Luis Sandrini

Acting

Luis Sandrini

Born 1905-02-21 · Buenos Aires, Argentina

Luis Sandrini (1905-1980) was a prolific Argentine comic film actor and film producer. Widely considered as one of the most respected and most acclaimed Argentine comedians by the public and critics. He has made over 80 movie appearances throughout more than 4 decades.

Acting credits

El ladrón poster
6.7

Bank employee is tempted to make use of banknotes scheduled for destruction.

El ladrón

1947

Mi esqueleto poster
7.0

Believing that he is about to die, a man sells his skeleton for science.

Mi esqueleto

1959

Amor último modelo poster
7.0

The daughter of a fashion house owner falls in love with the designer of a competitor business.

Amor último modelo

1942

Mi amigo Luis poster
7.0

The story is based on the cadets of the Military College and their relationship with an older officer (1st Lieutenant) whom they see as a father.

Mi amigo Luis

1972

The Games Men Play poster
4.3

The vicissitudes of six different couples who arrive at a hostel in Buenos Aires called La Cigarra and are quarantined because of a supposed bubonic plague, causing all kinds of inconveniences and entanglements as a result of this forced coexistence.

The Games Men Play

1963

El barro humano poster
5.7

A marital conflict reaches the courts and becomes public comment.

El barro humano

1955

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

The Three Amateurs poster
6.4

The members of a Buenos Aires family have three hobbies — "berretines" in Buenos Aires slang — that keep them apart of their duties. Because of that, the family business is going down, and the only one who is concerned is the father, who hopes for his fourth son, an architect, to save the situation.

The Three Amateurs

1933

El diablo andaba en los choclos poster
10.0

Country boy moves to Buenos Aires, falls upward into a prestigious career. Meanwhile two idle-class playboys are running practical jokes on him that interfere with his personal life.

El diablo andaba en los choclos

1946

Pájaro loco poster
8.4

A gambling priest opposes a group of scammers.

Pájaro loco

1971

Boys on Board poster
10.0

A boy who is doing compulsory military service in the navy has a confrontation with a superior over the love of a woman.

Boys on Board

1936

El embajador poster
6.3

No synopsis available yet.

El embajador

1949

Don Juan Tenorio poster
10.0

A retired actor decides to donate his savings to his nephew and move to an old house, there he meets an old love.

Don Juan Tenorio

1949

¡Olé torero! poster
9.0

Manuel is a friendly taxi driver in Buenos Aires that helps its beginnings to a famous Spanish bullfighter dubbed "The Carthusian". He travels to Spain to marry a young Sevillian, rich and beautiful, and Manuel accompanies him on the trip, as administrator. During the voyage dies "The Carthusian" afflicted with a terrible disease, and before dying makes him promise to his friend Manuel to comfort Soledad, his fiancee. But to get to Seville is confused with the bullfighter.

¡Olé torero!

1949

Los chicos crecen poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Los chicos crecen

1976

Pimienta poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Pimienta

1966

Un elefante color ilusión poster
10.0

A boy travels from Chaco to Buenos Aires taking with him an elephant that saved from a circus.

Un elefante color ilusión

1970

¡Al diablo con este cura! poster
8.0

Quirky but lovable priest is transferred to a new parish, and discovers that his flock all need stern talkings-to.

¡Al diablo con este cura!

1967

How to Make an Argentine Film poster
7.0

Institutional short film planned and directed by Arturo S. Mom for the First Argentine Film Festival in Mar del Plata. The film shows the technical process by which an Argentine film is produced and emphasizes the professionalism and power of the national film industry. In this way, the story explains in a pedagogical way what is a script, a frame, a camera, a set sketch and a projected background, among others, and how a scene and the soundtrack of a film are recorded.

How to Make an Argentine Film

1948

Cuando los hombres hablan de mujeres poster
8.0

Three stories told in a Turkish bathhouse: two braggarts are mocked by a starlet; two Boca Juniors fans and love-hate for two River Plate fan girls; a man, father of 8 daughters, seeks the boy despite his wife.

Cuando los hombres hablan de mujeres

1967

Yo tengo fe poster
6.7

Palito Ortega recreates his own biography in this film. The most significant events in the singer's life and his personal struggle to achieve success are portrayed through the story of Martín Ríos. A humble boy from the countryside, born into a poor and large family in Tucumán, travels to the capital with the intention of becoming the most popular singer of his time. Despite adversity, Martín will not be deterred in his struggle to achieve success and love.

Yo tengo fe

1974

Al corazón poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Al corazón

1996

La fiesta de todos poster
10.0

Documentary about Argentina's victory in the 1978 FIFA World Cup, held in that country during its last dictatorship.

La fiesta de todos

1979

Argentinísima II poster
8.0

Argentinísima II is a film filmed in Argentine colors directed by Fernando Ayala and Héctor Olivera according to their own script that premiered on June 21, 1973 and whose main actors were Ginamaría Hidalgo, Eduardo Falú, Jaime Dávalos and Raúl Barboza. The continuation was planned for 1974 as Argentinísima III with a plot by Jaime Dávalos, but since problems with the title and intellectual property could not be overcome, it was not made.

Argentinísima II

1973

Behind the camera

Sombras en la frontera poster
10.0

Episodes of the action of the gendarmerie against smuggling.

Sombras en la frontera

1951

El diablo andaba en los choclos poster
10.0

Country boy moves to Buenos Aires, falls upward into a prestigious career. Meanwhile two idle-class playboys are running practical jokes on him that interfere with his personal life.

El diablo andaba en los choclos

1946

Kuma-Ching poster
9.0

A bellicose Eastern power organizes a complicated plan to obtain the services of Professor Diego de Alcántara, a Spanish atomic scientist and father of Lola, a famous singer.

Kuma-Ching

1969

Juan Globo poster
5.8

A humble boy can not be a sailor as he wishes, for lack of documents, and works as a driver for an old woman.

Juan Globo

1949

Marido de ocasión poster
7.0

When a woman decides to divorce her husband suspiciously changes his attitude from one day to the next.

Marido de ocasión

1952

La culpa la tuvo el otro poster
6.0

The adventures of a movie stuntman when the actor he was supposed to replace is murdered.

La culpa la tuvo el otro

1950

El hombre que hizo el milagro poster
10.0

A village barber washes the hair of a blind man who gets soap in his eyes and regains his sight.

El hombre que hizo el milagro

1958

Cuando los duendes cazan perdices poster
7.6

Eulogio Soto lives with his mother. To please her, he tries to locate her brother because she will have to undergo a delicate eye operation and he fears that he will never be able to see her face again. The youngest son, who does not know who his real family is, lives in a luxurious mansion. In the search for his lost brother, Eulogio will be "found" by a woman who, like a goblin, makes life impossible for him to help him by all means.

Cuando los duendes cazan perdices

1955

El seductor poster
6.5

A train stops for a break in the station of a small town. That random moment allows the railway chief to fall in love with a beautiful passenger, who ends up wrapping him in a complex police plot.

El seductor

1950