Tito Guízar

Acting

Tito Guízar

Born 1908-04-08 · Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico

From Wikipedia Federico Arturo Guízar Tolentino (April 8, 1908 – December 24, 1999) was a Mexican singer and actor. Born in Guadalajara, Jalisco, he performed under the name of Tito Guízar. Together with Dolores del Río, José Mojica, Ramón Novarro and Lupe Vélez, Guízar was among the few Mexican people who made history in the early years of Hollywood. In a career that spanned over seven decades, Guízar trained early as an opera singer and traveled to New York in 1929 to record the songs of Agustín Lara. In addition, Guízar performed both operatic and Mexican popular songs at Carnegie Hall, but he succeeded with his arrangements of popular Mexican and Spanish melodies such as Cielito Lindo, La Cucaracha, Granada, and You Belong to My Heart (English version of Solamente una Vez). In 1936, his song Allá en el Rancho Grande launched the singing charro in Mexico after appearing in the film of the same name, succeeding as well in the United States. He also starred in dozens of films, including The Big Broadcast of 1938 (1938), Tropic Holiday (1938), St. Louis Blues (1939), The Llano Kid (1939), Brazil (1944), and The Gay Ranchero (1948), playing with such stars as Evelyn Keyes, Dorothy Lamour, Ray Milland, Ann Miller, Martha Raye, Roy Rogers, Mae West and Keenan Wynn. In the 1990s, he continued playing series parts in Mexican television.

Acting credits

El plagiario poster
5.7

Gangster's daughter learns about her dad's illegalist lifestyle.

El plagiario

1955

Como México no hay dos poster
6.7

Two farmworkers emigrate to USA to work on a Texas ranch, then go home and put their lives back in order.

Como México no hay dos

1945

St. Louis Blues poster
7.3

A Broadway musical comedy star tires of the same old grind and flees the city. She runs into the skipper of a showboat who befriends her, and they make plans to put together a musical revue. But a competing carnival owner hatches a scheme to put an end to the show before it begins.

St. Louis Blues

1939

Música en la noche poster
6.7

An ingenious actor has an idea of making musical numbers without a dialogue when he arrives with a violin and a ladder.

Música en la noche

1958

Marina poster
5.6

Adaptation of a Spanish operetta about a love triangle between two fisherman and a human female.

Marina

1945

The Thrill of Brazil poster
6.2

Steve, revue producer in Rio de Janeiro, is still in love with his ex-wife Vicki, his star Linda is in love with Steve and Tito is in love with Linda. Because of this they all get small problems.

The Thrill of Brazil

1946

Tropic Holiday poster
6.2

A screenwriter falls in love with a Mexican woman while searching for a story line south of the border.

Tropic Holiday

1938

Allá en el Rancho Grande poster
6.0

Two good friends — the owner and general manager of a ranch — fall in love with the same girl at the same time. The owner tries to 'buy' the girl without knowing she is in love with the manager.

Allá en el Rancho Grande

1936

Blondie Goes Latin poster
6.6

Mr. Dithers invites the Bumsteads on a South American cruise. Somehow Dagwood winds up as the female drummer in the ship's band, while Penny Singleton gets to show off her Broadway background in some lively musical numbers.

Blondie Goes Latin

1941

The Big Broadcast of 1938 poster
6.3

The Bellows family causes comic confusion on an ocean liner, with time out for radio-style musical acts.

The Big Broadcast of 1938

1938

The Time and the Touch poster
5.7

Mexican feature film

The Time and the Touch

1962

El pecado de ser mujer poster
5.6

Irresponsible playboy pop-singer gets a girl pregnant and rejects his responsibility for the baby. Ten years later, his career has tanked and he makes amends.

El pecado de ser mujer

1955

On the Old Spanish Trail poster
5.5

A cowboy turns bounty hunter to pay off his debts.

On the Old Spanish Trail

1947

Brazil poster
5.2

Brazil is perhaps the best of the handful of US films made by singing sensation Tito Guizar. In typical screwball-comedy fashion, the plot is set in motion by authoress Nicky Henderson, who has hit the best-seller charts with her latest tome, Why Marry a Latin? While researching her next book in Rio De Janeiro, she finds out "why" when she meets handsome songwriter Miguel Soares. Upon learning about Nicky's book, Miguel decides to teach her a few lessons in the affairs of the heart. Edward Everett Horton is also on hand, twittering his way through the role of a well-meaning buttinsky. Thanks to the "Good Neighbor" policy of the 1940s, South American musicals were a glut on the market, but Brazil was good enough on its own merits to pay its way at the box office.

Brazil

1944

The Llano Kid poster
7.0

Lora Travers is the only person who can identify hold-up artist The Llano Kid and she persuades him to come in on a scheme with her and her husband. They have been searching for the long-lost son of a rich Mexican widow and they get the Kid to claim it is him. All goes according to plan until greed and jealousy raise their heads.

The Llano Kid

1939

Sindicato de telemirones poster
6.7

No synopsis available yet.

Sindicato de telemirones

1954

The Cockfighter poster
6.0

In Michoacan in the 1920s, Gabriel, a young farmer and champion cockfighter, finds himself in violent opposition to Roman, who not only wants to beat Gabriel's fighting cock, but to steal Gabriel's wife Rosa.

The Cockfighter

1948

The Gay Ranchero poster
6.5

Manzanita Springs ia a combination small airline and spa and Vance Brados wants it. He pays their mechanic to have the planes run out of fuel so his men can rob the gold shipments and kill the pilots. After Sheriff Roy Rogers catches the mechanic, Roy plans one more gold shipment to get proof and this time his men will be ready. But it looks like Roy's plan will fail when Brados suspects a trap and call off the raid.

The Gay Ranchero

1948

Mexicana poster
6.0

A Mexican crooner tries to put off fans by faking marriage to his American co-star.

Mexicana

1945

How Beautiful is Michoacan! poster
6.4

When 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

Reclusorio poster
6.2

The human and divine justice are exposed through five real life stories related to the legal processes of a prison. The cases presented are: "I want to stay in jail", "Blood between women", "The raped prostitute", "The kidnapped policeman", and "Euthanasia or murder?"

Reclusorio

1997

Los hijos de Rancho Grande poster
6.7

Sequel to Alla en el Rancho Grande, twenty years later -- sons and daughters of the original characters go through a courtship melodrama of their own.

Los hijos de Rancho Grande

1956

Ahí viene Vidal Tenorio poster
6.0

Two military goons slaughter a young man's parents and siblings. A few years later, the same guys rape and murder his wife, then use their young son for target practice. Enough is enough.

Ahí viene Vidal Tenorio

1949

No artwork available
9.0

Rita Santiago's father, Don Antonio, stubbornly refuses to give permission for her to marry Julio Bertolin, a struggling medical student, because he wants his daughter to marry a rich Brazilian. Because of this, Julio leaves medical school and determines to gain wealth and position for himself by becoming a singer.

Mis dos amores

1938