Armando Arriola

Acting

Armando Arriola

Born 1905-07-28 · Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico

Armando Arriola was born in July 28, 1905 in Mexico, Distrito Federal, Mexico. He was an actor, known for Santa Claus (1959), La dulce enemiga (1957) and El organillero (1957). He died on November 1, 1978 in Mexico.

Acting credits

Las engañadas poster
5.6

Irresponsible playboy seduces a decent young lady with a fake wedding; he continues being a creep for the next 12 or 15 years.

Las engañadas

1955

No artwork available
5.7

Romcom with music: owner of an auto-repair shop woos the owner of a beauty parlor.

El cariñoso

1959

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

Fly Away, Young Man! poster
8.0

Cantinflas is a private in the military, who doesn't know anything about discipline or following rules. He only wants to think about his girlfriend, the maid in an opulent hacienda. The owner of the hacienda has an ugly and shy daughter, who is in love with Cantinflas. The problems arrive when the family arranges a wedding between the ugly girl and Cantinflas, who in order to avoid the commitment gets himself arrested. During his punishment, Cantinflas learns to fly with a silly and poorly trained flight instructor.

Fly Away, Young Man!

1947

Ambición sangrienta poster
6.0

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

Ambición sangrienta

1968

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

El rediezcubrimiento de México poster
5.6

No synopsis available yet.

El rediezcubrimiento de México

1979

La máscara de carne poster
6.0

Mexican feature film

La máscara de carne

1958

La maldición del oro poster
6.3

Local rowdies roll a drunk and get away with his life savings. Felipe Reyes El Justiciero rides into town on his faithful sidekick Macario and sets things aright.

La maldición del oro

1965

Lost Love poster
5.0

Ernesto, a composer, is madly in love with Amalia. He decides to help her pay the rent and wants her to start singing at the cabaret where he works, but she ends up falling in love with another man.

Lost Love

1951

Santa Claus poster
6.8

Pitch, the mean-spirited devil, is trying to ruin Christmas. Santa Claus teams up with Merlin the Magician and the children of the world in order to save the day!

Santa Claus

1959

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

Los Perversos poster
5.7

Priest is sympathetic and understanding toward mod-era young folks and their new world-view... but he gets in trouble with a biker gang and with a young woman who crushes unhealthily on him.

Los Perversos

1967

Las ficheras: Bellas de noche II poster
6.9

Bellas de noche continues. The ex-fichera who bought the cabaret continues to work with several of her former companions, the waiter Fabian, the pugilist Bronco who returns to boxing, Carmen, his wife, who returns to booking, the drunk “La Corcholata”, in love with an old man, and a French woman and the pimp “El Vaselinas”, whose favors are disputed by all the women, but who loses his virility and fights to regain it.

Las ficheras: Bellas de noche II

1977

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

Anonymous Death Threat poster
5.1

Men are turning up dead after receiving anonymous threats that include the date of their deaths. The latest person to receive one of these threats decides to call Santo the crime fighting wrestler for help. Santo must solve the mystery of the men's murders and confront a gang of Nazis operating in Mexico City.

Anonymous Death Threat

1975

Son tus perjúmenes mujer poster
6.0

Marginal/unemployed dude with heart of gold tries to make life better for crippled niece, unapproachable girlfriend, others.

Son tus perjúmenes mujer

1978

Drop the Curtain poster
7.5

Cantinflas, who owns a cleaning business, cleans the windows of the house of a famous French actress. While carrying out his work he observes how a man steals one of the famous actress necklaces, but he can only see his back.

Drop the Curtain

1955

Vístete Cristina poster
5.8

Aspiring big-band singer who doubles as an art forger takes in a teenaged runaway who wants to be a showgirl.

Vístete Cristina

1959

Over the Waves poster
5.4

Based on the brief life of the Mexican composer of the famous waltz, "Over the Waves" ("Sobre las Olas"), Juventino Rosas.

Over the Waves

1933

Los tres calaveras poster
6.3

A Mexican music trío go through friendships and hardships in order to be famous and travel to Spain.

Los tres calaveras

1965

Neither Blood Nor Sand poster
7.5

Cantinflas 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

Si yo fuera diputado poster
7.5

Cantinflas is a unique barber, who trades with an elderly neighbor, a lawyer by profession, laws lessons in exchange for haircuts and shaved. It proposes advice to defend in court the disadvantaged neighborhood. His success deputy seeks the votes as the other candidate, Don Próculo, it is not accepted by anyone but his own bodyguards. Don Próculo will use know how much ruse to win the election by the Council, and also for the love of 'Sarita'

Si yo fuera diputado

1952