Hugo Arana
Actor
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.
Filmography
The Official Story
as Enrique Ibáñez 1985
The Dark Side of the Heart
1992
Don't Look Down
as Padre de Eloy 2008
Death in Buenos Aires
as Comisario Sanfilippo 2014
Dangerous Obsession
2004
A Place in the World
as Zamora 1992
The Funeral Home
as Salvador 2021
Argentine Soldier Only Known by God
as Antonio 2017
Chronicle of a Boy Alone
1965
Pistas para volver a casa
as Antonio 2015
Cautiva
as Juez Barrenechea 2004
The Truce
as MartÃnez 1974
Yanka y el espÃritu del volcán
as Abuelo 2018
Dibu 2: La venganza de Nasty
as Lencinas 1998
Made in Argentina
as Cacho 1987
Seawards Journey
as Rodriguez 2003