
Acting
Luis Sandrini
Born — Died
1905-02-21 — 1980-07-05
Place of birth
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Known for
Acting
Credits
70 titles
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.
Known for
4.3The 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
8.0No synopsis available yet.
Pimienta TV
1966
8.0Three 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
5.7A matrimony from the beginning of the XX century searches for marital pleasures after ten years of marriage.
Placeres conyugales
1964
7.0A capricious "new rich" makes her employees suffer with her moods, until she hires a poor servant that can make her open up.
The House of the Millions
1942
6.7Bank employee is tempted to make use of banknotes scheduled for destruction.
El ladrón
1947
Film credits
1990s · 1 titles
1980s · 3 titles
9.0A village doctor is involved in a shady business.
El Diablo metió la pata
1980
6.0A rebel son decides not to follow in his father's footsteps in order to follow his own dreams of fame and popularity.
¡Qué linda es mi familia!
1980
7.0A girl arrives in Buenos Aires from Catamarca and fulfills her dream of being an actress.
Frutilla
1980
1970s · 13 titles
10.0Documentary about Argentina's victory in the 1978 FIFA World Cup, held in that country during its last dictatorship.
La fiesta de todos
1979
10.0Tells the story, in the key of comedy of customs, of a typical bourgeois home in Buenos Aires for three decades.
That's life
1977
7.0The 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
10.0A parade of musical paintings that includes fragments of Argentine films and a Proartel television program that Channel 13 broadcast in 1965.
El canto cuenta su historia
1976
8.4A gambling priest opposes a group of scammers.
Pájaro loco
1971
6.7Palito 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
9.0In the wake of the husband's infidelity, a mature marriage faces separation. But his daughter, in complicity with the boyfriend and the father, hatch a plan to make friends with them.
Hoy le toca a mi mujer
1973
6.6The students of a school create a big mess for their favorite teacher to return to school.
The Bomb-thrower Teacher
1972
10.0A boy travels from Chaco to Buenos Aires taking with him an elephant that saved from a circus.
Un elefante color ilusión
1970
10.0No synopsis available yet.
Los chicos crecen
1976
7.0Drifter finds a steady job, meets a woman, settles down.
El casamiento de Laucha
1977
10.0The story of a middle-class married couple who really loves each other, but who are unable to transmit their feelings, while the routine corrodes their relationship.
La valija
1971
8.0No synopsis available yet.
Pimienta y Pimentón
1970
1960s · 10 titles
4.3The 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
8.0Three 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
5.7A matrimony from the beginning of the XX century searches for marital pleasures after ten years of marriage.
Placeres conyugales
1964
8.0Quirky 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
8.0A group of tourists travel Buenos Aires by bus.
Viaje de una noche de verano
1965
9.5A man whose blood type is hard to obtain gets possession of a coat where pickpocketers hide their stolen goods.
Un tipo de sangre
1960
10.0Tormented by the messy and frivolous life of his family, a father is forced to move away from home.
En mi casa mando yo
1968
6.0Luis 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
9.0A 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
A professor stays in a mysterious castle where all kinds of strange beings live, such as the Wolf Man, the Rubber Boy, the Legless Man, the Living Torso, among others.
El castillo de los monstruos
1964
1950s · 8 titles
9.0A humble boy who works in a theater company must become the husband of an actress so that she can get her son back.
Me casé con una estrella
1951
7.0Believing that he is about to die, a man sells his skeleton for science.
Mi esqueleto
1959
10.0A 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
9.0No synopsis available yet.
El seductor de Granada
1953
6.0The adventures of a movie stuntman when the actor he was supposed to replace is murdered.
La culpa la tuvo el otro
1950
8.5No synopsis available yet.
Maldición gitana
1953
5.7A marital conflict reaches the courts and becomes public comment.
El barro humano
1955
7.6Eulogio 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
1940s · 17 titles
7.0A capricious "new rich" makes her employees suffer with her moods, until she hires a poor servant that can make her open up.
The House of the Millions
1942
6.7Bank employee is tempted to make use of banknotes scheduled for destruction.
El ladrón
1947
5.8No synopsis available yet.
Yo soy tu padre
1948
6.0Toribio poses as a sultan enjoying the female company of the harem.
El diamante del maharajá
1946
No synopsis available yet.
La vida íntima de Marco Antonio y Cleopatra
1947
7.0When a man agrees to join a gang of criminals, his life becomes a complicated labyrinth that he will have to leave in order to be saved.
La suerte llama tres veces
1943
10.0Country 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
8.0A shy man marries the daughter of a local warlord, works as a municipal chief of staff, witnesses numerous injustices and rebels himself.
The Unhappiest Man in Town
1941
9.0Manuel 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
8.5Two reporters from rival newspapers compete to win over women and investigate a gang of criminals.
The Two Rivals
1944
6.0A millionaire woman marries her young butler in articulo mortis and he wastes the whole fortune but she ends up recovering. The marriage will experience certain vicissitudes until they reach their dance of fortune.
La danza de la fortuna
1944
5.8A 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
7.0The daughter of a fashion house owner falls in love with the designer of a competitor business.
Amor último modelo
1942
7.0Institutional 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
9.0A naive car caretaker must take care of a baby and search for his father.
Un bebé de contrabando
1940
9.0A widow who lives with her two daughters, takes care of an officer who hates women. They will change him.
Capitán Veneno
1943
6.3No synopsis available yet.
El embajador
1949
1930s · 8 titles
10.0A 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
6.7A town football player becomes a figure for his strange gift of gaining strength by listening to the barking of a dog.
El cañonero de Giles
1937
7.0A street newspaper vendor pretends to be the son of a rich man and falls in love with his supposed sister.
El canillita y la dama
1936
6.0No synopsis available yet.
La casa de Quirós
1937
7.8To save the daughter of a condemned man, an ice cream man pawns his word of honor.
Palabra de honor
1939
NRFilm directed and scripted by John Dalton at the beginning of his stay in Argentina. Alton decided to make an independent project under the name of Alton Films, and summoned Luis Sandrini to star it. The result was catastrophic and all copies of the film were destroyed, therefore it is considered to be totally lost.
El hijo de papá
1933
6.6A rich man offers marriage to a humble girl to be able to get her but he is discovered in his lie.
Don Quijote del Altillo
1936
6.4The 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
Series credits
Behind the camera
10.0A 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
10.0Country 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
6.0The adventures of a movie stuntman when the actor he was supposed to replace is murdered.
La culpa la tuvo el otro
1950
5.8A 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
7.0When a woman decides to divorce her husband, he suspiciously changes his attitude from one day to the next.
Marido de ocasión
1952
10.0Episodes of the action of the gendarmerie against smuggling.
Sombras en la frontera
1951
7.6Eulogio 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
9.0A 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
6.5A 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

