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Mario Fortino Alfonso Moreno ReyesThis name usesSpanish naming
customs; the first or paternalfamily
name is Moreno and the second or maternal family name is
Reyes.
Mario Fortino Alfonso Moreno Reyes, although he called himself
Mario Moreno,
(August 12, 1911
April 20, 1993), was a Mexicancomic film actor,producer,
andscreenwriter known professionally as Cantinflas. He often
portrayed
impoverished campesinos or apeasant ofpelado origin. The
character came to be
associated with the national identity of Mexico, and allowed
Cantinflas to establish
a long, successful film career that included a foray
intoHollywood.Charlie
Chaplin once commented that he was the best comedian alive, and
Moreno has
been referred to as the "Charlie Chaplin of Mexico" .To
audiences in theUnited
States,he is best remembered as co-starring withDavid Niven in
aGolden Globe
Award-winning role in the 1956 filmAround the World in 80
Days.
As a pioneer of thecinema of Mexico,Moreno helped usher in
itsgolden era. In
addition to being a business leader, he also became involved in
Mexico's tangled
and often dangerous labor politics. Although he was a political
conservative, his
reputation as a spokesperson for the downtrodden gave his
actions authenticity
and became important in the early struggle againstcharrismo,
theone-
partygovernment's practice of co-opting and
controllingunions.
Moreover, his character Cantinflas, whose identity became
enmeshed with his
own, was examined by media critics, philosophers, and linguists,
who saw him
variably as a danger to Mexican society, a bourgeois puppet, a
kind philanthropist,
a transgressor of gender roles, a piousCatholic, a verbal
innovator, and
apicaresque underdog.
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