Hugo Arana

Hugo Arana

1943-07-23 – 2020-10-11 (age 77) Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Biography

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.

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Known For

Don't Look Down
Don't Look Down

2008

as Padre de Eloy

The Official Story
The Official Story

1985

as Enrique Ibáñez

Super Crazy
Super Crazy

2018

as Fernando Salaberry

Death in Buenos Aires
Death in Buenos Aires

2014

as Sanfilippo

A Place in the World
A Place in the World

1992

as Zamora

To Return
To Return

1982

as Angel Ragucci

The Truce
The Truce

1974

as Martínez

Seawards Journey
Seawards Journey

2003

as Rodriguez

Historias de papel
Cautiva
Cautiva

2004

as Juez Barrenechea

Te esperaré
Te esperaré

2017

as Leiva

The Funeral Home
The Funeral Home

2021

as Salvador

El verso
El verso

1996

as Pedro

Dibu 2: La venganza de Nasty
The Island