Armando Bó
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Armando Bó | |
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Born | Buenos Aires, Argentina | 3 May 1914
Died | 8 October 1981 | (aged 67)
Years active | 1939 – 1979 |
Spouse(s) | Teresa Machinandiarena
(m. 1956) |
Children | 3, including Víctor Bó |
Relatives | Armando Bó (grandson) Nicolás Giacobone (grandson) |
Armando Bó (3 May 1914 – 8 October 1981) was an Argentine film actor, director, producer, screenwriter and score composer of the classic era. He is mostly known for his drama and sexploitation films of the 1960s and 1970s starring his favorite actress and romantic partner, sex symbol Isabel Sarli. His works include Thunder Among the Leaves, which features the first nude scene in an Argentine film.
Bó's son is the actor Víctor Bó and his grandson is the screenwriter Armando Bó.
Biography[]
Bó began acting for film in 1939 in Ambición and made some 50 film appearances as an actor, but by the late 1940s he had already taken up an interest in film production and began as a director, producer, actor, and screenwriter in the early 1950s. He was involved in almost 100 different films during his career.
In June 1956, he met Isabel Sarli on a television show. He later offered her the opportunity to star in El trueno entre las hojas (Thunder in the Leaves). Bo convinced Sarli to be naked in a scene in which she bathed in a lake, though she had previously been told she would wear a flesh-colored body stocking. The film became the first to feature full frontal nudity in Argentine cinema. Bo and Sarli became lovers and she became the primary star of his films until his death in 1981.
Their films were controversial at the time and most of them were banned, but this ban led them to be even more successful. Films like Fuego (1969) and Fiebre (1970) reached the American and European markets. The banning of Fuego led to them moving into exile.[1]
He was married to Teresa Machinandiarena, and had three children: María Inés, María Jesús, and Víctor. His son, Víctor Bó, was a prominent actor in Argentina during the 70s and 80s. His grandsons are Academy Award winners Nicolás Giacobone and Armando Bó Jr., credited as Armando Bó.
Filmography[]
Year | Film | Role | Notes and Awards |
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1939 | Ambition | ||
Chimbela | |||
1940 | |||
Fragata Sarmiento | |||
1941 | Melodies of America | ||
Mamá Gloria | |||
Invitado | |||
Cándida millonaria | |||
1942 | |||
Story of a Poor Young Man | |||
1944 | |||
1945 | |||
The Circus Cavalcade | |||
1946 | The Three Musketeers | D'Artagnan | |
1947 | |||
Si mis campos hablaran | Simon | ||
1948 | |||
1949 | Con el sudor de tu frente | ||
1950 | Fangio, el demonio de las pistas | ||
Sacachispas | |||
1951 | My Divine Poverty | ||
Honour Your Mother | |||
En cuerpo y alma | Antonio Núñez | ||
1953 | Muerte civil | ||
El Hijo del crack | Héctor 'Balazo' López | ||
1955 | Adiós, muchachos | ||
1956 | El trueno entre las hojas | ||
1958 | |||
1959 | |||
1962 | Lujuria tropical | ||
La Burrerita de Ypacaraí | |||
1963 | Pelota de cuero | ||
La Diosa impura | Reinoso | ||
1964 | |||
La leona | |||
1966 | |||
1968 | La mujer de mi padre | Jose | |
1969 | |||
Fuego | Carlos | ||
1970 | Fiebre | Juan | |
1972 | Intimidades de una cualquiera | Jose Luis | |
1973 | |||
Furia infernal | Barbara's husband | ||
1974 | |||
1976 | Insaciable | ||
1977 | Una mariposa en la noche | ||
1979 |
Legacy[]
Renowned filmmaker John Waters has claimed to be a big fan of Bó's filmography, and to have been influenced by it as well.[2][3] Waters presented Bó's 1969 cult film Fuego as his annual selection within the 2002 Maryland Film Festival, and it was also a featured film in episode three of the Here! network original series John Waters Presents Movies That Will Corrupt You.
References[]
- ^ "Preem of 'Fuego' in N.Y. Another Bitter Pill For Argentine Film Industry". Variety. 15 October 1969. p. 19.
- ^ Waters drinks Coca, by Mariano Kairuz 20-8-2012, Radar-Página/12 (in Spanish)
- ^ The games men play, by Axel Kuschevatzky 24-01-2010, Radar-Página/12 (in Spanish)
External links[]
- Armando Bó at IMDb
- 1914 births
- 1981 deaths
- Argentine male film actors
- Argentine film directors
- Argentine film producers
- Argentine film score composers
- Male film score composers
- Male actors from Buenos Aires
- Deaths from cancer in Argentina
- Deaths from brain tumor
- Burials at La Recoleta Cemetery
- 20th-century Argentine male actors
- 20th-century composers
- 20th-century male musicians
- Argentine composer stubs
- Argentine actor stubs