the three brothers meet each other.
Los tres huastecos
1948
6.7Two farmworkers emigrate to USA to work on a Texas ranch, then go home and put their lives back in order.
Como México no hay dos
1945
6.0Interfering relatives complicate a couple's attempt to build their dream house.
El casado casa quiere
1948
6.7Mexican movie
Club verde
1945
7.5Hard-living horse-trainer has a thing with an aristocratic woman... but her brothers aren't happy to see her involved with someone beneath her station.
Juan Charrasqueado
1948
6.3No synopsis available yet.
La mujer del otro
1948
4.1An American soldier marooned in Mexico is mistaken for a wife-butchering serial killer.
Boom in the Moon
1946
6.6Union-organizing and labor/management conflicts among Mexico City bus-drivers. Sequel to "Esquina, Bajan!"
Hay lugar para... dos
1949
6.4No synopsis available yet.
La reina del trópico
1946
5.4A young ice cream vendor, Roberto Terranova, witnesses a child being beaten and comes to his aid by physically overpowering the aggressor. His strength and natural ability catches the eye of a well-known boxing trainer. Considering him a diamond in the rough, he aims to put Roberto in the professional ring. But Roberto finds that his personal challenges must be overcome before he can achieve professional greatness.
Champion Without Crown
1946
8.2Ruled by a tough grandma, the Garcías are three charro cousins who fall in love with young American-born Lupita and fight for her love until grandma quiets them.
The Three Garcías
1947
6.3A dangerous gangster, called Álvaro Rambal, is captured by the police. Hoping to be forgiven before his execution, he tells the story of his life to his wife, going from his tragic childhood to the rise and fall of his criminal empire.
Los misterios del hampa
1945
