Lito Cruz

Lito Cruz

Born: May 14, 1941
Died: December 18, 2017
in Berisso, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Oscar Alberto Cruz was a first Argentine film, theater and television actor and theater director. He was the winner of the Martín Fierro award. In the working-class La Plata suburb of Berisso in 1941, he began performing in local theatres at the age of 15. Graduating from a La Plata secondary school, he continued to pursue his calling in La Plata's growing independent theatre scene.

Movies for Lito Cruz...

Title: La Leona
Character: Homero Stronatti
Released: January 18, 2016
Type: TV
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The Innocents
Title: The Innocents
Released: April 9, 2015
Type: Movie
19th century Argentina. After having had to leave the country fifteen years ago, prodigal son Rodrigo finally returns to the family farm in Mercedaria to introduce his wife Bianca to his parents. He’s not really looking forward to this family reunion. His youth was spent working with the slaves on the farm who were treated without mercy by his parents. His father regularly abused the female slaves, while his mother even burned one alive to save the family honor. It’s time for some ghostly revenge and this happens to coincide with Rodrigo’s return.
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Amapola
Title: Amapola
Character: Ramiro
Released: June 5, 2014
Type: Movie
A romantic reimagining of William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream set against the turbulent backdrops of the 1962 Argentinian military coup and the 1982 war for the Falkland Islands.
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Betibú
Title: Betibú
Character: Venturini
Released: April 10, 2014
Type: Movie
Once Pedro Chazarreta found murdered in the wonderful gated, El Tribuno newspaper hires retired detective novelist Nurit Iscar/Betibù that is installed in the area and a series of newspaper columns about the case. Along with the Chief of police of the newspaper, Mariano Saravia, and a veteran journalist, Jaime Breña, Betibù starts to investigate the murder. Using an old photo of the adolescence of Chazarreta, which shows him with fellow high school, the Group discovers an apparent connection between this murder and a succession of apparently trivial deaths of members of the photo. At the same time, Betibù must face its past emotional with the editor of the newspaper, Lorenzo Rinaldi, who seeks to restore the relationship.
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Gato negro
Title: Gato negro
Character: Padre
Released: April 10, 2014
Type: Movie
The film tells the life of Tito Pereyra since his childhood in a town of Tucuman (with an absent father) until the 1980 s in Buenos Aires, when democracy was restored. During that period he makes decisions that will change his life forever.It shows a human being with both bright and dark aspects, whose contrasts seem to determine his destiny.
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Title: Señores papis
Character: Dios
Released: January 6, 2014
Type: TV
The story tells the experiences of four modern parents Favio Carbonetti (Luciano Castro), Ignacio Moreno (Joaquín Furriel), Franco Bertossi (Luciano Cáceres) and Mauro de Leone (Peto Menahem) and attractive friends who become friends by sharing daily talks at the door of your children's Kindergarten.
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Title: Santos y pecadores
Character: Juez Faraoni
Released: November 6, 2013
Type: TV
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Otro corazón
Title: Otro corazón
Released: November 8, 2012
Type: Movie
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Title: Sos mi hombre
Character: Manuel Ochoa
Released: August 21, 2012
Type: TV
the story follows Ringo, a former boxer going through economic problems while trying to gain custody of his son working as a firefighter, and Camila, a young doctor who works as a resident in public hospitals and helps a community dinning room.
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La revolución es un sueño eterno
Title: La revolución es un sueño eterno
Character: Juan José Castelli
Released: May 17, 2012
Type: Movie
Juan José Castelli's fall into disgrace after a hard campaign in the argentine war of independence
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La campana
Title: La campana
Released: December 15, 2011
Type: Movie
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Title: El elegido
Character: Oscar Nevares Sosa
Released: January 17, 2011
Type: TV
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Más adelante
Title: Más adelante
Character: Roque Sáenz Peña (voice)
Released: May 25, 2010
Type: Movie
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Reparaciones
Title: Reparaciones
Character: Pedro
Released: December 7, 2007
Type: Movie
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¿De quién es el portaligas?
Title: ¿De quién es el portaligas?
Character: El Tano
Released: September 20, 2007
Type: Movie
Rosario, Argentina, the 80's. The story of three girl friends in their twenties, Julieta, Leonora y Romina, who have crazy rock-groupies lives, that get involved in a bizarre mafia chantage, after Leonora falls in the hospital.
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La Loma: no todo es lo que aparenta
Title: La Loma: no todo es lo que aparenta
Character: Sr. Roy
Released: January 2, 2007
Type: Movie
In Argentina there were clandestine human experiments covered by the military dictatorship in order to investigate the existence of life after death. Today Julian Roy escapes from prison to cover up past events. The price of this mission: Sitar, manipulate and hold incommunicate the whole town.
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Chile 672
Title: Chile 672
Character: Carlos Márquez
Released: November 30, 2006
Type: Movie
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Title: El aval
Character: José Sagasti
Released: April 4, 2006
Type: TV
Psychologist Martín Rivera is one day invited for a coffee by a stranger named José Sagasti, who informs him that his grandfather had made a pact with his boss, "The Devil", who he did not comply. Therefore Rivera, as his only male descendant, becomes the guarantee of said commitment. Martín and his closest ones start to be intensively harassed by Sagasti, until the pact can be finally fulfilled.
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Title: Killer Women
Character: Norberto
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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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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Infierno Grande
Title: Infierno Grande
Character: Juan
Released: August 26, 2004
Type: Movie
In a remote town, a strange death hides a secret.
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Title: Malandras
Character: Toto Bertolotti.
Released: January 6, 2003
Type: TV
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El malentendido
Title: El malentendido
Character: The Detective
Released: September 1, 2002
Type: Movie
A young woman will seek to reunite with her family after being adopted. After finding out her whereabouts with a detective, she will travel inside to meet them waiting to be recognized. Her mother and brother have a roadside post on the Paraguayan border, but only in appearance, as they actually do macabre and terrifying work.
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Nada x perder
Title: Nada x perder
Released: November 22, 2001
Type: Movie
Gonzalo Romero, a young Argentine lawyer, struggles to find his place in a world ruled by pessimism. When his father and brother are assaulted by the nephew of a senator, he sets out on a long journey to bring the aggressor to trial.
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Title: Tiempo final
Released: July 3, 2000
Type: TV
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Only People
Title: Only People
Released: April 27, 2000
Type: Movie
A young doctor recently received must face the difficulties of his profession in a public hospital, proposing to make true the axiom learned in the faculty "you can not always be cured, but you must know how to care."
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Historias Breves III: Nostalgia en la mesa 8
Title: Historias Breves III: Nostalgia en la mesa 8
Released: March 28, 1999
Type: Movie
In a neighborhood bar, a mysterious man tells a group of friends the story of an aspiring soccer player who, 50 years ago, tried out for an English club but who had the peculiar characteristic that he could only play soccer in flip-flops.
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Sobre la tierra
Title: Sobre la tierra
Character: Criollo Iglesias
Released: November 26, 1998
Type: Movie
A German baroness and her ailing husband arrive at a mansion in the middle of the countryside in Argentina in the decade of the 30s.
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The Angry Toy
Title: The Angry Toy
Character: Silvio Astier
Released: September 10, 1998
Type: Movie
A 16-year-old young man, is fond of weapons and the manufacture of explosives. He participates in robberies and is persecuted by the Police, so his group of friends dissolves and he goes to live in another neighborhood and starts working in a bookstore. Dissatisfied, without expectations and full of resentment, Silvio tries to set the place on fire and flees through the city
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El sueño de los héroes
Title: El sueño de los héroes
Character: Valerga
Released: November 5, 1997
Type: Movie
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Title: El garante
Character: José Sagasti
Released: August 13, 1997
Type: TV
Young psychologist Martín Mondragón is contacted by a mysterious man named José Sagasti, who tries to collect an old debt that Martin's grandfather left when he died. Rivera, being the first male descendant, is the most suited guarantor to pay off the debt, which consists in giving his soul to the devil by dropping a bit of blood from an old parchment.
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Historias Breves 3
Title: Historias Breves 3
Released: April 3, 1996
Type: Movie
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Sotto Voce
Title: Sotto Voce
Character: Walensky
Released: January 1, 1996
Type: Movie
Telma (Norma Pons) is concerned when her father Salerno dies of a heart attack in a movie theater while watching a film of two thugs beating another man. She believes that there is something more to it, and seeks the help of Deganis (Patricio Contreras), a forensic psychiatrist. Deganis, having found out the names of the two actors doing the beating onscreen, looks one of them up. His name is Walensky (Lito Cruz), and he is looking for Smith (Martin Adjemian), the other actor.
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Facundo, la sombra del tigre
Title: Facundo, la sombra del tigre
Character: Facundo Quiroga
Released: March 31, 1995
Type: Movie
The film focuses on the journey of General Juan Facundo Quiroga, with a very compromised health, to the north in order to resolve the conflict between the provinces of Salta and Tucuman.
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La balada de Donna Helena
Title: La balada de Donna Helena
Released: March 12, 1994
Type: Movie
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El camino de los sueños
Title: El camino de los sueños
Character: Ramitos
Released: August 19, 1993
Type: Movie
Ignacio Silva returns to his hometown, a small port in southern Argentina. There he reunites with his memories and with a friend, and meets three women who lead him to see life differently.
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Title: Atreverse
Released: April 19, 1990
Type: TV
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The Girlfriend
Title: The Girlfriend
Character: Comisario Tito
Released: April 13, 1989
Type: Movie
Since childhood, Raquel and Maria have been close friends. Now all grown-up, Raquel has fulfilled her dream of becoming an actress, while Maria has married a handyman, given birth to three children and runs the family household. In the wake of the Argentine military coup of 1976, Maria's oldest son Carlos is abducted. Desperate, Maria turns to her prominent friend for help. Yet the more Raquel gets involved in the search for Carlos, the more she becomes herself a target of the junta. Finally, she flees from Argentina to Berlin. Meanwhile Maria joins a group of women who investigate the fate of their disappeared relatives. In 1983, after the fall of the dictatorship, the two friends meet again.
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The South
Title: The South
Character: El Negro
Released: March 5, 1988
Type: Movie
After the end of the military dictatorship in Argentina in 1983, Floreal is released from prison. Instead of returning to his wife, he wanders through the night of Buenos Aires. He meets some people from his past–most of which are only imaginary–and remembers the events of his imprisonment.
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Gracias por los servicios
Title: Gracias por los servicios
Character: El Jefe
Released: March 1, 1988
Type: Movie
A luxurious apartment is assaulted by three subjects who, after murdering the maid, patiently await the arrival of the owner of the house. When it returns, it is pressured violently to indicate the place where half a million dollars would be found. The ignorant woman of the existence of money, sees how her home is progressively destroyed while, in different hiding places, documents are found that implicate her husband in criminal activities.
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Les longs manteaux
Title: Les longs manteaux
Released: February 19, 1986
Type: Movie
A reporter becomes involved with a band of terrorists hiding in the mountains between Peru and Bolivia.
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Darse cuenta
Title: Darse cuenta
Character: Marcelo
Released: August 30, 1984
Type: Movie
The relationship between a doctor and a depressed young patient in a public hospital.
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Contragolpe
Title: Contragolpe
Character: Juan de Dios Tolosa/Carmelo Di Prisco
Released: March 14, 1979
Type: Movie
Buenos Aires, 1932. After a series of warning attacks from an enemy, a mafia boss decides to fake his own death and then strike back. Things don't go according to his plan.
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Palos Fights Back!
Title: Palos Fights Back!
Released: December 25, 1969
Type: Movie
You're in it follow the thrill, the excitement, the spine-chilling suspense. From the MONGRELS, through the trapdoors of BANGKOK, to the snows of SIBERA. It's SUPER-ACTION.
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Invasion
Title: Invasion
Character: Youth Leader (as Oscar Cruz)
Released: October 16, 1969
Type: Movie
Hearing the summons from an elderly man, a volunteer troop of middle-aged men gather to defend their country from dark foreign invaders.
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Don Segundo Sombra
Title: Don Segundo Sombra
Character: Goyo
Released: June 7, 1969
Type: Movie
The story takes place in San Antonio de Areco, in the Argentine pampas. Fabio Cáceres remembers his childhood as an orphan and his youth working in the fields, alongside his godfather, Don Segundo Sombra, a lonely gaucho whom he admires and from whom he will learn to be a gaucho, following him in all his adventures. Don Segundo will be Fabio's role model.
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La frontera olvidada
Title: La frontera olvidada
Released: January 2, 1969
Type: Movie
A young officer recently arrived from Buenos Aires takes charge of a military base on the edge of the desert.