Roberto Meyer

Actor

September 10, 1901 (73 years)

† October 7, 1974

La Piedad, Michoacán, Mexico

Biography

No biography available.

Filmography

7.9

The Exterminating Angel

Fool (uncredited)

After a lavish dinner party, the guests find themselves unable to depart... and, over the next few days, all of their elaborate societal pretenses and façades deteriorate as they are reduced to living like animals.

7.2

Un Quijote sin mancha

Sr. Malpica

A lawyer trying to fix everyone's problems, instead causes problems, which always end up in funny situations.

7.6

Nazarín

Presidente municipal (uncredited)

A Catholic priest in a poor community lives a charitable life in accordance with his religious principles, but others do not return the favor.

6.6

Mexican Bus Ride

Don Nemesio Álvarez y Villalbazo

Newlywed Oliverio receives disturbing news that his mother is on her deathbed. He travels to a remote part of Mexico to fetch a lawyer who can sort out her will. Leaving his wife behind, he embarks on a bus ride that’s interrupted by an increasingly absurd series of episodes, including an impromptu birthday celebration; a one-legged man writhing in the mud; come-ons from an insatiable small-town belle, Raquel; and Oliverio’s frequent, Freudian nightmares.

7.2

Gran Hotel

Agente procuraduria

Cantinflas is a vagrant being evicted for not paying rent, after wandering gets a job at the 'Grand Hotel' through a friend, that's confused by Count Zapatini, who is undercover in the hotel, stealing a gem making this funny movie more complicated.

6.0

Ambición sangrienta

Don Sabino Villegas

A lawman and two sidekicks clear up a series of crimes related to mining rights.

7.7

Él

Licenciado

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

7.7

El analfabeto

Gutierritos (uncredited)

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 letter to him. But while waiting to be helped he sees that a young girl can read. He figures he has to be able to discover the letter's content by himself and decides he will save the letter and go to school, and wait to read the letter on his own.

8.0

The Skeleton of Mrs. Morales

Historiador

A taxidermist decides to murder his wife after having to put up with her after twenty years of hellish marriage.

7.3

The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz

Doctor (uncredited)

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...

7.3

El bolero de Raquel

(uncredited)

The film tells an episode of the life of a kindly hearted bootblack who becomes accidentally the tutor of an orphan but nevertheless spends all his time and effort for the sake of the boy.

6.5

Illusion Travels by Streetcar

Don Arcadio (uncredited)

Confronted with the unfortunate news that their favorite Streetcar, no. 133, is going to be decommissioned, two Municipal Transit workers get drunk and decide to "take 'er for one last spin," as it were. Unfortunately, the "one last spin" ends up being an all-night and all-day scramble to stay out of trouble, as they are confronted with situation after sometimes bizarre situation that prevents them from returning the "borrowed" Streetcar!

5.2

El Quelite

Gavillero

Agapito, leader of the revolutionary movement of his state, comes to a town, kills all the federales, and gets a girl who was promised to him for his heroic deeds.

6.4

La Valentina

Don Quintín

A smuggler, condemned to be shot, is pardoned in exchange for kidnapping "La Valentina."

5.4

A Woman Without Love

Don Nicolás Palafox (uncredited)

After indulging in an affair with a man (a friend of the family) she truly loves, a woman returns to her young son and husband for good, and loses contact with the man. Her husband is unaware of the affair. Twenty years later, there is news that the friend has died and left all of his money to the younger son in the family, which leads us to question this younger son's biological origin.

7.4

Si yo fuera diputado

Comisario (uncredited)

Cantinflas is a unique barber, who trades with an elderly neighbor, a lawyer by profession, laws lessons in exchange for haircuts and shaved. It proposes advice to defend in court the disadvantaged neighborhood. His success deputy seeks the votes as the other candidate, Don Próculo, it is not accepted by anyone but his own bodyguards. Don Próculo will use know how much ruse to win the election by the Council, and also for the love of 'Sarita'

6.4

The River and Death

Doctor

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 of the village. Now, today, there are only two sons left, one in each family. One has become a doctor in the big city and his culture is modern. The other last one - of the other family - hasn't left the village and is waiting for the doctor to come "home" as he plans to kill him, to settle this war on this matter of honor once and for all. And the people of the village want blood.

7.0

The Brute

Carmelo González

A tough young man, who helps to kick poor people out of their houses, falls in love with a girl. She lives with her father in the building about to be demolished.

7.1

Tailored gentleman

Comisario

Cantinflas works as a model of tuxedos in a prestigious store, your job is to use the smoking in the street along with an advertising sign on his back. The use of smoking gives you access to exclusive places and meet important people. During this time, Cantinflas was the manager of an amateur boxer, it is an attractive nurse assistant and occasionally attending a priest in the church and the orphanage. However, a Cantinflas day while wearing tuxedo, is a rich man, who mistakenly believe that Cantinflas is a millionaire too.

5.6

El tunco Maclovio

Matías

Maclovio, an infamous gunfighter with only one hand, is hired by a rich lady to kill her daughters boyfriend. Maclovio believes he can live in peace after the job but a mysterious man who claims to have unfinished business with him appears.