Florencio Castelló

Florencio Castelló (1905 – 23 August 1986) was a Spanish actor, known for participating in the Golden Age of Mexican cinema, acting alongside personalities of Mexican cinema such as Pedro Infante and Cantinflas. He usually played roles of a Spaniard with an Andalusian accent.

He left Spain in 1936 fleeing the civil war in his country, joining a theater company in which he performed Andalusian works, which toured throughout Latin America until in 1939 he arrived in Mexico.

He also served as a voice actor, being known for voicing Mr. Jinks in the Latin American Spanish dub (done in Mexico) of the Hanna-Barbera cartoon series Pixie and Dixie and Mr. Jinks, also using his Andalusian accent.

Selected filmography

• Neither Blood nor Sand (1941)
• Dos mexicanos en Sevilla (1942)
• Simón Bolívar (1942)
• El verdugo de Sevilla (1942)
• ¡Así se quiere en Jalisco! (1942)
• Santa (1943)
• Escándalo de estrellas (1944)
• Gangsters Versus Cowboys (1948)
• Tía Candela (1948)
• Lost (1950)
• Azahares para tu boda (1950)
• También de dolor se canta (1950)
• Port of Temptation (1951)
• Canasta uruguaya (1951)
• Las locuras de Tin-Tan (1952)
• Here Comes Martin Corona (1952)
• El Enamorado (1952)
• Sombrero (1953)
• You Had To Be a Gypsy (1953)
• Camelia (1954)
• Tú y las nubes (1955)
• Barefoot Sultan (1956)
• A sablazo limpio (1958)
• Dos corazones y un cielo (1959)
• The Miracle Roses (1960)
• The Black Bull (1960)
• Adventures of Joselito and Tom Thumb (1960)
• Vacations in Acapulco (1961)
• The White Horse (1962)
• The Exterminating Angel (1962)
• El padrecito (1964)
• La casa de las muchachas (1969)
• The Holy Office (1974)
• The Bricklayer (1975)

References

External links

• Florencio Castelló at IMDb