Hugo del Carril

Acting

Hugo del Carril

Born 1912-11-27 · Buenos Aires, Argentina

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.

Acting credits

Siempre fuimos compañeros poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Siempre fuimos compañeros

1973

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

Amorina poster
8.5

A woman feels abandoned by her husband and children.

Amorina

1961

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

Gente bien poster
7.3

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

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

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

Vida nocturna poster
8.5

A cabaret in Buenos Aires on Christmas night.

Vida nocturna

1955

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

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

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

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

Buenos días, Buenos Aires poster
NR

Documentary that registers the awakening of the city and its daily early movement.

Buenos días, Buenos Aires

1966

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

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

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

The Bad Life poster
4.0

Buenos Aires, 1920. The Franco-Argentine and Polish-Argentine mafia begin a war for the control of the traffic of women and prostitution, based on real events about the 1920s Buenos Aires Mafias war.

The Bad Life

1973

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

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

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

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

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

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

Behind the camera

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

Amorina poster
8.5

A woman feels abandoned by her husband and children.

Amorina

1961

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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