
Acting
Luis Aldás
Born — Died
1910-03-11 — 1990-05-16
Place of birth
Tandil, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Known for
Acting
Credits
48 titles
Luis Aldás (10 March 1910 – 16 May 1990) was an Argentine film actor. He emigrated to Mexico and became a star during the Golden age of Mexican cinema. He appeared in more than fifty films during his career. Aldás was married four times. His wives included the Mexican actress Virginia Serret, the Brazilian actress Leonora Amar and the Mexican singer Lucy Gallardo.
Known for
5.7Magicians transfers two peoples' souls (or whatever you want to call them) into each other's bodies.
He Who Died of Love
1945
6.0Shady waterfront guy rents a yacht from a married couple and they all go off on a secret mission together.
Mar sangriento (La gaviota roja)
1965
6.3A white man seduces a local girl in an isolated Mayan village, which makes gods unhappy.
The Night of the Mayans
1939
4.2Police are chasing him for a murder, so man breaks into an expensive home and takes husband and wife hostage. The bloodshed continues...
La noche violenta
1970
6.8Mario marries Blanca, the queen of operetta, but after their daughter is born, they separate and she leaves on a world tour to continue her artistic career. Meanwhile, he stays behind and waits with the baby until they reunite again.
La reina de la opereta
1946
9.0A soldier enrolled in the revolutionary ranks has an affair with a woman who turns out to have been married to a man whom the soldier had killed.
La casa de los cuervos
1941
Film credits
1960s · 4 titles
6.0Shady waterfront guy rents a yacht from a married couple and they all go off on a secret mission together.
Mar sangriento (La gaviota roja)
1965
6.6Mourners share their memories of a dead film-star at her wake, a la Citizen Kane. Only melodrama.
La estrella vacía
1960
5.7Bank robbers face obstacles when they try to retrieve stolen money that one of their gang buried.
Condenados a muerte
1963
6.8Aldo and his girlfriend Lucy reopen an abandoned opera house, but find out that the place is inhabited by a group of Phantoms.
The Phantom of the Operetta
1960
1950s · 21 titles
6.0Jilted lover takes revenge on her ex's new wife.
La adúltera
1956
6.5For love, the rules of society and justice are broken, leading to abduction, exposing life and freedom, facing everything to make a sick child a normal child.
La infame
1954
7.9Horse-trader gets absorbed into Pancho Villa's battalions, becomes a spy.
El 7 leguas
1955
Four young women facing "crises," mostly centered around the crucially-important issue of preserving their virginity in a variety of purity-oath threatening situations.
Señoritas
1959
5.7This cult-classic was Director Rene Cardona's attempt to capitalize on the popularity of professional wrestling and on of its biggest stars of the 1950's, known as "El Santo". However it is not about wrestling. It chronicles the adventures of a crime-fighting duo known as El Enmascadero de la Plata ( The Silver Mask), and his adolescent sidekick Pecas (Freckles), as they take on a murderous Mad Doctor and an evil gang-leader called El Lobo
El enmascarado de plata
1954
5.5Tourist gets bonked on the head, suffers an amnesiac fugue, wanders away from her husband and children, becomes an evil prostitute-y thief-y saloon gal.
Adventure in Rio
1953
6.0This is a film by Alberto Gout that deals with the story of a marriage in crisis. It all starts when Leonardo surprises his wife Susana with her lover and threatens him with death for stealing her.
No niego mi pasado
1952
7.3Reporters compete for cash prize awarded for biggest scoop on New Year's Eve.
Reportaje
1953
6.0Bachelor pretends that he got married, thinking that will stop his aunt from trying to play matchmaker.
Mi mujer no es mía
1951
7.3Spoofy adaptation of The Three Musketeers, follows the original very closely.
Los tres mosqueteros y medio
1957
7.6Two clownish incompetents get mixed up in power struggles between state officials.
A sablazo limpio
1958
5.9Two ghosts who died in a turn-of-the-century duel and now haunt a theater attempt to help a girl who's in danger from bank robbers.
Two Ghosts and a Girl
1959
6.2No synopsis available yet.
El pecado de quererte
1950
5.4No synopsis available yet.
My Parents Are Divorced
1959
6.5Four brothers try to manage their careers and love-lives under the close supervision of a domineering mother.
Póker de ases
1952
6.3A poor shepherd is convinced to marry a beautiful woman. This is a Maquiavellian plan schemed by the woman's fiancé and her father.
Tierra baja
1951
Incompetent clown is drafted into a Murder Incorporated style squad of hitmen.
Asesinos, S.A.
1957
6.6A burglar and a bar girl fall in love and decide to go straight, but complications.
Los amantes
1951
5.6Goofball inventor is working on x-ray binoculars for peeping with; meanwhile, his assistant seeks help for a medical condition and gets caught up in the drama between two philandering doctors and their wives.
Mujeres encantadoras
1958
7.8No synopsis available yet.
Music School
1955
5.8Mr. X is convicted of killing Mr. Y and serves a jail sentence. After being released, he discovers that Mr. Y is still alive...
Legítima defensa
1953
1940s · 18 titles
5.7Magicians transfers two peoples' souls (or whatever you want to call them) into each other's bodies.
He Who Died of Love
1945
6.8Mario marries Blanca, the queen of operetta, but after their daughter is born, they separate and she leaves on a world tour to continue her artistic career. Meanwhile, he stays behind and waits with the baby until they reunite again.
La reina de la opereta
1946
9.0A soldier enrolled in the revolutionary ranks has an affair with a woman who turns out to have been married to a man whom the soldier had killed.
La casa de los cuervos
1941
8.5The film narrates events of the Revolution of the Park, carried out by radical sympathizers on July 26, 1890. There is a secondary plot with the romance of a girl who, despite being in love with her father's godson, must contract a marriage with a banker that fails.
Boina blanca
1941
4.1Woman chooses between two suitors. The lucky one is a cad and cheats on her, the one who was rejected hangs around in the background to set things right whenever she has a problem.
La mujer que engañamos
1945
6.7After listening to the waltz "Carmelita", dedicated to his wife, President Diaz instructs Don Susanito seeking the composer Chucho Flores to give her a piano. Don Susanito located Chucho, a bohemian who lives drunk and surrounded by poets and artists. Don Susanito was named patron protector of artists and aspiring young stars of the stage, which leads to a series of adventures in the middle of songs, dances and loves.
México de mis recuerdos
1944
5.8The romance between an actress and a young man provokes the rejection of the class to which he belongs.
En el viejo Buenos Aires
1942
6.6After her lover commits suicide, Diana involves her fiancé and his nephew in a scheme to help her disappear with the corpse.
La Devoradora
1946
7.0The film is based on an old Argentine legend about an Aztec girl who is raped and murdered by vandals and dumped in a river. A flower blossoms at the place in which she was killed and misfortune falls upon the culprits.
Three Men of the River
1943
6.8Frivolous young dandy is trying to score with an operetta singer, but she ends up with his uncle.
Las tandas del principal
1949
10.0A woman helps a man escape from the police and ends up falling in love with him.
Una vez en la vida
1941
6.3No synopsis available yet.
Marry And You'll See
1946
5.4Young-ish widow forbids herself the pleasure of male company in deference to the deceased.
La viuda celosa
1946
6.3After her father's death, María Eugenia is pressured by Don Remigio Pérez who her father owed debts to, to marry her. Instead, the kindly Roberto de los Ríos pays off her debts and she goes to live at his country house with his two twin nephews Carlos and Leonardo. However, she faces an attempt to murder.
Extraña cita
1947
6.7This overlooked, if not almost forgotten romantic melodrama from Director Juan Jose Ortega, features a South American-born beauty named Lenora Amar, (whom the Mexican press quickly dubbed "The Brazilian Beauty"), in the title role. Although her acting career was rather short-lived because she chose to end it when she was just 27 years of age, her Zorina co-star and then-husband, Luis Aldas, (starring as" Bardo" in this film), seem to still have made an impact on movie audiences due to some favorable news publicity and the relative success of the handful of films the pair made.
Zorina
1949
6.7Nostalgic comedy about medical students circa 1905.
Adiós juventud
1943
5.7Socialist librarian gets mixed up in the family life of a spoiled rich girl and her screwball family.
La pícara Susana
1945
6.0No synopsis available yet.
Escuela para casadas
1949
1930s · 4 titles
6.3A white man seduces a local girl in an isolated Mayan village, which makes gods unhappy.
The Night of the Mayans
1939
6.0In a small city, talented María was trained as a singer by blind composer Joaquín. They both dream of making it big in the capital but, when they finally make the move, they find that success is not achieved without struggles.
Una luz en mi camino
1939
6.7Alberto is born in wartime, where his father dies a hero. He grows up effeminate. His mother sends him to military college where Fernando bullies him, but they become friends. When war comes, he has to face his fears.
El cobarde
1939
5.8A plastic surgeon goes mad when he discovers that his wife have an affair. He fakes her death and disfigure her and locks her in the cellar.
A Macabre Legacy
1939
