Adalberto Martínez

Actor

January 25, 1916 (87 years)

† April 4, 2003

Mexico

Biography

Adalberto Martínez Chávez, better known in the entertainment world as Resortes was a renowned Mexican actor. Known primarily for his talent as a comedian, Resortes was also an accomplished dancer. His dancing defied gravity itself. He is believed to be, as seen in several of his movies, the creator of the "walking backwards" dance steps, which many years later became known as "The Moonwalk" and popularized by Michael Jackson. Resortes, who began his career as a member of a circus, made his…

Filmography

6.3

Gotita de Amor

Concordio

Gotita de amor is a Mexican drama broadcast by Canal de las Estrellas, starring Laura Flores and Álex Ibarra. The novela also stars Andrea Lagunes in her first lead role as the protagonist Chabelita.

7.5

Peter Knife

Micky Inflaus

The story of the coolest, street-smart hustler ever to walk the streets of Mexico City, based on the international hit song. The police are after him, his rivals are after him, and all the while the most beautiful women of Mexico are in the cup of his hand.

7.5

Picardía mexicana

An academic tags along among a crew of rowdy delivery-truck drivers, taking notes on their colorful and idiomatic use of language.

5.0

The Son of Peter the Knife

Micky Inflaus

The legend of "Peter The Knife" continues in this popular sequel to one of Mexico's all-time blockbusters. Following in his infamous father's footsteps, Peter, Jr. manages to get more than his fair share of the love of beautiful women...and the hatred of his enemies. Action and drama from New York to Acapulco.

6.3

¡Viva la juventud!

Cheche Ramírez

Movie based on the classic student football competition between UNAM pumas and the Polytechnic donkeys that were popular at that time. A mechanic is mistaken for the best player in the Polytechnic, while in the Unam a student discovers a formula for superpowers to play football. Both compete for the love of a rookie and to win the students classic.

4.6

Miracles

Kayum - The Witchdoctor

Jean and Roger decide to divorce after 10 years, but 12 hours later, they're together again by accident. Their cars collide, swerving to miss Juan, the jaywalking jewel thief who decides to cash in on the crash. The ex-couple are kidnapped, shot at, cast adrift, mistaken for smugglers and even survive a plane crash. But the toughest torture these two endure is being trapped together.

6.0

Comedians of the League

Ponciano (as 'Resortes')

The guy that runs the concession stand at a vaudeville theatre gets tangled up with a gang of thieves.

6.6

The Bricklayers

Patotas

When a worker is found murdered on the construction side, the investigation swiftly turns from things criminal to the political circumstances surrounding the building itself. Widespread corruption and neglect by the builder himself are seen to have brought the situation about. Much of the movie is filmed using hand-held cameras, and the majority of the dialogue is in the difficult-to-understand and very slangy Spanish dialect of Mexico City's bricklayers.

6.0

The Girl with the Blue Backpack 2

The continuation of the adventures of Amy and Raul.

6.8

Los Cacos

El Garabato

A group of Soccer-loving friends devise a plan to make easy money.

7.3

La presidenta municipal

Cabo Melquiades

La India Maria becomes the municipal president due to a ballot typo.

6.3

San Simón de los Magueyes

The statue of a town's patron saint is broken just before the annual Saint's Day festival, so the priest hires a mime from a troupe of traveling players to impersonate the statue during the church's hours of operation.

6.0

My Three Merry Widows

Don José Sanmaniego y Cajal / Pepito

Dead man's will reveals he had three wives.

8.1

¡Mamá, soy Paquito!

Chambitas / Luciano Buenrostro

Paquito lives with his mother in poverty. When she dies, he looks for his father's love, who is a very wealthy man.

6.0

México de mis amores

Anthology of clips from classic-era Mexican films, with reality-footage of elderly actors discussing their memories of the period.

5.7

Slum

Reworking of City Lights -- poor schmoe busts his hump to restore a blind woman's sight...

5.7

El aviador fenómeno

Amado

Various murders are examined by a private investigator.

6.5

They Say I'm a Communist

Benito Reyes Zubirán

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.

4.8

Las modelos de desnudos

Resortes

Three interlocking anecdotes about boy/girl stuff. Two gigolos make a bet to see which can boff an heiress first, a young artist tries to persuade his upper-class parents that his artist's-model fiance is a good choice for marriage, and a guy on the run from the mafia hides from them by cross-dressing.

5.2

Del suelo no paso

Paco

Poetic-type dude gets mixed up with gangsters, a millionaire's dog and some stolen jewels.