Arturo Castro 'Bigotón'
Birthday: Born in 1918-03-21 in Mexico City, Mexico
Deathday: 1975-03-06
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Los Beverly de Peralvillo
Character: El Bigotón
Los Beverly de Peralvillo is a Mexican family television sitcom that originally aired from 1968 to 1973 on the Canal de las Estrellas network. The series stars Guillermo Rivas, Leonorilda Ochoa, Arturo Castro, and Amparo Arozamena. As Mexico's answer to The Beverly Hillbillies, the sitcom was probably the most popular family television series in Mexico before El Chavo. The cast members, who usually had minor insignificant roles before, were offered principal roles in the series. The series spaw...
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El que con niños se acuesta...
Character: Don Felipe
Chón is rejected by his girlfriend Rosario's parents, so they both escape to the capital in search of his friend Manny, a millionaire philanthropist, who helps him but makes him adopt four children from his orphanage....
...Y la mujer hizo al hombre
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Los Beverly de Peralvillo
Character: El Bigos
El Borras marries La Pecas, unaware of her mother's (Doña Chole) scheme against Borras. That of Borras to provide for all her family members who are a lazy bunch composed of her father and brothers....
El ojo de vidrio
Character: Don Ramiro (as Arturo Castro)
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Esposa te doy
Character: Juez
Chofi marry Alberto and very much in love, but her mother continues to intervene in the couple's relationship, which will lead to divorce....
They Say I'm a Communist
Character: Nabor Méndez
A worker overwhelmed by the economic crisis and the cost of living is accidentally propaganda of a political party, apparently from left, who convinces him to join their ranks and defending the working class. After entering through a ritual as mysterious as typical, you will realize demagoguery and arrangements existing between union leaders to maintain the status quo unchanged and profit from mafia practices....
El jinete negro
Character: Don Arnulfo
A rancher disguises himself as a generous bandit and murders a tax collector, but is discovered....
El superhombre
Character:
1946 Mexican film directed by Chano Urueta....
Del suelo no paso
Character: Don Floripondio
Poetic-type dude gets mixed up with gangsters, a millionaire's dog and some stolen jewels....
El halcón solitario
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Chief of police fakes his death and returns as a masked avenger. On horseback. And stuff....
From the Village to TV
Character: Municipal president
A young man goes to the capital to prove himself as an opera singer, after being rejected he must find other means to achieve fame...
Ladies Club
Character: Police Detective
Lonelyhearts advisor on a tv show becomes feminist icon and movement-leader....
Comedians of the League
Character: Inspector (as Arturo Castro)
The guy that runs the concession stand at a vaudeville theatre gets tangled up with a gang of thieves....
Héroe a la fuerza
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Child suffers a brain injury and falls into a coma. When he regains consciousness, twenty years later, he has to deal with having become a grown-up 'overnight'....
Besito a papá
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A young man hires somebody to impersonate his father when it comes times to meet his girlfriend's parents....
Cómicos y canciones
Character: El Jefe
Reporter/photographer team have risen to their level of incompetence at their newspaper....
De hombre a hombre
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Priests in a monastery take in a foundling baby. Twenty years later......
Cómo pescar marido
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Bride-to-be on the prowl for a suitable mate....
Little Trapeze Angels
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Comics Viruta and Capulina as circus performers....
Rateros último modelo
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Singing duo waiting for their big break, committing petty crimes to get by. Adopting a baby and meeting a priest's niece are civilizing influences....
La soldadera
Character: Primitivo
While waiting for a train which will take them on their honeymoon, two newlyweds, Juan and Lázara, are separated by a federal army commander who is going around enlisting men to fight against the revolutionaries. Traveling with the troops, Lázara follows Juan until he dies in a battle against the Villistas. From that moment on, the young woman's fate will be in the hands of whoever happens to win the latest contest, an uncertain fate for someone whose only wish is for a home of her own....
Una golfa
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Trumpet-player in a club band falls for a streety young woman; she dumps him to become a kept woman... and his roommate the pianist is dealing weed... and......
Limosneros con garrote
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Low-rent vaudeville entertainers lose their venue and try to find mainstream jobs to support the foundling child they're raising....
The Paper Man
Character: Sr. Fernández (uncredited)
A deaf and mute vagabond finds a large denomination bill in a Mexico City dump, and while he tries to buy something with it, others try to con him into giving it away....
The Grave Robbers
Character: Inspector Mendoza
Santo investigates a series of grave robberies....
Pilotos de la muerte
Character: Dueño de Tienda
A couple of provincial gas station employees travel to the capital seeking fortune of vehicle mechanics accidental career passing drivers....
Alazán y enamorado
Character: Veterinario (as Arturo 'Bigotón' Castro)
Rom-com about two horses. And some humans....
El padrecito
Character: Nepomuceno
Young priest Father Sebastián is assigned to a parish in San Jeronimo el Alto, where he is not welcomed by the community, particularly the resident priest Father Damián. The newcomer gradually earns the trust of the people through humor, but firmly captures their hearts by saving the town fiesta by fighting a bull when the hired torero failed to show. Father Sebastián counsels the townspeople, lecturing them on their duties in a modern society. He used the collection plate to redistribute the to...
El señor doctor
Character: Comisario del pueblo
It's about a country doctor that comes to the city while a clinic is built in his home town... he rubs off his care and compassion on others at the hospital with his humor and wit....
Por mis pistolas
Character: (uncredited)
Fidencio Borer, an apothecary in a village on the northern border of Mexico, discovers some old title of a mine in Arizona and decides to claim them. Trying to cross the border is a border guard intercepted by exaggerating in the line of duty. On the way is captured by a tribe of Apaches and is about to be burned alive, but thanks to the Great Head Horse Lying having toothache and learns that the prisoner it can heal, ordered his release on the condition that the cure. Fidencio would take the wh...
Nazarin
Character: Coronel (uncredited)
After hiding a murderer, a Catholic priest is forced into self-exile and decides to embark on a pilgrimage through the Mexican countryside....
Stranger in the House
Character: Editor Castro
An American serial killer, known for his handiwork with a straight razor, manages to escape while being transported in Mexico and hides out inside a publisher's home, where he claims many more victims....
Hora y media de balazos
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Unassuming, milquetoast-y shepherd-boy is pressured into posing as a dangerous gunslinger....
Angel from Hell
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Young woman moves to a remote border town to take charge of properties she inherited from her father....
School for Buglars
Character: Hombre arrestado (uncredited)
The police plan to capture a killer by using a double that looks exactly as one of his victims....
La criada bien criada
Character: El chicloso
Saucy-but-naive country girl moves to the big city to look for work....
La cigüeña distraída
Character: Licenciado Arturo Castro
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Pegando con tubo
Character: Don José Manzano
Developmentally-challenged guy and is caretaker get drafted into he police force and take part in the manhunt for a bank robber....
Mis abuelitas... no más!
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Bush-league actor allows two adorable grannies to believe he's their long-lost grandson. Then: complications!...
El último round
Character:
Shady promoter hires a new boy for his boxing stable, but the young champ won't go along with his boss'es scams and machinations....
Dios sabrá juzgarnos
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Rejected suitor goes all-out in his efforts to break up an engaged couple....
Qué perra vida
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Rich man's dog makes friends with two ragged buskers; when his owner dies, there are zany complications....
Pecadora
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Prostitution and drug-smuggling in Mexico City and Cd. Juarez....
Manos arriba
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A tailor is mistaken for the leader of an agricultural union and gets tangled up in a price-fixing conspiracy....
México nunca duerme
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Fretful granny is upset when her granddaughter isn't home by 9 PM on Saturday night, so she teams up with a gangster to tour Mexico City nightclubs looking for her....
Pepito y los robachicos
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Good-hearted simpleton opens his home to a street urchin escaping from an Oliver Twist-style kid-gang of pickpockets beggars and paperboys....
Tintansón Cruzoe
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Tin Tan is marooned on an island full of colorful natives....
Los apuros de dos gallos
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Two con-artists run roughshod over the local economy of a small town they visit... but then they fall in love with two young women related to the rich landowners who are the target of their primary swindle....
The Flying Saucers
Character: Juan Balcazar, Presidente municipal
A guy and his girlfriend pretend to come from Mars....
Dos Criados Malcriados
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Don Antonio quiere casar a una de sus dos hijas Tere o Lorena con un conde. Para eso alquila una mansión y contrata a los criados Viruta y Capulina, para atender al conde y a sus invitados. Pero los criados descubren que el conde y sus invitados son unos rateros....
El primer paso... de la mujer
Character:
Three girls from different social classes are forced to take that first step into adulthood that leads them to live fun adventures and also unfortunate events....
Pretty sky!
Character:
Revolutionist and Army General compete for a woman...
De color moreno
Character:
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Pride
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A tale of two families, the Mendozas and Alzagas, faced for generations by the water of a river separating their adjoining properties. Old grudges reappear when the two heirs fall in love....
¡Yo sabia demasiado!
Character: Procurador
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Soul of Steel
Character: Jefe de policía
Inspired by Alexander Dumas's novel The Corsican Brothers, Alma de Acero presents a delightful spin on the classic story of twin brothers (both played by Luis Aguilar) and their contrasting lives. As a singer in a nightclub, one brother has chosen a life of peaceful simplicity; the other, however, has chosen a troublesome lifestyle that leads to numerous run-ins with the law, forcing the vocalist to risk his own life to save his sibling....
The King of México
Character: Chofer de automóvil
A humble tramp is turned, for a couple of days, into the richest and most famous man in México....
Melodías de amor
Character: Coronel Herrera (no acreditado)
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