Roberto Escalada

Roberto Escalada born Aldo Roberto Leggero was an Argentine actor during the Golden Age of Argentine cinema.
Roberto Escalada began his career working on the radio, and it was his voice that caught the attention of producers. On meeting him, film producers, pleased by his physical appearance, immediately put him in as a member of different movie casts.
One of his more acclaimed films of the 1940s was Los Pulpos, a film directed by Carlos Hugo Christensen.
In 1950, Escalada played the central role in Mr Oribe's Crime, based on Bioy Casares' short novel. In 1955 he played a conniving businessman in Ayer fue primavera, directed by Fernando Ayala.
His life changed at the beginning of the 1960s when he got married and start working on TV. As a heavy smoker, he had some health concerns during the 1960s, and he spent the later years of this life in television taking a number of smaller roles.
He made over 55 film and TV appearances in Argentina between 1939 and 1980.
His health declined in the early 1980s, and he died on 5 December 1986 of a smoking related heart attack at age 72 in Buenos Aires.

Filmography

El diablo metió la pata dir. Carlos Rinaldi
Hormiga negra dir. Ricardo Alberto Defilippi
Un idilio de estación dir. Aníbal Uset
Los irrompibles dir. Emilio Vieyra
Clínica con música dir. Francisco Guerrero
El profesor tirabombas dir. Fernando Ayala
Nino dir. Federico Curiel
Con alma y vida dir. David José Kohon
El mundo es de los jóvenes dir. Julio Porter
Los debutantes en el amor dir. Leo Fleider
El profesor hippie dir. Fernando Ayala
Viaje de una noche de verano
Esta noche mejor no dir. Julio Saraceni
Dos quijotes sobre ruedas dir. Emilio Vieyra
La familia Falcón dir. Román Viñoly Barreto
Culpable dir. Hugo del Carril
La sombra de Safo dir. Julio Porter
Pecadora dir. Enrique Carreras
De noche también se duerme dir. Enrique Carreras
Ayer fue primavera dir. Fernando Ayala
Vida nocturna dir. Leo Fleider
La bestia humana dir. Daniel Tinayre
Sucedió en Buenos Aires dir. Enrique Cahen Salaberry
El vampiro negro dir. Román Viñoly Barreto
Black Ermine dir. Carlos Hugo Christensen
Don't Ever Open That Door dir. Carlos Hugo Christensen
Sala de guardia dir. Tulio Demicheli
De turno con la muerte dir. Julio Porter
Cartas de amor dir. Mario C. Lugones
Una Viuda casi alegre dir. Román Viñoly Barreto
El crimen de Oribe dir. Leopoldo Torres Ríos
Morir en su ley dir. Manuel Romero
Se llamaba Carlos Gardel dir. León Klimovsky
¿Por qué mintió la cigüeña? dir. Carlos Hugo Christensen
La gran tentación dir. Ernesto Arancibia
La muerte camina en la lluvia Carlos Hugo Christensen
Una atrevida aventurita dir. Carlos Hugo Christensen
Los pulpos dir. Carlos Hugo Christensen
El jugador dir. León Klimovsky
Madame Bovary dir. Carlos Schlieper
Treinta segundos de amor dir. Luis Mottura
Un beso en la nuca dir. Luis Mottura
Cinco besos dir. Luis Saslavsky
Swan Song dir. Carlos Hugo Christensen
Veinticuatro horas en la vida de una mujer dir. Carlos Borcosque
Safo, historia de una pasión dir. Carlos Hugo Christensen
Pájaros sin nido dir. José A. Ferreyra
El matrero dir. Orestes Caviglia
Doce mujeres dir. Luis J. Moglia Barth