Fanny Schiller

Fanny Schiller

Birth : 1897-08-03, Mexico City, Mexico

Death : 1971-09-26

History

Fanny Schiller Hernández (1897–1971) was an award-winning Mexican character actress, television star and also acted in operettas and musicals in the Golden Age of Mexican cinema. She won two best supporting actress awards from the Ariels and was nominated for two additional films. She was a social activist, creating the Actor's Union and inspiring the creation of “Rosa Mexicano”. She was accomplished at dubbing and was the voice of many animated characters as well as the official voice of several other notable Mexican actresses.

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Fanny Schiller

Movies

The Fearmaker
A world-famous stage performer returns home following her father's death, only to find greed and evil awaiting.
Alguien nos quiere matar
Abuela Rosalba 'La Aguerrida'
A woman is sent to Mexico to kill the person who presumptly killed her father.
Rubí
Nana
Rubi steals the fiancé from her millionaire friend Maribel, leaves her city and gets married in New York.
Las figuras de arena
Separated Mom, Dad and son all come into conflict with each other during a brief reunion visit. Everyone learns and grows.
Estafa de amor
Doña Rosita
Based on the novel by Caridad Bravo Adams.
La maestra inolvidable
Teódula
Idealistic young teacher takes a post in a small, backwoods town and dedicates her life to schooling the village's children.
No se mande, profe
Strait-laced teacher at a girl's school unleashes his wild side when he debuts as a pop singer in his spare time.
Valentín de la Sierra
Sor Ye-yé
Madre de Juan
Maria is a young orphan who lives with her wealthy aunt. Maria sings in a cocktail bar with his friends, who form a rock band, and enjoy the night with them. One of his friends, Ernesto, is in love with her, though she does not seem to feel the same about him. In fact, multiple existential doubts and feel a strange emptiness in his life suddenly drive to enter a convent as a novice, breaking Ernestos' heart. However, with her cheerlul character, open and rebellious, not appear to conform to life in the cloister, and especially have problems with the novices director , who often punished for trying to take the right path. In the convent, which also functions as children's hospital, she meets a doctor with which it takes quite right for the contrast between his two characters, but his way with love and mutual respect.
Los alegres Aguilares
Identical cousins with mismatched Odd Couple personalities.
Savage Sunday
Repressed middle-aged Catholic gets into a troublesome relationship with the prostitute next door and her little boy.
La muerte es puntual
Doña Carmela
Lurid crime drama about drug traffic.
El temerario
Crooked dude schemes to deprive stepdaughter of her inheritance after her mother dies.
El cachorro
El Cachorro is falsely accused of two murders; right after he's arrested flor those crimes, another murder is committed and he has to clear himself of that accusation. We never find out what happened about the first two deaths.
La risa de la ciudad
Romanticized, glamored-up neorealism, life in a squatter's-rights shantytown.
El norteño
Lawman on horseback cracks a case involving stolen gold bullion, the title to a mine, an evil twin and a plucky pre-adolescent boy. First in a series.
El tejedor de milagros
Pueblerina
Arnulfo is a man weaving baskets. Remedios has given birth in front of the house of a woman and her aid, but the village is spread the word that the child born as a child God and an atheist would think exploit to their advantage the "miracle ".
Nostradamus: The Genie of Darkness
Rebecca
In order to stop a vampire from terrorizing the countryside, some locals decide to break into his coffin at night and steal his ashes. Complications ensue.
La emboscada mortal
Third film of a trilogy -- all the secondary tasks have been completed and cowboy-justice-action-hero El Norteno settles the score with those cheating cheaters who deprived the young heiress of her inheritance.
La barranca sangrienta
Doña Blanca (as Fanny Shyler)
Alberto and Leonor have a son, they find out that one of the masked men who attacked them was her nephew, things get difficult for them when they find out about a testament left by her grandmother.
El muchacho de Durango
Western, first of two in series. Sequel: Alias El Alacran.
La venganza del resucitado
Two families have made peace after generations of feuding... but some bad-hat strangers have come to town looking for the buried treasure that sparked the whole mess.
Los Jóvenes
Carmelita, Madre de 'El Gato'
A gang member is attracted to a beautiful young woman, but approaching her only causes problems that will be difficult to solve.
The Trial of the Vivanco Ladies
Doña Conchita
After being arrested the two adorable grannies spend some time in jail and then stand trial for the robberies they've committed.
Póker de reinas
A musical comedy about a group of pretty girls who meet in Mexico and decide to break into showbiz and make a pact and promise not to get involved with men. But they all are in love with different guys and that complicates things.
Escuela de verano
Aging lecher struggles to launch an institution of higher learning for young ladies.
The Woman and the Beast
La Mariposa
Dedicated, saintly nurse has a twin sister who is a Bad Girl.
El zarco
Upperclass girl and notorious bandit leader fall in love. She agrees to "let him kidnap her" so they can be together, but she gets disillusioned when she sees the sordidness of his Camp Of Banditry. Also he keeps killing off members of her family.
El Zorro Escarlata
Witch
A bizarre Mexican film in which a Zorro confronts horror creatures. It is part of a series characterised by hybrid elements of this kind.
El gran espectáculo
El regreso del monstruo
La bruja / doña Rebeca
Mad scientist is trying to transplant the soul of an animated, talking skeleton into a living body. Also, there's a monster. Number three of three in Zorro Escarlata series.
The Black Scorpion
Florentina
Giant scorpions wreck havoc after being released due to volcanic activity.
Pablo y Carolina
Torn between three lovers and bored by her typewriting classes, Carolina (Dillian) writes a passionate love letter to fictional Pablo Garza from Monterrey. The letter is sent by mistake and received by real Pablo Garza's girlfriend. Pablo himself (Infante) flies to Mexico City looking for an explanation. Carolina is rehearsing a musical show for her school dressed as a man. When Pablo meets her, she pretends to be her brother Anibal, a shy and feminine sailor. Pablo likes Anibal and invites "him" to a cabaret. After that, Carolina falls inlove with Pablo but resists to unveil her real self. Meanwhile, Pablo feels himself confused, because young "Anibal" is cute as an angel and has "those blue eyes..."
Felicidad
Directed by Alfonso Corona Blake
A Woman's Devotion
Señora Reidl
An artist suffering from mental problems from his experiences during the war goes to Acapulco on his honeymoon. Soon young women are turning up dead in the area, and the ex-GI comes to believe he might be responsible, as he has long stretches where he can't remember anything.
Enemigos
One son takes after mom, one son takes after dad. They don't get along, and the family splits into two households.
Wild Heart
Catalina de Molnar
On the Caribbean island of Martinique, two half-brothers are involved in the entanglements of a frivolous and calculating young woman.
Locura pasional
Wife-killer narrates flashbacks about how his obsessive jealousy led him to tragedy.
The Treasure of Pancho Villa
Laria Morales
In 1915, an American adventurer joins the supporters of Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa.
Padre contra hijo
Aunt Domitila
Eloisa works hard, sewing, to his son Juan de Dios. He learns that he is the bastard son of Cecilio, who owns almost a whole town named: San Juan de Dios, Durango.
Las engañadas
Doña Carlota
Irresponsible playboy seduces a decent young lady with a fake wedding; he continues being a creep for the next 12 or 15 years.
La fuerza del deseo
Doña Remedios
Wicked girl uses nude modeling as a way to seduce a wealthy painter into marriage, while still trying to keep an artschool stud piece on the side.
A Life in the Balance
Carmen Martínez
A widower's young son leads the police to a killer of sinners in Mexico City.
Maternidad imposible
Mother and child are separated during the Spanish Civil War. Believing the mother to be dead, the child is sent to a refugee orphanage in Mexico, then adopted. Meanwhile, Mama recovers from her injuries, and...
Pecado Mortal
Flora
Juan Manuel intends his wife Clara, who is blind, sign the will in his favor, but she refuses. With them lives Soledad, goddaughter Clara. A day comes Carlos, nephew of Juan Manuel, who is interested in Soledad. Carlos is going to study medicine in the United States and maintains correspondence with Soledad. Juan Manuel shows interest in Soledad but prevents Clara meet her. She is the daughter of Clara, who hid that Juan Manuel had killed the father of Soledad and also caused her blindness.
Beware of Love
Isabel
Salvador accompanied by two friends of his father whom he calls uncles, they arrive at a fair in the village, there he meets Ana. When he wins a bet he is paid with a mortgaged house, to his surprise upon entering the hom he realizes that Ana and her mother live in it, provoking a funny entanglement with an explosive final.
Mulata
Doña Rosario
In the port of Havana, two biracial children, Mateo (Ricardo Román) and Caridad (Ninón Sevilla) grow up together. She is the daughter of a white man who died in a shipwreck and of a black laundress of African origin. Over the years, Mateo falls for Caridad, but she doesn't love him back because she has fallen for a Mexican captain, Martin (Pedro Armendáriz), who she happened to meet at the port. The captain also fell in love with Caridad and proposes that they live together and she accepts. Caridad works in a cabaret in the port and the owner, Guevara (René Cardona), feels an attraction for the girl, and in a moment of jealousy, tries to kill Martin. Martin falls into financial trouble and has to mortgage his boat to Guevara. When Martin returns to Veracruz, Mexico, Guevara feels that he's the new owner of Caridad.
El casto Susano
Father and son are sober, responsible pillars of the community in their home-town... but they make frequent trips to the city.
Cantando nace el amor
Comical misadventures of a film crew trying to get their damn musical filmed.
Camelia
Doncella de Camila (uncredited)
A woman of low estate is beloved of a promising young man, but sacrifices her love for him in order to protect his future and reputation.
Lágrimas robadas
Mexican feature film
Reportaje
Party guest
Reporters compete for cash prize awarded for biggest scoop on New Year's Eve.
Sombrero
Doña Fela
Mexican love stories follow a dying man, a bullfighter's sister and lovers from feuding villages.
Fruto prohibido
Señorita directora
A writer is given custody of his editor's daughter after she is orphaned. Once she grows up, they become romantically involved.
The Naked Woman
Violeta Bello
A circus dancer marries a famous singer, but is threatened when a figure from her past blackmails her.
Por ellas aunque mal paguen
Doña Victoria
Don Anastacio, an aristocrat passing through a rough patch,He will make marry his daughter Isabel with wealthy rancher. Isabel and her family refuse to work, Jose Manuel takes them to the ranch, where they are forced to work for food.
Angélica
Gangster-y club-owner vs. chorus girl. Blackmail, murder...
La loca
Señora González de la Cueva
Mentally-ill woman went over the edge 15 years earlier, as a result of family traumas and the disappearance of her daughter. Now, present day, evil relatives are trying to take control of money she's inherited...
El beisbolista fenómeno
Doña Justa Carmona
The soul of a dead baseball player finds a human host to occupy so it can achieve some career goals it hadn't accomplished during its lifetime. Riotous hijinks ensue.
Stronghold
Mrs. Stevens
In 1850s Mexico, the beautiful owner of a silver mine is kidnapped by a bandit leader, who needs money to finance his revolt against the Emperor Maximilian.
Furia roja
Señora Navarro Stevens
Mother and daughter return to Mexico to escape the US Civil War... and get caught up in the conflict between the French army and the fighters for independence.
Nosotras las sirvientas
Romantic comedy: housemaid and her employer's oldest son.
Crimen y castigo
Mamá de Ramón
Adaptation of Dostoyevsky's novel about a student who plans a conceptual murder and then butts heads with a police detective.
Una gringuita en México
Tía Rosa
A USA girl decides to vacation in Mexico and experience first hand all the stereotypical scenes she's seen in movies. When she gets there, everything isn't all charros and bandidos, though -- surprise, surprise!
La mujer que yo amé
A musician is injured and threatened for defending a girl and decides to go to the capital, where fame and success achieved. She is glad to know that he has succeeded, however, has become a street prostitute prone to paralysis. Finally one day he takes courage and decides to look for, since it has become invalid again ...
Guardián, el perro salvador
Poor woman and her daughter hire on to rich family as servants. Husband/Daddy comes back from his foreign travels and crazy stuff happens! Death! Jail sentences! Inheritances!
Red Rain
Elisa's aunt
Military leader is appointed to local government, becomes overly despotic in his leadership.
La negra Angustias
Doña Chole
When her father dies, a young Afro-Mexican woman joins the Revolution, the way he was planning to do, and becomes the leader of a Zapatista battalion.
Duelo en las montañas
Madre de Esperanza
1910: Revolutionary leader escapes military, hides in small town, falls in love.
Curvas peligrosas
Mexican feature film
Las puertas del presidio
Madre de Martin
Unscrupulous boss frames an employee for a robbery so he can make time with the guy's sister.
Nosotros los rateros
Madre de Ludovico
A young woman, a thief and a lawyer find themselves in the same hotel room without planning it. Mercedes, the thief, has a brother who, by mistake, kidnaps the lawyer Alberto, which will cause a mess.
Opio
Bamba
Doña Ofelia de Cacho
Secreto entre mujeres
A big ol' player has different stages of a thing happening with each of the five women in a household.
Pobres, pero sinvergüenzas
Comedy duo try to raise a foundling baby.
Salon Mexico
Señorita prefecta
Mercedes (Marga Lopez) dances for money with the clients of Salon Mexico, a famous cabaret in Mexico City. Her younger sister Beatriz (Derbez) studies in an expensive private school, paid by Mercedes. Obviously, young Beatriz doesn't know about her sister's job. Troubles begin when Mercedes wins a danzon contest with Paco (Acosta), her pimp. Paco refuses to share the prize with Mercedes, so she steals the money when he's sleeping.
The Cockfighter
In Michoacan in the 1920s, Gabriel, a young farmer and champion cockfighter, finds himself in violent opposition to Roman, who not only wants to beat Gabriel's fighting cock, but to steal Gabriel's wife Rosa.
¡Ay, Palillo, no te rajes!
Political satire about fixed elections in a small town.
Algo flota sobre el agua
María Justina
Labor disputes and love triangles among coastal-village fishermen.
Señora Tentación
Famous singer hires a pianist/songwriter on the strength of his compositions, then seduces him away from his fiancee and from the paths of righteousness in general.
May God Forgive Me
Olga
Concentration Camp survivor tries to start over with a new identity.
La hermana impura
Outsider comes to visit a remote village as a representative of an oil company. Once there, he discovers that the man who owns the land he's interested in has a daughter who's identical to a bad, troubled woman from his bad, troubled past.
Encadenada (El yugo)
A marriage becomes a living hell when hubby's pathologies start surfacing.
A media luz
Fru-Fru
Tango singer exploits the women in his life. Learns a valuable life-lesson.
Pervertida
A country girl finds herself working as a prostitute, but her true love, a musician, comes looking for her. She must fight a cabaret dancer for his love.
La viuda celosa
Young-ish widow forbids herself the pleasure of male company in deference to the deceased.
Cantaclaro
A rootless wilderness-dude in the Venezuelan outback gets caught up in some human dramas despite himself.
La casa de la zorra
The owner of an illegal gambling casino witnesses all the problems in the life of her dissolute son and finally acts in a way that'll help him rehabilitate himself.
Canaima
Gallineta
College-educated emigre has to get macho when he returns home to the Venezuelan outback.
Flor de durazno
Doña Encarnación
City slicker scams on young farmgirl while her fiance's in USA on a work permit.
Tuya en cuerpo y alma
Deborah
Las abandonadas
Ninón
A young woman, abandoned by her womanizing fiancé, is forced to provide for the upbringing of her son and combat the difficulties of being an unmarried mother during the strife of early 20-century Mexico.
Star Scandal
Paloma
The story of the adventures and entanglements of the son of a famous film producer who is forced to study law.
La monja alférez
Doña Úrsula
A 17th century woman, imprisoned for fighting in a bar, recounts her past to a priest. She tells of her father teaching her how to fence, of being sent to a convent by her aunt when her father died, of escaping by dressing as a man, and of her life as a man following the escape.
La corte de faraón
Viuda
Remotely based on a famous Spanish zarzuela of 1910, this lavish, daring sex comedy was filmed on a gigantic art deco set that suggests ancient Egypt repurposed for an Astaire and Rogers musical. The Pharaoh, played here as a henpecked husband by the popular comedian Roberto Soto, seeks a virginal slave girl as a bride for his general Potiphar (Fernando Cortés), but Potiphar is impotent and the slave girl (played by Mapy Cortés in a swirl of high-spirited sexuality) has some ideas of her own.
Mexico of my Memories
Aunt Gertrudis
After listening to the waltz "Carmelita", dedicated to his wife, President Diaz instructs Don Susanito seeking the composer Chucho Flores to give her a piano. Don Susanito located Chucho, a bohemian who lives drunk and surrounded by poets and artists. Don Susanito was named patron protector of artists and aspiring young stars of the stage, which leads to a series of adventures in the middle of songs, dances and loves.
La Guerra de los Pasteles
Musical comedy about a pastry chef and his daughter in the 1830s
Mi lupe y mi caballo
Santa
Elvira Gómez
Santa is a beautiful and very humble young girl living in Chimalistac, a small and quiet spot south of the 1930's Mexico City. After Santa is cheated by arrogant soldier Marcelino, she's rejected by her family and friends and expelled of Chimalistac. Santa finds shelter in a whorehouse and becomes a cinic and bitter woman, mistreated by bullfighter "Jarameno" and silently loved by blind pianist Hipolito
Alejandra
Rita
There's a lot of confusion about who Alejandra's parents are, and until those questions are resolved, she may not be able to get married.
Del rancho a la capital
Rich city family is close to bankruptcy; rich country cousins come to visit.
A Macabre Legacy
Matilde
A plastic surgeon goes mad when he discovers that his wife have an affair. He fakes her death and disfigure her and locks her in the cellar.
Una luz en mi camino
A blind songwriter struggles to get his work published, and meanwhile a girl he's sweet on disappears from his life when her employer puts the moves on her.
No te engañes corazón
Refugio (uncredited)
No te engañes corazón (released in English as Don't Fool Yourself Dear) is the first full-feature film of Cantinflas after becoming a star of the carpa circuit (folk theater). It was also one of the earliest films of Sara García and Carlos Orellana and the first where they share the screen. Don Boni (Orellana) is diagnosed with a deadly disease and decides to spend his last days doing good deeds. He leaves his wife and decides to help people. He then gets drunk and wakes up with a winning lottery ticket and realizes that the doctor who diagnosed him has been sent to prison for fraud.