Alberto Olmedo

Acting

Alberto Olmedo

Born 1933-08-24 · Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina

Alberto Orlando Olmedo (1933-1988), nicknamed El Negro, was an Argentine actor and comedian, popularly considered one of the most important capocomics in the history of the spectacle of his country, for his outstanding work in television, film and theater.

Acting credits

Peculiar Attraction poster
6.7

A television director decides to make a show about the invasion of transvestites in Mar del Plata. He commissions one of his editors, Jorge Trolombati, who must infiltrate and impersonate one.

Peculiar Attraction

1988

Encuentros muy cercanos con señoras de cualquier tipo poster
6.6

Alberto and Jorge are two comedians, who before the possibility of making money with a business agent, agree to play the role of executives of a fictitious company, in order to appear prosperity before possible foreign buyers of players. As the business agent instructs them to present themselves as married, Alberto and Jorge propose two co-workers to represent the indicated role.

Encuentros muy cercanos con señoras de cualquier tipo

1978

Galería del terror poster
6.7

Jorge and Alberto are unemployed so they decide to try their luck as employees of a gallery soon to be inaugurated.

Galería del terror

1987

Los extraterrestres poster
5.9

Alberto and Jorge are two friends who work as waiters and during a trip they meet an alien with extraordinary powers. It is sought by a Russian organization, and friends must hide it from it.

Los extraterrestres

1983

Two Crazy Privates 2 poster
7.7

Following the events (and disasters) at the end of their previous adventure, Alberto and Jorge are severely reprimanded. However, just when the recruits' fate seemed destined for the brig, a direct call from the Lieutenant General saves them from punishment... though to do so, they must prove themselves in a new training environment for their first special mission.

Two Crazy Privates 2

1986

Hay que romper la rutina poster
7.0

Friends Alberto and Jorge, who work together and live in the same building, are married to two sisters (Ethel and Gogó). Noticing that their sex life becomes boring, they cheat on them with co-workers. This is discovered and they are fired. Then, they get employed in a beauty institute, where they have many women at their disposal. Their wives learn of this mischief, and go to look for them at the institute, generating hilarious situations.

Hay que romper la rutina

1974

Expertos en pinchazos poster
6.6

Alberto and Jorge are employees of a pharmacy. One day, by mistake, they give a client a bottle of poison in exchange for a medication that she had to start ingesting 48 hours later. Realizing this, they decide to go out and look for her with the only data they have: her first name, her striking clothing, and that she was driving an imported motorcycle. So they launch into a crazy race against time touring the fashionable places of the Buenos Aires night, helped by a woman who claims to know the mysterious girl on the motorcycle.

Expertos en pinchazos

1979

Los vampiros los prefieren gorditos poster
6.5

Count Dracula travels to Buenos Aires with his secretary and stays in a very special hotel, where several mobsters are also staying.

Los vampiros los prefieren gorditos

1974

El andador poster
9.0

A late pregnancy disrupts the routine of a mature marriage.

El andador

1967

Basta de mujeres poster
6.4

Alberto, who has been married to Laura for twenty years, meets Monica in his office, a serious and formal employee with whom he strikes up a friendship.

Basta de mujeres

1977

Two Crazy Privates 3 poster
6.5

Alberto and Jorge are fulfilling their obligations as conscripted soldiers who have violated the law of mandatory military service. They have committed so many blunders that everyone from the corporal to the lieutenant colonel in charge of services is confessing to the chaplain, telling him that because of this pair of useless men, the entire company has been punished. The higher-ups order the commanding officer to assemble the men he deems capable of withstanding the high risks of a second mission to be carried out deep in the jungle. The commanding officer doesn't hesitate for a moment to include Jorge and Alberto in this high-risk group, without realizing that they themselves are the real risk. The final film in the conscript saga.

Two Crazy Privates 3

1987

Mirame la palomita poster
6.8

Cayetano (Jorge Porcel), a mediocre talent agent, traveling to Mar del Plata with his wife, Carola (Susana Traverso), to fix the contract Jose (Mario Sapag), representing an unknown wannabe comic number in different places. On the road they see a sign advertising that announces the latest film from actor famous erotic films, Federico Lupa (Alberto Olmedo). The praise of it cause a bitter argument between the two. Once in the city and with the excuse of having a lot of work, meets Cayetano José and together they go to the casino and how much fun with beautiful young woman crosses their path. The accident causes the car to Carola descomponérsele amid torrential rain, it Federico Lupa precisely who stop to help and take her home ...

Mirame la palomita

1985

Las turistas quieren guerra poster
7.4

Alberto and Jorge are employees of a refrigerator, who one day see a bus where several beautiful tourists flirt with the guide who drives them and think that being guides will give them many love affairs. They manage to meet with the owner of the tourism company and his partner (Frías Garmet and Gamarro Salas, respectively), who hire them immediately, promising them a quick promotion in the company. In reality, Frías Garmet and Gamarro Salas are planning a scam of great magnitude, and they need two unwary to indisting them.

Las turistas quieren guerra

1977

El gordo catástrofe poster
7.1

Catrasca (Jorge Porcel) is a man who works in a restaurant and in his spare time helps in a children's home. His problem is that he carries a family tradition that makes him cause catastrophes in his path, one of which takes his boss (Adolfo García Grau) to the hospital. Upon leaving the hospital, Catrasca is run over by Graciela (Graciela Alfano), the daughter of Professor Galíndez (Osvaldo Terranova). This is how he meets this professor, who has a formula that says he will be the salvation of humanity, so he is the object of persecutions by villains such as Dr. Linda Winters (Moria Casán).

El gordo catástrofe

1977

Los hombres sólo piensan en eso poster
6.4

Alberto and Jorge are two typical "chantas", who are dedicated to deceiving people along with another friend, nicknamed "Palomita". One day "Palomita" is awarded a prize consisting of dollars and two tickets to Caracas, but it turns out that this decomposes and dies. His last wish communicated to his friends Alberto and Jorge is that they take care of his sister. Upon meeting her, she turns out to be a very beautiful girl, with whom they both get involved. Then together with her they get into trouble with a group of criminals and must leave the country, taking a flight to Caracas, where they arrive posing as an Argentine vedette and her two representatives.

Los hombres sólo piensan en eso

1976

El gordo de América poster
6.9

To celebrate his promotion, a manager (Javier Portales) decides to summon his brother from the field, but as he did not stop making disasters he sends him back. His brother (Jorge Porcel) is not convinced and dazzled by an advertisement decides to set up an investigation office.

El gordo de América

1976

Custodio de señoras poster
6.9

Jorge is a photographer for a newspaper, from which he is fired. He then begins to work in a detective agency, where he is assigned the mission of protecting Monica, a beautiful woman threatened with death by an ex-boyfriend.

Custodio de señoras

1979

Maridos en vacaciones poster
7.8

Friends Alberto and Jorge, who work together in an insurance company and live in the same building, are married to two sisters (Elsa and Alicia). When they go on vacation to Mar del Plata, Alberto and Jorge decide to enjoy their "single life". In addition to this, they have to fulfill a duty entrusted by their boss: to find the revue theater entrepreneur Félix Sagastume, to sign an insurance contract. It is in a canteen where they go to look for him, and there they meet two aspiring vedettes (Zuzú and Bibí), who confuse them with important businessmen and see in them a possibility of achieving fame.

Maridos en vacaciones

1975

Olmedo: El rey de la risa poster
8.0

Aspects of the life of Alberto Olmedo, from his childhood in Rosario, his beginnings as an acrobat and comedian in that city and the continuation of his professional career in Buenos Aires.

Olmedo: El rey de la risa

2019

El hombre del año poster
6.7

The life of a man who discovers two hearts changes abruptly when a group of criminals tries to seize one of them to transplant it to a Mafia Boss who has heart problems.

El hombre del año

1970

Un terceto peculiar poster
7.2

A director of XXX films entrusts his assistant with the rental of a house for the filming with an international star. This, confused with the arrival of the star, preys the house to a friend to impress the groom

Un terceto peculiar

1982

Los fierecillos se divierten poster
6.0

Two friends, both dating the daughters of the owners of a local club, meet two women who catch their eye and, as fate would have it, turn out to be friends of their girlfriends. To make matters worse, an election is about to be held at the club, further complicating matters with their future in-laws.

Los fierecillos se divierten

1983

Así no hay cama que aguante poster
7.1

Horacio and Claudio are two friends who plan to spend a fun weekend with two young ladies. Settling into the home of Aunt Lucrezia, a millionaire who is traveling through Europe, a lender shows up and ruins his plans.

Así no hay cama que aguante

1980

Barcos de papel poster
9.0

Eager to have a crystal ball, a child works to buy it but is accused of a robbery he did not commit.

Barcos de papel

1963