Walter Vidarte
Acting
Biography
Walter Vidarte (Montevideo, July 18, 1931 - Madrid, October 29, 2011) was a Uruguayan actor and director of theater, film and television of extensive acting in Argentina and later in Spain, where he went into exile in 1974.
Born: July 18, 1931
Place of Birth: Montevideo, Uruguay
Known For
Santos Vega
The story of Santos Vega, an Argentine gaucho from the province of Buenos Aires, who lived around 1830, and who gave rise to a legend in which, being an invincible payador, he ends up falling defeated to none other than the Devil, embodied in the person of Juan Sin Ropa, the only one who could defeat him.
La Gioconda está triste
The Mona Lisa loses her famous smile, and so does the rest of the world.
The Pianist
This music-themed drama is set in Barcelona of the mid-'80s. When famed composer Lluis Doria visits a transvestite club, he learns his lifelong friend Albert Rossell is the house pianist. A flashback takes the tale four decades into the past, where the younger Rossell rejoins Teresa after having spent years in prison for helping anti-Franco anarchists. The story continues into Paris of the '30s, the period when Doria and Rossell first met, sharing a mutual interest in music and Teresa, before civil war sent them in different directions.
The Truce
A man has to come to terms with his wasted youth, estranged family and grim prospects for the future.
Quebracho
Set around 1910 in the Chaco region, the film depicts the plight of quebracho woodcutters, cruelly exploited by English businessmen with the support of the authorities, local police, and a paramilitary force established by the employers themselves.
Three Times Ana
Three different love-related stories -all starring María Vaner as different "Anas". In "The Earth," Ana is a young and idealistic woman on the verge of adulthood when her first relationship with a clerk shatters her dreams of a romantic life. In "The Air," Ana is a rebellious, easy-living type among some beach bums whose sexual leanings tend to tip the scale at active promiscuity. In "The Cloud," Ana only exists in the imagination of an introverted man, who dreams of his ideal woman.
Cuéntame cómo pasó
Recounts the experiences of a middle-class family, the Alcántaras, during the last years of the rule of Francisco Franco and the beginning of the Spanish Transition to democracy.
The Dependent
Fernandez is a lonely man leading a lonely life. All he does is work for an old man in a hardware store. But all that changes, when he meets the girl of his dreams... and her family.
El habilitado
Five employees submerged in the basement of a large store in Mar del Plata are grotesquely linked to each other, each trying to feel better than the other thanks to miserable advantages.
Gringalet
Filmography
as Amós
as Mauro
as Alejandra la Magna
as Hombre mayor
as Alberto
as Roca
as Daniel
as Abel Poupin
as Hombre en pub (segment "Delirio 3") (uncredited)
as Giacobagi
as Damián Pereira
as Don Fermín de Andueza
as Antonio
as Kaminsky
as Jorge Vázquez
as Enfermero
as El Lince
as Sierra
as Isfraín
as Juan Carlos
as Pajarito
as Raúl
as Fernández
as Picardía
as Nacho
as Mochila
as Toño
as Héctor
as Florencio Sartori
as Ismael
as El Oriental
as Daniel
as Picayo
as Benegas
as Carmelo Maciel
as El Zorrito