Manuel Medel

Manuel Medel

Birth : 1906-01-05, Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico

Death : 1997-03-14

History

Manuel Medel (1906–1997) was a Mexican film actor. A comedian, during the late 1930s he teamed up with the rising star Cantinflas for three films.

Profile

Manuel Medel
Manuel Medel

Movies

Como Si Fuéramos Novios
Andrew and Laura are a young spanish couple. Laura is blind and Andrew try's to raise enough money for her eye surgery so she can see again.
La mugrosita
Orphaned boy Andrés and his best friend Maria live in one of the poorest parts of the city. Nevertheless, their hearts are full of love and happiness. Kind-hearted Sócrates has raised the boy as if he were his own son. When Andrés gets to know that Sócrates is about to become evicted, he assumes the identity of the landlord's long lost son. The plan backfires, because the landlord wants to take the boy away from Sócrates. The friendship of Andrés and Maria threatens to break apart. Written by Anonymous
Maten al León
Gustavo Anzures
A pilot is called back to his homeland, the Latin American republic of Arepa, by the rich islanders to participate in a complot to kill the dictator known as El León (The Lion).
The Living Forces
It narrates the phenomenon of the Mexican Revolution, satirically reflected through what happens in a town far from the places where the true Revolution was fiercely fought.
Teatro del crimen
Pancholín
In a music hall has committed a murder, the police will also find the murderer.
Pito Pérez se va de bracero
Alcoholic hobo drifts across the border and has a series of random adventures.
Una gitana en México
Pancho
The Useless Life of Pito Perez
Episodes from the life of an alcoholic hobo.
La mujer sin cabeza
Satanás
Mexican Fu Manchu adaptation.
El espectro de la novia
Satanás
British-born David T. Bamberg was a magician who went by the stage name of Fu Manchu. He was so popular in Mexico and South America that he was given the opportunity to star in a series of crime / horror / mystery films between 1943 and 1949. This is one of them.
Qué hombre tan simpático
Señor Feito
Amable is the drinking buddy of Paquito, a former medical student who plays Fanny's love, a cabaret singer and also with Conchita, a showgirl. One day, Paquito receives a telegram that his uncle Pancho vayaa asked to see his wife and other medical eminence to heal him his kidney ailment. Among all a hoax to mount Paquino not lose the inheritance from his uncle.
El Signo de la Muerte
Medel
Two journalists, Carlos and Lola, investigate the murder of a young woman whose body appeared with her heart torn out, in what seems to be a human sacrifice. The investigation leads the reporters to a museum, whose director is the famous Doctor Gallardo.
Águila o sol
Carmelo Águila
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
Procopio
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.