Fernando Soto

Fernando Soto

Birth : 1911-04-15, Puebla, Mexico

Death : 1980-05-11

History

Fernando Soto was a Mexican film actor. He was born on April 15, 1911 in Puebla, Mexico as Fernando Soto Astol. He was an actor, known for Campeón sin corona (1946), Extraña cita (1947) and La presidenta municipal (1975). He died on May 11, 1980 in Mexico City, Mexico.

Profile

Fernando Soto

Movies

Como gallos de pelea
Young man returns from college to his family estate; when he learns that a rival family is trying to take over all available acreage, he gradually warms up to the idea of defending his turf.
Juan Armenta, el repatriado
Eusebio Mendoza (Maguey)
Juan returns home to Mexico after working in the USA for awhile, and gets caught up in cowboy problems among his townsfolk.
La presidenta municipal
Don Chepito Domínguez
La India Maria becomes the municipal president due to a ballot typo.
Jalisco nunca pierde
Class distinctions are an obstacle for a guy trying to woo his gal of choice.
Faith, Hope and Charity
Blind (segment "Fe")
Three episodes. Faith: a woman is attacked. Hope: a fakir is crucified. Charity: a woman faces bureaucracy.
Tu camino y el mio
She rejects him, but he's there for her, even after she gets married and then is abandoned by her babydaddy. Remake of Bajo El Cielo De Mexico (1958) (and also 1937?).
Tacos al Carbón
El ciclamatos
Tacos al carbón is a mexican movie released on june 8th 1972 on Mexico City.
Campeones del ring
El Quelite
Eustaquio
Agapito, leader of the revolutionary movement of his state, comes to a town, kills all the federales, and gets a girl who was promised to him for his heroic deeds.
El as de oros
A young charro's head is turned by a glamourpuss from the big city, and he has a hard time putting his life back together after she kicks him to the curb.
El corrido del hijo desobediente
Father and son butt heads over a mutual girlfriend, mostly.
Seguiré tus pasos
José María is an orphan child who lives in desperation until brother José finds him. The priest helps the boy channel his anger and transform his sadness into energy and love.
El hombre de la furia
Adventure story,. set in the Venezuelan jungles.
Alazán y enamorado
Cleopatro (as Fernando Soto 'Mantequilla')
Rom-com about two horses. And some humans.
The Waltzes came from Vienna and the Children from Paris
Unmarried opera singer has a baby, and her friends convince her to pass it off as the grandchild of a wealthy old lady.
Guitarras lloren guitarras
Juan from Altamira, Tamaulipas, arrives at the train station in the capital and is assaulted by Gus. As he finds only ten dollars in his wallet, he believes that Juan brings more money and offers him accommodation in his room to pay the rent. Juan is dedicated to singing and Gus makes his representative. Juan is successful singing together with Susana on stage and radio Azteca, but she does not correspond to his love. As she wants to succeed alone, she goes to Guadalajara but without success. Juan helps her and when she gets a heart illness, she agrees to marry him.
Guadalajara en verano
Jacinto
Tourists and exchange students find romance.
Así amaron nuestros padres
Elderly roue interferes in the love life of a young woman because she's secretly his daughter. Remake of En Tiempos De Don Porfirio.
Vuelve el Norteño
Two rival gangs of outlaws are terrorizing a small town; el Comandante and his sidekicks pit them against each other and pick up the pieces.
Juan guerrero
Government official in charge of land grants for tenant farmers gets into a ruckus with the feisty daughter of a landower whose estate is up for redistribution.
El mariachi canta
Toño
Rivalry and romance between the leaders of a male mariachi band and a female one.
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.
La máscara de jade
Casquillo
Jungle adventure about the search for a lost treasure.
Asi Es Mi Mexico
Stage-struck small town girl is invited to join a vaudeville troupe.
El charro Negro contra la banda del cuervo
Masked hero on horseback,. number 1 of short-lived series.
Yo, el mujeriego
Sixto
Playboy bachelor poses as a woman's husband to protect her daughter's reputation at a private school. Remake of El Mil Amores (1955).
The Invasion of the Vampires
Crescencio
A doctor and his assistant hunt down a vampire named Count Frankenhausen, who is terrorizing the populace.
Bring Me the Vampire
Aldo
A group of would-be beneficiaries gather for the reading of a will, and discover that they must spend the night in a spooky castle to gain their inheritance. A spooky housekeeper and a man who seems to be a vampire are just two of the obstacles that might deter them.
Los parranderos
Romantic complications and silliness when two farmhands are sent to the next town to track down their employer's daughter and baby-mama from thirty years earlier.
Vuelven los Argumedo
The Argumedo cousins have their clothes stolen while taking a shower, and they must find it at all costs, because there's a winning lottery ticket in their pockets.
House of the Frights
Aldo
Half-dozen comic actors in a spooky house.
Los amigos Maravilla en el mundo de la aventura
Little cowboy-fella, believed to be an orphan, helps his sheriff buddy to stamp out crime. Second of two in series.
Dos gallos y dos gallinas
Two brothers are trying to raise emergency cash by doing cockfights and horse-races. They meet two sisters.
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.
Lástima de ropa
Millionaire goes slumming, meets a girl...
El Zorro vengador
Hero on horseback.
El justiciero vengador
White-hat with two sidekicks masquerades as a priest to break the stranglehold a blackhat has on a small town.
La máscara roja
Young heiress discovers irregularities in the handling of her late father's mine and goes into action-hero mode to correct them.
El malvado Carabel
Frustrated salaryman responds to career setbacks by embarking on a life of crime.
El rayo de Jalisco
Mantequilla
The new Sheriff is framed for a series of stagecoach robberies, but he succeeds in finding the real thieves.
Juventud sin Dios (La vida del padre Lambert)
An American priest is hired as coach at a Mexican university; he trains his students in the ways of American football and moral rectitude. You ain't gonna sire no babies out of wedlock on Father Lambert's watch, no siree!
El jinete enmascarado
Horseman. With a mask on. First in a series, "El Norteño."
El analfabeto
'El Sapo'
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.
La comezón del amor
Romantic comedy about two school-teachers with show-biz aspirations.
Los resbalosos
Border town is overrun with wastrels and scofflaws, so the City Council decides to hire a notorious gunslinger to help them clean up their streets.
Bala de Plata en el pueblo maldito
Cowboy hero tries to track down the deed to Pappy's mine.
Dos Maridos baratos
Two showgirls need to find husbands in order to collect an inheritance.
Yo no me caso compadre
Neither party pf an arranged marriage wants to comply with their parents' expectations, and he & she both come up with plans to sabotage the proceedings.
Me importa poco
Anthropologist goes to small town to do field work supporting her theories about the primitive/subhuman origins of machismo.
Blame Me
A Mexican steer rancher goes to Spain to get some bulls he bought but that were never delivered. He meets a flamenco dancer during his stay in Madrid and falls for her.
Acapulcan
Gloria sells dolls in benefit of UNICEF and is interested in putting on an international show. In a hotel in Acapulco the ranchero Javier, the Muslims Mustafa and Ali, the Brazilian Mr. Carioca and the charro José Lorenzo meet to carry out the project. Among the men there will be a series of entanglements to dispute the love of the young woman.
Vístete Cristina
Aspiring big-band singer who doubles as an art forger takes in a teenaged runaway who wants to be a showgirl.
La venenosa
Amor se dice cantando
Mexican singer touring Argentina wins a country estate in a poker game.
Beauty contest
Mom and Dad convince studious college girl to enroll in a beauty pageant, hoping to win big cash prize at the end of the rainbow.
La feria de San Marcos
Two men and two women meet and pair off (m/w x 2) during the town Festival in San Marcos. Later, weddings.
Fiesta en el corazón
Spoiled rich kid from a cattle ranch is pretending to study at university so he can hang out in the city and live large... until his family forces him to straighten up his act; he moves back to the ranch, accompanied with some urban-fauna hangers-on,, a-a-a-and...
Rogaciano el huapanguero
Itinerant folk-singer returns to his home town, gets caught in two intersecting love triangles. It ends badly.
Al compás del rock and roll
When a romantic orchestra won't change their boring style into something more modern to get gigs, their girlfriends split and form a rock and roll orchestra that quickly becomes talk of the town. The guys are furious since they are relegated to their opening act as a comical number, but when the League of Virtue protests against the new satanic music, the old-fashioned music seems to win the day.
Let the Swallows Touch Me
A Mexican singer travels the world and finds love in Argentina.
Pies de gato
Sequel to "Los bandidos de Rio Frio," reopening all the subplots from the first movie to make each of the narrative arcs swing unmistakably to justice.
Alma de Acero
Pancho
Inspired by Alexander Dumas's novel The Corsican Brothers, Alma de Acero presents a delightful spin on the classic story of twin brothers (both played by Luis Aguilar) and their contrasting lives. As a singer in a nightclub, one brother has chosen a life of peaceful simplicity; the other, however, has chosen a troublesome lifestyle that leads to numerous run-ins with the law, forcing the vocalist to risk his own life to save his sibling.
La fiera
Young rancher who's trying to avenge his father's murder is framed by an enemy for an unrelated crime.
Tú y las nubes
Cupido pierde a Paquita
Rich family's maid thinks that maybe if she plays her cards right, she can land a moneybags husband. There's also a really cute auto mechanic, though, and...
El tesoro de la muerte
Series western, Masked Avenger on horseback.
Illusion Travels by Streetcar
Tobías Hernández 'Tarrajas'
Confronted with the unfortunate news that their favorite Streetcar, no. 133, is going to be decommissioned, two Municipal Transit workers get drunk and decide to "take 'er for one last spin," as it were. Unfortunately, the "one last spin" ends up being an all-night and all-day scramble to stay out of trouble, as they are confronted with situation after sometimes bizarre situation that prevents them from returning the "borrowed" Streetcar!
Oh Pain, Little Pain, Pain!
Carmela is a Gypsy singer who sells lottery tickets. She meets two penniless Mexican brothers and they buy a ticket between the three: if it is awarded, could share the prize and go to Mexico, they to return to their homeland and her for bullfighter boyfriend whom has no news. The fate accompanies them, but, on reaching Mexico, her boyfriend rejects her. This way, she ends up acting in a cafe where reaps many successes.
La segunda mujer
Couple with preteen children break up; Dad meets a new woman and they marry. The children grow up, and they're spoiled-y rich kids flirting with criminal lawlessness. Cue the violins.
Pepe El Toro
Antonio Feliciano de la Rosa
The simple life and the values ​​of loyalty and solidarity of the poor people in the environment of professional boxing, is the plot of this film, where Pepe el Toro shows the effort and tragedies that are experienced in this profession.
La isla de las mujeres
Spoofy south-sea adventure, mostly about the hot babes.
Here Come The Freeloaders
Authorities close down a restaurant after a violent crime is committed on the premises; the employees look for new jobs and try to track down the murderer.
Me traes de un ala
Narciso
To conquer the beautiful vedette Rosita, journalist Tin Tan is subject to her whims. Fired along with his friend Narciso from the newspaper they worked, Tin Tan trying to sell a movie plot. A woman looking to buy it and Tin Tan will visit her in a gloomy mansion where a mess is unleashed.
Letters to Ufemia
Small-town rom-com from a female POV.
Tercio de quites
Spanish bullfighter and a Mexican one have a friendly rivalry spanning decades.
La estatua de carne
Sculptor becomes infatuated with model. Everyone suffers.
Los enredos de una gallega
Cándida is a Galician who lives in Mexico and has been selling lottery tickets. Her dream is to buy an inn, but doesn't have enough money. In her quest for trying to get it, she runs into a scammer. In a stroke of luck, she wins first prize in the lottery, but the misfortune is merciless with her ​​because she can't find the ticket.
Daughter of Deceit
Angelito
In the drama, a father, firmly believing that the baby daughter in his arms is not his own, abandons her upon the doorstep of the town drunk. Many years pass, and the man finds himself continually wracked with guilt about deserting her.
La tienda de la esquina
Shady characters try to buy the corner shop and destroy a decent family's livelihood.
Si usted no puede, yo sí
Out-of-work actor and his burglar pal get jobs at an agency that pledges to do things the client doesn't want to deal with. Meanwhile, their boss is being stalked by seven Italian brothers who want revenge for something that happened to their great great grandfather.
Adventures of a New Rich Man
Orange Blossoms for your Wedding
Rosendo (as Fernando Soto 'Mantequilla')
During the time of the Mexican Revolution, the eldest daughter of a conservative family must respect the decision of her parents, and follow the traditions of using the wedding flowers her mother used.
Esposa o amante
El amor no es ciego
Matrimonio y mortaja
A series of misadventures leaves a city slicker trapped into a shotgun marriage with a country gal. Back home in Mexico City, he tries to scam his way out of his marriage and set things right with his previous fiance...
Cuando los hijos odian
Woman and her daughter try to get on with their lives and run their family bakery while dealing with abusive alcoholic husband/father and other family problems.
Dos gallos de pelea
Two small-town hell-raisers get so out of hand the authorities have to step in to rein them in.
The Seminarian
Toño
Returning to his home town, seminarist Miguel is forced to trade the robes for a charro costume in order to solve several problems that appear in his way, including the female kind.
El charro y la dama
Bratty rich girl plays practical jokes on the man that she'll obviously end up marrying.
El diablo no es tan diablo
Gender-reversal comedy about husband and wife trading places.
Rondalla
Romantic triangle on the hacienda.
Hay lugar para... dos
Union-organizing and labor/management conflicts among Mexico City bus-drivers. Sequel to "Esquina, Bajan!"
La venenosa
El misterioso
A snake-charmer falls in love with a circus trapeze artist who trains her and has her debut in this discipline.
Dicen que soy mujeriego
Bartolo
Pedro has had many lovers but he only loves one of them, but this romance stop going on for his flirts with other women.
You the Rich
Antonio Feliciano de la Rosa
Pepe el Toro is married to Celia la Chorreada and they have two children.
La bandida
Roving cowboy good-guys defend a farm family from the outlaw gang that's trying to take over their homestead.
En la Hacienda de la Flor
Sequel to "Juan Charrasqueado." Juan Jr. discovers that the woman he's engaged to is the daughter of the man who killed his father.
The Three Huastecos
Cuco
This is the story of three brothers (a priest, a soldier and an outlaw) that are raised separately by their godfathers once their mother dies. They cross their paths again when the soldier and the priest move into two towns near the town the outlaw lives in. The drama will unfold once the three brothers meet each other.
Espuelas de oro
Adventures on horseback. Plus romances.
Juan Charrasqueado
Hard-living horse-trainer has a thing with an aristocratic woman... but her brothers aren't happy to see her involved with someone beneath her station.
¡Esquina bajan...!
Constantino Reyes Almanza "Regalito"
Soy charro de Rancho Grande
Olote
Carita de cielo
Chilaquiles
A young woman is brought before a prosecutor after stealing food. She is defended by Julio, a university professor who decides to exhibit her as an example in his class on the theory of theft. Then he hires her as a housemaid. Her face and charms won’t only save her family from serious quandaries; they will also inspire the professor’s love.
The Three Garcia
Tranquilino
Ruled by a tough grandma, the Garcías are three charro cousins who fall in love with young American-born Lupita and fight for her love until grandma quiets them.
Vuelven los García
Tranquilino
Ruled by a tough grandma, the Garcías are three charro cousins who fall in love with young American-born Lupita and fight for her love until grandma quiets them.
La barca de oro
Ranch-heiress chooses a husband.
Humo en los ojos
Heated rivalry over a bar-girl in a dive-y waterfront saloon.
La reina del trópico
Pizarrín
El barchante Neguib
Piloncillo
Small-town Arabic family moves to Mexico City to live with the oldest son who made his career there. Follow-up (not a direct sequel) to El baisano Jalil (1942).
Champion Without Crown
El chupa (as Fernando Soto 'Mantequilla')
A young ice cream vendor, Roberto Terranova, witnesses a child being beaten and comes to his aid by physically overpowering the aggressor. His strength and natural ability catches the eye of a well-known boxing trainer. Considering him a diamond in the rough, he aims to put Roberto in the professional ring. But Roberto finds that his personal challenges must be overcome before he can achieve professional greatness.
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.
Como México no hay dos
Two farmworkers emigrate to USA to work on a Texas ranch, then go home and put their lives back in order.
El rebelde (Romance de Antaño)
Bandido
A landowner indirect kills another because of false rumors. Time passes. The son of the dead want the offender to pay their share. It becomes generous bandit, but then he meets the daughter of his enemy and falls in love.
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
Compadre
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.
Ni sangre ni arena
Charifas
Cantinflas enjoys the bullfight show, and wants to crash in every of these spectacles. Also, there's a professional bullfighter, Manolete, who is identical to Cantinflas. Manolete has to give a bullfight show in a village, but Cantinflas arrives first as a stowaway in a train, and he'll be mistake by the real bullfighter. Cantinflas will give us a demonstration of courage.
México lindo
Taxi driver
The film of the thousand dancers, of the enchanting songs, of the sets that are splurge of luxury and beauty.