
Acting
Franklin Vírgüez
Born
1953-10-01 (73)
Place of birth
Barquisimeto, Lara, Venezuela
Known for
Acting
Credits
30 titles
Franklin José Virgüez Dun is a Venezuelan actor and journalist.
Known for
7.0Por Estas Calles is a telenovela broadcast by Radio Caracas Televisión between 1992 and 1994. It was extremely popular in Venezuela, due to its very realistic approach to the day-to-day life of the country and local tone. It was the first Venezuelan program to give a realistic view of the corruption in political life, as well as the first to show the day-to-day life in the poor barrios. For example, it showed the impact on poor people's lives of the intermittent water supply, showing community meetings and lovers' trysts cut short by the news that the water was on, sending everyone running to fill storage tanks and barrels. It was considered by the Spanish edition of the magazine Rolling Stone as the 8th best show between the 100 Best TV Shows Ever in all Latin America. It is believed to be the longest telenovela ever produced in Venezuela.
Por Estas Calles
1992
9.5The spoiled and insensitive Estrella de Rossi comes across a humble girl, Virginia, who is her spitting image; almost immediately she comes up with a game and, as a bit of mischief, she pays the girl to impersonate her. When she pulls this off successfully and no one notices the change, Estrella goes further and decides to take a year off to go out and live her life. She forces her double to accept this pact and the young village girl is left to assume the role of a rich and married woman, with a husband who is not really hers but who she ends up falling in love with. She will also face an alcoholic mother-in-law, stepchildren in need of attention and love, a company teetering on bankruptcy and above all, the eminent danger of being discovered.
Intrusive
1986
6.0Alma Indomable is a telenovela produced and distributed by Venevisión International. Filming took place in Miami, Florida. It premiered on Univision on October 19, 2009 in the 1/12c timeslot. The telenovela was written by Alberto Gomez and stars: Scarlet Ortiz, José Ángel Llamas as the protagonists and Lilibeth Morillo and Luis José Santander as the antagonists.
Alma Indomable
2009
4.2Ángel Rebelde is a 2003 Miami, Florida-based telenovela produced by Fonovideo Productions which aired first on Venevisión in Venezuela. Mexican actors Grettel Valdez and Victor Noriega star as the main ptoragonists while Maritza Rodríguez and Ismael La Rosa star as the main antagonists. The telenovela aired on Univision from February 2 to December 6, 2004. It recently aired on Venevisión Plus in 2012.
Ángel Rebelde
2004
8.0“Voltea Pa 'Que Te Enamores” is an urban and modern soap opera, full of comic moments, witty dialogues interpreted with absolute naturalness, and rich and moving characters in situations that vividly reflect the daily experiences of millions of people entangled in the complexity of love , impossible love, difficult love, old love about to expire, new love that brings new illusions.
Voltea pa' que te enamores
2006
5.0No synopsis available yet.
Natalia del Mar
2011
Film credits
2020s · 3 titles
NRSandra and Gerardo, a young newlywed couple, addicted to drugs and eager for easy money, are on their honeymoon, enjoying life and sex, they decide to buy a hotel. Over time the businesses does not go very well and they begin to get into debt, the consumption of alcohol and drugs increases, it gets out of control, the banks threaten to take everything from them, they get desperate; At that moment, coincidentally, Sergio appears, a reckless, adventurous, playful, good-looking criminal.
Hotel Providencia
2022
8.3Simón, a Venezuelan freedom fighter exiled in Miami, copes not only with trauma, but also deep guilt over a choice he must make: stay in Miami and start a new life, or return home to the losing fight against a tyrannical regime.
Simón
2023
NRFour stories, each based on real events from Venezuelans in exile. Four countries in which the same reality reflects the serious migration crisis that exists in the South American nation.
Relatos del Exilio
2024
2010s · 2 titles
NRBeginning with his childhood and covering the many facets that characterized his intellectual universe, this documentary details the different aspects of the most important venezuelan writer of the 60s, 70s and 80s: José Ignacio Cabrujas.
Cabrujas en el país del disimulo
2017
NRBased on a true Story, The Tomb tells the story of Ricardo, Luis y Mateo, 3 student leaders imprisoned for political reasons in Venezuela
The Tomb
2015
1990s · 2 titles
9.0No synopsis available yet.
Cuerpos clandestinos
1991
7.0Two technicians foreign oil, along with the daughter of one of them, coming into the country to verify that there is a large oil field in the jungle area. They go in the area and must struggle against nature, isolation, loneliness and violence. The result, they will become victims in a new era of destruction and ambition.
En territorio extranjero
1994
1980s · 7 titles
6.5Set in the 1920s in Venezuela, this political melodrama by Jacobo Penzo follows the decision of the fictional Cruz Elías León (Franklin Virguéz), a young Venezuelan poet, to give up a life of social and possibly mainstream political advancement to go back to his home and family in an isolated fishing village and combat the despotic military dictator in charge of the country.
The House of Water
1984
NRA Marian devotion is born when a Venezuelan woman finds an image and people come to the protection of the Virgin during a plague.
La Virgen de Chiquinquirá
1983
NRNo synopsis available yet.
La raya de cal
1980
8.0Commissioner Leon (Miguel Angel Landa) of the Technical Judicial Police is assigned to the kidnapping of a child of the upper class of Caracas. The details of the kidnapping the attention of Leon, as there is no evidence of violence in the child's home, or witnesses to the abduction. Based on that Leon believes that the hijackers knew the boy and soon begins to suspect several young people from wealthy families of Caracas.
Crab
1982
8.0Pedro Che is a carefree taxi driver who advises his friends Sebastián and Artemio, politically committed law students, to do like him.
Retén de Catia
1984
10.0A young man is haunted by the memory of his father who abandoned him as a child. By transferring the image of his father to men with similar attitudes or physical traits, kills them. Acts with his lover, much older than himself, who finally delivers it to the police
Asesino Nocturno
1986
7.0A Venezuelan black comedy from 1982 directed by César Bolívar, Domingo de Resurrección follows a middle-class family who head to the beach for Holy Week. Their Easter Sunday takes a dark turn when the grandmother dies peacefully in her sleep, triggering a chaotic chain of tragicomic misadventures. The film blends humor and absurdity as the family desperately tries to handle the situation amid everyday Venezuelan chaos.
Resurrection Sunday
1982
Series credits
7.0Por Estas Calles is a telenovela broadcast by Radio Caracas Televisión between 1992 and 1994. It was extremely popular in Venezuela, due to its very realistic approach to the day-to-day life of the country and local tone. It was the first Venezuelan program to give a realistic view of the corruption in political life, as well as the first to show the day-to-day life in the poor barrios. For example, it showed the impact on poor people's lives of the intermittent water supply, showing community meetings and lovers' trysts cut short by the news that the water was on, sending everyone running to fill storage tanks and barrels. It was considered by the Spanish edition of the magazine Rolling Stone as the 8th best show between the 100 Best TV Shows Ever in all Latin America. It is believed to be the longest telenovela ever produced in Venezuela.
Por Estas Calles
1992
9.5The spoiled and insensitive Estrella de Rossi comes across a humble girl, Virginia, who is her spitting image; almost immediately she comes up with a game and, as a bit of mischief, she pays the girl to impersonate her. When she pulls this off successfully and no one notices the change, Estrella goes further and decides to take a year off to go out and live her life. She forces her double to accept this pact and the young village girl is left to assume the role of a rich and married woman, with a husband who is not really hers but who she ends up falling in love with. She will also face an alcoholic mother-in-law, stepchildren in need of attention and love, a company teetering on bankruptcy and above all, the eminent danger of being discovered.
Intrusive
1986
6.0Alma Indomable is a telenovela produced and distributed by Venevisión International. Filming took place in Miami, Florida. It premiered on Univision on October 19, 2009 in the 1/12c timeslot. The telenovela was written by Alberto Gomez and stars: Scarlet Ortiz, José Ángel Llamas as the protagonists and Lilibeth Morillo and Luis José Santander as the antagonists.
Alma Indomable
2009
4.2Ángel Rebelde is a 2003 Miami, Florida-based telenovela produced by Fonovideo Productions which aired first on Venevisión in Venezuela. Mexican actors Grettel Valdez and Victor Noriega star as the main ptoragonists while Maritza Rodríguez and Ismael La Rosa star as the main antagonists. The telenovela aired on Univision from February 2 to December 6, 2004. It recently aired on Venevisión Plus in 2012.
Ángel Rebelde
2004
8.0“Voltea Pa 'Que Te Enamores” is an urban and modern soap opera, full of comic moments, witty dialogues interpreted with absolute naturalness, and rich and moving characters in situations that vividly reflect the daily experiences of millions of people entangled in the complexity of love , impossible love, difficult love, old love about to expire, new love that brings new illusions.
Voltea pa' que te enamores
2006
5.0No synopsis available yet.
Natalia del Mar
2011
7.5Amores de Fin de Siglo is a Venezuelan telenovela that was produced by and seen on Venezuela's Radio Caracas Televisión. It was written by Leonardo Padron, Carlos Perez, Mariana Reyes, and Doris Segui, scripted by Carlos Perez, Mariana Reyes, and Doris Segui and directed by Luis Manzo. Carmen Cecilia Urbaneja was the telenovela's Executive Producer, Leonardo Galavis was the Exterior Director, and Leonor Sardi was the General Producer. This telenovela lasted 133 episodes and was distributed internationally by RCTV International.
Amores de Fin de Siglo
1995
8.0Maria de los Angeles is a Venezuelan telenovela that was produced by and seen on Venezuela's Radio Caracas Televisión. Its writers were Julio César Mármol, Mélida Mármol Olivares, Laura Bollonio, Manuel González, and Constantino Estévez. Hernando Faría was in charge of general produccion, Jhony Pulido Mora was its executive producer, and Olegario Barrera was its director. This telenovela lasted 113 episodes and was distributed internationally by RCTV International. Lilibeth Morillo and Marcelo Cezan starred as the main protagonists while Alba Roversi and Vicente Tepedino starred as the main antagonists.
Maria de los Angeles
1997
5.9When the path of free-spirited drug smuggler Max collides with JJ, an enigmatic outsider on the run, an unlikely friendship is formed. They're swept into a chaotic, high-stakes mission they never signed up for, trafficking highly enriched uranium across North Africa and the Middle East, with the CIA, MI6, and a global web of opposing forces closing in fast.
Atomic
2025
7.5No synopsis available yet.
Carissima
2001
3.5Hay Amores Que Matan is a Venezuelan telenovela that was produced by and seen on Venezuela's Radio Caracas Televisión. Jose Simon Escalona was the director of production, Victor Fernandez was the executive producer, Marco Godoy was the general producer, Mateo Manaure was the director of exterior scenes, and Renato Gutierrez was the general director. This telenovela lasted 120 episodes and was distributed internationally by RCTV International.
Hay Amores Que Matan
2000
7.0Aunque me Cueste la Vida is a 1998 Venezuelan telenovela produced by Radio Caracas Televisión. It was written by José Simón Escalona, Salvador Garmendia, and Martin Hahn and directed by Olegario Barrera. This telenovela runs 126 episodes and is distributed internationally by RCTV International.
Aunque me Cueste la Vida
1998
No synopsis available yet.
Selva María
1987
10.0No synopsis available yet.
Pobre negro
1989
8.0No synopsis available yet.
La Goajirita
1982

