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Carlos Martínez Baena

Carlos Martínez Baena

Carlos Martinez Baena was a character actor, who was born in Spain. At an early age he moved with his family to Mexico where he became a journalist. By 1920 he decided to become an actor while he was living in Argentina, and shortly afterward moved to Spain where he worked as a stage actor, eventually ppearing in films in Argentina, Spain and the U.S in Spanish language films made in the early and mid 1930s. In 1940 he returned to Mexico, escaping the fascist Franco goverment in Spain. The following year he began appearing in Mexican films in character parts, he was often cast as kindly old men, teachers, priests and appeared in many character parts. He was also very involved in the actor's union, during his career he also wrote and adapted sceenplays as well as writing poetry. In 1970 he completed his last film at the age 80, also a character part.

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Movies Starring Carlos Martínez Baena (44)

Un año en la luna (2004)

In late September, Iñigo comes to Madrid to study psychology and stays at the home of his sister Esther, who lives with a porn story writer called Gabriel and that is not going through its best. The three start a relationships sneaking, but neither will f ...

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Little Black Angels (1970)

A racist woman who doesn't know about her own mixed heritage—even though she's lived with her black mother since birth—marries a pop singer. Everybody conspires to protect her from finding out about herself. It's not clear exactly why they do that. ...

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Perverse Doll (1969)

A troubled woman commits a series of murders that exposes some dark family secrets. ...

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El analfabeto (1961)

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 ...

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Mi niño, mi caballo y yo (1959)

Nun tries to heal the relationship between a six-year-old boy and his estranged father. ...

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La mujer que no tuvo infancia (1957)

Borderline mentally-ill woman with neurotic compulsion to behave like a child and the psychiatrist who looooves her. ...

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Good Love (1957)

Mother and son conspire against his sister when she marries against their wishes. ...

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La sombra vengadora (1956)

An evil mastermind, known as La mano negra, attempts to steal a formula that creates synthetic drugs but a masked avenger known as La sombra will do anything to stop him. ...

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Cupido pierde a Paquita (1955)

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... ...

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La sombra vengadora contra la mano negra (1955)

Masked wrestler vs. gothic criminal gang. Third or fourth in a series. ...

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The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz (1955)

A bizarre black comedy about a man whose overwhelming ambition in life is to be a renowned serial killer of women, and will stop at nothing to achieve it - but not everything goes according to plan... ...

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Pecado Mortal (1955)

Juan Manuel intends his wife Clara, who is blind, sign the will in his favor, but she refuses. With them lives Soledad, goddaughter Clara. A day comes Carlos, nephew of Juan Manuel, who is interested in Soledad. Carlos is going to study medicine in the Uni ...

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The River and Death (1954)

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 ...

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La entrega (1954)

Through hard work, the Spaniard Alejandro has become wealthy and powerful. In contrast, the banker Don Victorino—who once refused a loan to the then-poor Alejandro—has fallen on difficult times. Victorino is married to Ana, who spends her life playing ...

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The Intruder (1954)

Upon her arrival to the village San Ignacio, Gabriela meets Raúl, owner of a residence that her grandfather administrates. He doesn't reveal his real identity and they fall madly in love. Tania, Raúl's sister-in-law, secretly loves him and she decides to ...

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Un minuto de bondad (1954)

A young woman tries to stop the sale of a house that serves as a shelter for orphaned children and retired actors. ...

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Camelia (1954)

A sort of meta riff on Alexandre Dumas fils' novel The Lady of the Camellias (La Dame aux Camélias or Camille) here in Mexican melodrama form involving the doomed love of a bullfighter and a beautiful but ailing actress/courtesan. ...

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Él (1953)

Gloria encounters Francisco, a man whose social veneer betrays a truer self burrowed underneath. ...

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Si, Mi vida (1953)

Dr. Castellanos is saved from bankruptcy. ...

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Prefiero a tu papá (1952)

Theatre director macks on his sons' girlfriends. ...

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Monte de piedad (1951)

Anthology-movie, series of anecdotes about the personal tragedies that lead people to take their values posessions to the state-run pawnshop. ...

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El Siete Machos (1951)

Rosario, the niece of the rancher, returns to the ranch after ten years of absence. She takes in Margarito, a worker at the ranch, who is immediately smitten by her. Rosario is rescued from a runaway horse by the Seven Men, an outlaw a la Robin Hood that s ...

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El Portero (1950)

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 Pin ...

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Otra primavera (1950)

His wife dies and now he's free to marry his mistress and adopt their children officially. How will this play out? ...

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Mujeres en mi Vida (1950)

Mexican romantic musical. ...

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The Bewitched House (1949)

Stage magician Fu Manchu uses his illusions and trickeries to find a murderer. ...

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El Charro del Cristo (1949)

Favored son of a wealthy rural family forced to go into hiding after killing someone in a duel. ...

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Lola Casanova (1949)

Sonora Mexico, 1880s: Seri Indian tribe splits into two factions after a white woman comes to live in their settlement. ...

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El Supersabio (1948)

Cantinflas is the apprentice of a renowned scientist, Prof. Arquimides Monteagudo (Carlos Martinez Baena). But Cantinflas has the soul of a poet rather than a serious researcher, and he wants to find the formula that achieves the immortality of the roses. ...

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The Well-paid (1948)

Melodrama about marital infidelity. ...

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Reina de reinas: La Virgen María (1948)

Standard retelling of the the Gospels, with a brief epilogue about the death of Mary. ...

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Nocturno de amor (1948)

Luis Aguilar is a talented piano student who struggles to make ends meet. At the conservatory he meets the beautiful, rich, and also talented piano student Marta Reyes and romance ensues. One day, a full scholarship to study piano abroad is announced and b ...

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The Kneeling Goddess (1947)

Antonio, a millionaire, gifts his wife a statue of a naked, kneeling woman for their wedding anniversary. ...

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Yo fui una usurpadora (1946)

Brilliant young doctor discovers his wife doesn't want to bear children, so he finds someone else to exxperience fatherhood with. ...

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Nosotros (1945)

The tragic romance between a woman with a dubious past and a young thief who reforms his life for love. ...

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Woman Without a Soul (1944)

Ambitious young woman climbs the social ladder. A bit too fast. ...

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La abuelita (1942)

Granny rules the roost, but little sister's a bit rebellious. She listens to Cuban music, she wears make-up, she goes out un-chaperoned... Granny sees her rubbing up against a married man and it shatters her health. ...

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Those Were The Days, Senor Don Simon! (1941)

A not very grief stricken young widow flutters her hand fan between a dashing young soldier and an elderly politician in this Belle Epoque era musical comedy. ...

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Movies Made By Carlos Martínez Baena (2)

Heroic Division (1937)

A pro-Republican documentary made during the Spanish Civil War. It details the offensives of the Durruti Column and the Ascaso Division on the Huesca front between March and April 1937. ...

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The Siege of Huesca (1937)

A documentary, with some fictionalized images, about the operations and combat that took place near Huesca in the first months of 1937 during the Spanish Civil War. ...

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