Francisco Pablo Donadío

Acting

Francisco Pablo Donadío

Born 1887-12-31 · Buenos Aires City, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Francisco Donadío, whose full name was Francisco Pablo Donadío, was an actor and film director who was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1888 and died in the same city in 1968. After having initiated in the theater in his country, Donadío traveled to Italy, where he acted along with Eleonora Duse and Ermete Zacconi and took part in some silent film productions such as The Last Days of Pompeii and Quo Vadis. Upon returning to Argentina in the 1920s, he was part of the theater companies led by Mecha Ortiz and Luisa Vehil. He debuted at the local cinema in 1925 directing the film without sound El caballero de la rambla; already in the stage of the sonorous one directed Poncho white (1936) and it intervened in diverse films, generally in supporting papers. He died in Buenos Aires in 1968. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Acting credits

Los Tres Mosqueteros poster
7.0

An attempt to bring the famous novel by Dumas to the cinema, where the promenades of Montevideo such as Parque Rivera and the Castillo del Parque Rodó are transformed into French settings.

Los Tres Mosqueteros

1946

Sin familia poster
10.0

The harsh trials faced by an adolescent without a family.

Sin familia

1958

Goodbye Boys poster
6.0

Boyhood friends grow up, form a tango orchestra, one of them writes a brilliant song commemorating their friendship before he dies.

Goodbye Boys

1955

That Forward Center Dies at Dawn poster
6.5

Cacho Garibaldi is the soccer player of the moment, his goals lead to delirium fans. When an eccentric millionaire named Lupus buys his transfer, he expects to end up on a major team. Instead, he discovers the millionaire's goal in life is to collect the best -not art or stamps- but people.

That Forward Center Dies at Dawn

1961

Embrujo poster
8.0

The love story between Emperor Pedro I of Brazil, after the independence of the country, and Domitila de Castro, Marchioness of Santos.

Embrujo

1941

Centauros del pasado poster
9.0

Film about the life of Francisco Ramírez, leader of Entre Ríos.

Centauros del pasado

1944

El último payador poster
7.8

The film tells the story of the payador José Betinotti, a mythical character in Argentine music. It faithfully reconstructs the scenarios of the early twentieth century: the workers' struggles, the party meetings of the caudillos and the circus criollo, the cradle of Argentine theater and music.

El último payador

1950

Pampa y cielo poster
9.0

A drunken and lazy gaucho is helped by another, pious and just.

Pampa y cielo

1938

El hijo del crack poster
6.0

A famous football player faces retirement, but his son is still his most faithful fan.

El hijo del crack

1953

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

Love at First Sight poster
7.5

Matilda, a girl from a wealthy family, is in love with Mario de Larosa, a singer and heartthrob who is adored by women everywhere. She knows all his songs by heart and prays to heaven to give her the opportunity to meet her idol in person. Her dreams come true — Mario is scheduled to sign autographs at an appliance and record store, and Matilda and her cousin rush to this fateful meeting, which will fundamentally change the lives of the young woman and Mario himself...

Love at First Sight

1956

La rubia Mireya poster
9.5

The misadventures of a woman and her failed relationships. Everything is represented through the tango mythology.

La rubia Mireya

1948

La casta Susana poster
5.8

The wife of an officer receives a "prize for virtue" from one of her many lovers, causing several misunderstandings.

La casta Susana

1944

Esposa último modelo poster
6.8

When a young woman who knows nothing about housework falls in love, her grandmother and nanny make her seem like the ideal housewife in front of her boyfriend.

Esposa último modelo

1950

La doctora Castañuelas poster
7.0

Love will reveal the double life of a woman who is a scientist by day and a singer by night.

La doctora Castañuelas

1950

Somos todos inquilinos poster
9.0

Movie divided in three episodes: a methodic man believes he's near his death and starts spending other people's money; to cure his husband's gambling addiction a woman becomes a horse races expert; a dancer and a soprano bother each other until they fall in love.

Somos todos inquilinos

1954

An Ideal Husband poster
8.0

A woman forces a politician not to report a big scam.

An Ideal Husband

1947

Mi mujer está loca poster
10.0

Due to something very strange, a woman transforms from a housewife into a vedette.

Mi mujer está loca

1952

La novela de un joven pobre poster
7.5

After losing all his fortune, a man assumes his poverty with dignity, confidence and effort. He faces all adversities and his nobility and perseverance make him succeed and be happy with the woman he loves.

La novela de un joven pobre

1942

Trees Die Standing poster
7.3

For over twenty years, an elderly man convinces his wife that their long-lost criminal grandson has changed his ways to become a successful professional and loving husband. When he learns of his grandson’s death, he decides to keep yet another secret and arranges for a false couple to pose as their exiled grandson and his wife. As the couple enters, uncertainties arise. Will they be able to convince her?

Trees Die Standing

1951

La piel de zapa poster
8.0

A man in debt obtains a miraculous skin that makes all his wishes come true but at the cost of shortening his life.

La piel de zapa

1943

Todo un héroe poster
10.0

A shy person is confused with a man that saved a woman from drowning, and he is seen as a hero.

Todo un héroe

1949

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9.0

An impulsive actress abandons a film shoot and is replaced by a dressmaker, and the former's husband hires her to impersonate her in front of his future in-laws.

La otra y yo

1949

El juego del amor y del azar poster
7.4

When the man her father wants to impose on her as a husband is coming home, a young woman changes her personality with her maid. The film is set in two periods, the contemporary to the realization and the times of Louis XV.

El juego del amor y del azar

1944

Behind the camera