Armando Acosta
Acting
Biography
No biography available for Armando Acosta.
Born: April 5, 1922
Place of Birth: Mexico City, Mexico
Known For
School for Tramps
Alberto Medina is a famous composer whose car breaks down while he is on a trip. While looking for help, he finds the Valverdes' house and is welcomed in by Emilia, the mother of the family, who is known for taking in tramps.
Entre monjas anda el Diablo
A man called “The Devil” makes a living in cock-fights. He falls for a girl who's about to enter the monastery.
Chabelo y Pepito detectives
A commanding friend Pepito and Chabelo ask them to help uncover a gang who kidnaps children. They accept and are out to steal to join the band. Whenthey find that the band mesmerizes children with toys and then the kids are controlled by young boys and they controlled in turn by strangers with long hair and blue eyes.
El analfabeto
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 idea of who sent the letter or its content. So he goes to the drugstore because the pharmacist can read the letter to him. But while waiting to be helped he sees that a young girl can read. He figures he has to be able to discover the letter's content by himself and decides he will save the letter and go to school, and wait to read the letter on his own.
School for Buglars
The police plan to capture a killer by using a double that looks exactly as one of his victims.
The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz
A bizarre black comedy about a man whose overwhelming ambition in life is to be a renowned serial killer of women, and will stop at nothing to achieve it - but not everything goes according to plan...
The Door and The Butcher's Wife
A movie divided in two segments, the first "La puerta" (The Door) is about a high society gathering in which a door inside the mansion leads to a bizarre corridor where a naked and menacing human figure appears. The second "La mujer del carnicero" (The Butcher's Wife) is set during the Mexican revolution and is about horrifying hallucinations felt by a lieutenant after committing a murder.
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
An American bartender and his prostitute girlfriend go on a road trip through the Mexican underworld to collect a $1 million bounty on the head of a dead gigolo.
Mi padrino
Bumbling oaf takes custody of his god-daughter and helps her advance her singing career.
Uno y medio contra el mundo
Small-time crook teams up with a street urchin for mutual support on the margins of society.
Filmography
as Sergeant
as El cantinero
as Pascual Mendez
as Waiter (uncredited)
as El Cura
as Oficial policía
as Don Marcos F. Galván
as Notario
as Postman
as Trabajador factoria
as Gordo chismoso (uncredited)
as Policía
as Violador (episodio "Lucía")
as Policeman
as Raul
as Tololo, Cantinero (segment "La mujer del carnicero")
as Militar (uncredited)
as Papá de Raco
as Security Guard
as Businessman
as Espectador lucha libre
as Gerente de gruta (uncredited)
as 'I Want to See Blood' Spectator (uncredited)
as Detective (uncredited)
as Gangster
as Empleado teatro
as Hombre asaltado (uncredited)
as Pueblerino (uncredited)
as Empleado estudio (uncredited)
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as Operador de central policiaco (uncredited)
as Carpintero (uncredited)
as Espectador (uncredited)
as Paco (cantinero)
as Manuel
as Jugador de cartas (uncredited)
as Invitado a fiesta (uncredited)
as Party guest (uncredited)
as Pasajero avión
as Invitado fiesta
as Fotografo
as Man at Gordo's (uncredited)
as Martín (uncredited)
as Invitado a boda (uncredited)
as Transeúnte (uncredited)
as Hombre en restaurante (uncredited)
as Espectador juicio
as Espectador del boxeo (uncredited)
as Mesero (uncredited)