Emma Roldán
Acting
Biography
Emma Roldán (February 3, 1893 – August 29, 1978) was a Mexican character actress and costume designer. She is remembered as the sharp-tongued, domineering matron of Mexican cinema, and was nominated three times for a Silver Ariel Award.
Born: February 3, 1893
Place of Birth: San Luis Potosi, Mexico
Known For
Our Daily Hunger
Trophy wife of a crooked industrialist meets a philanthropic doctor and develops a social conscience. Mexican remake of Born Yesterday.
Fear Doesn't Ride a Donkey
This funny Mexican film tell the tale of a family who will do anything to get rid of the rich old lady who sits at the head of the clan. All the hilarious members want a piece of the very lucrative inheritance money. What they don't know, however, is that grandma has left all of the money to her trusty dog.
Castle of Purity
A disciplined and sexually driven man forces his family to stay isolated in their home in order to protect them from the “evil nature” of human beings.
El mil amores
Carmen has a daughter, Patricia, who attends a school for young ladies where they think Carmen is married to a sailor. Viviano is a friend of Carmen and when she needs it, he poses as the father of Patricia and she believes is her father. Actually, Viviano is engaged with Marilu
The Place Without Limits
Family honor, greed, machismo, homophobia, and dreams collide in a small Mexican town.
Entrega Inmediata
Immediate delivery recounts the misadventures of Feliciano Callosum (Cantinflas), a postman who is recruited by the secret counterintelligence service (called XU-777 secret agency), and must uncover an international conspiracy.
Los hijos de María Morales
Two brothers known in town for their womanizing, drinking and rowdiness meet their matches when two girls who like them decide to tame the two machos.
Tailored gentleman
Cantinflas works as a model of tuxedos in a prestigious store, your job is to use the smoking in the street along with an advertising sign on his back. The use of smoking gives you access to exclusive places and meet important people. During this time, Cantinflas was the manager of an amateur boxer, it is an attractive nurse assistant and occasionally attending a priest in the church and the orphanage. However, a Cantinflas day while wearing tuxedo, is a rich man, who mistakenly believe that Cantinflas is a millionaire too.
Basket of Mexican Tales
Strong-willed Luisa attracts lots of men, but her intelligence and sharp tongue often sends them running. When she meets Carlos, who is equally cagey, sparks fly. The two of them marry, and quickly begin clashing on a daily basis, humiliating each other as they try to teach one another lesson after lesson.
Vertigo
Young woman's fiance unexpectedly falls in love with her mom, and ends up arranging the young woman's death.
Filmography
as Anciana del Asilo
as Raquelito
as Viejita
as Ludovinia
as Vecina
as Doña Paz
as Josefina
as Abuela
as Clerk
as Vendedora de lotería
as Anciana esposa de borracho
as Gregoria
as Tona
as Juan's Mother
as Doña Remedios
as Sirvienta
as Criada
as Loreta's Mother
as Lucretia
as Doña Leonor
as tía de Rosa
as Doña Angustias
as Doña Mela
as Tía Milagros
as Chole (as Ema Roldan)
as La pitocha
as Maria
as Doña Delfina
as Catalina
as Emilia González, partera
as Comadrona
as Abuela
as Carmela
as Doña Matilde
as Doña Delia
as Maria, the housekeeper
as Criada mayor
as Juana
as Juanita
as Maria
as Criada
as Nana
as Antonia
as Doña Ángela
as Doña Laura
as Nana
as Chona
as Gertrudis
as Doña Pelos
as Esposa de Constancio (uncredited)
as Leonor
as Doña María Morales
as Doña Mati
as Tía Fe Ita
as Petrona
as Doña Loreto
as Doña Rosaura
as Catalina
as La generala
as Adivinadora
as Lupe
as La muerte
as Doña Gumersinda
as Candela
as Enfermera
as Sra. Camparelli
as Nana Lupe
as Lady Capulet
as Pepa
as Rosarito
as Imelda
as Doña Tomasa
as Mamá de Camila
as Doña Margarita
as La portera (Librada)
as Remedios
as Chefa
as Doña María
as Ángela
as Doña Sol
as Gertrudis
as María
as Margarita Ramos
as La curandera
as Efraín's Mother