Francisco Petrone (August 14, 1902 – March 11, 1967) was an
Argentine
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film actor
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, notable for his work during the
Golden Age of Argentine cinema
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. He is best known for his roles in the 1940s in the classic film ''
La Guerra Gaucha
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'' (1942) and ''
A Real Man'' (''Todo un hombre'') (1943), for which he won the
Silver Condor Award for Best Actor at the
1944 Argentine Film Critics Association Awards.
Selected films
* 1935 ''
Monte Criollo''
* 1936 ''
Sombras porteñas''
* 1937 ''
La fuga''
* 1939 ''
Hermanos'' (''Brothers'')
* 1939 ''
Prisioneros de la tierra''
* 1939 ''
Turbión''
* 1941 ''
Persona honrada se necesita'' (''Honest Person Needed'')
* 1941 ''
White Eagle''
* 1942 ''
La guerra gaucha
''The Gaucho War'' (''La guerra gaucha'') is a Argentine films of 1942, 1942 Argentina, Argentine historical drama and epic film directed by Lucas Demare and starring Enrique Muiño, Francisco Petrone, Ángel Magaña, and Amelia Bence. It is one ...
'' (''The Gaucho War'')
* 1942 ''
El viejo Hucha'' (''The Old Skinflint'')
* 1943 ''
Todo un hombre'' (''What a Man'')
* 1945 ''
Savage Pampas''
* 1947 ''
Como tú lo soñaste''
* 1954 ''
La duda
''La duda (The Doubt)'' is a telenovela
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'' (''The Doubt'')
* 1956 ''
Historia de un marido infiel''
* 1957 ''
Todo sea para bien
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''
* 1959 ''
El dinero de Dios'' (''God's Money'')
* 1962 ''
El hombre de la esquina rosada'' (''Man on Pink Corner'')
* 1965 ''
El reñidero''
References
External links
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1902 births
1967 deaths
Argentine male film actors
Male actors from Buenos Aires
Burials at La Chacarita Cemetery
Silver Condor Award for Best Actor winners
20th-century Argentine male actors
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