Francisco López Silva
Birth : 1880-08-17, La Coruña, Galicia, Spain
Death : 1960-12-03
History
Francisco López Silva (b. La Coruña, Spain, August 17, 1880 - d. Buenos Aires, Argentina, December 3, 1960) was a first Spanish actor who developed his career in Argentina from 1942. He stood out especially during the golden age of Argentine cinema in 30 films, along with a lot of popular actors like Arturo García Buhr, Jorge Mistral, Roberto Airaldi, Amalia Sánchez Ariño, Norma Giménez, Beba Bidart, Lalo Malcolm, Francisco de Paula, Eva Duarte, Jorge Rigaud, and others.
In an institution for the blind, a man rails against his misfortune, his energy and thinking distorted by a need to fight his blindness. Unhappy and unable to come to grips with his condition, he stirs a sympathetic chord in another blind inmate. She in turn, slowly enters into a relationship with him that starts to transform the ways he perceives himself and his blindness.
Film co-produced between Argentina and Paraguay in 1959 that was never released commercially.
During a horse race, Ana, a happily married woman with a child, he met Captain Brown. Later, they meet again on a long train journey and inevitably love arises. Both try to forget each one on his own, however, things go more and more complicated, making it impossible to stop the situation.
This relentlessly realistic Argentine production was released in the U.S. as The Marked Man. The title character is a poverty-stricken janitor who suddenly wins an enormous sum in the National lottery. Spending money before he actually collects it, the janitor is appalled to discover that his wife has inadvertently sold the winning ticket to a door-to-door peddler. The ticket was hidden in the band of an old straw hat, which passes through several hands as the janitor frantically searches for the precious headgear. What might have been handled as a farce by another director is transformed into a stark, utterly credible urban tragedy by director Francis Laurie.
In colonial Buenos Aires a widow marries a condemned man out of spite.
Butler Esteban
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.
Bishop
In seventeenth century's Chile a woman kills her lover because she wants to conquer a priest.
El Grito Sagrado (The Silent Call) is a fictionalized retelling of Argentina's fight for independence from Spain. The story is "personalized" by being related through the eyes of Mariquita Sanchez de Thompson y Mendeville, played by popular Latin American leading lady Fanny Navarro. Rebelling against the cozy traditionalism of her family, Mariquita weds tireless patriot Martin Thompson (Carlos Cores). She remains by her husband's side as he helps to fend off a British invasion and to achieve freedom for the Argentine slave population. Oddly, the principal villains in the film are the British, a reflection perhaps of Argentine dictator Juan Peron's ongoing efforts to curry favor with Spain.
Edmundo Dantes is betrayed by his best friend, who has him killed to keep his property and his love. But after a few years, a certain Count appears to mortify the life of the traitorous friend.
Gerente
A man and his con man brother, who adores his mother, has a dream of seeing the family reunited.
During the English invasions, a merchant forces his daughter to marry a soldier.
A humble boy who works in a theater company must become the husband of an actress so that she can get her son back.
For over twenty years, an elderly man convinces his wife that their long-lost criminal grandson has changed his ways to become a successful professional and loving husband. When he learns of his grandson’s death, he decides to keep yet another secret and arranges for a false couple to pose as their exiled grandson and his wife. As the couple enters, uncertainties arise. Will they be able to convince her?
God
The life of Saint Rosa de Lima.
The story of Julia, a beautiful woman of licentious life who one day reconsiders and decides to use her fortune for the good of her neighbor and of the needy.
Don Luis
The young widow of the viceroy of Peru, facing the dismal prospect of either a convent or a marriage of convenience, sets out to conquer a handsome officer, pretending she’s a duende, a ghost. Voted the best Argentine film of 1945, La dama duende is a beautifully crafted comedy of errors, based on the 17th-century play by Pedro Calderón de la Barca. The most ambitious production of Estudios San Miguel, it was brought to the screen mostly by Spaniards exiled in Argentina as a result of the Civil War.
Film about the life of Francisco Ramírez, leader of Entre Ríos.
A 1944 film.
While her husband is abroad, Luisa receives a visit from an old love, her cousin, who becomes a "dangerous attraction". Her husband's stay abroad is prolonged and her loneliness overwhelms her and her attraction to her cousin increases.
Jonatás
A man in debt obtains a miraculous skin that makes all his wishes come true but at the cost of shortening his life.
A naive teenager faces a distressing reality that instills in her the idea of suicide.
A new teacher arrives at a girls' boarding school; his arrival upsets the discipline of the beautiful students.
Dizzy secretary with a knack for embroidering the truth is identified as the heiress of a big mystery estate.
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.
A capricious "new rich" makes her employees suffer with her moods, until she hires a butler who will change her life.