Alberto Olmedo
Also Known As: Negro, Alberto Orlando Olmedo
Biography: Alberto Orlando Olmedo, nicknamed El Negro, was an Argentine actor and comedian, popularly considered one of the most important capocomics in the history of the spectacle of his country, for his outstanding work in television, film and theater.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina
Adult: No
Birthday: August 24, 1933
Age: 91 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: March 05, 1988
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El gordo de América
Overview: To celebrate his promotion, a manager (Javier Portales) decides to summon his brother from the field, but as he did not stop making disasters he sends him back. His brother (Jorge Porcel) is not convinced and dazzled by an advertisement decides to set up an investigation office.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1976-03-11
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El gordo catástrofe
Overview: Catrasca (Jorge Porcel) is a man who works in a restaurant and in his spare time helps in a children's home. His problem is that he carries a family tradition that makes him cause catastrophes in his path, one of which takes his boss (Adolfo García Grau) to the hospital. Upon leaving the hospital, Catrasca is run over by Graciela (Graciela Alfano), the daughter of Professor Galíndez (Osvaldo Terranova). This is how he meets this professor, who has a formula that says he will be the salvation of humanity, so he is the object of persecutions by villains such as Dr. Linda Winters (Moria Casán).
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1977-09-08
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Custodio de señoras
Overview: Jorge is a photographer for a newspaper, from which he is fired. He then begins to work in a detective agency, where he is assigned the mission of protecting Monica, a beautiful woman threatened with death by an ex-boyfriend.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1979-04-05
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Así no hay cama que aguante
Overview: Horacio and Claudio are two friends who plan to spend a fun weekend with two young ladies. Settling into the home of Aunt Lucrezia, a millionaire who is traveling through Europe, a lender shows up and ruins his plans.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1980-03-06
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Susana quiere, el negro también!
Overview: A prostitute and her homosexual friend arrive from the interior and meet a widowed man.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1987-03-07
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Te rompo el rating
Overview: A television network infiltrates an inept employee (Porcel) in the competition and he begins to ruin all the programs but, instead of subtracting audience, he only managed to improve it.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1981-04-16
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Escándalo en la familia
Overview: A veteran popular singer comes to town with her daughter in order to achieve success in television. She introduces her daughter to a contest winning one of the top prizes. At the same time, a veteran politician is campaigning to scale the governor's office.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1967-04-13
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A los cirujanos se les va la mano
Overview: Two orderlies pretend to be surgeons to impress two young doctors and conquer, through several scenarios. Finally, they are discovered when they had to operate on a mafia boss to remove a bullet.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1980-01-01
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Mirame la palomita
Overview: Cayetano (Jorge Porcel), a mediocre talent agent, traveling to Mar del Plata with his wife, Carola (Susana Traverso), to fix the contract Jose (Mario Sapag), representing an unknown wannabe comic number in different places. On the road they see a sign advertising that announces the latest film from actor famous erotic films, Federico Lupa (Alberto Olmedo). The praise of it cause a bitter argument between the two. Once in the city and with the excuse of having a lot of work, meets Cayetano José and together they go to the casino and how much fun with beautiful young woman crosses their path. The accident causes the car to Carola descomponérsele amid torrential rain, it Federico Lupa precisely who stop to help and take her home ...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1985-03-07
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Ladies Photographer
Overview: Catrasca is a photojournalist with a fondness for women of all kinds.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1978-04-13
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Un terceto peculiar
Overview: A director of XXX films entrusts his assistant with the rental of a house for the filming with an international star. This, confused with the arrival of the star, preys the house to a friend to impress the groom
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1982-03-04
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Olmedo: El rey de la risa
Overview: Aspects of the life of Alberto Olmedo, from his childhood in Rosario, his beginnings as an acrobat and comedian in that city and the continuation of his professional career in Buenos Aires.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2019-03-07
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Dos quijotes sobre ruedas
Overview: The adventures of two truckers (one Argentine and the other Mexican) carrying different people and a suspicious trunk
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1966-06-16
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Maridos en vacaciones
Overview: Friends Alberto and Jorge, who work together in an insurance company and live in the same building, are married to two sisters (Elsa and Alicia). When they go on vacation to Mar del Plata, Alberto and Jorge decide to enjoy their "single life". In addition to this, they have to fulfill a duty entrusted by their boss: to find the revue theater entrepreneur Félix Sagastume, to sign an insurance contract. It is in a canteen where they go to look for him, and there they meet two aspiring vedettes (Zuzú and Bibí), who confuse them with important businessmen and see in them a possibility of achieving fame.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1975-06-26
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My Girlfriend the…
Overview: Laucha, a normal middle-aged guy who lives with his elderly mother and works in a factory, attends a show by the transvestite artist Dominique, for whom he develops an unexpected fixation.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1975-03-13
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Hay que romper la rutina
Overview: Friends Alberto and Jorge, who work together and live in the same building, are married to two sisters (Ethel and Gogó). Noticing that their sex life becomes boring, they cheat on them with co-workers. This is discovered and they are fired. Then, they get employed in a beauty institute, where they have many women at their disposal. Their wives learn of this mischief, and go to look for them at the institute, generating hilarious situations.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1974-08-29
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Los extraterrestres
Overview: Alberto and Jorge are two friends who work as waiters and during a trip they meet an alien with extraordinary powers. It is sought by a Russian organization, and friends must hide it from it.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1983-07-14
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Las turistas quieren guerra
Overview: Alberto and Jorge are employees of a refrigerator, who one day see a bus where several beautiful tourists flirt with the guide who drives them and think that being guides will give them many love affairs. They manage to meet with the owner of the tourism company and his partner (Frías Garmet and Gamarro Salas, respectively), who hire them immediately, promising them a quick promotion in the company. In reality, Frías Garmet and Gamarro Salas are planning a scam of great magnitude, and they need two unwary to indisting them.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1977-06-16
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The Knights of the Round Bed
Overview: Alberto, Jorge, Ricardo and Tristan are employees of a shoe store, all are married and share the friendship also between their wives. The 4 friends, faithful to the rogue style of Buenos Aires, go out of their way to have love affairs with the beautiful customers of the shoe store, and for that purpose one day they decide to rent, secretly, an apartment to use as a "bulín". The problems begin from then on, as everyone wants to be the first to release it and then, successively, take turns for their adventures. As is to be expected, it does not take long for the first entanglements to appear, while their wives seem to begin to suspect the adventures of these four typical Buenos Aires chantas.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1973-03-22
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Encuentros muy cercanos con señoras de cualquier tipo
Overview: Alberto and Jorge are two comedians, who before the possibility of making money with a business agent, agree to play the role of executives of a fictitious company, in order to appear prosperity before possible foreign buyers of players. As the business agent instructs them to present themselves as married, Alberto and Jorge propose two co-workers to represent the indicated role.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1978-09-14
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Los doctores las prefieren desnudas
Overview: Alberto, an employee of a car dealership, is commissioned by his boss to deliver a car that has been sold to a customer. Being a luxury car, he has no better idea than to invent an excuse to the new owner of the vehicle, delay delivery for the next day and use it to go out to have fun at night with his faithful friend Jorge. They both go to a revue theatre and, while witnessing the performance, the first vedette (Corina) faints. Then Alberto and Jorge pose as doctors, in order to meet Corina. As is to be expected, both decide to continue the deception with the passing of the days, causing the confusion to become bigger and bigger and harder to keep secret.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1973-09-13
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El Manosanta está Cargado
Overview: A common man that is tired of being treated as stupid, and starts treating other people the same way, acting as a Brazilian "Manosanta" (folk healer that cures people illnesses).
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1987-06-04
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Peculiar Attraction
Overview: A television director decides to make a show about the invasion of transvestites in Mar del Plata. He commissions one of his editors, Jorge Trolombati, who must infiltrate and impersonate one.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1988-03-03
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Amante para dos
Overview: Mauricio and Alberto are friends and work in an insurance company. Apparently they have very dissimilar personalities, since Alberto is a hummingbird who lives courting as many women as he can and Mauricio is serious and lover of his wife. In reality, Mauricio maintains a hidden relationship with a vedette named Monica, who constantly puts him in trouble when he asks him to separate from his wife and go live with her. Alberto, aware of this, proposes to Mauricio that he pass his lover to him, and Monica becomes his stable lover. Mauricio and Alberto's women become suspicious and everything gets complicated, and they come to the conclusion that keeping Monica is very dangerous for both of them.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1981-08-13
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Los reyes del sablazo
Overview: Luisa discovers in the briefcase of Alberto, her husband, a fiery love letter, in which he is portrayed as an impetuous lover.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1984-02-16
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Expertos en pinchazos
Overview: Alberto and Jorge are employees of a pharmacy. One day, by mistake, they give a client a bottle of poison in exchange for a medication that she had to start ingesting 48 hours later. Realizing this, they decide to go out and look for her with the only data they have: her first name, her striking clothing, and that she was driving an imported motorcycle. So they launch into a crazy race against time touring the fashionable places of the Buenos Aires night, helped by a woman who claims to know the mysterious girl on the motorcycle.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1979-06-14
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Los fierecillos indomables
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1982-07-15
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Los hombres sólo piensan en eso
Overview: Alberto and Jorge are two typical "chantas", who are dedicated to deceiving people along with another friend, nicknamed "Palomita". One day "Palomita" is awarded a prize consisting of dollars and two tickets to Caracas, but it turns out that this decomposes and dies. His last wish communicated to his friends Alberto and Jorge is that they take care of his sister. Upon meeting her, she turns out to be a very beautiful girl, with whom they both get involved. Then together with her they get into trouble with a group of criminals and must leave the country, taking a flight to Caracas, where they arrive posing as an Argentine vedette and her two representatives.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1976-09-02
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Las mujeres son cosa de guapos
Overview: In 1930s Argentina, dim-witted Rufino and Jacinto are hired as tough guys ("guapos") by political boss Malatesta to intimidate his opponents, rig elections, etc. However, the two men change allegiances when they meet the lovely Mercedes and La Mendocina, victims of Malatesta and his gang.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1981-06-18
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Los fierecillos se divierten
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1983-02-24
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Los vampiros los prefieren gorditos
Overview: Count Dracula travels to Buenos Aires with his secretary and stays in a very special hotel, where several mobsters are also staying.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1974-03-07
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Galería del terror
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Genres: Horror Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1987-09-02
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Two Crazy Privates 3
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1987-02-12
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Two Crazy Privates
Overview: Two violators of the military service law are incorporated as soldiers recently arrived from Europe and proposed to integrate a group that will operate in a jungle region, for which they have to prepare for difficult survival missions.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1986-02-17
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El rey de los exhortos
Overview: A widowed lawyer meets a beautiful woman who is going through her divorce and helps her get custody of her children.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1979-08-30
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Shared Apartment
Overview: A recently separated man decides to go to his best friend's apartment, where their different personalities cause crazy events, hilarious situations and, in addition, he meets a beautiful woman with whom he falls in love.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1980-09-18
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Two Crazy Pirates 2
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1986-07-10
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Mi Mujer no es mi señora
Overview: Juan Carlos, a businessman, falls in love with a woman much younger than him, and ends up marrying her. Juan Carlos' mother-in-law, following an incident with him, tells him a fabricated story: that the father of her daughter is a stranger, with whom she had sex in the car of a train. Coincidentally, this situation had happened to Juan Carlos many years ago, and now, with the doubts that his wife is his daughter, he does not even want to approach her on his wedding night.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1978-07-23
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Basta de mujeres
Overview: Alberto, who has been married to Laura for twenty years, meets Monica in his office, a serious and formal employee with whom he strikes up a friendship.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1977-03-31
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Sálvese quien pueda
Overview: The story of a bandoneon-loving musician who works as a detective in a hotel and the story of a chemist in love with a widowed woman.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1984-07-05
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Una jaula no tiene secretos
Overview: Buenos Aires, Argentina, New Year's Eve. Several people are trapped inside an elevator located in an office building.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1962-10-04
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El hombre del año
Overview: The life of a man who discovers two hearts changes abruptly when a group of criminals tries to seize one of them to transplant it to a Mafia Boss who has heart problems.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1970-11-19
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Viaje de una noche de verano
Overview: A group of tourists travel Buenos Aires by bus.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1965-06-10
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Hotel alojamiento
Overview: Different stories that take place in a hotel for a temporary shelter for couples.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1966-03-31
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El andador
Overview: A late pregnancy disrupts the routine of a mature marriage.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1967-08-24
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Villa Cariño está que arde
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1968-09-26
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Gringalet
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1959-07-19
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Barcos de papel
Overview: Eager to have a crystal ball, a child works to buy it but is accused of a robbery he did not commit.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1963-02-28
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Los debutantes en el amor
Overview: Four stories about sexual initiation in adolescence.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1969-08-28
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Ritmo nuevo, vieja ola
Overview: Movie divided in three episodes: a family mother becomes a successful singer; an Argentinian reporter follows a Spanish cupletista from the beginning of the XX century; the reunion of three old actors and their lies about their success.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1965-08-19
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Las aventuras del Capitán Piluso en el castillo del terror
Overview: Piluso and Coquito confront the evil owner of a castle, who takes possession of other people's lands.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1963-12-19
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