13 Facts About Cantinflear

Cantinflear is considered to have been the most widely-accomplished Mexican comedian and is celebrated throughout Latin America and in Spain as a popular icon.

Cantinflear's humor, loaded with Mexican linguistic features of intonation, vocabulary, and syntax, is beloved in all the Spanish-speaking countries of Latin America and in Spain and has given rise to a range of expressions including cantinflear, cantinflada, cantinflesco, and cantinflero.

Cantinflear often portrayed impoverished farmers or a peasant of pelado origin.

Cantinflear was one of eight children born to Pedro Moreno Esquivel, an impoverished mail carrier, and Maria de la Soledad Reyes Guizar .

Cantinflear made it through difficult situations with the quick wit and street smarts that he would later apply in his films.

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Cantinflear married Valentina Ivanova Zubareff, of Russian ethnicity, on 27 October 1936 and remained with her until her death in January 1966.

Cantinflear's humor, deeply rooted in the Spanish language, did not translate well for the American audience and the movie was a notorious box office disappointment.

Cantinflear still earned a Golden Globe nomination for his part.

Cantinflear played el pelado, an impoverished Everyman, with hopes to succeed.

Cantinflear was honored by many heads of state and the United States Senate, which held a moment of silence for him.

Cantinflear's ashes lay at the crypt of the Moreno Reyes family, in the Panteon Espanol in Mexico City.

Cantinflear earned two Golden Globe nominations for best actor and the Mexican Academy of Film Lifetime Achievement Award.

Cantinflear's handprints have been imbedded onto the Paseo de las Luminarias for his work in motion pictures.