Emma Roldán
Birthday: 1893-02-03
Place of Birth: San Luis Potosi, Mexico
Biography: Emma Roldán (February 3, 1893 – August 29, 1978) was a Mexican character actress and costume designer. She is remembered as the sharp-tongued, domineering matron of Mexican cinema, and was nominated three times for a Silver Ariel Award.
Movies
El tigre enmascarado
Aspiring opera singer Luis Landa returns to his hometown to avenge the murder of his brother....
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Simitrio
A blind teacher is the victim of endless pranks and pranks from his students....
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The Passion of Berenice
When a man appears in her life, a young woman of traditional manners who lives with her godmother su...
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Servicio secreto
Two secret agents are after a couple of car thieves who belong to a band of criminals headed by Erne...
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Prisoner 13
Colonel Carrasco's wife Marta leaves him taking his young son. The child, Juan, grows into an admira...
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Gendarme de punto
Don Timoteo Rodriguez is an old friendly but scared and outdated, whose office is the pedestal: Acco...
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El compadre Mendoza
In the midst of the Mexican Revolution, the landowner Mendoza manages to get along with both the gov...
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A Letter of Love
Moments before he will be executed by the French Intervention Army, the liberal leader reads a love ...
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One Way Street
After stealing a gangster's money and his girlfriend, a doctor heads for a small village in Mexico t...
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Basket of Mexican Tales
Strong-willed Luisa attracts lots of men, but her intelligence and sharp tongue often sends them run...
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The Aztec Mummy
A scientist discovers through hypnosis a mummy who watches over the jewels of an Aztec god for all e...
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Cuidado con el amor
Salvador accompanied by two friends of his father whom he calls uncles, they arrive at a fair in the...
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Aquella Rosita Alvírez
Traveling cowboy gets involved in political issues in a town he passes through. Also a romance....
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The Robot vs. The Aztec Mummy
A mad doctor builds a robot in order to steal a valuable Aztec treasure from a tomb guarded by a cen...
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La casa del ogro
Lives of the tenants in a shabby-genteel apartment house. Miserly landlord learns valuable life less...
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El ahijado de la muerte
Father of a newborn makes a deal with Death to protect his son....
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Los hijos de María Morales
Two brothers known in town for their womanizing, drinking and rowdiness meet their matches when two ...
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La santa del barrio
Wicked old lady arranges to sell the virginity of a young neighbor. Her boyfriend gets upset over th...
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El gran mentiroso
A respectable, married gent has made up a passel of stories to cover for his fifteen years of freque...
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Matinée
Jorge and Aarón, two young boys growing up in a quiet town often miss classes to go together to the ...
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Los amores de Chucho el Roto
Gentleman bandit pulls off crafty robberries and frets over having or losing custody of his daughter...
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She-Wolves of the Ring
Intimate problems and the wickedness of friends is resolved in the ring....
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Ratero
Solovino is called like that because no one knows where he came from. He is a miserable province man...
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El malvado Carabel
Frustrated salaryman responds to career setbacks by embarking on a life of crime....
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Albur de amor
Dark romantic melodrama, played out with high-stakes card games and cockfights....
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El rey del tomate
El rey del tomate ("The Tomato King") is a 1964 Mexican comedy-drama film, directed by Miguel M. Del...
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The Curse of the Aztec Mummy
The evil Dr. Krupp, once again trying to get possession of the Aztec princess Xochitl's jewels, hypn...
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Mi candidato
Young silversmith runs for office, butts heads with political machine that's sucking the town dry....
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Los hijos de Rancho Grande
Sequel to Alla en el Rancho Grande, twenty years later -- sons and daughters of the original charact...
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¡Que viene mi marido!
Rom-com: collecting on a big inheritance "forces" a family to play games with their daughter's marit...
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La infame
For love, the rules of society and justice are broken, leading to abduction, exposing life and freed...
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Cárcel de Mujeres
Evangelina murders her lover Alberto. In prison she meets Dora, Alberto's girlfriend, who was depriv...
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Víctimas del divorcio
The 'other woman' tricks her fella into filing to divorce his wife....
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Storm in the souls
Lives in a "model factory," designed to create a progressive community among the workers....
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Hay ángeles con espuelas
Two brothers butt heads: one's a gadabout charro playboy and the other's a priest....
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The Illegitimate
Family melodrama: manipulative parents ruin lives with their meddling....
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Forbidden Kisses
Nightclub singer has to choose between marrying again or reuniting with her divorced husband....
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Mi ley es un revólver
Masked justice on horseback, again: guy plays it meek & mild in his civilian identity so no-one ...
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Guitarras de medianoche
Wealthy land-owner poses as a bandit, robbing only his own properties, to get the romantic attention...
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Los tres vivales
The rowdiest guy in each of three states hears rumors about the badassness of the other two and they...
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Los encapuchados del infierno
Husband and wife team of hooded avengers, First of three in series....
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Los hermanos Muerte
Woman swears to avenge her brother's murder.. Then she falls in love with the murderer, before disco...
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The Deadly Trap
Cunning schemes and deadly traps put The Scarlet Fox to the ultimate test as he fights to save the h...
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Los dos rivales
Ranchera comedy -- the hero thinks his girlfriend has another suitor... but the suitor is really she...
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El mariachi canta
Rivalry and romance between the leaders of a male mariachi band and a female one....
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Free Love
Two single women share an apartment, work together, and sometimes swap boyfriends. None of their rom...
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Despedida de soltera
Five young women hold a weekend-long bachelorette party for their engaged girlfriend....
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La flecha envenenada
A young orphan girl is attacked by Apaches and must pay her father's debts, as she may be stripped o...
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Matrimonio y mortaja
A series of misadventures leaves a city slicker trapped into a shotgun marriage with a country gal. ...
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Deceitful Appearances
The sexual misunderstandings caused by the real identity of a rich woman serve Hermosillo to satiriz...
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La entrega de Chucho el Roto
Gentleman swindler runs cleverly-orchestrated scams. Four of four in a series....
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Castle of Purity
A disciplined and sexually driven man forces his family to stay isolated in their home in order to p...
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The Encounter of a Lonely Man
Alberto is a journalist who remembers an event 15 years ago, when his friend Gabriel saved a girl fr...
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The Devil's Visitations
A young architect returns from Europe to live in the house of his uncles and cousins, where someone ...
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El perdon de la hija de nadie
While she's conducting an obsessive search for the father she never met, a nightclub owner falls ill...
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Monte de piedad
Anthology-movie, series of anecdotes about the personal tragedies that lead people to take their val...
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Flor de durazno
City slicker scams on young farmgirl while her fiance's in USA on a work permit....
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Two Monks
In a Gothic-styled monastery, a monk named Javier sees the face of another monk, Juan, and suddenly ...
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Noches de ronda
Homeless singer-songwriter-piano-player gets a career boost with the support of a crippled waitress,...
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Revenge of the Resurrected
Two families have made peace after generations of feuding... but some bad-hat strangers have come to...
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Salón de belleza
Employees and clients at Merle's Beauty Stuff have illicit romances and cheating husbands and that k...
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Señoritas
Four young women facing "crises," mostly centered around the crucially-important issue of preserving...
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Vino el remolino y nos alevantó
Three generations of a stable, middle-class family in the capitol are scattered to the four winds by...
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Tailored gentleman
Cantinflas works as a model of tuxedos in a prestigious store, your job is to use the smoking in the...
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Tierra brava
Financier threatens to foreclose on a cigar-factory's mortgage, but a secret benefactor pays off the...
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Póker de ases
Four brothers try to manage their careers and love-lives under the close supervision of a domineerin...
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Se la llevó el Remington
While tracking down the three men that killed his father, a notorious bad-ass commits other misdeeds...
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The Scarlet Fox: Hanged Man’s Revenge
The Scarlet Fox confronts dark secrets and deadly enemies in a suspenseful adventure where danger lu...
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Vertigo
Young woman's fiance unexpectedly falls in love with her mom, and ends up arranging the young woman'...
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The Midnight Ghost
A young orphan girl begins to witness strange phenomena in the house where she lives with her godpar...
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La edad de la inocencia
A poor little girl slips in a circus one day and sees a puppets' show. Later she returns to the empt...
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Museum Of Horror
A mysterious killer abducts girls off the street and covers them in wax....
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El hijo del charro negro
The son of a famous vigilante returns to his home town... but he's all citified and pantywaisted. Or...
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Fear Doesn't Ride a Donkey
This funny Mexican film tell the tale of a family who will do anything to get rid of the rich old la...
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Magdalena’s True Vocation
Sex and middle class are the main topics in "La verdadera vocación de Magdalena". Hermosillo shows m...
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Especialista en señoras
Frenetic rom-com about doctors overwhelmed with amorous female patients....
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Romeo y Julieta
Verona's peace is disturbed by the rivalry between noble families: the Montesco and the Capuleto, ir...
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Entrega Inmediata
Immediate delivery recounts the misadventures of Feliciano Callosum (Cantinflas), a postman who is r...
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La Cucaracha
The Mexican Revolution serves as a backdrop to a torrid love triangle composed of three freedom figh...
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The Abduction
In a small Mexican village the news shock neighbors, Ricardo Alfaro, a wealthy local rancher has dis...
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The Underdogs
During the Mexican Revolution, the people tired of living in poverty and enduring the atrocities com...
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Miente y serás feliz
A Spanish, Juan, is obsessed with telling the truth always. As a result he is consistently in the mi...
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The Third Word
The English-language title of this Mexican musical was The Third Word. Singer Pedro Infante stars as...
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El mil amores
Carmen has a daughter, Patricia, who attends a school for young ladies where they think Carmen is ma...
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La señora de enfrente
Two travelers visiting a small town link up together and then run afoul of the gossip of church ladi...
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El seductor
A young artist's affair with a married woman destroys her family. Twenty-odd years later, her two da...
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Los tigres del ring
Crooked promoter has a secret weapon who goes around beating fighters to death after their matches i...
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La Adelita
Beautiful peasant girl runs afoul of her landlord's horny son and he poisons the well between her an...
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The Place without Limits
Family honor, greed, machismo, homophobia, and dreams collide in a small Mexican town....
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Santa
Santa is a beautiful and very humble young girl living in Chimalistac, a small and quiet spot south ...
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Amanecer ranchero
The old massa dies and his son comes home to take over the hacienda. Things are going to be a whole ...
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Cadetes de la naval
During World War II, two Mexican naval cadets become best friends and share some good times when off...
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Canción del alma
Jose and Esperanza got married just before the Revolution blew up, and they got separated in the cha...
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Una luz en mi camino
A blind songwriter struggles to get his work published, and meanwhile a girl he's sweet on disappear...
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La carne manda
Childhood friends move up the economic ladder from slumrat to middle class comfort, but the marriage...
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El jinete justiciero en retando a la muerte
Guy gets mugged on horseback and left for dead; farmgal nurses him back to health and when he's on h...
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Dios sabrá juzgarnos
Rejected suitor goes all-out in his efforts to break up an engaged couple....
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La barranca sangrienta
Alberto and Leonor have a son, they find out that one of the masked men who attacked them was her ne...
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La calle de los amores
Hubby latches onto a series of side-pieces and wifey finds it increasingly hard to put up with his b...
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Muerte en la feria
Four bad eggs from the traveling carney are setting up local men for a blackmail scam, and it's up t...
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Por qué peca la mujer
Working-class girl-next--door type is seduced into a high-glam lifestyle when an oily promoter helps...
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Un hombre peligroso
Sequel to El Zurdo: ten years later, El Zurdo returns to his home town. The little boy whose father ...
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Un milagro de amor
Young man goes to Mexico City in search of opportunity and gets framed for another person's embezzle...
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Beyond All Limits
This typical Mexican melodrama is set in a coastal fishing village where a wealthy fisherman lives w...
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Vístete Cristina
Aspiring big-band singer who doubles as an art forger takes in a teenaged runaway who wants to be a ...
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La norteña de mis amores
Child whose father was murdered grows up and seeks revenge, also falling in love with a new victim o...
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Furias desatadas
College student enters the pro wrestling circuit, hoping to find out who killed his father. Third of...
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El vestido de novia
A young professional hires a sex-worker to pass as his wife in a situation that requires him to seem...
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Peligros de juventud
Each of the boys and girls at the coffee shop has something snarled in their love life....
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La Hermanita Dinamita
After accidentally hitting a boy with her car, a young woman pretends to be a nurse in order secretl...
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Naufragio
One woman lives waiting for her son who is a sailor. She hasn't seen him for years although he write...
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Thirst for Love
Rosaura, a devout religious woman, lives in a fishing village with her sister María who stopped beli...
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Memories of the Future
A story where the Cristero Rebellion creates a story of love, passion, and betrayal. When the Federa...
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Do You Know Your Wife?
At a big party, Robert Felton, now a woman-hater, right to the core - this all due to a failed marri...
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La estrella vacía
Mourners share their memories of a dead film-star at her wake, a la Citizen Kane. Only melodrama....
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Allá en el Rancho Grande
Two good friends — the owner and general manager of a ranch — fall in love with the same girl at the...
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María
María tells the tragic love story of María, a beautiful young woman, and her half brother Efraín, a ...
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Our Daily Hunger
Trophy wife of a crooked industrialist meets a philanthropic doctor and develops a social conscience...
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