BIOGRAPHY

CANTIFLAS BIOGRAPHY 

Mario Moreno Reyes (August 12, 1911 - April 20, 1993), better known as Cantinflas, was a comedian from Mexico. One time, Charlie Chaplin called Cantinflas the 'funniest man in the world'.

Cantinflas did not start his professional life as an entertainer. In fact, it is a little known fact that Cantinflas was in the military and later, also a professional boxer before he dedicated himself to the entertainment world, as a dancer. Cantinflas started out performing at a circus in the 1930s. In 1935,

Cantinflas went to Hollywood in the 1940s, making two movies in English, Around the World in Eighty Days and Pepe.