Luis Alarcón
Birthday: Born in 1929-10-23 in Puerto Natales, Magallanes and the Chilean Antarctic, Chile
Deathday: 2023-08-04
TV Credits
Algo personal
Character: Self
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Viva la pipol
Character: Self
Contests, reporting segments and conversation with interesting guests. All done in a pleasant and down-to-earth way for all the Chilean family watching....
La noche es nuestra
Character: Self
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Volver a empezar
Character: Gastón de la Force
A writer returns to her motherland after many years in exile, and seeks to resolve pending conflicts with her son....
De tú a tú
Character: Self
Martín Cárcamo invites people of huge national and international relevance to his home to have a relaxed conversation, without fanfare but revealing and intimate....
Martín Rivas
Character: Pedro San Luis
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Témpano
Character: Francisco Grau
The mystery takes over the crew of a vessel on the ice in southern Chile....
Estúpido cupido
Character: Octavio Dublé
In 1962, the small town of San Andrés is ruled by morality and good manners. The arrival of a new nun will change everything. Turn everything upside down....
La fiera
Character: Pedro Chamorro
Catalina Chamorro, is a woman who rejects every wooer interested in her. The matter would not be important if it were not because, according to an old promise of love, Catalina's father, Pedro Chamorro, refuses to give his youngest daughter, Blanca, in marriage until his oldest daugher has married....
El circo de las Montini
Character: Juan 'El Capitán' Lorenzo
A circus family must face a new season of performances, under the risk that this may be their last tour....
Sucupira
Character: Ambrosio Campos
Sucupira is a seaside town in Chile. Federico Valdivieso, the mayor, a scoundrel, rascal and womanizer is determined to be re-elected. One of his main goals for that is to inaugurate the Sucupira cemetery, something he cannot achieve because nobody is dying, in his endeavor to make that happen he will star in hilarious situations....
Sucupira, la comedia
Character: Ambrosio Campos
A spin-off sequel of the 1996 TV series "Sucupira". The story takes place when Sucupira Mayor Federico Valdivieso, who was thought gone and buried comes out of his grave, causing confussion and chaos among the town's citizens....
Crónica de un hombre santo
Character: Monsignor Sergio Valech
The life, work and death of the Chilean Jesuit priest and founder of "Hogar de Cristo" (Home of Christ), San Alberto Hurtado Cruchaga....
Marta a las ocho
Character: René Barrientos
A housemaid named Marta travels to Santiago, in search of better opportunities, convinced that in the capital she would find everything she expected....
Corín Tellado: Mis mejores historias de amor
Character: Raúl
Series based on Corín Tellado's "pink" novels. Romantic stories that take place in Modern times, portraying the prejudices and social pressures that both men and women have to endure....
Pampa Ilusión
Character: Emilio Fuenzalida
The exiled daughter of an English businessman returns home, in the midst of the class struggle between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat in the Humberstone nitrate office, during the acute 1930s financial crisis....
Los Pincheira
Character: Padre Antonio Ortúzar
Four bandit siblings try to take revenge on the landowners who killed their father....
Rojo y miel
Character: Alcides Mainardi
The love story of Claudia Bernhardt and Rodrigo Carvajal, they come from different worlds: she was a young university student, used to urban lifestyle and he was in charge of his father's ranch. Their romance is at stake when another man offers Claudia the stability she needs. The honey of the city will clash with the red passion of the countryside....
El señor de la Querencia
Character: Renato Echeñique
An evil and deranged farmer, perversely controls his land and the people who live there during the 1920s....
Corazón de María
Character: Pedro Lamarca
Miguel loses his wife Maria in a tragic car accident just hours after getting married. However, Maria's heart will continue to beat on another woman's body. The transplant that marks the death of María will also be synonymous of Elisa's new life....
La familia de al lado
Character: Igor Mora
Gone are the days of tranquility for the billionaire family Fabres, strange things happen inside his home and around his people in a place where nothing is what it seems....
Romané
Character: Baldomero Lillo
A caravan of gypsies arrives in Mejillones, Chile, to celebrate the marriage of their patriarch, without imagining that the unexpected arrival of his daughter after two decades, will revive a stormy past....
Borrón y cuenta nueva
Character: Reynaldo Paz
A billionaire who, as a result of his death, leaves an inheritance of 100 million dollars to his three daughters. But in order for them to receive the money, they must follow some exclusive conditions such as living in his mansion, marrying within a year and arriving there before midnight. Problems scalate when a fourth heir appears......
Dime quién fue
Character: Humberto Rodríguez
Laura returns 20 years later to the hotel where her mother died in strange circumstances, to seek revenge and make justice....
Matriarcas
Character: Clemente Valdes
Diana, the widow of an Arab millionaire must share her home with all the women related to latter's life, including her monarchist mother Isabelle, her envious sister Letizia, her two nieces Leonor and Amalia, her employee and a cute kinesiologist....
Mentiras verdaderas
Character: Self
Daily interviews discussing the guest's personal lives and national contingency....
Movie Credits
Kiltro
Character: Farah
Street tough Zamir has been in love with Kim ever since he rescued her from rapists, but the only way that he can express his affection is to attack any man who shows interest in her. Kim tolerates Zamir's infatuation, but keeps him at arm's length. When Max Kalba arrives in town to take vengeance on Kim's father, Zamir attempts to rescue her once again....
Jackal of Nahueltoro
Character: Judge
Based on an actual murder case that ignited a furious debate over the death penalty in Chile in 1960, this experimental social drama portrays the life and death of an illiterate peasant who, while drunk, murdered the woman with whom he had a relationship and her five children....
Three Sad Tigers
Character: Luis Úbeda
A glimpse at the few days and nights in the lives of a brother and sister, Amanda and Tito, in Santiago’s semi-criminal underworld. A rambling portrait of Chilean society....
Tierra del fuego
Character: Alexis
The film is based on the novel (of the same name) by the Chilean writer Francisco Coloane, and on the chronicles of the Romanian engineer Julius Popper, a nationalized Argentine and one of the principle actors in the genocide of the Selk'nam, one of the indigenous peoples who inhabited the Tierra del Fuego Archipelago....
Los náufragos
Character: Sebastian
After 20 years of exile, Aron returns to Chile to find out who he is. He asks questions, not only of those who stayed behind but also of himself, examining his relationship with his past and his own memory. The people who stayed lived through 20 years of dictatorship. They were either victims or executioners. Amidst this wreckage, Aron wonders what name his brother is using now, where his father is... Can he, in Isol's arms and through her love, find his way again ? What future awaits him? Like ...
Julio Begins in July
Character: Uncle Alberto
This is the story of a teenager at the turn of the century in the conservative higher classes of Chile and the initiation rites in his society....
Sussi
Character: Mario
Sussi comes to the big city to find love and success....
A la sombra del sol
Character:
Two thieves wander in the chilean desert and finally get to a small town near Bolivia. There, they try to include themselves with the townspeople but their instincts betray them and tragedy ensues. Based on a true story, this film opened one year after the chilean Coup de etat. The day after the opening, script girl Carmen Bueno and director of photography Jorge Müller were taken by police and now they are part of the list of the Desaparecidos....
Derecho de asilo
Character:
In an imaginary country in Latin America, a man asks for asylum in an embassy. Trickery, passion, and intrigue are the motives of his actions....
Johnny One Hundred Pesos
Character: Judge
Based on real events, 17-year-old Johnny García becomes involved with four older thugs who are planning to rob a money-laundering business masquerading as a video store. As they try to escape, a swarm of exploitative media attention awaits....
Nobody Said Anything
Character: Poeta
Four drunken literary bohemians write a short story about a pact with the Devil just as that very story is happening to them....
Mandrill
Character: Don Mario
Mandrill is a high-level assassin whose parents many years ago were slaughtered in cold blood by a ruthless drug lord. Now he finds himself finally in a position to get his revenge. But since it falls in love precisely in the pretty daughter of the ruthless killer. Mandrill now faces the most serious decision of his life ......
Secos
Character: Himself
Chile is the only country that has privatized its waters, in favor of large corporations, to the detriment of homes in rural and urban communities. Secos is a short that makes this reality visible, through the dialog between anonymous fighters from the most heavily affected provinces, with renowned actors and actresses in the country. The objective is to activate the topic of water as a human right, to achieve in the future the recovery of this vital element as a common good for all communities ...
The Wandering Soap Opera
Character: Belisario / Homero / Mateo
The film revolves around the concept of soap opera. Its structure is based on the assumption that Chilean reality does not exist, but rather is an ensemble of soap operas....
Something Is Out There
Character:
While wandering solitary in the city, Bruno discovers that his personality alternates with another. Such scrutiny will disturb him and make him to face himself in a quest that will even bring him face to face with death....
The Witnesses
Character:
This stark Chilean melodrama concerns itself with the plight of slum dwellers living outside Santiago. For many years they have, with great difficulty, been faithfully paying small sums to a real estate man. This man has said that by doing so they can obtain title to the miniscule plots of land their houses stand on. In fact, he has been swindling them and does not even own the land he has been "selling." One of the aggrieved slum dwellers confronts him about this while he is visiting the slum, ...
Little White Dove
Character: María's stepfather
A young working class girl falls in love with an upper class boy who is part of the plot to assassinate General Schneider, head of the Chilean Army....
Secrets
Character:
After long decades of exile, a leftist former activist returns to Chile to settle accounts with his conscience, related to the death of a colleague and political hero . The task of Atalibar is to reveal his secret. But his view clashes with the current country, godless, far from the old ideologies and where all his old colleagues have changed....
The Tango of the Widower and Its Distorting Mirror
Character: Silva
A man whose wife has committed suicide, appears to him as a ghost. The ghost follows him everywhere, under the bed, under tables… After seeing the ghost so frequently, the man begins to resemble her....
Caluga o Menta
Character: Javier
Niki and his friends are members of the marginalised underclass living on the outskirts of Santiago. During Chile's transition from dictatorship to democracy (1988-1990), they forge a path from drug- and drink-fuelled nihilism and petty crime into the world of market-driven illegality and Niki begins a seemingly predestined relationship with the middle-class "loca", Manuela. Memorable episodes and characters, quotable dialogue and a mix of earthy national portrait and surrealistic flourish make ...
The Chinese Shoe
Character: Felix
A taxi driver finds Marlene, a provincial woman, lost in a brothel. Immediately he decides to help her out and take her at his place. Little by little, his paternal protection turns into a bizarre passion...
Pickman's Model
Character: Bruno Mattotti
A journalist sets out to uncover the truth about the death of his colleague who was researching an American artist, Richard Upton Pickman. When he discovers the artist is in Santiago he goes to pay him a visit....
Tres miradas a la calle
Character: Delinquent (segment "Ojos de gato)
Set in Santiago de Chile in the 50's and divided into three stories. The first story is about a young woman who has just discovered that she's pregnant. The father refuses to cooperate. The second story is set in Arica, and concerns smuggling in northern Chile. The third and final story, "Ojos de gato", concerns a cashier that is bewitched by a mysterious "Lady in Black"....
KGB Agents Also Fall in Love
Character: Don Pedro
A Russian agent is sent to a mission in Chile as a punishment. While there, he continues his adventures in a massage parlor where he meets Paola - a young prostitute he falls in love with....
La gravedad del púgil
Character:
The story about a boxer and a police in the forest following the traces of evil forces....
Love Hunger
Character: Roberto
Three criminals escape prison and find themselves at the swampland home of a strange old man and his sexy blonde daughter. This black-and-white Argentine crime film was dubbed into English and spiced up with over 10 minutes of color nudie insert shots....
Mamá Ya Crecí
Character: Clemente Correa
Gerardo was never detached from his mother. So when he presented his first girlfriend, the gorgeous model Ana Verónica, the mother will do everything possible to get rid of her....
Hombres que sueñan
Character: Self
The life and experiences of six emblematic Chilean actors. One by one, they relate aspects of their trajectories, origin and dreams, reliving and analyzing not only their careers, but also happy and historical moments that marked their lives....
People's Train of Culture
Character: Self
Documentary film which tells the story of an initiative of the government of Salvador Allende, President of Chile from 1970 to 1973, the objective of which was to bring culture closer to those who had no access to it. The People’s Train of Culture was part of the 40th measure of Allende’s programme of government which aimed to create a National Institute of Arts and Culture and colleges of art in all the country’s provinces....
Gente Mala del Norte
Character: Abelardo de la Puente
In the Strait of Magellan, on 1923, an Irish photographer gradually discovers that the defendants in a bloody crime are innocent, and are only victims of intolerance and political expediency....
The Chosen One
Character: The President
It's the year 2006 in Chile and reality TV rules the airwaves. Ten strangers are taken to the snowy summits of the Andes; The challenge is to survive in an underground shelter....