Manuel Valdés

Acting

Manuel Valdés

Born — Died

1931-01-29 — 2020-08-28

Place of birth

Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico

Known for

Acting

Credits

54 titles

Fernando Manuel Alonso Gómez de Valdés y Castillo (21 January 1931 – 28 August 2020), better known as Manuel "El Loco" Valdés, was a Mexican actor and comedian. He was member of the Valdés family; brother of Ramón Valdés, who portrayed "Don Ramón" on the sitcom El Chavo, and Germán Valdés (a.k.a. "Tin Tan"). He was also the father of singers Cristian Castro and Marcos Valdés.

Known for

The Legend of the Nahuala poster
8.0

Leo San Juan, an insecure child of nine years old, lives eternally frightened by horror stories that Nando tells his older brother. Within these stories it is 'The Legend of Nahuala', according to which, an old abandoned Casona is possessed by the spirit of an evil witch known as the Nahuala.

The Legend of the Nahuala

2007

Rafaela poster
NR

Rafaela is a Mexican telenovela produced by Nathalie Lartilleux for Televisa. It is based on the Venezuelan telenovela of the same name produced in 1977. Scarlet Ortiz and Jorge Poza star as the main protagonists, while Chantal Andere, Diana Bracho and Arturo Carmona star as the main antagonists. Though Rafaela was nominated for best female antagonist, best first actor, and best first actress, it did not win any awards. Canal de las Estrellas originally broadcast Rafaela at 5pm MDT from January 31 to March 11, 2011. From March 14 to July 15, 2011, it was moved to 4PM MDT. From June 20 to August 5, 2011, Univision transmitted Rafaela weekdays at 1pm central for 2 hours, replacing Niña de mi Corazón. From August 8, 2011 to October 14, 2011, one episode was shown weekdays at 1pm central.

Rafaela

2011

Las Lunas del Auditorio poster
7.3

No synopsis available yet.

Las Lunas del Auditorio

2002

The King of the Neighborhood poster
8.4

A poor man becomes a modern Robin Hood, robbing the rich to give to the poor.

The King of the Neighborhood

1950

Oh, Love… How Have You Put Me! poster
6.3

A 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

The Loving Ones poster
4.7

A Mexican sex comedy (fichera)

The Loving Ones

1979

Film credits

2010s · 2 titles

2000s · 2 titles

1980s · 6 titles

1960s · 18 titles

Little Red Riding Hood and Tom Thumb vs. the Monsters poster
3.9

The film follows adventures of Little Red Riding Hood (Maria Gracia) and Tom Thumb (Cesaro Quezadas) and their friends, fighting against the wicked Witch Queen (Ofelia Guilmáin) and her band of monsters. The film starts at the meeting of the evil monsters in the castle in the Haunted Forest, heart of the Devil's dominion, during which the Vampire (Quintín Bulnes) accuses the Wolf (Manuel Valdés) and the Ogre (José Elías Moreno) of betraying the Witch Queen (La Reina Bruja, renamed Queen of Badness in the English dub), who orders them to ber executed. Their friend Stinky the Skunk (Santanón) however escapes and informs Little Red Riding Hood and Tom Thumb, who promise to help. Meanwhile, the Queen and her sister the Old Witch cast a terrible curse, turning villagers into monkeys and mice for trying to defy her magic. The rest of the story details the heroes' quest to conquer evil.

Little Red Riding Hood and Tom Thumb vs. the Monsters

1962

Frankenstein, the Vampire and Company poster
6.3

Two screwballs get mixed up with monsters, mad scientists and vampires.

Frankenstein, the Vampire and Company

1962

The Panther Women poster
5.5

The Panther women are worshipers of Satan and perform rituals in their honor and sacrifice. The fighters will face them up and down the ring.

The Panther Women

1967

Dormitorio para señoritas poster
5.6

Young lawyer is mistaken for music professor and goes to live at a boarding school for young women.

Dormitorio para señoritas

1960

Caperucita y sus tres amigos poster
6.2

Villagers think the Big Bad Wolf has returned to his fierce, wild-animal ways. Also gypsies.

Caperucita y sus tres amigos

1961

The Phantom of the Operetta poster
6.8

Aldo and his girlfriend Lucy reopen an abandoned opera house, but find out that the place is inhabited by a group of Phantoms.

The Phantom of the Operetta

1960

Detectives o ladrones..? poster
6.8

Two bumbling bozos with detective licenses get hoodwinked by a pair of jewel-thieves.

Detectives o ladrones..?

1967

No artwork available
5.7

Rivalry between two bathing-suit manufacturers -- one run by teenagers and the other by unscrupulous grownups.

A ritmo de twist

1962

No artwork available
6.9

Crown-prince of a primitive country goes to Mexico for college. Wacky hijinks ensue.

Dos tontos y un loco

1961

Tintansón Cruzoe poster
5.8

Tin Tan is marooned on an island full of colorful natives.

Tintansón Cruzoe

1965

No artwork available
5.4

A musical comedy about a group of pretty girls who meet in Mexico and decide to break into showbiz and make a pact and promise not to get involved with men. But they all are in love with different guys and that complicates things.

Póker de reinas

1960

The Mocking Ghosts poster
6.5

Two fake fortune-tellers at a carnival accidentally conjure up some real ghosts.

The Mocking Ghosts

1965

Madness from Terror poster
5.8

Monster film and mad doctor spoof.

Madness from Terror

1961

Las hermanas Karambazo poster
5.3

Three brothers meet three sisters from the nearest town.

Las hermanas Karambazo

1960

El Tigre Negro poster
5.6

Two brothers lose their tent to a bandit and become criminals to defeat the one who has ruined them.

El Tigre Negro

1962

Bromas, S.A poster
5.5

Eccentric millionaire hires a team of young people to help him stage practical jokes.

Bromas, S.A

1967

Peligros de juventud poster
5.4

Each of the boys and girls at the coffee shop has something snarled in their love life.

Peligros de juventud

1960

No artwork available
6.7

Sometimes a man will go to the ends of the earth to win the girl he loves! In this romantic comedy, billionaire Abundio Celso falls in love with the beautiful Claudia. But no matter how many gifts he gives her, he can't impress this girl

Con quien andan nuestros locos

1961

1950s · 17 titles

The King of the Neighborhood poster
8.4

A poor man becomes a modern Robin Hood, robbing the rich to give to the poor.

The King of the Neighborhood

1950

Oh, Love… How Have You Put Me! poster
6.3

A 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

Me traes de un ala poster
6.4

To conquer the beautiful vedette Rosita, journalist Tin Tan is subject to her whims. Fired along with his friend Narciso from the newspaper they worked, Tin Tan trying to sell a movie plot. A woman looking to buy it and Tin Tan will visit her in a gloomy mansion where a mess is unleashed.

Me traes de un ala

1953

Trip to the Moon poster
6.0

In this movie a couple of comedians try to disappear for a while and end up in an asylum, where confused as the mad, and try to escape, but one of them falls in love and that complicates things.

Trip to the Moon

1958

Little Red Riding Hood poster
7.5

The classic story of the Red Riding Hood spiced up by a couple of funny characters like the dog Duke, companion to the girl in her adventures, and the stinky Skunk, henchman to the Wolf.

Little Red Riding Hood

1959

La mujer X poster
6.0

A woman accused of murder refuses to defend herself in any way, in order to avoid tarnishing the family name and the reputation of her long-lost son.

La mujer X

1955

Cada quien su musica poster
6.0

Unscrupulous promoter creates hostilities that ruin the friendships between six young musicians.

Cada quien su musica

1959

They Say I'm a Communist poster
6.5

A worker overwhelmed by the economic crisis and the cost of living is accidentally propaganda of a political party, apparently from left, who convinces him to join their ranks and defending the working class. After entering through a ritual as mysterious as typical, you will realize demagoguery and arrangements existing between union leaders to maintain the status quo unchanged and profit from mafia practices.

They Say I'm a Communist

1951

Two Ghosts and a Girl poster
5.9

Two ghosts who died in a turn-of-the-century duel and now haunt a theater attempt to help a girl who's in danger from bank robbers.

Two Ghosts and a Girl

1959

La faraona poster
4.4

Pastora Heredia is a beautiful gypsy with great character who always tries to help the needy. One day she gots the notice of the death of his grandfather, a millionaire who lived in Mexico and that since his father was angry, she knew nothing of him. However, as Pastora was his only granddaughter and sole heir of all his property, it does not hesitate to cross the pond to claim his inheritance. But once there is that Don Guillermo, grandfather, not dead.

La faraona

1956

El hombre inquieto poster
6.5

Adult street urchin passes himself off as rich man's long-lost son.

El hombre inquieto

1954

The Champion Cyclist poster
6.0

Cleto, a poor newspaper boy, dreamed of becoming a cyclist and inventor. His latest invention is delivering newspapers by rockets. When he finds the owner of the newspaper, dismisses him. But Cleto do not give up and shows Don Macario his latest invention: " The telemirófono ", a device that allows you to see the person talking on the phone...

The Champion Cyclist

1957

Music of Always poster
7.1

Producer, director and projectionist watch an assortment of musical numbers and brainstorm about framing narrative that could contain them all.

Music of Always

1958

Las mil y una noches poster
6.8

Professional story-teller falls afoul of a sultan, but saves himself from execution using the tricks of his trade.

Las mil y una noches

1958

Ferias de México poster
5.4

Itinerant card-shark with pre-teen daughter adopts an orphan boy; the children grow up and fall in love. Once they decide to get married, complications arise.

Ferias de México

1959

Locos Peligrosos poster
5.5

A cellist and a pianist, along with the daughter of the owner of a musical home, form a classical trio. A television producer challenges confronting the modern equipment. Accept and so begin a new career in popular music, so despises his former employer, thus limiting the affair between his daughter and one of them.

Locos Peligrosos

1957

La engañadora poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

La engañadora

1955

1940s · 2 titles

Series credits