Roberto Escalada

Roberto Escalada

História

Roberto Escalada born Aldo Roberto Leggero (4 July 1914 – 5 December 1986 in Buenos Aires) was a major Argentine film actor and cinema icon of the classic era.

Perfil

Roberto Escalada

Filmes

Safo
A remake of the 1943 film of the same name.
El Diablo metió la pata
Médico
A village doctor is involved in a shady business.
Hormiga negra
Director de la cárcel
To live in peace and progress, Guillermo Hoyos must pay the price of harassment from the authorities.
Un idilio de estación
A girl falls in love with the son of a rancher, who gives her certain illusions about their relationship.
Los irrompibles
Sr. Thompson
The story of a pair of bumbling detectives Uruguayan undertaking the mission to go to the aid of an orphan and very rich heiress to Argentina. It will be very easy to deal with the thousand and one difficulties awaiting them on the road. Clashes with bandits plaguing the region and that will go back more than once, will not be the only danger.
Clínica con música
Dr. Bevilaqua takes over the direction of a clinic where only sex problems are treated and the clients are very special people. With fun therapy, there will be different characters who want to receive treatment.
The Bomb-thrower Teacher
The students of a school create a big mess for their favorite teacher to return to school.
Con alma y vida
Bermúdez
El mundo es de los jóvenes
A boy leaves home to take singing lessons with a teacher whom he befriends and a beautiful and ambitious young woman appears
Los debutantes en el amor
Four stories about sexual initiation in adolescence.
The Hippie Teacher
Profesor D'Alesandro
Luis Sandrini plays a college professor who, because of his freethinking attitudes and concerns for moral questions over matters of business, has more in common with his students than his colleagues.
Dos quijotes sobre ruedas
The adventures of two truckers (one Argentine and the other Mexican) carrying different people and a suspicious trunk
Viaje de una noche de verano
A group of tourists travel Buenos Aires by bus.
This night better no
For various reasons a couple cannot consummate the marriage.
La familia Falcón
Culpable
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.
La sombra de Safo
La bestia humana
From Emile Zola's novel "La Bete Humaine", tells the story of a jealous husband, a provocative woman and a man with an uncontrollable desire to kill.
Pecadora
Luis / Antonio
A tango singer is involved in the death of a lender.
De noche también se duerme
Vida nocturna
A cabaret in Buenos Aires on Christmas night.
Yesterday Was Spring
Ricardo
A man suspects that his late wife had an extramarital relationship, so he decides to face the alleged lover.
Sucedió en Buenos Aires
Pablo Medina
A provincial woman who arrives in the city is helped by a taxi driver to look for a criminal
The Black Vampire
Dr. Bernar
This loose remake of Fritz Lang's classic M, about the search for a child murderer, focuses on a nightclub singer who catches sight of the killer and on the morally conflicted prosecutor leading the investigation.
Black Ermine
A woman with a doubtful past tries to hide it from her teenage son and attempts to change, but she cannot.
Don't Ever Open That Door
Daniel (segment “El pájaro cantor vuelve al hogar”)
A man tries to avenge the death of his sister, a gambling addict. Another man, an ex-convict who whistles when he commits a crime, is reunited with his blind mother.
De turno con la muerte
Dr. Gerardo Solar
A young doctor tries to cope with his intimate dramas and, at the same time, fulfill the duties of his profession.
Cartas de amor
Ramiro Varela
A young man must choose between the love of two women.
Una viuda casi alegre
Pedro Peña
A young widow goes to a marriage agency where she is introduced to three hired suitors who end up falling in love with her.
The Crime of Oribe
Villafañe
The story of two men and a mysterious family, who repeat the same day forever in order to save the life of one of its daughters.
Morir en su ley
Pedro Amalfi
A policeman infiltrates a gang of criminals.
Se llamaba Carlos Gardel
¿Por qué mintió la cigüeña?
To avoid the abandonment of her husband, a woman rents three children with the intention of making him believe that he is the father. Sudden maternity will bring complications in triplicate.
Una atrevida aventurita
Family-owned ski resort is failing, and they've pinned all their hopes on seeing the property purchased by the Gonzalez Brothers.
La gran tentación
Death Walks in the Rain
Relator
A murderer terrorizes the city of Buenos Aires by attacking on the streets on rainy days and always leaving a card with the name "S. López". A local boarding house full of eccentrics appears to house a possible suspect.
Los pulpos
A treacherous provincial girl repeatedly cheats on a young writer who loves her madly.
El jugador
A man devotes his life to gambling to try to alleviate the pain that an impossible love has caused him.
Madame Bovary
León
Paris, 1857. While on trial for moral outrage, French writer G. Flaubert tells the court and the audience the true story of the heroine of his novel Madame Bovary, a sensitive but capricious woman whose desperate efforts to overcome the bourgeois conventions of a dull, provincial life led her family first to ruin and disrepute and finally to the abyss of tragedy.
30 seconds of love
Galván
After running over a young man with her car, a girl is forced to kiss him for 30 seconds, in order not to pay the expensive fine.
Un beso en la nuca
To get revenge on her unfaithful husband, a woman pretends to be crazy and makes him believe that she takes her doctor as her husband.
Cinco besos
Carlos María Morel
Love affairs in a theater: vedettes, sweethearts of chorus and scandals that include a millionaire.
Swan Song
Miguel Ángel
A middle-age woman and a young composer live a tragic romance.
Veinticuatro horas en la vida de una mujer
An unusually intense and emotional day in the otherwise monotonous life of a woman.
Safo, historia de una pasión
Raúl
The relationship between an experienced woman and a youngster which develops in a passion and a further social rejection.
Pájaros sin nido
The birds in question are a group of young ladies who, for different reasons, leave the convent where they grew up in order to face "the struggle of life".
Doce mujeres
El matrero
A gaucho unjustly accused of murder becomes a dangerous nomad.