Pedro Elviro
Acting
Biography
No biography available for Pedro Elviro.
Born: March 7, 1896
Place of Birth: Valencia de Alcántara, Cáceres, Extremadura, Spain
Known For
La casa de la Troya
Original adaptation of the novel by its director, Alejandro Pérez Lujín, centered on the university adventures of a young man studying abroad who stays in a boarding house known as The House of Troy.
Full Spead Ahead
A drifter lands a job as an officer in México City's elite motorcycle police unit and gets home with a mate of this unit. The mate is in love with a girl, but he and she are always making jealous to each other. The drifter and the mate get involved themselves in a fight to become the winner of conquering ladies and performing unit acrobatic tricks, interfering with their friendship and profession.
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 ...
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.
¡A volar, joven!
Cantinflas is a private in the military, who doesn't know anything about discipline or following rules. He only wants to think about his girlfriend, the maid in an opulent hacienda. The owner of the hacienda has an ugly and shy daughter, who is in love with Cantinflas. The problems arrive when the family arranges a wedding between the ugly girl and Cantinflas, who in order to avoid the commitment gets himself arrested. During his punishment, Cantinflas learns to fly with a silly and poorly trained flight instructor.
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.
Our Daily Hunger
Trophy wife of a crooked industrialist meets a philanthropic doctor and develops a social conscience. Mexican remake of Born Yesterday.
The Unknown Policeman
A gang of thieves has jeopardized the city and even the police, whose chief urges their forces to captured the band within 48 hours. Meanwhile, band members meet in a cafe run by a widow and her daughter and her suitor, Cantinflas, who maintains a scuffle with the robbers running all at the station. Since then, Cantinflas become a member of the police force for special missions.
El señor doctor
It's about a country doctor that comes to the city while a clinic is built in his home town... he rubs off his care and compassion on others at the hospital with his humor and wit.
Filmography
as Nerón de la Campana
as Don Pitouto (Vecino)
as Secretario en delegación (uncredited)
as Amigo de la tía
as Comisario en cena (uncredited)
as Paciente con television (uncredited)
as Alguacil (uncredited)
as Joyero
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as Hombre en estadio (uncredited)
as Empleado (no acreditado)
as Secretario comisaría (uncredited)
as Novio fotografiado
as Abogado (uncredited)
as Secretario (uncredited)
as El cojo
as Amigo del barbero (uncredited)
as Señor Jiménez
as Profesor
as Mendigo (uncredited)
as Goliat (uncredited)
as Don Fortino
as Botones
as Empleado corte (uncredited)
as Periodista (uncredited)
as Sacristan
as Esbirro chaparro del jefe (uncredited)
as Hombre arrestado (uncredited)
as Botones (uncredited)
as Lombardini
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as (uncredited)
as Mesero / posadero (uncredited)
as El dueño (as Pitouto)
as Secuaz de Riquelme (uncredited)
as Un agent de la Sûreté
as Customer
as Photographer
as Driver
as Bretzel, le balayeur
as Arthur / Meyer
as Le régisseur (as Pitouto)
as Pitouto