Roberto Escalada
Acting
Biography
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.
Known For
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Alta comedia
A man devotes his life to gambling to try to alleviate the pain that an impossible love has caused him.
El jugador
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.
Culpable
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.
Los irrompibles
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.
Never Open That Door
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.
The Crime of Oribe
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.
Madame Bovary
A cabaret performer tries to protect her daughter from a mysterious killer while resisting the advances of the prosecutor pursuing the criminal.
The Black Vampire
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.
La muerte camina en la lluvia
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.
La bestia humana
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.
The Hippie Teacher
Four stories about sexual initiation in adolescence.
Los debutantes en el amor
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.
30 seconds of love
A tango singer is involved in the death of a lender.
Pecadora
A group of tourists travel Buenos Aires by bus.
Viaje de una noche de verano
A young man must choose between the love of two women.
Cartas de amor
A woman with a doubtful past tries to hide it from her teenage son and attempts to change, but she cannot.
Black Ermine
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Con alma y vida
The relationship between an experienced woman and a youngster which develops in a passion and a further social rejection.
Safo, historia de una pasión
The film follows a group of young girls in a boarding school.