Fernando Casanova

Fernando Casanova

Nascimento : 1925-11-24, Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico

Morte : 2012-11-16

Perfil

Fernando Casanova

Filmes

Alta infidelidad
Diego
Three couples, three destinies, three stories: a man imagines his life a disaster due to the abandonment of his wife; a successful model who is unfaithful to her own agency and the reunion of a man and a woman who are unfaithful to their respective partners.
Las 3 tumbas parte 2
Snake Skin
Lic. Palacios
After returning from a trip, a young dentist discovers that her home has been ransacked. Determined to recover part of her belongings, the protagonist initiates a criminal process within a corrupt and ineffective justice system that turns her life into a nightmare.
Escorpión negro
Entre dos fuegos
El regreso de la suburban dorada
Reclusorio
Joaquin Cervantes (segment 'El policia encajuelado")
The human and divine justice are exposed through five real life stories related to the legal processes of a prison. The cases presented are: "I want to stay in jail", "Blood between women", "The raped prostitute", "The kidnapped policeman", and "Euthanasia or murder?"
The Human Hyena
The dead body of a young man who was kidnapped is found, the police looks for the kidnappers as a web of corruption its uncovered in the police department.
Odio, amor y muerte
The Subway Killer
Comandante Arevalo
An already-busy police force are facing not only a wave of recent inner crime but now face a psycho who kills women in one of the multiple lines of the Mexico City Metro.
Vuelven los pistoleros famosos III
La Muerte del federal de caminos
A narco kingpin is injured in a raid and he declares war on all federales. One in particular...
El cachas de oro
Three brothers are arrested for the rape/murder of a young woman; the judicial process gradual turns into a one-on-one death match between their father and the presiding judge.
El hijo del viento
Young heiress has an illegitimate baby, and only two people are in on the secret. Twenty years later...
Forajidos en la mira
Gunslinger with a mean rep meets a Marshall who appoints him as deputy and helps him turn over a new leaf.
El federal de caminos
Highway Patrol agent goes up against a ruthless drug gang.
Lobo Salvaje
Fieras en brama
Don Melchor
Before being confirmed in the priesthood, a seminary student is ordered to go back out into the world for a year to confirm his vocation. It turns out that mundane activities hold a certain appeal for him.
Ojo por Ojo
Gabino
A couple is attacked bu thugs and the woman is killed, the boyfriend plans his revenge.
El rey de los tahures
Young man becomes a professional gambler to track down the cardshark that killed his father in a poker game.
The Death Rider
Horror with a western setting.
Mil millas al sur
Sargento Cortes
Mexican feature film
National Mechanics
Rogelio
A mechanic takes his family to a car race and a series of events occur which brings problems, betrayals, violence and the unexpected death of an elderly person.
El último pistolero
Frank Dalton
Los siete proscritos
A motley crew of seven outlaws are pressed into service to defend a town from marauding Apaches, then two of them are appointed co-Sheriffs. Also some stuff about hunting for a lost treasure.
Con licencia para matar
Four martial-artsy crime-fightin' gals and their comic sidekick, under the leadership of a middle-aged guy in a business suit, defeat some bad people who are doing bad stuff.
Dangerous Dolls
Counter-espionage ring of beautiful young women protects atomic secrets from the bad guys.
Amanecí en tus brazos
Novias impacientes
A beatnik painter, a singer, a young doctor whose practice hasn't taken off, a rich boy slumming, and miscellaneous others all bounce off the walls in a very youth-culture oriented apartment house. Things get pretty frenzied.
Hard Breed to Kill
Colby
A band of outlaws appear out of nowhere on a ranchers property and viciously shoot him down. They steal what they can from his ranch and kidnap his wife. They make for the Mexican border, but something starts stalking them. From: Exploitation.TV
¡Viva Benito Canales!
Campesino with leadership qualities is indecisive about whether he should join the Revolution or concentrate on improving conditions at his farm, also about whether he cares about the nice girl he grew up with or the fancy woman who runs the local brothel. Most of his plot points don't come to a head until after the revolution's over, and then after General Huerta's coup.
Los gavilanes negros
Three masked horsemen vs. crooked saloon-owner and his henchdudes.
La frontera sin ley
Series western -- cowboy hero "Martin Romero, el Rapido."
Los Sánchez deben morir
An anxious father wants to trap the Sanchez brothers into marrying his two daughters.
Martín Romero El Rápido
Quick-drawing cowboy hero, first in series. (See also:Frontera sin ley.)
Los dos apóstoles
Pedro Heredia
Two boys and two girls hook up at the big festival in a neighboring town. Once they get back home they have to deal with their families' plans for them, which may not include their new sweethearts.
Duelo de pistoleros
Four expert marksmen compete in a target shooting competition. Each has a back-story that explains why he really really really needs the prize money.
Para todas hay
Two young charros have been playing the field, and each one has three potential fiancees lined up... Now that it's time to get serious and move toward marriage, the women start politicking among themselves to discredit each other.
La conquista de El Dorado
A new Judge and Sheriff, plus support staff, come to town to clean up El Dorado's lawless ways.
Los dos cuatreros
Two wandering cowboys are falsely accused of murder.
Creature of the Walking Dead
Dr. Michael Malthus / Dr. John Malthus [billed as Rock Madison]
Brought back to life by his grandson, a diabolical scientist with an unquenchable thirst for blood goes on a rampage. A revision of the Mexican horror film LA MARCA DEL MUERTE, considerably edited and with 20 minutes of new American-made footage.
El secreto de Tomy
Pedro Gandía
The racing stables of Gandia family go to auction. Tomy, son of the owner, manages to save his favorite horse, "Cantador". Now, his only obsession is to resolve the problems of his father, providing him a new wife and riding his horse at the races. After a while, in the Official Prize, "Cantador", ridden by Tomy wins. This fact causes everyone to be interested in the horse and eventually Tomy will be forced to auction it to liquidate their debts. But the new owner is the father of Luchy, Tomy's classmate , and he will do everything possible to recover it.
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.
Santo vs. the Diabolical Brain
Fernando Lavalle
Investigators Conrado and Fernando take a leave of the absence from the police force to track down Fernando's girlfriend Virginia. Virginia, a reporter, has left town and is working undercover as a barmaid in order to interview Refugio Canales, a criminal and small town municipal president. Conrado and Fernando soon call their friend Santo for help.
The Sign of the Coyote
El Coyote
California, 1847. The territory is about to be incorporated into the United States. Parker, the new governor, is a cruel man who believes that the time has come to get rich regardless of the means, but he will soon find a mysterious opponent driven to end his tyranny.
Vuelven los Argumedo
Angel
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.
Santo in the Hotel of Death
Fernando Lavalle
Tourists visiting the pyramids in Mexico experience a string of deaths and disappearances while staying at a nearby hotel. Police investigators Fernando and Cornado are assigned to the case and attempt to solve the mystery with the help of reporter (and girlfriend of Fernando) Veronica and the wrestler Santo.
A Volta dos 5 Falcões Negros
Cowboy justice, Five-avenger team up. #2 in series of two.
Santo vs. the King of Crime
Fernando Lavalle
Ahí vienen los Argumedo
El lobo blanco
A new sheriff rids his town of bandits and puts everything in order.
Camino de la horca
Gloomy, fatalistic grown-up western.
Four Bullets for Joe
Sheriff Paul
The mysterious death of a man who is about to leave a small town in Kansas with his girlfriend triggers a chain of unfortunate events that will only end when another man completes a relentless and bloody revenge.
El hombre de la ametralladora
Alberto Méndez
Police procedural: tracking a ruthless Chicago hitman who's found a gig in Mexico City.
La marca del muerto
Dr. Malthus/Gonzalo Malthus
Mad scientist brings his dead mad scientist grandfather back to life and makes a Frankenstein-type monster out of him.
De hombre a hombre
Priests in a monastery take in a foundling baby. Twenty years later...
Casi Casados
A poor mechanic is conned into taking the place of a wealthy business magnate so the rich man can take off to work on some major wheeling and dealing. Sure enough, the impostor is trapped in a series of circumstances beyond his control that lead him right to the altar. Once he is wed -- or rather, once the rich businessman is unknowingly wed by proxy, the tycoon returns from his trip with the subsequent surprises in store for all concerned.
Vacaciones en Acapulco
Enrique
A busfull of tourists arrives in Acapulco; each passenger has his/her little chunk of drama or comedy.
Amorcito corazón
Comical crises in the household of a newlywed couple.
Pobre del pobre
Priest puppet-masters the lives of some parishioners, his goal being to make sure the two most eligible young ladies in town marry his scapegrace nephews.
Luciano Romero
Jilted boyfriend goes gunning for his ex's new husband, kills her by accident. Husband takes it badly. Sequel to El Hombre Del Alazan (1959).
El toro negro
Novice bullfighter discovers he wasn't cut out for livestock-murdering stardom.
El hombre del alazán
Professional gambler is getting old and jaded; his friends see him becoming a bad person and try to set him on a better path.
Cuando se quiere se quiere
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...
Ay... Calypso no te rajes!
Nightclub owners cash in on new musical fad.
Tres desgraciados con suerte
Three cowboy party-boys, posing as highway bandits, meet three women who want to reform them.
Los Mujeriegos
Fernando
Three hard-partying cowboys go to Mexico City for one last fling before entering into arranged marriages back home.
El águila negra en la ley de los fuertes
Masked rider clears up the mysteries surrounding the ownership of two haciendas and the disappearance of a young heiress' father.
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.
El diablo desaparece
Cowboy justice: drifter takes on unscrupulous rancher and his sociopathic son.
Llamas contra el viento
Three young women all find the deepest and abidingest and truest of true forever loves during a one-week vacation.
Bataclán mexicano
International showgirl engineers a green-card marriage for herself to avoid being deported.
Enemigos
One son takes after mom, one son takes after dad. They don't get along, and the family splits into two households.
La fiera
Young rancher who's trying to avenge his father's murder is framed by an enemy for an unrelated crime.
La venganza del Diablo
El 7 leguas
Lic. Fernando Gutierrez
Horse-trader gets absorbed into Pancho Villa's battalions, becomes a spy.
El diablo a caballo
Masked cowboy hero, first in a series of four.
Qué lindo Cha Cha Cha
Satan opens a nightclub in a small town, scheming to seduce the townsfolk into naughtiness.
School for Tramps
Mauricio Jiménez
Alberto Medina is a very famous composer and is on a field trip when his car runs out of gas and goes downhill. While looking for help, he finds the Valverdes' house and is welcome by Emilia, the mother of the family, who is known for giving shelter to tramps. The rest of the family disagrees, because the last one disappointed her. In a story of family situations, funny moments and jealousy, Alberto ends up earning everyone's respect and has a special connection with the oldest daughter, the beautiful Susana, and they fall in love.
Si volvieras a mi
Fabián Altamirano
El tesoro de la muerte
Series western, Masked Avenger on horseback.
El águila negra
Masked avenger western a la Lone Ranger. First in a series.
Camelia
Amigo de Rafael
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.
Reportaje
Doctor
Reporters compete for cash prize awarded for biggest scoop on New Year's Eve.
Cinnamon Skin
Marucha (Sarita Montiel) has had a shattered face since childhood, but she has a beautiful figure and covers half of her face with her hair. She is a singer and performs in neighborhood theaters. Marucha and Ramon are professionals in crime.
O Alucinado
Beltrán
Francisco is rich, rather strict on principles, and still a bachelor. After meeting Gloria by accident, he is suddenly intent on her becoming his wife and courts her until she agrees to marry him. Francisco is a dedicated husband, but little by little his passion starts to exhibit disturbing traits. Nevertheless, Gloria meets with scepticism as she expresses her worries to their acquaintances.
The Sword of Granada
Captain of the Guard
In this period costume swashbuckler, Don Pedro de Rivera, the rightful owner of a Spanish castle seeks to reclaim it from an occupying Moorish Caliph. Don Pedro’s accomplice is Juan Ponce de León, who intends to steal the "Rose of Granada," a rare gem owned by the Caliph, which supposedly contains a rare essence that ensures eternal youth.
El fronterizo
Rom-com in charro hats.
The Martyr of Calvary
Centurión
The Martyr of Calvary (Spanish: El Mártir del Calvario) is a 1952 Mexican drama film directed by Miguel Morayta about the life of Christ. It was entered into the 1954 Cannes Film Festival.
La niña popoff
Malicious gossip drives a wedge between a rising star in musical comedy and her songwriter boyfriend.
María Cristina
Decent, hard-working young woman gradually finds her way toward love and happiness. With occasional spasms of Afro-Cuban dancing.
Sandwiches Here!
Ricardo
College students, ready to start entering adult society, are ashamed of their working-class backgrounds.
Monte de piedad
Raúl, amante de Elena
Anthology-movie, series of anecdotes about the personal tragedies that lead people to take their values posessions to the state-run pawnshop.
Entre abogados te veas
Crooked lawyer runs amok, making a mockery of the legal system.
Apartment house
Personal dramas among the residents of an apartment house.
Manos de seda
Rudy Almada
El Portero
Raúl
Cantinflas works as a porter, who writes letters and speeches in his old writing machine to earn an extra money, despite the fact that he still goes to school. The sentimental issues come when Cantinflas falls in love of his pretty neighborhood (Silvia Pinal), who is handicapped and unable to walk. The thing wont be easy, because a young military man also has feelings for the girl. But the porter wants to see her happy, and he will become a sort of Cyrano De Bergerac, writing love letters to her signed by the young soldier. His plan is simple: to win money in the horse races in order to pay the operation which will make her walk again.
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 ...
El desalmado
Salustio Vélez, dedos de Seda
Fictional biography of a career criminal.
The Devil Is a Woman
Federico Castro (uncredited)
A woman, after committing a murder, flees into a church, confessing her life story to a priest.
Mariachis
Two rival combos play practical jokes on each other during a festival where they're performing... then a sideshow artist is murdered and several of them fall under suspicion for the crime.
Dos gallos de pelea
Two small-town hell-raisers get so out of hand the authorities have to step in to rein them in.
Una gallega en México
The Galician Candida has a bakery in front of the butcher Robustito, who constantly berates although children of both Aurora and Rodolfo are in love. In the neighborhood where they live, the neighbors prepared a joke to the galician girl. She gets angry Robustito hard time believing him guilty of what happened.
La malquerida
(uncredited)
Emilio Fernandez directs Dolores Del Rio and Pedro Armendariz in a classic tale of family and obsession. Raimunda's daughter Acacia hates her stepfather Esteban, and in order to escape her suffocating home life she's accepted a marriage proposal from a man she doesn't even love. But Esteban has become obsessed with Acacia, and in order to ensure that she doesn't leave he's plotting to murder the girl's unsuspecting fiancée. As Esteban's true nature emerges, mother and daughter must band together to support one another and make sure that their family bond remains strong even in the darkest of times.
Yo maté a Juan Charrasqueado
Everybody at the ranch adjacent to Juan C.'s has a reason to hate him, because he's a bad bad man.
Ojos de juventud
A bad woman exploits her husband's love. Infidelity, illegitimate children, self-sacrificing fatherhood... Also: Cabarets!
Si Adelita se fuera con otro
Young couple run off to join the Mexican Revolution, in part because she has a crush on Francisco Villa.
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.
The Kneeling Goddess
Empleado del juzgado (uncredited)
Legendary superstar María Félix, stars in this melodrama noir playing the role of Raquel, a woman who has a passionate love affair with married aristocrat Antonio. However, a sensual sculpture untitled “The Kneeling Goddess” and modeled after Raquel will lead Antonio down a memory lane he'd rather soon forget.
Ángel o demonio
Wealthy young gentleman falls in love with a cabaret girl of no breeding; he overcomes his prejudices and accepts her in spite of her past... will she live up to his expectations of her?