Lupe Carriles
Acting
Biography
Lupe Carriles (25 December 1913 - 6 February 1964) was a Mexican character actress. She acted in more than 159 films, she often portrayed servants.
Born: December 25, 1913
Place of Birth: Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico
Known For
A Place Close to Heaven
On reaching the capital, Pedro Gonzalez gets a lowly job and marries Margaret. After losing that job, get a new one as a bodyguard but is fired again. With so much poverty and despair Pedro believes that his only way out is suicide.
Dos mundos y un amor
Cultural differences cause tensions in an international marriage.
Angelitos Negros
Starring Mexican star Pedro Infante, "Black Angels" is about a couple formed by a beautiful woman and a singer, both white, who are parents of a black girl. The woman blames him, but the girl will suffer the racist treatment from her own mother. Mexican version of the famous novel by Fannie Hurst "Imitation of Life"
¡Acá las Tortas!
College students, ready to start entering adult society, are ashamed of their working-class backgrounds.
Nazarín
A Catholic priest in a poor community lives a charitable life in accordance with his religious principles, but others do not return the favor.
El Portero
Cantinflas works as a porter, who writes letters and speeches in his old writing machine to earn an extra money, despite the fact that he still goes to school. The sentimental issues come when Cantinflas falls in love of his pretty neighborhood (Silvia Pinal), who is handicapped and unable to walk. The thing wont be easy, because a young military man also has feelings for the girl. But the porter wants to see her happy, and he will become a sort of Cyrano De Bergerac, writing love letters to her signed by the young soldier. His plan is simple: to win money in the horse races in order to pay the operation which will make her walk again.
Si yo fuera diputado
Cantinflas is a unique barber, who trades with an elderly neighbor, a lawyer by profession, laws lessons in exchange for haircuts and shaved. It proposes advice to defend in court the disadvantaged neighborhood. His success deputy seeks the votes as the other candidate, Don Próculo, it is not accepted by anyone but his own bodyguards. Don Próculo will use know how much ruse to win the election by the Council, and also for the love of 'Sarita'
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 Bloody Vampire
Count Cagliostro, whose family has tried for generations to rid the world of vampires, instructs his daughter and her fiance to protect several valuable documents.
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.
Filmography
as Vecina (uncredited)
as Maestra de coro
as Lupe
as Profesora Sinodam
as Rosauro's wife
as Mujer casa de empeño
as Puestera
as Cástula, sirvienta
as Trompeta
as Vecina
as Prostituta (uncredited)
as Francisca
as Marcela
as Residente de El Peñoncito
as Bruja de los picachos
as Vecina (uncredited)
as Portera
as Margarita
as Mujer en luto
as Sirvienta (sin créditos)
as Celadora
as Maid at Carlota's home (uncredited)
as Camila (uncredited)
as La tartamuda, madre falsa de Santiaguito
as María, clienta de Cantinflas (uncredited)
as Tía de Mercedes (uncredited)
as Cleotilde, secretaria
as Doña Catalina (portera)
as Doña Chona
as Fan de Villareal (sin créditos)
as Limosnera chismosa (uncredited)
as Sirvienta de Andrés
as Doña Micaila
as Enfermera recepcionista
as Madre de Silva
as Doña Eulalia (uncredited)
as Invitada a fiesta (uncredited)
as Paciente que no respira
as Monja
as Mujer de vecindad (uncredited)
as Portera, casa de Luis
as Chole
as Hermana Jiménez (uncredited)
as Mujer en la calle (uncredited)
as Madre Concepción
as Doña Longina
as Mujer en cantina (uncredited)
as Eufemia
as Vecina chismosa (uncredited)
as Vecina (uncredited)
as Vecina chismosa (uncredited)
as Profesora (uncredited)