Cantinflas Biography, Age, Height, Wife, Net Worth, Family

Publish date: 2024-03-25

Although generations of Latinos were charmed by his garrulity in a variety of parts, he was best known to American audiences for a single role: In the 1956 Mike Todd feature comedy-travel film adapted from Jules Verne's novel - "Around the World in 80 Days." Cantinflas portrayed "Passepartout" - the bumbling valet of Phileas Fogg, played by David Niven. Cantinflas made only two films during his brief career in the United States in the late 1950s. After "Around the World," Columbia Pictures starred Cantinflas in his own, multi-million-dollar comedy epic, "Pepe," which included cameo appearances by more than 42 stars, including Maurice Chevalier, Bing Crosby, Marlene Dietrich, Tony Curtis, Frank Sinatra, Shirley MacLaine, George Raft, Gilbert Roland, Edward G. Robinson, John Gielgud, Trevor Howard, Joe E. Brown, Finlay Currie, Buster Keaton, Robert Morley, Evelyn Keyes, Peter Lorre, Red Skelton, Beatrice Lillie, Noël Coward, José Greco (Flamenco Dancer and his troupe), Martine Carol, Basil Sydney, Harcourt Williams, Fernandel, the famous bull fighter Luis Miguel Dominguín, Robert Newton, Cedric Hardwick, Melville Cooper, Reginald Denny, Ronald Colman, Robert Cabal, Charles Coburn, John Carradine, Tim McCoy, Andy Devine, Edmund Lowe, Victor McLaglen, Jack Oakie, John Mills, Glynis Johns, Hermione Gingold, Edward R. Murrow, A.E. Matthews, Ronald Adam, Walter Fitzgerald, Frank Royde, Mike Mazurka, Ronald Squire, Basil Sydney and Cesar Romero. "Pepe" however, failed miserably at the box office and put an end to Cantinflas' career in the United States. He returned to Mexico, where he continued making movies well into his 70s. But he starred in at least 35 films in Mexico, many for his own feature film company, Posa Films, later known as Cantinflas Films.

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