Hugo del Carril

Acting

Hugo del Carril

Born — Died

1912-11-27 — 1989-08-13

Place of birth

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Known for

Acting

Credits

76 titles

Piero Bruno Hugo Fontana Bertani, known as Hugo del Carril (November 30, 1912 - August 13, 1989), was an Argentine film actor, film director and tango singer of the classic era. He began his career as a singer of tango choruses at the age of fifteen. He made his film debut as an actor in 1937 and in 1949 as a director. In 1948 he would go on to immortality as the voice of La Marcha Peronista, for which he would be persecuted and imprisoned in 1955 after the coup against the government of Juan Domingo Perón.

Known for

Film credits

1960s · 10 titles

1950s · 9 titles

Dark River poster
7.6

The Peralta brothers work in the countryside the Alto Paraná. There they will meet subhuman working conditions. Finally, the workers rise and harshly punish their exploiters.

Dark River

1952

Vida nocturna poster
8.5

A cabaret in Buenos Aires on Christmas night.

Vida nocturna

1955

Fire in the Flesh poster
5.0

Physicist Theodore Heldt, his young daughter Fern and his assistant Larry Gordon, on board a ship for a scientific expedition, are shipwrecked in the Pacific Ocean after a terrible storm. They find themselves safe and sound on an exotic desert island paradise. Several years pass, the professor dies and Fern and Larry, long in love and alone in the world, are united. One day, the ship they'd been waiting for appears, but the sailors are three smugglers who, instead of representing salvation, pose a threat to the young couple.

Fire in the Flesh

1958

Beyond Oblivion poster
7.9

After a period of sorrow, Fernando de Arellano, a rich businessman who has recently lost his young wife Blanca from a serious ilness, meets Mónica, who looks identical to her.

Beyond Oblivion

1956

El último perro poster
8.1

During the second half of the 19th century, a young survivor is saved in the Argentine pampas by a man she ends up marrying.

El último perro

1956

The Black Man Who Had a White Soul poster
7.3

Peter Ward is a black singer who arrives to Madrid in 1907. He falls in love with Emma, and he offers her to be her dancer. She is restrained by her racial prejudices which will lead to an inevitable separation between them.

The Black Man Who Had a White Soul

1951

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

Las tierras blancas poster
10.0

The miserable life of the inhabitants of a town in Santiago del Estero, between crime, revenge and drought.

Las tierras blancas

1959

Surcos de sangre poster
8.0

Melodrama that tells the tragedy of a peasant family.

Surcos de sangre

1950

1940s · 19 titles

Pobre mi madre querida poster
6.0

Contrary to the principles of his mother and sister, a boy falls in love with a woman of light life.

Pobre mi madre querida

1948

Pasión imposible poster
NR

A girl marries a writer, with whom her older sister is also in love; and when she gets sick, her sister takes care of her family.

Pasión imposible

1943

No artwork available
7.0

A boy's family wants him to marry a girl of the same position even though he is in love with another girl.

Cuando canta el corazón

1941

El astro del tango poster
7.5

Accidental meeting between a pop-music superstar and a politician's daughter turns into a big romance... but class distinctions, and scandal in the family.

El astro del tango

1940

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

Confesión poster
7.5

Group of tango musicians picks up an aspiring young chanteuse at one of their whistle stop engagements; film focuses on their collective path to stardom, romantic conflicts between the woman and two guys in the band and some peripheral crime-drama stuff.

Confesión

1940

La noche y tú poster
5.8

Tango singer exploits his popularity in high society to commit crimes.

La noche y tú

1946

The Circus Cavalcade poster
7.2

The lives, loves and vicissitudes of a group of circus performers in the Argentine Pampas around the turn of the century are played out in this drama with songs.

The Circus Cavalcade

1945

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

La canción de los barrios poster
6.0

A young man starts working as a laborer in his father's shipyards and discovers a series of injustices.

La canción de los barrios

1941

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

En la luz de una estrella poster
9.0

A successful tango singer struggles to cope with the demands and opportunities of fame.

En la luz de una estrella

1941

No artwork available
9.0

Musical with some of Argentina's most famous singers.

Buenos Aires canta

1947

La cumparsita poster
6.4

A reporter and tango singer is sent to the war zone in 1916, where he loses his memory.

La cumparsita

1947

A media luz poster
6.7

Tango singer exploits the women in his life. Learns a valuable life-lesson.

A media luz

1947

El socio poster
5.8

A former singer, determined to succeed in business, comes up with a partner and just believing their existence. In the end, wake up ...

El socio

1946

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

Historia del 900 poster
7.1

In the Buenos Aires of 1900, a man seeks to avenge the death of his brother, killed at the exit of a fight.

Historia del 900

1949

1930s · 7 titles

Gente bien poster
7.2

A single mother who is denied work to support the son she had with the aristocrat who had seduced her, is helped by a singer, a director of orchestra and an American female singer, who get her shelter in the humble pension where they live.

Gente bien

1939

Three Argentines in Paris poster
7.0

Three Argentines who live in Paris and dream of returning to Buenos Aires but lack resources for the passage, find their opportunity when a landowner, a business man and his daughter arrive in Paris. In a game of rigged poker the three anchors obtain the money for the passages from the newcomers; it happens however that the employer has made an embezzlement and will go to jail if he does not return the money. The character represented by Parravicini, who is the true father of his adopted daughter, gives him the money won to solve his problem and the three remain in Paris to see them in an end with the best poetry of Romero crossing a bridge under the mist , silent, once again anchored but with the happy sadness of recovered self-esteem.

Three Argentines in Paris

1938

Honeysuckle poster
6.7

A film star enjoys a romance with the daughter of a puppeteer, but his criminal past threatens to ruin it.

Honeysuckle

1938

Los muchachos de antes no usaban gomina poster
7.0

A Young man from a wealthy family hide them his attraction for tango culture of arrabal. In a milonga he fell in love with Mirella and he have a knife fight with all others guapos that want her, he won. Time pass and Mirella became a mistress but this situation is unstable because of the society prejudices.

Los muchachos de antes no usaban gomina

1937

La vida es un tango poster
7.1

Romance - with its ruptures and reunions - between a girl and a boy who want to succeed with the tango.

La vida es un tango

1939

La vida de Carlos Gardel poster
6.0

The life, hardships, love affairs, triumphs and failures of the world-renowned tango singer Carlos Gardel.

La vida de Carlos Gardel

1939

La vuelta de Rocha poster
10.0

A sailor and a tango singer fall in love. To protect her, the man takes her to live with his family. But before embarking, he is robbed, and the circumstances accuse the girl of being an accomplice of the criminals.

La vuelta de Rocha

1937

Behind the camera

The Vampire of Santiago poster
10.0

In seventeenth century's Chile a woman kills her lover because she wants to conquer a priest.

The Vampire of Santiago

1955

No artwork available
NR

En marcha... is a medium-length film from 1964 that tells the story of the Luz y Fuerza trade union with the direction and story of Hugo del Carril.

En marcha…

1964

Culpable poster
7.6

A criminal confronts the police by firing at them with a machine gun from the first floor of a villa on the outskirts of Buenos Aires and occasionally shooting down a policeman. The gunman has time to reflect, to load his gun, to run from one window to the other. Whoever leads the police notices the futility of his efforts and suspends the fire.

Culpable

1960

I Did Kill Facundo poster
8.5

The story of Santos Pérez, the man who murdered caudillo Facundo Quiroga in 1835.

I Did Kill Facundo

1975

I Did Kill Facundo poster
8.5

The story of Santos Pérez, the man who murdered caudillo Facundo Quiroga in 1835.

I Did Kill Facundo

1975

Dark River poster
7.6

The Peralta brothers work in the countryside the Alto Paraná. There they will meet subhuman working conditions. Finally, the workers rise and harshly punish their exploiters.

Dark River

1952

Amorina poster
8.5

A woman feels abandoned by her husband and children.

Amorina

1961

Beyond Oblivion poster
7.9

After a period of sorrow, Fernando de Arellano, a rich businessman who has recently lost his young wife Blanca from a serious ilness, meets Mónica, who looks identical to her.

Beyond Oblivion

1956

The Black Man Who Had a White Soul poster
7.3

Peter Ward is a black singer who arrives to Madrid in 1907. He falls in love with Emma, and he offers her to be her dancer. She is restrained by her racial prejudices which will lead to an inevitable separation between them.

The Black Man Who Had a White Soul

1951

The Black Man Who Had a White Soul poster
7.3

Peter Ward is a black singer who arrives to Madrid in 1907. He falls in love with Emma, and he offers her to be her dancer. She is restrained by her racial prejudices which will lead to an inevitable separation between them.

The Black Man Who Had a White Soul

1951

Esta tierra es mía poster
7.0

The life of the cotton workers in the Chaco and its struggle for wages.

Esta tierra es mía

1961

Good Night, Buenos Aires poster
7.0

Various musical episodes make up this film-magazine in which Del Carril tried to merge his two great passions: cinema and tango.

Good Night, Buenos Aires

1964

Good Night, Buenos Aires poster
7.0

Various musical episodes make up this film-magazine in which Del Carril tried to merge his two great passions: cinema and tango.

Good Night, Buenos Aires

1964

Una cita con la vida poster
8.0

The love story between two teenagers, children of incomprehensible parents.

Una cita con la vida

1958

Una cita con la vida poster
8.0

The love story between two teenagers, children of incomprehensible parents.

Una cita con la vida

1958

La sentencia poster
9.0

A young man discovers an infidelity and kills his wife. He was in love with this girl and had married her to get her out of a correctional institute.

La sentencia

1964

La sentencia poster
9.0

A young man discovers an infidelity and kills his wife. He was in love with this girl and had married her to get her out of a correctional institute.

La sentencia

1964

Las tierras blancas poster
10.0

The miserable life of the inhabitants of a town in Santiago del Estero, between crime, revenge and drought.

Las tierras blancas

1959

Las tierras blancas poster
10.0

The miserable life of the inhabitants of a town in Santiago del Estero, between crime, revenge and drought.

Las tierras blancas

1959

La calesita poster
8.3

When listening to a melody, an old man recalls moments of his childhood.

La calesita

1963

La calesita poster
8.3

When listening to a melody, an old man recalls moments of his childhood.

La calesita

1963

Surcos de sangre poster
8.0

Melodrama that tells the tragedy of a peasant family.

Surcos de sangre

1950

Surcos de sangre poster
8.0

Melodrama that tells the tragedy of a peasant family.

Surcos de sangre

1950

Historia del 900 poster
7.1

In the Buenos Aires of 1900, a man seeks to avenge the death of his brother, killed at the exit of a fight.

Historia del 900

1949

Historia del 900 poster
7.1

In the Buenos Aires of 1900, a man seeks to avenge the death of his brother, killed at the exit of a fight.

Historia del 900

1949

Historia del 900 poster
7.1

In the Buenos Aires of 1900, a man seeks to avenge the death of his brother, killed at the exit of a fight.

Historia del 900

1949