Arturo Soto Rangel

Born: 1882-03-12

Arturo Soto Rangel (March 12, 1882 – May 25, 1965) was a Mexican film, television, and stage actor. Rangel was best known for appearing in over 250 Mexican films. Rangel appeared in one American movie, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre which won three Academy Awards and starred Humphrey Bogart, Walter Huston, Tim Holt, Bruce Bennett, and many other successful actors. Rangel last appeared on television in 1963 where he starred in Voy de gallo. He died on May 25, 1965, in Mexico City, Mexico.


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The Big Steal

as Pedro
Released: 1949-07-01

Army Lieutenant Halliday, accused of stealing the Army payroll, pursues the real thief on a...

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The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

as El Presidente
Released: 1948-01-15

Fred C. Dobbs and Bob Curtin, both down on their luck in Tampico, Mexico in 1925, meet up with a...

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The Unknown Policeman

as Doctor (uncredited)
Released: 1941-10-22

A gang of thieves has jeopardized the city and even the police, whose chief urges their forces...

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Garden of Evil

as Priest (uncredited)
Released: 1954-07-09

A trio of American adventurers marooned in rural Mexico are recruited by a beautiful woman to...

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Dos tipos de cuidado

as Doctor
Released: 1953-11-05

Jorge Bueno and Pedro Malo are best friends who consider giving up their womanizing ways when...

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Bugambilia

as Señor Cura
Released: 1945-11-02

In mid-nineteenth century Guanajuato, the beauty and charm of the young heiress Amalia conquers...

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La Devoradora

as Don Manuel Ortega
Released: 1946-04-18

A Mexican film noir revolving around a crime: the suicide of one of Diana (María Félix)'s lovers...

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Maclovia

as Don Justo
Released: 1948-09-30

On a small Mexican island dwells a group of Indians who live in the traditional manner and who...

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Miguel Strogoff

as Agente
Released: 1944-01-01

A Russian courier has to deliver a message from the Czar to the Grand Duke across enemy lines...

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Doña Bárbara

as Coronel Pernalete
Released: 1943-09-16

A woman hardened by her past now runs a ranch she acquired through manipulation and bribery.

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Enamorada

as Juez (uncredited)
Released: 1946-12-25

In Mexican Revolution times, a guerrilla general and his troops take the conservative town of...

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Mexicanos al Grito de Guerra

as Sandoval
Released: 1943-09-16

In times of the French Intervention, a student of Nunó, author of the Mexican National Anthem,...

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Ni sangre ni arena

as Juez
Released: 1941-05-22

Cantinflas enjoys the bullfight show, and wants to crash in every of these spectacles. Also,...

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Far from Heaven

as Zapatero
Released: 1952-02-27

Pedro Gonzalez first gets into trouble as part of a criminal gang and then works honourably to...

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Forbidden Kisses

as Director del penal
Released: 1956-08-16

Nightclub singer has to choose between marrying again or reuniting with her divorced husband.

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Dicen que soy mujeriego

as Priest
Released: 1949-04-14

Pedro has had many lovers but he only loves one of them, but this romance stop going on for his...

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School for Buglars

as Banquero (uncredited)
Released: 1958-05-09

The police plan to capture a killer by using a double that looks exactly as one of his victims.

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Beware of Love

as Don Hilario
Released: 1954-12-08

Salvador accompanied by two friends of his father whom he calls uncles, they arrive at a fair in...

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Porfirio Díaz

as uncredited
Released: 1944-01-01

Mexican movie

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The Shadow of the Strongman

as Director de la Cooperativa
Released: 1960-08-22

Post-revolucionary Mexico. War secretary Hilario Jiménez is chosen as the candidate for...

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Río escondido

as Maestro Monroy
Released: 1948-02-12

Called by the Mexican President himself, a rural teacher goes to work in a village that is...

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La adúltera

as uncredited
Released: 1956-11-22

Jilted lover takes revenge on her ex's new wife.

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A Place Close to Heaven

as Don Tenen
Released: 1952-08-22

On reaching the capital, Pedro Gonzalez gets a lowly job and marries Margaret. After losing that...

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Guadalajara pues

as Don Atilano (as A. Soto Rangel)
Released: 1946-12-15

Curious film about the Mexican immigrant stunned by the dollar and the English language. The...

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Sombrero

as Professor
Released: 1953-04-22

Mexican love stories follow a dying man, a bullfighter's sister and lovers from feuding villages.

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Maria Candelaria

as Doctor (uncredited)
Released: 1944-01-20

A young journalist asks an old artist about the portrait of a naked Indian woman that he has in...

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Reportaje

as Police secretary who draws naked women
Released: 1953-11-13

Reporters compete for cash prize awarded for biggest scoop on New Year's Eve.

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One Day of Life

as uncredited
Released: 1950-11-23

A story about two men caught in the Mexican revolution: close friends before, but now on the...

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¡Arriba las mujeres!

as Juez Leobardo (as A. Soto Rangel)
Released: 1943-07-09

Movie in which funny situations based on the entanglements caused by a woman named Felicidad to...

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Tierra De Pasiones

as uncredited
Released: 1943-05-20

Romantic melodrama; hero and rich landowner are both after the same woman.

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El ametralladora

as Sr. Salas
Released: 1943-09-28

Peasant farmer and landowner are rivals for a woman. Sequel to Ay Jalisco No Te Rajes.

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The Abandoned

as Director colegio
Released: 1945-05-18

A young woman, abandoned by her womanizing fiancé, is forced to provide for the upbringing of...

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Jesus of Nazareth

as Sacerdote
Released: 1942-03-26

The biblical story of The Messiah from his baptism through his crucifixion.

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What a Man

as uncredited
Released: 1955-01-05

Father and adult sons give help to an orphaned teenage girl.

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El vividor

as uncredited
Released: 1956-07-11

Con-artist cleans up his act to score points with a new girlfriend.

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La trepadora

as uncredited
Released: 1944-09-21

Romantic triangles between city folk and country folk, with new money/old money issues...

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El mexicano

as uncredited
Released: 1944-01-01

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Duelo indio

as Huascapili / abuelo Chon
Released: 1961-05-12

A cabal of bad-hats is conspiring to dispossess the local Indians of their hereditary lands, but...

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Victims of Sin

as Director de prisión
Released: 1951-02-02

A nightclub performer decides to raise the baby boy she found abandoned in a trash can, putting...

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Anxiety

as uncredited
Released: 1953-10-02

Twins (both played by Infante) are separated while very young, one raised as a singer by their...

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Las Islas Marias

as Miguel
Released: 1951-08-10

Las Islas Marias stars Pedro Infante as a man who must face time in jail, even though he never...

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The Three Perfect Married

as Francisco
Released: 1953-06-08

Three married couples gather to celebrate the eighteenth anniversary of their marriage mourning...

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Canaima

as Manuel Ladera
Released: 1945-10-04

College-educated emigre has to get macho when he returns home to the Venezuelan outback.

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Los miserables

as uncredited
Released: 1943-12-01

Police officer makes life hell for an ex-convict. Based on that novel.

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Los tigres del ring

as uncredited
Released: 1960-03-30

Crooked promoter has a secret weapon who goes around beating fighters to death after their...

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La abuelita

as uncredited
Released: 1942-05-09

Granny rules the roost, but little sister's a bit rebellious. She listens to Cuban music, she...

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Nuestras vidas

as uncredited
Released: 1950-05-24

Frivolous woman falls in reallytruly love for the first time, but her past catches up with her...

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The Seminarian

as Don Pancho
Released: 1949-11-02

Returning to his home town, seminarist Miguel is forced to trade the robes for a charro costume...

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Magdalena

as uncredited
Released: 1954-04-15

Family melodrama; one sister runs away with the other one's fiance. Twenty-odd years later, her...

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Pablo y Carolina

as uncredited
Released: 1957-04-27

Torn between three lovers and bored by her typewriting classes, Carolina (Dillian) writes a...

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Rondalla

as uncredited
Released: 1949-10-06

Romantic triangle on the hacienda.

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Fantasía ranchera

as uncredited
Released: 1947-02-12

Young composer in a small town where everyone is very nurturing of his talent finishes his first...

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Tú, solo tú

as uncredited
Released: 1950-01-13

Small-town guy goes to The City to look up his absent girlfriend. He discovers she's become a...

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Ay, Jalisco, Don't Give Up!

as uncredited
Released: 1941-11-12

An orphan boy is left in the care of his godfather, a bartender who teaches him to play cards...

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Hell Road

as Dr. Fausto
Released: 1951-06-29

When a robbery goes wrong, the thief takes a singer as hostage, they fall in love and try to...

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Eterna agonía

as Don Pio
Released: 1949-06-22

Convicted on flimsy evidence of complicity in a jewel robbery, there's nothing he can do...

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La mujer sin cabeza

as uncredited
Released: 1944-03-30

Mexican Fu Manchu adaptation.

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Caminito alegre

as uncredited
Released: 1944-02-17

An elderly homeless man is welcomed into an Old Folks' Home and becomes acquainted with the...

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Oh, Love… How Have You Put Me!

as Don Manuel
Released: 1951-11-23

A low-class baker accidentally gets to know an attractive but bitter fiancée. By getting her...

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Regalo de reyes

as uncredited
Released: 1942-03-05

Class conflicts between two families; one's upper-class but decaying, one's industrious...

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Viva Mi Desgracia

as Don Marcial
Released: 1944-01-01

After drinking a special concoction made of various types of alcohol, the once-timid Ramon...

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Pueblerina

as Priest
Released: 1949-07-06

Aurelio Rodríguez is released from jail, and tries to start a new life marrying Paloma and...

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Desired

as Don Anselmo
Released: 1951-04-04

A man comes to a village to marry a girl, but upon meeting the bride's sister, he falls in love...

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My General's Wives

as Don Jelipe
Released: 1951-07-13

The encounter with an old lover puts a revolutionary general in great danger of death.

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Siempre tuya

as uncredited
Released: 1952-01-18

Husband and wife leave their farm and move to the big city. Husband becomes a famous ranchera...

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El plagiario

as uncredited
Released: 1955-04-28

Gangster's daughter learns about her dad's illegalist lifestyle.

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Monte de piedad

as Padre Gabriel
Released: 1951-08-01

Anthology-movie, series of anecdotes about the personal tragedies that lead people to take their...

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La venenosa

as Dr. Koll
Released: 1949-10-04

A snake-charmer falls in love with a circus trapeze artist who trains her and has her debut in...

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The Coward

as Doctor
Released: 1939-03-21

Alberto is born in wartime, where his father dies a hero. He grows up effeminate. His mother...

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El hombre inquieto

as Don Fausto
Released: 1954-11-26

Adult street urchin passes himself off as rich man's long-lost son.

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La bestia negra

as Doctor
Released: 1939-05-13

Comedy/drama about railroad workers.

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Radio Patrulla

as Sargento Roberto Nava
Released: 1951-01-01

Mexican feature film

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The Love Nest

as Dr. Carrasco
Released: 1950-02-09

Amalia, aged, remember when Fernando Mendoza, his former medical school, came to San Esteban,...

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María Magdalena, pecadora de Magdala

as Joseph
Released: 1946-10-10

The story of Mary Magdalene from being a sinner to follow Jesus Christ.

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Hombres del mar

as Don Benjamin
Released: 1938-10-27

A 1938 film.

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La mujer de todos

as General
Released: 1946-01-11

A beautiful woman of affairs falls in love with a handsome young man of great promise. Fearing...

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Los pobres van al cielo

as uncredited
Released: 1951-05-09

When their parents die, brother and sister run away rather than go to an orphanage. Childless...

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Curvas peligrosas

as uncredited
Released: 1950-10-11

Mexican feature film

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Here is Heraclius Bernal

as uncredited
Released: 1958-04-09

Historical drama/biopic about 1880s Social Justice bandits in a mining community in Sinaloa....

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Rebelde Sin Casa

as uncredited
Released: 1960-04-18

Tin Tan interfered in a bank robbery, then got arrested when the perp.s escaped. Crooks and...

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La norteña de mis amores

as uncredited
Released: 1948-12-25

Child whose father was murdered grows up and seeks revenge, also falling in love with a new...

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The Hell of the Poor

as uncredited
Released: 1951-11-01

A young woman becomes pregnant but when his boyfriend leaves her she gets a job as a prostitute...

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Miracle Roses

as uncredited
Released: 1960-08-18

Before the Spanish Conquest, an Aztec princess does the Romeo and Juliet thing with the Prince...

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Morenita clara

as Don Juan, abuelo
Released: 1943-04-28

Priest nags a crusty old man into reconciling with his daughter-in-law and granddaughter after...

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Pobre diablo

as Ricardo
Released: 1940-04-24

An elderly homeless dude lucks into a situation where a young woman's uncle and her boyfriend...

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3 Lessons of Love

as Señor juez
Released: 1959-01-07

The rigid professor Germán, president of the League of Honor and Modesty, hates statues of naked...

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El muchacho alegre

as uncredited
Released: 1948-02-04

Boisterous young charro has to prove to his girlfriend's parents that he's ready to settle down...

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Vertigo

as uncredited
Released: 1945-09-06

Young woman's fiance unexpectedly falls in love with her mom, and ends up arranging the young...

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El embajador

as uncredited
Released: 1949-08-12

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El caudillo

as uncredited
Released: 1957-07-10

Bad-hat townsfolk want to dispossess local Indians of their tribal lands; priestess and white...

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¡Qué bonito amor!

as uncredited
Released: 1960-08-16

Bride backs out of her wedding at the last possible minute; she and her fiance get caught up in...

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Algo flota sobre el agua

as Sabio
Released: 1948-08-27

Labor disputes and love triangles among coastal-village fishermen.

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La vírgen morena

as uncredited
Released: 1942-01-07

Intensifying skirmishes between a brutally oppressive conquistador imperialist and the last...

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The Devil's Money

as Don Teodoro
Released: 1953-09-11

Los dineros del diablo (The Devil's Money) is a Mexican drama film directed by Alejandro...

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El jinete negro

as Don Mateo, juez
Released: 1961-01-01

A rancher disguises himself as a generous bandit and murders a tax collector, but is discovered.

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The Last Adventure

as Don Sebastián
Released: 1946-10-17

All of Mexico asks the same question, who has won the lottery jackpot of five million pesos? If...

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Una cita de amor

as Priest
Released: 1958-06-05

The story of the doomed love between Soledad and Román. She is the daughter of a rich man that...

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Cuando levanta la niebla

as uncredited
Released: 1952-11-23

One mental patient usurps the identity of another and starts a new life, passing himself off as...

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La sobrina del señor cura

as uncredited
Released: 1954-08-18

A pregnant parishioner can't get her boyfriend to marry her and the home office thinks that...

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Frente al Pecado de Ayer

as uncredited
Released: 1955-03-10

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La reina del mambo

as uncredited
Released: 1951-02-28

Nightclub performer escapes from her abusive manager and starts life over in a new city.

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Lo que el viento trajo

as Comisario (as Arturo Soto)
Released: 1941-09-12

A 1941 film.

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Una aventura en la noche

as Capitán de policía
Released: 1948-07-09

Film version of the 'hitchhiking ghost' urban legend.

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El rayo del sur

as uncredited
Released: 1943-09-30

Latter part of the career of Padre Morelos, the 18th/19th century military leader. Sequel to......

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Two Faces Have the Destiny

as Chiclero anciano
Released: 1952-03-21

Ruined alcoholic doctor escapes a tropical plague and begins a new life back in civilization,...

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Cantaclaro

as uncredited
Released: 1946-01-24

A rootless wilderness-dude in the Venezuelan outback gets caught up in some human dramas despite...

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Tuya en cuerpo y alma

as Obispo de Worcester
Released: 1945-06-01

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Tierra muerta

as uncredited
Released: 1949-09-15

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Primero soy Mexicano

as uncredited
Released: 1950-06-24

USA-educated doctor goes home for the first time in years. Culture shock.

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La sombra blanca

as uncredited
Released: 1963-01-01

Mexican feature film

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La fe en Dios

as uncredited
Released: 1950-10-17

Criminal on the lam assumes the identity of a dead priest and takes his place in a rural parish.

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Pepito as del volante

as Pancho
Released: 1957-06-20

Pepito's father dies in rollover the Ferrari that is winning a race car, so Pepito is about his...

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La vorágine: abismos de amor

as uncredited
Released: 1949-04-20

It narrates the adventures of the poet Arturo Cova and his lover Alicia, a story of passion and...

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X Murderer

as Padre Juan
Released: 1955-03-18

A murderer turns himself to the police, but claims amnesia and insists he's unable to tell them...

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Yo soy tu padre

as Don Victorio Fernández
Released: 1948-01-01

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La barranca sangrienta

as Señor cura
Released: 1962-11-16

Alberto and Leonor have a son, they find out that one of the masked men who attacked them was...

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La señora de enfrente

as uncredited
Released: 1945-09-21

Two travelers visiting a small town link up together and then run afoul of the gossip of church...

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El último chinaco

as uncredited
Released: 1948-10-05

1880s-1890s rural adventure on horseback.

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Los millones de Chaflán

as Notario (uncredited)
Released: 1938-08-29

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Good Love

as uncredited
Released: 1957-02-28

Mother and son conspire against his sister when she marries against their wishes.

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Love for Life

as Presidente Juan Vicente Gómez
Released: 1951-06-20

An exhausted stranger arrives at a farm and starts to help the owner with the legal status of...

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La entrega

as uncredited
Released: 1954-08-19

Empire-building philanthropist has no time to indulge his wife's romantic fantasies.

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Historia de un amor

as uncredited
Released: 1956-02-15

Singer relives her love-life in flashback: she adopts another woman's illegitimate daughter, she...

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El Zorro vengador

as uncredited
Released: 1962-08-31

Hero on horseback.

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Rincón brujo

as uncredited
Released: 1949-02-11

Young peasant woman allows an army officer to woo her, as a way of drawing attention away from...

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Love of my loves

as uncredited
Released: 1940-11-29

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The Useless Life of Pito Perez

as uncredited
Released: 1944-11-07

Episodes from the life of an alcoholic hobo.

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El Capitan Aventurero

as Sacerdote (uncredited)
Released: 1939-10-07

Don Gil de Alacala (José Mojica), a swashbuckler also known as Captain Adventure, must overcome...

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La extraña pasajera

as Auditor Camacho
Released: 1953-06-04

Noir-style suspense thriller; three unrelated criminal schemes are happening on board an express...

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El gavilan vengador

as uncredited
Released: 1955-10-27

Masked rider exposes the criminal misdeeds of a wealthy land-owner and his henchmen.

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¡… Y murío por nosotros!

as Don Júlio, patrón
Released: 1951-03-15

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El Cristo de mi Cabecera

as Padre Cruz
Released: 1951-01-03

1830s, guerrillas in the hills resisting the French occupation. Meanwhile, their leader has a...

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Horas de agonía

as uncredited
Released: 1958-01-08

Nubile young woman seems to be quite free with her affections... but she has a deep, dark...

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Cortesana

as uncredited
Released: 1948-05-12

Young woman breaks up with her fiance to shack up with her sister's husband.

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La mujer del puerto

as Don Antonio Méndez
Released: 1949-11-07

Orphaned, abandoned by her fiance, forced into prostitution by the absence of "respectable"...

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The Ghost falls in Love

as uncredited
Released: 1953-06-26

A romance between a woman and a ghost.

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La reina del trópico

as Don Anselmo Gómez
Released: 1946-10-25

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Cadetes de la naval

as uncredited
Released: 1945-02-21

Two young men go through military training, then enlist to fight in WWII

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Si Adelita se fuera con otro

as uncredited
Released: 1948-04-29

Young couple run off to join the Mexican Revolution, in part because she has a crush on...

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Hay un niño en su futuro

as uncredited
Released: 1952-02-22

Wacky rich woman subjects her husband, servants and friends to a series of elaborate...

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Madre a la fuerza

as Santiago
Released: 1940-08-01

A 1940 film directed by Robert Quigley.

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Cain y Abel

as uncredited
Released: 1954-07-28

Bohemian husband and strait-laced wife get divorced; each takes custody of one son. Twenty...

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Dos almas en el mundo

as uncredited
Released: 1949-07-13

A young couple meet in the reformatory and try to make a life together after they're released.

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Si volvieras a mi

as Papá de Alejandra
Released: 1954-10-01

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Loving Was His Sin

as uncredited
Released: 1951-10-10

Two sisters fall in love with the same man. Plus fatal illness.

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Yo también soy de Jalisco

as uncredited
Released: 1950-08-23

A dizzy rich woman buys their horse, and three rubes get involved in the problems and intrigues...

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Cuando Habla El Corazon

as uncredited
Released: 1943-10-21

Historical drama about the period just before the beginning of the Mexican Revolution.

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Duelo en las montañas

as uncredited
Released: 1950-02-18

1910: Revolutionary leader escapes military, hides in small town, falls in love.

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With all my heart

as uncredited
Released: 1952-01-01

Priest founds an orphanage, faces conflicts with townsfolk.

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¡Ay, Palillo, no te rajes!

as uncredited
Released: 1948-09-30

Political satire about fixed elections in a small town.

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La muerte en el puente

as uncredited
Released: 1961-06-24

Final four episodes of Pancho Pistolas serial, reedited into feature format. PP finally thwarts...

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Seda Sangre Y Sol

as uncredited
Released: 1942-07-07

Rivalries and romances among bullfighters.

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La pequeña madrecita

as uncredited
Released: 1944-06-15

Little girl develops her maternal instincts with dolls and with an infant cousin while family...

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