
Fernando Soto
Acting
Biography
Fernando Soto was a Mexican film actor. He was born on April 15, 1911 in Puebla, Mexico as Fernando Soto Astol. He was an actor, known for Campeón sin corona (1946), Extraña cita (1947) and La presidenta municipal (1975). He died on May 11, 1980 in Mexico City, Mexico.
Known For

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

Two ranch owners promised their offspring would marry. The intended refused and switched places with their respective servants. They don't discover their real identities till they marry.
Yo no me caso compadre

This is the story of three brothers - a priest, a soldier, and an outlaw - that are raised separately by their godfathers once their mother dies. They cross their paths again when the soldier and the priest move into two towns near the town the outlaw lives in. The drama will unfold once the three brothers meet each other.
Los tres huastecos

A snake-charmer falls in love with a circus trapeze artist who trains her and has her debut in this discipline.
La venenosa

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

Two rival gangs of outlaws are terrorizing a small town; el Comandante and his sidekicks pit them against each other and pick up the pieces.
Vuelve el Norteño

A Mexican steer rancher goes to Spain to get some bulls he bought but that were never delivered. He meets a flamenco dancer during his stay in Madrid and falls for her.
Blame Me

Romantic triangle on the hacienda.
Rondalla

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.
El analfabeto

She rejects him, but he's there for her, even after she gets married and then is abandoned by her babydaddy. Remake of Bajo El Cielo De Mexico (1958) (and also 1937?).
Tu camino y el mio

In the drama, a father, firmly believing that the baby daughter in his arms is not his own, abandons her upon the doorstep of the town drunk. Many years pass, and the man finds himself continually wracked with guilt about deserting her.
Daughter of Deceit

Confronted with the unfortunate news that their favorite Streetcar, no. 133, is going to be decommissioned, two Municipal Transit workers get drunk and decide to "take 'er for one last spin," as it were. Unfortunately, the "one last spin" ends up being an all-night and all-day scramble to stay out of trouble, as they are confronted with situation after sometimes bizarre situation that prevents them from returning the "borrowed" Streetcar!
Illusion Travels by Streetcar

A snake charmer's assistant (who later becomes a trapeze artist) brings bad luck in the circus to those who fall in love with her. Her decision to become a trapeze artist comes after the accident that the main character has during a presentation.
La venenosa

La India Maria becomes the municipal president due to a ballot typo.
La presidenta municipal

Juan returns home to Mexico after working in the USA for awhile, and gets caught up in cowboy problems among his townsfolk.
Juan Armenta El Repatriado

Pepe el Toro is married to Celia la Chorreada and they have two children.
You the Rich

José María is an orphan child who lives in desperation until brother José finds him. The priest helps the boy channel his anger and transform his sadness into energy and love.
Seguiré tus pasos

To conquer the beautiful vedette Rosita, journalist Tin Tan is subject to her whims. Fired along with his friend Narciso from the newspaper they worked, Tin Tan trying to sell a movie plot. A woman looking to buy it and Tin Tan will visit her in a gloomy mansion where a mess is unleashed.
Me traes de un ala

Mexican movie
Club verde

The simple life and the values of loyalty and solidarity of the poor people in the environment of professional boxing, is the plot of this film, where Pepe el Toro shows the effort and tragedies that are experienced in this profession.