Hugo Arana
Birthday: Born in 1943-07-23 in Buenos Aires, Argentina
Deathday: 2020-10-11
Hugo Arana (July 23, 1943 - October 11, 2020 Buenos Aires, Argentina) was an Argentinian film, television and theatre actor. Arana grew up in Monte Grande and moved with his family to Lomas de Zamora and then Lanus. He studied acting with Marcello Lavalle and Augusto Fernandez. In his first years as an actor, he was part of a theatre group called "Errare Humanum Est" and he acted in films such as El Santo de la Espada (1970) and La tregua (1974). In the 1980s, he became popular for his part in an advertisement for Crespi wine, and then for his part in the TV Sitcom Matrimonios y algo más (directed by Hugo Moser), in which he played two characters who were highly acclaimed by the public: the "Groncho" (in the comedy sketch "El Groncho y La Dama" (The Shabby Man and the Lady)) and Huguito Araña (a stereotypically femenine gay man). He has worked on the Telefé TV series Los exitosos Pells, where he played the director of the fictitious channel "Mega News", Franco Andrada. Description above from the Wikipedia article Hugo Arana, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
TV Credits
Los exitosos Pells
Character: Franco Andrada
Los exitosos Pells is a 2008-2009 Argentine telenovela, produced by Underground Producciones and Endemol, and aired by Telefe. It started being aired on November 5, 2008, replacing Vidas Robadas at 10:30PM. After a pair of schedule changes, it returned to 10:30PM until its end on July 15, 2009. The story is about a successful couple of TV hosts from a news channel, Martín Pells and Sol Casenave. In the first episode Martín Pells falls into a coma, and the CEO of the channel hires an underground...
Resistiré
Character: Ricardo Moreno
Resistiré is a 2003 Argentine telenovela. This serial features a gorgeous woman torn between her terrorist fiancee and a handsome tailor. It starred Pablo Echarri, Celeste Cid, Carolina Fal and Fabián Vena. Resistiré was a major hit on Argentinian television. It dared to introduce new elements in the genre of telenovela and was well accepted by the audience, setting a new standard in TV. In 2004, the telenovela won the Martín Fierro Award as the best show of the year, along with many other awar...
Alta comedia
Character:
...
Casi feliz
Character: Padre
A locally famous radio host has to deal with his ex-wife, who he still loves, and his two children....
Mujeres asesinas
Character:
Anthology series, in which every episode introduces fictionalized versions of real cases about women who, for different reasons, ended up committing murder....
DEDALO
Character: Domingo
A man dies in crossfire, and revives to clear his honor and regain the love of his life, from the body of his own killer...
Los Vecinos en Guerra
Character: Ramón
Los Vecinos en Guerra (Spanish: Neighbors at War) is an Argentine television comedy starring Diego Torres, Eleonora Wexler and Mike Amigorena and originally aired on Underground contenidos.[1]...
Tiempo final
Character:
...
Para vestir santos
Character: Horacio
...
Tato de América
Character:
...
Otros pecados
Character: Saúl
...
La Leona
Character: Pedro Salvador Leone
...
Tu parte del trato
Character: Juan Carlos Gianola
...
Hechizada
Character:
...
Comedia
Character:
...
Movie Credits
La balada del regreso
Character:
A military from Salta returns with unitary troops to his province and must surround the stay of a federal supporter...
Cautiva
Character: Juez Barrenechea
Cristina's life is thrown into turmoil when she is suddenly escorted from her strict Catholic school in Buenos Aires and told that she is really Sofía Lombardi, the daughter of activists who disappeared in the '70s. Questioning everything she once thought true, Cristina embarks on a journey to find her true identity. Meeting others like herself, the young girl soon discovers the real-life horrors of Argentina's relatively recent past and the nightmare that claimed tens of thousands of lives duri...
El soltero
Character:
Everyone tries that a successful single marry with a woman....
Delicia
Character: Amado
...
The Official Story
Character: Enrique Ibáñez
Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1983. In the last and turbulent days of the military dictatorship, Alicia, a high school history teacher, begins to ask uncomfortable questions about the dark origins of Gaby, her adopted daughter....
Boomerang
Character: Aurelio
Ximena, a 28-year-old, unstructured and modern, is trapped in a temporary "loop" with Walter and Aurelio, and has the difficult task of escaping before losing her sanity....
Made in Argentina
Character: Cacho
Osvaldo and Mabel, an Argentine couple exiled for political reasons in the United States, travel to their country of origin after ten years to reconnect with their family and friends, including Mabel's brother and his wife. Mabel offers her brother the possibility of working in New York in order to improve their economic situation, but his wife is opposed to that idea....
Chile Can Do It
Character: Octavio
The businessman who sends the first Chilean astronaut into outer space can't quite come up with the money to bring the adventurer back....
Dangerous Obsession
Character:
An Argentine truck driver is on a routine trip through Rio de Janeiro when he meets a mysterious countryman. They travel back to Argentina together, meeting a beautiful Brazilian journalist on the way. The truck driver has revenge on his mind, and both the adventurous young man, and the gorgeous girl join him in this venture. The only thing the three have in common are their obsession for honor and justice....
Dibu 2: La venganza de Nasty
Character: Lencinas
The evil Nasty comes to our world with two objectives -- kidnap Buji, and carry as much candy as possible back to his world. He has the ability to 'shape-shift', and using the appearance of Dibu, he holds up a bank so that he can get enough money to buy the candy. The police wrongly imprison Dibu, who manages to escape and confront Nasty....
El verso
Character: Pedro
Between farce and grotesque, John, who has lost his job, in a collective versea values of a knife sharpener, can not against debts contracted or can with his family, wife and two kids. One day, the woman left, runs out of credit and Juan is left with only his dream of being a radio announcer....
To Return
Character: Angel Ragucci
An Argentine-executive of a multinational-returns to the country to close a factory. There he meets with his exgirlfriend and his best friend before the exile. The film presents an interpretation of the political and social situation in Argentina during the last years of the military government....
A Place in the World
Character: Zamora
Mario and Ana, in voluntary exile from Buenos Aires, live in a remote Argentine valley with their 12-year-old son Ernesto. Mario runs a school and a wool cooperative; Ana, a doctor, heads a clinic with Nelda, a progressive nun. Into this idealistic family comes Hans, a jaded Spanish geological engineer -- surveying the land for the local patron, to see if it can be dammed for hydro-electric power, which would drive the peasants from the land into the cities....
Don't Look Down
Character: Padre de Eloy
A sexy Spanish siren named Elvira schools a young man in tantric lovemaking....
Death in Buenos Aires
Character: Comisario Sanfilippo
In the 1980s, after a businessman is murdered at his home, an experienced police inspector and his rookie partner must delve into the gay scene of the city to catch the killer....
Pistas para volver a casa
Character: Antonio
Two siblings on a mission. After their elderly father gets hurt in an accident, they run to his side. He has breaking news about their mother, who abandoned them. He also hid something valuable and now brother and sister must work together....
The Island
Character:
A young man enters an institute for the mentally ill and falls in love with a patient from whom he will distance himself after her rehabilitation....
Reparaciones
Character: Gabriel
The special is a comedy of entanglement that happens around a typical neighborhood of the city that was altered by the presence of Nelson, a line, which we vizinhos consider an ungrateful place. Decide to hold a meeting to decide what to do and this is the scene for the first meeting between Mariela and Octavio. The problems of the neighborhood need to be excused by two young people to relate them....
Seawards Journey
Character: Rodriguez
The tale of five Uruguayan villagers who embark on a journey to see the ocean for the first time. They depart in a broken down freight truck, property of Rodríguez, a taciturn man who loves the sea. Their point of departure is a local bar, and at the last minute, an unknown man from the bar joins their adventure....
Las puertitas del Sr. López
Character:
...
Your Eyes Blazed
Character:
Amorous encounters and clashes between a group of parents of kindergarten ....
Argentine Soldier Only Known by God
Character: Antonio
The story is centered on the human drama of three young people from a small town in Traslasierra, Córdoba, who from very different ideological places, are forever transformed by the war in Malvinas Argentinas (Falkland Islands)....
Te esperaré
Character: Leiva
...
The Knight of the Sword
Character:
The life story of Argentine independence hero Jose de San Martin....
Super Crazy
Character: Fernando Salaberry
A 36-year-old meek woman realizes that there’s younger people trying to outpace her doing much less, so she makes a risky change by removing her filter....
Sinuous Road
Character: Eduardo Siero
A former Olympic athlete must return to the city where she grew up to fix family problems and face her past....
Matrimonios y Algo Más
Character:
...
Yanka y el espíritu del volcán
Character: Abuelo
...
La madre María
Character:
Based on the life of María Salomé Loredo, a figure famous for her healings and assistance to the poor of the late nineteenth and first half of the twentieth century....
Dale nomás
Character:
...
Los golpes bajos
Character:
...
Buenos Aires, la tercera fundación
Character: Voz
...
Chronicle of a Boy Alone
Character:
The story of a delinquent eleven-year-old orphan in authoritarian Argentina....
Todavía
Character:
...
The days that you gave me
Character:
A mature woman, a martyr of the home, with a husband who has lost love and two children who are into something else, decides one day to rebel and try a new life with a much younger man....
The Dark Side of the Heart
Character:
Oliveiro is a young poet living in Buenos Aires where sometimes he has to sell his ideas to an advertising agency to make a living or exchange his poems for a steak. In Montevideo, he meets a prostitute, Ana, with whom he falls in love. Back in Buenos Aires, he accepts a contract with a publicity agency to get the money for three days of love with her. Will he get what he's searching for when his ideal of love's pleasure is literally going in levitation while making love?...
Quereme así (Piantao)
Character: Ástor
...
Noche de ronda
Character:
...
The Truce
Character:
A man has to come to terms with his wasted youth, estranged family and grim prospects for the future....
The Funeral Home
Character: Salvador
Bernardo is an undertaker. He runs his mortuary business in the same house where he resides. In the front, he has his clients. And in the back, his dysfunctional family lives amongst coffins, wreaths, and the mischievous but nonviolent ghosts that visit on a daily basis. But when a malevolent entity enters the scene, it wreaks havoc on the already fractured household....
Atrapada por el vicio
Character: Padre de Andrea
Something very common in our days, an adolescent who does not find communication with her mother or stepfather falls into a depression that drags her down paths of difficult return. A film that shows the harshness of loneliness and the wrong search for drugs as a way out of problems....
Historias de papel
Character:
Amidst the hustle and bustle of a big city, five short stories intertwine to tell the story of their protagonists at the most decisive moment in their lives, when loneliness, dreams, social dictates, the loss of memories, and death sweep through them and unite them in a shared vision: that of redefining the present....
My mother-in-law is a zombie
Character:
Two sisters meet back after many years. They have the most strange confrontation. Satiric view of Argentine's society....
Daños Colaterales
Character:
...