Javier Portales

Javier Portales

Born: April 21, 1937
Died: October 14, 2003
in Tancacha, Córdoba, Argentina
Javier Portales, whose real name was Miguel Angel Alvarez (Tancacha, Córdoba; April 21, 1937 - Buenos Aires; October 14, 2003) was an Argentine actor and comedian of vast trajectory.

Movies for Javier Portales...

Sex Humor
Title: Sex Humor
Released: May 2, 1992
Type: Movie
A video magazine (similar to National Lampoon) of erotic shorts stories.
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Title: Son de diez
Character: Matías
Released: January 2, 1992
Type: TV
The television comedy focuses on the daily life of an Argentine family living in the Federal Capital in the early 90s.
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Naked Tango
Title: Naked Tango
Character: Police Chief
Released: September 27, 1990
Type: Movie
When a young European woman assumes a false identity in 1920s Argentina, she gets more than she bargained for.
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Las locuras del extraterrestre
Title: Las locuras del extraterrestre
Released: June 7, 1988
Type: Movie
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El Manosanta está Cargado
Title: El Manosanta está Cargado
Character: Javier Álvarez
Released: June 4, 1987
Type: Movie
A common man that is tired of being treated as stupid, and starts treating other people the same way, acting as a Brazilian "Manosanta" (folk healer that cures people illnesses).
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Two Crazy Privates 3
Title: Two Crazy Privates 3
Character: Coronel Cayetano
Released: February 12, 1987
Type: Movie
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Chorros
Title: Chorros
Character: Piaggio
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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Two Crazy Pirates 2
Title: Two Crazy Pirates 2
Released: July 10, 1986
Type: Movie
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Two Crazy Privates
Title: Two Crazy Privates
Character: Coronel Cayetano
Released: February 17, 1986
Type: Movie
Two violators of the military service law are incorporated as soldiers recently arrived from Europe and proposed to integrate a group that will operate in a jungle region, for which they have to prepare for difficult survival missions.
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El caso Matías
Title: El caso Matías
Released: April 18, 1985
Type: Movie
In 1965, a man named Matías is taken to a psychiatric hospital, after being found at the streets, "in the company of homosexuals and in a state of intoxication by alcohol and drugs". His documentation says he's 41 years old and born in Poland. He says his mother was an aristocrat. His arrival will have a profound impact on the institution and, especially, on one of the doctors.
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El telo y la tele
Title: El telo y la tele
Released: April 18, 1985
Type: Movie
A sex congress takes place in a hotel, and couples are secretely filmed in a Slivers way by the "scientists".
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Venido a menos
Title: Venido a menos
Character: Montone
Released: October 11, 1984
Type: Movie
To continue pretending to be a position they no longer have, a run-down upper-class family moves into the home of a wealthy aunt.
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Los reyes del sablazo
Title: Los reyes del sablazo
Released: February 16, 1984
Type: Movie
Luisa discovers in the briefcase of Alberto, her husband, a fiery love letter, in which he is portrayed as an impetuous lover.
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Se acabó el curro
Title: Se acabó el curro
Released: September 1, 1983
Type: Movie
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Los fierecillos se divierten
Title: Los fierecillos se divierten
Character: Javier
Released: February 24, 1983
Type: Movie
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Los fierecillos indomables
Title: Los fierecillos indomables
Released: July 15, 1982
Type: Movie
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Un terceto peculiar
Title: Un terceto peculiar
Character: Sergio
Released: March 4, 1982
Type: Movie
A director of XXX films entrusts his assistant with the rental of a house for the filming with an international star. This, confused with the arrival of the star, preys the house to a friend to impress the groom
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Las mujeres son cosa de guapos
Title: Las mujeres son cosa de guapos
Character: Don Ignacio Malatesta
Released: June 18, 1981
Type: Movie
In 1930s Argentina, dim-witted Rufino and Jacinto are hired as tough guys ("guapos") by political boss Malatesta to intimidate his opponents, rig elections, etc. However, the two men change allegiances when they meet the lovely Mercedes and La Mendocina, victims of Malatesta and his gang.
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Te rompo el rating
Title: Te rompo el rating
Character: Mr. Bochini
Released: April 16, 1981
Type: Movie
A television network infiltrates an inept employee (Porcel) in the competition and he begins to ruin all the programs but, instead of subtracting audience, he only managed to improve it.
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La noche viene movida
Title: La noche viene movida
Character: Walberto Pomponio
Released: January 17, 1980
Type: Movie
A businessman who receives his niece who comes from the interior experiences different situations in a hotel accommodation.
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Cantaniño cuenta un cuento
Title: Cantaniño cuenta un cuento
Released: December 6, 1979
Type: Movie
Two men, a woman, a chimpanzee and a talking horse travel around Argentina to put together a movie
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Las muñecas que hacen ¡pum!
Title: Las muñecas que hacen ¡pum!
Released: September 27, 1979
Type: Movie
An army of beautiful androids commits a series of singular murders: they explode when penetrated.
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Custodio de señoras
Title: Custodio de señoras
Released: April 5, 1979
Type: Movie
Jorge is a photographer for a newspaper, from which he is fired. He then begins to work in a detective agency, where he is assigned the mission of protecting Monica, a beautiful woman threatened with death by an ex-boyfriend.
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Las locuras del profesor
Title: Las locuras del profesor
Character: Señor De Ulloa
Released: February 15, 1979
Type: Movie
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Alejandra, mon amour
Title: Alejandra, mon amour
Released: February 1, 1979
Type: Movie
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Con mi mujer no puedo
Title: Con mi mujer no puedo
Released: July 17, 1978
Type: Movie
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La mamá de la novia
Title: La mamá de la novia
Released: May 4, 1978
Type: Movie
Mother and daughter are both pop singers, but mom wants her little girl to get married. Wacky complications.
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Ladies Photographer
Title: Ladies Photographer
Character: Rodríguez
Released: April 13, 1978
Type: Movie
Catrasca is a photojournalist with a fondness for women of all kinds.
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El tío Disparate
Title: El tío Disparate
Released: February 23, 1978
Type: Movie
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Un toque diferente
Title: Un toque diferente
Released: August 4, 1977
Type: Movie
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Las turistas quieren guerra
Title: Las turistas quieren guerra
Released: June 16, 1977
Type: Movie
Alberto and Jorge are employees of a refrigerator, who one day see a bus where several beautiful tourists flirt with the guide who drives them and think that being guides will give them many love affairs. They manage to meet with the owner of the tourism company and his partner (Frías Garmet and Gamarro Salas, respectively), who hire them immediately, promising them a quick promotion in the company. In reality, Frías Garmet and Gamarro Salas are planning a scam of great magnitude, and they need two unwary to indisting them.
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What's Autumn?
Title: What's Autumn?
Released: May 5, 1977
Type: Movie
An award-winning architect struggles to find work, love, and a purpose in life.
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La guerra de los sostenes
Title: La guerra de los sostenes
Character: Sambronio
Released: September 30, 1976
Type: Movie
This is a comedy full of tangles, with the picaresque occurrences of Tristan, and the involvement of frontline actors.
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La noche del hurto
Title: La noche del hurto
Character: Cholo
Released: June 10, 1976
Type: Movie
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El gordo de América
Title: El gordo de América
Character: Guillermo Rossi
Released: March 11, 1976
Type: Movie
To celebrate his promotion, a manager (Javier Portales) decides to summon his brother from the field, but as he did not stop making disasters he sends him back. His brother (Jorge Porcel) is not convinced and dazzled by an advertisement decides to set up an investigation office.
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No hay que aflojarle a la vida
Title: No hay que aflojarle a la vida
Character: Gordo
Released: July 24, 1975
Type: Movie
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Maridos en vacaciones
Title: Maridos en vacaciones
Character: Felix Sagastume
Released: June 26, 1975
Type: Movie
Friends Alberto and Jorge, who work together in an insurance company and live in the same building, are married to two sisters (Elsa and Alicia). When they go on vacation to Mar del Plata, Alberto and Jorge decide to enjoy their "single life". In addition to this, they have to fulfill a duty entrusted by their boss: to find the revue theater entrepreneur Félix Sagastume, to sign an insurance contract. It is in a canteen where they go to look for him, and there they meet two aspiring vedettes (Zuzú and Bibí), who confuse them with important businessmen and see in them a possibility of achieving fame.
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Hay que romper la rutina
Title: Hay que romper la rutina
Released: August 29, 1974
Type: Movie
Friends Alberto and Jorge, who work together and live in the same building, are married to two sisters (Ethel and Gogó). Noticing that their sex life becomes boring, they cheat on them with co-workers. This is discovered and they are fired. Then, they get employed in a beauty institute, where they have many women at their disposal. Their wives learn of this mischief, and go to look for them at the institute, generating hilarious situations.
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Minguito Tinguitela, papá
Title: Minguito Tinguitela, papá
Released: June 27, 1974
Type: Movie
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Los vampiros los prefieren gorditos
Title: Los vampiros los prefieren gorditos
Character: Don Ismael Garmendia
Released: March 7, 1974
Type: Movie
Count Dracula travels to Buenos Aires with his secretary and stays in a very special hotel, where several mobsters are also staying.
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Los doctores las prefieren desnudas
Title: Los doctores las prefieren desnudas
Character: Doctor Gutierrez
Released: September 13, 1973
Type: Movie
Alberto, an employee of a car dealership, is commissioned by his boss to deliver a car that has been sold to a customer. Being a luxury car, he has no better idea than to invent an excuse to the new owner of the vehicle, delay delivery for the next day and use it to go out to have fun at night with his faithful friend Jorge. They both go to a revue theatre and, while witnessing the performance, the first vedette (Corina) faints. Then Alberto and Jorge pose as doctors, in order to meet Corina. As is to be expected, both decide to continue the deception with the passing of the days, causing the confusion to become bigger and bigger and harder to keep secret.
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The Knights of the Round Bed
Title: The Knights of the Round Bed
Character: Investigador privado
Released: March 22, 1973
Type: Movie
Alberto, Jorge, Ricardo and Tristan are employees of a shoe store, all are married and share the friendship also between their wives. The 4 friends, faithful to the rogue style of Buenos Aires, go out of their way to have love affairs with the beautiful customers of the shoe store, and for that purpose one day they decide to rent, secretly, an apartment to use as a "bulín". The problems begin from then on, as everyone wants to be the first to release it and then, successively, take turns for their adventures. As is to be expected, it does not take long for the first entanglements to appear, while their wives seem to begin to suspect the adventures of these four typical Buenos Aires chantas.
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El mundo que inventamos
Title: El mundo que inventamos
Released: February 22, 1973
Type: Movie
A provincial man comes to the big city and finds true love.
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Todos los pecados del mundo
Title: Todos los pecados del mundo
Released: March 9, 1972
Type: Movie
The seven deadly sins are illustrated through short stories.
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El hombre del año
Title: El hombre del año
Character: Simón
Released: November 19, 1970
Type: Movie
The life of a man who discovers two hearts changes abruptly when a group of criminals tries to seize one of them to transplant it to a Mafia Boss who has heart problems.
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La fidelidad
Title: La fidelidad
Released: September 24, 1970
Type: Movie
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Title: Alta comedia
Character: Maitre
Released: April 19, 1970
Type: TV
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Los muchachos de mi barrio
Title: Los muchachos de mi barrio
Character: Osvaldo
Released: March 12, 1970
Type: Movie
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Los debutantes en el amor
Title: Los debutantes en el amor
Released: August 28, 1969
Type: Movie
Four stories about sexual initiation in adolescence.
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El bulín
Title: El bulín
Character: Andrés
Released: June 12, 1969
Type: Movie
Employees of an office use for love dating the apartment of a single co-worker.
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We Are the Best
Title: We Are the Best
Released: November 21, 1968
Type: Movie
A group of porteños attend the grand final between Manchester and Estudiantes.
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Criminal Affair
Title: Criminal Affair
Released: October 17, 1968
Type: Movie
A renowned author, college professor and criminologist is given a year off in order to write his latest book. His arrival in Buenos Aires gives him the opportunity to work on his true project, planning and pulling off the perfect crime.
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Che, OVNI
Title: Che, OVNI
Released: August 7, 1968
Type: Movie
A porteño tango singer is kidnapped by a UFO and taken to Madrid, London and Paris.
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Este cura
Title: Este cura
Character: Domitilio
Released: June 6, 1968
Type: Movie
A village priest protects a young mother rejected by the people and the mayor.
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Un muchacho como yo
Title: Un muchacho como yo
Character: Altamirano
Released: March 14, 1968
Type: Movie
Ye-ye boy loves his ye-ye girl so much that he quits his band and gets a job to show her pops that he'll be a responsible husband. The rest of the movie outlines the progress of his complete capitulation to bourgie values.
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Coche cama, alojamiento
Title: Coche cama, alojamiento
Character: Venancio
Released: February 29, 1968
Type: Movie
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Las pirañas
Title: Las pirañas
Character: Rafael Gardel
Released: October 18, 1967
Type: Movie
Ricardo is an executive who has great success with women and behaves almost like a play-boy. His wife, Carmen, an attractive housewife without children, it feels ignored by him and seeks solace from her mother, who proposes Carmen a change in the way she acts in order to do not lose permanently her husband or even fall into madness.
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Esto es alegría
Title: Esto es alegría
Character: Javier
Released: March 9, 1967
Type: Movie
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Del brazo y por la calle
Title: Del brazo y por la calle
Released: August 4, 1966
Type: Movie
Economic difficulties separating a young couple who, after the attempt to survive, decide to meet again.
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Dos quijotes sobre ruedas
Title: Dos quijotes sobre ruedas
Released: June 16, 1966
Type: Movie
The adventures of two truckers (one Argentine and the other Mexican) carrying different people and a suspicious trunk
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My First Girlfriend
Title: My First Girlfriend
Character: Ignacio
Released: March 17, 1966
Type: Movie
A romantic teen comedy about the rivalry between an Agrentinian man and a young American for the love of a beautiful girl from a rich family.
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Ritmo nuevo, vieja ola
Title: Ritmo nuevo, vieja ola
Character: Nicolás
Released: August 19, 1965
Type: Movie
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Fiebre de primavera
Title: Fiebre de primavera
Released: March 18, 1965
Type: Movie
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Canuto Cañete y los 40 ladrones
Title: Canuto Cañete y los 40 ladrones
Character: Paulino
Released: July 2, 1964
Type: Movie
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Reencuentro con la gloria
Title: Reencuentro con la gloria
Character: Hombre en tribuna
Released: November 1, 1962
Type: Movie
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Una jaula no tiene secretos
Title: Una jaula no tiene secretos
Released: October 4, 1962
Type: Movie
Buenos Aires, Argentina, New Year's Eve. Several people are trapped inside an elevator located in an office building.
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Last year of Nacional High School
Title: Last year of Nacional High School
Released: October 26, 1961
Type: Movie
This movie was based on a TV series popular in Argentina at that time dealing with the adventures of high school seniors.
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That Forward Center Dies at Dawn
Title: That Forward Center Dies at Dawn
Released: June 8, 1961
Type: Movie
Cacho Garibaldi is the soccer player of the moment, his goals lead to delirium fans. When an eccentric millionaire named Lupus buys his transfer, he expects to end up on a major team. Instead, he discovers the millionaire's goal in life is to collect the best -not art or stamps- but people.
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Three Times Ana
Title: Three Times Ana
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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Una cita con la vida
Title: Una cita con la vida
Released: April 21, 1958
Type: Movie
The love story between two teenagers, children of incomprehensible parents.