Leopoldo Ortín Explained

Leopoldo 'Chato' Ortín (1893–1953) was a Peruvian stage and film actor. He was active during the Golden Age of Mexican Cinema, appearing in lead and supporting roles. Having arrived in Mexico to study he was a supporter of Pancho Villa during the Mexican Revolution.^[1] He was the father of the actor Polo Ortín.^[2]

Selected filmography

• Martín Garatuza (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 (1942)
• El ahijado de la muerte (1946)

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.

Notes and References

1. Avila p.217
2. Holmstrom p.163