Armando Calvo

Armando Calvo

Born: December 25, 1919
Died: July 6, 1996

Movies for Armando Calvo...

Title: Rosa Salvaje
Character: Sebastian
Released: November 19, 1990
Type: TV
Rosa salvaje is a Mexican telenovela that was broadcast in 1987. It starred the popular Mexican actress Verónica Castro, who played the main character, "Rosa", co-starring with Guillermo Capetillo as her love interest and Laura Zapata as the villain of the story. This telenovela was a huge success in Mexico, Latin America, Bulgaria, Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Russia, Estonia, China the United States, Indonesia and provided the template for numerous other Latin American soap operas in terms of story, plot twists and characters for years to come.
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Ni Chana, ni Juana
Title: Ni Chana, ni Juana
Released: March 21, 1984
Type: Movie
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Title: El hogar que yo robé
Character: Gaspar Garay
Released: January 15, 1981
Type: TV
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The Song of the Cicada
Title: The Song of the Cicada
Released: September 12, 1980
Type: Movie
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El oreja rajada
Title: El oreja rajada
Released: June 23, 1980
Type: Movie
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Title: Colorina
Character: Guillermo Almazán
Released: March 22, 1980
Type: TV
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Title: Cañas y barro
Character: Cura
Released: March 26, 1978
Type: TV
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Marked by Men
Title: Marked by Men
Character: Ramón
Released: March 14, 1977
Type: Movie
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Sábado, chica, motel ¡qué lío aquel!
Title: Sábado, chica, motel ¡qué lío aquel!
Character: Ricardo
Released: September 12, 1976
Type: Movie
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Fango
Title: Fango
Character: Andrés
Released: April 9, 1976
Type: Movie
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Una mujer de cabaret
Title: Una mujer de cabaret
Character: Jaime
Released: December 2, 1974
Type: Movie
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Love Starts at Midnight
Title: Love Starts at Midnight
Character: Paco
Released: February 18, 1974
Type: Movie
Ricardo and Elena have been known in the clinic where he spent his last days their spouses. Now widowed, begin a passionate romance that leads them to marriage.
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Proceso a Jesús
Title: Proceso a Jesús
Released: January 1, 1974
Type: Movie
A group of Sephardic perform the "Trial of Jesus" in an ancient temple and before a baffled audience. The purpose of the play is to understand whether the condemnation of Jesus was justified or not, since they are not resigned to accept that history found guilty the Jewish people.
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Corazón solitario
Title: Corazón solitario
Character: Gerardo
Released: July 22, 1973
Type: Movie
Antoñito is a bachelor who works in a cabaret as a clarinetist. He has put an advertisement in the newspaper, looking for a good and honest girl, and to which responds Rocío, who escapes from her native Córdoba to hide the embarrassment of her pregnancy. The coexistence with the naive clarinetist, who refuses the insinuations of a co-worker dedicated to prostitution, who idolizes his deceased mother and keeps as a relic the orthopedic leg of his late father, is not easy. The other men will tend their ties around Rocío, that makes way in the world of the spectacle pretending to be blind. When she can no longer conceal that she is pregnant, Antoñito decides to give his name to the fruit of sin.
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El caserío
Title: El caserío
Character: Santi
Released: January 1, 1972
Type: Movie
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Il corsaro
Title: Il corsaro
Character: Jackson Smith
Released: August 28, 1970
Type: Movie
After famous pirate Jeffrey Brook frees himself from captivity, he lands with on a Caribbean island. A lot of gold is said to be stored there. In order to get to the treasure, Brook accepts an offer from the British officer Jackson.
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La otra residencia
Title: La otra residencia
Released: April 18, 1970
Type: Movie
Crazy and macabre comedy written and directed by Alfonso Paso, inspired by 'The Residence', a horror film by Narciso Ibanez Serrador. Two offenders commit a murder and unwittingly decide to separate. One of them found refuge in a villa. Palmiro, a boy from the house who everyone consider silly, discovered him.
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El taxi de los conflictos
Title: El taxi de los conflictos
Character: El marido engañado
Released: April 16, 1969
Type: Movie
Musical. Thaddeus (Juanjo Menéndez) is a taxi driver who is about to experience a busy work day. Throughout the day you climb into his cab heteogéneos the more characters, which give rise to the most varied situations. When one of them left in the taxi leaves a baby, Thaddeus will have to find out who's not forget that at the end of the day has a date with a mysterious woman (Concha Velasco), apparently, have to tell you something very important.
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Satanik
Title: Satanik
Character: Detective
Released: April 18, 1968
Type: Movie
A youth potion transforms an old crone into a ravishing beauty. Unfortunately, her new-found gorgeousness forces the heroine to form a pact with the Devil.
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Go For Broke
Title: Go For Broke
Character: Josè Gomez
Released: March 27, 1968
Type: Movie
The Indian called Copper Face is suspected to have stolen a large quantity of gold from a bank.
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Ringo: The Lone Rider
Title: Ringo: The Lone Rider
Character: Bill Anderson
Released: February 15, 1968
Type: Movie
A town is being terrorized by a gang of marauders led by Bill Anderson, a clever bandit boss. The town's leadership is deciding to do something against the problem, but it does not believe bringing in the military will be a solution. It is agreed upon that they will request help from the well-known Pinkerton agency. At the same time, Ringo, a gunslinger, is chasing after the bandits. He suspects a deeper-sitting conspiracy than random bandit assaults. He joins forces with the newly arrived under cover Pinkerton agent, to uncover a plot between a local businessman, the Mexican revolution and bandit's heist loot of gold. But the bandits have long planned to move on. Disguised as Mormons, they are moving west to start a new life of farming during the day and robbing stage coaches at night. Ringo and the agent track them down....
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Killer Goodbye
Title: Killer Goodbye
Character: Bill Bragg
Released: February 8, 1968
Type: Movie
Jess Vrain returns to town at the request of a former friend to find that everything has changed. Not only has his ex-girlfriend become a refined lady but someone is killing people with the only clue being a rare Winchester rifle.
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Avenger X
Title: Avenger X
Character: George Lamarro
Released: May 13, 1967
Type: Movie
A retired ex-criminal, the notorious Mister X, must clear his name when an up-and-comer commits a heinous copycat crime.
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Two Crosses in Danger Pass
Title: Two Crosses in Danger Pass
Character: Moran
Released: March 28, 1967
Type: Movie
Judy and Alex are the only two survivors of a punishment mission ordered by the rich and ruthless Moran... The girl becomes his maid and the boy is adopted by a Quaker family. Alex, in spite of the pardon philosophy taught to him, is planning a revenge.
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Agent Sigma 3 - Mission Goldwalther
Title: Agent Sigma 3 - Mission Goldwalther
Character: Karamesinis
Released: January 6, 1967
Type: Movie
An electronic ray that can counter any aerial attacks has just been invented by Professor Goodwin, but before he can put in good hands, he is kidnapped by a criminal organization, that starts an international bid for him and his invention among the rogue countries of the world. The CIA sends Agent Sigma 3 to find the Professor before the transaction takes place. His mission takes him from Rome to Tangiers, and to Barcelona.
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Kriminal
Title: Kriminal
Character: Kandur
Released: December 23, 1966
Type: Movie
A master criminal is pursued by inspector Milton
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Ringo, the Mark of Vengeance
Title: Ringo, the Mark of Vengeance
Character: Fidel
Released: August 26, 1966
Type: Movie
Director Mario Caiano, best known for horror films like Amanti d' Oltretomba, co-wrote this much-parodied spaghetti western. Another in a long line of films titled for Lorne Greene's 1964 hit song "Ringo". Antonio De Teffe and Eduardo Fajardo star as two friends who rescue bumbling bandit Fidel (Armando Calvo) from a shootout. While patching him up, they discover half of a treasure map tattooed on his back. Learning that the other half is tattooed on the back of someone else, they set about trying to put the two halves together while being joined by card sharp and all round trickster Frank Wolff, who discovers their secret and wants in on the deal. American director Paul Bartel put a bizarre spin on the story in his comedic western, Lust in the Dust.
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Django Does Not Forgive
Title: Django Does Not Forgive
Character: Lecomte
Released: March 26, 1966
Type: Movie
A halfbreed seeks revenge for the death of his sister, who kills herself after being raped by an officer of the Canadian Mounted Police. He gets involved in the historical revolt of halfbreeds and Indians led by Louis Riel in 1885 against the Canadian government.
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Ringo's Big Night
Title: Ringo's Big Night
Character: José the Mexican
Released: January 21, 1966
Type: Movie
Four masked men rob money from a stagecoach in route to a bank in Tombstone. The federal government vows to catch the culprits and recover the money. Two suspects are imprisoned - the notorious gunman Jack Bowman and a wounded bandit. The two cellmates form a partnership and the wounded man gives Bowman 3 of the 4 names of the other bandits - the outlaw Black Norton, Bailey, and Sam the sheriff. Bowman escapes and starts out after the money.
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Lone and Angry Man
Title: Lone and Angry Man
Character: Lupe Rojo
Released: December 23, 1965
Type: Movie
Shenandoah (Steffen) works his way into a band of highwaymen led by Rojo (Armando Calvo). His initiation consists of hunting down and killing a member of the gang who has 12 bullets while he is only given 2 bullets. When the bandits attempt to rob a wealthy rancher, whom Shenandoah knows, he warns him. The outlaws begin to suspect they were betrayed and commence to rough Shenandoah up. Shenandoah then reveals his true reason for joining the gang; one of them killed his wife and he is there for retribution.
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Bochorno
Title: Bochorno
Character: Don Luis
Released: November 18, 1963
Type: Movie
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Sign of Zorro
Title: Sign of Zorro
Character: Gen. Gutiérrez
Released: April 5, 1963
Type: Movie
General Gutierrez, the evil governor of Mexico, terrorizes the people and demands high taxes. The young Ramon Martiney, after discovering that his father was murdered by Gutierrez, dons the mask of Zorro and starts fighting against the injustice.
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The Witch's Mirror
Title: The Witch's Mirror
Character: Eduardo Ramos
Released: July 12, 1962
Type: Movie
A husband murders his wife, and years later her ghost emerges from a witch's mirror to take her revenge.
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Orlak, the Hell of Frankenstein
Title: Orlak, the Hell of Frankenstein
Character: Insp. Santos
Released: December 8, 1960
Type: Movie
A mad scientist creates a remote-controlled monster and sends it to terrorize the city.
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El hombre que perdió el tren
Title: El hombre que perdió el tren
Character: Maximino López
Released: February 29, 1960
Type: Movie
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El amor que yo te dí
Title: El amor que yo te dí
Character: Ricardo
Released: January 18, 1960
Type: Movie
Suave jewelry-thieves caper comedy overlaid with howling family-melodrama coincidences.
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The Thieves
Title: The Thieves
Character: Joe Castagnato
Released: June 27, 1959
Type: Movie
An Italian-American mobster is sent back to Naples from the States. He moves to Italy with all his illegal proceeds hidden in jam jars--which fall into the wrong hands when they get to the harbour of Naples. These hands belong to people who demand their fair share. Meanwhile, the mobster is questioned by investigators.
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Mi esposa me comprende
Title: Mi esposa me comprende
Released: March 12, 1959
Type: Movie
Bachelor friend of a married couple gets caught up in the drama generated by the husband's philandering.
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Love Your Neighbor
Title: Love Your Neighbor
Character: Doctor Ricardo Lugo
Released: October 23, 1958
Type: Movie
This film tells several short stories that end up lapsing in the emergency room of a hospital, because it is dedicated to nurses. Cantinflas appears at the end of the film playing the role of Luis, a man who has five daughters and looks forward to a boy, but fate plays a trick and the child dies at birth, but history gives a nice twist and a message of hope.
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Música de ayer
Title: Música de ayer
Character: Carlos
Released: January 1, 1958
Type: Movie
Laura Gayán, a young singing student, is secretly in love with Carlos, Count of San Telmo, and she lives in his palace because his father is the porter. Stephen, a fellow student, drinker and womanizer, attempts to seduce her, taking advantage of the girls' sentimental bad situation due to the recent news of the wedding of his beloved. Eventually, Laura gets a contract to make "small forms" and, against her heart, she married Stephen. Meanwhile, dissolves the marriage of Charles ...
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La Diana cazadora
Title: La Diana cazadora
Character: Dr. Luis Novoa
Released: June 21, 1957
Type: Movie
A great love story based on the idea and development of the famous monument that decorating Mexico City.
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The Last Couplet
Title: The Last Couplet
Character: Juan Contreras
Released: May 6, 1957
Type: Movie
A musical drama featuring a tragic love story. Relates a singer's rise to fame and her subsequent downfall because of the death of her lover.
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Unfaithful Wives
Title: Unfaithful Wives
Released: November 1, 1956
Type: Movie
A bunch of stories where wives are unfaithful for different reasons: money, revenge or pleasure.
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Forbidden Kisses
Title: Forbidden Kisses
Character: Dr. Daniel Solórzano
Released: August 16, 1956
Type: Movie
Nightclub singer has to choose between marrying again or reuniting with her divorced husband.
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The Force of Desire
Title: The Force of Desire
Character: Arturo
Released: July 22, 1955
Type: Movie
Wicked girl uses nude modeling as a way to seduce a wealthy painter into marriage, while still trying to keep an artschool stud piece on the side.
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Maternidad imposible
Title: Maternidad imposible
Released: May 5, 1955
Type: Movie
Mother and child are separated during the Spanish Civil War. Believing the mother to be dead, the child is sent to a refugee orphanage in Mexico, then adopted. Meanwhile, Mama recovers from her injuries, and...
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El pueblo sin Dios
Title: El pueblo sin Dios
Character: Padre Fernando
Released: March 17, 1955
Type: Movie
Unscrupulous rich guy owns all the businesses in border towns, is challenged by town's new priest.
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Tu vida entre mis manos
Title: Tu vida entre mis manos
Character: Dr. Roberto Alonso
Released: January 1, 1955
Type: Movie
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La calle de los amores
Title: La calle de los amores
Released: August 18, 1954
Type: Movie
Hubby latches onto a series of side-pieces and wifey finds it increasingly hard to put up with his behavior.
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Romance de fieras
Title: Romance de fieras
Released: June 24, 1954
Type: Movie
Newly-graduated lawyer gets caught up in the personal drama surrounding a rich industrialist and his sociopathic son.
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Gitana tenías que ser
Title: Gitana tenías que ser
Character: Señor Calvo
Released: November 19, 1953
Type: Movie
Pastora de los Reyes is a beautiful Spanish that goes to Mexico with a contract to film a movie. The main actors will receive her at the airport, among them is Paul, a little-known mariachi that has been chosen to become a new idol. Automatically, both had bad relations and during filming many discussions happens. This arguments gives way to a deep love.
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Lo que no se puede perdonar!..
Title: Lo que no se puede perdonar!..
Character: Jorge del Río
Released: October 9, 1953
Type: Movie
Hortensia is almost ready to take her vows at the convent... but she gets distracted by her stepmother's boyfriend. Things do not go well.
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Las infieles
Title: Las infieles
Released: July 9, 1953
Type: Movie
Governess falls in love with the uncle of the children she's teaching. Then complications.
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Caribbean
Title: Caribbean
Released: January 1, 1953
Type: Movie
Mexican feature film
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Doña Francisquita
Title: Doña Francisquita
Character: Fernando
Released: December 22, 1952
Type: Movie
Francisquita secretly loves Fernando, but he is in love with the beautiful and fickle Aurora.
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El ruiseñor del barrio
Title: El ruiseñor del barrio
Released: August 15, 1952
Type: Movie
Ten or twelve years ago, a young man wrecked his car and his wife was killed in the accident. Today, his wealthy mother-in-law is still full of hatred and bitterness toward him, and she prefers not to acknowledge her granddaughter. Will love and tenderness find their way into the crusty old bitch's heart?
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Mi adorado salvaje
Title: Mi adorado salvaje
Released: March 21, 1952
Type: Movie
The old folks back home in Spain have arranged a marriage for their niece living in Mexico. To side-step their demands, she pretends to be already married, with a male acquaintance who agrees to pose as her husband while her relatives are visiting.
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Acapulco
Title: Acapulco
Character: Ricardo Serrano
Released: January 18, 1952
Type: Movie
Young lady goes shopping for a millionaire husband.
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Lodo y armiño
Title: Lodo y armiño
Released: November 30, 1951
Type: Movie
Wealthy libertine tries to seduce another man's mistress by threatening to send him to jail if she doesn't put out. Blowback from his sleazy behavior affects five other people; everybody suffers. Enormously.
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Monte de piedad
Title: Monte de piedad
Character: Don Mario de Córdova
Released: August 1, 1951
Type: Movie
Anthology-movie, series of anecdotes about the personal tragedies that lead people to take their values posessions to the state-run pawnshop.
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Entre abogados te veas
Title: Entre abogados te veas
Released: March 2, 1951
Type: Movie
Crooked lawyer runs amok, making a mockery of the legal system.
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Piña madura
Title: Piña madura
Released: June 6, 1950
Type: Movie
Bad woman plays men off each other to her advantage; she ends up with about 8 guys she's leading around by the nose. How long can this last?
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La venenosa
Title: La venenosa
Character: Luis de Sevilla
Released: October 4, 1949
Type: Movie
A snake-charmer falls in love with a circus trapeze artist who trains her and has her debut in this discipline.
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La dama del velo
Title: La dama del velo
Character: Estebán Navarro
Released: June 1, 1949
Type: Movie
Andrea loves Esteban. Esteban murders his wife and goes go jail. Andrea marries Esteban's lawyer. Twenty years later...
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La vorágine: abismos de amor
Title: La vorágine: abismos de amor
Released: April 20, 1949
Type: Movie
It narrates the adventures of the poet Arturo Cova and his lover Alicia, a story of passion and revenge framed in the plain lands and the Amazon jungle where the two lovers scape from society, and which exposes throughout its plot the harsh living conditions of settlers and Indians enslaved during the rubber rush.
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La casa de la Troya
Title: La casa de la Troya
Released: September 15, 1948
Type: Movie
Adaptation of the novel by Alejandro Pérez Lujín, centered on the university adventures in Santiago de Compostela of Gerardo Roquer from Madrid, who stays in a boarding house known as "La Casa de la Troya".
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Encadenada (El yugo)
Title: Encadenada (El yugo)
Released: May 27, 1947
Type: Movie
A marriage becomes a living hell when hubby's pathologies start surfacing.
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Ángel o demonio
Title: Ángel o demonio
Released: May 1, 1947
Type: Movie
Wealthy young gentleman falls in love with a cabaret girl of no breeding; he overcomes his prejudices and accepts her in spite of her past... will she live up to his expectations of her?
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El Buen Mozo
Title: El Buen Mozo
Released: April 5, 1946
Type: Movie
Unscrupulous cad sleeps his way to the top of belle epoque Paris society.
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La mujer de todos
Title: La mujer de todos
Character: Capitán Jorge Serralde
Released: January 11, 1946
Type: Movie
A beautiful woman of affairs falls in love with a handsome young man of great promise. Fearing for his future, the man's father begs her to leave his son so that her reputation will not hold him back.
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Los últimos de Filipinas
Title: Los últimos de Filipinas
Character: Lt. Martín Cerezo
Released: May 9, 1945
Type: Movie
The Philippines, 1898, during the Spanish-American War. Fifty Spanish soldiers guarding the outpost established in the small village of Baler endure the cruel siege of the Filipino rebels for eleven months, although the war is almost lost…
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El hombre que las enamora
Title: El hombre que las enamora
Character: Eduardo
Released: December 13, 1944
Type: Movie
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La vida empieza a medianoche
Title: La vida empieza a medianoche
Character: Ricardo
Released: November 9, 1944
Type: Movie
Silvia Heredia, since her arrival to Madrid is staying at her best friends' house, Mary. Her aim is to work as a secretary of a famous novelist. But at night the house is full of people and they confuse her with the owner of the floor. A series of misunderstandings makes her meet Ricardo Ariaga, the musician whose opera "Life begins at midnight" is about to debut. Ricardo convinces Sylvia to act as his wife. With a "rented" child they try to be the perfect family of a lonely old man.
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El escándalo
Title: El escándalo
Released: January 1, 1943
Type: Movie
In 1860s Madrid, Fabián Conde is a dissolute young man who drives his dishonored identity into a life of seduction and dueling. When he eventually falls in love, changes for good and finds the truth about his family, his two opposite friends give him contrasted advice on what he should do. He chooses and time goes by. Then something unexpected happens that will put him on the brim of loosing everything he has fought for.
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Correo de Indias
Title: Correo de Indias
Released: December 7, 1942
Type: Movie
A Dutch sailing ship finds the wreckage of a Spanish mail ship, which has collided with an iceberg. Inside, the bodies of a man and a woman are found embraced.
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Goyescas
Title: Goyescas
Character: Luis Alfonso de Nuévalos
Released: October 9, 1942
Type: Movie
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Tierra y cielo
Title: Tierra y cielo
Character: Juan Ernesto Florín
Released: April 13, 1941
Type: Movie
Clara, determined to earn her living and be valued for herself, leaves his rich father's home, changes her name and takes a room. While copying paintings at El Prado Museum, she meets Juan, who is also hiding his identity, pursued under charge of murder.
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L'ispettore Vargas
Title: L'ispettore Vargas
Released: October 18, 1940
Type: Movie
A detective investigates on the death of a factory owner.
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Amore di ussaro
Title: Amore di ussaro
Released: October 8, 1940
Type: Movie