Héctor Pellegrini

Héctor Pellegrini

Birth : 1931-08-06, Quiroga, Provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina

Death : 1999-11-01

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Héctor Pellegrini (August 6, 1931 – November 1, 1999) was an Argentine film, theater and television actor.

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Héctor Pellegrini

Movies

The Loves of Kafka
A movie director from Argentine travels to Prague to make a film about Franz Kafka and Milena Jesenská.
The Inverted Cross
Padre Buenaventura
High Class Affair
A group of boys and girls rents their bodies to people from high social strata.
Adiós, Roberto
Roberto separates from his wife and needs a place to stay. When he moves in with gay Marcelo, he is clueless about Marcello's sexuality and the two become close friends. One night after many drinks Roberto has sex with Marcelo and must confront his feelings and the potential ridicule of his family.
Camila
Commandant Soto
In Buenos Aires of the 1840s, a young Jesuit and a wealthy socialite fall in love and begin a torrid affair. They escape from the city, and, in disguise, set up house in a village, assuming they are safe and beyond the cares of anyone. However, both the church and Camila's family are enraged, vowing to hunt down the lovers for a capital crime. Based on a true story.
Queridas Amigas
From the Abyss
At an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting, a single mother tells the story of how alcoholism destroyed her personal and professional life.
El Fausto criollo
An old gaucho tells his young friend about a time in the big city when he went to the Opera, and narrates to him the whole plot of Gounod's Faust. His young friend reimagines the story he's hearing, with himself in the central role.
Little Adventurers
Two children search for an indigenous treasure hidden in the mountains.
Saverio, el cruel
Alone
A separated woman faces her future and revises her goals.
Tú me enloqueces
The attraction and rejection that alternate within a couple.
La película
A photographer shoots a documentary film in a small town in Argentina (Uribelarrea) about the filming that a foreign producer is doing on the spot.
Difunta Correa
Los chantas
Tito
Several losers living together in a Buenos Aires boarding house try to make a living while dreaming of a big life-changing score.
Rebellion in Patagonia
Captain Arzeno
In 1920, workers from Patagonia, in Southern Argentina, gather around an anarcho-syndicalist society and go on strike, demanding better working conditions. When the situation turns unsustainable, President Yrigoyen sends Lieutenant Colonel Zavala to impose order.
Quebracho
Antonio
Si se calla el cantor
A man leaves his job working in the mining industry, falls in love with a girl and succeeds as a singer.
Heroína
A woman who has been traumatized by her brother's accidental death from electrocution in the subways of Buenos Aires learns to readjust.
Bajo el signo de la patria
Aspects of the life of General Manuel Belgrano since he took command of the Army of the North until, together with his men, he defeated the enemy in the battle of Salta in February 1813.
Los neuróticos
Dr. Sigmund is a psychoanalyst whose only goal in his group therapies is to conquer the women who attend there.
Paula contra la mitad más uno
Federico
Shortly before a match against River Plate, members of the Boca Juniors football team are kidnapped.
The Knight of the Sword
Eusebio Soto
The life story of Argentine independence hero Jose de San Martin.
Fuiste mía un verano
Manager
Turismo de carretera
Humo de marihuana
'Sopapo' Martínez
Ufa con el sexo
Juan Adams
An intelligent look at the absurdity of love, prostitution and money.
Los traidores de San Ángel
Henchmen of the dictator from a South American country blackmail Nick Thomas into being a government spy. The former smuggler is to pose as a priest and enter a monastery thought to be sympathetic with rebel guerrillas. The release of the film coincided with real-life events, as Catholic priests continued to be the victims of government persecution throughout Latin America.
La muchacha del cuerpo de oro
Juan Carlos
A worker who use her body to climb positions becomes entangled with the underworld.
The ABC of Love
Paco
Film that includes three short films by different authors about love: "O pacto" by Eduardo Coutinho, "Terrible Night" by Rodolfo Kuhn, and "Magic World" by Helvio Soto.
Noche terrible
During his last night as a bachelor, a man imagines what would happen if he ran away and avoided marriage, or if he were able to avoid conventions and have a sincere relationship with his girlfriend. Adaptation of the homonymous short story by Roberto Arlt.
Pajarito Gómez
Pajarito Gómez
A chronicle of the life and career of a popular singer: his humble origins, his rise to fame, and his exploitation by the media.
Un lugar al sol
The love story in Buenos Aires of a young provincial couple.
Los tímidos visten de gris
A store owner tries to commit suicide several times and he can't do it..
Sombras en el cielo
The meeting of a famous star and a mortally ill film director, to shoot his latest movie. During his career he made disasters, but now, incurably ill, he wants to express something worthwhile before dying.
Aconcagua
Life in a detachment at the foot of the mountain range is altered by an accident and by a woman.
El encuentro
A small-town, simple, working-class young man, marries a girl who won't resign herself to poverty and cheats on him with his employer.
Los inconstantes
The Terrace
Alberto
A group of young aristocrats lock themselves up, for fun, on a terrace in a wealthy building in Buenos Aires. Their parents try to get them out, but they threaten to jump down if any adults enter the terrace.
Dar la cara
Three boys from very different backgrounds who have just finished their military service must face the complex social reality of Argentina.
Love Hunger
El ladrón
Three criminals escape prison and find themselves at the swampland home of a strange old man and his sexy blonde daughter. This black-and-white Argentine crime film was dubbed into English and spiced up with over 10 minutes of color nudie insert shots.
Alias Gardelito
The title of this story is taken from the name of the great Argentine singer Carlos Gardel, the idol of the antihero Toribio portrayed by Alberto Argibay. Toribio's goal in life is to emulate the famous singer and making his own way successfully in the music business. Yet at the same time, he does not stop his illegal means of making ends meet, stealing and petty thievery. Discouraged when his big break never quite materializes, Toribio heads for disaster when he joins up with a large smuggling scheme.