Hugo del Carril

Hugo del Carril

Born: November 27, 1912
Died: August 13, 1989
in Buenos Aires, Argentina
Piero Bruno Hugo Fontana Bertani, known as Hugo del Carril (November 30, 1912 - August 13, 1989), was an Argentine film actor, film director and tango singer of the classic era. He began his career as a singer of tango choruses at the age of fifteen. He made his film debut as an actor in 1937 and in 1949 as a director. In 1948 he would go on to immortality as the voice of La Marcha Peronista, for which he would be persecuted and imprisoned in 1955 after the coup against the government of Juan Domingo Perón.

Movies for Hugo del Carril...

El canto cuenta su historia
Title: El canto cuenta su historia
Released: August 27, 1976
Type: Movie
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The Bad Life
Title: The Bad Life
Character: Víctor, The French
Released: June 28, 1973
Type: Movie
Buenos Aires, 1920. The Franco-Argentine and Polish-Argentine mafia begin a war for the control of the traffic of women and prostitution, based on real events about the 1920s Buenos Aires Mafias war.
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Siempre fuimos compañeros
Title: Siempre fuimos compañeros
Character: Don Armando García
Released: January 21, 1973
Type: Movie
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Amalio Reyes, un hombre
Title: Amalio Reyes, un hombre
Released: April 16, 1970
Type: Movie
Some years from the life of a neighborhood tough in Buenos Aires around 1915.
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¡Viva la vida!
Title: ¡Viva la vida!
Character: Cantante de candombe
Released: October 2, 1969
Type: Movie
A couple of screenwriters try to find a new idea for a movie.
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El día que me quieras
Title: El día que me quieras
Character: Julio Quiroga
Released: April 17, 1969
Type: Movie
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Buenos días, Buenos Aires
Title: Buenos días, Buenos Aires
Character: Voz en off
Released: August 26, 1966
Type: Movie
Documentary that describes the awakening of the city and its daily movement.
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Good Night, Buenos Aires
Title: Good Night, Buenos Aires
Released: October 9, 1964
Type: Movie
Various musical episodes make up this film-magazine in which Del Carril tried to merge his two great passions: cinema and tango.
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La sentencia
Title: La sentencia
Released: June 9, 1964
Type: Movie
A young man discovers an infidelity and kills his wife. He was in love with this girl and had married her to get her out of a correctional institute.
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En marcha…
Title: En marcha…
Character: Relator
Released: January 1, 1964
Type: Movie
En marcha... is a medium-length film from 1964 that tells the story of the Luz y Fuerza trade union with the direction and story of Hugo del Carril.
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La calesita
Title: La calesita
Character: Goyo / Raimundo Lucero
Released: October 30, 1963
Type: Movie
When listening to a melody, an old man recalls moments of his childhood.
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Esta tierra es mía
Title: Esta tierra es mía
Character: Laureano Cabral
Released: November 6, 1961
Type: Movie
The life of the cotton workers in the Chaco and its struggle for wages.
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Amorina
Title: Amorina
Character: Humberto Bonelli
Released: April 6, 1961
Type: Movie
A woman feels abandoned by her husband and children.
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Culpable
Title: Culpable
Character: Leo / Pablo Morán
Released: June 2, 1960
Type: Movie
A criminal confronts the police by firing at them with a machine gun from the first floor of a villa on the outskirts of Buenos Aires and occasionally shooting down a policeman. The gunman has time to reflect, to load his gun, to run from one window to the other. Whoever leads the police notices the futility of his efforts and suspends the fire.
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Las tierras blancas
Title: Las tierras blancas
Released: February 19, 1959
Type: Movie
The miserable life of the inhabitants of a town in Santiago del Estero, between crime, revenge and drought.
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Fire in the Flesh
Title: Fire in the Flesh
Character: Allan
Released: January 17, 1958
Type: Movie
Physicist Theodore Heldt, his young daughter Fern and his assistant Larry Gordon, on board a ship for a scientific expedition, are shipwrecked in the Pacific Ocean after a terrible storm. They find themselves safe and sound on an exotic desert island paradise. Several years pass, the professor dies and Fern and Larry, long in love and alone in the world, are united. One day, the ship they'd been waiting for appears, but the sailors are three smugglers who, instead of representing salvation, pose a threat to the young couple.
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El último perro
Title: El último perro
Character: Nicasio Gauna
Released: March 14, 1956
Type: Movie
During the second half of the 19th century, a young survivor is saved in the Argentine pampas by a man she ends up marrying.
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Beyond Oblivion
Title: Beyond Oblivion
Character: Fernando de Arellano
Released: January 2, 1956
Type: Movie
After a period of sorrow, Fernando de Arellano, a rich businessman who has recently lost his young wife Blanca from a serious ilness, meets Mónica, who looks identical to her.
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Vida nocturna
Title: Vida nocturna
Released: March 18, 1955
Type: Movie
A cabaret in Buenos Aires on Christmas night.
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Dark River
Title: Dark River
Character: Santos Peralta
Released: October 9, 1952
Type: Movie
The Peralta brothers work in the countryside the Alto Paraná. There they will meet subhuman working conditions. Finally, the workers rise and harshly punish their exploiters.
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The Black Man Who Had a White Soul
Title: The Black Man Who Had a White Soul
Character: Peter Ward
Released: May 28, 1951
Type: Movie
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Surcos de sangre
Title: Surcos de sangre
Character: Pablo Fontán
Released: June 23, 1950
Type: Movie
Melodrama that tells the tragedy of a peasant family.
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El último payador
Title: El último payador
Character: José Betinotti
Released: February 9, 1950
Type: Movie
The film tells the story of the payador José Betinotti, a mythical character in Argentine music. It faithfully reconstructs the scenarios of the early twentieth century: the workers' struggles, the party meetings of the caudillos and the circus criollo, the cradle of Argentine theater and music.
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Historia del 900
Title: Historia del 900
Character: Julián Acosta
Released: May 19, 1949
Type: Movie
In the Buenos Aires of 1900, a man seeks to avenge the death of his brother, killed at the exit of a fight.
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Pobre mi madre querida
Title: Pobre mi madre querida
Released: March 7, 1948
Type: Movie
Contrary to the principles of his mother and sister, a boy falls in love with a woman of light life.
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Cómo se hace una película argentina
Title: Cómo se hace una película argentina
Released: January 1, 1948
Type: Movie
Institutional short film planned and directed by Arturo S. Mom for the First Argentine Film Festival in Mar del Plata. The film shows the technical process by which an Argentine film is produced and emphasizes the professionalism and power of the national film industry. In this way, the story explains in a pedagogical way what is a script, a frame, a camera, a set sketch and a projected background, among others, and how a scene and the soundtrack of a film are recorded.
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Buenos Aires canta
Title: Buenos Aires canta
Released: June 3, 1947
Type: Movie
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La cumparsita
Title: La cumparsita
Character: Ricardo Galván / Pablo
Released: April 20, 1947
Type: Movie
A young woman named Gloria, daughter of a Spanish immigrant, obtains great popularity in her neighborhood of Buenos Aires because of the way she interprets the tango. One day she enters a contest...
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A media luz
Title: A media luz
Character: Miguel Valle
Released: January 15, 1947
Type: Movie
Tango singer exploits the women in his life. Learns a valuable life-lesson.
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La noche y tú
Title: La noche y tú
Released: June 26, 1946
Type: Movie
Tango singer exploits his popularity in high society to commit crimes.
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El socio
Title: El socio
Released: April 18, 1946
Type: Movie
A former singer, determined to succeed in business, comes up with a partner and just believing their existence. In the end, wake up ...
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La cabalgata del circo
Title: La cabalgata del circo
Character: Roberto
Released: May 30, 1945
Type: Movie
The lives, loves and vicissitudes of a group of circus performers in the Argentine Pampas around the turn of the century are played out in this drama with songs.
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Los dos rivales
Title: Los dos rivales
Character: Rafael Aguilar
Released: February 4, 1944
Type: Movie
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La piel de zapa
Title: La piel de zapa
Character: Rafael de Valentín
Released: October 28, 1943
Type: Movie
A man in debt obtains a miraculous skin that makes all his wishes come true but at the cost of shortening his life.
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Pasión imposible
Title: Pasión imposible
Released: March 17, 1943
Type: Movie
A girl marries a writer, with whom her older sister is also in love; and when she gets sick, her sister takes care of her family.
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Amor último modelo
Title: Amor último modelo
Released: December 16, 1942
Type: Movie
The daughter of a fashion house owner falls in love with the designer of a competitor business.
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La novela de un joven pobre
Title: La novela de un joven pobre
Released: January 1, 1942
Type: Movie
After losing all his fortune, a man assumes his poverty with dignity, confidence and effort. He faces all adversities and his nobility and perseverance make him succeed and be happy with the woman he loves.
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Cuando canta el corazón
Title: Cuando canta el corazón
Character: Martín
Released: August 6, 1941
Type: Movie
A boy's family wants him to marry a girl of the same position even though he is in love with another girl.
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En la luz de una estrella
Title: En la luz de una estrella
Character: Jorge
Released: May 7, 1941
Type: Movie
A successful tango singer struggles to cope with the demands and opportunities of fame.
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La canción de los barrios
Title: La canción de los barrios
Character: Antonio Reyes
Released: March 5, 1941
Type: Movie
A young man starts working as a laborer in his father's shipyards and discovers a series of injustices.
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El astro del tango
Title: El astro del tango
Character: Hugo del Campo
Released: February 7, 1940
Type: Movie
Accidental meeting between a pop-music superstar and a politician's daughter turns into a big romance... but class distinctions, and scandal in the family.
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Confesión
Title: Confesión
Character: Ricardo Morales
Released: January 25, 1940
Type: Movie
Group of tango musicians picks up an aspiring young chanteuse at one of their whistle stop engagements; film focuses on their collective path to stardom, romantic conflicts between the woman and two guys in the band and some peripheral crime-drama stuff.
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Gente bien
Title: Gente bien
Character: Carlos
Released: June 28, 1939
Type: Movie
A single mother who is denied work to support the son she had with the aristocrat who had seduced her, is helped by a singer, a director of orchestra and an American female singer, who get her shelter in the humble pension where they live.
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La vida de Carlos Gardel
Title: La vida de Carlos Gardel
Character: Carlos Gardel
Released: May 24, 1939
Type: Movie
The life, hardships, love affairs, triumphs and failures of the world-renowned tango singer Carlos Gardel.
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La vida es un tango
Title: La vida es un tango
Character: Raúl Contreras
Released: February 8, 1939
Type: Movie
Romance - with its ruptures and reunions - between a girl and a boy who want to succeed with the tango.
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Madreselva
Title: Madreselva
Character: Mario del Solar
Released: January 10, 1938
Type: Movie
A film star enjoys a romance with the daughter of a puppeteer, but his criminal past threatens to ruin it.
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Three Argentines in Paris
Title: Three Argentines in Paris
Character: Ricardo
Released: January 1, 1938
Type: Movie
Three Argentines who live in Paris and dream of returning to Buenos Aires but lack resources for the passage, find their opportunity when a landowner, a business man and his daughter arrive in Paris. In a game of rigged poker the three anchors obtain the money for the passages from the newcomers; it happens however that the employer has made an embezzlement and will go to jail if he does not return the money. The character represented by Parravicini, who is the true father of his adopted daughter, gives him the money won to solve his problem and the three remain in Paris to see them in an end with the best poetry of Romero crossing a bridge under the mist , silent, once again anchored but with the happy sadness of recovered self-esteem.
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La vuelta de Rocha
Title: La vuelta de Rocha
Character: Suárez
Released: September 8, 1937
Type: Movie
A sailor and a tango singer fall in love. To protect her, the man takes her to live with his family. But before embarking, he is robbed, and the circumstances accuse the girl of being an accomplice of the criminals.
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Los muchachos de antes no usaban gomina
Title: Los muchachos de antes no usaban gomina
Character: Cantor
Released: March 30, 1937
Type: Movie
A Young man from a wealthy family hide them his attraction for tango culture of arrabal. In a milonga he fell in love with Mirella and he have a knife fight with all others guapos that want her, he won. Time pass and Mirella became a mistress but this situation is unstable because of the society prejudices.