
Acting
Emma Roldán
Born — Died
1893-02-03 — 1978-08-29
Place of birth
San Luis Potosi, Mexico
Known for
Acting
Credits
60 titles
Emma Roldán (February 3, 1893 – August 29, 1978) was a Mexican character actress and costume designer. She is remembered as the sharp-tongued, domineering matron of Mexican cinema, and was nominated three times for a Silver Ariel Award.
Known for
5.2Two single women share an apartment, work together, and sometimes swap boyfriends. None of their romantic attachments seem quite as stable or enduring as their friendship.
Free Love
1978
6.0Upon reaching the capital, an old man and his daughter are victims of abuse, where their goodwill becomes the way to gain control of the low instincts of a man who sought favors he did for an uncontrolled temptation.
Tentación
1943
6.6Mourners share their memories of a dead film-star at her wake, a la Citizen Kane. Only melodrama.
La estrella vacía
1960
2.9A mad doctor builds a robot in order to steal a valuable Aztec treasure from a tomb guarded by a centuries old living mummy.
The Robot vs. The Aztec Mummy
1958
5.1Lives in a "model factory," designed to create a progressive community among the workers.
Storm in the souls
1954
6.0Solovino is called like that because no one knows where he came from. He is a miserable province man trying to improve his life, but sees himself forced to steal to survive. When he comes up with a large jewelry bounty a pair of cops offer him his freedom in exchange of the bounty and becomes the target of the police harassment.
Ratero
1979
Film credits
1970s · 9 titles
5.2Two single women share an apartment, work together, and sometimes swap boyfriends. None of their romantic attachments seem quite as stable or enduring as their friendship.
Free Love
1978
6.0Solovino is called like that because no one knows where he came from. He is a miserable province man trying to improve his life, but sees himself forced to steal to survive. When he comes up with a large jewelry bounty a pair of cops offer him his freedom in exchange of the bounty and becomes the target of the police harassment.
Ratero
1979
7.4A disciplined and sexually driven man forces his family to stay isolated in their home in order to protect them from the “evil nature” of human beings.
Castle of Purity
1973
7.0Sex and middle class are the main topics in "La verdadera vocación de Magdalena". Hermosillo shows marriage as a matter of interests (economical and social) in the modern society. emphasizing the education, lose of tradition and customs in the gap generation of sixties youth and its parents. Angelica María, plays the best character in his career, being a kind and vulnerable girl raised in a hard moral education
Magdalena’s True Vocation
1972
6.4Western revenge drama.
Chico Ramos
1971
7.2Family honor, greed, machismo, homophobia, and dreams collide in a small Mexican town.
The Place Without Limits
1978
7.8This funny Mexican film tell the tale of a family who will do anything to get rid of the rich old lady who sits at the head of the clan. All the hilarious members want a piece of the very lucrative inheritance money. What they don't know, however, is that grandma has left all of the money to her trusty dog.
Fear Doesn't Ride a Donkey
1973
5.9When a man appears in her life, a young woman of traditional manners who lives with her godmother suffers a deep and unusual transformation.
The Passion of Berenice
1976
6.7After accidentally hitting a boy with her car, a young woman pretends to be a nurse in order secretly help him to recover.
La Hermanita Dinamita
1970
1960s · 14 titles
6.6Mourners share their memories of a dead film-star at her wake, a la Citizen Kane. Only melodrama.
La estrella vacía
1960
7.3Immediate delivery recounts the misadventures of Feliciano Callosum (Cantinflas), a postman who is recruited by the secret counterintelligence service (called XU-777 secret agency), and must uncover an international conspiracy.
Entrega Inmediata
1963
The son of a famous vigilante returns to his home town... but he's all citified and pantywaisted. Or is he?
El hijo del charro negro
1961
5.7Guy gets mugged on horseback and left for dead; farmgal nurses him back to health and when he's on his feet again, he puts a domino on and swings into J J action.
El jinete justiciero en retando a la muerte
1966
Two secret agents are after a couple of car thieves who belong to a band of criminals headed by Ernesto. The band has kidnapped the son of Daniel, a boxer who is about to fight for the world title. The agents must destroy Ernesto's band and rescue Daniel's son before the fight so Daniel doesn't lose his chance at the title under the kidnapper's threats.
Servicio secreto
1962
5.5Alberto and Leonor have a son, they find out that one of the masked men who attacked them was her nephew, things get difficult for them when they find out about a testament left by her grandmother.
La barranca sangrienta
1962
6.0Two cowboys fight over ownership of a horse and a woman.
Mi caballo prieto rebelde
1967
6.7Frustrated salaryman responds to career setbacks by embarking on a life of crime.
El malvado Carabel
1961
6.3Traveling cowboy gets involved in political issues in a town he passes through. Also a romance.
Aquella Rosita Alvírez
1965
6.2A young architect returns from Europe to live in the house of his uncles and cousins, where someone pretends to be the Devil.
The Devil's Visitations
1968
5.3No synopsis available yet.
La vida de Pedro Infante
1966
6.0Newlyweds find married life to be challenging.
Si quiero
1967
6.3Gentleman swindler runs cleverly-orchestrated scams. Four of four in a series.
La entrega de Chucho el Roto
1962
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 · 18 titles
2.9A mad doctor builds a robot in order to steal a valuable Aztec treasure from a tomb guarded by a centuries old living mummy.
The Robot vs. The Aztec Mummy
1958
5.1Lives in a "model factory," designed to create a progressive community among the workers.
Storm in the souls
1954
6.0Mexican feature film
Milagros de San Martín de Porres
1959
5.9Evangelina murders her lover Alberto. In prison she meets Dora, Alberto's girlfriend, who was deprived of her freedom for his illicit business. An interesting story is about to be woven.
Cárcel de mujeres
1951
5.8Aspiring big-band singer who doubles as an art forger takes in a teenaged runaway who wants to be a showgirl.
Vístete Cristina
1959
7.4Cantinflas works as a model of tuxedos in a prestigious store, your job is to use the smoking in the street along with an advertising sign on his back. The use of smoking gives you access to exclusive places and meet important people. During this time, Cantinflas was the manager of an amateur boxer, it is an attractive nurse assistant and occasionally attending a priest in the church and the orphanage. However, a Cantinflas day while wearing tuxedo, is a rich man, who mistakenly believe that Cantinflas is a millionaire too.
Tailored gentleman
1954
4.1The evil Dr. Krupp, once again trying to get possession of the Aztec princess Xochitl's jewels, hypnotizes her current reincarnation, Flor, to get her to reveal the jewels' location - Xochitl's tomb. Confusion reigns as Krupp and his thugs are opposed by Flor's lover, Dr. Almada, his assistant, and wrestling superhero, El Angel. Krupp finally meets his match, however, when he comes up against Popoca, the warrior mummy who guards Xochitl's tomb.
The Curse of the Aztec Mummy
1957
7.5Two brothers known in town for their womanizing, drinking and rowdiness meet their matches when two girls who like them decide to tame the two machos.
Los hijos de María Morales
1952
4.4A married man's double life unravels when his city acquaintance encounters his daughter back home, threatening to expose fifteen years of deception about his frequent urban getaways.
El gran mentiroso
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
5.3After stealing a gangster's money and his girlfriend, a doctor heads for a small village in Mexico to hide out.
One Way Street
1950
5.8Anthology-movie, series of anecdotes about the personal tragedies that lead people to take their values posessions to the state-run pawnshop.
Monte de piedad
1951
6.7Sequel 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
Four young women facing "crises," mostly centered around the crucially-important issue of preserving their virginity in a variety of purity-oath threatening situations.
Señoritas
1959
6.2Pedro Ortiz, a brave charro, arrives to a fishing village that is passing hard times. There's no fish in the waters. His manners and his love for Maria, a local attractive widow, will get him into trouble
Thirst for Love
1959
6.8Three generations of a stable, middle-class family in the capitol are scattered to the four winds by blowback from the Mexican Revolution.
Vino el remolino y nos alevantó
1950
5.7Second film in the Tigres del ring series.
Diabolical Kidnapping
1957
5.7Squatter neighborhood finds a wealthy sponsor.
Pobres millonarios
1957
1940s · 12 titles
6.0Upon reaching the capital, an old man and his daughter are victims of abuse, where their goodwill becomes the way to gain control of the low instincts of a man who sought favors he did for an uncontrolled temptation.
Tentación
1943
6.8Verona's peace is disturbed by the rivalry between noble families: the Montesco and the Capuleto, irreconcilable enemies. The two families have continued fighting to make life unbearable in the Italian town. The Prince of Verona informs the chiefs that the two families respond with their lives if there are new struggles. At a ball in honor of Juliet, the daughter of Capuleto, incidentally meets Romeo, son of Montesco. Both fall in love immediately, not knowing that their love is impossible.
Romeo y Julieta
1943
5.8Stage magician/amateur detective helps police to solve a murder.
El museo del crimen
1945
5.8While tracking down the three men that killed his father, a notorious bad-ass commits other misdeeds, seemingly based on his desire to wreck as many lives as possible. Doesn't really have anything to do with the historical figure known as Remington, though they used his name for the character here.
Se la llevó el Remington
1948
5.6Romantic comedy/drama.
Como yo te quería
1945
6.2Father of a newborn makes a deal with Death to protect his son.
El ahijado de la muerte
1946
6.4Ambitious young woman climbs the social ladder. A bit too fast.
Woman Without a Soul
1944
6.4No synopsis available yet.
La reina del trópico
1946
5.7A young orphan girl begins to witness strange phenomena in the house where she lives with her godparents.
The Midnight Ghost
1940
5.0A Spanish, Juan, is obsessed with telling the truth always. As a result he is consistently in the middle of troubles...
Miente y serás feliz
1940
5.8During World War II, two Mexican naval cadets become best friends and share some good times when off duty. However when Mexico joins the war effort, they must leave their carefree existence and serve in the gruesome conflict.
Cadetes de la naval
1945
5.7Mexican movie
Recuerdos de mi valle
1946
1930s · 5 titles
A 1933 film.
La calandria
1933
5.8Young silversmith runs for office, butts heads with political machine that's sucking the town dry.
Mi candidato
1937
6.0Two 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
5.7No synopsis available yet.
Monja, casada, virgen y mártir
1935
10.0At a big party, Robert Felton, now a woman-hater, right to the core - this all due to a failed marriage and disastrous love affairs - talks to Heriberto Drake. Heriberto who is happily married, bets Felton that the next woman who walks into the room, whoever she is, won't let Felton kiss her for 48 hours. Felton takes the bet. Suddenly, a very beautiful and sexy woman walks in. It's Heriberto's wife, Laura Darke. Spanish language version of “Don’t Bet on Women”.
Do You Know Your Wife?
1931


