Luis Sandrini

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

Film credits

1970s · 13 titles

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

That's life poster
10.0

Tells the story, in the key of comedy of customs, of a typical bourgeois home in Buenos Aires for three decades.

That's life

1977

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

El canto cuenta su historia poster
10.0

A 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

Pájaro loco poster
8.4

A gambling priest opposes a group of scammers.

Pájaro loco

1971

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

Hoy le toca a mi mujer poster
9.0

In 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

The Bomb-thrower Teacher poster
6.6

The students of a school create a big mess for their favorite teacher to return to school.

The Bomb-thrower Teacher

1972

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

Los chicos crecen poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Los chicos crecen

1976

El casamiento de Laucha poster
7.0

Drifter finds a steady job, meets a woman, settles down.

El casamiento de Laucha

1977

La valija poster
10.0

The 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

Pimienta y Pimentón poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Pimienta y Pimentón

1970

1960s · 10 titles

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

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

Placeres conyugales poster
5.7

A matrimony from the beginning of the XX century searches for marital pleasures after ten years of marriage.

Placeres conyugales

1964

¡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

Viaje de una noche de verano poster
8.0

A group of tourists travel Buenos Aires by bus.

Viaje de una noche de verano

1965

Un tipo de sangre poster
9.5

A man whose blood type is hard to obtain gets possession of a coat where pickpocketers hide their stolen goods.

Un tipo de sangre

1960

En mi casa mando yo poster
10.0

Tormented by the messy and frivolous life of his family, a father is forced to move away from home.

En mi casa mando yo

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

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

No artwork available
8.0

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

1940s · 17 titles

The House of the Millions poster
7.0

A 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

El ladrón poster
6.7

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

El ladrón

1947

Yo soy tu padre poster
5.8

No synopsis available yet.

Yo soy tu padre

1948

El diamante del maharajá poster
6.0

Toribio poses as a sultan enjoying the female company of the harem.

El diamante del maharajá

1946

No artwork available
5.5

No synopsis available yet.

La vida íntima de Marco Antonio y Cleopatra

1947

La suerte llama tres veces poster
7.0

When 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

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

The Unhappiest Man in Town poster
8.0

A 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

¡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

The Two Rivals poster
8.5

Two reporters from rival newspapers compete to win over women and investigate a gang of criminals.

The Two Rivals

1944

La danza de la fortuna poster
6.0

A 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

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

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

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

Un bebé de contrabando poster
9.0

A naive car caretaker must take care of a baby and search for his father.

Un bebé de contrabando

1940

Capitán Veneno poster
9.0

A widow who lives with her two daughters, takes care of an officer who hates women. They will change him.

Capitán Veneno

1943

El embajador poster
6.3

No synopsis available yet.

El embajador

1949

1930s · 8 titles

Series credits

Behind the camera

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

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

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

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, he suspiciously changes his attitude from one day to the next.

Marido de ocasión

1952

Sombras en la frontera poster
10.0

Episodes of the action of the gendarmerie against smuggling.

Sombras en la frontera

1951

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

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

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