Carlos López Moctezuma

Acting

Carlos López Moctezuma

Born — Died

1909-11-19 — 1980-07-14

Place of birth

Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico

Known for

Acting

Credits

60 titles

Carlos López Moctezuma (19 November 1909 – 14 July 1980) was a Mexican film actor. He appeared in 215 films between 1938 and 1980.

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

Viva Maria! poster
6.1

1907 Central America: Maria II is the daughter of an Irish terrorist. After her father's death, she meets Maria I, a performer, and decides to stay with the circus, and on her debut as a singer, unintentionally invents the striptease and makes the circus famous. Their inadvertent encounter with a socialist revolutionary lands them leading a revolution against the dictator, the capitalists, and the Church.

Viva Maria!

1965

The Proud and the Beautiful poster
6.7

Life in a small Mexican village where joy and misery, hope and pain, passion and guilt, love and decay, life and death are mixed in the peasants life and two French citizens who end up stranded in there, during a typhoid epidemic.

The Proud and the Beautiful

1953

Night of the Bloody Apes poster
5.5

A surgeon transplants the heart of an ape into his ailing son with horrific results.

Night of the Bloody Apes

1969

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

Preludio 11 poster
7.0

Daniela – a single mother, whose boyfriend left for the US – believes wholeheartedly in Cuba's revolutionary new order. Meanwhile, in Florida, a plot is afoot. Under the command of an American officer, four Cubans ex-patriots and a Guatemalan land on the Cuban coast to prepare a US invasion of the island. Daniela's superior, the corrupt Cuban officer Palomino, is secretly helping the invaders and the young woman becomes entangled in the intrigue.

Preludio 11

1964

Film credits

1970s · 13 titles

Los Hombres No Lloran poster
5.4

Man is manipulated into thinking his wife is unfaithful and abandons her, taking one of their two sons with him.

Los Hombres No Lloran

1973

The Man and the Beast poster
4.6

Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, adapted once again.

The Man and the Beast

1973

Lo mejor de Teresa poster
6.5

Ambitious young woman decides to leave her backwards hometown and move to Mexico City to study for a scientific degree.

Lo mejor de Teresa

1977

Looking for a Wall poster
6.0

The life of the Mexican muralist José Clemente Orozco and his quest to create a career in New York.

Looking for a Wall

1974

The Vampires of Coyoacan poster
4.1

In the service of Satan, a murderous vampire is turning wrestlers into his unwitting thrall, and it's up to Mil Máscaras and Superzan to stop him and save the world.

The Vampires of Coyoacan

1974

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

All the Horrors of Satan poster
5.3

Adaptation of The Fall Of The House Of Usher.

All the Horrors of Satan

1974

No artwork available
8.0

Based on a real event, the action takes place in Havana in 1931, during the dictatorship of Gerardo Machado. Rachel, a young French showgirl, is murdered during an orgy involving personalities of the bourgeoisie and politics. The tabloid press echoes the story to divert public attention from the serious social problems that affect the country. The governors on their part order to silence the case to protect the characters involved.

El extraño caso de Rachel K

1973

No artwork available
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Un camino al cielo

1975

Nobleza Ranchera poster
6.4

Respected civic leader hired a gunman twenty five years ago to commit a murder for him. Now that guy is blackmailing him, and meanwhile his two daughters are competing over a boyfriend.

Nobleza Ranchera

1977

Los problemas de mamá poster
5.6

Mama's four girls are all newlyweds or engaged to be married. Four hubby/fiances plus inlaws = wacky complications.You betcha.

Los problemas de mamá

1970

Candelaria poster
4.2

Subsistance-farmer emigrates to the city in search of opportunity, loses contact with his wife and children.

Candelaria

1978

Death in Cold Blood poster
4.7

A man is murdered. His father tracks the killer, hoping to get revenge before the police capture him. What happened to cause his son's death is gradually revealed.

Death in Cold Blood

1978

1960s · 17 titles

Viva Maria! poster
6.1

1907 Central America: Maria II is the daughter of an Irish terrorist. After her father's death, she meets Maria I, a performer, and decides to stay with the circus, and on her debut as a singer, unintentionally invents the striptease and makes the circus famous. Their inadvertent encounter with a socialist revolutionary lands them leading a revolution against the dictator, the capitalists, and the Church.

Viva Maria!

1965

Night of the Bloody Apes poster
5.5

A surgeon transplants the heart of an ape into his ailing son with horrific results.

Night of the Bloody Apes

1969

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

Preludio 11 poster
7.0

Daniela – a single mother, whose boyfriend left for the US – believes wholeheartedly in Cuba's revolutionary new order. Meanwhile, in Florida, a plot is afoot. Under the command of an American officer, four Cubans ex-patriots and a Guatemalan land on the Cuban coast to prepare a US invasion of the island. Daniela's superior, the corrupt Cuban officer Palomino, is secretly helping the invaders and the young woman becomes entangled in the intrigue.

Preludio 11

1964

The Curse of the Crying Woman poster
6.9

A young woman inherits a mansion, only to discover that it is haunted by witches and evil spirits.

The Curse of the Crying Woman

1963

Los novios de mis hijas poster
6.6

Mama has four daughters in their late teens. some of them might be more interested in careers than husbands, but she's hoping she'll find a highly suitable young man for each of them. If there are any out there that meet her standards.

Los novios de mis hijas

1964

No artwork available
6.0

Law officer tracks and recaptures escaped convict.

La cárcel de Cananea

1960

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

El aviso inoportuno poster
7.9

The farce starring Polivoces , creative Mexican comedians duo formed by Enrique Cuenca and Eduardo Manzano, in the roles of characters and Gordolfo Naborita respectively. When the child Gordolfo question the identity of his father, devoted Naborita recounts the story of his family in five innings , located in the contexts of the Stone Age , the Roman Empire , incursions of English pirates in the Caribbean , West American and the space race of the years after World War II .

El aviso inoportuno

1969

Ambición sangrienta poster
6.0

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

Ambición sangrienta

1968

Modisto de Señoras poster
4.1

Successful fashiondesigner D'Maurice seduces married women while he pretends to be gay in order to avoid arousing suspicion among his clientele's husbands

Modisto de Señoras

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

El solitario poster
6.3

The bad guy's trying to push through a land-speculation deal and force his sister to marry someone against her wishes. The good guy interferes.

El solitario

1964

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

Neutron Battles the Karate Assassins poster
4.9

Superhero wrestler Neutron battles a gang of robotic assassins who use their hands and feet as deadly weapons.

Neutron Battles the Karate Assassins

1965

El centauro Pancho Villa poster
6.7

M/F couple joins the Revolution, but she ends up in bed with Villa.

El centauro Pancho Villa

1967

Tres muchachas de Jalisco poster
6.3

Divorced Dad's planning to remarry, so Daughter #1 notifies Mom and Daughters #2&3. Then parents, daughters and boyfriends act out for 80 minutes.

Tres muchachas de Jalisco

1964

1950s · 15 titles

The Proud and the Beautiful poster
6.7

Life in a small Mexican village where joy and misery, hope and pain, passion and guilt, love and decay, life and death are mixed in the peasants life and two French citizens who end up stranded in there, during a typhoid epidemic.

The Proud and the Beautiful

1953

Eyes of the Dead poster
6.7

Enrique kills a man for stealing him a check he has received due to an accident. However, things get complicated because it had not yet been cashed. This will force him to try to forge the signature and eliminate any suspect, including his girlfriend Clara, who works in a law office and who talked him about the check. Police tracks the case, but by chance Pedrito, the police inspector's son, is also investigating on his own.

Eyes of the Dead

1956

Take Me in Your Arms poster
5.1

To pay off her father's debts, Rita leaves her humble fishing village in Yucatan and gets exploited by several men, including a married politician who turns her into a big dancing star.

Take Me in Your Arms

1954

Locura pasional poster
5.6

Wife-killer narrates flashbacks about how his obsessive jealousy led him to tragedy.

Locura pasional

1956

Soledad's Shawl poster
6.5

Alberto Robles, a young doctor, is faced with the decision to surrender to a life full of comforts and luxuries or to continue dedicating himself body and soul to serving those who need it most.

Soledad's Shawl

1952

Rebellion of the Hanged poster
6.7

A peasant who works in a mahogany camp in the Mexican jungles with his family is disgusted with the miserable living conditions imposed upon himself and his co-workers, the peasant finally spearheads a revolt against the sadistic bosses.

Rebellion of the Hanged

1954

Love of a Cabaret Singer poster
6.0

Trumpet-player in a club band falls for a streety young woman; she dumps him to become a kept woman... and his roommate the pianist is dealing weed... and...

Love of a Cabaret Singer

1958

Padre nuestro poster
6.5

Pops is dismissed from his banking job for embezzlement, and his family have to adjust to a more modest lifestyle.

Padre nuestro

1953

The Naked Woman poster
6.0

A circus dancer marries a famous singer, but is threatened when a figure from her past blackmails her.

The Naked Woman

1953

Ella, Lucifer y yo poster
3.4

A man makes a pact with Lucifer in order to gain the love of a beautiful singer. To achieve his goal, the devil endows him with the ability to become invisible at will.

Ella, Lucifer y yo

1953

Love Your Neighbor poster
6.7

This film tells several short stories that end up lapsing in the emergency room of a hospital, because it is dedicated to nurses. Cantinflas appears at the end of the film playing the role of Luis, a man who has five daughters and looks forward to a boy, but fate plays a trick and the child dies at birth, but history gives a nice twist and a message of hope.

Love Your Neighbor

1958

La estatua de carne poster
5.4

Sculptor becomes infatuated with model. Everyone suffers.

La estatua de carne

1951

Two Faces Have the Destiny poster
6.2

Ruined alcoholic doctor escapes a tropical plague and begins a new life back in civilization, taking over the identity of a dead man.

Two Faces Have the Destiny

1952

Fierecilla poster
4.3

After discovering his wife in flagrante with another man, a gold prospector kills them both, then takes his daughter to live in the countryside, removed from corrupting influences. Fifteen years later...

Fierecilla

1951

Una cita de amor poster
6.0

The story of the doomed love between Soledad and Román. She is the daughter of a rich man that wants to marry her with Ernesto, nephew of his friend, the judge. Román owns a little ranch. A brawl in the town will unleash several deaths that will affect the already difficult relationship.

Una cita de amor

1958

1940s · 13 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

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

El rencor de la tierra poster
5.7

A couple is struck by tragedy and must prove how great their love is to overcome what happened together.

El rencor de la tierra

1949

Viviré otra vez poster
5.6

Card-sharks blackmail a dissolute young man into participating in a big robbery; his brother takes the rap for him.

Viviré otra vez

1940

The Underdogs poster
6.3

During the Mexican Revolution, the people tired of living in poverty and enduring the atrocities committed by the federals, decide to follow one of their own, General Demetrio Macias, a thief with tricks he learned in jail and who along with "La Pintada" decides to take his people to victory. Led by Captain Anastacio Montañez, the newly formed army fight and honor their code at the same time as they loot houses to spread the wealth.

The Underdogs

1940

Una mujer de Oriente poster
6.3

A secret agent investigates the death of the scientist who created a deadly ray only to find out his own wife is involved.

Una mujer de Oriente

1946

El rayo del sur poster
6.0

Latter part of the career of Padre Morelos, the 18th/19th century military leader. Sequel to... um... El Padre Morelos.

El rayo del sur

1943

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

When the Children are Gone poster
6.3

Unjustly accused of theft, the noble Raimundo is forced to leave his paternal home. A new incident, caused by the ambition of his brother José, causes Raimundo to be disowned by his girlfriend María and by his father, the just and strict Don Pepe. The only one who believes in Raimundo is his mother, Dona Lupita, a woman who suffers deeply because of the wrong decisions of her children.

When the Children are Gone

1941

Sota, caballo y rey poster
5.8

Theatrical troupe schemes to expose corrupt dealings in local government.

Sota, caballo y rey

1944

¡Que viene mi marido! poster
6.0

Carita finds herself forced to reject the advances of her wealthy godfather because she already has a steady boyfriend. Spurned, the godfather changes his will, stipulating that the five million pesos he leaves to his goddaughter can only be claimed once she becomes a widow. Hoping to inherit the fortune quickly, Carita marries Lázaro Bermejo, a dying indigent. However, the beggar makes a miraculous recovery and regains his health.

¡Que viene mi marido!

1940

The Rock of Souls poster
6.2

The love between María Ángela and Fernando is impossible because there's an ancient history of hate between their families. His father killed hers, and other family members have killed each other for years. When María Ángela's grandfather finds she's in love with Fernando, he frames the young man and forces her to marry Manuel. Maria Ángela finds that Manuel doesn't love her and together plan her escape with Fernando. But things go wrong and the lovers find their destiny in The Spirit's Canyon.

The Rock of Souls

1943