Javier Portales

Acting

Javier Portales

Born 1937-04-21 · Tancacha, Córdoba, Argentina

Javier Portales, whose real name was Miguel Angel Alvarez (Tancacha, Córdoba; April 21, 1937 - Buenos Aires; October 14, 2003) was an Argentine actor and comedian of vast trajectory.

Acting credits

That Forward Center Dies at Dawn poster
6.5

Cacho Garibaldi is the soccer player of the moment, his goals lead to delirium fans. When an eccentric millionaire named Lupus buys his transfer, he expects to end up on a major team. Instead, he discovers the millionaire's goal in life is to collect the best -not art or stamps- but people.

That Forward Center Dies at Dawn

1961

Naked Tango poster
6.4

When a young European woman assumes a false identity in 1920s Argentina, she gets more than she bargained for.

Naked Tango

1990

El bulín poster
9.0

Employees of an office use for love dating the apartment of a single co-worker.

El bulín

1969

Este cura poster
7.0

A village priest protects a young mother rejected by the people and the mayor.

Este cura

1968

Two Crazy Privates 2 poster
7.7

Following the events (and disasters) at the end of their previous adventure, Alberto and Jorge are severely reprimanded. However, just when the recruits' fate seemed destined for the brig, a direct call from the Lieutenant General saves them from punishment... though to do so, they must prove themselves in a new training environment for their first special mission.

Two Crazy Privates 2

1986

Che, OVNI poster
7.0

A porteño tango singer is kidnapped by a UFO and taken to Madrid, London and Paris.

Che, OVNI

1968

Hay que romper la rutina poster
7.0

Friends Alberto and Jorge, who work together and live in the same building, are married to two sisters (Ethel and Gogó). Noticing that their sex life becomes boring, they cheat on them with co-workers. This is discovered and they are fired. Then, they get employed in a beauty institute, where they have many women at their disposal. Their wives learn of this mischief, and go to look for them at the institute, generating hilarious situations.

Hay que romper la rutina

1974

Los vampiros los prefieren gorditos poster
6.5

Count Dracula travels to Buenos Aires with his secretary and stays in a very special hotel, where several mobsters are also staying.

Los vampiros los prefieren gorditos

1974

Two Crazy Privates 3 poster
6.5

Alberto and Jorge are fulfilling their obligations as conscripted soldiers who have violated the law of mandatory military service. They have committed so many blunders that everyone from the corporal to the lieutenant colonel in charge of services is confessing to the chaplain, telling him that because of this pair of useless men, the entire company has been punished. The higher-ups order the commanding officer to assemble the men he deems capable of withstanding the high risks of a second mission to be carried out deep in the jungle. The commanding officer doesn't hesitate for a moment to include Jorge and Alberto in this high-risk group, without realizing that they themselves are the real risk. The final film in the conscript saga.

Two Crazy Privates 3

1987

Venido a menos poster
10.0

To continue pretending to be a position they no longer have, a run-down upper-class family moves into the home of a wealthy aunt.

Venido a menos

1984

Las turistas quieren guerra poster
7.4

Alberto and Jorge are employees of a refrigerator, who one day see a bus where several beautiful tourists flirt with the guide who drives them and think that being guides will give them many love affairs. They manage to meet with the owner of the tourism company and his partner (Frías Garmet and Gamarro Salas, respectively), who hire them immediately, promising them a quick promotion in the company. In reality, Frías Garmet and Gamarro Salas are planning a scam of great magnitude, and they need two unwary to indisting them.

Las turistas quieren guerra

1977

Cantaniño cuenta un cuento poster
7.0

Two men, a woman, a chimpanzee and a talking horse travel around Argentina to put together a movie.

Cantaniño cuenta un cuento

1979

El gordo de América poster
6.9

To celebrate his promotion, a manager (Javier Portales) decides to summon his brother from the field, but as he did not stop making disasters he sends him back. His brother (Jorge Porcel) is not convinced and dazzled by an advertisement decides to set up an investigation office.

El gordo de América

1976

Criminal Affair poster
5.3

A renowned author, college professor and criminologist is given a year off in order to write his latest book. His arrival in Buenos Aires gives him the opportunity to work on his true project, planning and pulling off the perfect crime.

Criminal Affair

1968

Reencuentro con la gloria poster
9.0

A fighter lives haunted by the memory of a friend whom he believes he killed in the ring.

Reencuentro con la gloria

1962

Custodio de señoras poster
6.9

Jorge is a photographer for a newspaper, from which he is fired. He then begins to work in a detective agency, where he is assigned the mission of protecting Monica, a beautiful woman threatened with death by an ex-boyfriend.

Custodio de señoras

1979

Las locuras del extraterrestre poster
4.3

No synopsis available yet.

Las locuras del extraterrestre

1988

Sex Humor poster
NR

A video magazine of erotic short stories.

Sex Humor

1992

Maridos en vacaciones poster
7.8

Friends Alberto and Jorge, who work together in an insurance company and live in the same building, are married to two sisters (Elsa and Alicia). When they go on vacation to Mar del Plata, Alberto and Jorge decide to enjoy their "single life". In addition to this, they have to fulfill a duty entrusted by their boss: to find the revue theater entrepreneur Félix Sagastume, to sign an insurance contract. It is in a canteen where they go to look for him, and there they meet two aspiring vedettes (Zuzú and Bibí), who confuse them with important businessmen and see in them a possibility of achieving fame.

Maridos en vacaciones

1975

El tío Disparate poster
8.0

Driven by his financial difficulties, a man embarks his sister and triplet nieces on various adventures.

El tío Disparate

1978

Las locuras del profesor poster
8.0

The adventures of professor Sócrates Pérez, a bit of a crackpot and terribly clumsy, but appreciated by his students for his purity and kindness.

Las locuras del profesor

1979

El hombre del año poster
6.7

The life of a man who discovers two hearts changes abruptly when a group of criminals tries to seize one of them to transplant it to a Mafia Boss who has heart problems.

El hombre del año

1970

Un terceto peculiar poster
7.2

A director of XXX films entrusts his assistant with the rental of a house for the filming with an international star. This, confused with the arrival of the star, preys the house to a friend to impress the groom

Un terceto peculiar

1982

Coche cama, alojamiento poster
8.0

A magazine company and some in-love couples board a night train where a gang of bandits is traveling.

Coche cama, alojamiento

1968

Behind the camera