
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
7.0A submissive and unhappy man is mistaken for a famous assailant and people who despised him begin to respect him.
El salame
1969
7.4The story about a family that must maintain an insatiable grandmother.
Grandma
1979
8.0Sentimental aspects of a group of cadets from the Military Aviation School.
La última escuadrilla
1951
8.5A woman's dilemma between love for her mother and passion for a man.
Vacaciones
1947
7.6Mingo 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
NRThe four children of a married couple hatch a plan to prevent their father from leaving with another woman
Paraíso robado
1952
Film credits
1980s · 8 titles
7.6Mingo 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
4.9The 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
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Diablito de barrio
1983
7.8Mingo 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
7.0Two married men make a short trip to relax
Pleasure cruise
1980
6.0Friends Mingo and Aníbal and their adventures in a luxurious hotel in Buenos Aires.
Mingo y Aníbal, dos pelotazos en contra
1984
10.0Mingo, 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
5.0A widowed mother cannot prevent her child from dying from an overdose.
Las barras bravas
1985
1970s · 12 titles
7.4The story about a family that must maintain an insatiable grandmother.
Grandma
1979
6.0A 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
7.5Alberto Nadal, Carlos Firulo and Luis Chávez are three intrepid police officers who are in charge of solving different criminal cases.
Brigada en acción
1977
8.0By mistake, three friends are chased across the country by a gang of criminals.
Amigos para la aventura
1978
7.0Minguito meets a boy, and he takes him to live with him.
Minguito Tinguitela, papá
1974
10.0Rich 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
8.0A provincial man comes to the big city and finds true love.
El mundo que inventamos
1973
No synopsis available yet.
No hay que aflojarle a la vida
1975
6.7Lito 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
9.0The failure of a marriage and its consequences in the family.
El divorcio está de moda (de común acuerdo)
1978
10.0When 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
10.0No synopsis available yet.
Vivir con alegría
1979
1960s · 23 titles
7.0A submissive and unhappy man is mistaken for a famous assailant and people who despised him begin to respect him.
El salame
1969
7.0No synopsis available yet.
La novia
1961
7.0A porteño tango singer is kidnapped by a UFO and taken to Madrid, London and Paris.
Che, OVNI
1968
7.7In 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
9.0A late pregnancy disrupts the routine of a mature marriage.
El andador
1967
9.0A 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
7.5The director of a murga falls ill with poliomyelitis and to help him the members donate the money they earned.
La murga
1963
6.7A 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
6.3A woman who works in a meat packing plant is continuously preyed upon by lecherous men.
Carne
1968
7.5Upon 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
6.4Ricardo 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
10.0A beautiful young girl tired of waiting for his boyfriend to propose to her, will generate a series of amorous misunderstandings.
Amor libre
1969
7.3A store clerk, film extra, aspires to live an affair with her singing idol.
¿Quiere casarse conmigo?
1967
8.0Different porteño arquetypes and their views on sex.
Lo prohibido está de moda
1968
8.0A magazine company and some in-love couples board a night train where a gang of bandits is traveling.
Coche cama, alojamiento
1968
8.0The three daughters of a mature marriage and their problems with the original boyfriends.
El derecho a la felicidad
1968
9.0Three 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
9.5Three 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
8.0A 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
7.0El Gordo Villanueva is capable of anything in order to live comfortably, but without working.
El gordo Villanueva
1964
4.0Multiple couples are demonstrating their love in their cars within a discreet zone when a fire erupts.
Villa Cariño está que arde
1968
7.0Inmates 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
8.5A gang of blackmailers travels from town to town choosing their victims.
Flor de piolas
1969
1950s · 8 titles
8.0Sentimental aspects of a group of cadets from the Military Aviation School.
La última escuadrilla
1951
NRThe four children of a married couple hatch a plan to prevent their father from leaving with another woman
Paraíso robado
1952
7.0The problems that a couple in love suffers because of their relatives.
Pocholo, Pichuca y yo
1951
7.0No synopsis available yet.
Los Pérez García
1950
8.0Film co-produced between Argentina and Paraguay in 1959 that was never released commercially.
En la vía
1959
7.0To protect the relationships of his two friends, a student drags to act as their aunt.
La tía de Carlitos
1953
7.0In a train repair shop, a passion involves a woman and, years later, her daughter.
Sangre y acero
1956
6.5A moral parable about juvenile delinquency, which takes a tour of different characters of the Buenos Aires fauna.
Road to crime
1951
1940s · 7 titles
8.5A woman's dilemma between love for her mother and passion for a man.
Vacaciones
1947
8.0Each month a school teacher narrates a new story to his students, with a moral in each of them.
Corazón
1947
8.0The life and work of philanthropist and educator William Case Morris (1864-1932).
Cuando en el cielo pasen lista
1945
7.7A group of young people from the Colegio Nacional Buenos Aires recount their wanderings and their days in high school at the time of the National Organization in Buenos Aires.
Juvenilia
1943
9.0A mother hires a psychologist to be the father of 3 children, and he performs his role excellently, providing affection.
Los hijos del otro
1947
10.0Romance starts in Rio between a Mexican tenor being wooed for a Buenos Aires production, and an Argentine gal who has won a soap contest and who he thinks is rich.
Melodías de América
1942
6.1Paris, 1857. While on trial for moral outrage, French writer G. Flaubert tells the court and the audience the true story of the heroine of his novel Madame Bovary, a sensitive but capricious woman whose desperate efforts to overcome the bourgeois conventions of a dull, provincial life led her family first to ruin and disrepute and finally to the abyss of tragedy.
Madame Bovary
1947
