Agustín Isunza

Acting

Agustín Isunza

Born — Died

1900-09-03 — 1978-08-23

Place of birth

Muzquiz, Coahuila, Mexico

Known for

Acting

Credits

60 titles

Agustín Isunza y del Palacio (1900–1978) was a Mexican film actor. He appeared in over two hundred films during his career. Comic performer in Mexican film from the '30s into the '70s. Mostly cast in supporting roles.

Known for

The Unknown Policeman poster
8.0

A gang of thieves has jeopardized the city and even the police, whose chief urges their forces to captured the band within 48 hours. Meanwhile, band members meet in a cafe run by a widow and her daughter and her suitor, Cantinflas, who maintains a scuffle with the robbers running all at the station. Since then, Cantinflas become a member of the police force for special missions.

The Unknown Policeman

1941

El Topo poster
7.0

El Topo decides to confront warrior Masters on a trans-formative desert journey he begins with his 6 year old son, who must bury his childhood totems to become a man.

El Topo

1970

A Quixote Without La Mancha poster
7.1

A lawyer trying to fix everyone's problems, instead causes problems, which always end up in funny situations.

A Quixote Without La Mancha

1969

Alucarda poster
6.5

After the death of her parents, young Justine is sent to live in a convent, where she meets and falls in love with the mysterious and macabre Alucarda. However, Alucarda has friends in low places... very low places. And a blood pact has just granted them entry to the church.

Alucarda

1977

Illusion Travels by Streetcar poster
6.5

Confronted 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

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

Film credits

1970s · 5 titles

1960s · 23 titles

A Quixote Without La Mancha poster
7.1

A lawyer trying to fix everyone's problems, instead causes problems, which always end up in funny situations.

A Quixote Without La Mancha

1969

Por mis pistolas poster
7.8

Fidencio Borer, an apothecary in a village on the northern border of Mexico, discovers some old title of a mine in Arizona and decides to claim them. Trying to cross the border is a border guard intercepted by exaggerating in the line of duty. On the way is captured by a tribe of Apaches and is about to be burned alive, but thanks to the Great Head Horse Lying having toothache and learns that the prisoner it can heal, ordered his release on the condition that the cure. Fidencio would take the wheel and gets the eternal friendship of the Chief apache.

Por mis pistolas

1968

The Shadow of the Tyrant poster
7.0

In 1920s Mexico, the candidates being chosen to succeed the current president, El Caudillo, find themselves at his mercy as he will resort to anything to accomplish his will, including kidnapping, betrayal, and murder.

The Shadow of the Tyrant

1960

Mil Máscaras poster
5.9

A committee of four wise men trains the masked hero Mil Máscaras to defend the world. When someone kidnaps the members of the committee, the hero stops at nothing to rescue them.

Mil Máscaras

1969

La Valentina poster
6.4

A smuggler, condemned to be shot, is pardoned in exchange for kidnapping "La Valentina."

La Valentina

1966

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

The Golden Cockerel poster
7.1

A poor, but very lucky man in the cock fighting business, is hired by a rich man, but both are in love with the same woman.

The Golden Cockerel

1964

Patsy My Love poster
5.3

Written by future Nobel-prize winner Gabriel García Márquez, this is the story of Patsy, a wealthy debutante with an acute sense of living and boundless curiosity. She falls in love with an older man (Julio Alemán) whom is married and mediocre, and thus learns the hard way about unhappiness, marring her rose colored world.

Patsy My Love

1969

Llanto por Juan Indio poster
5.7

The story revolves around a farmer who is tried for stealing a military rifle and is sentenced to death.

Llanto por Juan Indio

1965

La muerte en el desfiladero poster
5.8

Masked horseman avenges the deaths of family members and resolves questions about a contested inheritance. One of four in a series ("Relampago").

La muerte en el desfiladero

1963

Ambición sangrienta poster
6.0

A lawman and two sidekicks clear up a series of crimes related to mining rights.

Ambición sangrienta

1968

El norteño poster
6.7

Lawman 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

La marcha a Zacatecas poster
5.8

Villistas, army officers, heirs and heiresses all gather at the home of a recently deceased hacendado. Everybody has an agenda, everybody butts heads in comical ways. Or not so much.

La marcha a Zacatecas

1969

Fuera de la ley poster
6.0

Three outlaws get arrested, and the fourth tries several times to break them out of jail. Also, there are can-can girls.

Fuera de la ley

1966

El secreto del texano poster
5.7

Mexican feature film

El secreto del texano

1965

Cargando con el muerto poster
5.6

Moving company bozos are left holding the bag when bad guys hire them to transport a corpse.

Cargando con el muerto

1965

Lauro Puñales poster
5.0

One of Zapata's field marshals runs afoul of dictator Huerta's stooges in his home town.

Lauro Puñales

1969

The Waltzes came from Vienna and the Children from Paris poster
5.3

Unmarried opera singer has a baby, and her friends convince her to pass it off as the grandchild of a wealthy old lady.

The Waltzes came from Vienna and the Children from Paris

1966

Los fenómenos del fútbol poster
4.8

Working class family owns a restaurant: one brother's a rising star in local soccer, one's a priest/semi-pro boxer, sister's an aspiring ranchera singer and the other brother's a waterboy at the stadium.

Los fenómenos del fútbol

1964

No artwork available
6.7

Country-boy migrates to the big city to work as a taxi-driver.

Ruletero a toda marcha

1964

Esta noche no poster
6.3

Mexican feature film

Esta noche no

1966

El fistol del diablo III poster
NR

Part of a series of films based on portions of the Manuel Payno novel "El fistol del diablo". All were directed by Fernando Fernández and star Roberto Cañedo.

El fistol del diablo III

1961

Un par de sinvergüenzas poster
5.5

Itinerant cowboy learns that his horse can talk. Horse ends up giving him singing-lessons... and...

Un par de sinvergüenzas

1964

1950s · 8 titles

Illusion Travels by Streetcar poster
6.5

Confronted 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

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

The Guys from Penjamo poster
5.8

When he hears how his grandfather left illegitimate children scattered all over the county, a young landowner is seized with an obsessive desire to make babies.

The Guys from Penjamo

1953

Los muertos no hablan poster
6.5

Bandit crew with mysterious masked leader is doing lots of crimes. Mauricio Rosales and his sidekick ride into town all incognito and stuff to set things right.

Los muertos no hablan

1958

La feria de San Marcos poster
7.8

Two 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

El ciclón poster
5.6

Cowboy revenge-drama, paired with a love triangle between two Mexican fellers and a rather unpleasant gringa.

El ciclón

1959

Here is Heraclius Bernal poster
6.2

Historical drama/biopic about 1880s Social Justice bandits in a mining community in Sinaloa. First of three in series.

Here is Heraclius Bernal

1958

El hombre que quiso ser pobre poster
5.8

A poor man sells his watch to buy a lottery ticket, advised by a friend, and wins the jackpot.

El hombre que quiso ser pobre

1956

1940s · 22 titles

The Unknown Policeman poster
8.0

A gang of thieves has jeopardized the city and even the police, whose chief urges their forces to captured the band within 48 hours. Meanwhile, band members meet in a cafe run by a widow and her daughter and her suitor, Cantinflas, who maintains a scuffle with the robbers running all at the station. Since then, Cantinflas become a member of the police force for special missions.

The Unknown Policeman

1941

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

Gran Casino poster
5.2

After the mysterious disappearance of an oil well owner, one of his workers, Gerardo assumes the business management. Soon, the owner's sister arrives from Argentina, and, believing that Gerardo killed her brother to keep the wells for himself, she starts working as a singer under a false name in the same casino her brother disappeared, in order to find out what exactly happened.

Gran Casino

1947

El abandonado poster
6.0

Based on a popular song. An unhappy love affair becomes an excuse for heavy drinking and all-round debauchery.

El abandonado

1949

El conde de Montecristo poster
5.6

Based on the famous novel by Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo tells the story of a man who is unjustly imprisoned alongside an old man, who before dying reveals the location of a buried treasure. When the man manages to escape from his miserable cell, he changes his identity, becoming the wealthy Count of Monte Cristo, an identity he uses to take revenge on those who betrayed him and sent him to prison.

El conde de Montecristo

1942

Soy un prófugo poster
7.6

A janitor in a large bank is accused of pulling of a major heist. He is forced to become a fugitive while hunting for the real culprits.

Soy un prófugo

1946

Las cinco noches de Adán poster
5.8

Globe-hopping playboy bachelor is getting on in years, so he invites his five international children to come live with him.

Las cinco noches de Adán

1942

You’re Missing the Point poster
8.2

Cantinflas, the boyfriend of the servant of a rich industrial man, gets into the house in order to kill a mad dog. Suddenly this man appears so the servant tells him that Cantinflas is his wife's brother (Leonardo), who had been lost for years. The rich man then remembers that his father in law's testament could only be paid when all brothers get together, so treats Cantinflas, a real bum, as a king.

You’re Missing the Point

1940

Tormenta en la cumbre poster
5.7

Young couple weather a marital crisis while older people who have already given up on life interfere from the sidelines.

Tormenta en la cumbre

1943

The Skulls of Terror Return poster
NR

A group of friends form a masked gang nicknamed 'The Skulls of Terror' and confront a local political boss. Originally produced as a six-hour collection of serial chapters (1943), then edited down (1944) into a 3-hour feature... then re-released (1950s?) as two 90-minute features. The first one seems to have disappeared, this is the second one.

The Skulls of Terror Return

1944

Como yo te quería poster
5.6

Romantic comedy/drama.

Como yo te quería

1945

Ahí vienen los Mendoza poster
6.3

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

Ahí vienen los Mendoza

1948

Sota, caballo y rey poster
5.8

Theatrical troupe schemes to expose corrupt dealings in local government.

Sota, caballo y rey

1944

Those Were The Days, Senor Don Simon! poster
6.8

A not very grief stricken young widow flutters her hand fan between a dashing young soldier and an elderly politician in this Belle Epoque era musical comedy.

Those Were The Days, Senor Don Simon!

1941

When the Brave Cry poster
5.7

A farmer is in love during revolutionary times.

When the Brave Cry

1947

Lo que el viento trajo poster
5.2

A 1941 film.

Lo que el viento trajo

1941

Amanecer ranchero poster
6.7

The old massa dies and his son comes home to take over the hacienda. Things are going to be a whole lot different now; he's overturning all the old social order. A-a-and...

Amanecer ranchero

1942

Unidos por el eje poster
6.7

No synopsis available yet.

Unidos por el eje

1942

Hidden River poster
6.2

Called by the Mexican President himself, a rural teacher goes to work in a village that is dominated by a malevolent chieftain.

Hidden River

1948

El charro Negro en el norte poster
5.0

Hero on horseback protects a family and their farm from human predators.

El charro Negro en el norte

1949

Cinco minutos de amor poster
6.3

Bedroom farce, with three men claiming the same woman as their mistress.

Cinco minutos de amor

1941

Charro a la fuerza poster
6.2

Mistaken identity farce; heiress has to marry to receive an inheritance.

Charro a la fuerza

1948