Julio De Grazia

Acting

Julio De Grazia

Born 1929-07-14 · Buenos Aires, Argentina

Julio De Grazia was born on July 14, 1920 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He was an actor and director, known for Tiempo de revancha (1981), Esperando la carroza (1985) and El arreglo (1983). He was married to María Estela Lorca. He died on May 18, 1989 in Buenos Aires after battling deep depression and loneliness, he committed suicide by shooting himself.

Acting credits

Convención de vagabundos poster
9.0

A vagabond receives a large fortune as an inheritance and summons his peers to decide what to do with it.

Convención de vagabundos

1965

Open Day and Night poster
6.6

A motel that is open all day specializes in beautiful women, and a couple of men decide to visit their rooms.

Open Day and Night

1981

Sweet Money poster
6.9

A man meets a former military service buddy who offers him a good deal. Money starts pouring in, but things change from one day to the next.

Sweet Money

1982

Billetes, billetes... poster
9.0

A merchant who is a good father has no scruples to earn money and engage in a business that harms the State.

Billetes, billetes...

1988

The Priest Lorenzo poster
7.5

A heart-warming and entertaining chronicle of Salesian priest Lorenzo Massa. His work in the Almagro neighborhood of Buenos Aires in the early 1900s led to the founding of San Lorenzo de Almagro, one of the best soccer clubs in Argentina. (Pope Francis, who grew up in this neighborhood in the 1940s, is a fan). Father Massa (Ángel Magaña), an athletic young priest, is sent to serve a working class community, where he initially faces indifference and hostility. Following the conventions of the Hollywood biopic, the film describes the characters and their plights with affection, and a dash of drama, as they are changed by the example of the priest.

The Priest Lorenzo

1954

Eversmile New Jersey poster
5.3

Traveling dentist O'Connell traverses South America on his motorcycle for the 'Eversmile' foundation of New Jersey, in a fight not only against cavities, but also against fear, ignorance, indifference - and established antediluvian dentists. During a stop at a lonesome garage he meets Estella, who is supposed to marry a few days later. However she'd rather come with him - to meet a former boyfriend in another town, she says. Expecting problems, he refuses to take her, but she tricks him into it and then tries hard to convince him of her qualities and let her stay with him.

Eversmile New Jersey

1989

Waiting for the Hearse poster
8.1

Mama Cora, who is almost eighty years old, has three sons and a daughter. She lives with one of them, who has serious financial problems. The family meets one day to celebrate an anniversary meal, and that is when the problem arises: which of them will take care of her?

Waiting for the Hearse

1985

Time for Revenge poster
7.5

Two coworkers decide to blackmail the corrupt demolition company they work for by setting up a fake accident.

Time for Revenge

1981

The Stranger poster
6.2

Bonnie Bedilia stars in this psychological thriller about a woman who witnesses a murder and then flees. During her escape, she has a car accident. She becomes an amnesia victim and although, she doesn't know her own identity, is able to describe the murder, but doesn't remember where it occurred or who was involved.

The Stranger

1987

Minguito Tinguitela, papá poster
7.0

Minguito meets a boy, and he takes him to live with him.

Minguito Tinguitela, papá

1974

Superagentes y titanes poster
8.0

A major employer coming into the country to produce a film with the famous Titans fighters "Catch". The bold super agents "Mojarrita" and "Dolphin" custody van to the airport, and is made ​​available to him, announcing the hiring of the Mummy for his film. But a strange rival businessman named "The Mask" gives the order to kidnap the Mummy. The Super Agents and Troup Titans started the persecution and dangerous actions to try to stop the criminals. rituals.

Superagentes y titanes

1983

Last Days of the Victim poster
7.4

Mendizábal, a hit man, its ordered by his anonymous clients to murder a man. But in the precise and obsessive persecution, he will discover that he is only part of a game that doesn't belong to him, a web at the service of greater interests.

Last Days of the Victim

1982

The Knights of the Round Bed poster
7.1

Alberto, Jorge, Ricardo and Tristan are employees of a shoe store, all are married and share the friendship also between their wives. The 4 friends, faithful to the rogue style of Buenos Aires, go out of their way to have love affairs with the beautiful customers of the shoe store, and for that purpose one day they decide to rent, secretly, an apartment to use as a "bulín". The problems begin from then on, as everyone wants to be the first to release it and then, successively, take turns for their adventures. As is to be expected, it does not take long for the first entanglements to appear, while their wives seem to begin to suspect the adventures of these four typical Buenos Aires chantas.

The Knights of the Round Bed

1973

In Retirement poster
5.8

A former Triple A (Argentine anti-communist alliance) is abandoned by his former colleagues after the Argentine dictatorship falls, in the course of his solitude he slowly becomes more insane and falls further into dementia, at the same time as one of the parents of the many children that he murdered and tortured during the dictatorship persecute him for revenge.

In Retirement

1984

Pobre, pero honrado poster
NR

To keep his daughter away from a gold digger, a millionaire hires a young man to make her fall in love.

Pobre, pero honrado

1955

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

The Lion's Share poster
6.6

Story of a ordinary human being who, by chance, take possession of the money that was stolen from a bank, thinking that will solve all his problems.

The Lion's Share

1978

Psexoanálisis poster
6.0

A profiteer pretends to be a psychoanalyst to conquer women with sexual trauma.

Psexoanálisis

1968

La fin del mundo poster
9.0

A con man who lives with his three aunts in a mansion takes refuge in a slum when he is wanted by the police.

La fin del mundo

1963

Deadly Revenge poster
6.0

When the new don discovers that sadistic mobsters were responsible for the death of his young son, he wreaks a deadly revenge.

Deadly Revenge

1983

Violated Love poster
5.0

A wealthy man comes to Buenos Aires to avenge the death of his young brother. He starts a relation with a suggestive blonde singer from a nightclub run by a mafia boss. One of the musical numbers is made by Michelle, a well-known American transvestite and is the first appearance of a transvestite in an Argentine film, something daring for the time.

Violated Love

1963

Los chiflados dan el golpe poster
7.0

When the mother of a sailor who had written to him that he was the commander appears on the ship, two friends help him in the deception.

Los chiflados dan el golpe

1975

Funny Dirty Little War poster
6.7

A small revolution breaks out in a small Argentine town, as one group of Peronists calls they newly elected peronist a communist. The newly elected official enlists the aid of allies ranging from the town drunk to young peronists to help hold his post. What follows is a slapstick war with a serious message.

Funny Dirty Little War

1983

Blue-Eyed poster
10.0

In this suspense story, the main character, Johann Neudorff, immigrated to Argentina from Germany after World War Two, and has become a successful businessman there. He is unconcerned with the nature of the government there, which at the time of this film (1978) is a military dictatorship. His comfortable existence is disrupted when he discovers that his beloved daughter Laura has become the lover of a political activist who is on the military's hit list. When his daughter is kidnapped, Johann attempts to use his government connections to free both her and her lover. However, his son Alfredo undermines his efforts, and Johann himself is incarcerated in a military prison, but not before he discovers that his daughter and her lover are both dead, killed by the regime.

Blue-Eyed

1989

Behind the camera