
Acting
Pascual García Peña
Born — Died
1910-09-17 — 1977-11-10
Place of birth
San Luis Potosi, Mexico
Known for
Acting
Credits
65 titles
Known for
5.9A young Mexican boy tirelessly tries to save his pet bull from death at the hands of a celebrated matador.
The Brave One
1956
5.2Volcanic activity frees giant scorpions from the earth who wreak havoc in the rural countryside and eventually threaten Mexico City.
The Black Scorpion
1957
6.4A widower's young son leads the police to a killer of sinners in Mexico City.
A Life in the Balance
1955
4.2An American cowboy living in Mexico discovers his cattle is being eaten by a giant prehistoric dinosaur.
The Beast of Hollow Mountain
1956
8.5Cantinflas is a clumsy fireman, who one day receives the visit of his little goddaughter, whose mother recently died in the jungle. After having work in a few fires, Cantinflas decided to quit and become a policeman, because is less dangerous. Everything goes well until a gang of gangsters kidnap the girl, because of a monetary inheritance.
The Atomic Fireman
1952
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
1970s · 3 titles
1960s · 16 titles
8.0Northern Mexico, early 20th century. Reynaldo del Hierro is murdered while riding with his sons Reynaldo and Martín, whose mother instills in them the need for revenge.
My Son, the Hero
1961
5.6A lady wrestler and her boyfriend, a policeman, battle a mad scientist who has developed a murderous killer robot and uses it to kidnap wealthy people.
Wrestling Women vs. the Killer Robot
1969
5.8Romanticized version of Javier Solis' biography, from working-class roots to boxer to musician.
Un tipo a todo dar
1963
6.2Half-dozen comic actors in a spooky house.
House of the Frights
1963
6.1Two rival landowners: one is exploiting the local peasantry and dispossessing them of their land, and the other believes in fair play and justice for all.
El alazán y el rosillo
1966
The underside of Mexico City: street performers, factory workers, a drunk, an old man with civic pride, a pickpocket, and others live and interact in a shantytown near the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe.
The Laughter Of The City
1963
6.9A poor little girl slips in a circus one day and sees a puppets' show. Later she returns to the empty circus looking for a fairy she was fascinated by.
La edad de la inocencia
1962
5.8Two construction workers discover a stash of gold coins hidden in the walls of a building they're demolishing.
Suerte Te De Dios
1961
5.6Episodic film in which a masked hero combats a trio of classic monsters.
The Rider of the Skulls
1965
5.8Masked horseman avenges the deaths of family members and resolves questions about a contested inheritance. One of four in a series ("Relampago").
La muerte en el desfiladero
1963
6.3Traveling cowboy gets involved in political issues in a town he passes through. Also a romance.
Aquella Rosita Alvírez
1965
6.0Bank-robber hiding out after a heist discovers that half the world knows where he is. Can he finesse some way out of his predicament?
La llamada de la muerte
1960
6.4Four guys share an apartment while attending art-school.
Lanza tus penas al viento
1966
8.0No synopsis available yet.
Mexico Drifter
1962
5.4Four bad eggs from the traveling carney are setting up local men for a blackmail scam, and it's up to western-series hero El Hijo Del Charro Negro! to make things right.
Muerte en la feria
1962
5.6Billy Hayes, the marshal, discovers that the bandit whom he has been pursuing so long, and who has for months been torching his county, is none other than an old friend from childhood. Upon being confronted with the truth, the friend draws his gun, and Billy is forced to kill him in justifiable defense. Overwhelmed by guilt, he renounces his office and swears to never use arms again. He rides off toward the town where he and his old friend grew up together. Upon arriving there, he soon becomes involved in a dangerous situation, where Billy must decide whether he will fulfill his promise to keep away from arms, or intervene to save the honor of a woman and the life of an innocent man.
Super Colt 38
1969
1950s · 29 titles
5.9A young Mexican boy tirelessly tries to save his pet bull from death at the hands of a celebrated matador.
The Brave One
1956
5.2Volcanic activity frees giant scorpions from the earth who wreak havoc in the rural countryside and eventually threaten Mexico City.
The Black Scorpion
1957
6.4A widower's young son leads the police to a killer of sinners in Mexico City.
A Life in the Balance
1955
4.2An American cowboy living in Mexico discovers his cattle is being eaten by a giant prehistoric dinosaur.
The Beast of Hollow Mountain
1956
8.5Cantinflas is a clumsy fireman, who one day receives the visit of his little goddaughter, whose mother recently died in the jungle. After having work in a few fires, Cantinflas decided to quit and become a policeman, because is less dangerous. Everything goes well until a gang of gangsters kidnap the girl, because of a monetary inheritance.
The Atomic Fireman
1952
7.0In California, a Mexican-American laborer is falsely accused of shooting the racist farmer he was working for after the farmer stiffed him with a bad check.
My Man and I
1952
6.2Outlaws plan a robbery to take place during a championship prizefight in Carson City, Nevada.
City of Bad Men
1953
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
5.2At Rio Galdez's remote Brazilian trading post live assorted outcast Americans and Europeans, including Jerry Russell, ex-engineer who became obsessed with the Jivaro headhunters' treasure, quit his job, and took up with the bottle and local girl Maroa. But he still gets letters from his nominal fiancée in California, and unexpectedly the shapely, glamorous Alice Parker arrives, expecting to marry a rich planter. Disillusioned, Alice is almost ready to fall into Rio's arms when news comes that Jerry is missing in Jivaro country.
Jivaro
1954
5.4Working-class girl marries rich playboy, gets implicated in his criminal activities.
Arrabalera
1951
6.7The story of two half brothers who do not know they are such, who fight over a woman and nearly kill each other. One of them belongs to Los Gavilanes, a group of men who live live hidden and looting to give to the poor. Revenge, love and hate will at the end bring out the truth and everyone will get what he deserves.
The Hawks
1956
5.5Catita is a simple and poor woman who dreams of that her son stands out on something important to help her out of his humble. But she opposes to him being boxer, therefore constantly fighting with her husband.
Mi campeón
1952
5.3The story of a fear-inspiring revolutionary general who develops a passion for the daughter of a wealthy villager. It's hate at first sight so far as the girl is concerned, but this will soon change.
The Torch
1950
6.0A con artist seduces the widow of a millionaire, only to learn she'd plotted with her lover to murder the late husband. A tense game of cat-and-mouse ensues—but who's the cat?
In the Palm of Your Hand
1951
5.8Rival factions struggle over a box that was entrusted by Pancho Villa to several members of his higher command. Second of three films in series "El jinete sin cabeza."
The Head of Pancho Villa
1957
7.0A musician is injured and threatened for defending a girl and decides to go to the capital, where fame and success achieved. She is glad to know that he has succeeded, however, has become a street prostitute prone to paralysis. Finally one day he takes courage and decides to look for, since it has become invalid again ...
La mujer que yo amé
1950
5.4Cowboy avenger vs the supernatural.
The Mark of Satan
1957
6.3Handicapped songwriter falls for bad girl. Again.
Love for Sale
1951
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
6.0Two sisters, who are devoted to each other, fall in love with the same man. One of them is terminally ill and after she dies there is suspicion she might have been murdered.
Loving Was His Sin
1951
6.0No synopsis available yet.
Adventures of a New Rich Man
1950
5.2A mute phantom hero takes on skull-masked killers, a disembodied living hand and a corpse that won't stay in its grave. This is the first in a trilogy of horror/western hybrids that also includes the films La marca de Satanás ("The Mark of Satan") and La cabeza de Pancho Villa ("The Head of Pancho Villa").
The Headless Rider
1957
6.0This is a film by Alberto Gout that deals with the story of a marriage in crisis. It all starts when Leonardo surprises his wife Susana with her lover and threatens him with death for stealing her.
No niego mi pasado
1952
5.0The Scarlet Fox races against time to stop a mysterious phantom coach and protect the innocent in this thrilling anthology-style adventure.
The Scarlet Fox in The Phantom Stagecoach
1959
6.4Mad scientist is trying to transplant the soul of an animated, talking skeleton into a living body. Also, there's a monster. Number three of three in Zorro Escarlata series.
Return of the Monster
1958
6.0Farmhand and plantation-owner's daughter fall in love, but class differences and stuff.
El jinete
1954
Three men receive a newborn child, along with a message that leaves the mother for dead and one of them for the father.
Tres bribones
1955
6.0Bad girl makes lives miserable.
When Children Sin
1952
5.6Sequel to El Tesoro De Pancho Villa; masked wrestler battles gangsters trying to take control of five clues to the location of a hidden treasure.
El Secreto De Pancho Villa
1957
1940s · 12 titles
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
6.3No synopsis available yet.
Me persigue una mujer
1947
6.3Two brothers "out on the ranch" fight over girls and stuff.
Ahí vienen los Mendoza
1948
6.1A disfigured woman is helped by a talented composer to recover her face with plastic surgery. Then he discovers that she's a beautiful woman and a talented singer.
Hipócrita..!
1949
6.3A bungling wannabe-lawyer keeps interfering in his friend's lives; his desire to help always makes things worse.
¡No me defiendas, compadre!
1949
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
6.9Child 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
5.8While 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
6.2Orphaned, abandoned by her fiance, forced into prostitution by the absence of "respectable" alternatives.And the-e-en...
La mujer del puerto
1949
6.3Convicted on flimsy evidence of complicity in a jewel robbery, there's nothing he can do afterward to put his life in order. Downward spiral.
Eterna agonía
1949
6.2Door-to-door salesman falls for a young woman, implements hare-brained schemes to separate her from her fiance.
Novia a la medida
1949
6.7Orphan girl grows up, meets the wrong man and falls into disgrace.
Mujer
1947
Behind the camera
6.5José María is an orphan child who lives in desperation until brother José finds him. The priest helps the boy channel his anger and transform his sadness into energy and love.
Seguiré tus pasos
1967
6.7Romantic triangle on the hacienda.
Rayando el sol
1946
5.1Boy is traumatized from watching his sex-worker mother with her clients; he grows up with a particular grudge against that one guy that used to come to see her...
La India
1976
5.8A craftsman who sculpts religious figures goes deaf.
El sordo
1959
6.3Mexican movie
Dirty Face
1949



