
Acting
Marcelo Chávez
Born — Died
1911-03-13 — 1970-02-14
Place of birth
Tampico Alto, Veracruz, Mexico
Known for
Acting
Credits
60 titles
Known for
6.9No synopsis available yet.
Un par de robachicos
1967
6.0Target of ridicule from fellow military academy, the cowardly Augustin did not want to return to their village for fear of confronting his grandfather, a revolutionary colonel. In love with the movie star Laura, Agustin flee to the capital but encounters the dangerous Humberto, another in love with the actress. Thanks to his "nine lives", he attains overcome perilous adventures and, incidentally, overcome their fears.
El gato sin botas
1957
8.4A poor man becomes a modern Robin Hood, robbing the rich to give to the poor.
The King of the Neighborhood
1950
6.6"Gentleman bandit" acts out ridiculous schemes to steal valuables from his society friends.
Chucho El Remendado
1952
6.3Bankrupt millionaire discovers a treasure map belonging to a distant ancestor.
El cofre del pirata
1959
5.8A couple of provincial gas station employees travel to the capital seeking fortune of vehicle mechanics accidental career passing drivers.
Pilotos de la muerte
1962
Film credits
1960s · 16 titles
6.9No synopsis available yet.
Un par de robachicos
1967
5.8A couple of provincial gas station employees travel to the capital seeking fortune of vehicle mechanics accidental career passing drivers.
Pilotos de la muerte
1962
6.4The charitable Emilio is a jealous barber tries to prevent at all costs the rich toting Mario mess with his girlfriend Rosita. Although Emilio help with money from neighbors, gets entangled in a misunderstanding and ends up in jail but his friends are out of charge so much trouble.
La tijera de oro
1960
5.8Charro-dude wants his sister to marry into professional city-folk and move into the upper classes... but she's in love with somebody from their own social stratum.
Los valientes no mueren
1962
Father insists that one of his sons get married... because with no woman in the house, they can't get a good meal. The rest of the movie is devoted to pairing off everybody in sight.
Vámonos para la feria
1961
5.8Modesto works as clerk in the Vulcania company and aims to start a project to benefit the workers who work there. Modesto befriends Diana and by confusion, the owners of the company believe that she is his wife. Inviting them to dinner at his house, Modesto tries to show his project to get a promotion without imagining that your boss really cares about is his supposed wife Diana.
El duende y yo
1961
6.0Two unknown performers try to break into television. Meanwhile, a guy that calls himself 'El Vengador' is doing a Phantom of the Opera number on the studio executives...
Variedades de medianoche
1960
6.6Ex-con breaks into a house and ends up bonding with a toddler instead of burgling the way he'd planned.
El ángel y yo
1966
In his eagerness, to be movie extras, Tin Tan and his carnal Marcelo police get into trouble, among other entanglements.
Una estrella y dos estrellados
1960
5.8Western comedy: two medicine-show guys vs. badhats.
Fuerte, audaz y valiente
1963
6.8Aldo 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
6.5Two fake fortune-tellers at a carnival accidentally conjure up some real ghosts.
The Mocking Ghosts
1965
5.8Tin Tan is marooned on an island full of colorful natives.
Tintansón Cruzoe
1965
6.7Tin Tan is an eccentric wealthy man who comes across a beautiful woman who doesn't want to live anymore.
Suicídate mi amor
1961
7.6Tin Tan interfered in a bank robbery, then got arrested when the perp.s escaped. Crooks and police are both after him...
Rebelde Sin Casa
1960
4.6Starring Lorena Velazquez, German Valdes, Marcelo Chavez
Loco por ellas
1966
1950s · 34 titles
6.0Target of ridicule from fellow military academy, the cowardly Augustin did not want to return to their village for fear of confronting his grandfather, a revolutionary colonel. In love with the movie star Laura, Agustin flee to the capital but encounters the dangerous Humberto, another in love with the actress. Thanks to his "nine lives", he attains overcome perilous adventures and, incidentally, overcome their fears.
El gato sin botas
1957
8.4A poor man becomes a modern Robin Hood, robbing the rich to give to the poor.
The King of the Neighborhood
1950
6.6"Gentleman bandit" acts out ridiculous schemes to steal valuables from his society friends.
Chucho El Remendado
1952
6.3Bankrupt millionaire discovers a treasure map belonging to a distant ancestor.
El cofre del pirata
1959
6.4To 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
6.2Tin-Tan wants to builds an ice cream machine.
Las locuras de Tin Tan
1952
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
7.0A news reporter falls in love with a millionaire's young daughter, but her father tells him he won't let them marry unless he earns one million Pesos first. Helped by a friend, he tries to earn the money by marrying - and murdering - four rich women.
Los líos de Barba Azul
1955
5.3No synopsis available yet.
Refifí entre las mujeres
1958
5.9After a long absence, a man returns to his village and recounts all his adventures with a touch of nostalgia.
The Adventures of Pito Pérez
1957
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
5.9Tin Tan stands in as the double of a kidnapped millionaire.
Vagabundo y Millonario
1959
6.6Inocencio Dante, the intendant of a bank, where the director Don Miguel and their children; Marga who spends money without control, Polo who spent on gambling, have defrauded the bank with eight hundred thousand pesos, have agreed to coax "Chencho" and make it appear as responsible for the theft. In prison, "Chencho" knows Don Facundo Farias to whom he talks about his sorrows, Don Facundo happens to be the leader of the gang that stole twenty million pesos and is the only survivor who knows the place where the money is buried. After a fight, "Chencho" is put into a cell for defending Don Facundo, he in gratitude and before dying from pneumonia advises how to escape and where to find the money.later Inocencio In the style of Count of Monte Cristo flees giving a positive spin into his life. Pleasant moments alive with sparkling, funny and comical adventures of the Viscount of Montecristo.
The Count of Monte Cristo
1954
6.8Chón is rejected by his girlfriend Rosario's parents, so they both escape to the capital in search of his friend Manny, a millionaire philanthropist, who helps him but makes him adopt four children from his orphanage.
El que con niños se acuesta...
1959
5.4Con-artist cleans up his act to score points with a new girlfriend.
El vividor
1956
7.3Spoofy adaptation of The Three Musketeers, follows the original very closely.
Los tres mosqueteros y medio
1957
6.7Spoofy south-sea adventure, mostly about the hot babes.
La isla de las mujeres
1953
5.4Itinerant 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
7.8Tin Tan just won the lottery and wants to donate it to an orphanage. Sataela and Riverita want to keep the money for themselves. In an attenpt to do so, they convince him of having a terminal disease and suggest that committing suicide is his best option.
Kill Me Because I'm Dying!!!
1951
7.2In 1840 California, The Texmelucan viscount bizco, offers a feast for his son Tin, who returned from Italy where he studied fencing. The boy turns out to be a coward who flees in terror after refusing to fight a duel with Captain Gaspar. In their flight, Tin rescues a witch was tied to a tree. Grateful, the witch gives him an ointment that will make him invincible for an hour. The coward swordsman will have three opportunities to use it and save his father from the injustices of the evil ruler Marcelo.
The Mark of the Skunk
1950
6.0Mrs. Nínive Cánovas Cannesi (Marshall) comes back from a long tour visiting Europe and not even realizes that her house is being inhabited by two jobless and homeless bandits (Tin Tán and Tun Tún) with master keys who had been living there worry free. They all share the house for a period of time, unknowingly to each other, in a series of well crafted and perfectly timed scenes where Catita and Tin Tán can be in the same room without seeing each other... When Tin Tán notices her presence, poses as the help, intercepting the real employees and sending to the north pole, literally. So now that Catita has them at her service, she can take time for her real goal, the foundation of a House for old people so they can live happy until the day they die, but Tin Tán and Tun Tún keep getting in her way and complicating everything...
Dios los cría
1953
6.9Jack-of-all-trades interferes in his neighbors' lives, then has to set everything straight.
El sultán descalzo
1956
7.3Reporters compete for cash prize awarded for biggest scoop on New Year's Eve.
Reportaje
1953
7.5Well-intentioned Tin Tan who is always making trouble for other people, sometimes on purpose and sometimes by accident.
The Troublemaker
1951
6.7The Emir of Beirutistan gets the hots for a Mexican singer and arranges to have her kidnapped. Her costar and manager tag along to rescue her.
La odalisca No. 13
1958
5.5This film is considered one of Tin Tan's funniest comedies. This time, the charismatic comedian incarnates a mariachi musician that lives the most entertaining an extraordinary adventures while traveling from Mexico to the paradisaic island of Cuba. An example of the excellent cinematographic comedy that only Tin Tan can achieve.
El mariachi desconocido
1953
5.9Two 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
7.3A Mexican comedy loosely playing off of the tale of Sleeping Beauty. A caveman wakes up after a thousand year slumber. When he awakens he is seen as a wonder to behold, and discovers his ancient love and romantic rival are seemingly still alive as well.
The Sleeping Beauty
1952
7.3Cuban fantasy-comedy about a lost civilization where women are the dominant social group. Guest appearances by Mexican comedians TinTan y Marcelo.
Cuando Las Mujeres Mandan
1951
Unanimously flunking his professional medical exam, Apolonio dabbles with more enthusiasm than idea in ballet, theater, painting and sculpture before establishing himself as the "doctor of the madwomen". Supported by his unconditional girlfriend Maruca, the young man prescribes music to the deranged ladies who visit him to be treated in his magical therapeutic chair.
The Doctor of the Crazy Women
1955
6.8Professional story-teller falls afoul of a sultan, but saves himself from execution using the tricks of his trade.
Las mil y una noches
1958
5.5A 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
6.0Cleto, 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
6.5Homeless/unemployed dude has a spiritual awakening and rehabilitates himself working at a circus.
El vagabundo
1953
1940s · 10 titles
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
6.3A man hired to impersonate a bankrupt business mogul who is currently on the run from creditors sets out organize a musical starring beauties from Brazil, Mexico, and Spain in this Spanish-language comedy starring popular funnyman Tin Tan (Germán Valdés). Now, as the hapless imposter attempts to finance a musical without any money, he also discovers just how difficult it can be to juggle three beautiful starlets who all have eyes for their presumably wealthy producer. Another common English translation of the title of this film is Tender Pumpkins or Tender Little Pumpkins (although a direct translation is Baby Zucchini).
Oh What Beautiful Legs!
1949
6.7Tin-Tan and his carnal Marcelo take over Carmelita baby for a few hours, and suddenly, the three are hired by an employer of the tents, starting the funniest adventures you can imagine.
Soy Charro de Levita
1949
7.6An underaged heiress is sent to a reformatory by her unscrupulous guardians to prevent her from fulfilling the conditions of her father's will. Meanwhile, a street-vendor gets mistaken for an eminent psychologist and is hired to teach at that reformatory.
Músico, poeta y loco
1948
7.2Three Mexican friends decide to go to Vercacruz Carnaval to celebrate. There they watch Cantinflas' show of torero and boxer.
Carnaval en el trópico
1942
7.3Tin-tan gets involved in what seem to be a murder at the local house of wax.
The Noiseless Dead
1946
6.2If you survive the first half with his delicious absurdity, your reward is the second half, on the scenes when he teams up with his "carnal" Marcelo singing American, Cuban and Argentinian music, but ending with a very Mexican serenade. If you ever saw Jorge Negrete singing in a movie you'll laugh to tears when Tin Tan sings. And with the lighting effects, you can see actual flashes of Jorge Negrete until you hear him singing.
El niño perdido
1947
6.4This Musical-Comedy from Director Rene Cardona, features American actress Janice Logan as the dutiful daughter who is about to wed a much older man and widower as part of an arranged marriage orchestrated by her Father. Plans quickly change, however, once she meets a handsome singer and rising radio star, (played by actor Jose Pulido), who soon sweeps her off her feet-much to the dismay of her dear old Dad. Catchy musical numbers and a charismatic cast add to the charm of this war-time movie release.
Hotel de verano
1944
6.2Tin-Tan disguises himself as a European Grande-Dame to insinuate himself into the lives of a rich family.
Con la música por dentro
1947
NRNo synopsis available yet.
El que la traga la paga
1943
