Walter Vidarte

Walter Vidarte

Born: July 18, 1931
Died: October 29, 2011
in Montevideo, Uruguay
Walter Vidarte (Montevideo, July 18, 1931 - Madrid, October 29, 2011) was a Uruguayan actor and director of theater, film and television of extensive acting in Argentina and later in Spain, where he went into exile in 1974.

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The Night of the Sunflowers
Title: The Night of the Sunflowers
Character: Amós
Released: August 25, 2006
Type: Movie
Two speleologists, Esteban and Pedro, travel to a mountainous area located in northern Spain, near a small village, to study a newly discovered cave and determine if it is of scientific interest, while Gabi, Esteban's wife, awaits their return on a lonely road at the foot of the mountain.
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Title: Cuéntame cómo pasó
Character: Mauro
Released: September 13, 2001
Type: TV
Recounts the experiences of a middle-class family, the Alcántaras, during the last years of the rule of Francisco Franco and the beginning of the Spanish Transition to democracy.
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Lo mejor de cada casa (Una semana en el parque)
Title: Lo mejor de cada casa (Una semana en el parque)
Character: Remi
Released: May 9, 2000
Type: Movie
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The Pianist
Title: The Pianist
Character: Alejandra la Magna
Released: September 13, 1998
Type: Movie
Mario Gas directed this music-themed Spanish drama set in Barcelona of the mid-'80s. When famed composer Lluis Doria (Laurent Terzieff) visits a transvestite club, he learns his lifelong friend Albert Rossell (Serge Reggiani) is the house pianist. A flashback takes the tale four decades into the past where the younger Rossell (Pere Ponce) rejoins Teresa (Paulina Galvez) after having spent years in prison for helping anti-Franco anarchists. The story continues into Paris of the '30s, the period when Doria and Rossell first met, sharing a mutual interest in music and Teresa, before civil war sent them in different directions.
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Homer: Portrait of the Artist as an Old Man
Title: Homer: Portrait of the Artist as an Old Man
Released: May 26, 1997
Type: Movie
Though he is near death, blind Rene, an elderly Italian-French intellectual, continues to make his annual conference abroad accompanied by his self-centered loyal, beautiful assistant Sibilla who may or may not be his lover. Rene's domineering mother strongly disapproves of Sibilla and his continual galavanting, but Rene disregards her and goes anyway. While in Spain, Sibilla falls for a handsome young toreador who also captures the interest of Rene, though it is hard to say whether his feelings for the bullfighter are fatherly or more romantic. It is also unclear as to whether Sibilla and the bullfighter are lovers either. Thus an enigmatic romantic triangle forms until Rene and Sibilla suddenly decide to wed. The character of Rene seems to be closely patterned after Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges.
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Antártida
Title: Antártida
Character: Hombre mayor
Released: September 8, 1995
Type: Movie
A rock star falls in love with a common pickpocket without any personal history. But soon she finds herself in a contraband of drugs and both try to escape it.
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My Soul Brother
Title: My Soul Brother
Character: Alberto
Released: February 18, 1994
Type: Movie
Meeting of two very different brothers: Carlos is an ambitious young businessman happily married to Julia, Toni is a nerve that life has given him so many sticks as the people who surrounded him.
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Outrage
Title: Outrage
Released: October 1, 1993
Type: Movie
Marco Vallez (Antonio Banderas) is possessed by the beauty of a circus sharp shooter, and from the second they meet he is willing to give up everything to be with her. But one horrifying night sends them both down a road of revenge leaving behind a trail of bodies to the ultimate showdown with justice.
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Chatarra
Title: Chatarra
Character: Roca
Released: October 11, 1991
Type: Movie
Zabu was a dancer in a small cabaret in Bilbao. Twelve years later she is living with her daughter Lola and a small delinquent called Lino in a squalid suburb of an industrial city. She dreams of leaving for Australia.
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El crimen de Don Benito
Title: El crimen de Don Benito
Released: March 6, 1991
Type: Movie
July 18, 1902. A woman and her daughter are brutally murdered in the Extremaduran town of Don Benito. Everybody knows the depraved town boss was responsible, but nobody dares to declare against him.
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Tramontana
Title: Tramontana
Released: January 1, 1991
Type: Movie
In the 13th century, desolation and misery lead the inhabitants of a village in the Pyrenees to emigrate to Burriana, in Valencia, a region considered to be the Promised Land. During the journey, love, hatred and suffering will jeopardize their arrival at their longed-for destination. At the same time, they will be involved in the war waged by King James I to reconquer these lands held by the Muslims. Reaching the end of the journey will be an odyssey.
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El acto
Title: El acto
Character: Daniel
Released: December 29, 1989
Type: Movie
This is a Spanish Drama starring Antonio Banderas
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Title: Miguel Servet (La Sangre y La Ceniza)
Character: Abel Poupin
Released: March 1, 1989
Type: TV
The series recreates the life of the Spanish scientist Miguel Servet from his birth until his execution for blasphemy in 1553.
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Love Ravings
Title: Love Ravings
Character: Hombre en pub (segment "Delirio 3") (uncredited)
Released: November 13, 1986
Type: Movie
In this anthology film, a female actor cheats on her formerly famous husband, a married couple go to extremes, and an antiquarian falls for a young man.
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El rey y la reina
Title: El rey y la reina
Released: July 16, 1986
Type: Movie
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Romanza final (Gayarre)
Title: Romanza final (Gayarre)
Character: Giacobagi
Released: April 29, 1986
Type: Movie
Biography of Julian Gayarre (1844-1890), one of the best tenors of all times. At 19, a professor at the Conservatory of Music in Madrid heard him singing for the first time and offered him a scholarship to continue his studies. His artistic life runs between continued success, becoming the world's greatest tenor. But in 1890, while singing at the Teatro Real in Madrid, a failure in his voice is like a cruel reminder of what would happen a few days later: his death at a young age. The doctors gave a diagnosis, but his friends know that Julian Gayarre died because he could not sing anymore.
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Title: Tristeza de Amor
Character: Damián Pereira
Released: April 1, 1986
Type: TV
The COI, a radio station, is getting ready to air a new programm, "Tristeza de Amor", in the team they've hired, there are two reporters who used to be well known to the audience, journalist Ceferino Reyes, who just returned to Spain after ten years living in South America, and commentator Carlota Núñez, the woman who, years ago, somehow forced the latter to leave the country. This series deals with this radio programm crew's everyday adventures, and their professional and personal troubles.
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Akelarre
Title: Akelarre
Character: Don Fermín de Andueza
Released: March 8, 1984
Type: Movie
A small village in Navarre, Spain, XVII century. Garazi's grandmother is burned at the stake when accussed of being a witch and convicted by an inquisitor, something that brings Garazi under suspicion and eventually into prison, where she is atrociously tortured and humiliated.
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La conquista de Albania
Title: La conquista de Albania
Released: September 20, 1983
Type: Movie
King Carlos II of Spain (r. 1665-1700) once sent his brother Luis to lead a military expedition into Albania and conquer that land for the Spaniards. Since Albania was a part of the dowry of Luis' wife, it seemed like a reasonable idea at the time. While that expedition and its final battle is the subject of this historical film, the scale involved can hardly do justice to the concept. The protagonists talk incessantly, and by the time they get down to the final grand battle, it turns out to be a skirmish between several dozen men.
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1919, Chronicle of Dawn
Title: 1919, Chronicle of Dawn
Released: August 29, 1983
Type: Movie
In 1939, José Garcés is in French prison camp after the defeat of Spain's Republicans. To entertain and inspire his fellow prisoners, he tells the story of becoming a man in 1919, the year he realized that learning to live is the same as learning to die. His stiff and demanding father loses a fortune in German war bonds, takes a job in Caspe, and leaves José on his own in Zaragoza to finish high school while apprenticing in a pharmacy. José courts his beloved Valentina via letters, becomes intimate with Isabel, a maid he meets in a cinema who shares his ideas of free love, and comes under the influence of El Checa, an anarchist and gentle teacher who leads a doomed revolt.
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Cuentos para una escapada
Title: Cuentos para una escapada
Released: July 27, 1981
Type: Movie
With the help of drawings and comic strips. brings together short films, on children's themes, in which rights that children and adults should enjoy are defended. For the first time, a whole series of important Spanish directors meet to make a children's film.
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Tú estás loco Briones
Title: Tú estás loco Briones
Character: Antonio
Released: March 6, 1981
Type: Movie
Faustino Briones is a hardline Falangist who, unhappy with the changes in Spain and after mounting several scandals in his work, is admitted to a psychiatric hospital. Without waiting for him, he begins to interact with the nuns of the place, but especially with one, Sr. Angustias with whom he is beginning to feel things
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Sin alma ni tiempo
Title: Sin alma ni tiempo
Released: January 1, 1981
Type: Movie
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Sus años dorados
Title: Sus años dorados
Character: Kaminsky
Released: December 17, 1980
Type: Movie
María, a young and attractive woman, loses her job, meets Luis, a young man with no stable job neither, his wife supports him. Luis wants to start a relationship with María, but she doesn't. She prefers to be with Luis' friends instead.
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El hombre de moda
Title: El hombre de moda
Character: Jorge Vázquez
Released: November 14, 1980
Type: Movie
Pedro Liniers, a literature teacher, comes back to Madrid after his wife has just left him. Meanwhile, Aurora Villalba, came to Spain from Argentina, running away from the militaries, she has a special way of living her own way. Pedro wants to get back the job as a teacher through an old friend, Bruno Baena, who is the head master of the school. Aurora starts going to Pedro's classes. Pedro will become "El hombre de moda", very soon.
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Tierra de rastrojos
Title: Tierra de rastrojos
Released: March 13, 1980
Type: Movie
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Tobi
Title: Tobi
Character: Enfermero
Released: December 19, 1978
Type: Movie
A story about a little boy who grows a pair of wings on his back, giving him the appearance of an angel. The boy draws the attention of his community including doctors, scientists and schoolmates. The wings are surgically removed but eventually they grow back.
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Avisa a Curro Jiménez
Title: Avisa a Curro Jiménez
Character: El Lince
Released: September 4, 1978
Type: Movie
Córdoba, Spain. Lord Killarney, representative of the British Museum, acquires an Arabic incunabulum at an auction; but he is murdered and the book disappears. All suspicions fall on El Lince, an antique dealer with a shady background, who asks his nephew to warn Curro Jiménez.
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Trout
Title: Trout
Released: February 1, 1978
Type: Movie
In a restaurant they're preparing a grand banquet in honor of a sports association of anglers, but several circumstances seem to have conspired to boycott the event.
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Venus de fuego
Title: Venus de fuego
Released: January 1, 1978
Type: Movie
A young man falls madly in love with a woman they call La Venus de Fuego and because of her he becomes involved in a crime. They accuse him of murder and he is forced to flee to a place far away.
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La Gioconda está triste
Title: La Gioconda está triste
Released: February 2, 1977
Type: Movie
The Mona Lisa loses her famous smile, and so does the rest of the world.
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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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Quebracho
Title: Quebracho
Character: Isfraín
Released: May 16, 1974
Type: Movie
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Los golpes bajos
Title: Los golpes bajos
Released: February 4, 1974
Type: Movie
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Operación Masacre
Title: Operación Masacre
Character: Juan Carlos
Released: September 26, 1973
Type: Movie
In 1956 a military civic coup against self-appointed Liberating Revolution fails, and in Jose Leon Suarez, Argentina, are killed several suspected to be part of the civil uprising. However survive seven people manage to tell the story.
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Santos Vega
Title: Santos Vega
Released: July 22, 1971
Type: Movie
The story of Santos Vega, an Argentine gaucho from the province of Buenos Aires, who lived around 1830, and who gave rise to a legend in which, being an invincible payador, he ends up falling defeated to none other than the Devil, embodied in the person of Juan Sin Ropa, the only one who could defeat him.
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El habilitado
Title: El habilitado
Released: March 17, 1971
Type: Movie
Five employees submerged in the basement of a large store in Mar del Plata are grotesquely linked to each other, each trying to feel better than the other thanks to miserable advantages.
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Title: Alta comedia
Character: Pajarito
Released: April 19, 1970
Type: TV
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Title: Alta comedia
Released: April 19, 1970
Type: TV
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Quiero llenarme de ti
Title: Quiero llenarme de ti
Character: Raúl
Released: May 8, 1969
Type: Movie
A young man dreams of being a singer and become popular with crowds. Over time manages to have everything you want, but on the way he meets a person based envious intrigues that it manages to lose his girlfriend and even his own representative. To do this, he must work hard in order to get back their goals and desires.
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The Dependent
Title: The Dependent
Character: Fernández
Released: March 1, 1969
Type: Movie
Fernandez is a lonely man leading a lonely life. All he does is work for an old man in a hardware store. But all that changes, when he meets the girl of his dreams... and her family.
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Martín Fierro
Title: Martín Fierro
Character: Picardía
Released: July 4, 1968
Type: Movie
The story of rebel gaucho Martin Fierro, his people, and their life in the Argentine Pampas. Based on José Hernández's epic poem.
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Una máscara para Ana
Title: Una máscara para Ana
Released: December 15, 1966
Type: Movie
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Life is formidable
Title: Life is formidable
Released: January 12, 1966
Type: Movie
A married couple rents a room in their house to a newly married couple with sexual problems.
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Orden de matar
Title: Orden de matar
Character: Nacho
Released: September 23, 1965
Type: Movie
Upon learning of the murder of a friend, a police inspector sets out to take justice on his own. This attitude, contrary to his usual convictions, will gradually destroy him.
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Nadie oyó gritar a Cecilio Fuentes
Title: Nadie oyó gritar a Cecilio Fuentes
Character: El mochila
Released: August 19, 1965
Type: Movie
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Los hipócritas
Title: Los hipócritas
Character: Toño
Released: May 20, 1965
Type: Movie
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Circe
Title: Circe
Released: June 1, 1964
Type: Movie
Delia Mañara is notorious in her quarter of Buenos Aires for the mysterious deaths of two of her fiancés. She lives in a twilight world and gains most satisfaction through the exercise of power over others.
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Los evadidos
Title: Los evadidos
Character: Florencio Sartori
Released: May 14, 1964
Type: Movie
Inmates in a prison plan a massive break. When they put their plan into action, however, they find that they may have underestimated the guards and prison officials, and the situation quickly turns into a bloody gun battle. This action feature from director Enrique Carreras was the official entry for Argentina at the 1964 Berlin Film Festival.
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The Venerable Ones
Title: The Venerable Ones
Character: Ismael
Released: June 8, 1963
Type: Movie
Ismael, the weakest and most unstable member of a supposed group of conspirators with power aspirations, constantly suffers ridicule and contempt for his leader and his other companions. Everything changes when a woman with whom Ismael is in love begins to delve into the macabre logic of the group.
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Man on Pink Corner
Title: Man on Pink Corner
Character: El Oriental
Released: June 26, 1962
Type: Movie
During a local festival, a mysterious stranger appears in town, heading towards a violent confrontation.
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El romance de un gaucho
Title: El romance de un gaucho
Released: August 18, 1961
Type: Movie
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Three Times Ana
Title: Three Times Ana
Character: Daniel
Released: April 12, 1961
Type: Movie
Three different love-related stories -all starring María Vaner as different "Anas". In "The Earth," Ana is a young and idealistic woman on the verge of adulthood when her first relationship with a clerk shatters her dreams of a romantic life. In "The Air," Ana is a rebellious, easy-living type among some beach bums whose sexual leanings tend to tip the scale at active promiscuity. In "The Cloud," Ana only exists in the imagination of an introverted man, who dreams of his ideal woman.
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Alias Gardelito
Title: Alias Gardelito
Character: Picayo
Released: January 2, 1961
Type: Movie
The title of this story is taken from the name of the great Argentine singer Carlos Gardel, the idol of the antihero Toribio portrayed by Alberto Argibay. Toribio's goal in life is to emulate the famous singer and making his own way successfully in the music business. Yet at the same time, he does not stop his illegal means of making ends meet, stealing and petty thievery. Discouraged when his big break never quite materializes, Toribio heads for disaster when he joins up with a large smuggling scheme.
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La patota
Title: La patota
Character: Benegas
Released: August 11, 1960
Type: Movie
A philosophy teacher is raped by her night school students.
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Luna Park
Title: Luna Park
Character: Carmelo Maciel
Released: June 17, 1960
Type: Movie
A boxer's dream of fighting in the Luna Park stadium and the interests surrounding this sport.
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Gringalet
Title: Gringalet
Released: July 19, 1959
Type: Movie
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Procesado 1040
Title: Procesado 1040
Character: El Zorrito
Released: September 4, 1958
Type: Movie
Elderly suburban man is imprisoned over a misunderstanding about some garden utensils.