
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
7.8Based 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
6.0Popular 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 synopsis available yet.
Marcha nupcial
1977
7.9After 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
6.1After 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
4.3A 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
6.6A 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
4.7A woman with a troubled past introduces lust, depravity and sex to a religious commune.
The She Wolf's Orgy
1972
4.2No synopsis available yet.
La hora desnuda
1971
5.5A ship carrying Conquistadors is wrecked and the survivors are thrown ashore to struggle through the Yucatan jungle.
Aunt Isabel's Garden
1972
6.0A 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
5.0Priest suffers a head injury, develops amnesia, ends up in a hippie commune.
El cielo y tú
1971
5.4Young 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
6.4Federal-agent/cowboy battles crime
El pueblo del terror
1970
6.3In 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
5.2After having his genitals brutally mutilated during childhood, a man must face prejudice and himself.
The Cubs
1973
5.6Ex-con trying to go straight is backed into a corner by "former associates."
Sin salida
1971
A gigolo devises schemes to infiltrate the lives of a terminally ill wealthy man's wife and daughter.
Remolino de pasiones
1970
5.7Class distinctions are an obstacle for a guy trying to woo his gal of choice.
Jalisco nunca pierde
1974
1960s · 22 titles
7.9After 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
4.3A 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
4.2A 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
4.6Tourists 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
5.5Independently-wealthy woman tries to break free of repressive, conservative cultural constraints.
Love & Sex (Sappho 1963)
1964
7.2When 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 synopsis available yet.
Los secretos del sexo débil
1962
Cowboy detective investigates two murders.
Cuatro hombres marcados
1968
5.0El Santo and his loyal friends will try to disarm a dangerous criminal organization.
Santo vs. the King of Crime
1962
5.7No synopsis available yet.
Sólo para tí
1966
5.8Young pop singer finds his niche in the entertainment industry.
Mi vida es una canción
1963
6.0On Christmas Eve, Santa Claus engineers a miracle that will rehabilitate three kept women into orthodox 'decency' and marriage.
Las amiguitas de los ricos
1968
7.4A 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
6.9Two puppeteers with an orphan child, and with the help of a journalist, seek to stand out with their show.
Cascabelito
1962
5.8Three newlywed couples and the priest who married them face problems imposed on them by unquestioning adherence to patriarchal values.
Las recién casadas
1962
6.2A young woman believes her fiance has died, and she enters a convent.
La hermana blanca
1960
5.4Two wrestling stars must investigate strange deaths and a secret criminal organization led by a madman who becomes invisible.
The Clutching Hand
1966
Newlywed couple wait for their first baby, but the mother/in-law gets pregnant first.
La cigüeña dijo sí
1960
No synopsis available yet.
Napoleoncito
1964
No synopsis available yet.
El Ultimo Pistolero
1969
5.6Rejected suitor goes all-out in his efforts to break up an engaged couple.
Dios sabrá juzgarnos
1961
6.0No synopsis available yet.
Estos años violentos
1962
1950s · 17 titles
6.1After 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
5.6A 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
7.0Liberal 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
6.7This 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
6.0Famous 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
6.8This 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
5.5A story of passion and deceit, where love overcomes the misfortunes and finally triumphs.
El gran autor
1954
6.3No synopsis available yet.
Born to Love
1959
6.0Refugee from Spanish Civil War deals with PTSD and a romantic triangle while trying to find her father's murderer.
Prisionera del recuerdo
1952
5.7Elena (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
6.5A 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
5.2Seven dresses/seven models at a fashion show, and each one represents one of the seven deadly sins.
Siete pecados
1959
5.0A bunch of stories where wives are unfaithful for different reasons: money, revenge or pleasure.
Unfaithful Wives
1956
4.5Family melodrama: manipulative parents ruin lives with their meddling.
The Illegitimate
1956
5.8Mom 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
6.6Biopic of a 1930s operatic tenor who ended up becoming a Franciscan monk and joining the priesthood.
Yo pecador
1959
6.0No synopsis available yet.
Tinieblas
1957
Series credits
7.8Based 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
6.0Popular 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 synopsis available yet.
Marcha nupcial
1977

