Arturo Martínez
Popularity:0.226
Known For:Acting
Birthday:1918-01-23
Place of Birth:San Luis Potosi, San Luis Potosi, Mexico
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Also Known As:Arturo Martínez Chávez, Arturo Martinez, Don Arturo Martínez

The Aztec Mummy (1957)
A scientist discovers through hypnosis a mummy who watches over the jewels of an Aztec god for all eternity.

This Was Pancho Villa: Second chapter (1958)
The second chapter of director Ismael Rodríguez's series about Pancho Villa. Several stories about the life and death of the famous mexican...

City Rats (1986)
A father on the search for his missing child discovers a revealing and shocking drama. The true adventures of thousands of juvenile criminals who...

Yo el ejecutor (1987)
A retired mercenary known as 'The Executioner', is forced to take one more case especially when his girlfriend is kidnapped and raped, he then wages...

Inspector Calzonzin (1974)
Mexico's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1974

Los Hombres No Lloran (1973)
Man is manipulated into thinking his wife is unfaithful and abandons her, taking one of their two sons with him.

Contrabando y Traicion (1977)
Two criminals, Emilio and Camelia try to smuggle drugs into the USA.

Survival (1992)
In the news, there are increasing reports of illegal immigrants that attempted to cross the Mexican-American border mysteriously disappearing.

El jinete negro (1961)
A rancher disguises himself as a generous bandit and murders a tax collector, but is discovered.

Se alquila marido (1961)
Female CEO hires a man to pass as her husband and act as figurehead of her business concerns.

No me quieras tanto (1949)
Feud between two rival gangsters over drug-sales turf.

The Robot vs. The Aztec Mummy (1958)
A mad doctor builds a robot in order to steal a valuable Aztec treasure from a tomb guarded by a centuries old living mummy.

Si Adelita se fuera con otro (1948)
Young couple run off to join the Mexican Revolution, in part because she has a crush on Francisco Villa.

Jugándose la vida (1963)
Police procedural, structured like a TV cop show with three independent half-hour episodes.

El diablo desaparece (1957)
Cowboy justice: drifter takes on unscrupulous rancher and his sociopathic son.

El manantial del amor (1970)
Boy/girl stuff at a health spa that's famous for aphrodisiac waters.

Laura's Sin (1949)
Young woman breaks her engagement to be married when an opportunity for stardom comes her way.

El boxeador (1958)
Undefeated boxing champion for 15 years faces retirement. One final bout...

Nunca debieron amarse (1951)
Ranchera romance; two young lovers whose families are hostile to each other.

The Curse of the Aztec Mummy (1957)
The evil Dr. Krupp, once again trying to get possession of the Aztec princess Xochitl's jewels, hypnotizes her current reincarnation, Flor, to get...

From Can-Can to Mambo (1951)
Young man convinces his conservative uncle that trendy modern stuff is fun.

Hombres de roca (1966)
Cowboy drifter goes home for a visit, gets into trouble messing around with another man's woman.

Meat in Prison (1952)
Pedro is found guilty of murder after accidentally killing a friend's husband. His own family will face difficult times, as will he when he entrusts...

Heart of beast (1951)
Wanted criminal has plastic surgery, starts new life in a distant town. Old habits die hard.

El lobo solitario (1952)
Masked avenger on horseback. Again.

Fierecilla (1951)
After discovering his wife in flagrante with another man, a gold prospector kills them both, then takes his daughter to live in the countryside,...

Escuela de valientes (1961)
Mexican western 1961

El pueblo del terror (1970)
Federal-agent/cowboy battles crime

Red Rain (1950)
Military leader is appointed to local government, becomes overly despotic in his leadership.

La mujer del puerto (1949)
Orphaned, abandoned by her fiance, forced into prostitution by the absence of "respectable" alternatives.And the-e-en...

El billetero (1953)
Slum child, abandoned almost since birth, is reunited with his father.

El plagiario (1955)
Gangster's daughter learns about her dad's illegalist lifestyle.

La gaviota (1955)
Local gal in a fishing/seaport resort has to decide between a local fisherman and a doctor who comes for vacations.

Hay ángeles con espuelas (1957)
Two brothers butt heads: one's a gadabout charro playboy and the other's a priest.

El 7 leguas (1955)
Horse-trader gets absorbed into Pancho Villa's battalions, becomes a spy.

El jinete negro (1958)
Masked horseman avenges the deaths of family members and resolves questions about a contested inheritance. One of four in a series ("Relampago").

La muerte en el desfiladero (1963)
Masked horseman avenges the deaths of family members and resolves questions about a contested inheritance. One of four in a series ("Relampago").

Herencia trágica (1960)
Masked horseman avenges the deaths of family members and resolves questions about a contested inheritance. One of four in a series ("Relampago").

Macabre Legends of the Colony (1974)
The Mexican luchador Tinieblas buys an ancient painting of a dead woman ignoring the warning that it is haunted. Later, after a fight his partners El...

Quietos todos (1959)
Gambler faces comical mishaps trying to pay off a poker debt.

El revólver sangriento (1964)
Follows an "unlucky" gun across the paths of five owners.

El correo del norte (1960)
Bandits rob mail from stagecoach. First in series of two.

Audaz y bravero (1965)
Two ranchers competing over a woman. Cult actor Noe Murayama plays a mentally handicapped character.

El asesino enmascarado (1962)
Hero vs bad-guy western.

Atrás de las nubes (1962)
All it says in my notes is "Like 'Juan Sin Miedo', only with soldiers." So... Army officer seeks revenge for... something...

El hombre de negro (1969)
After his family is murdered by bandits, a young man enlists a wandering cowboy to teach him to gunsling.

El fistol del diablo (1961)
Satan tries to corrupt mortal man by gifting him with an enchanted tie-tack. First of four in a series.

Los fenómenos del fútbol (1964)
Working class family owns a restaurant: one brother's a rising star in local soccer, one's a priest/semi-pro boxer, sister's an aspiring ranchera...

Yo, el valiente (1964)
A young man wants to create a reputation for himself as a gunslinger; an older mentor tries to warn him that he's making life decisions he'll regret...

El asaltacaminos (1962)
Young man puts on the Black Mask Of Vengeance to solve some tangled legal problems concerning a contested inheritance and several murdered family...

Dos valientes (1969)
In his home-town, he's a respectable rancher... but out on the range he's a hitman for hire. His son finds out about his double life, and...

La leyenda del bandido (1967)
Western with romance subplot.

Chucho el Roto (1960)
First of four in series about Robin Hood-type social-justice criminal. Elaborate heist scenarios.

La bandida (1948)
Roving cowboy good-guys defend a farm family from the outlaw gang that's trying to take over their homestead.

El fistol del diablo III (1961)
Part of a series of films based on portions of the Manuel Payno novel "El fistol del diablo". All were directed by Fernando Fernández and star...

The Body Snatcher (1957)
A detective and his cowboy friend team up to stop a mad scientist who is stealing the bodies of murdered wrestlers, and bringing them back to life...

Aventuras de Chucho el Roto (1961)
Number 2 of 4 in a series about the exploits of a crew of Robin Hood-esque con artists.

La venganza de la sombra (1962)
Masked wrestler/cowboy hybrid -- avenging a murdered brother and protecting the homestead.

La captura de Chucho el Roto (1961)
"Gentleman bandit" and his gang execute a series of elaborate heists. #3 of 4 in a series.

The Black Scorpion (1957)
Volcanic activity frees giant scorpions from the earth who wreak havoc in the rural countryside and eventually threaten Mexico City.

Juan Charrasqueado (1948)
Hard-living horse-trainer has a thing with an aristocratic woman... but her brothers aren't happy to see her involved with someone beneath her...

La entrega de Chucho el Roto (1962)
Gentleman swindler runs cleverly-orchestrated scams. Four of four in a series.

Quinto patio (1950)
Model son/employee/student is frustrated by poverty and surrenders to the temptations of a criminal lifestyle... in the same gang that twenty years...

Contrabandistas del Caribe (1966)
A crime organization that deals with drug trafficking discovers that more and more drugs keep disappearing. Joe Luciana, a man who is respected for...

The Mummies of San Angel (1975)
A young man is the heir of a very old house in San Angel. Upon marriage, he decides to live there but after a long time, very strange things begin to...

Duelo indio (1961)
A cabal of bad-hats is conspiring to dispossess the local Indians of their hereditary lands, but Pancho fights to defend them... while a messenger is...

Para servir a usted (1971)
Working-class dude gets a gig as a waiter doing banquet service, and loses his moral compass through his contacts with decadent rich folk.

Trampas de amor (1969)
Love, infidelity and desire are the protagonists of three stories full of entanglements and romance.

El caudillo (1957)
Bad-hat townsfolk want to dispossess local Indians of their tribal lands; priestess and white ally fight back. One of four in a series.

El sargento Perez (1973)
Two buddies from Pancho Villa's regiment go on a mission. Light comedy, romance, songs...

Under the Cover of Night (1962)
The vedette Miriam ignores her pretender Carlos because her daughter Margot, whom she passes as her sister, is in love with him.

La hija del ministro (1952)
A young bureaucrat's career takes off when it's believed he's keeping company with the daughter of a higher-ranking official.

Tailored gentleman (1954)
Cantinflas works as a model of tuxedos in a prestigious store, your job is to use the smoking in the street along with an advertising sign on his...

Mi fantasma y yo (1988)
A family of three moves to a haunted house. The couple's 10-year-old son runs into the ghost of the house but isn't scared. He tells the ghost that...

Jungle of Death (1985)
A Mexican scientific team and an Arab expedition clash over a powerful piece of metal hidden in the jungle. Oh yeah, and there's also aliens, a...

La muerte en bikini (1967)
The bodies of murdered young women are turning up on a beach.

Bloody Tarot (1990)
The cards indicate a bloody death and everyone knows that tarot never lies.

Hunting Humans (1987)
A guy whose brother was killed and a waitress whose sister was killed run afoul on a psycho killer who gets his jollies running people off the road...

Échenme al gato (1958)
Comical mix-up in the operating room: by mistake, a notorious gangster's arm is grafted onto an accident-victim's stump.

El temerario (1966)
Crooked dude schemes to deprive stepdaughter of her inheritance after her mother dies.

En la Hacienda de la Flor (1948)
Sequel to "Juan Charrasqueado." Juan Jr. discovers that the woman he's engaged to is the daughter of the man who killed his father.

Love Your Neighbor (1958)
This film tells several short stories that end up lapsing in the emergency room of a hospital, because it is dedicated to nurses. Cantinflas appears...

La venganza de los Villalobos (1955)
Cowboy-hero series, number two of two: Townsfolk pledge all their jewels and valuables as security for a large loan to undertake a public works...

El rey de la pistola (1962)
Western heist movie; a complicated bank job goes bad, and two groups of thieves fight the sheriff and each other.

Return of the Monster (1958)
Mad scientist is trying to transplant the soul of an animated, talking skeleton into a living body. Also, there's a monster. Number three of three in...

Rosauro Castro (1950)
Cardoza's death, a candidate for mayor of a village chief enemy and Rosauro Castro, leads to Mr. Garcia Mata to undertake an investigation. Upon...

Agente de servicios especiales (1998)
An elite police squad in Mexico fights against crime.

Love, how bad you are! (1953)
Noirish drama about a drug trafficker and his girlfriends.

Time to Die (1966)
A man comes home after serving 18 years in jail for murder in this routine western. Although the man killed in self defense, rumors in town...

Fugitivos: Pueblo de proscritos (1955)
After breaking out of jail, a group of convicts finds a ghost town they can take possession of. They send word out along the grapevine that criminals...

A Place Close to Heaven (1952)
On reaching the capital, Pedro Gonzalez gets a lowly job and marries Margaret. After losing that job, get a new one as a bodyguard but is fired...

Ak-47 temible cuerno de chivo (1997)
A humble shoe shiner is hired by a drug lord as a driver, and he quickly raises up the ranks to become his most trusted hitman. But his biggest...

Oh shorties… how many! (1956)
The reading of a will turns into a scavenger hunt among the heirs.

El tren de la muerte (1979)
A stranger arrives in a small western town and starts gunning for people.

La carcel de Laredo (1985)
Unhappy about his daughter's choice of boyfriends, a wealthy big-wheel arranges to have the young man arrested for cocaine trafficking and continues...

Super agente Botones (1997)
A secret agent who dies on a mission asks Heaven to let him go back to Earth to complete his mission, and much to his disapproval, he is reincarnated...

Frontera norte (1953)
Two brothers: one's a cop, one's a gangster.

El cofre del pirata (1959)
Bankrupt millionaire discovers a treasure map belonging to a distant ancestor.

Crimen en Chihuahua (1996)
A med student goes on vacation to see his family, only to be gunned down. As the only survivor, he seeks revenge for their deaths.

La rebelión de los adolescentes (1959)
College student returns home after the death of his father, then discovers Pops was killed by members of a crime syndicate.

The Hidden One (1956)
Amid the Mexican Revolution, a woman rises from the depths of poverty and becomes a courtesan who is much-sought-after by high-society men, but she...

Los tigres del ring (1960)
Crooked promoter has a secret weapon who goes around beating fighters to death after their matches if they aren't in line with his rigging schedule....

Nobleza ranchera (1977)
Respected civic leader hired a gunman twenty five years ago to commit a murder for him. Now that guy is blackmailing him, and meanwhile his two...

Enemigos (1956)
One son takes after mom, one son takes after dad. They don't get along, and the family splits into two households.

Adventures of Juliancito (1969)
Adaptation of the adventures of Tom Sawyer, played by actor Juliancito Bravo.

Under the influence of fear (1956)
Gang leader sets one of his flunkies up to take the fall for a certain job; after he does his jail time, the guy goes gunning for the people who set...

Perdición de mujeres (1951)
Small town girl moves to the big city. When she can't find a job, she starts hanging with a bad crowd.

The Goddess of Tahiti (1953)
A fugitive hides from justice among smugglers in the deep jungle of an exotic island, but things become complicated when he falls in love with a...

Vuelve el ojo de vidrio (1970)
Upon hearing the news of Madero's death, Porfirio Alcalá and his four cousins interrupt their peaceful lives as farmers to again join the...

Ley fuga (1954)
As he rises through the ranks of the police department, a young officer gets more deeply involved in manipulating gang activity for personal gain.

Ni modo... así somos (1981)
Sketch-comedy collection, heavy on the 'sketchy'.

El águila negra en la ley de los fuertes (1958)
Masked rider clears up the mysteries surrounding the ownership of two haciendas and the disappearance of a young heiress' father.

Los aventureros (1954)
Two brothers and their pops end up helping out an orphaned young woman who wants revenge against her father's murderer.

Traigo la sangre caliente (1977)
Footloose roving-gambler type marries a young woman against her father's wishes; she assimilates herself to his rootless, random lifestyle, but her...

Rapto al sol (1956)
Spoiled rich girl has massive temper tantrums when she doesn't get her way; a business associate kidnaps her to his private island to teach her a...

Pueblo de odios (1962)
Bad hats try to manipulate townsfolk and neighboring Apache tribal settlement into a range war.

Music of Always (1958)
Producer, director and projectionist watch an assortment of musical numbers and brainstorm about framing narrative that could contain them all.

Suerte te dé Dios (1961)
Two construction workers discover a stash of gold coins hidden in the walls of a building they're demolishing.

Lauro Puñales (1969)
One of Zapata's field marshals runs afoul of dictator Huerta's stooges in his home town.

Una rosa sobre el ring (1973)
After killing an opponent in a freak wrestling accident, El Enmascarado Negro has a midlife crisis and considers retiring from show business.

Enterrado vivo (1961)
Final four episodes of Pancho Pistolas serial, reedited into feature format. PP finally thwarts the Four Bad Brothers in their plan to take over the...

Furias desatadas (1957)
College student enters the pro wrestling circuit, hoping to find out who killed his father. Third of four in a series.

La marchanta (1973)
Young woman just-arrived in the big city makes friends with two middle-aged couples.

Sabadazo (1988)
Realizing that he's out of touch with "the common people," a Mexico City politician spends a weekend slumming among the plebes he's supposed to...

Sandra, the Woman of Fire (1954)
An exuberant dancer decides to change her lifestyle after meeting a millionaire.

Policías y ladrones (1956)
When an inexperienced police officer discovers a corpse while inspecting a crime scene, he flees with no explanation. However, that action will help...

Hombres sin alma (1951)
Final installment in Juan Orol's Percal trilogy. In this film, Malena is freed from prison by a gangster but a rival mobster will make things...

El sindicato del crimen (1954)
A hard-boiled crime story also known as "The Waiting-room of Death".

Plazos traicioneros (1958)
A down in his luck film director falls in love with an attractive waitress and decides to launch her as a big singing star. Once the goal is reached,...

Love in Four Parts (1955)
Anthology film, four episodes.

Soy Charro de Levita (1949)
Tin-Tan and his carnal Marcelo take over Carmelita baby for a few hours, and suddenly, the three are hired by an employer of the tents, starting the...

La Fiesta De Los Perrones (1999)
The mafia has to end in a place where they will gather together to have fun. When the supposed "party of the badasses" occurs, official groups in...

El charro Negro contra la banda del cuervo (1963)

El valiente vive... hasta que el cobarde quiere (1979)

El valiente vive... hasta que el cobarde quiere (1979)

El valiente vive... hasta que el cobarde quiere (1979)
