
Hugo del Carril
Acting
Biography
Piero Bruno Hugo Fontana Bertani, known as Hugo del Carril (November 30, 1912 - August 13, 1989), was an Argentine film actor, film director and tango singer of the classic era. He began his career as a singer of tango choruses at the age of fifteen. He made his film debut as an actor in 1937 and in 1949 as a director. In 1948 he would go on to immortality as the voice of La Marcha Peronista, for which he would be persecuted and imprisoned in 1955 after the coup against the government of Juan Domingo Perón.
Known For

A single mother who is denied work to support the son she had with the aristocrat who had seduced her, is helped by a singer, a director of orchestra and an American female singer, who get her shelter in the humble pension where they live.
Gente bien

A reporter and tango singer is sent to the war zone in 1916, where he loses his memory.
La cumparsita

Group of tango musicians picks up an aspiring young chanteuse at one of their whistle stop engagements; film focuses on their collective path to stardom, romantic conflicts between the woman and two guys in the band and some peripheral crime-drama stuff.
Confesión

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

When listening to a melody, an old man recalls moments of his childhood.
La calesita

The daughter of a fashion house owner falls in love with the designer of a competitor business.
Amor último modelo

The lives, loves and vicissitudes of a group of circus performers in the Argentine Pampas around the turn of the century are played out in this drama with songs.
The Circus Cavalcade

Buenos Aires, 1920. The Franco-Argentine and Polish-Argentine mafia begin a war for the control of the traffic of women and prostitution, based on real events about the 1920s Buenos Aires Mafias war.
The Bad Life

A former singer, determined to succeed in business, comes up with a partner and just believing their existence. In the end, wake up ...
El socio

A cabaret in Buenos Aires on Christmas night.
Vida nocturna

The film tells the story of the payador José Betinotti, a mythical character in Argentine music. It faithfully reconstructs the scenarios of the early twentieth century: the workers' struggles, the party meetings of the caudillos and the circus criollo, the cradle of Argentine theater and music.
El último payador
A boy's family wants him to marry a girl of the same position even though he is in love with another girl.
Cuando canta el corazón

The life of the cotton workers in the Chaco and its struggle for wages.
Esta tierra es mía

A film star enjoys a romance with the daughter of a puppeteer, but his criminal past threatens to ruin it.
Honeysuckle

During the second half of the 19th century, a young survivor is saved in the Argentine pampas by a man she ends up marrying.
El último perro

Peter Ward is a black singer who arrives to Madrid in 1907. He falls in love with Emma, and he offers her to be her dancer. She is restrained by her racial prejudices which will lead to an inevitable separation between them.
The Black Man Who Had a White Soul

Tango singer exploits the women in his life. Learns a valuable life-lesson.
A media luz

After a period of sorrow, Fernando de Arellano, a rich businessman who has recently lost his young wife Blanca from a serious ilness, meets Mónica, who looks identical to her.
Beyond Oblivion

Institutional short film planned and directed by Arturo S. Mom for the First Argentine Film Festival in Mar del Plata. The film shows the technical process by which an Argentine film is produced and emphasizes the professionalism and power of the national film industry. In this way, the story explains in a pedagogical way what is a script, a frame, a camera, a set sketch and a projected background, among others, and how a scene and the soundtrack of a film are recorded.
Cómo se hace una película argentina

Contrary to the principles of his mother and sister, a boy falls in love with a woman of light life.