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Uploaded by on Aug 12, 2011

Mexicans are celebrating the 100th anniversary of iconic comedian actor Mario Moreno.

Moreno's career began in the street theatres of Mexico's slums in the 1930s and eventually blossomed into 52 major films.


His popularity grew so much, that a Mexican company created a cartoon character Cantinflas, played by Moreno, in the 1970s.

A film critic told Al Jazeera that Cantinflas has found a permanent place in Mexican popular culture.

Testimony to this is the fact that one hundred years after his birth, people still easily recognise him and are well aware of the legacy of this master comedian.

Al Jazeera's Franc Contreras reports from Mexico City.

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  • Mexican icon

    Un verdadero ídolo! gran talento y gran ser humano!

  • En España era un idolo. Cantinflas era alburero y banderillero y gustaba de la fiesta brava , la tauromaquia

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  • Hola les mando un saludo y les quiero compartir parte de lo que es cantinflas

  • Franc Contreras produced the best journalistic piece I've seen about the importance of Mexican film icon, Cantinflas. When most so called journalists concentrate in reporting gossip about the conflicts of Cantinflas family, Mr. Contreras' piece is the happy exception. It is rare to find an English-speaking journalist that can express with such eloquence, knowledge, respect, professionalism and ethics, what Cantinflas mean to all of us who remember him. Keep up the good work!

  • @cecilia499a no me enoje casi nunca me enojo.

  • @ElLeonidas2009 jajaja no hace falta enojarse!...me gustó eso de Tumbutú en mi cerebro y tienes razón, Tumbutú se localiza en mi cerebro...que no era mas que una broma! el verdadero lugar se llama Tombuctu (Tumbutú por que suena a tambor) y esta en Malí, Africa.

  • @cecilia499a naciste en tubuntu en que continente esta localizado en un mapa no en tu cerebro?

  • @cecilia499a Te perdono tu ignorancia, Mexico,Canada y Estados Unidos es Norte America, despues una bola de pequeños paises son centro america despues como tu dijiste viene sudamerica, te puedo dar clases de geografia si quieres cecilia499a pero perdono tu ignorancia y te reitero nacio en Norteamerica exactamente en Mexico ok ok ok perdono tu ignorancia la perdono

  • @ElLeonidas2009 Nació en el barrio de Santa María la Ribera en la Ciudad de México, y creció en el barrio bravo de Tepito.

  • @ElLeonidas2009 ?! jajaja y yo nací en Tumbutú . M.Moreno nació y murió en Mejico.

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