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Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1889-05-07

Place of Birth

Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Carlos Martínez Baena

Biography

Carlos Martinez Baena was a character actor, who was born in Spain. At an early age he moved with his family to Mexico where he became a journalist. By 1920 he decided to become an actor while he was living in Argentina, and shortly afterward moved to Spain where he worked as a stage actor, eventually ppearing in films in Argentina, Spain and the U.S in Spanish language films made in the early and mid 1930s. In 1940 he returned to Mexico, escaping the fascist Franco goverment in Spain. The following year he began appearing in Mexican films in character parts, he was often cast as kindly old men, teachers, priests and appeared in many character parts. He was also very involved in the actor's union, during his career he also wrote and adapted sceenplays as well as writing poetry. In 1970 he completed his last film at the age 80, also a character part.

Known for

El rey se divierte

El rey se divierte

Mexican movie

Mi niño, mi caballo y yo

Mi niño, mi caballo y yo

Nun tries to heal the relationship between a six-year-old boy and his estranged father.

El Charro del Cristo

El Charro del Cristo

Favored son of a wealthy rural family forced to go into hiding after killing someone in a duel.

Good Love

Good Love

Mother and son conspire against his sister when she marries against their wishes.

The Bewitched House

The Bewitched House

Magician Fu Manchu must find a way out of a supposed haunted house.

The Well-paid

The Well-paid

Melodrama about marital infidelity.

Espinas de una flor

Espinas de una flor

Mexican movie

The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz

The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz

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...

HKM (Hablan, kantan, mienten)

HKM (Hablan, kantan, mienten)

Cupido pierde a Paquita

Cupido pierde a Paquita

Rich family's maid thinks that maybe if she plays her cards right, she can land a moneybags husband. There's also a really cute auto mechanic, though, and...

Él

Él

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

El Siete Machos

El Siete Machos

Rosario, the niece of the rancher, returns to the ranch after ten years of absence. She takes in Margarito, a worker at the ranch, who is immediately smitten by her. Rosario is rescued from a runaway horse by the Seven Men, an outlaw a la Robin Hood that steals from the rich and gives to the poor. He also happens to be the twin brother of Margarito, unbeknownst to him. The confusion between Margarito and the Seven Men generates great comical situations in the film.

El analfabeto

El analfabeto

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.

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Perverse Doll

Perverse Doll

A troubled woman commits a series of murders that exposes some dark family secrets.