Eduardo Alcaraz
Acting
Biography
Eduardo Alcaraz was born on April 13, 1915 in Santiago, Chile as Alfredo Vergara Morales. He was an actor, known for Estos zorros locos, locos, locos (1981), El barrendero (1982) and Escuela de vagabundos (1955). He died on April 18, 1987 in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico. His voice was used in hundreds of translations to Spanish of TV series and cartoons from all over the world.
Born: April 13, 1915
Place of Birth: Santiago de Chile, Chile
Known For
Mundo de Juguete
Mundo de Juguete is a telenovela produced in Mexico by Televisa in 1974. It is a remake of telenovela Papá Corazón. This telenovela holds the record for having the second longest run ever for a Latin American telenovela, with a total of 605 episodes. Most telenovelas run for an average of six to eight months; the shortest ones run about four months, and the longest up to a year. Many "Mundo de Juguete" fans believe that either all or some of the tapes and film from the telenovela were lost when Televisa collapsed during the 1985 earthquake. Televisa has been secretive regarding which tapes were lost during that earthquake, so there is no way of confirming this. However, such claims can be disputed, considering that the Telenovela has been repeated on television several times after 1985. During the nineties, it was repeated on Mexico City Canal 9. For a period of time, it was also shown on Unicable or on Telenovelas Televisa remade the telenovela in 2000, and called it "Carita de Angel".
El bombero atómico
Cantinflas is a clumsy fireman, who one day receives the visit of his little goddaughter, whose mother recently died in the jungle. After having work in a few fires, Cantinflas decided to quit and become a policeman, because is less dangerous. Everything goes well until a gang of gangsters kidnap the girl, because of a monetary inheritance.
El señor fotógrafo
Cantinflas, a traveling photographer, is captured by some gangsters while trying to get some flowers for his girlfriend. The gangsters have confused him with the assistant of Dr. Penongo, a scientist who has discovered the formula of a new atomic bomb. Meanwhile, Penongo has suffered a car accident and has lost his memory ...
Cri Cri el Grillito Cantor
Biography of the famous composer of children's music Gabilondo Soler. Starts from his childhood, when he worked as a pastor and grandmother tried to teach him to play the piano. Later he went to the city to study music theory and began writing his first songs.
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.
Your Excellency
Lopitos, who is horribly inefficient but quick-witted, is invited (because of the current ambassador's superstition about 13 sitting down to a meal) to a banquet attended by the ambassadors of both superpowers. After the news of a series of coups d'état in Los Cocos arrives throughout the meal, Lopitos becomes the official ambassador. At a summit of world leaders, the representatives of the two world superpowers court the allegiances of third-world diplomats to tilt the balance of global power in their favor. The last diplomat to remain unaligned, Lopitos instead harangues the superpowers for infringing on the rights of developing countries to self determination, talking to them with his point of view as a citizen not as ambassador because he arranged his demise as ambassador one day before his speech.
Damned City!
A humble provincial writer who wants to publish his first book offers it to a film producer who is looking for locations for a film at that time. The novelist's family then moves to the big city, where they will have to face many adversities that will make them wish they had never left their village.
Por mis pistolas
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. Trying to cross the border is a border guard intercepted by exaggerating in the line of duty. On the way is captured by a tribe of Apaches and is about to be burned alive, but thanks to the Great Head Horse Lying having toothache and learns that the prisoner it can heal, ordered his release on the condition that the cure. Fidencio would take the wheel and gets the eternal friendship of the Chief apache.
Far from Heaven
Pedro Gonzalez first gets into trouble as part of a criminal gang and then works honourably to become rich. Money is his undoing allowing him to become a womanizer and drinker, almost losing his wife. Finally he rejoins her, they have a son and he pays for his mistakes.
School for Buglars
The police plan to capture a killer by using a double that looks exactly as one of his victims.
Filmography
as David Letterman
as Don Chafas
as Don Jose
as Dr. Armando Camarena
as Don Agustín
as El Gallino
as Franco
as Dr. Luis Mario Zavala
as Don Mariano Briones
as Pedro
as Lic. Rufino
as Don Fernando
as (segment "La insaciable")
as Don Juan
as Licenciado en delegación
as Maestro
as Tadeo Moncada
as Don Chuchito
as Profesor italiano
as Don Salustio Menchaca, embajador de Los Cocos
as Antonio Ancira
as Krauss
as Empresario De Carpa
as El Barbas
as Don Quique
as Lic. Vidales
as Fito, empresario
as Toño
as Presidente
as Genio de la lámpara
as Gregorio Salas
as Jefe policial
as Papá de Enrique
as Police Chief
as El abandonado (as Eduardo Arcaraz)
as Don Cosme Morales
as Amigo de Raúl
as Ticket seller (uncredited)
as Administrador Roldán
as Señor Ariza
as Don Rodrigo
as El Güero Salcido
as Artista en teatro (uncredited)
as Ramiro
as Gordo Azuara (uncredited)
as Sr. Rosenblum
as Carlos Texeira
as Audifas
as Don Francisco Delgado
as L.G. Castro
as Movie Director
as Gaspar
as (uncredited)
as Doctor
as Coronel
as Aurelio (sin créditos)
as Felipe, mayordomo
as Sargento Policía
as Señor director carcel
as Señor Maccini (uncredited)
as Dr. Velasco
as Doctor
as Landa (uncredited)
as Agente viajero
as Teniente