Luis G. Barreiro

Birth : 1886-08-31, Mexico City, Mexico

Death : 1947-05-24

History

Luis G. Barreiro was born on August 31, 1886 in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico as Luis Gonzaga Barreiro Zapian. He was an actor, known for El prisionero 13 (1933), The Accursed Island (1935) and El compadre Mendoza (1934). He died on May 24, 1947 in Mexico City.

Movies

El último chinaco
1880s-1890s rural adventure on horseback.
Yo maté a Rosita Alvírez
Based on the famous corrido, this film tells the story of Rosa, a young coquette who comes to town only to face two men, Hipolito and Marcos, who fight for her affection. Rosa plays with the feelings of both without realizing that this can end in tragedy for her and for the men. In the village dance passions are unleashed when Hipolito finds Rosa flirting with another man, to make him jealous
El tigre de Jalisco
A very ordinary little mook is manipulated into posing as a notorious bandit.
La reina del trópico
El gerente
Boom in the Moon
An American soldier (Keaton) during World War II escapes from an airplane crash over the Pacific Ocean. He arrives on a beach believing he has landed in Japan, but he is actually in Mexico. He wanders into a fishing village and is arrested under the mistaken belief that he is a wanted serial killer. Keaton and another prisoner are put in the custody of an scientist who is planning to launch a manned rocket into outer space. The two prisoners, along with the scientist’s assistant, are blasted into space but their craft lands in an isolated portion of Mexico instead. They mistake a beekeeper wearing protective headgear as an alien, while the beekeeper believes the trio (who are wearing wizard robes) are escaped lunatics. The prisoners and the scientist’s assistant are apprehended by the local police, and the matter is quickly settled. The film is notable both as Keaton’s only Mexican production and as the last time Keaton had star billing in a feature film.
Rosalinda
Two adventurers visit a small coastal village in 1850 in hopes of getting access to a shipwreck that took place 100 years earlier. Also, local girlfriends.
The Naughty Son
Delegade
A poor young man is mistaken for a millionaire when he travels to the city to fulfill his dream of being a singer.
Los misterios del hampa
Man on death row narrates the story of his life from childhood up through the criminal activities he's being executed for.
Canaima
Vellorini el malo (don José)
College-educated emigre has to get macho when he returns home to the Venezuelan outback.
La pícara Susana
Socialist librarian gets mixed up in the family life of a spoiled rich girl and her screwball family.
The Useless Life of Pito Perez
Episodes from the life of an alcoholic hobo.
La mujer sin alma
Heriberto Rebolledo
Ambitious young woman climbs the social ladder. A bit too fast.
La hija del regimiento
In Fuente Clara over ten years since any man born. The population, mostly female, are desperate and resorts to the reigning prince.
Gran Hotel
Sr. Garnier
Cantinflas is a vagrant being evicted for not paying rent, after wandering gets a job at the 'Grand Hotel' through a friend, that's confused by Count Zapatini, who is undercover in the hotel, stealing a gem making this funny movie more complicated.
Caminito alegre
An elderly homeless man is welcomed into an Old Folks' Home and becomes acquainted with the dramas of several of his companions.
Mi reino por un torero
Professional bullfighter pretends to his girlfriend that he's a doctor, because her father hates bullfighters and would never let her marry one. Meanwhile...
El mexicano
Tres hermanos
The three sons of a Mexican family emigrated to USA end up fighting in WWII.
Konga Roja
Médico
Heroic adventures in the banana industry.
Noches de ronda
Homeless singer-songwriter-piano-player gets a career boost with the support of a crippled waitress, and romance blossoms. Once he starts up the ladder of success, she starts feeling insecure about all the beautiful non-deformed women he's surrounded with.
El Jorobado
Historical drama/swashbuckler: Spain during the Inquisition.
Lo que sólo el hombre puede sufrir
¡Cuando la tierra tembló!
El anarquista
A 1942 film.
Mil estudiantes y una muchacha
Every single student at Uni flips over the young woman that lives in the building across the street from the Commons. She's a professor's daughter... Hijinks ensue.
Mi viuda alegre
A 1942 film directed by Miguel M. Delgado.
El gendarme desconocido
Empleado hotel
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.
Those Were The Days, Senor Don Simon!
Oropeza, el poeta
A not very grief stricken young widow flutters her hand fan between a dashing young soldier and an elderly politician in this Belle Epoque era musical comedy.
Lo que el viento trajo
Don Leandro
A 1941 film.
When the Children are Gone
Sebastián Ramos
Unjustly accused of theft, the noble Raimundo is forced to leave his paternal home. A new incident, caused by the ambition of his brother José, causes Raimundo to be disowned by his girlfriend María and by his father, the just and strict Don Pepe. The only one who believes in Raimundo is his mother, Dona Lupita, a woman who suffers deeply because of the wrong decisions of her children.
El jefe máximo
A 1940 film directed by Fernando de Fuentes.
Mala yerba
Don Anacleto
Plantation owner is way too much into his peasant girls. It causes problems.
Los últimos días de Pompeyo
A 1940 film directed by Rafael E. Portas.
Madre a la fuerza
Dr. Carlos Morales
A 1940 film directed by Robert Quigley.
El charro Negro
Don Chon Pérez
Masked cowboy avenger in the style of The Lone Ranger, first film in a series of four.
Viviré otra vez
Mayordomo Justo
Card-sharks blackmail a dissolute young man into participating in a big robbery; his brother takes the rap for him.
Caballo A Caballo
Two con-men end up at a country estate, where they thwart some jewel-thieves.
La bestia negra
Cheche
Comedy/drama about railroad workers.
La casa del ogro
El encapuchado
Lives of the tenants in a shabby-genteel apartment house. Miserly landlord learns valuable life lessons.
Perjura
Musical romance set in 1880s Mexico.
México lindo
Licenciado Lángara
The film of the thousand dancers, of the enchanting songs, of the sets that are splurge of luxury and beauty.
La tierra del mariachi
Young woman's father, with the help of the boyfriend he prefers for her, spreads a rumor that the guy she likes better was already married.
Águila o sol
Castro
At birth, three children are abandoned in a convent. They are Polito Sol and his siblings, Adriana and Carmelo Águila and they grow up to become the "Águila o Sol" trio. Many years later, Don Hipólito, Polito's father becomes rich and decides to search for his son. In the end he finds Polito and the Aguila siblings.
Así es mi tierra
Licenciado
With revolutionary Mexico as a backdrop, a successful local rancher returns triumphant from the war to the praise of townsfolk, and "El General" is ready to take a wife. However the senorita of choice already has fallen for a secret admirer, and a boyhood rival who is threatened by the General's popularity in turn plots against his life.
La obligación de asesinar
La honradez es un estorbo
Julián Molina
¡Esos hombres!
Don Panchito
A 1937 film.
Celos
Médico
Irrational jealousy blossoms into full-blown psychosis.
Martín Garatuza
Sixteenth-century swashbuckler helps a young woman claim a rightful inheritance in the face of opposition from her father's widow and co-conspirators.
La isla maldita
Carlos Treviño
El rayo de Sinaloa
Juarez and Maximilian
The story of Mexican President Benito Juárez and the emperor Maximilian of Habsburg and the empress Carlota.
El compadre Mendoza
Atenógenes
During Mexican Revolution, Rosalio Mendoza survives by making and winning favors from both factions, the governmental forces and Zapata's Army. His hacienda welcomes everybody, and Mendoza is considered a good friend of his guests. Eventually, the situation becomes unsustainable and he has to take sides. Betrayal and deception overcome and Mendoza's dark side surfaces
Soulless Women
Pepe's uncle
Julian gets framed for stealing a company check by his superior Carlos who's courting his wife Olga together trying to get him outa the way so they can be together, setting him up, the deed does the job and Julian lands in jail.
The Lark
Pepe
A 1933 film.
Prisoner 13
Zertuche
Colonel Carrasco's wife Marta leaves him taking his young son. The child, Juan, grows into an admirable and well-mannered young man. Having been promoted to a higher rank of power amidst the Mexican Revolution, the indulgent and corrupt Colonel accepts a bribe to free a revolutionary, Felipe Martinez, from his prison. Martinez has been sentenced to execution at the hands of a firing squad. Carrasco asks to have the revolutionary replaced by absolutely anyone. In a twist of fate, that anyone turns out to be his own long lost son Juan. Upon receiving this news, Marta races to the prison and explains the predicament to Carrasco. He subsequently desperately attempts to prevent the gunning down of his son by his very own government officials.
Shadow of Pancho Villa
Canuto aka Sanguijela
A 1933 film.
Hand to Hand
Empleado de Armando
A 1932 film.