Alberto Catalá
Know for: Acting
Born: 1910-02-18
Place of birth: Mexico City, México
Also know as:
My General's Wives (1951)
The encounter with an old lover puts a revolutionary general in great danger of death.
The Body Snatcher (1957)
A detective and his cowboy friend team up to stop a mad scientist who is stealing the bodies of murdered wrestlers, and bringing them back to life...
Picardía mexicana (1978)
An academic tags along among a crew of rowdy delivery-truck drivers, taking notes on their colorful and idiomatic use of language.
Si yo fuera diputado (1952)
Cantinflas is a unique barber, who trades with an elderly neighbor, a lawyer by profession, laws lessons in exchange for haircuts and shaved. It...
Drop the Curtain (1955)
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...
El bolero de Raquel (1957)
The film tells an episode of the life of a kindly hearted bootblack who becomes accidentally the tutor of an orphan but nevertheless spends all his...
Sube y baja (1959)
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....
El analfabeto (1961)
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...
El Extra (1962)
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...
Entrega Inmediata (1963)
Immediate delivery recounts the misadventures of Feliciano Callosum (Cantinflas), a postman who is recruited by the secret counterintelligence...
El padrecito (1964)
Young priest Father Sebastián is assigned to a parish in San Jeronimo el Alto, where he is not welcomed by the community, particularly the...
El señor doctor (1965)
It's about a country doctor that comes to the city while a clinic is built in his home town... he rubs off his care and compassion on others at the...
Your Excellency (1967)
Lopitos, who is horribly inefficient but quick-witted, is invited (because of the current ambassador's superstition about 13 sitting down to a meal)...
Por mis pistolas (1968)
Fidencio Borer, an apothecary in a village on the northern border of Mexico, discovers some old title of a mine in Arizona and decides to claim them....
El patrullero 777 (1978)
Follows Diogenes as he goes about his day as a police officer. He's prone to do things the right way, surrounded by a pretty much corrupt &...
El Barrendero (1982)
A cheerful sweeper collects garbage dancing, and the maids of the neighborhood get jealous because he invites another woman out.
Champion Without Crown (1946)
A young ice cream vendor, Roberto Terranova, witnesses a child being beaten and comes to his aid by physically overpowering the aggressor. His...
Soy un golfo (1955)
Slacker decides to work and create a career for himself after he falls in love with an ambitious woman.