Augusto Benedico

Acting

Augusto Benedico

Born — Died

1909-12-21 — 1992-01-19

Place of birth

Alicante, Comunitat Valenciana, Spain

Known for

Acting

Credits

58 titles

Augusto Benedico (December 20, 1909 – January 19, 1992), born Augusto Pérez Lías, was a Mexican actor (and occasional writer) of Spanish origin. He is best known for his television roles as Don Alberto Salvatierra in Los ricos también lloran and as Don Fernando in Destinos: An Introduction to Spanish. In film, he appeared in The Exterminating Angel (1962) as Carlos Conde and in Pedro Páramo (1967) as Father Rentería He was born in Alicante, Spain, and died in Mexico City, Mexico.

Known for

Carrusel poster
7.8

Based on the 1966 Argentine telenovela *Jacinta Pichimahuida, la maestra que no se olvida*, the story centers on a group of second-grade students at the Mundial School. Together, they discover the ups and downs of life and seek to resolve their problems with joy and a lighthearted attitude, always with the help and affection of Teacher Helena, who was like a second mother to them.

Carrusel

1989

Los ricos también lloran poster
6.0

Popular telenovela produced in Mexico in 1979, starring Verónica Castro, Rogelio Guerra and Rocío Banquells. Castro also sang the theme Aprendí a Llorar, a song written by Lolita de la Colina. The telenovela was produced by Chilean Valentín Pimstein and Carlos Romero, it was directed by Rafael Banquells. The story was written by Inés Rodena and adapted by Valeria Philips.

Los ricos también lloran

1979

No artwork available
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Marcha nupcial

1977

The Exterminating Angel poster
7.9

After a lavish dinner party, the guests find themselves unable to depart... and, over the next few days, all of their elaborate societal pretenses and façades deteriorate as they are reduced to living like animals.

The Exterminating Angel

1962

Fever Mounts at El Pao poster
6.1

After Caribbean despot Mariano Vargas is murdered at the hands of his enraged populace, his secretary Ramón Vázquez takes not just control but also Vargas' widow Inés, with whom he's been having an affair. Special military unit leader Alejandro Gual arrives to overthrow Vázquez by turning the people and Inés against him.

Fever Mounts at El Pao

1959

The Big Cube poster
4.3

A young woman and her drug addict boyfriend plot to drive the woman's stepmother insane with LSD in a plot to secure an inheritance.

The Big Cube

1969

Film credits

1970s · 13 titles

Yesenia poster
6.6

A beautiful gypsy named Yesenia has no set path in life. During a caravan trip she meets Osvaldo who is enrolled in the militia, they both fall in love despite their differences and social prejudices.

Yesenia

1971

The She Wolf's Orgy poster
4.7

A woman with a troubled past introduces lust, depravity and sex to a religious commune.

The She Wolf's Orgy

1972

La hora desnuda poster
4.2

No synopsis available yet.

La hora desnuda

1971

Aunt Isabel's Garden poster
5.5

A ship carrying Conquistadors is wrecked and the survivors are thrown ashore to struggle through the Yucatan jungle.

Aunt Isabel's Garden

1972

No One Will Love You Like I Do poster
6.0

A student-movement leftist becomes a nun and absorbs lots of deep, deep TV-movie spiritual lessons about God's glorious plan.

No One Will Love You Like I Do

1972

El cielo y tú poster
5.0

Priest suffers a head injury, develops amnesia, ends up in a hippie commune.

El cielo y tú

1971

Secreto de confesión poster
5.4

Young woman falls in love with a cub reporter who's investigating the illegal activities of her father. Then there's secret marriages and secret murders and secret babies and... family melodrama in full flower.

Secreto de confesión

1971

El pueblo del terror poster
6.4

Federal-agent/cowboy battles crime

El pueblo del terror

1970

The Monastery of the Vultures poster
6.3

In a remote Mexican monastery, a Father Prior subjects young seminarians to psychoanalysis to test their vocation. As sessions peel back secrets and doubts, faith, desire, and authority collide.

The Monastery of the Vultures

1973

The Cubs poster
5.2

After having his genitals brutally mutilated during childhood, a man must face prejudice and himself.

The Cubs

1973

Sin salida poster
5.6

Ex-con trying to go straight is backed into a corner by "former associates."

Sin salida

1971

No artwork available
6.0

A gigolo devises schemes to infiltrate the lives of a terminally ill wealthy man's wife and daughter.

Remolino de pasiones

1970

Jalisco nunca pierde poster
5.7

Class distinctions are an obstacle for a guy trying to woo his gal of choice.

Jalisco nunca pierde

1974

1960s · 22 titles

The Exterminating Angel poster
7.9

After a lavish dinner party, the guests find themselves unable to depart... and, over the next few days, all of their elaborate societal pretenses and façades deteriorate as they are reduced to living like animals.

The Exterminating Angel

1962

The Big Cube poster
4.3

A young woman and her drug addict boyfriend plot to drive the woman's stepmother insane with LSD in a plot to secure an inheritance.

The Big Cube

1969

Santo vs. the Vampire Women poster
4.2

A professor recruits a professional wrestler to protect his daughter from vampires intent on kidnapping her and marrying her to the devil.

Santo vs. the Vampire Women

1962

Santo in the Hotel of Death poster
4.6

Tourists visiting the pyramids in Mexico experience a string of deaths and disappearances while staying at a nearby hotel. Police investigators Fernando and Cornado are assigned to the case and attempt to solve the mystery with the help of reporter (and girlfriend of Fernando) Veronica and the wrestler Santo.

Santo in the Hotel of Death

1963

Love & Sex (Sappho 1963) poster
5.5

Independently-wealthy woman tries to break free of repressive, conservative cultural constraints.

Love & Sex (Sappho 1963)

1964

Pedro Paramo poster
7.2

When his mother Dolores dies, Juan Preciado, son of Pedro Páramo, goes to Comala to claim his inheritance; but when he arrives he finds an abandoned and sinister place, inhabited by mysterious voices and whispers…

Pedro Paramo

1967

No artwork available
6.3

No synopsis available yet.

Los secretos del sexo débil

1962

No artwork available
6.7

Cowboy detective investigates two murders.

Cuatro hombres marcados

1968

Santo vs. the King of Crime poster
5.0

El Santo and his loyal friends will try to disarm a dangerous criminal organization.

Santo vs. the King of Crime

1962

Sólo para tí poster
5.7

No synopsis available yet.

Sólo para tí

1966

Mi vida es una canción poster
5.8

Young pop singer finds his niche in the entertainment industry.

Mi vida es una canción

1963

Las amiguitas de los ricos poster
6.0

On Christmas Eve, Santa Claus engineers a miracle that will rehabilitate three kept women into orthodox 'decency' and marriage.

Las amiguitas de los ricos

1968

The Door and the Butcher's Wife poster
7.4

A movie divided in two segments, the first "La puerta" (The Door) is about a high society gathering in which a door inside the mansion leads to a bizarre corridor where a naked and menacing human figure appears. The second "La mujer del carnicero" (The Butcher's Wife) is set during the Mexican revolution and is about horrifying hallucinations felt by a lieutenant after committing a murder.

The Door and the Butcher's Wife

1969

Cascabelito poster
6.9

Two puppeteers with an orphan child, and with the help of a journalist, seek to stand out with their show.

Cascabelito

1962

Las recién casadas poster
5.8

Three newlywed couples and the priest who married them face problems imposed on them by unquestioning adherence to patriarchal values.

Las recién casadas

1962

La hermana blanca poster
6.2

A young woman believes her fiance has died, and she enters a convent.

La hermana blanca

1960

The Clutching Hand poster
5.4

Two wrestling stars must investigate strange deaths and a secret criminal organization led by a madman who becomes invisible.

The Clutching Hand

1966

No artwork available
6.0

Newlywed couple wait for their first baby, but the mother/in-law gets pregnant first.

La cigüeña dijo sí

1960

No artwork available
6.7

No synopsis available yet.

Napoleoncito

1964

No artwork available
5.7

No synopsis available yet.

El Ultimo Pistolero

1969

Dios sabrá juzgarnos poster
5.6

Rejected suitor goes all-out in his efforts to break up an engaged couple.

Dios sabrá juzgarnos

1961

Estos años violentos poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Estos años violentos

1962

1950s · 17 titles

Fever Mounts at El Pao poster
6.1

After Caribbean despot Mariano Vargas is murdered at the hands of his enraged populace, his secretary Ramón Vázquez takes not just control but also Vargas' widow Inés, with whom he's been having an affair. Special military unit leader Alejandro Gual arrives to overthrow Vázquez by turning the people and Inés against him.

Fever Mounts at El Pao

1959

The New Invisible Man poster
5.6

A man is sentenced to prison for a murder he did not commit. Thanks to a serum invented by his brother, he manages to become invisible and escape from prison in order to prove his innocence, while his brother works feverishly to find an antidote. Theatrically released in USA in Spanish language only; later English-dubbed version syndicated directly to television.

The New Invisible Man

1958

Doña Perfecta poster
7.0

Liberal farmer Pepe has arrived in Santa Fe to visit his aunt, Dona Perfecta. While he's there, Pepe is eager to teach the traditional-minded townspeople a new way of living. Unfortunately for Pepe the people of Santa Fe aren't eager to embrace change, and when the citizens begin to voice resentment Pepe is forced to seek refuge with his sympathetic aunt. Dona Perfecta is just as traditional as any of the other townspeople though, and only suffers Pepe due to the fact that he is family. When Pepe and his cousin Rosario fall deeply in love, the situation quickly comes to a head.

Doña Perfecta

1951

Love Your Neighbor poster
6.7

This film tells several short stories that end up lapsing in the emergency room of a hospital, because it is dedicated to nurses. Cantinflas appears at the end of the film playing the role of Luis, a man who has five daughters and looks forward to a boy, but fate plays a trick and the child dies at birth, but history gives a nice twist and a message of hope.

Love Your Neighbor

1958

Sabrás que te quiero poster
6.0

Famous singer becomes desperate to figure out which of three women helped to launch his early career with anonymous mentoring and support.

Sabrás que te quiero

1958

Después de la tormenta poster
6.8

This Mexican melodrama may have been released above the border as After the Storm. The principal characters are a pair of twin lighthouse keepers. They try their best to live together with their wives under the same roof, but the delicate balance is shattered when one of the brothers falls in love with his sister-in-law. When one twin is lost during a storm, the other assumes his identity, with the expected romantic complications. If Despues de la Termenta sounds familiar, it is because the screenplay was inspired by the 1946 Bette Davis vehicle A Stolen Life.

Después de la tormenta

1955

El gran autor poster
5.5

A story of passion and deceit, where love overcomes the misfortunes and finally triumphs.

El gran autor

1954

Born to Love poster
6.3

No synopsis available yet.

Born to Love

1959

Prisionera del recuerdo poster
6.0

Refugee from Spanish Civil War deals with PTSD and a romantic triangle while trying to find her father's murderer.

Prisionera del recuerdo

1952

Historia de un amor poster
5.7

Elena (Libertad Lamarque), already a star, falls madly in love with Roberto. They make it to the altar. Elena and Roberto adopt a baby. The years go by and everything is happiness in the couple’s life—until one day the girl’s grandfather appears.

Historia de un amor

1956

They Say I'm a Communist poster
6.5

A worker overwhelmed by the economic crisis and the cost of living is accidentally propaganda of a political party, apparently from left, who convinces him to join their ranks and defending the working class. After entering through a ritual as mysterious as typical, you will realize demagoguery and arrangements existing between union leaders to maintain the status quo unchanged and profit from mafia practices.

They Say I'm a Communist

1951

Siete pecados poster
5.2

Seven dresses/seven models at a fashion show, and each one represents one of the seven deadly sins.

Siete pecados

1959

Unfaithful Wives poster
5.0

A bunch of stories where wives are unfaithful for different reasons: money, revenge or pleasure.

Unfaithful Wives

1956

The Illegitimate poster
4.5

Family melodrama: manipulative parents ruin lives with their meddling.

The Illegitimate

1956

Concurso de belleza poster
5.8

Mom and Dad convince studious college girl to enroll in a beauty pageant, hoping to win big cash prize at the end of the rainbow.

Concurso de belleza

1958

Yo pecador poster
6.6

Biopic of a 1930s operatic tenor who ended up becoming a Franciscan monk and joining the priesthood.

Yo pecador

1959

Tinieblas poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Tinieblas

1957

Series credits

Behind the camera