
Hugo Arana
Known for Acting · 68 credits
- Born
- 1943-07-23
- Died
- 2020-10-11
- Place of birth
- Buenos Aires, Argentina
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.
Known For
TV Shows (17)

Alta comedia
1970

Tiempo final
2000

Killer Women
2005

Los exitosos Pells
2008
as Franco Andrada

Resistiré
2003
as Ricardo Moreno

Comedia
2019
El Capo
2007
as Don Chichio Mastrogiuseppe

Almost Happy
2020
as Padre

Para vestir santos
2010
as Horacio

Los Vecinos en Guerra
2013
as Ramón

La Leona
2016
as Pedro Salvador Leone

Otros pecados
2019
as Saúl

Dedalo
2020
as Domingo

Hechizada
2007

Tu parte del trato
2019
as Juan Carlos Gianola

Tato de América
1992

Good Neighbors
1999
Movies (51)

Argentine Soldier Only Known by God
2017
as Antonio

Don't Look Down
2008
as Padre de Eloy

Todavía
2018

El verso
1996
as Pedro

Las puertitas del Sr. López
1988

Te esperaré
2017
as Leiva

The Dark Side of the Heart
1992

Dangerous Obsession
2004

Made in Argentina
1987
as Cacho

La vuelta de Martín Fierro
1974

Delicia
2017
as Amado

Cautiva
2004
as Juez Barrenechea

The Official Story
1985
as Enrique Ibáñez

Super Crazy
2018
as Fernando Salaberry

Buenos Aires, la tercera fundación
1980
as Voz

The Funeral Home
2021
as Salvador
Este loco amor loco
1979

Death in Buenos Aires
2014
as Sanfilippo

The Truce
1974
as Martínez

Matrimonios y Algo Más
1988

Historias de papel
2024

A Place in the World
1992
as Zamora

Dibu 2: La venganza de Nasty
1998
as Lencinas

Seawards Journey
2003
as Rodriguez
Caminata espacial
2000

Your Eyes Blazed
2004
Angelita, la doctora
2016

The Knight of the Sword
1970

To Return
1982
as Angel Ragucci

Chronicle of a Boy Alone
1965

Quereme así (Piantao)
1997
as Ástor

El soltero
1977

The Island
1979

La madre María
1974

Pistas para volver a casa
2015
as Antonio

Yanka y el espíritu del volcán
2018
as Abuelo

Los golpes bajos
1974

Chile Can Do It
2008
as Octavio

My mother-in-law is a zombie
2002

Sinuous Road
2018
as Eduardo Siero

The days that you gave me
1975

Daños Colaterales
2012
No apto para menores
1979

Boomerang
2021
as Aurelio
Chorros
1987
as Traverso

Dale nomás
1974

Atrapada por el vicio
1986
as Padre de Andrea

El inquietante caso de José Blum
1999
as José Blum

La balada del regreso
1974

Reparaciones
2007
as Gabriel

Noche de ronda
1997
About Hugo Arana
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… With 68 credits spanning from 1965 to 2024, Hugo Arana has appeared in 51 films and 17 TV shows.
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- Argentine Soldier Only Known by God (2017) — as Antonio
- Don't Look Down (2008) — as Padre de Eloy
- Todavía (2018)
- El verso (1996) — as Pedro
- Las puertitas del Sr. López (1988)
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