
Guillermo Battaglia
Acting
Biography
Guillermo Battaglia (December 7, 1899, Buenos Aires - September 26, 1988, Buenos Aires) was a prolific Argentine theatre and film actor with a 70-year career and some 100 film appearances.
Known For

Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1983. In the last and turbulent days of the military dictatorship, Alicia, a high school history teacher, begins to ask uncomfortable questions about the dark origins of Gaby, her adopted daughter.
The Official Story

For ambition a woman sacrifices her true love and marries a man of fortune.
Descent Into Hell

The story about a family that must maintain an insatiable grandmother.
Grandma

A foreign woman marries a rich man.
A Real Man

A crime writer searching for the truth about a personal tragedy becomes involved in a murder investigation.
The Beast Must Die

The vicissitudes of six different couples who arrive at a hostel in Buenos Aires called La Cigarra and are quarantined because of a supposed bubonic plague, causing all kinds of inconveniences and entanglements as a result of this forced coexistence.
The Games Men Play

A young British woman is hired as a governess by a wealthy Argentine family. Through her position, she slowly sees how the upper class of society is slowly crumbling, and how a fascist movement is preparing to install itself in power.
Miss Mary

The love affair of an ex-convict with a showgirl, unleashes the jealousy of his older, wealthy and unbalanced wife. A murder plot, staged phoney suicide and other twists and turns follow.
Missing Persons Section

A young teen has been raised by a despotic mother overcome with religious zeal and a father who rules over the household with a heavy, iron hand. Forcibly kept innocent of the sexual nuances of some adult relationships, she is not too clear on her rights, his intentions, or the consequences when her father's best friend starts to lust after her.
The House of the Angel

Pablo (Arturo Puig) receives the news that his father, who abandoned him and his family a long time ago and was thought dead, wants to see him so he can pass all his fortune to him. Pablo goes to see his father in Brazil, expecting to inherit a large sum of money, but instead, he receives from his father a treasure map, with the promise that the map will make him rich. After the father dies, Pablo decides to go to an adventure and seek the treasure, aided by the men his father choose as companionship, and by one woman faith choose for him.
The Conquest of Paradise

A woman from the country moves into to the big city of Buenos Aires to start a new life. Things are not going very easy and she soon finds herself working as a prostitute.
Intimacies of a Prostitute

Daniel is a young medical student. He lives in a student pension called "The Star" next to a group of student friends like him. Daniel is going to try to have his mother reconcile with his grandmother.
Destino de un capricho

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El que recibe las bofetadas

A film producer, his wife (an actress) and her lover (a young scriptwriter) are part of a love triangle that will lead to a crime. It is set during the decay of Argentinian cinema studios.
El protegido

Movie divided in three episodes: a family mother becomes a successful singer; an Argentinian reporter follows a Spanish cupletista from the beginning of the XX century; the reunion of three old actors and their lies about their success.
Ritmo nuevo, vieja ola

Chronicle of the struggle of the first settlers of southern Argentina against the Indian rustlers and landowners.
Los troperos

Mirta is a university student in Buenos Aires, in the politicized Argentina of 1974. After the 1976 coup d'état, she and her boyfriend are forced into exile in Stockholm. The exile will contribute to the destruction of the couple, and Mirta must then find her own path.
Sentimientos: Mirta, de Liniers a Estambul

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
A child is very indifferent to his parents and runs away from home.
Necesito una madre

A young boy travels by himself to reach his sick mother.