Mario Moreno, born Mario Fortino Alfonso Moreno-Reyes and professionally known as Cantinflas, was a Mexican comedy film actor, producer and screenwriter. He was born in an improvised family in the beginning of the twentieth century in Mexico City and started his acting career in a carpa. One night, he accidentally developed a routine that featured a combination of gibberish, mispronunciation, wild exaggeration and mime. Realizing its potential, he held on to it and became very popular. Although he entered films in the middle of 1930s he could not initially make much mark. Later he became popular with his portrayal of Cantinflas, an impoverished peasant of pelado origin, who wears his trousers held up with a rope, a rugged coat and a battered hat. It soon turned him into an iconic figure not only in Mexico, but also in other parts of Latin America. Later he became world famous for his portrayal of the role of Passepartout in the epic Hollywood film, ‘Around the World in 80 Days’. Although he was often referred as the ‘Charlie Chaplin of Mexico’ Chaplin himself had once referred to him as the best comedian of that time.