Cantinflas was born on , in the traditional neighborhood of Santa Maria La Redonda in the Cuauhtémoc municipality of Mexico City. His parents were Pedro Moreno Esquivel, a poor mail carrier, and Maria de la Soledad Reyes Guízar. He grew up in close to Tepito, located in Colonia Morelos, a neighborhood taken over by the colorful open market called the tianguis.
Mario Fortino Alfonso Moreno Reyes (12 August 1911 – 20 April 1993), known by the stage name Cantinflas (Spanish pronunciation: [kanˈtiɱflas]), was a Mexican comedian, actor, and filmmaker. He is considered to have been the most widely accomplished Mexican comedian and is well known throughout Latin America and Spain. His humor, loaded with Mexican linguistic features of intonation ...
Cantinflas, born Mario Moreno as the son of a Mexican postal employee, studied agriculture and later medicine but often sneaked out of class to sing and dance in the streets until one day he ran away and joined a carpa travelling company where he learned to sing, dance, acrobat, prize fight and clown. He sent money to his family but didn't want them to know what he was doing so created the ...
Cantinflas was one of the most popular entertainers in the history of Latin-American cinema. An internationally known clown, acrobat, musician, bullfighter, and satirist, he was identified with the comic figure of a poor Mexican slum dweller, a pelado, who wears trousers held up with a rope, a
Cantinflas: 1911-1993: Actor, comedian The comedic Mexican actor Cantinflas was one of Latin-America's most popular cinematic figures. Using both physical and verbal comedy, Cantinflas embodied the everyday Mexican. His half-century career included 49 films, including the American films Around the World in Eighty Days and Pepe. His comedic journey began in 1930 as a performer in the carpas ...