Pedro López Lagar

Acting

Pedro López Lagar

Born — Died

1899-06-17 — 1977-08-21

Place of birth

Madrid, Spain

Known for

Acting

Credits

31 titles

Pedro López Lagar (1899-1977) was a renowned Spanish theater and film actor. In 1936, he was on tour when the Spanish Civil War broke out. He and his coworkers found refuge in Argentina, where he was naturalized. There he lived the rest of his life and made almost his entire cinematographic career (including his debut).

Known for

Film credits

1950s · 8 titles

The Boy and the Fog poster
6.7

Marta is obsessed with protecting her son from the genetic predisposition to schizophrenia that she has hidden from her husband.

The Boy and the Fog

1953

El gran autor poster
5.5

A story of passion and deceit, where love overcomes the misfortunes and finally triumphs.

El gran autor

1954

The Marihuana Story poster
6.8

Pablo Urioste is a respected surgeon, but he is forced to experience a nightmarish world after his wife, a marijuana addict, dies at a nightclub. He tells his story to the police, and tells stories of how he is hooked, beaten, blackmailed, and includes some bad-trip flashbacks. Ms. Quiroga tries to help him, but there is little hope for Dr. Urioste after undergoing THE MARIHUANA STORY.

The Marihuana Story

1950

Suburbio poster
6.5

Two sisters struggle to get out of a Buenos Aires suburb, where debts with a loan shark have kept them apart. But soon the inhabitants of the neighborhood forget their differences before the appearance of an epidemic.

Suburbio

1951

Reportaje poster
7.3

Reporters compete for cash prize awarded for biggest scoop on New Year's Eve.

Reportaje

1953

El vendedor de muñecas poster
5.3

A man sells his wife, and takes care of street women turning them into ladies to sell to rich men.

El vendedor de muñecas

1955

La barca sin pescador poster
8.0

In exchange for the life of a Norwegian fisherman, a bankrupt industrialist gives his soul to the devil.

La barca sin pescador

1950

La Tirana poster
8.0

Rosario, Tirana, actress of the late eighteenth century, enjoys the protection of the Duke of Fornells, Chief Justice of the Kingdom, which paves for the actress the way to fame on stage at the Prince theater. The secret love of Rosario, the Earl of San Esteban dies in a duel with Fornells and its position is occupied by the bullfighter Costillares.

La Tirana

1958

1940s · 21 titles

El hombre que amé poster
8.0

A man agrees to sell his youth to a strange character.

El hombre que amé

1947

The Clover Sect poster
7.3

A writer gets involved in a police case related to some jewelry belonging to a Chinese sect.

The Clover Sect

1948

Veinte años y una noche poster
8.0

A young woman returns from boarding school and will repeat in a certain way her mother's secret story, but she will be happy.

Veinte años y una noche

1941

Albéniz poster
8.0

Isaac Albéniz was a child prodigy, and the victim of a tyrannical father. He flees from his house, to America. He returns to his country years later, where he achieves international fame and the attention of many women.

Albéniz

1947

No artwork available
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Son cartas de amor

1943

Story of a Single Night poster
6.1

A man returns to town after a long time and meets his ex-girlfriend, who is married to a husband in desperate economic situation.

Story of a Single Night

1941

Dos ángeles y un pecador poster
7.0

A guardian angel accompanies a man who had made a deal with death, which he regrets for a woman.

Dos ángeles y un pecador

1945

Concierto de almas poster
6.5

A medical student helps an amnesic patient to remember his life but they end up falling in love, and she'll must sacrifice her love.

Concierto de almas

1942

María Celeste poster
10.0

After a storm, the captain of a ship lets it float aimlessly until he reaches an island paradise.

María Celeste

1945

Los ojos más lindos del mundo poster
7.5

No synopsis available yet.

Los ojos más lindos del mundo

1943

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

No artwork available
9.0

The story of different episodes that happen in each of the sections of a newspaper.

Ceniza al viento

1942

La verdadera victoria poster
10.0

The romance between a Spanish correspondent and an Argentine daughter of Poles during the Nazi invasion of Poland.

La verdadera victoria

1944

Apasionadamente poster
7.5

The romance between a young aristocratic woman and an unlucky painter that takes place in the lakes of Bariloche.

Apasionadamente

1944

Celos poster
10.0

Argentinian adaptation of "The Kreutzer Sonata" by Leo Tolstoy.

Celos

1946

The Third Kiss poster
7.0

A single man must pretend to be the father of a teenage girl and will end up marrying her mother.

The Third Kiss

1942

A Sangre Fría poster
10.0

A couple plans to poison a wealthy elderly to stay with his fortune. However, the plans of the villain and his accomplice stagger at the last minute.

A Sangre Fría

1947

Last Refuge poster
8.2

Albareda does not doubt to betray her lover running away after denouncing him.

Last Refuge

1941

Camino del infierno poster
7.3

A melodramatic, psychological thriller, the film tells the story of a young wealthy widow, who is unhappy. She meets a Bohemian artist who marries her to escape the poverty of his family, but is stifled by her possessiveness and jealousy.

Camino del infierno

1945

Tierra del Fuego poster
NR

Several individual stories converge in the imposing setting of the southernmost tip of the continent, all of them involving a crisis of faith. Most of the important situations in the film are based on real episodes, such as the massacre of indigenous people perpetrated by the landowners in the area.

Tierra del Fuego

1948

Incertidumbre poster
10.0

A man from Europe knows a secret with which he tries to blackmail the father of a young woman.

Incertidumbre

1942