Héctor Alterio
Gender: Male
Born: 21st September 1929 (currently 82 years old)
Nationality: Argentina
Movies: The Official Story, El Amor infiel, Kamchatka, El Último tren, The Nest, Cria Cuervos, Las Truchas, Cleopatra, A un dios desconocido, Ashes of Paradise, Caballos Salvajes, Camila, Awaking From a Dream, Argentino hasta la muerte, Don Segundo Sombra, Diary for a Story, Little Miracle, Son of the Bride, Waiting for the Messiah, Apasionados, Burnt Money, A Sweet Scent of Death, Semen: Una Historia de Amor, Flesh & Blood, Heroes y Demonios, Summer of the Colt, Private Lives, I, the Worst of All, Asesinato a Distancia, The Truce, Dreams from the Middle of the World, Teresa de Jesús, Gentille Alouette, Intruders, November
Héctor Benjamín Alterio Onorato (born September 21, 1929 in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine theatre, film and television actor, well known both in Argentina and Spain.
Alterio's theatre debut came in 1948 as the lead in Cómo suicidarse en primavera ("How to commit suicide in spring"). After finishing drama school, he created the Nuevo Teatro ("New Theatre") company in 1950, where he worked until 1968 and helped change the Argentine theatrical scene of the 1960s.
He also worked in the Argentine cinema. His debut on the silver screen took place in Alfredo Mathé's Todo sol es amargo (Every sun is bitter) in 1965. He then participated in many of the most important Argentine movies of the 1970s, including La Patagonia rebelde (The Rebel Patagonia), which was awarded a Silver Bear at the 24th Berlin International Film Festival. His voice was used in Ya es tiempo de violencia (1969), an anonymous film about the Cordobazo riots which took place the same year. The film was produced by Enrique Juárez, close to the Grupo Cine Liberación.
While in Spain in 1975, he received death threats from the Argentine Anticommunist Alliance. He decided not to return to Argentina and remained in
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