Hugo Arana

Hugo Arana

Born: July 23, 1943
Died: October 11, 2020
in Buenos Aires, Argentina
Hugo Arana (July 23, 1943 - October 11, 2020 Buenos Aires, Argentina) was an Argentinian film, television and theatre actor.

Arana grew up in Monte Grande and moved with his family to Lomas de Zamora and then Lanus. He studied acting with Marcello Lavalle and Augusto Fernandez.

In his first years as an actor, he was part of a theatre group called "Errare Humanum Est" and he acted in films such as El Santo de la Espada (1970) and La tregua (1974).

In the 1980s, he became popular for his part in an advertisement for Crespi wine, and then for his part in the TV Sitcom Matrimonios y algo más (directed by Hugo Moser), in which he played two characters who were highly acclaimed by the public: the "Groncho" (in the comedy sketch "El Groncho y La Dama" (The Shabby Man and the Lady)) and Huguito Araña (a stereotypically femenine gay man).

He has worked on the Telefé TV series Los exitosos Pells, where he played the director of the fictitious channel "Mega News", Franco Andrada. Description above from the Wikipedia article Hugo Arana, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Boomerang
Title: Boomerang
Character: Aurelio
Released: December 2, 2021
Type: Movie
Ximena, a 28-year-old, unstructured and modern, is trapped in a temporary "loop" with Walter and Aurelio, and has the difficult task of escaping before losing her sanity.
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The Funeral Home
Title: The Funeral Home
Character: Salvador
Released: April 15, 2021
Type: Movie
Bernardo is an undertaker. He runs his mortuary business in the same house where he resides. In the front, he has his clients. And in the back, his dysfunctional family lives amongst coffins, wreaths, and the mischievous but nonviolent ghosts that visit on a daily basis. But when a malevolent entity enters the scene, it wreaks havoc on the already fractured household.
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Title: Almost Happy
Character: Padre
Released: May 1, 2020
Type: TV
A locally famous radio host has to deal with his ex-wife, who he still loves, and his two children.
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Title: Dedalo
Character: Domingo
Released: April 6, 2020
Type: TV
A man dies in crossfire, and revives to clear his honor and regain the love of his life, from the body of his own killer
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Title: Tu parte del trato
Character: Juan Carlos Gianola
Released: October 30, 2019
Type: TV
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Title: Otros pecados
Character: Saúl
Released: April 17, 2019
Type: TV
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Todavía
Title: Todavía
Released: November 1, 2018
Type: Movie
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Yanka y el espíritu del volcán
Title: Yanka y el espíritu del volcán
Character: Abuelo
Released: September 6, 2018
Type: Movie
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Sinuous Road
Title: Sinuous Road
Character: Eduardo Siero
Released: August 20, 2018
Type: Movie
A former Olympic athlete must return to the city where she grew up to fix family problems and face her past.
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Super Crazy
Title: Super Crazy
Character: Fernando Salaberry
Released: July 4, 2018
Type: Movie
A 36-year-old meek woman realizes that there’s younger people trying to outpace her doing much less, so she makes a risky change by removing her filter.
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Te esperaré
Title: Te esperaré
Character: Leiva
Released: November 2, 2017
Type: Movie
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Delicia
Title: Delicia
Character: Amado
Released: October 12, 2017
Type: Movie
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Argentine Soldier Only Known by God
Title: Argentine Soldier Only Known by God
Character: Antonio
Released: April 6, 2017
Type: Movie
The story is centered on the human drama of three young people from a small town in Traslasierra, Córdoba, who from very different ideological places, are forever transformed by the war in Malvinas Argentinas (Falkland Islands).
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Angelita, la doctora
Title: Angelita, la doctora
Released: April 28, 2016
Type: Movie
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Title: La Leona
Character: Pedro Salvador Leone
Released: January 18, 2016
Type: TV
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Pistas Para Volver A Casa
Title: Pistas Para Volver A Casa
Character: Antonio
Released: March 5, 2015
Type: Movie
Two siblings on a mission. After their elderly father gets hurt in an accident, they run to his side. He has breaking news about their mother, who abandoned them. He also hid something valuable and now brother and sister must work together.
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Death in Buenos Aires
Title: Death in Buenos Aires
Character: Comisario Sanfilippo
Released: May 5, 2014
Type: Movie
When a businessman is murdered at his home, an experienced police inspector and his rookie partner must delve into the gay scene of the city to catch the killer.
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Title: Los Vecinos en Guerra
Character: Ramón
Released: April 15, 2013
Type: TV
Los Vecinos en Guerra (Spanish: Neighbors at War) is an Argentine television comedy starring Diego Torres, Eleonora Wexler and Mike Amigorena and originally aired on Underground contenidos.[1]
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Title: Para vestir santos
Character: Horacio
Released: April 21, 2010
Type: TV
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Title: Los exitosos Pells
Character: Franco Andrada
Released: November 5, 2008
Type: TV
Los exitosos Pells is a 2008-2009 Argentine telenovela, produced by Underground Producciones and Endemol, and aired by Telefe. It started being aired on November 5, 2008, replacing Vidas Robadas at 10:30PM. After a pair of schedule changes, it returned to 10:30PM until its end on July 15, 2009. The story is about a successful couple of TV hosts from a news channel, Martín Pells and Sol Casenave. In the first episode Martín Pells falls into a coma, and the CEO of the channel hires an underground actor, Gonzalo Echague, who happens to be extremely similar to Pells, to replace him. Such replacement is done not only for the TV but also with friends and relatives, in order that nobody suspects the absence of the real Pells. Gonzalo, acting as Martin, discovers that Martin and Sol had broken up long ago and were only acting as a happy couple for the television cameras. In reality, Sol had another lover which she hid from the public, and Martin had a homosexual relationship with the son of the CEO of the channel. Nevertheless, Gonzalo falls in love with Sol, and the main storyline of the soap opera involves his attempts to build a relationship with her.
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Don't Look Down
Title: Don't Look Down
Character: Padre de Eloy
Released: October 18, 2008
Type: Movie
A sexy Spanish siren named Elvira schools a young man in tantric lovemaking.
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Chile Can Do It
Title: Chile Can Do It
Character: Octavio
Released: January 8, 2008
Type: Movie
The businessman who sends the first Chilean astronaut into outer space can't quite come up with the money to bring the adventurer back.
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Reparaciones
Title: Reparaciones
Character: Gabriel
Released: December 7, 2007
Type: Movie
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Title: El Capo
Character: Don Chichio Mastrogiuseppe
Released: May 14, 2007
Type: TV
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Title: Killer Women
Released: July 19, 2005
Type: TV
Anthology series, in which every episode introduces fictionalized versions of real cases about women who, for different reasons, ended up committing murder.
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Dangerous Obsession
Title: Dangerous Obsession
Released: September 16, 2004
Type: Movie
An Argentine truck driver is on a routine trip through Rio de Janeiro when he meets a mysterious countryman. They travel back to Argentina together, meeting a beautiful Brazilian journalist on the way. The truck driver has revenge on his mind, and both the adventurous young man, and the gorgeous girl join him in this venture. The only thing the three have in common are their obsession for honor and justice.
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Cautiva
Title: Cautiva
Character: Juez Barrenechea
Released: March 20, 2004
Type: Movie
Cristina's life is thrown into turmoil when she is suddenly escorted from her strict Catholic school in Buenos Aires and told that she is really Sofía Lombardi, the daughter of activists who disappeared in the '70s. Questioning everything she once thought true, Cristina embarks on a journey to find her true identity. Meeting others like herself, the young girl soon discovers the real-life horrors of Argentina's relatively recent past and the nightmare that claimed tens of thousands of lives during the country's "dirty war."
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Your Eyes Blazed
Title: Your Eyes Blazed
Released: January 8, 2004
Type: Movie
Amorous encounters and clashes between a group of parents of kindergarten .
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Seawards Journey
Title: Seawards Journey
Character: Rodriguez
Released: December 8, 2003
Type: Movie
The tale of five Uruguayan villagers who embark on a journey to see the ocean for the first time. They depart in a broken down freight truck, property of Rodríguez, a taciturn man who loves the sea. Their point of departure is a local bar, and at the last minute, an unknown man from the bar joins their adventure.
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Title: Resistire
Character: Ricardo Moreno
Released: January 13, 2003
Type: TV
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Title: Resistiré
Character: Ricardo Moreno
Released: January 13, 2003
Type: TV
Resistiré is a 2003 Argentine telenovela. This serial features a gorgeous woman torn between her terrorist fiancee and a handsome tailor. It starred Pablo Echarri, Celeste Cid, Carolina Fal and Fabián Vena. Resistiré was a major hit on Argentinian television. It dared to introduce new elements in the genre of telenovela and was well accepted by the audience, setting a new standard in TV. In 2004, the telenovela won the Martín Fierro Award as the best show of the year, along with many other awards. In 2006, two remakes debuted. MyNetworkTV produced an American version in English titled Watch Over Me. In addition, Televisa unveiled Amar Sin Limites for Mexican viewers.
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Title: Tiempo final
Released: July 3, 2000
Type: TV
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El inquietante caso de José Blum
Title: El inquietante caso de José Blum
Character: José Blum
Released: June 4, 1999
Type: Movie
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Dibu 2: La venganza de Nasty
Title: Dibu 2: La venganza de Nasty
Character: Lencinas
Released: July 2, 1998
Type: Movie
The evil Nasty comes to our world with two objectives -- kidnap Buji, and carry as much candy as possible back to his world. He has the ability to 'shape-shift', and using the appearance of Dibu, he holds up a bank so that he can get enough money to buy the candy. The police wrongly imprison Dibu, who manages to escape and confront Nasty.
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Quereme así (Piantao)
Title: Quereme así (Piantao)
Character: Ástor
Released: December 4, 1997
Type: Movie
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Noche de ronda
Title: Noche de ronda
Released: November 13, 1997
Type: Movie
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El verso
Title: El verso
Character: Pedro
Released: February 15, 1996
Type: Movie
Between farce and grotesque, John, who has lost his job, in a collective versea values ​​of a knife sharpener, can not against debts contracted or can with his family, wife and two kids. One day, the woman left, runs out of credit and Juan is left with only his dream of being a radio announcer.
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The Dark Side of the Heart
Title: The Dark Side of the Heart
Released: May 21, 1992
Type: Movie
Oliveiro is a young poet living in Buenos Aires where sometimes he has to sell his ideas to an advertising agency to make a living or exchange his poems for a steak. In Montevideo, he meets a prostitute, Ana, with whom he falls in love. Back in Buenos Aires, he accepts a contract with a publicity agency to get the money for three days of love with her. Will he get what he's searching for when his ideal of love's pleasure is literally going in levitation while making love?
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Title: Tato de América
Released: May 10, 1992
Type: TV
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A Place in the World
Title: A Place in the World
Character: Zamora
Released: April 9, 1992
Type: Movie
Mario and Ana, in voluntary exile from Buenos Aires, live in a remote Argentine valley with their 12-year-old son Ernesto. Mario runs a school and a wool cooperative; Ana, a doctor, heads a clinic with Nelda, a progressive nun. Into this idealistic family comes Hans, a jaded Spanish geological engineer -- surveying the land for the local patron, to see if it can be dammed for hydro-electric power, which would drive the peasants from the land into the cities.
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Las puertitas del Sr. López
Title: Las puertitas del Sr. López
Released: June 9, 1988
Type: Movie
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Matrimonios y Algo Más
Title: Matrimonios y Algo Más
Released: February 17, 1988
Type: Movie
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Made in Argentina
Title: Made in Argentina
Character: Cacho
Released: August 12, 1987
Type: Movie
Osvaldo and Mabel, an Argentine couple exiled for political reasons in the United States, travel to their country of origin after ten years to reconnect with their family and friends, including Mabel's brother and his wife. Mabel offers her brother the possibility of working in New York in order to improve their economic situation, but his wife is opposed to that idea.
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Chorros
Title: Chorros
Character: Traverso
Released: January 1, 1987
Type: Movie
Upon finding out that the bank where they work will go bankrupt, some employees decide to rob one of the institution's branches.
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Atrapada por el vicio
Title: Atrapada por el vicio
Character: Padre de Andrea
Released: March 17, 1986
Type: Movie
Something very common in our days, an adolescent who does not find communication with her mother or stepfather falls into a depression that drags her down paths of difficult return. A film that shows the harshness of loneliness and the wrong search for drugs as a way out of problems.
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The Official Story
Title: The Official Story
Character: Enrique Ibáñez
Released: April 3, 1985
Type: Movie
Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1983. In the last and turbulent days of the military dictatorship, Alicia, a high school history teacher, begins to ask uncomfortable questions about the dark origins of Gaby, her adopted daughter.
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To Return
Title: To Return
Character: Angel Ragucci
Released: August 5, 1982
Type: Movie
An Argentine-executive of a multinational-returns to the country to close a factory. There he meets with his exgirlfriend and his best friend before the exile. The film presents an interpretation of the political and social situation in Argentina during the last years of the military government.
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Buenos Aires, la tercera fundación
Title: Buenos Aires, la tercera fundación
Character: Voz
Released: June 5, 1980
Type: Movie
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Este loco amor loco
Title: Este loco amor loco
Released: September 27, 1979
Type: Movie
Emilia, an imaginative young woman from a small town, goes to Buenos Aires in search of her missing sister. The clues take her to Andrés, a mysterious man who may have led her sister astray.
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The Island
Title: The Island
Released: August 9, 1979
Type: Movie
A young man enters an institute for the mentally ill and falls in love with a patient from whom he will distance himself after her rehabilitation.
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No apto para menores
Title: No apto para menores
Released: January 1, 1979
Type: Movie
In a very exclusive summer resort, a curious exchange of married couples will take place.
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El soltero
Title: El soltero
Released: March 17, 1977
Type: Movie
Everyone tries that a successful single marry with a woman.
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The days that you gave me
Title: The days that you gave me
Released: March 15, 1975
Type: Movie
A mature woman, a martyr of the home, with a husband who has lost love and two children who are into something else, decides one day to rebel and try a new life with a much younger man.
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The Truce
Title: The Truce
Released: August 1, 1974
Type: Movie
A man has to come to terms with his wasted youth, estranged family and grim prospects for the future.
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La madre María
Title: La madre María
Released: July 4, 1974
Type: Movie
Based on the life of María Salomé Loredo, a figure famous for her healings and assistance to the poor of the late nineteenth and first half of the twentieth century.
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Dale nomás
Title: Dale nomás
Released: June 20, 1974
Type: Movie
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La balada del regreso
Title: La balada del regreso
Released: May 16, 1974
Type: Movie
A military from Salta returns with unitary troops to his province and must surround the stay of a federal supporter
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Los golpes bajos
Title: Los golpes bajos
Released: February 4, 1974
Type: Movie
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Title: Alta comedia
Released: April 19, 1970
Type: TV
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The Knight of the Sword
Title: The Knight of the Sword
Released: March 25, 1970
Type: Movie
The life story of Argentine independence hero Jose de San Martin.
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Chronicle of a Boy Alone
Title: Chronicle of a Boy Alone
Released: May 5, 1965
Type: Movie
The story of a delinquent eleven-year-old orphan in fascist Argentina.