Roberto Meyer
Acting
Biography
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Born: September 10, 1901
Place of Birth: La Piedad, Michoacán, Mexico
Known For
Tonta, tonta, pero no tanto
The Skeleton of Mrs. Morales
A taxidermist decides to murder his wife after having to put up with her after twenty years of hellish marriage.
The Exterminating Angel
After a lavish dinner party, the guests find themselves unable to depart... and, over the next few days, all of their elaborate societal pretenses and façades deteriorate as they are reduced to living like animals.
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.
Inspector Calzonzin
A rumor reaches a small town, San Garabato, that a government infiltrator will arrive to check the conditions of the community. Quickly, the municipal president, Don Perpetuo del Rosal, orders the imprisonment of those who might give a bad image. An indigenous man named Calzonzin arrives in town, pursued by two men. He is quickly taken as the infiltrated inspector, and protected by all the local authorities.
Él
Gloria encounters Francisco, a man whose social veneer betrays a truer self burrowed underneath.
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.
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'
El bolero de Raquel
The film tells an episode of the life of a kindly hearted bootblack who becomes accidentally the tutor of an orphan but nevertheless spends all his time and effort for the sake of the boy.
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...
Filmography
as Matias, the stationmaster
as Manolo
as Gavillero
as Sr. Malpica
as Profesor Singer
as Padre Miguel
as Matías
as Señor cura
as (segment "Amor y yoga")
as Don Quintín
as Padre de Julia (uncredited)
as Don Mauricio
as Fool (uncredited)
as Rosauro
as Gutierritos (uncredited)
as Comandante
as Historiador
as Don Fernando
as Macario Salas, viejo prisionero
as Rodolfo Sánchez
as Presidente municipal (uncredited)
as Ministro
as Medical Examiner
as Don Darío del Valle
as (uncredited)
as Jefe de policía
as Don Panchito
as Doctor (uncredited)
as Comisario
as Doctor
as Don Arcadio (uncredited)
as Juez
as Licenciado
as Invitado baile (sin créditos)
as Carmelo González
as Don Nicolás Palafox (uncredited)
as Don Nemesio Álvarez y Villalbazo
as Comisario (uncredited)
as Lencho García
as Don Julián, Licenciado
as Doctor
as Comisario (no acreditado)
as Don Ruperto
as Cipriano
as Licenciado
as Agente procuraduria
as Santiago