Francisco Petrone

Acting

Francisco Petrone

Born — Died

1902-08-13 — 1967-03-11

Place of birth

Buenos Aires City, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Known for

Acting

Credits

20 titles

Francisco Petrone was an Argentinian actor in cinema and theatre. Known for his democratic and communist ideals, he was persecuted by Perón's government and had to exile to Mexico. He acted in multiple films, mostly during Argentina's cinema golden age.

Known for

Film credits

1950s · 5 titles

1940s · 7 titles

1930s · 6 titles

Prisoners of the Land poster
6.4

Argentina, 1915. Accompanied by a doctor and his beautiful daughter, Köhner, a ruthless foreman who rules a yerba mate plantation with an iron fist, arrives in the city of Posadas with the purpose of hiring workers.

Prisoners of the Land

1939

Sombras Porteñas poster
8.0

A murderer takes refuge with his friend in a town on the shores of Lake Nahuel Huapí, but she falls in love with another man and will return to the city alone.

Sombras Porteñas

1936

Hermanos poster
7.0

Four brothers set their differences apart when they need to help another brother.

Hermanos

1939

Monte Criollo poster
9.0

Lucy is a woman of shady past who convinces Argüello and Carlos to install an illegal gambling hall on a cabaret that worked legally. When Argüello is interested romantically in her, it rejects it because it is attracted by Carlos, a womanizer singer. The obsession for her leads Argüello to cheat in the game that he holds with Carlos and manages to ruin him, but finally both fight and Argüello dies stabbed but without denouncing his aggressor to recover his self-esteem as a professional player.

Monte Criollo

1935

Turbión poster
9.0

Two gangs of drug traffickers try to control the monopoly of drugs in the city, while the police commissioner tries to kill them with the help of a snitch, "the puppet".

Turbión

1938

La fuga poster
10.0

Daniel, a smuggler is chased by a policeman. In his escape are helped by the messages that his lover transmits to him in code by means of the tangos that sings in a radio program. To hide himself, he pretends to be a teacher in a small town in Entre Ríos, and by the time he discovers it, the police have already faced a new life.

La fuga

1937