Carlos Tuccio
Acting
Biography
Carlos Tuccio was a theater, film and television actor, he was also recognized in 2013 by the State as a Meritorious Personality of Culture. Graduated from the Academy of Dramatic Art of the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, Tuccio worked in the 1950s in radio plays and later was part of the first casts of Peruvian television. Of Italian descent and an economist by profession, he worked for 36 years in banking. Since the early 1950s, he participated in countless plays such as “The Great Theater of the World,” by Pedro Calderón de la Barca. Before the pandemic, he participated in the play “Much Ado About Nothing,” by William Shakespeare. Some of the most remembered films in which he acted are “El tesoro de Atahualpa” (1968), “No se lo digas a nadie” (1998) and “Pantaleón y las visitadoras” (1999).
Known For
The Peruvian army captain Pantaleon Pantoja, a very serious and efficient officer, is chosen by his superiors to set up a special service of 'visitors' to satisfy the sexual needs of the soldiers posted on remote jungle outposts.
Captain Pantoja and the Special Services
Based on the alleged autobiography of gay peruvian talk show host Jaime Bailey. Joaquin, a young man from the high class of Lima, deals with problems concerning his sexual identity as a child, then as a teenager pressured by his macho snobbish father, then as an independent lazy pot-smoking college student, and later as a cocaine addict in Lima and Miami.
Don't Tell Anyone
Mexican medical researchers are lost in a plane crash in the Amazon basin, which triggers a whole bunch of adventure-movie subplots.