Director, Composer. He is remembered for directing seventy-eight films starting in 1936. His movies were melodramas, comedies and several musicals; he could do anyone of these easily as the other. Premiering in March of 1948, his most successful film, with several reprisals, was “Dios selo pague.” This film was selected to participate in the Oscar Awards in the United States. In 1955, the coup, which overthrew Argentinian President Juan Peron, changed his life forever. In 1958 his wife Eva Durante Amadori died. Following his work being censored, in 1959 he was sent to jail for political reasons but then escaped persecution, along with other artists, to Spain. He was starting over. During his exile, he produced two very successful films, “La Viletera” and “The Last Tango.” His last film was “Cristina Guzman” in 1968. He produced eighteen films before leaving Spain in 1970. As a five-year-old immigrant from Italy, he attended Argentine public schools before entering medical school, which he left to become a writer. In the 1920s, he entered the field of journalism, writing for an evening newspaper, “The Last Hour”, and a magazine, “Faces and Masques.” Being a reporter provided him with the opportunity to interview people in the entertainment and film industry. This led to script writing simple comedies followed by writing stage plays for theaters. He became the director and later the owner of the Teatra Maipo, which was the site, along with the National Theater, for his luxurious musicals. In 1949, he discovered the beautiful Nelida Roca, introduced her to the stage, and in a short time, she was labeled as one of the “first sex symbols of Argentina.” Writing for theater, drove him to write the lyric to numerous songs, mainly tangos. He was a tango composer with Carlos Gardel recording five of his tangos: “Cobardia,” “Confession,” “Fondin de Pedro Mendoza,” “Madreselva.” and “Rencor.” He used the aliases of Leo Carter and Gariel Pena. Walt Disney had him to direct the dubbing into Spanish the movies “Pinocchi,” “Dumbo,” and “Bambi.”