Palito Ortega

Acting

Palito Ortega

Born 1941-03-08 · Lules, Tucumán, Argentina

Ramón Bautista Ortega, better known as Palito Ortega, is an Argentine singer, actor, composer, record producer, film director and politician. Born in a humble home, from his youth he carried out various tasks to collaborate with his large family. Since the 1960s he was a member of the musical group El Club del Clan, which had a significant impact and remained for several years. In his trajectory of more than five decades, he has filmed 33 films. As a singer, she excelled with her interpretations of "La Felicidad" and "Despeinada" having more than 28 million records sold. Between 1991 and 1995 he served as governor of Tucumán and between 1998 and 2001 he was a senator for the same province. At present, he continues to appear on various stages giving concerts. He is considered one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century in Latin America.

Acting credits

Convención de vagabundos poster
9.0

A vagabond receives a large fortune as an inheritance and summons his peers to decide what to do with it.

Convención de vagabundos

1965

Those Crazy Years poster
8.0

The son of a businessman leaves his home to be an actor, but when his father dies, he abandons his dream to become an executive.

Those Crazy Years

1971

LS83 poster
7.2

The childhood memories of writer Martín Kohan are intertwined with the unreleased archive from the Channel 9 newscast between 1973 and 1980. Through this, a key period of Argentine history is reconstructed, exploring the relationship between personal memory and the public discourse of the time

LS83

2025

Pasión dominguera poster
9.0

A waiter, a notary, a policeman and some gravediggers leave everything to go and watch their favorite football team play.

Pasión dominguera

1970

Somos novios poster
6.3

To save a television show, an administrator proposes a show involving three young singers.

Somos novios

1969

Brigada en acción poster
7.5

Alberto Nadal, Carlos Firulo and Luis Chávez are three intrepid police officers who are in charge of solving different criminal cases.

Brigada en acción

1977

Dos locos en el aire poster
8.5

Falling in love with a superior's daughter, complications arise for an Air Force officer.

Dos locos en el aire

1976

Las locuras del profesor poster
8.0

The adventures of professor Sócrates Pérez, a bit of a crackpot and terribly clumsy, but appreciated by his students for his purity and kindness.

Las locuras del profesor

1979

Cosa De Locos poster
8.0

A dumb representative of a famous actor gets involved with a group of gangsters.

Cosa De Locos

1981

El club del clan poster
7.0

To prevent his father from finding out he has secretly married, a young man from a wealthy family disguises his wife as a maid. Members of the Clan Club, visiting the house, also disguise themselves as servants.

El club del clan

1964

Muchacho que vas cantando poster
8.0

A woman appears and unleashes the conflict when a man is on vacation without his wife.

Muchacho que vas cantando

1971

Me gusta esa chica poster
5.5

The son of a renowned surgeon wants to be a singer and falls in love with a bohemian young woman.

Me gusta esa chica

1973

El Rey en Londres poster
NR

The film shows as a documentary the trip to London of Palito Ortega and Graciela Borges

El Rey en Londres

1966

¿Quiere casarse conmigo? poster
7.0

A store clerk, film extra, aspires to live an affair with her singing idol.

¿Quiere casarse conmigo?

1967

La sonrisa de mamá poster
6.5

Angelica Zamora is a famous actress and singer, ignored by her three children Julio, Clotilde and Felipe. After learning of a serious illness that leaves her little time to live, her children and their friends intend to make her spend her best moments without being aware of the disease she suffers. Julio will even propose to someone to please his mother.

La sonrisa de mamá

1972

Good Night, Buenos Aires poster
7.0

Various musical episodes make up this film-magazine in which Del Carril tried to merge his two great passions: cinema and tango.

Good Night, Buenos Aires

1964

My First Girlfriend poster
6.0

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.

My First Girlfriend

1966

Fiebre de primavera poster
9.0

Three young boys who live in the same neighbourhood and go to the same college meet three girls. They start picking up on them but they end up falling in love.

Fiebre de primavera

1965

La familia hippie poster
8.0

A music teacher marries the daughter of a widower, and he marries the young man's mother.

La familia hippie

1971

Amor en el aire poster
5.4

An Argentine travels to Spain to begin his studies. During the flight, he causes so much troubles to a flight attendant that she is fired. At home, the ex flight attendant discovers some dresses that belonged to her grandmother and decides to try her luck with an artist representative. There she will find the guy who caused his dismissal. Both fail to act in Barcelona, ​​but the boy's father attended the performance, being surprised, because he believed his son was studying in Madrid.

Amor en el aire

1967

Un viaje al más allá poster
7.0

A young woman from Lima, tormented by the dream of a previous life, repeats it again when she meets a man.

Un viaje al más allá

1964

Locos por la música poster
10.0

A musical with different singers, musicians and Argentine comedians of the eighties.

Locos por la música

1980

Yo tengo fe poster
6.7

Palito Ortega recreates his own biography in this film. The most significant events in the singer's life and his personal struggle to achieve success are portrayed through the story of Martín Ríos. A humble boy from the countryside, born into a poor and large family in Tucumán, travels to the capital with the intention of becoming the most popular singer of his time. Despite adversity, Martín will not be deterred in his struggle to achieve success and love.

Yo tengo fe

1974

¡Qué linda es mi familia! poster
6.0

A rebel son decides not to follow in his father's footsteps in order to follow his own dreams of fame and popularity.

¡Qué linda es mi familia!

1980

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