Roberto Escalada

Acting

Roberto Escalada

Known for

Acting

Credits

50 titles

Roberto Escalada born Aldo Roberto Leggero (4 July 1914 – 5 December 1986 in Buenos Aires) was a major Argentine film actor and cinema icon of the classic era.

Known for

Film credits

1970s · 8 titles

Nino, las cosas simples de la vida poster
9.0

During his childhood, Nino arrived from Italy to live with his uncle in a humble neighborhood. There, he begins working in a butcher shop and falls in love with Natalia, his neighbor. However, she has other aspirations, such as winning over her boss at the jewelry store where she works.

Nino, las cosas simples de la vida

1972

El mundo es de los jóvenes poster
8.0

A boy leaves home to take singing lessons with a teacher whom he befriends and a beautiful and ambitious young woman appears

El mundo es de los jóvenes

1970

The Bomb-thrower Teacher poster
6.6

The students of a school create a big mess for their favorite teacher to return to school.

The Bomb-thrower Teacher

1972

Con alma y vida poster
6.5

No synopsis available yet.

Con alma y vida

1970

Un idilio de estación poster
10.0

A girl falls in love with the son of a rancher, who gives her certain illusions about their relationship.

Un idilio de estación

1978

Los irrompibles poster
5.7

The story of a pair of bumbling detectives Uruguayan undertaking the mission to go to the aid of an orphan and very rich heiress to Argentina. It will be very easy to deal with the thousand and one difficulties awaiting them on the road. Clashes with bandits plaguing the region and that will go back more than once, will not be the only danger.

Los irrompibles

1975

Clínica con música poster
5.2

Dr. Bevilaqua takes over the direction of a clinic where only sex problems are treated and the clients are very special people. With fun therapy, there will be different characters who want to receive treatment.

Clínica con música

1974

Hormiga negra poster
9.0

To live in peace and progress, Guillermo Hoyos must pay the price of harassment from the authorities.

Hormiga negra

1979

1960s · 7 titles

1950s · 14 titles

Never Open That Door poster
7.2

A man tries to avenge the death of his sister, a gambling addict. Another man, an ex-convict who whistles when he commits a crime, is reunited with his blind mother.

Never Open That Door

1952

Vida nocturna poster
8.5

A cabaret in Buenos Aires on Christmas night.

Vida nocturna

1955

De noche también se duerme poster
10.0

When a divorced couple tries to reunite, the separation of others distances them.

De noche también se duerme

1956

The Crime of Oribe poster
9.0

The story of two men and a mysterious family, who repeat the same day forever in order to save the life of one of its daughters.

The Crime of Oribe

1950

Yesterday Was Spring poster
8.0

A man suspects that his late wife had an extramarital relationship, so he decides to face the alleged lover.

Yesterday Was Spring

1955

The Black Vampire poster
6.3

A cabaret performer tries to protect her daughter from a mysterious killer while resisting the advances of the prosecutor pursuing the criminal.

The Black Vampire

1953

Black Ermine poster
6.0

A woman with a doubtful past tries to hide it from her teenage son and attempts to change, but she cannot.

Black Ermine

1953

La sombra de Safo poster
8.5

To prevent a politician from winning, a journalist blackmails his wife with old love letters from his former lover. She feels cornered because her family's honor is at stake. The film includes excerpts from "Sappho, Story of a Passion" (1943), a film by Carlos Hugo Christensen.

La sombra de Safo

1957

Una viuda casi alegre poster
9.0

A young widow goes to a marriage agency where she is introduced to three hired suitors who end up falling in love with her.

Una viuda casi alegre

1950

La bestia humana poster
6.5

From Emile Zola's novel "La Bete Humaine", tells the story of a jealous husband, a provocative woman and a man with an uncontrollable desire to kill.

La bestia humana

1957

De turno con la muerte poster
7.0

A young doctor tries to cope with his intimate dramas and, at the same time, fulfill the duties of his profession.

De turno con la muerte

1951

No artwork available
NR

A provincial woman who arrives in the city is helped by a taxi driver to look for a criminal

Sucedió en Buenos Aires

1954

Pecadora poster
9.0

A tango singer is involved in the death of a lender.

Pecadora

1956

Cartas de amor poster
9.0

A young man must choose between the love of two women.

Cartas de amor

1951

1940s · 16 titles

El jugador poster
7.7

A man devotes his life to gambling to try to alleviate the pain that an impossible love has caused him.

El jugador

1947

La muerte camina en la lluvia poster
6.1

A murderer terrorizes the city of Buenos Aires by attacking on the streets on rainy days and always leaving a card with the name "S. López". A local boarding house full of eccentrics appears to house a possible suspect.

La muerte camina en la lluvia

1948

Swan Song poster
6.5

A middle-age woman and a young composer live a tragic romance.

Swan Song

1945

30 seconds of love poster
7.2

After running over a young man with her car, a girl is forced to kiss him for 30 seconds, in order not to pay the expensive fine.

30 seconds of love

1947

Safo, historia de una pasión poster
7.0

The relationship between an experienced woman and a youngster which develops in a passion and a further social rejection.

Safo, historia de una pasión

1943

Morir en su ley poster
6.0

A policeman infiltrates a gang of criminals.

Morir en su ley

1949

Un beso en la nuca poster
8.0

A woman becomes delusional and fails to recognize her husband. She will fall in love with the doctor who is supposed to cure her, believing he is her real husband.

Un beso en la nuca

1946

¿Por qué mintió la cigüeña? poster
6.2

To avoid the abandonment of her husband, a woman rents three children with the intention of making him believe that he is the father. Sudden maternity will bring complications in triplicate.

¿Por qué mintió la cigüeña?

1949

Los pulpos poster
6.0

A treacherous provincial girl repeatedly cheats on a young writer who loves her madly.

Los pulpos

1948

Veinticuatro horas en la vida de una mujer poster
8.0

An unusually intense and emotional day in the otherwise monotonous life of a woman.

Veinticuatro horas en la vida de una mujer

1944

Madame Bovary poster
6.1

Paris, 1857. While on trial for moral outrage, French writer G. Flaubert tells the court and the audience the true story of the heroine of his novel Madame Bovary, a sensitive but capricious woman whose desperate efforts to overcome the bourgeois conventions of a dull, provincial life led her family first to ruin and disrepute and finally to the abyss of tragedy.

Madame Bovary

1947

La gran tentación poster
9.0

Two rival families, a son and a daughter unaware of that and a flood that arrives.

La gran tentación

1948

Se llamaba Carlos Gardel poster
10.0

A film about Carlos Gardel's meeting with José Razzano, his love affairs, and his death.

Se llamaba Carlos Gardel

1949

Pájaros sin nido poster
7.0

The birds in question are a group of young ladies who, for different reasons, leave the convent where they grew up in order to face "the struggle of life".

Pájaros sin nido

1940

Cinco besos poster
8.0

Love affairs in a theater: vedettes, sweethearts of chorus and scandals that include a millionaire.

Cinco besos

1946

Una atrevida aventurita poster
9.5

Family-owned ski resort is failing, and they've pinned all their hopes on seeing the property purchased by the Gonzalez Brothers.

Una atrevida aventurita

1948

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