
José Gola
Acting
Biography
José Gola (1904-1939) was the first Argentine film actor, unlike many of his contemporaries who first started in theater. He excelled with his characteristic dull facial expressions, ideal for being captured by film. He died at a very early age in Misiones due to peritonitis while filming "Prisioneros de la tierra". After his demise, his leading character was occupied by Ángel Magaña.
Known For

With the help of a rich young woman, a singer who lives in the precarious housing area that existed in Puerto Nuevo comes to fame.
Puerto Nuevo

Rich man's daughter throws over her nerdy boyfriend when she gets a taste of the real thing from one of her daddy's construction workers. Meanwhile, there's a crooked labor contractor posing as an agitator and trying to provoke a strike.
Puente Alsina

Enrique, a gray office worker who lives a marriage already without passion begins to rethink his life when he receives an anonymous who says that his wife deceives him.
Return to the Nest

A delinquent, the son of a police commissioner, leaves prison to seduce someone who should be like a sister to him: a girl raised and loved by his parents. To force her to give in to his obsession, he kidnaps her little daughter.
Outside the Law

Juan Pérez is a waiter in a luxurious place where the bachelor party of a man who is going to get married for convenience is done. When a dancer and singer with whom he was entangled, chases him, he uses Perez to get rid of her.
El pobre Pérez

A man leaves his girlfriend, but she still sacrifices her happiness to procure his.
Frente a la vida

The film deals with the conflict between a father, master of a cattle ranch, and his son, who has returned after study.
Los caranchos de la Florida

A young actress intends to win over a man who, after Don Juan's fame, had isolated himself in a ranch, for which she disguises herself as a man and becomes his chauffeur.
La estancia del gaucho Cruz
A criminal tries to scam a horse racing fan using a seductive woman.
Palermo

A man is accused of stealing from a store when the real perpetrator is his girlfriend's brother.
Mañana es domingo

Some professional actors are unemployed due to the opinion of a theater critic, then they decide to take revenge and disguise themselves as poor tenants from a neighborhood who are hired by the same critic to perform his work.
Nace un amor

Four brothers set their differences apart when they need to help another brother.
Hermanos

A boy who is doing compulsory military service in the navy has a confrontation with a superior over the love of a woman.
La muchachada de a bordo

Cars and progress made an old carriage-driver jobless and so desperate that he becomes a gangster. When his own son starts a life of crime, he repents and gives himself to the authorities. When he lives prison, he will be happy to rejoin his family, as his son repented, too.
Mateo

Two brothers fall in love with the same girl.
Por buen camino

Two boys from Mendoza leave their land attracted by Buenos Aires and fall into crime.
La barra mendocina

Mario Soffici's first introduction to film direction. Short made in 16mm, where he adapted some scenes from Armando Discepolo's script "Muñeca" as an experiment to compare the differences between theater and film. It was recorded in the dressing room courtyard of Teatro Avenida de Mendoza.
Muñeca

Mario Soffici's first short film shoot in 35mm.