Miguel Manzano
Acting
Biography
Miguel Manzano was a Mexican actor during the Golden Age of Mexican cinema, winning an Ariel Award in 1985, for best supporting actor for the film Las glorias del gran Púas.
Born: September 16, 1907
Place of Birth: Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico
Known For
Yo compro esa mujer
Tú o Nadie
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.
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.
Perdida
Her stepfather rapes her and she runs away to home. After that, she's exploited by a series of men, and...
Jesus of Nazareth
The biblical story of The Messiah from his baptism through his crucifixion.
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.
Kill Me Because I'm Dying!!!
Tin Tan falls in love with a young woman who does not love him, but when he wins the lottery she changes her mind.
You the Rich
Pepe el Toro is married to Celia la Chorreada and they have two children.
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
Filmography
as Diego Álvarez
as Abogado
as Doctor Hipólito
as Don Matías
as Daniel Samaniego
as Don Chucho
as Don Regino
as Doctor Urbiola
as Don Antonio, señor ministro
as Don Pablo Rentería
as Vicente
as Don Roberto Monroy
as Don Serafín Templado, secretario
as Inspector Saldivar
as Miguel Manzano
as Don Fernando, papá de Alicia
as Don Fermín
as Señor Noreña
as Don Alberto
as Ramón Jiménez, Leonor's father
as Gabriel Fuentes
as Jefe de los bandidos
as Señor Martínez
as Señor Cura
as Eleuterio Covarrubias
as José
as Javier
as Don Francisco Cabrero (Don Paco)
as Don José
as Comandante
as Col. Triana
as Don Chente
as Pedro Romero
as Gobernador (no acreditado)
as Diputado Gómez
as Peralta
as Señor cura
as Andrés
as Tránsito, Andrés' brother
as Fiscal
as Don Anselmo
as Don Manuel
as Esteban Sandor
as Benjamín Aguilar
as Jefe bomberos
as Doctor
as El Danzón
as Doctor
as Doctor José Quintero
as Col. Domingo Vargas
as Macario Carrola
as El Rana
as Señor Pradera
as Juan de Dios
as Sobrino
as Compadre de Sanchitos (uncredited)
as Don Fernando Loja
as Don Axcaná González
as Serafín
as Manuel de la Colina y Bárcena
as El Gillet
as Reportero (uncredited)
as Miguel Anzorena (uncredited)
as Axcaná González
as San Juan Bautista