Luis Manuel Pelayo
Acting
Biography
Luis Manuel Pelayo was born in 1922 in Mexico, Distrito Federal, Mexico. He was an actor.
Born: April 1, 1922
Place of Birth: Mexico City, Mexico
Known For
Up and Down
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. Having this job is the beginning of a lot of funny problems he causes due to his dumbness.
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.
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.
El Supersabio
Cantinflas is the apprentice of a renowned scientist, Prof. Arquimides Monteagudo (Carlos Martinez Baena). But Cantinflas has the soul of a poet rather than a serious researcher, and he wants to find the formula that achieves the immortality of the roses. Nevertheless, after the death of Prof. Monteagudo, Cantinflas will be chased by a ferocious corporative group, who wants to steal the secret formula of a cheaper fuel named "carburex", because they think that our friend is the only person who knows the composition
Little Red Riding Hood
The classic story of the Red Riding Hood spiced up by a couple of funny characters like the dog Duke, companion to the girl in her adventures, and the stinky Skunk, henchman to the Wolf.
National Mechanics
A mechanic takes his family to a car race and a series of events occur which brings problems, betrayals, violence and the unexpected death of an elderly person.
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.
Un Quijote sin mancha
A lawyer trying to fix everyone's problems, instead causes problems, which always end up in funny situations.
Snow White and Her 7 Lovers
An undercover policewoman tracks seven escaped convicts to the deserted island where they've set up a camp.
Filmography
as Ezequiel Rodríguez
as Don Pepe
as Mike Oropeza
as Anunciador
as Comandante Fregoso
as Reynaldo, esposo de Linda
as Rogelio Esquivel
as Priest
as Idem
as Director de TV
as Sargent
as Sócrates, the Buttler
as Walter
as Señor de la Maza
as Invitado (segment "La puerta")
as Guest
as Patrón de Cirilo
as Federico/Corresponsal del London
as Socrates
as Sr. Director
as Sócrates
as El papá
as Director escena vaquera
as El Canciller
as Ministerio Público
as Don Raymundo Andrade
as Leñador
as (uncredited)
as Director película de Kitty
as Felix
as Plejano Ivanush Paderewski
as Don Nicolás
as Reportero (uncredited)