Manuel Alvarado

Actor

July 10, 1922 (55 years)

† June 30, 1978

Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico

Biography

No biography available.

Filmography

3.9

Tintorera: Killer Shark

Naval Officer

Two shark hunters flirt with an attractive British lady while hunting down a large tiger shark terrorizing the Mexican East coast.

7.7

Por mis pistolas

Don Serapio Sanchez

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 wheel and gets the eternal friendship of the Chief apache.

6.8

The Last Sunset

Bartender saloon (uncredited)

At a Mexican ranch, fugitive O'Malley and pursuing Sheriff Stribling agree to help rancher Breckenridge drive his herd into Texas where Stribling could legally arrest O'Malley, but Breckenridge's wife complicates things.

4.3

Shark

Latalla

A gunrunner loses his cargo near a small coastal Sudanese town so he's stuck there. When a woman hires him to raid a sunken ship in the shark-infested waters, he sees a chance to compensate for his losses. He's not the only one.

7.0

Tivoli

Director orquesta

While trying to save the famous Tivoli burlesque theater, the participants uncover a web of commercial corruption.

7.7

El analfabeto

Don Leoncio

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

Cantinero (uncredited)

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

6.9

El Extra

Modisto gordo

Cantinflas is a man who hangs around the studios and helps anyone who needs his advice while at the same time envisioning his own versions of how certain scenes should be shot. Both angles provide ample opportunities for very witty, subtle barbs at the foibles of the industry.

7.0

The Minister and Me

Gordo (uncredited)

Mateo Melgarejo is a notary public and scribe for the illiterate people of Santo Domingo, a neighborhood north of Mexico City's Zócalo. A squatter friend asks for his help in negotiating with the land census bureau to regularize a land title. After a great deal of frustration with the government bureaucracy, he writes a letter to the cabinet minister, earning an audience with him. The minister hires Melgarejo to reform the bureau, and the appointee proceeds to lecture the officials on their duties in a democratic society. At the end, he gives up the post, returning to Santo Domingo to help its poor residents.

6.2

The Unknown Cowboy

The Sheriff of a small town, in his search of a robber bank, gets to another city, working undercover. There, he tooks the place of man recently killed, and falls in love with his widow.

4.0

Macabre Serenade

Morgenstern Morteval

Relatives of a recently deceased man meet at his eerie castle for a reading of the will. They encounter a sinister piano player who turns out to be a toy maker, and his toys are imbued with murderous intentions.

6.4

La Valentina

Cantinero (uncredited)

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

7.0

The Shadow of the Tyrant

Gordo

In 1920s Mexico, the candidates being chosen to succeed the current president, El Caudillo, find themselves at his mercy as he will resort to anything to accomplish his will, including kidnapping, betrayal, and murder.

6.3

Ship of the Monsters

Ruperto

A singing cowboy falls foul of alien invaders and beautiful women from Venus.

7.4

The Door and the Butcher's Wife

Otro Cantinero (segment "La mujer del carnicero")

A movie divided in two segments, the first "La puerta" (The Door) is about a high society gathering in which a door inside the mansion leads to a bizarre corridor where a naked and menacing human figure appears. The second "La mujer del carnicero" (The Butcher's Wife) is set during the Mexican revolution and is about horrifying hallucinations felt by a lieutenant after committing a murder.