Juan Carlos Altavista

Acting

Juan Carlos Altavista

Born — Died

1929-01-04 — 1989-07-20

Place of birth

Buenos Aires City, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Known for

Acting

Credits

58 titles

Juan Carlos Altavista (1929-1989) was an Argentine humorist. He is best remembered for his character Minguito, who was censored during the country's last dictatorship for his "slang language". The truth was that he was persecuted for being a Peronist. Minguito participated in the hit television comedy show "Polémica en el bar" and formed a comic duo with Juan Carlos Calabró's character Aníbal.

Known for

Film credits

1980s · 8 titles

Mingo y Aníbal en la mansión embrujada poster
7.6

Mingo and Anibal are hired to embellish a mansion's garden, but a series of spooky events will soon take place.

Mingo y Aníbal en la mansión embrujada

1986

Happy High School poster
4.9

The plot involves the school director bringing in a female inspector to clean up the school. The students decide to kidnap her and replace her with the sexy stripper "aunt" of one of the girls (who is naturally sleeping with several of the guys). The real director meanwhile falls madly in lust with one of her male captors. Meanwhile a goody-good student and her hypocrite father begin to suspect the ruse . . . So will there be a lot of crazy hijinks? Will everything work out happily in the end? Will the entire female cast (and an unfortunate amount of the male cast) find some excuse to get naked?

Happy High School

1986

Diablito de barrio poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Diablito de barrio

1983

Mingo y Aníbal contra los fantasmas poster
7.8

Mingo and Aníbal are two friends who work at a car dealership and are accused of a murder they did not commit. The incident occurred in a remote house, where both friends go to try to hide and solve the crime. There they will try to elude a ghost that wanders in the place while trying to regain their innocence.

Mingo y Aníbal contra los fantasmas

1985

Pleasure cruise poster
7.0

Two married men make a short trip to relax

Pleasure cruise

1980

Mingo y Aníbal, dos pelotazos en contra poster
6.0

Friends Mingo and Aníbal and their adventures in a luxurious hotel in Buenos Aires.

Mingo y Aníbal, dos pelotazos en contra

1984

Tres alegres fugitivos poster
10.0

Mingo, Carlitos and Tristán are three friends who run a humble moving company together. One day, while they are having dinner at Carlitos' house, a baby is left at his door with a letter in which they are asked to take the baby to the province of Córdoba so that he's not in danger. From there, a series of entanglements begin as they are taken as kidnappers and fugitives from the law.

Tres alegres fugitivos

1988

Las barras bravas poster
5.0

A widowed mother cannot prevent her child from dying from an overdose.

Las barras bravas

1985

1970s · 12 titles

Grandma poster
7.4

The story about a family that must maintain an insatiable grandmother.

Grandma

1979

Accused Women poster
6.0

A terrifying story based on a fact occurred in Buenos Aires, early 1967. Reported in "La Nación" and all the other newspapers, after the death of a woman interned at the Instituto de Detención para Mujeres. Doctor Vallejos, the magistrate in charge of the inquest, gets enmeshed in personal intrigue, organized corruption, lust and vice in which apparently all the penitentiary personnel and an organized gang of dangerous inmates are involved, operating within the prison itself.

Accused Women

1975

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

Amigos para la aventura poster
8.0

By mistake, three friends are chased across the country by a gang of criminals.

Amigos para la aventura

1978

Minguito Tinguitela, papá poster
7.0

Minguito meets a boy, and he takes him to live with him.

Minguito Tinguitela, papá

1974

El caradura y la millonaria poster
10.0

Rich man suddenly feels compelled to track down his son from his first wife, whom he abandoned in early childhood.An imposter slides into his household on that pretext...

El caradura y la millonaria

1971

El mundo que inventamos poster
8.0

A provincial man comes to the big city and finds true love.

El mundo que inventamos

1973

No artwork available
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

No hay que aflojarle a la vida

1975

Los muchachos de mi barrio poster
6.7

Lito Ugarte, a successful singer, returns to the country where he was born. He comes back to the city where he grew up, reuniting with his old-time friends.

Los muchachos de mi barrio

1970

El divorcio está de moda (de común acuerdo) poster
9.0

The failure of a marriage and its consequences in the family.

El divorcio está de moda (de común acuerdo)

1978

Don Carmelo il Capo poster
10.0

When they are killed by the leaders of the two gangs fighting for control of the underground game, the conductor who is the heir of one of them turns his musicians into gangsters.

Don Carmelo il Capo

1976

Vivir con alegría poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Vivir con alegría

1979

1960s · 23 titles

El salame poster
7.0

A submissive and unhappy man is mistaken for a famous assailant and people who despised him begin to respect him.

El salame

1969

La novia poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

La novia

1961

Che, OVNI poster
7.0

A porteño tango singer is kidnapped by a UFO and taken to Madrid, London and Paris.

Che, OVNI

1968

La casa de Madame Lulú poster
7.7

In the 1930s a young revolutionary falls in love with a young woman of innocent appearance but who really works in a brothel.

La casa de Madame Lulú

1968

El andador poster
9.0

A late pregnancy disrupts the routine of a mature marriage.

El andador

1967

Escándalo en la familia poster
9.0

A veteran popular singer comes to town with her daughter in order to achieve success in television. She introduces her daughter to a contest winning one of the top prizes. At the same time, a veteran politician is campaigning to scale the governor's office.

Escándalo en la familia

1967

La murga poster
7.5

The director of a murga falls ill with poliomyelitis and to help him the members donate the money they earned.

La murga

1963

Todo el año es Navidad poster
6.7

A celestial envoy comes to Earth to help solve some small conflicts between humans, related to their attitude and relationships.

Todo el año es Navidad

1960

Carne poster
6.3

A woman who works in a meat packing plant is continuously preyed upon by lecherous men.

Carne

1968

Orden de matar poster
7.5

Upon learning of the murder of a friend, a police inspector sets out to take justice on his own. This attitude, contrary to his usual convictions, will gradually destroy him.

Orden de matar

1965

Las pirañas poster
6.4

Ricardo is an executive who has great success with women and behaves almost like a play-boy. His wife Carmen, an attractive housewife without children, feels ignored by him and seeks solace from her mother, who proposes Carmen a change in the way she acts in order to not permanently lose her husband or fall into madness.

Las pirañas

1967

Amor libre poster
10.0

A beautiful young girl tired of waiting for his boyfriend to propose to her, will generate a series of amorous misunderstandings.

Amor libre

1969

¿Quiere casarse conmigo? poster
7.3

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

¿Quiere casarse conmigo?

1967

Lo prohibido está de moda poster
8.0

Different porteño arquetypes and their views on sex.

Lo prohibido está de moda

1968

Coche cama, alojamiento poster
8.0

A magazine company and some in-love couples board a night train where a gang of bandits is traveling.

Coche cama, alojamiento

1968

El derecho a la felicidad poster
8.0

The three daughters of a mature marriage and their problems with the original boyfriends.

El derecho a la felicidad

1968

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

Esto es alegría poster
9.5

Three stories where optimism triumphs: a television director finds a new mother for his children, an old couple of artists deal with a sentimental crisis and an illustrator whose father is an alcoholic fights to educate his brother.

Esto es alegría

1967

Villa Cariño poster
8.0

A comedy in which several couples indulge in passion inside their cars while parked in the area of Palermo baptized as "Villa Cariño".

Villa Cariño

1967

El gordo Villanueva poster
7.0

El Gordo Villanueva is capable of anything in order to live comfortably, but without working.

El gordo Villanueva

1964

Villa Cariño está que arde poster
4.0

Multiple couples are demonstrating their love in their cars within a discreet zone when a fire erupts.

Villa Cariño está que arde

1968

Los evadidos poster
7.0

Inmates in a prison plan a massive break. When they put their plan into action, however, they find that they may have underestimated the guards and prison officials, and the situation quickly turns into a bloody gun battle. This action feature from director Enrique Carreras was the official entry for Argentina at the 1964 Berlin Film Festival.

Los evadidos

1964

Flor de piolas poster
8.5

A gang of blackmailers travels from town to town choosing their victims.

Flor de piolas

1969

1950s · 8 titles

1940s · 7 titles