
Acting
Arturo Soto Rangel
Born — Died
1882-03-12 — 1965-05-25
Place of birth
Leon, Guanajuato, Mexico
Known for
Acting
Credits
60 titles
Arturo Soto Rangel (March 12, 1882 – May 25, 1965) was a Mexican film, television, and stage actor. Rangel was best known for appearing in over 250 Mexican films. Rangel appeared in one American movie, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre which won three Academy Awards and starred Humphrey Bogart, Walter Huston, Tim Holt, Bruce Bennett, and many other successful actors. Rangel last appeared on television in 1963 where he starred in Voy de gallo. He died on May 25, 1965, in Mexico City, Mexico.
Known for
8.0Two jobless Americans convince a prospector to travel to the mountains of Mexico with them in search of gold. But the hostile wilderness, local bandits, and greed all get in the way of their journey.
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
1948
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
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
4.2Mexican love stories follow a dying man, a bullfighter's sister and lovers from feuding villages.
Sombrero
1953
6.3A trio of American adventurers marooned in rural Mexico are recruited by a beautiful woman to rescue her husband from Apaches.
Garden of Evil
1954
6.6Army Lieutenant Halliday, accused of stealing the Army payroll, pursues the real thief on a frantic chase through Mexico aided by the thief's ex-girlfriend and is in turn being chased by his accuser, Capt. Blake.
The Big Steal
1949
Film credits
1960s · 3 titles
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
6.5Before the Spanish Conquest, an Aztec princess does the Romeo and Juliet thing with the Prince of a neighboring tribe. Sixty years later, a colonized subject has visions of the Virgin Mary.
Miracle Roses
1960
5.5Crooked 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
1950s · 32 titles
4.2Mexican love stories follow a dying man, a bullfighter's sister and lovers from feuding villages.
Sombrero
1953
6.3A trio of American adventurers marooned in rural Mexico are recruited by a beautiful woman to rescue her husband from Apaches.
Garden of Evil
1954
8.4Jorge Bueno and Pedro Malo are best friends who consider giving up their womanizing ways when they each fall in love. As fate would have it, Pedro Malo unexpectedly marries Jorge Bueno's girlfriend, and the conflict between the former buddies begins.
Dos tipos de cuidado
1953
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
7.1Salvador accompanied by two friends of his father whom he calls uncles, they arrive at a fair in the village, there he meets Ana. When he wins a bet he is paid with a mortgaged house, to his surprise upon entering the hom he realizes that Ana and her mother live in it, provoking a funny entanglement with an explosive final.
Watch Out for Love
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
6.2A story about two men caught in the Mexican revolution: close friends before, but now on the opposite sides. One of them is military officer, while the other one expects capital punishment. The prisoner's mother comes to visit his son, unaware that his former best friend is now his enemy.
One Day of Life
1950
7.1The encounter with an old lover puts a revolutionary general in great danger of death.
My General's Wives
1951
5.8When their parents die, brother and sister run away rather than go to an orphanage. Childless elderly couple adopts them, the neighborhood priest takes an interest in their sad story, and it goes on from there...
Los pobres van al cielo
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
6.8One mental patient usurps the identity of another and starts a new life, passing himself off as a long-lost relative of a rich family.
When the Fog Lifts
1952
6.0Pepito's father dies in rollover the Ferrari that is winning a race car, so Pepito is about his grandfather and asks him to equip a car to get him to compete.
Pepito as del volante
1957
4.4No synopsis available yet.
Si volvieras a mi
1954
5.4Wacky rich woman subjects her husband, servants and friends to a series of elaborate masquerades, remodeling her house and wardrobe every couple of days to represent different historical eras or cultural milieux. Today she's Marie Antoinette, tomorrow she may be Pancho Villa's common-law wife or a nun.
Hay un niño en su futuro
1952
Clavillazo is a likeable drifter who gets his diploma because his teachers want to lose sight of him. He lives on what he can find in the street. However, nothing can stop him from helping those around him.
Vivir a todo dar
1956
5.6A man comes to a village to marry a girl, but upon meeting the bride's sister, he falls in love with her.
Desired
1951
7.0A nightclub performer decides to raise the baby boy she found abandoned in a trash can, putting her job and social life in jeopardy.
Victims of Sin
1951
5.4A murderer turns himself to the police, but claims amnesia and insists he's unable to tell them anything about his crime.
X Murderer
1955
6.3A low-class baker accidentally gets to know an attractive but bitter fiancée. By getting her snobby, dead-pan family to spend some time with his scumbag friends, he changes their lives, while at the time stealing the girl's heart.
Oh, Love… How Have You Put Me!
1951
6.2Historical drama/biopic about 1880s Social Justice bandits in a mining community in Sinaloa. First of three in series.
Here is Heraclius Bernal
1958
4.8Nightclub performer escapes from her abusive manager and starts life over in a new city.
La reina del mambo
1951
6.6During a long train trip, the Police has discovered jewelries in the personal bag of an actress, but she turns out to be innocent.
La extraña pasajera
1953
NRDuring the times of Venezuelan dictator Juan Vicente Gómez, an exhausted stranger arrives at a farm and starts to help the owner with the legal status of her land.
Love for Life
1950
5.2A dizzy rich woman buys their horse, and three rubes get involved in the problems and intrigues brewing in her household.
Yo también soy de Jalisco
1950
6.0Jilted lover takes revenge on her ex's new wife.
La adúltera
1956
4.7Three married couples gather to celebrate the eighteenth anniversary of their marriage mourning the absence of a friend who was best man at all three weddings.
The Three Perfect Wives
1953
8.3An honest man emigrates to the capital in search of a better life, but ends up mired in extreme poverty along with his family; forced to overcome tragedy and despair to find, even in misery, a glimmer of hope.
A Place Close to Heaven
1952
5.7Gangster's daughter learns about her dad's illegalist lifestyle.
El plagiario
1955
6.3Lorenzo Inclán, a famous Mexican songwriter, is torn between helping a girl become a famous singer or having a romantic relationship with her.
Cuando Mexico canta
1958
7.6Las Islas Marias stars Pedro Infante as a man who must face time in jail, even though he never committed the crime. While on the inside, he learns important life lessons that actually make him a better man.
Las Islas Marias
1951
6.0Los dineros del diablo (The Devil's Money) is a Mexican drama film directed by Alejandro Galindo. It was released in 1953 and starring Amalia Aguilar and Roberto Cañedo.
The Devil's Money
1953
6.01910: Revolutionary leader escapes military, hides in small town, falls in love.
Duelo en las montañas
1950
1940s · 24 titles
8.0Two jobless Americans convince a prospector to travel to the mountains of Mexico with them in search of gold. But the hostile wilderness, local bandits, and greed all get in the way of their journey.
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
1948
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
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
6.6Army Lieutenant Halliday, accused of stealing the Army payroll, pursues the real thief on a frantic chase through Mexico aided by the thief's ex-girlfriend and is in turn being chased by his accuser, Capt. Blake.
The Big Steal
1949
6.2Historical drama on the life of the medieval Italian saint, Francis of Assisi.
San Francisco de Asís
1944
7.3A young journalist asks an old artist about the portrait of a naked Indian woman that he has in his study. The artist tells the story of Maria Candelaria, a young Indian woman who was rejected by her own people for being the daughter of a prostitute. She is protected by a young Indian man, Lorenzo Rafael, who has fallen in love with her.
Maria Candelaria
1944
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
5.7Fu Man Chu must find a murderer, the only clue he has is a series of wax heads that have appeared.
The Headless Woman
1944
6.0Felipe Rivera is a mysterious, dedicated young Mexican revolutionary living in exile in Los Angeles. To fund the revolution against Porfirio Díaz, Rivera fights in rigged boxing matches, using his immense, revenge-fueled determination to triumph and purchase weapons for the cause.
The Mexican
1944
6.0During World War II, Nazi spies tried to infiltrate everywhere, and the Mexican Military Academy was no exception.
Cuando escuches este vals
1944
6.9Child whose father was murdered grows up and seeks revenge, also falling in love with a new victim of the same bad guy.
La norteña de mis amores
1948
5.7Due to his family's bad reputation, a young man is accused of robbery and of murdering the father of the woman he loves.
El hijo del bandido
1949
7.0Movie in which funny situations based on the entanglements caused by a woman named Felicidad to her family because of her feminist ideology are presented, to the extent of bringing her daughters and herself to a divorce trial.
Hooray for Women!
1943
7.8In Mexican Revolution times, a guerrilla general and his troops take the conservative town of Cholula, near by Mexico City. As the revolutionaries mistreat the town's riches, General Reyes falls for beautiful and wild Beatriz Peñafiel, the daughter of one of the town's richest men.
Enamorada
1946
6.4When her father dies, a young woman must go to Michoacán to take charge of her lands, where she meets a young man and they both fall in love.
How Beautiful is Michoacan!
1943
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
6.6Curious film about the Mexican immigrant stunned by the dollar and the English language. The plot deals with a serious social mood, but narrated as a tale of romantic entanglements. Agustin Isunza is a funny former farm worker, whose employers, young and attractive blond Joan Page and Clifford Carr, dazzle the sibling pair starring Luis Aguilar and Amanda del Llano. Miguel Inclan, a rich potter from the area, has put his eye on them to marry their children, Katy Jurado and Raul Guerrero.
Guadalajara pues
1946
6.0The story of Mary Magdalene from being a sinner to follow Jesus Christ.
Mary Magdalene, Sinner of Magdala
1946
6.6Episodes from the life of an alcoholic hobo.
The Useless Life of Pito Perez
1944
6.5It narrates the adventures of the poet Arturo Cova and his lover Alicia, a story of passion and revenge framed in the plain lands and the Amazon jungle where the two lovers scape from society, and which exposes throughout its plot the harsh living conditions of settlers and Indians enslaved during the rubber rush.
La vorágine: abismos de amor
1949
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
5.2A 1941 film.
Lo que el viento trajo
1941
6.0In times of the French Intervention, a student of Nunó, author of the Mexican National Anthem, falls in love with the niece of the French Ambassador, which causes quite amusing complications.
¡Mexicanos al Grito de Guerra!
1943
7.1A woman hardened by her past now runs a ranch she acquired through manipulation and bribery.
Doña Bárbara
1943

