León Barroso

Acting

León Barroso

Born — Died

1921-05-18 — 2008-08-11

Place of birth

Mexico City, México

Known for

Acting

Credits

27 titles

Known for

Drop the Curtain poster
7.6

Cantinflas, who owns a cleaning business, cleans the windows of the house of a famous French actress. While carrying out his work he observes how a man steals one of the famous actress necklaces, but he can only see his back.

Drop the Curtain

1955

A Quixote Without La Mancha poster
7.1

A lawyer trying to fix everyone's problems, instead causes problems, which always end up in funny situations.

A Quixote Without La Mancha

1969

Up and Down poster
8.1

It is the story of a sportsman who is a little bit dumber than most people but nevertheless he succeeds in getting a job at a sports article saler's. Having this job is the beginning of a lot of funny problems he causes due to his dumbness.

Up and Down

1956

Tailored gentleman poster
7.4

Cantinflas 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

El profe poster
8.0

Mario Moreno portrays a professor in this movie. A small town in the middle of no where requests the school Mario Moreno is working in for a teacher. He ends up going to give the town a hand. When he arrives he comes to know the corrupt leaders who through out the movie try to make him leave. Although he is being harassed you can see how much he cares for the kids and their circumstances. He deals with problems by using his hilarious comments.

El profe

1971

El analfabeto poster
7.8

Inocencio Prieto y Calvo receives a letter telling him he is the heir to his uncle's fortune of two million pesos. Not being able to read he has no idea of who sent the letter or its content. So he goes to the drugstore because the pharmacist can read the letter to him. But while waiting to be helped he sees that a young girl can read. He figures he has to be able to discover the letter's content by himself and decides he will save the letter and go to school, and wait to read the letter on his own.

El analfabeto

1961

Film credits

1970s · 3 titles

1960s · 7 titles

A Quixote Without La Mancha poster
7.1

A lawyer trying to fix everyone's problems, instead causes problems, which always end up in funny situations.

A Quixote Without La Mancha

1969

El analfabeto poster
7.8

Inocencio Prieto y Calvo receives a letter telling him he is the heir to his uncle's fortune of two million pesos. Not being able to read he has no idea of who sent the letter or its content. So he goes to the drugstore because the pharmacist can read the letter to him. But while waiting to be helped he sees that a young girl can read. He figures he has to be able to discover the letter's content by himself and decides he will save the letter and go to school, and wait to read the letter on his own.

El analfabeto

1961

The Extra poster
7.2

Cantinflas is a man who hangs around the studios and helps anyone who needs his advice while at the same time envisioning his own versions of how certain scenes should be shot. Both angles provide ample opportunities for very witty, subtle barbs at the foibles of the industry.

The Extra

1962

The Skeleton of Mrs. Morales poster
8.0

A taxidermist decides to murder his wife after having to put up with her after twenty years of hellish marriage.

The Skeleton of Mrs. Morales

1960

The Waltzes came from Vienna and the Children from Paris poster
5.3

Unmarried opera singer has a baby, and her friends convince her to pass it off as the grandchild of a wealthy old lady.

The Waltzes came from Vienna and the Children from Paris

1966

Se alquila marido poster
5.6

Female CEO hires a man to pass as her husband and act as figurehead of her business concerns.

Se alquila marido

1961

Casi Casados poster
6.0

A poor mechanic is conned into taking the place of a wealthy business magnate so the rich man can take off to work on some major wheeling and dealing. Sure enough, the impostor is trapped in a series of circumstances beyond his control that lead him right to the altar. Once he is wed -- or rather, once the rich businessman is unknowingly wed by proxy, the tycoon returns from his trip with the subsequent surprises in store for all concerned.

Casi Casados

1961

1950s · 15 titles

Drop the Curtain poster
7.6

Cantinflas, who owns a cleaning business, cleans the windows of the house of a famous French actress. While carrying out his work he observes how a man steals one of the famous actress necklaces, but he can only see his back.

Drop the Curtain

1955

Up and Down poster
8.1

It is the story of a sportsman who is a little bit dumber than most people but nevertheless he succeeds in getting a job at a sports article saler's. Having this job is the beginning of a lot of funny problems he causes due to his dumbness.

Up and Down

1956

Tailored gentleman poster
7.4

Cantinflas 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

Él poster
7.7

Gloria encounters Francisco, a man whose social veneer betrays a truer self burrowed underneath.

Él

1953

Mujer de medianoche poster
4.5

Young woman elopes with her fiancé; during their honeymoon, things happen that cause them to be separated, and she finds herself alone in a big city with no resources to fall back on.

Mujer de medianoche

1952

Se solicitan modelos poster
4.1

In this Mexican comedy, Mr. Lazaro's fashion house is on the brink of bankruptcy and in desperate need of a new model to replace his current business partner's wife, whose appearance is driving customers away. Lazaro's son, Raul, realizes what a diffucult dilemma his father faces and sets out to restore the integrity of the family-owned business by teaming up with his lovely fiancée to put on a fashion show. Domingo Soler and Sara Montiel star.

Se solicitan modelos

1954

La extraña pasajera poster
6.6

During 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

Refifí entre las mujeres poster
5.3

No synopsis available yet.

Refifí entre las mujeres

1958

Al diablo las mujeres poster
6.0

Rosa, a mayor, faces pressure from her police chief father to imprison her cousins. After a kidnapping and tampering with vaccines, Rosa realizes politics isn't for women.

Al diablo las mujeres

1955

La vida tiene tres días poster
5.7

María dreams of going to the capital to study piano and begins exchanging letters with Alberto, a composer. He takes advantage of the situation by sending his family away so he can deceive María and make her fall in love with him.

La vida tiene tres días

1955

La vida de Agustín Lara poster
5.8

No synopsis available yet.

La vida de Agustín Lara

1959

Path of evil poster
5.7

No synopsis available yet.

Path of evil

1957

Lo que no se puede perdonar!.. poster
5.8

Hortensia is almost ready to take her vows at the convent... but she gets distracted by her stepmother's boyfriend. Things do not go well.

Lo que no se puede perdonar!..

1953

Melodías de amor poster
6.7

No synopsis available yet.

Melodías de amor

1955

The Vivanco Ladies poster
7.0

Two women of lesser descent are dedicated to stealing to support their brother's daughter.

The Vivanco Ladies

1959