30-11-1912
Birthday
Sagittarius
Zodiac Sign
-
Genres
79
Total Films
Alfredo Varela Jr., Alfredo Varela Jr. "Varelita", Alfredo Varela Catalá
Also known as (male)
Mexico City, Mexico
Place of Birth
30-11-1912
Birthday
Sagittarius
Zodiac Sign
-
Genres
79
Total Films
Varelita, Alfredo Varela Jr., Alfredo Varela Jr. "Varelita"
Also Known As (male)
Mexico City, Mexico
Place of Birth
actor
79 Works
producer
0 Works
director
44 Works
writer
44 Works
other
0 Works
El mexicano feo
Semi-employed street musician butts heads with his wife and grown(ish) children because of his irresponsible lifestyle. Then he lucks into a cushy government job.Year:
1984
El diablo en persona
Young rural-gentry dude sows wild oats, settles down to raise a family, and fights in the Revolution, all at the same time.Year:
1982
Duro pero seguro
Nicolasa sells tacos near a movie studio and her popularity threatens the restaurant's own studies. She drops the food when seeing actor Armando performing and the director expels her out.Year:
1978
Faith, Hope and Charity
Three episodes. Faith: a woman is attacked. Hope: a fakir is crucified. Charity: a woman faces bureaucracy.Year:
1974
Besos, Besos... y Más Besos
Rom-com anthology movie with three anecdotes.Year:
1973
Mi niño Tizoc
Tizoc wishes to eat a chicken by himself and have his own piñata. At Christmas his father Carmelo grants his wish.Year:
1972
El manantial del amor
Boy/girl stuff at a health spa that's famous for aphrodisiac waters.Year:
1970
Vuelve el ojo de vidrio
Upon hearing the news of Madero's death, Porfirio Alcalá and his four cousins interrupt their peaceful lives as farmers to again join the Mexican Revolution.Year:
1970
La casa de las muchachas
A whore house is transformed into a decent household by a respectable man.Year:
1969
El ojo de vidrio
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1969
Esta noche si
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1968
Un Latin lover en Acapulco
Roberto is tired of his life as an office worker in Mexico City, so he moves to Acapulco to try his luck as a "Latin lover".Year:
1967
Shark Hunters
Aurelio is a shark fisherman who works very hard to send money to his family in the city and keep Manela, his young lover on the coast. One day, he decides to move to the big city.Year:
1963
Estoy casado, ja, ja
Honeymooner has trouble adapting to the idea of consummating her marriage.Year:
1962
Paloma brava
Paloma is bound and determined to kill the heck out of the guy that dishonored her sister, but mistaken identities and stuff.Year:
1961
Amorcito corazón
Comical crises in the household of a newlywed couple.Year:
1961
El jinete negro
A rancher disguises himself as a generous bandit and murders a tax collector, but is discovered.Year:
1961
Mi niño, mi caballo y yo
Nun tries to heal the relationship between a six-year-old boy and his estranged father.Year:
1959
El superflaco
Mad scientist gives Atomic Powers to a 98 pound weakling.Year:
1959
30-30 Carbine
Rom-com set during Mexican Revolution.Year:
1958
Tú y la mentira
Struggling musician finally reaches the big time, then a scheming gold-digger gets her hooks into him.Year:
1958
Préstame tu cuerpo
Heaven Can Wait scenario; a young woman dies forty years ahead of schedule because her guardian angel made a mistake... so the divine powers that be put her back on earth in a new body.Year:
1958
Pretty sky!
Revolutionist and Army General compete for a womanYear:
1957
Backstage
The story of a famous singer who reaches the highest position in the world of varieties, but is forced to cede her throne to the young star of the moment, repeating the same situation that she starred in in her youth.Year:
1957
Pancho López
A couple of people cover up their own mishandling of other people's money by claiming to have been robbed by a masked bandit. When the law comes looking into the situation, it becomes necessary to find someone to impersonate that bandit. Remake of El Tigre De Jalisco (1947).Year:
1957
Melodías de amor
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1955
Pueblo quieto
Son of a first family returns to his home town, reconciles with his pops, pitches woo at the young lady from another First Family and gets rampy with his rival for her affections.Year:
1955
To Hell with Women
Small-town elects a female mayor. She suppresses all the time-honored masculine pastimes, and the men rebel.Year:
1955
The River and Death
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.Year:
1954
Singing love is born
Comical misadventures of a film crew trying to get their damn musical filmed.Year:
1954
Las cariñosas
When three beautiful young nurses from Jalisco, afflicted with a rare disease called "sexappealitis", create commotion among the patients in a hospital, they are forced to resign. They travel to Mexico City following the suggestion of a crazy scientist, who tells them they will be cured when they get married. But they are attracted to three men who are indifferent to their sexy looks, being themselves sick with "lovetitis".Year:
1953
My Three Merry Widows
Dead man's will reveals he had three wives.Year:
1953
Mi papá tuvo la culpa
Two young sweethearts get married, and then are made to believe that she's his illegitimate half-sister.Year:
1953
El fronterizo
Rom-com in charro hats.Year:
1952
Música, mujeres y amor
Two women are installed in the cabin of a ship that was already occupied by two gentlemen.Year:
1952
El dinero no es la vida
A humble bartender falls into a world of gambling and vices, losing everything.Year:
1952
El beisbolista fenómeno
The soul of a dead baseball player finds a human host to occupy so it can achieve some career goals it hadn't accomplished during its lifetime. Riotous hijinks ensue.Year:
1952
Nosotras las sirvientas
Romantic comedy: housemaid and her employer's oldest son.Year:
1951
Especialista en señoras
Frenetic rom-com about doctors overwhelmed with amorous female patients.Year:
1951
Mi mujer no es mía
Bachelor pretends that he got married, thinking that will stop his aunt from trying to play matchmaker.Year:
1951
In the Flesh
A beautiful cabaret dancer falls in love with a sailor who promises to return and marry her. Trouble ensues.Year:
1951
Love for Life
During the times of Venezuelan dictator Juan Vicente Gómez, an exhausted stranger arrives at a farm and starts to help the owner with the legal status of her land.Year:
1950
Yo quiero ser tonta
Dreamer father wants son to become a bullfighter, and daughter to become a singer, so they become instant millionares, although their talent is not apparently there.Year:
1950
They also sing of pain
The movie starts with Braulio Peláez (Pedro Infante), a schoolteacher, having just fallen off his horse, representing the situation he and his family are in. The next scenes introduce the viewer to his family and their poor financial and social situation. As Braulio stumbles around looking for his glasses, he causes a famous film star, Alfonso de Madrazo (Rafael Alcaide) to crash his car. Braulio offers him to eat at his house as an apology. Braulio's sister and mother, big film fans, immediately recognise Alfonso and attempt to get him to bring the girl, Luisa Peláez (Irma Dolores) to Mexico City to become a film star. Alfonso agrees and tells them to come to the capital.Year:
1950
Si me viera don Porfirio
Year:
1950
La vida en broma
Many many mistaken identities and impostures overlapping among a group of husbands, wives and others.Year:
1950
Love Pays for Love
Pre-Revolutionary setting; class conflicts and a romance across class-boundaries.Year:
1950
El charro y la dama
Bratty rich girl plays practical jokes on the man that she'll obviously end up marrying.Year:
1949
The Grand Champion
Year:
1949
Las mañanitas
Rom-com scheming; wealthy landowner wants to seduce one of his tenants, but she wants the other guy...Year:
1948
El Supersabio
Cantinflas is the apprentice of a renowned scientist, Prof. Arquimides Monteagudo (Carlos Martinez Baena). But Cantinflas has the soul of a poet rather than a serious researcher, and he wants to find the formula that achieves the immortality of the roses. Nevertheless, after the death of Prof. Monteagudo, Cantinflas will be chased by a ferocious corporative group, who wants to steal the secret formula of a cheaper fuel named "carburex", because they think that our friend is the only person who knows the compositionYear:
1948
Charro a la fuerza
Mistaken identity farce; heiress has to marry to receive an inheritance.Year:
1948
Nocturno de amor
Venice Film Festival 1948Year:
1948
Albur de amor
Dark romantic melodrama, played out with high-stakes card games and cockfights.Year:
1947
La insaciable
Year:
1947
¡Qué verde era mi padre!
Year:
1947
Yo fui una usurpadora
Brilliant young doctor discovers his wife doesn't want to bear children, so he finds someone else to exxperience fatherhood with.Year:
1946
Los nietos de Don Venancio
Year:
1946
Canaima
College-educated emigre has to get macho when he returns home to the Venezuelan outback.Year:
1945
Una mujer que no miente
Headmistress of a girl's school and one of her pupils get into romantic-comedy trouble trying to keep their lies straight.Year:
1945
La pícara Susana
Socialist librarian gets mixed up in the family life of a spoiled rich girl and her screwball family.Year:
1945
El Gran Makakikus
Uncultured nouveau- riche wants to be received in high society. Loose adaptation of Moliere.Year:
1944
Los Hijos De Don Venancio
Spanish immigrant wants his sons to join him in running his business, but they all have other ambitions.Year:
1944
The Pharaoh's Court
The wise men of the kingdom interpret a dream of Pharaoh and decide that Putifar, a victorious general, should marry Lota, a virginal slave.Year:
1944
La Guerra de los Pasteles
Musical comedy about a pastry chef and his daughter in the 1830sYear:
1944
Viva Mi Desgracia
After drinking a special concoction made of various types of alcohol, the once-timid Ramon (Pedro Infante) suddenly turns into a brawler and extroverted ladies' man. With his newfound confidence, Ramon attempts to win the heart of the woman (María Antonieta Pons) he loves. Full of enjoyable songs and funny scenes, this entertaining Mexican musical centers on a wealthy man who finally realizes that money can't buy him love.Year:
1944
Adios Juventud
Nostalgic comedy about medical students circa 1905.Year:
1943
El ametralladora
Peasant farmer and landowner are rivals for a woman. Sequel to Ay Jalisco No Te Rajes.Year:
1943
María Eugenia
Before marrying María Eugenia, landowner Carlos are away to visit her godmother to break the promise to marry his daughter. The godmother is dying, Carlos quiets and everything takes an unexpected course.Year:
1943
The Bloody Inn
Young couple are trapped in an isolated mansion while members of a criminal gang are killing each other off on the premises.Year:
1943
Soy puro mexicano
Band of outlaws stumble across an espionage ring of Axis agents embedded in an out-of-the-way hacienda.Year:
1942
Las 5 noches de Adán
Globe-hopping playboy bachelor is getting on in years, so he invites his five international children to come live with him.Year:
1942
Cuando viajan las estrellas
A Hollywood star travels to Mexico to take flamenco dancing lessons for her next movie. In the airport she meets a Mexican rancher, and while both dislike each other at first, things may change.Year:
1942
Mil estudiantes y una muchacha
Every single student at Uni flips over the young woman that lives in the building across the street from the Commons. She's a professor's daughter... Hijinks ensue.Year:
1942
La gallina clueca
Divorced mother struggles to raise her large family.Year:
1941
The Unknown Policeman
A gang of thieves has jeopardized the city and even the police, whose chief urges their forces to captured the band within 48 hours. Meanwhile, band members meet in a cafe run by a widow and her daughter and her suitor, Cantinflas, who maintains a scuffle with the robbers running all at the station. Since then, Cantinflas become a member of the police force for special missions.Year:
1941
When the Children are Gone
Unjustly accused of theft, the noble Raimundo is forced to leave his paternal home. A new incident, caused by the ambition of his brother José, causes Raimundo to be disowned by his girlfriend María and by his father, the just and strict Don Pepe. The only one who believes in Raimundo is his mother, Dona Lupita, a woman who suffers deeply because of the wrong decisions of her children.Year:
1941
You’re Missing the Point
Cantinflas, the boyfriend of the servant of a rich industrial man, gets into the house in order to kill a mad dog. Suddenly this man appears so the servant tells him that Cantinflas is his wife's brother (Leonardo), who had been lost for years. The rich man then remembers that his father in law's testament could only be paid when all brothers get together, so treats Cantinflas, a real bum, as a king.Year:
1940
To the Sound of the Marimba
Shabby-genteel big city family tries to marry their daughter off to a wealthy landowner from the southern provinces.Year:
1940
