Conchita Gentil Arcos

Born: 1897-01-01

Spanish-born supporting actress of the '30s-50s, usually playing somebody's aunt, neighbor, or servant. A bit friendlier-looking than her sister, María Gentil Arcos, although she did play a killer in La llorona (1933).


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Illusion Travels by Streetcar

as Pasajera con santo
Released: 1954-03-10

Confronted with the unfortunate news that their favorite Streetcar, no. 133, is going to be...

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We the Poor

as The Pawnbroker
Released: 1948-03-25

A poor neighborhood in Mexico City. Carpenter Pepe el Toro lives peacefully with his daughter...

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El Portero

as Doña Cuca, vecina
Released: 1950-05-03

Cantinflas works as a porter, who writes letters and speeches in his old writing machine to earn...

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El señor fotógrafo

as Mamá de Chelito
Released: 1953-09-02

Cantinflas, a traveling photographer, is captured by some gangsters while trying to get some...

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Gran Hotel

as Doña Estefania
Released: 1944-08-14

Cantinflas is a vagrant being evicted for not paying rent, after wandering gets a job at the...

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A Family Like Many Others

as Doña Jovita, invitada a fiesta (uncredited)
Released: 1949-03-11

The dynamics of a typical middle-class family are shaken up after the introduction of an...

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La Devoradora

as Jacinta
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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Rosauro Castro

as Señora Campos
Released: 1950-12-22

Cardoza's death, a candidate for mayor of a village chief enemy and Rosauro Castro, leads to Mr....

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El bombero atómico

as Vecina (uncredited)
Released: 1952-09-10

Cantinflas is a clumsy fireman, who one day receives the visit of his little goddaughter, whose...

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The Crying Woman

as Criada
Released: 1933-03-31

Llorona is a figure unique to Mexican folklore -- the wailing spirit of a woman who lost or...

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Por ellas aunque mal paguen

as Madame Florita
Released: 1952-08-16

Don Anastacio, an aristocrat passing through a rough patch,He will make marry his daughter...

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Romeo y Julieta

as (uncredited)
Released: 1943-09-02

Verona's peace is disturbed by the rivalry between noble families: the Montesco and the...

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El mil amores

as Maestra
Released: 1954-11-19

Carmen has a daughter, Patricia, who attends a school for young ladies where they think Carmen...

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Martín Garatuza

as uncredited
Released: 1935-09-02

Sixteenth-century swashbuckler helps a young woman claim a rightful inheritance in the face of...

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El superhombre

as uncredited
Released: 1946-01-01

1946 Mexican film directed by Chano Urueta.

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Dark Angel

as Doña Meche
Released: 1942-08-12

Despite the strange death of Jorge's previous wives, Elisa decides to marry him.

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Miguel Strogoff

as Mujer en tren
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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Tailored gentleman

as Doña Manuelita
Released: 1954-09-01

Cantinflas works as a model of tuxedos in a prestigious store, your job is to use the smoking in...

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El cuarto mandamiento

as Maris Luisa Lucio
Released: 1948-08-14

A Mexican family drama.

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Daughter of Deceit

as Toña García
Released: 1951-08-28

In the drama, a father, firmly believing that the baby daughter in his arms is not his own,...

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Siete mujeres

as uncredited
Released: 1953-01-01

Mexican feature film

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Ella y Yo

as Doña Tacha (uncredited)
Released: 1951-10-02

Pedro Muñoz is a womanizer that does not escape one until Irene Garza arrives and makes him to...

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Pobre diablo

as Blandina
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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Shark Hunters

as Madre de Aurelio
Released: 1963-05-23

Aurelio is a shark fisherman who works very hard to send money to his family in the city and...

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Pobre huerfanita

as uncredited
Released: 1955-01-27

Little girl with a cruel nanny and neglectful parents hears mumsy and popsy talking about...

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Rosenda

as Señorita Rocha
Released: 1948-10-20

A ruffian sends his assistant to force a peasant girl to marry him, but while he is bringing her...

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¡Que viene mi marido!

as Genoveva
Released: 1940-06-06

Rom-com: collecting on a big inheritance "forces" a family to play games with their daughter's...

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The Spirit's Canyon

as Madame
Released: 1943-02-25

The love between María Ángela and Fernando is impossible because there's an ancient history of...

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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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Así se quiere en Jalisco

as uncredited
Released: 1942-11-13

Romantic triangle, land-owner and two employees.

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La Mujer Que Yo Perdí

as Madre de Laura
Released: 1949-07-12

A political revolutionary fights against injustice, his adoring wife by his side. But only in...

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Cinco rostros de mujer

as Casera de Roberto (as Concha Gentil Arcos)
Released: 1947-02-26

"The great love of his life" happened five times; one of those women just wrote him a letter....

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Romance de fieras

as uncredited
Released: 1954-06-24

Newly-graduated lawyer gets caught up in the personal drama surrounding a rich industrialist and...

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Lo que no se puede perdonar!..

as Nana Rafaela
Released: 1953-10-09

Hortensia is almost ready to take her vows at the convent... but she gets distracted by her...

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Me he de comer esa tuna

as uncredited
Released: 1945-03-01

In rural Mexico, a young man competes with his best school friend for the love of a girl whose...

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Mi campeón

as Empleada de doña Lupe (uncredited)
Released: 1952-06-20

Catita is a simple and poor woman who dreams of that her son stands out on something important...

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Delirio tropical

as uncredited
Released: 1952-06-24

Vindictive rich girl spreads rumors about her rival being a witch. Townsfolk get all agitated.

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Two Monks

as uncredited
Released: 1934-11-28

In a Gothic-styled monastery, a monk named Javier sees the face of another monk, Juan, and...

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Tierra brava

as uncredited
Released: 1938-08-20

Financier threatens to foreclose on a cigar-factory's mortgage, but a secret benefactor pays off...

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Historia de un corazón

as uncredited
Released: 1951-01-01

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El fronterizo

as uncredited
Released: 1952-09-12

Rom-com in charro hats.

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Sandwiches Here!

as Manuelita
Released: 1951-10-12

College students, ready to start entering adult society, are ashamed of their working-class...

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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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Miradas que matan

as uncredited
Released: 1954-04-07

Sketchy TV personality exploits a busker with psychic powers for personal gain.

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El 7 leguas

as Mariquita
Released: 1955-12-08

Horse-trader gets absorbed into Pancho Villa's battalions, becomes a spy.

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Dos cadetes

as uncredited
Released: 1938-04-10

Mama thinks one of her sons is going into the priesthood... but he wants to join the army...

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Mujeres en mi Vida

as Rosario (as Concepcion Gentil Arcos)
Released: 1950-04-05

Mexican romantic musical.

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La segunda mujer

as uncredited
Released: 1953-09-02

Couple with preteen children break up; Dad meets a new woman and they marry. The children grow...

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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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In the Times of Don Porfirio

as doña Julia
Released: 1940-04-04

In a Mexican city at the end of the 19th century, Don Francisco, a gambler and a bohemian,...

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No me platiques más

as uncredited
Released: 1956-11-11

The owner of their performance space dies, and a group of young singer/dancers is concerned...

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Confidencias de un ruletero

as Doña Remedios
Released: 1949-11-16

Taxi driver takes the wrong passenger at the wrong time and gets caught up in a murder...

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I Slept With a Ghost

as Sra. Gutierrez
Released: 1949-01-01

Ghost horror-comedy.

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Los Fernández de Peralvillo

as Doña Esperanza
Released: 1954-09-14

A young man fails as a seller of household goods and his sister, tired of poverty, elopes with a...

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El jefe máximo

as uncredited
Released: 1940-10-01

A 1940 film directed by Fernando de Fuentes.

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¡Qué bravas son las costeñas!

as uncredited
Released: 1955-06-02

Mexican-American playboy anchors his yacht offshore of a Veracruz fishing village and chases...

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El museo del crimen

as Clementina Cardoso de Ramos
Released: 1945-08-08

Stage magician/amateur detective helps police to solve a murder.

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Guardián, el perro salvador

as uncredited
Released: 1950-04-05

Poor woman and her daughter hire on to rich family as servants. Husband/Daddy comes back from...

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Músico, poeta y loco

as uncredited
Released: 1948-05-08

An underaged heiress is sent to a reformatory by her unscrupulous guardians to prevent her from...

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El rebelde (Romance de Antaño)

as Criada de don Pablo
Released: 1945-03-09

A landowner indirect kills another because of false rumors. Time passes. The son of the dead...

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Calumnia

as uncredited
Released: 1939-01-01

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El que tenga un amor

as uncredited
Released: 1942-03-11

Victor must leave his life of partying and change his girlfriend, Lucero, for the bride that...

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The Woman of the Port

as Vecina
Released: 1934-02-14

Her father dies... her fiance dumps her... and she can't find a job... so she covers the...

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Así amaron nuestros padres

as uncredited
Released: 1964-07-16

Elderly roue interferes in the love life of a young woman because she's secretly his daughter....

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Cuatro contra el mundo

as Doña Trini
Released: 1950-04-06

This dazed Mexican-melodrama-cum-boozer-heist-noir cuts a dark swath over a border nominally...

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Me persigue una mujer

as uncredited
Released: 1947-01-01

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Suerte te dé Dios

as uncredited
Released: 1961-05-11

Two construction workers discover a stash of gold coins hidden in the walls of a building...

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Por querer a una mujer

as uncredited
Released: 1951-09-14

Ranch melodrama: romantic triangle leads to multiple murders.

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La loca de la casa

as Tía Eulalia
Released: 1950-10-06

Novice nun returns to her parent's home to save the family fortune by marrying a creditor.

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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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When mommy comes back

as Doña María (uncredited)
Released: 1961-03-02

A family of six children are orphaned on Christmas Eve and struggle through a year without...

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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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México de mis recuerdos

as Aunt Blandina
Released: 1944-04-06

After listening to the waltz "Carmelita", dedicated to his wife, President Diaz instructs Don...

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The Secret of the Spinster

as Federica
Released: 1945-05-10

A homeless orphan girl is adopted by a wealthy man against his wife wishes. When the man dies,...

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Yo, el mujeriego

as Directora de colegio
Released: 1963-07-18

Playboy bachelor poses as a woman's husband to protect her daughter's reputation at a private...

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Hombres sin alma

as Doña Cristina
Released: 1951-12-07

Final installment in Juan Orol's Percal trilogy. In this film, Malena is freed from prison by a...

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Cinco fueron escogidos

as uncredited
Released: 1943-07-08

Cinco fueron escogidos taking place in Slavko, a "peaceful town in Yugoslavia," with only...

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El Gran Makakikus

as uncredited
Released: 1944-12-21

Uncultured nouveau- riche wants to be received in high society. Loose adaptation of Moliere.

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Mi adorado salvaje

as uncredited
Released: 1952-03-21

The old folks back home in Spain have arranged a marriage for their niece living in Mexico. To...

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Mil estudiantes y una muchacha

as uncredited
Released: 1942-03-10

Every single student at Uni flips over the young woman that lives in the building across the...

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The King of México

as Dueña de vitrina
Released: 1956-04-20

A humble tramp is turned, for a couple of days, into the richest and most famous man in México.

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Slum

as uncredited
Released: 1950-12-08

Reworking of City Lights -- poor schmoe busts his hump to restore a blind woman's sight...

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Miente y serás feliz

as Doña Julita
Released: 1940-05-31

A Spanish, Juan, is obsessed with telling the truth always. As a result he is consistently in...

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Cuando tú me quieras

as uncredited
Released: 1951-12-19

A shoe-clerk's aunt and uncle send him to a remote fishing village to retrieve a distant cousin...

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Esposa o amante

as uncredited
Released: 1950-06-21

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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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Lodo y armiño

as uncredited
Released: 1951-11-30

Wealthy libertine tries to seduce another man's mistress by threatening to send him to jail if...

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El pecado de quererte

as uncredited
Released: 1950-03-22

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Sentenciado a muerte

as uncredited
Released: 1951-01-01

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