Manuel Noriega

Nascimento : 1880-07-24, Colombres, Asturias, España

Morte : 1961-08-12

História

Manuel "Manolo" Noriega, (July 24, 1880 - August 12, 1961) was a stage and film actor, screenwriter, and film director. Born Manolo Noriega Ruiz in Spain, he worked in live theatre for many years, performing in his native Spain as well in Mexico, Cuba, and the United States. A pioneer in silent film, he made his first screen appearance in 1907. It is believed some of his early silent films have been lost but his main body of work began in talkies in the early 1930s, performing in close to two hundred sound films. Noriega earned an Ariel Award nomination for "Best Actor in a minor role" for his performance in the 1946 film, "Pepita Jiménez." Married to Hortensia Castañeda, their daughter Carmen became a singer who married Tito Guízar. Manuel Noriega died in Mexico City in 1961.

Filmes

Macario
Abuelo enfermo (uncredited)
O pobre e faminto camponês Macario sente saudades de uma boa refeição. Então, no Dia de Finados, a esposa prepara um peru assado. Na hora do jantar, Macario recebe a vista de três espíritos: o Diabo, Deus e a Morte. Cada um quer dividir o peru com Macario, mas ele só oferece a comida a Morte. Como recompensa, a Morte dá a ele uma garrafa de água capaz de curar qualquer doença. Logo Macario está mais saudável do que qualquer um na cidade. Mas isso desperta a atenção da população e, mais que isso, causa medo a todos, levando Macario a uma verdadeira inquisição.
O Rio e a Morte
Pueblerino (uncredited)
A useless and bloody vendetta has been going on for ages between two families in this Mexican village. Men, sons, have killed each other for generations, for a so-called conception of honor in a revenge that never ends since it is also triggered by people of the village. Now, today, there are only two sons left, one in each family. One has become a doctor in the big city and his culture is modern. The other last one - of the other family - hasn't left the village and is waiting for the doctor to come "home" as he plans to kill him, to settle this war on this matter of honor once and for all. And the people of the village want blood.
The Abduction
Don Gonzalo (uncredited)
In a small Mexican village the news shock neighbors, Ricardo Alfaro, a wealthy local rancher has disappeared without a trace. Taking advantage of the circumstance, Aurora Campos, a strong woman with overwhelming beauty, convinces the authorities to sell her the property in exchange for twelve thousand dollars. Soon after, when Ricardo suddenly reappears, a real battle is about to begin.
A Ilusão Viaja de Bonde
Don Julio (uncredited)
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!
Reportaje
Police secretary (uncredited)
Reporters compete for cash prize awarded for biggest scoop on New Year's Eve.
Dos tipos de cuidado
Rosario's Doctor
Jorge Bueno and Pedro Malo are best friends who consider giving up their womanizing ways when they each fall in love. As fate would have it, Pedro Malo unexpectedly marries Jorge Bueno's girlfriend, and the conflict between the former buddies begins. A year later they find themselves in the same town and confront each other once and for all.
Subida Ao Céu
Licenciado Figueroa
Newlywed Oliverio receives disturbing news that his mother is on her deathbed. He travels to a remote part of Mexico to fetch a lawyer who can sort out her will. Leaving his wife behind, he embarks on a bus ride that’s interrupted by an increasingly absurd series of episodes, including an impromptu birthday celebration; a one-legged man writhing in the mud; come-ons from an insatiable small-town belle, Raquel; and Oliverio’s frequent, Freudian nightmares.
Cuatro noches contigo
Don Nico, gerente hotel
Traveling salesman meets a young woman who's running away from home, and helps her evade detectives who are tracking her.
¿Qué te ha dado esa mujer?
Señor Cura
This musical comedy tells the story of two men whose friendship (whose beginning is told in "A toda máquina") is affected by assumptions love triangles and misunderstandings between the two, however, the value of that friendship overcomes all difficulties.
Los apuros de mi ahijada
Irresponsible playboy-type needs to cut down on his nightclubbing and his expensive women-friends and buckle down to his Uni studies. Meanwhile, his godfather...
Vagabunda
Don Filemon
Esposa o amante
Prisión de sueños
Conozco a los dos
Twin brothers separated at birth accidentally meet each other 25 years later. Girlfriends and coworkers are confounded, wacky hijinks!
O Grande Mágico
Profesor escuela, cliente mago (uncredited)
Cantinflas, um "teso" mexicano que ganha a vida como ele pode, aceita um trabalho como um mágico, como um adivinho do passado, o presente e o futuro dos outros... mas é incapaz de adivinhar as dificuldades que o aguardam quando aceita substituir um príncipe oriental, posando como seu duplo. Muitos e poderosos inimigos tentarão matar o suposto príncipe. Dardos envenenados, punhais, pistolas, sequestros, todos os meios são bons para destruir o duplo infeliz do príncipe.
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.
O Supersábio
Profesor (uncredited)
A ambiciosa família Montes tem em sua casa o cientista Archimedes Monteagudo e seu assistente Cantinflas, que cuida do bem-estar de ambos. O professor está prestes a fazer uma grande descoberta: extrair da água do mar os componentes de um combustível que substituiria a gasolina carburex. A Cantinflas, por sua vez, quer descobrir um composto que permita prolongar a longevidade das rosas.
El cuarto mandamiento
Don Eusebio Echeverria
A Mexican family drama.
Tarzan e as Sereias
Older Aquitanian
A high priest tries to force a young beauty to marry a pearl trader who is masquerading as the god Balu.
Vamos Voar, Moço!
Doctor (uncredited)
Um dia de folga na Academia Militar de Aviação é a ocasião perfeita para Cantinflas visitar sua namorada e falar com seu ex-chefe. No entanto, o dia vira uma tortura após o patrão tentar obrigá-lo a se casar com a filha.
Encadenada (El yugo)
A marriage becomes a living hell when hubby's pathologies start surfacing.
Cinco rostros de mujer
Pedro, mayordomo (as Manolo Noriega)
"The great love of his life" happened five times; one of those women just wrote him a letter. Which one will it be?
A media luz
Juan Pitas
Tango singer exploits the women in his life. Learns a valuable life-lesson.
Pepita Jimenez
Ceferino
On March 22, four days after returning to his home in Andalusia, Luis de Vargas writes the first of his letters to his uncle and favorite professor at the seminary. He reports that his father intends to fatten him up during his vacation, to have him ready to return in the fall to finish his training for the priesthood. He mentions in passing that his father is courting a twenty-year-old, attractive widow, Pepita Jiménez; his father is fifty-five years old. Pepita had been married for only a short time to an eighty-year-old moneylender named Gumersindo. Luis is not eager to see his father marry again, but he promises his uncle not to judge Pepita before he knows her.
The Barracks
Tío Tomba
The film chronicles the adventures of a peasant family of the late nineteenth century to push through his work with the opposition and hatred of the rest of the villagers.
Twilight
Papá de Lucía (as Manolo Noriega)
Um neurótico médico da sociedade luta com a anomia e o desespero existencial.
La mujer que engañamos
Padre Ramírez (as Manolo Noriega)
Woman chooses between two suitors. The lucky one is a cad and cheats on her, the one who was rejected hangs around in the background to set things right whenever she has a problem.
Los miserables
Police officer makes life hell for an ex-convict. Based on that novel.
El ametralladora
Inspector
Peasant farmer and landowner are rivals for a woman. Sequel to Ay Jalisco No Te Rajes.
Romeo y Julieta
(uncredited)
Verona's peace is disturbed by the rivalry between noble families: the Montesco and the Capuleto, irreconcilable enemies. The two families have continued fighting to make life unbearable in the Italian town. The Prince of Verona informs the chiefs that the two families respond with their lives if there are new struggles. At a ball in honor of Juliet, the daughter of Capuleto, incidentally meets Romeo, son of Montesco. Both fall in love immediately, not knowing that their love is impossible.
Hooray for Women!
Don Próspero (as Manolo Noriega)
Movie in which funny situations based on the entanglements caused by a woman named Felicidad to her family because of her feminist ideology are presented, to the extent of bringing her daughters and herself to a divorce trial.
Morenita clara
Notario (as Manolo Noriega)
Priest nags a crusty old man into reconciling with his daughter-in-law and granddaughter after the death of his son.
Alejandra
Cuñado de Elena
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.
When the Children are Gone
Don Claudio (as Manolo Noriega)
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 milagro de Cristo
A 1941 Mexican film.
Con su amable permiso
Unassuming elderly gent is installed as Mayor, by a cabal of financiers that expect to use him as a cat's paw.
Hombre o demonio
A 1940 film.
El jefe máximo
A 1940 film directed by Fernando de Fuentes.
Aí Está o Detalhe / Aí é Que Está a Coisa
Juez
Cantinflas, the boyfriend of the servant of a rich industrial man, gets into the house in order to kill a mad dog. Suddenly this man appears so the servant tells him that Cantinflas is his wife's brother (Leonardo), who had been lost for years. The rich man then remembers that his father in law's testament could only be paid when all brothers get together, so treats Cantinflas, a real bum, as a king.
El hipnotizador
A 1940 film directed by Antonio Helú.
The Hawk
Don Felipe Sandoval
A 1940 film directed by Ramón Pereda.
Los últimos días de Pompeyo
A 1940 film directed by Rafael E. Portas.
El charro Negro
Don Pedro
Masked cowboy avenger in the style of The Lone Ranger, first film in a series of four.
Mi madrecita
Woman faces the vicissitudes of life with her three adult children well in the background. But when the chips are down...
Viviré otra vez
Dr. Guzman (as Manolo Noriega)
Card-sharks blackmail a dissolute young man into participating in a big robbery; his brother takes the rap for him.
In the Times of Don Porfirio
In a Mexican city at the end of the 19th century, Don Francisco, a gambler and a bohemian, almost forgets his wedding and is late. The bride, who is pregnant, is sent to Paris by the snubbed family.
Harvest of Hate
A 1940 film directed by William Rowland.
La zandunga
Don Eulogio (as Manolo Noriega)
It is the story of a beautiful Tehuana woman who falls in love with a sailor who leaves with the promise of returning, but due to her delay she decides to accept a former suitor as her husband. Finally, when the marriage is about to materialize, the sailor returns creating an emotional conflict in her that is resolved thanks to her fiancé who, by intuiting her true feelings, leaves her free to stay with the sailor
Ojos tapatios
Chefo
Mexican feature film
Eterna mártir
Jaime
A dedicated wife and mother takes the blame for embezzling money that was actually stolen by her husband in order to buy medicine and a doctor's care for the couple's seriously ill infant son. Consequently, the well-meaning woman is willingly sentenced to years in prison for a crime she did not commit-all because she believes her son will fare better if the bond between father and son remains intact. Upon her release, she soon discovers that no good deed goes unpunished. Her once loving husband has remarried a woman that her son calls Mother, After just a brief glimpse of her loved ones, she simply leaves without saying a word. Many years later, she becomes a patient at her son's busy medical practice just so that she can keep an eye on his progress in secret. In a cruel twist of fate, it is only after he diagnoses her as being terminally ill does does she reveal her true identity. The poor woman subsequently learns that her former father-in-law lied about her initial release from ...
Las cuatro milpas
Bad dude tries to make time with a good dude's fiancée. When he can't get anywhere with her, he and his sidekick frame the good dude for a murder and a bunch of thefts.
La honradez es un estorbo
Pepe Alcántara
Ave sin rumbo
Doctor Alvarez
A woman with a past meets a man with a past; the back story of each one represents an obstacle to their couple-bonding. Will they work through their traumas?
¡Esos hombres!
José
A 1937 film.
Honrarás a tus padres
Dr. Fernando
Novillero
Allá en el Rancho Grande
Don Rosendo
Two good friends — the owner and general manager of a ranch — fall in love with the same girl at the same time. The owner tries to 'buy' the girl without knowing she is in love with the manager.
El calvario de una esposa
Juez
Confederate Col. Lafe Harvey (Earl Ross) travels home after the Civil War, where he must tell his niece, Betty (Frances Grant), that her father is presumed dead. Soon after he returns, scavengers destroy the family home and he and Betty escape westward. Meanwhile, Gen. John Harvey (William Welch), Betty's father, has been seriously injured but is not dead. He arrives at the deserted plantation with the help of Union soldier Tom (Bob Steele), who then pledges to help John find his family
El baúl macabro
Dr. Monroy
A crazed scientist tries to keep his terminally ill wife alive by transfusing into her the blood of young women he murders.
Malditas sean las mujeres
Señor de Velasco
A tragicomic piece based on a novella by Manuel Ibo Alfaro.
The Dead Speak
Profesor Jiménez
Professor Jiménez believes the human retina retains the image of the last thing a person sees before death. Only his student Eduardo stands by him in the face of widespread mockery. Together they will try and prove the professors theory but fate has a unpleasant way of helping them do this.
Mystery of the Ghastly Face
Justo
Dr. Forti carries out strange experiments, assisted by his son Pablo. They embark on an expedition to the jungle. Eight years later Forti returns without his son but strange things start to happen in the old house where they live.
Two Monks
Dois monges católicos com um passado em comum reencontram-se em um monastério.
Soulless Women
Bank employer
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.
José
Director
The House of La Troya
Writer
The House of La Troya
Director
Madrid in the Year 2000
Writer
A fantasy depicting Madrid in the distant future when the city has become a port thanks to the transformation of the Manzanares River into a Suez-type canal affording passage to the grandest of ocean liners. There are some spectacular scenes as ship glide through the city and past the Royal Palace, a sight that strucks contemporary observers as fantastic. As of 2007, no copies appear to have survived.
Madrid in the Year 2000
Director
A fantasy depicting Madrid in the distant future when the city has become a port thanks to the transformation of the Manzanares River into a Suez-type canal affording passage to the grandest of ocean liners. There are some spectacular scenes as ship glide through the city and past the Royal Palace, a sight that strucks contemporary observers as fantastic. As of 2007, no copies appear to have survived.
The Bad Law
Writer
The Bad Law
Director
Soul of God
Screenplay
Soul of God
Director
Island Revenge
Director
Island Revenge
Problem Solved
Director
The Handsome Ones
Director