Daniel Herrera
Acting
Biography
Daniel 'Chino' Herrera was born on January 3, 1903 in Merida, Yucatan, Mexico as Daniel Herrera Bates. He was an actor, known for El bolero de Raquel (1957), ¡A volar joven! (1947) and El gendarme desconocido (1941). He died on September 29, 1983 in Mexico City, Mexico.
Born: March 1, 1903
Place of Birth: Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico
Known For
¡A volar, joven!
Cantinflas is a private in the military, who doesn't know anything about discipline or following rules. He only wants to think about his girlfriend, the maid in an opulent hacienda. The owner of the hacienda has an ugly and shy daughter, who is in love with Cantinflas. The problems arrive when the family arranges a wedding between the ugly girl and Cantinflas, who in order to avoid the commitment gets himself arrested. During his punishment, Cantinflas learns to fly with a silly and poorly trained flight instructor.
The Unknown Policeman
A gang of thieves has jeopardized the city and even the police, whose chief urges their forces to captured the band within 48 hours. Meanwhile, band members meet in a cafe run by a widow and her daughter and her suitor, Cantinflas, who maintains a scuffle with the robbers running all at the station. Since then, Cantinflas become a member of the police force for special missions.
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.
Soy un prófugo
A janitor in a large bank is accused of pulling of a major heist. He is forced to become a fugitive while hunting for the real culprits.
El bolero de Raquel
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 time and effort for the sake of the boy.
The Minister and Me
Mateo Melgarejo is a notary public and scribe for the illiterate people of Santo Domingo, a neighborhood north of Mexico City's Zócalo. A squatter friend asks for his help in negotiating with the land census bureau to regularize a land title. After a great deal of frustration with the government bureaucracy, he writes a letter to the cabinet minister, earning an audience with him. The minister hires Melgarejo to reform the bureau, and the appointee proceeds to lecture the officials on their duties in a democratic society. At the end, he gives up the post, returning to Santo Domingo to help its poor residents.
Jengibre contra Dinamita
He shows us a poor Cantinflas like a rat that walks with a sad hatter and ends up in a bar where he will have a clash with the dangerous bandit "Ojo Tapado" (Covered Eye).
The Jungle of Fire
A beautiful woman awakens passions in the workers of a camp deep in the jungle.. Venice Film Festival 1947
The Last Adventure
All of Mexico asks the same question, who has won the lottery jackpot of five million pesos? If the lucky person who won them does not show up soon to collect the prize, it will have to be raffled again.
The Night of the Mayans
A white man seduces a local girl in an isolated Mayan village, which makes gods unhappy.
Filmography
as Additional Narration
as Huésped de Yucatán
as Li Hong Chang
as Don Evelio
as Pancho Villa Chong
as Maestro Katsuga (as Chino Herrera)
as Don Lucas (as Chino Herrera)
as El Poca Luz
as Chinito
as Edelmiro
as Fu Min Doro (as El Chino Herrera)
as Sargento
as Carlos el chino
as Chichilo
as Carmelo
as Juan Le (as Chino Herrera)
as Comandante Bravo
as Apolonio