Roberto Escalada
Acting
Biography
Roberto Escalada born Aldo Roberto Leggero (4 July 1914 – 5 December 1986 in Buenos Aires) was a major Argentine film actor and cinema icon of the classic era.
Known For
Vida nocturna
A cabaret in Buenos Aires on Christmas night.
Una atrevida aventurita
Family-owned ski resort is failing, and they've pinned all their hopes on seeing the property purchased by the Gonzalez Brothers.
La sombra de Safo
To prevent a politician from winning, a journalist blackmails his wife with old love letters from his former lover. She feels cornered because her family's honor is at stake. The film includes excerpts from "Sappho, Story of a Passion" (1943), a film by Carlos Hugo Christensen.
The Crime of Oribe
The story of two men and a mysterious family, who repeat the same day forever in order to save the life of one of its daughters.
Culpable
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.
El jugador
A man devotes his life to gambling to try to alleviate the pain that an impossible love has caused him.
Veinticuatro horas en la vida de una mujer
An unusually intense and emotional day in the otherwise monotonous life of a woman.
Never Open That Door
A man tries to avenge the death of his sister, a gambling addict. Another man, an ex-convict who whistles when he commits a crime, is reunited with his blind mother.
Safo, historia de una pasión
The relationship between an experienced woman and a youngster which develops in a passion and a further social rejection.
30 seconds of love
After running over a young man with her car, a girl is forced to kiss him for 30 seconds, in order not to pay the expensive fine.
Filmography
as Material de archivo
as Médico
as Director de la cárcel
as Sr. Thompson
as Pancho Varela
as Tío Angelo
as Bermúdez
as Profesor D'Alesandro
as Doblaje de voz de Pedro Sandoval
as Luis / Antonio
as Ricardo
as Dr. Bernard
as Daniel (segment “El pájaro cantor vuelve al hogar”)
as Dr. Gerardo Solar
as Ramiro Varela
as Pedro Peña
as Villafañe
as Pedro Amalfi
as Relator
as Horacio
as León
as Galván
as Doctor Medina
as Carlos María Morel
as Miguel Ángel
as Raúl de Salcedo