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Javier Portales

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Javier Portales, whose real name was Miguel Angel Alvarez (Tancacha, Córdoba; April 21, 1937 - Buenos Aires; October 14, 2003) was an Argentine actor and comedian of vast trajectory.

21-04-1937

Birthday

Taurus

Zodiac Sign

-

Genres

68

Total Films

Also known as (male)

Tancacha, Córdoba, Argentina

Place of Birth

Popular works

Creative career

actor

68 Works

producer

0 Works

director

1 Works

writer

1 Works

other

0 Works

Sex Humor

Sex Humor

A video magazine (similar to National Lampoon) of erotic shorts stories.
0.0

Year:

1992

Naked Tango

Naked Tango

When a young European woman assumes a false identity in 1920s Argentina, she gets more than she bargained for.
6.3

Year:

1990

El Manosanta está Cargado

El Manosanta está Cargado

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).
7.1

Year:

1987

Chorros

Chorros

Upon finding out that the bank where they work will go bankrupt, some employees decide to rob one of the institution's branches.
0.0

Year:

1987

Two Crazy Privates

Two Crazy Privates

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.
7.5

Year:

1986

El caso Matías

El caso Matías

In 1965, a man named Matías is taken to a psychiatric hospital, after being found at the streets, "in the company of homosexuals and in a state of intoxication by alcohol and drugs". His documentation says he's 41 years old and born in Poland. He says his mother was an aristocrat. His arrival will have a profound impact on the institution and, especially, on one of the doctors.
0.0

Year:

1985

El telo y la tele

El telo y la tele

A sex congress takes place in a hotel, and couples are secretely filmed in a Slivers way by the "scientists".
3.0

Year:

1985

Venido a menos

Venido a menos

To continue pretending to be a position they no longer have, a run-down upper-class family moves into the home of a wealthy aunt.
0.0

Year:

1984

Los reyes del sablazo

Los reyes del sablazo

Luisa discovers in the briefcase of Alberto, her husband, a fiery love letter, in which he is portrayed as an impetuous lover.
7.2

Year:

1984

Se acabó el curro

Se acabó el curro

Two porteños try to swindle a Peruvian who is in Buenos Aires on vacation.
0.0

Year:

1983

Un terceto peculiar

Un terceto peculiar

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
7.0

Year:

1982

Las mujeres son cosa de guapos

Las mujeres son cosa de guapos

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.
7.3

Year:

1981

Te rompo el rating

Te rompo el rating

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.
6.0

Year:

1981

La noche viene movida

La noche viene movida

A businessman who receives his niece who comes from the interior experiences different situations in a hotel accommodation.
1.0

Year:

1980

Cantaniño cuenta un cuento

Cantaniño cuenta un cuento

Two men, a woman, a chimpanzee and a talking horse travel around Argentina to put together a movie
0.0

Year:

1979

Las muñecas que hacen ¡pum!

Las muñecas que hacen ¡pum!

An army of beautiful androids commits a series of singular murders: they explode when penetrated.
3.0

Year:

1979

Custodio de señoras

Custodio de señoras

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.
7.0

Year:

1979

La mamá de la novia

La mamá de la novia

Mother and daughter are both pop singers, but mom wants her little girl to get married. Wacky complications.
3.5

Year:

1978

Ladies Photographer

Ladies Photographer

Catrasca is a photojournalist with a fondness for women of all kinds.
7.2

Year:

1978

El tío Disparate

El tío Disparate

7.5

Year:

1978

Un toque diferente

Un toque diferente

0.0

Year:

1977

Las turistas quieren guerra

Las turistas quieren guerra

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.
7.1

Year:

1977

What's Autumn?

What's Autumn?

An award-winning architect struggles to find work, love, and a purpose in life.
0.0

Year:

1977

La guerra de los sostenes

La guerra de los sostenes

This is a comedy full of tangles, with the picaresque occurrences of Tristan, and the involvement of frontline actors.
6.0

Year:

1976

La noche del hurto

La noche del hurto

2.0

Year:

1976

El gordo de América

El gordo de América

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.
6.6

Year:

1976

Maridos en vacaciones

Maridos en vacaciones

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.
7.2

Year:

1975

Hay que romper la rutina

Hay que romper la rutina

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.
7.0

Year:

1974

Los vampiros los prefieren gorditos

Los vampiros los prefieren gorditos

Count Dracula travels to Buenos Aires with his secretary and stays in a very special hotel, where several mobsters are also staying.
6.1

Year:

1974

Los doctores las prefieren desnudas

Los doctores las prefieren desnudas

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.
7.1

Year:

1973

The Knights of the Round Bed

The Knights of the Round Bed

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.
7.2

Year:

1973

El mundo que inventamos

El mundo que inventamos

A provincial man comes to the big city and finds true love.
0.0

Year:

1973

Todos los pecados del mundo

Todos los pecados del mundo

The seven deadly sins are illustrated through short stories.
5.6

Year:

1972

El hombre del año

El hombre del año

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.
5.5

Year:

1970

La fidelidad

La fidelidad

argentina movie
6.0

Year:

1970

Los debutantes en el amor

Los debutantes en el amor

Four stories about sexual initiation in adolescence.
0.0

Year:

1969

El bulín

El bulín

Employees of an office use for love dating the apartment of a single co-worker.
0.0

Year:

1969

We Are the Best

We Are the Best

A group of porteños attend the grand final between Manchester and Estudiantes.
0.0

Year:

1968

Criminal Affair

Criminal Affair

A renowned author, college professor and criminologist is given a year off in order to write his latest book. His arrival in Buenos Aires gives him the opportunity to work on his true project, planning and pulling off the perfect crime.
2.0

Year:

1968

Che, OVNI

Che, OVNI

A porteño tango singer is kidnapped by a UFO and taken to Madrid, London and Paris.
5.5

Year:

1968

Este cura

Este cura

A village priest protects a young mother rejected by the people and the mayor.
7.0

Year:

1968

Un muchacho como yo

Un muchacho como yo

Ye-ye boy loves his ye-ye girl so much that he quits his band and gets a job to show her pops that he'll be a responsible husband. The rest of the movie outlines the progress of his complete capitulation to bourgie values.
3.0

Year:

1968

Coche cama, alojamiento

Coche cama, alojamiento

A magazine company and some in-love couples board a night train where a gang of bandits is traveling.
6.0

Year:

1968

Las pirañas

Las pirañas

Ricardo is an executive who has great success with women and behaves almost like a play-boy. His wife, Carmen, an attractive housewife without children, it feels ignored by him and seeks solace from her mother, who proposes Carmen a change in the way she acts in order to do not lose permanently her husband or even fall into madness.
5.7

Year:

1967

Esto es alegría

Esto es alegría

Three stories where optimism triumphs: a television director finds a new mother for his children, an old couple of artists deal with a sentimental crisis and an illustrator whose father is an alcoholic fights to educate his brother.
0.0

Year:

1967

Del brazo y por la calle

Del brazo y por la calle

Economic difficulties separating a young couple who, after the attempt to survive, decide to meet again.
0.0

Year:

1966

Dos quijotes sobre ruedas

Dos quijotes sobre ruedas

The adventures of two truckers (one Argentine and the other Mexican) carrying different people and a suspicious trunk
0.0

Year:

1966

My First Girlfriend

My First Girlfriend

A romantic teen comedy about the rivalry between an Agrentinian man and a young American for the love of a beautiful girl from a rich family.
6.0

Year:

1966

Ritmo nuevo, vieja ola

Ritmo nuevo, vieja ola

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.
0.0

Year:

1965

Una jaula no tiene secretos

Una jaula no tiene secretos

Buenos Aires, Argentina, New Year's Eve. Several people are trapped inside an elevator located in an office building.
7.0

Year:

1962

Last year of Nacional High School

Last year of Nacional High School

This movie was based on a TV series popular in Argentina at that time dealing with the adventures of high school seniors.
0.0

Year:

1961

That Forward Center Dies at Dawn

That Forward Center Dies at Dawn

Cacho Garibaldi is the soccer player of the moment, his goals lead to delirium fans. When an eccentric millionaire named Lupus buys his transfer, he expects to end up on a major team. Instead, he discovers the millionaire's goal in life is to collect the best -not art or stamps- but people.
0.0

Year:

1961

Three Times Ana

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.
7.2

Year:

1961

Una cita con la vida

Una cita con la vida

The love story between two teenagers, children of incomprehensible parents.
0.0

Year:

1958