Leopoldo 'Chato' Ortín (1893–1953) was a Peruvian

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. He was active during the

Golden Age of Mexican Cinema The Golden Age of Mexican Cinema (Spanish: la Época de Oro del Cine Mexicano), spanning the 1930s to 1950s, was a prolific era during which Mexico emerged as the leading film producer in Latin America. Filmmakers during this period tackled themes ...

, appearing in

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s. Having arrived in Mexico to study he was a supporter of

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during the

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. He was the father of the actor

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.Holmstrom p.163

Selected filmography

* ''

Martín Garatuza Martín Garatuza (born c. 1601, Puebla, Mexico) was a famous trickster whose frauds and escapes became legendary in colonial New Spain and whose name has passed into Spanish language, folklore and literature. Garatuza, whose real name was Martín ...

'' (1935) * '' Heroic Silence'' (1935) * '' Poppy of the Road'' (1937) * '' Come on Ponciano'' (1937) * '' La honradez es un estorbo'' (1937) * '' Father's Entanglements'' (1939) * '' Horse for Horse'' (1939) * '' Las tres viudas de papá'' (1942) * ''

Father Gets Entangled Again ''Father Gets Entangled Again'' (Spanish: ''Papá se enreda otra vez'') is a 1942 Mexican comedy film directed by Miguel Zacarías and starring Sara García, Leopoldo Ortín and Virginia Serret. Agrasánchez p.61 The film's sets were designed ...

'' (1942) * '' El ahijado de la muerte'' (1946)

References

Bibliography

* Avila, Jaqueline. ''Cinesonidos: Film Music and National Identity During Mexico's Época de Oro''. Oxford University Press, 2019. * Holmstrom, John. ''The Moving Picture Boy: An International Encyclopaedia from 1895 to 1995'', Norwich, Michael Russell, 1996. * Poppe, Nicolas. ''Alton's Paradox: Foreign Film Workers and the Emergence of Industrial Cinema in Latin America. State University of New York Press, 2021.

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* 1893 births 1953 deaths Peruvian male film actors Mexican male film actors Peruvian emigrants to Mexico Actors from Lima {{Peru-bio-stub