Augusto Benedico
Birthday: Born in 1909-12-21 in Alicante, Comunitat Valenciana, Spain
Deathday: 1992-01-19
Augusto Benedico (December 20, 1909 – January 19, 1992), born Augusto Pérez Lías, was a Mexican actor (and occasional writer) of Spanish origin. He is best known for his television roles as Don Alberto Salvatierra in Los ricos también lloran and as Don Fernando in Destinos: An Introduction to Spanish. In film, he appeared in The Exterminating Angel (1962) as Carlos Conde and in Pedro Páramo (1967) as Father Rentería He was born in Alicante, Spain, and died in Mexico City, Mexico.
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Los ricos también lloran
Character: Don Alberto Salvatierra
Popular telenovela produced in Mexico in 1979, starring Verónica Castro, Rogelio Guerra and Rocío Banquells. Castro also sang the theme Aprendí a Llorar, a song written by Lolita de la Colina. The telenovela was produced by Chilean Valentín Pimstein and Carlos Romero, it was directed by Rafael Banquells. The story was written by Inés Rodena and adapted by Valeria Philips....
Carrusel
Character: Don Fermín 1
Carrusel is a Mexican telenovela, produced by and first broadcast on Televisa in 1989. It covers daily life in a Mexican elementary school and the children's relationships with a charismatic teacher named Jimena. Among other plot devices, it deals with the differences between the upper and lower classes of Mexican society — specifically as seen in a romantic relationship between Cirilo, a poor black boy, and a spoiled rich girl, Maria Joaquina Villaseñor....
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La hora desnuda
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The Exterminating Angel
Character: Dr. Carlos Conde
After a lavish dinner party, the guests find themselves unable to depart... and, over the next few days, all of their elaborate societal pretenses and façades deteriorate as they are reduced to living like animals....
Santo vs. the Vampire Women
Character: Prof. Orlof
A professor recruits a professional wrestler to protect his daughter from vampires intent on kidnapping her and marrying her to the devil....
The Clutching Hand
Character: Julio Arena
Two wrestling stars must investigate strange deaths and a secret criminal organization led by a madman who becomes invisible....
Tinieblas
Character: Lic. Gómez
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Santo vs. the King of Crime
Character: Matias
El Santo and his loyal friends will try to disarm a dangerous criminal organization....
Estos años violentos
Character: Dr. Sáenz
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The Cubs
Character: Mr. Cuéllar
After having his genitals brutally mutilated during childhood, a man must face prejudice and himself....
El pueblo del terror
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Federal-agent/cowboy battles crime...
The Big Cube
Character: Dr. Lorenz
A young woman and her drug addict boyfriend plot to drive the woman's stepmother insane with LSD in a plot to secure an inheritance....
Santo in the Hotel of Death
Character: Mathias
Tourists visiting the pyramids in Mexico experience a string of deaths and disappearances while staying at a nearby hotel. Police investigators Fernando and Cornado are assigned to the case and attempt to solve the mystery with the help of reporter (and girlfriend of Fernando) Veronica and the wrestler Santo....
El gran autor
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A story of passion and deceit, where love overcomes the misfortunes and finally triumphs....
Love & Sex (Sappho 1963)
Character: Carlos
Independently-wealthy woman tries to break free of repressive, conservative cultural constraints....
Jalisco nunca pierde
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Class distinctions are an obstacle for a guy trying to woo his gal of choice....
Yesenia
Character: Julio
A beautiful gypsy named Yesenia has no set path in life. During a caravan trip she meets Osvaldo who is enrolled in the militia, they both fall in love despite their differences and social prejudices....
No One Will Love You Like I Do
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A student-movement leftist becomes a nun and absorbs lots of deep, deep TV-movie spiritual lessons about God's glorious plan....
Yo pecador
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Biopic of a 1930s operatic tenor who ended up becoming a Franciscan monk and joining the priesthood....
Pedro Paramo
Character: Padre Rentería
When his mother Dolores dies, Juan Preciado, son of Pedro Páramo, goes to Comala to claim his inheritance; but when he arrives he finds an abandoned and sinister place, inhabited by mysterious voices and whispers…...
The Door and The Butcher's Wife
Character: Invitado (segment "La puerta")
A movie divided in two segments, the first "La puerta" (The Door) is about a high society gathering in which a door inside the mansion leads to a bizarre corridor where a naked and menacing human figure appears. The second "La mujer del carnicero" (The Butcher's Wife) is set during the Mexican revolution and is about horrifying hallucinations felt by a lieutenant after committing a murder....
The She Wolf's Orgy
Character: Don Rubén
A woman with a troubled past introduces lust, depravity and sex to a religious commune....
El cielo y tú
Character: Monseñor
Priest suffers a head injury, develops amnesia, ends up in a hippie commune....
Love Your Neighbor
Character: Empresario
This film tells several short stories that end up lapsing in the emergency room of a hospital, because it is dedicated to nurses. Cantinflas appears at the end of the film playing the role of Luis, a man who has five daughters and looks forward to a boy, but fate plays a trick and the child dies at birth, but history gives a nice twist and a message of hope....
Aunt Isabel's Garden
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A ship carrying Conquistadors is wrecked and the survivors are thrown ashore to struggle through the Yucatan jungle....
Cascabelito
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Doña Perfecta
Character: Don Anselmo (uncredited)
Liberal farmer Pepe has arrived in Santa Fe to visit his aunt, Dona Perfecta. While he's there, Pepe is eager to teach the traditional-minded townspeople a new way of living. Unfortunately for Pepe the people of Santa Fe aren't eager to embrace change, and when the citizens begin to voice resentment Pepe is forced to seek refuge with his sympathetic aunt. Dona Perfecta is just as traditional as any of the other townspeople though, and only suffers Pepe due to the fact that he is family. When Pep...
La hermana blanca
Character: Monseñor
A young woman believes her fiance has died, and she enters a convent....
Las recién casadas
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Three newlywed couples and the priest who married them face problems imposed on them by unquestioning adherence to patriarchal values....
Las amiguitas de los ricos
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On Christmas Eve, Santa Claus engineers a miracle that will rehabilitate three kept women into orthodox 'decency' and marriage....
Después de la tormenta
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This Mexican melodrama may have been released above the border as After the Storm. The principal characters are a pair of twin lighthouse keepers. They try their best to live together with their wives under the same roof, but the delicate balance is shattered when one of the brothers falls in love with his sister-in-law. When one twin is lost during a storm, the other assumes his identity, with the expected romantic complications. If Despues de la Termenta sounds familiar, it is because the scre...
La venenosa
Character: El tigre
A snake-charmer falls in love with a circus trapeze artist who trains her and has her debut in this discipline....
Siete pecados
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Seven dresses/seven models at a fashion show, and each one represents one of the seven deadly sins....
Concurso de belleza
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Mom and Dad convince studious college girl to enroll in a beauty pageant, hoping to win big cash prize at the end of the rainbow....
Dios sabrá juzgarnos
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Rejected suitor goes all-out in his efforts to break up an engaged couple....
Unfaithful Wives
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A bunch of stories where wives are unfaithful for different reasons: money, revenge or pleasure....
Mi vida es una canción
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Young pop singer finds his niche in the entertainment industry....
The New Invisible Man
Character: Luis
A man is sentenced to prison for a murder he did not commit. Thanks to a serum invented by his brother, he manages to become invisible and escape from prison in order to prove his innocence, while his brother works feverishly to find an antidote. Theatrically released in USA in Spanish language only; later English-dubbed version syndicated directly to television....
Prisionera del recuerdo
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Refugee from Spanish Civil War deals with PTSD and a romantic triangle while trying to find her father's murderer....
Sabrás que te quiero
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Famous singer becomes desperate to figure out which of three women helped to launch his early career with anonymous mentoring and support....
Sin salida
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Ex-con trying to go straight is backed into a corner by "former associates."...
Secreto de confesión
Character: Don Ignacio Roldan
Young woman falls in love with a cub reporter who's investigating the illegal activities of her father. Then there's secret marriages and secret murders and secret babies and... family melodrama in full flower....
Fever Mounts at El Pao
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After Caribbean despot Mariano Vargas is murdered at the hands of his enraged populace, his secretary Ramón Vázquez takes not just control but also Vargas' widow Inés, with whom he's been having an affair. Special military unit leader Alejandro Gual arrives to overthrow Vázquez by turning the people and Inés against him....
The Monastery of the Vultures
Character: Pablo
In a remote Mexican monastery, a Father Prior subjects young seminarians to psychoanalysis to test their vocation. As sessions peel back secrets and doubts, faith, desire, and authority collide....
The Illegitimate
Character: Don Alfonso
Family melodrama: manipulative parents ruin lives with their meddling....
Born to Love
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Sólo para tí
Character: Señor González
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The Door
Character: Guest
At a high society gathering, a door inside the mansion leads to a strange hallway....
Historia de un amor
Character: Especialista médico (uncredited)
Elena (Libertad Lamarque), already a star, falls madly in love with Roberto. They make it to the altar. Elena and Roberto adopt a baby. The years go by and everything is happiness in the couple’s life—until one day the girl’s grandfather appears....