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Estanislao Schillinsky

Acting

Biography

Estanislao Shilinsky Bachanska (August 10, 1911 in Baisogala, Lithuania — September 27, 1985 in Mexico City) was a Mexican comedian and the half of the 1940—1970 comedy duo Manolín y Shilinsky with Manuel Palacios Sierra. His career started in the carpa circuit when he joined the Carpa Valentina. In 1929 he coached Mario Moreno and helped him improve his Cantinflas character. He later married Olga Subarev, a daughter of the Russian family who owned the carpa, while Cantinflas married her sister Valentina Ivanova who the carpa was named after.

Known For

El circo
7.8

A cobbler gets a job in a Circus as a janitor, recommended by the beautiful girl rider of the show. But later, he gets in trouble when he involves in dangerous acts, such as the trapeze. Obviously, our friend will risk his life by the love of his new girlfriend.

El circo

1943
Gran Hotel
7.2

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.

Gran Hotel

1944
You’re Missing the Point
8.1

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.

You’re Missing the Point

1940
Adultery
4.0

Man commits suicide over his wife's infidelity. His father spends the rest of his life trying to figure out which of son's two children is illegitimate.

Adultery

1945
Romeo y Julieta
6.5

Verona's peace is disturbed by the rivalry between noble families: the Montesco and the Capuleto, irreconcilable enemies. The two families have continued fighting to make life unbearable in the Italian town. The Prince of Verona informs the chiefs that the two families respond with their lives if there are new struggles. At a ball in honor of Juliet, the daughter of Capuleto, incidentally meets Romeo, son of Montesco. Both fall in love immediately, not knowing that their love is impossible.

Romeo y Julieta

1943
The Unknown Policeman
7.8

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.

The Unknown Policeman

1941
Soy un prófugo
7.7

A janitor in a large bank is accused of pulling of a major heist. He is forced to become a fugitive while hunting for the real culprits.

Soy un prófugo

1946
¡A volar, joven!
8.0

Cantinflas is a private in the military, who doesn't know anything about discipline or following rules. He only wants to think about his girlfriend, the maid in an opulent hacienda. The owner of the hacienda has an ugly and shy daughter, who is in love with Cantinflas. The problems arrive when the family arranges a wedding between the ugly girl and Cantinflas, who in order to avoid the commitment gets himself arrested. During his punishment, Cantinflas learns to fly with a silly and poorly trained flight instructor.

¡A volar, joven!

1947
Ni sangre ni arena
7.3

Cantinflas enjoys the bullfight show, and wants to crash in every of these spectacles. Also, there's a professional bullfighter, Manolete, who is identical to Cantinflas. Manolete has to give a bullfight show in a village, but Cantinflas arrives first as a stowaway in a train, and he'll be mistake by the real bullfighter. Cantinflas will give us a demonstration of courage.

Ni sangre ni arena

1941
No te engañes corazón
6.1

No te engañes corazón (released in English as Don't Fool Yourself Dear) is the first full-feature film of Cantinflas after becoming a star of the carpa circuit (folk theater). It was also one of the earliest films of Sara García and Carlos Orellana and the first where they share the screen. Don Boni (Orellana) is diagnosed with a deadly disease and decides to spend his last days doing good deeds. He leaves his wife and decides to help people. He then gets drunk and wakes up with a winning lottery ticket and realizes that the doctor who diagnosed him has been sent to prison for fraud.

No te engañes corazón

1937
One Day with the Devil
7.5

Cantinflas, on a drunken night, becomes Army soldier. Soon, he meets the Devil who tries to make it an evil being.

One Day with the Devil

1945
The Three Musketeers
7.5

Cantinflas and three friends return a stolen necklace to an actress who invites them to be extras at Clasa studios. While on the set, he falls asleep and dreams that he is d'Artagnan, fighting on behalf of Queen Anne.

The Three Musketeers

1942
Carnaval en el trópico
6.9

Three Mexican friends decide to go to Vercacruz Carnaval to celebrate. There they watch Cantinflas' show of torero and boxer.

Carnaval en el trópico

1942
Autopsy of a Ghost
5.2

Satan offers a weary ghost a chance for redemption through true love.

Autopsy of a Ghost

1968
Cantinflas boxeador
6.5

We see a young Mario Moreno making us laugh while he trying to fight against an opponent on a ring.

Cantinflas boxeador

1940
Jengibre contra Dinamita
7.0

He shows us a poor Cantinflas like a rat that walks with a sad hatter and ends up in a bar where he will have a clash with the dangerous bandit "Ojo Tapado" (Covered Eye).

Jengibre contra Dinamita

1939
Cantinflas y su prima
7.3

Cantinflas appears flirting with a lady until her lover arrives. Angry, Cantinflas call the husband causing a number of situations.

Cantinflas y su prima

1940
Festival de Cantinflas
8.0

Collection of the most famous short films starring Cantinflas, where the great comedian plays a taxi driver who makes his passengers work without taking them to their destination, and even tries his luck in a boxing ring

Festival de Cantinflas

1939
Pancho López
5.8

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).

Pancho López

1957
Pobres, pero sinvergüenzas
6.7

Comedy duo try to raise a foundling baby.

Pobres, pero sinvergüenzas

1949