
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
8.0A 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
6.11907 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
6.7Life 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
5.5A surgeon transplants the heart of an ape into his ailing son with horrific results.
Night of the Bloody Apes
1969
7.0In 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
7.0Daniela – 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
1980s · 1 titles
1970s · 13 titles
5.4Man is manipulated into thinking his wife is unfaithful and abandons her, taking one of their two sons with him.
Los Hombres No Lloran
1973
4.6Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, adapted once again.
The Man and the Beast
1973
6.5Ambitious young woman decides to leave her backwards hometown and move to Mexico City to study for a scientific degree.
Lo mejor de Teresa
1977
6.0The life of the Mexican muralist José Clemente Orozco and his quest to create a career in New York.
Looking for a Wall
1974
4.1In 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
6.0It 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
5.3Adaptation of The Fall Of The House Of Usher.
All the Horrors of Satan
1974
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
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Un camino al cielo
1975
6.4Respected 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
5.6Mama'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
4.2Subsistance-farmer emigrates to the city in search of opportunity, loses contact with his wife and children.
Candelaria
1978
4.7A 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
6.11907 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
5.5A surgeon transplants the heart of an ape into his ailing son with horrific results.
Night of the Bloody Apes
1969
7.0In 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
7.0Daniela – 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
6.9A young woman inherits a mansion, only to discover that it is haunted by witches and evil spirits.
The Curse of the Crying Woman
1963
6.6Mama 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
Law officer tracks and recaptures escaped convict.
La cárcel de Cananea
1960
5.6An 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
7.9The 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
6.0A lawman and two sidekicks clear up a series of crimes related to mining rights.
Ambición sangrienta
1968
4.1Successful 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
5.7The story revolves around a farmer who is tried for stealing a military rifle and is sentenced to death.
Llanto por Juan Indio
1965
6.3The 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
5.0One of Zapata's field marshals runs afoul of dictator Huerta's stooges in his home town.
Lauro Puñales
1969
4.9Superhero wrestler Neutron battles a gang of robotic assassins who use their hands and feet as deadly weapons.
Neutron Battles the Karate Assassins
1965
6.7M/F couple joins the Revolution, but she ends up in bed with Villa.
El centauro Pancho Villa
1967
6.3Divorced 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
6.7Life 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
6.7Enrique 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
5.1To 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
5.6Wife-killer narrates flashbacks about how his obsessive jealousy led him to tragedy.
Locura pasional
1956
6.5Alberto 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
6.7A 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
6.0Trumpet-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
6.5Pops is dismissed from his banking job for embezzlement, and his family have to adjust to a more modest lifestyle.
Padre nuestro
1953
6.0A circus dancer marries a famous singer, but is threatened when a figure from her past blackmails her.
The Naked Woman
1953
3.4A 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
6.7This 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
5.4Sculptor becomes infatuated with model. Everyone suffers.
La estatua de carne
1951
6.2Ruined 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
4.3After 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
6.0The 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
8.0A 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
6.0Based on a popular song. An unhappy love affair becomes an excuse for heavy drinking and all-round debauchery.
El abandonado
1949
5.6Based 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
5.7A couple is struck by tragedy and must prove how great their love is to overcome what happened together.
El rencor de la tierra
1949
5.6Card-sharks blackmail a dissolute young man into participating in a big robbery; his brother takes the rap for him.
Viviré otra vez
1940
6.3During 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
6.3A 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
6.0Latter part of the career of Padre Morelos, the 18th/19th century military leader. Sequel to... um... El Padre Morelos.
El rayo del sur
1943
6.2Called by the Mexican President himself, a rural teacher goes to work in a village that is dominated by a malevolent chieftain.
Hidden River
1948
6.3Unjustly 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
5.8Theatrical troupe schemes to expose corrupt dealings in local government.
Sota, caballo y rey
1944
6.0Carita 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
6.2The 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


