Zelmar Gueñol

Acting

Zelmar Gueñol

Born 1920-07-22 · Buenos Aires, Argentina

Acting credits

El perseguidor poster
6.3

The story of a saxophonist with delusions of persecution that is being destroyed little by little by means of alcohol, drugs and sex. A story by Cortázar inspired by the life of Charlie Parker, it shows a fragmented narration and remarkable formal aspects.

El perseguidor

1965

Camila poster
7.2

In 1847 Buenos Aires, a young noblewoman and a young Jesuit fall in love, much to the disapproval of her family and the Church.

Camila

1984

Che, OVNI poster
7.0

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

Che, OVNI

1968

Furia en la isla poster
6.8

A beautiful woman who lives on an island is constantly harassed by men.

Furia en la isla

1978

Brief Heaven poster
6.3

A young middle-class man and a young girl who has left the slums to work as a prostitute meet by chance on the Plaza de los Ingleses, opposite the emblematic Retiro station in Buenos Aires.

Brief Heaven

1969

Trompada 45 poster
8.0

In their purpose of going to Hollywood ¨Los Cinco Grandes del Buen Humor" are going to stop in Texas.

Trompada 45

1953

Diary of a Pig War poster
5.8

In Buenos Aires, Argentina, Isidoro Vidal and his friends, who are in the transition between maturity and old age, watch in stupefaction and helplessness as gangs of extremely violent young men roam the streets murdering elderly people with absolute impunity.

Diary of a Pig War

1975

Criminal Affair poster
5.3

A renowned author, college professor and criminologist is given a year off in order to write his latest book. His arrival in Buenos Aires gives him the opportunity to work on his true project, planning and pulling off the perfect crime.

Criminal Affair

1968

Lucía poster
10.0

"Lucía" is an Argentine-American evangelist propaganda color film directed by Dick Ross that was filmed in 1963 but was never released commercially in Argentina. The film was processed in Hollywood and also filmed in an English-spoken version.

Lucía

1966

Cuidado con las imitaciones poster
7.0

An American producer arrives in Argentina searching for its most representative artists to film a movie. A group of imitators will try to convince him that they are the real artists he is looking for. The film was conceived as a showcase for the successful radio group "La Cruzada del Buen Humor", the precursor to what would later become "Los Cinco Grandes del Buen Humor", alongside the Cuban vedette Blanquita Amaro.

Cuidado con las imitaciones

1948

No artwork available
NR

Lucrecia Borgia's brothers seek power by marrying and divorcing her with various suitors.

Lucrecia Borgia

1947

Jewish Gauchos poster
7.1

The film recreates the arrival of a group of Jewish immigrants fleeing persecution in Czarist Russia, establishing the first Hebrew colonies in the province of Entre Rios, Argentina.

Jewish Gauchos

1975

Propiedad poster
10.0

Mario Soffici's last film. The story is about a beautiful young woman who is criticized by the town's old gossip women and is defended by a generous priest. She has an amorous relationship with a young orphan.

Propiedad

1962

Africa Laughs poster
9.0

Four men, known for their reckless actions, are arrested one night after ruining a dinner party. They are soon released and go to visit their uncle who is sick. The four of them decide to travel to Africa to try to find a cure for their uncle, but they get into a big mess.

Africa Laughs

1956

The National Shotgun poster
6.8

A catalan manufacturer of intercoms travels to Madrid, accompanied by his mistress, to attend a hunt that he has organized. Its main purpose is to mix with people of high society to improve their business. All seems well until the owner of the farm shows full authority over James, who is the real organizer of the meeting. The celebration is diverse characters who live next to absurd situations.

The National Shotgun

1978

Locuras, tiros y mambo poster
7.0

Five friends join a Cuban to face a powerful gang that wants to take over the theater in which they perform.

Locuras, tiros y mambo

1951

Desalmados en pena poster
7.0

In a mysterious farm house, a drug is made to resurrect people.

Desalmados en pena

1954

Los peores del barrio poster
10.0

The members of a neighborhood club are evicted due to complaints from a neighbor.

Los peores del barrio

1955

La patrulla chiflada poster
10.0

As stowaways, the "Big Five of Good Humor" arrive in Casablanca. There they will launch themselves in defense of four girls kidnapped by a man, about to be sold to the harem of an Arab sheikh.

La patrulla chiflada

1952

Veraneo en Mar del Plata poster
7.0

The Five Greats of Good Humor (Los Cinco Grandes Del Buen Humor), a group of comic actors that emerged in the 1940s: Luz, Carret, Gueñol, Rico and Cambón, film a movie in Mar del Plata.

Veraneo en Mar del Plata

1954

Vigilantes y ladrones poster
10.0

The "Cinco Grandes del Buen Humor" look for a hidden treasure in the basement of a hotel.

Vigilantes y ladrones

1952

The Innocents poster
5.9

A bank employee changes his life radically after the tragic death of his wife in a car accident along with a widower industrial.

The Innocents

1963

Humo de marihuana poster
6.0

A doctor is involved in substance trafficking while investigating the death of his wife.

Humo de marihuana

1968

The Hippie Teacher poster
6.0

Luis Sandrini plays a college professor who, because of his freethinking attitudes and concerns for moral questions over matters of business, has more in common with his students than his colleagues.

The Hippie Teacher

1969