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.Avila p.217 He was the father of the actor Polo Ortín.Holmstrom p.163
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)
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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.
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