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Carlos Toussaint

Carlos Toussaint

1901-08-23

Mexico City, Mexico

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Biography

Carlos Toussaint (1901–1975) was a Mexican film director and production designer. He was active during the Golden Age of Mexican Cinema and worked as art director on many productions. He also directed fourteen films between 1940 and 1964 including the Cantinflas short Cantinflas y su prima. He was married to the makeup artist Sara Mateos.

Best known for:

Los Tres Huastecos

We the Poor

You’re Missing the Point

The Three Garcías

The Black Sheep

You the Rich

Angelitos Negros

Dicen que soy mujeriego

No desearás la mujer de tu hijo

Two Monks

La Mujer Que Yo Perdí

Vuelven los García

The Seminarian

Cantinflas y su prima

The Rock of Souls

Mystery of the Ghastly Face

When the Children are Gone

Mexicanos al Grito de Guerra

Allá en el Rancho Grande

Cuando lloran los valientes

Si Adelita se fuera con otro

El beso de ultratumba

The Girls Aunt

Festival de Cantinflas

Dark Angel

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Filmography:

Two Monks (1934)
WORK AS:
Production Design
Mystery of the Ghastly Face (1935)
WORK AS:
Production Design
Malditas sean las mujeres (1936)
WORK AS:
Production Design
La honradez es un estorbo (1937)
WORK AS:
Production Design
Suprema ley (1937)
WORK AS:
Art Designer
The Girls Aunt (1938)
WORK AS:
Set Decoration
Festival de Cantinflas (1939)
WORK AS:
Director
You’re Missing the Point (1940)
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WORK AS:
Production Design

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In the Times of Don Porfirio (1940)
WORK AS:
Production Design
To the Sound of the Marimba (1940)
WORK AS:
Production Design
Cantinflas y su prima (1940)
WORK AS:
Director, Production Design
When the Children are Gone (1941)
WORK AS:
Production Design
Lo que el viento trajo (1941)
WORK AS:
Production Design
Dark Angel (1942)
WORK AS:
Production Design
Mexicanos al Grito de Guerra (1943)
WORK AS:
Set Designer
The Rock of Souls (1943)
WORK AS:
Production Design

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Santa (1943)
WORK AS:
Production Design
Escándalo de estrellas (1944)
WORK AS:
Set Designer
Viva Mi Desgracia (1944)
WORK AS:
Set Designer
Mi lupe y mi caballo (1944)
WORK AS:
Director, Writer
La culpable (1946)
WORK AS:
Art Direction
Vuelven los García (1947)
WORK AS:
Art Direction, Set Designer
The Three Garcías (1947)
6.7
WORK AS:
Set Designer
Cuando lloran los valientes (1947)
WORK AS:
Set Designer
Los Tres Huastecos (1948)
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WORK AS:
Set Designer
You the Rich (1948)
6.3
WORK AS:
Set Designer
We the Poor (1948)
6.8
WORK AS:
Set Designer
Angelitos Negros (1948)
6.7
WORK AS:
Set Designer
Cortesana (1948)
WORK AS:
Production Design
Si Adelita se fuera con otro (1948)
WORK AS:
Production Design
Las mañanitas (1948)
WORK AS:
Art Designer
The Well-paid (1948)
WORK AS:
Production Design
The Black Sheep (1949)
6.6
WORK AS:
Production Design
Dicen que soy mujeriego (1949)
5.4
WORK AS:
Art Direction
The Seminarian (1949)
WORK AS:
Set Designer
La Mujer Que Yo Perdí (1949)
WORK AS:
Set Designer
Allá en el Rancho Grande (1949)
WORK AS:
Art Designer
Cuando los padres se quedan solos (1949)
WORK AS:
Production Design
No desearás la mujer de tu hijo (1950)
6.6
WORK AS:
Art Direction
Marejada (1952)
WORK AS:
Director
The Stone Crucifix (1956)
WORK AS:
Director
Then God Named It Earth (1961)
WORK AS:
Writer, Director
Los falsos héroes (1962)
WORK AS:
Director
El fusilamiento (1962)
WORK AS:
Director
El beso de ultratumba (1963)
WORK AS:
Director
Baile de graduación (1963)
WORK AS:
Director