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Cantinflas

1911 - 1993

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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, vocabulary, and syntax, is beloved in all the Spanish-speaking countries of Latin America and in Spain. His abilities gave rise to a range of expressions based on his stage name, including: cantinflear, cantinflada, cantinflesco, cantifleando and cantinflero. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Cantinflas is the 682nd most popular actor (down from 575th in 2019), the 31st most popular biography from Mexico (down from 28th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Mexican Actor.

Cantinflas is most famous for starring in the film "El Presidente," which was the first Mexican movie to win an Academy Award.

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Among actors, Cantinflas ranks 682 out of 13,578. Before him are Michelle Phillips, Hiroyuki Sanada, Sam Elliott, Lee Byung-hun, Robert Englund, and Margot Robbie. After him are Totò, Lucia Bosè, Mae West, Jim Broadbent, Jeremy Renner, and Nebahat Çehre.

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Among people born in 1911, Cantinflas ranks 57. Before him are Bernard Katz, Ernesto Sabato, Herta Oberheuser, J. L. Austin, Gustav Wagner, and Bruno Kreisky. After him are Henri Troyat, Vincent Price, Alfonso García Robles, Ashok Kumar, Alfred Naujocks, and Brian O'Nolan. Among people deceased in 1993, Cantinflas ranks 32. Before him are Lillian Gish, Léon Theremin, Félix Houphouët-Boigny, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Boris Christoff, and Dizzy Gillespie. After him are Salah Jadid, Vincent Price, Alexandra of Yugoslavia, Severo Ochoa, Arthur Ashe, and Jean Negulesco.

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In Mexico

Among people born in Mexico, Cantinflas ranks 31 out of 729. Before him are Lázaro Cárdenas (1895), Vicente Fox (1942), Moctezuma I (1398), David Alfaro Siqueiros (1896), Linda Christian (1923), and Hugo Sánchez (1958). After him are Cuitláhuac (1476), Alfonso García Robles (1911), Álvaro Obregón (1880), Mario J. Molina (1943), Venustiano Carranza (1859), and Juan Diego (1474).

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Among ACTORS In Mexico

Among actors born in Mexico, Cantinflas ranks 4. Before him are Anthony Quinn (1915), Salma Hayek (1966), and Linda Christian (1923). After him are Ramon Novarro (1899), María Félix (1914), Silvia Pinal (1931), Dolores del Río (1905), Pedro Armendáriz (1912), Katy Jurado (1924), Ricardo Montalbán (1920), and Verónica Castro (1952).

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