Lito Cruz
Acting
Biography
Oscar Alberto Cruz was a first Argentine film, theater and television actor and theater director. He was the winner of the Martín Fierro award. In the working-class La Plata suburb of Berisso in 1941, he began performing in local theatres at the age of 15. Graduating from a La Plata secondary school, he continued to pursue his calling in La Plata's growing independent theatre scene.
Born: May 14, 1941
Place of Birth: Berisso, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Known For
The Angry Toy
A 16-year-old young man, is fond of weapons and the manufacture of explosives. He participates in robberies and is persecuted by the Police, so his group of friends dissolves and he goes to live in another neighborhood and starts working in a bookstore. Dissatisfied, without expectations and full of resentment, Silvio tries to set the place on fire and flees through the city
La frontera olvidada
A young officer recently arrived from Buenos Aires takes charge of a military base on the edge of the desert.
La Leona
Invasion
Hearing the summons from an elderly man, a volunteer troop of middle-aged men gather to defend their country from dark foreign invaders.
Darse cuenta
The relationship between a doctor and a depressed young patient in a public hospital.
Sotto Voce
Telma (Norma Pons) is concerned when her father Salerno dies of a heart attack in a movie theater while watching a film of two thugs beating another man. She believes that there is something more to it, and seeks the help of Deganis (Patricio Contreras), a forensic psychiatrist. Deganis, having found out the names of the two actors doing the beating onscreen, looks one of them up. His name is Walensky (Lito Cruz), and he is looking for Smith (Martin Adjemian), the other actor.
The South
After the end of the military dictatorship in Argentina in 1983, Floreal is released from prison. Instead of returning to his wife, he wanders through the night of Buenos Aires. He meets some people from his past–most of which are only imaginary–and remembers the events of his imprisonment.
Infierno Grande
In a remote town, a strange death hides a secret.
Otro corazón
Leo and María are expecting their first child and are about to move. María wants to give birth in her hometown, but Leo, upon learning that his father urgently needs a heart transplant, postpones the trip, takes him to live with him, and takes over the family business. His obsession with saving his father distances him from his own fatherhood and plunges him into a period of waiting that encompasses life, death, mourning for what was never, and the hope of what is still possible.
Sos mi hombre
the story follows Ringo, a former boxer going through economic problems while trying to gain custody of his son working as a firefighter, and Camila, a young doctor who works as a resident in public hospitals and helps a community dinning room.
Filmography
as Homero Stronatti
as Ramiro
as Padre
as Venturini
as Dios
as Manuel Ochoa
as Juan José Castelli
as Oscar Nevares Sosa
as Roque Sáenz Peña (voice)
as Pedro
as El Tano
as Sr. Roy
as Carlos Márquez
as José Sagasti
as Norberto
as Juan
as Enrique
as Juan Baigorria
as Toto Bertolotti.
as The Detective
as Julio Romero
as Lorenzo
as Criollo Iglesias
as Valerga
as Walensky
as Facundo Quiroga
as Ramitos
as Comisario Tito
as El Negro
as El Jefe
as Marcelo
as Juan de Dios Tolosa/Carmelo Di Prisco
as Youth Leader (as Oscar Cruz)
as Goyo