Personal Info
Birth date
1929-08-25 (95 Years)
Day of death
2023-09-13
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Colegiales, Buenos Aires City, Argentina
Also known as
Pepe Soriano
Jose Soriano
José Soriano
José Carlos Soriano
Pepe Soriano
Biography
Pepe Soriano (born José Carlos Soriano, on September 25, 1929) is a prominent Argentine actor, director, and playwright.
Soriano was born and raised in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Enrolling at the prestigious University of Buenos Aires Law School, he entered one of the university's numerous theatre groups and, leaving law school to devote himself to the theatre, he produced his first work, El chaleco encantado ("The Enchanted Sweater") in 1950, among four other works he completed and staged while in school. Soriano debuted professionally in a production of A Midsummernight's Dream at the renowned Colón Theatre, in 1953.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaFilmography
Miguel Servet (La Sangre y La Ceniza)
7
Overview:
The series recreates the life of the Spanish scientist Miguel Servet from his birth until his execution for blasphemy in 1553.Wait for Me in Heaven
6.4
Overview:
Pepe Soriano plays a Madrid shopkeeper who is kidnapped by henchmen of Franco in this political comedy. After his kidnapping, he is forced to become the dictator's double for many official ceremonies. Due to his long and unexplained absence, Pepe's wife believes her husband has been abducted and killed, so she tries to reach her husband through spiritualism. After Pepe surprises her with a nocturnal visit, he tells her he will touch his ear to signal it is he and not Franco in public appearances.Cohen vs. Rosi
5.1
Overview:
Two rival families of different origin join the force by the love of two young. The journalist Ariel Cohen falls in love for Carla Rosi, while investigating his father, Giancarlo, a wealthy shady business that is congressional candidate with presidential aspirations.The Dumbfounded King
5.9
Overview:
Spain, under Philip IV (1621-1665). The film is based on a novel by Gonzalo Torrente Ballester. The King is stunned to see the naked body of Marfisa, the most beautiful prostitute of the town and Court. After that, he also wants to see the Queen naked. However, the King, despite the opposition and the scandal of the Church, will not stop until he reaches his wishes.Las venganzas de Beto Sánchez
3.8
Overview:
When his father dies in a hospital, Beto decides to take revenge on all the people he blames for his bad luck in life.Stolen Moments
NYR
Overview:
1947, in Patagonia, in a little village on the seaside. An abandoned house on the beach shelters Letty's dreams, her loneliness that only Miguel, a very young pianist, may share with her. Tomas, her husband, loves Letty and eagerly defends her against all the village, while she keeps playing her part of a 'femme fatale' with a romantic past and a very adventurous file. But on a windy day, a handsome and strange foreigner appears, coming from the sea, a man just as those Bette Davis used to fall in love with. For Letty, reality begins to look like the most incredible dreams of her. But this will call the police inspector's attention. With that mysterious spy, Letty will be involved in a story that will end as those stories she was so fond of when she was going to the movie theater of her little willage.Nocturna - The Great Old Man's Night
6.8
Overview:
Ulysses is a hundred-year-old man, he lives alone and is on the verge of death. The last night of his life, he will experience something that will force him to rethink his past, his present and his sight about his reality. Tortured by remorse of guilt, confused by his senile dementia, he must make a last effort to reach his death in freedom or to become a soul in sorrow in eternal return.No toquen a la nena
7
Overview:
A man becomes overprotective of his daughter as a friend of his son comes to live at the family home.Rebellion in Patagonia
7.486
Overview:
In 1920, workers from Patagonia, in Southern Argentina, gather around an anarcho-syndicalist society and go on strike, demanding better working conditions. When the situation turns unsustainable, President Yrigoyen sends Lieutenant Colonel Zavala to impose order.Psexoanálisis
NYR
Overview:
A profiteer pretends to be a psychoanalyst to conquer women with sexual trauma.Nocturna - Side B: Where the Elephants Go to Die
7.7
Overview:
A woman recounts the last night on earth of a 100-year-old man who fights for the redemption of the misdeeds of his life.Poor Butterfly
6
Overview:
A turbulent era in Argentine politics is highlighted in this well-wrought drama, set in Buenos Aires at the end of 1945, about Clara (Graciela Borges), a young, half-Jewish woman awakening to the reasons behind the political conflicts of her time and place. Clara's father was a Communist who fought the Nazis in Argentina and possessed a list of the top Nazi exiles and their contacts. Through a former lover, Clara -- a successful broadcast journalist -- begins to see her Jewish roots (and the leftists) in a whole new light. Meanwhile, the political storms sweeping through Argentina are setting the stage for the Peronist government to come.Tangos Are for Two
5.8
Overview:
A woman's voice says she was wife to Renzo Franchi and Carlos Gardel (1890-1935), Argentina's great tango singer. People say she's crazy. Her story unfolds. Buenos Aires, 1933: Juana Romero, a seamstress who lives for the music of Gardel, dumps her boyfriend Gustavo for Renzo, a singer who looks like Gardel. She insists that his trio performs Gardel's tangos, which leads to Renzo recording a Ford commercial when Gardel himself is overbooked. The trio, with Joanna in tow, goes on an ill-fated tour of points north. The couple breaks up: she goes home and he tries to get to New York. Fate steps in, and once again he's called upon to pose as Gardel. Then, legend and a bracelet take over. Written byCommon Ground
7.768
Overview:
In Buenos Aires, a few days before traveling to Spain with his beloved wife Liliana Rovira to visit their son Pedro, the leftist Literature professor Fernando Robles is compulsory retired in the University, and he concludes that it is impossible to live with his pension. The crisis in Argentina does not allow Fernando to get a new job, and his wife decides to sell her family's apartment and move to a small farm near Villa Dolores to reduce their expenses. Fernando comes up with the idea to grow lavender and sell the oil to the perfume industry.Te amo
NYR
Overview:
A single pregnant teenager goes to live with her uncle, a mediocre entertainer in a seedy cabaret.Matar al Nani
4.2
Overview:
The story of El Nani, a juvenile delinquent from the years of the Transition, whose disappearance in a police station after an interrogation has not yet been clarified, putting the accent on the denunciation of police brutality and speculating on the outcome of the story. A story that mixes political denunciation and social chronicle of an era.My First Wedding
5.8
Overview:
On her wedding day, Adrian, nervous, make a small mistake that aims to hide Leonora, his girlfriend, to avoid problems. But far from avoiding them, complicates the matter and the party runs the risk of end badly, like the future marriage of the couple.Pubis angelical
3.7
Overview:
It's about three women, three stories, or perhaps a single story in different projections of time and space. The Mistress wishes to unravel the meaning of being a woman is the victim of Hollywood. Ana is the product of a society ruled or dominated by men.The Last Train
6.3
Overview:
Three old men and a little boy try to preserve what they consider to be National Patrimony in the form of a locomotive nicknamed the "33"Jewish Gauchos
6.6
Overview:
The film recreates the arrival of a group of Jewish immigrants fleeing persecution in Czarist Russia, establishing the first Hebrew colonies in the province of Entre Rios, Argentina.Acting
TBAAlma de artista (13 Episodes) as Unknown
2021Nocturna - Side B: Where the Elephants Go to Die as Unknown
2020Nocturna - The Great Old Man's Night as Ulises
2012Pecados as Unknown
2011My First Wedding as Lázaro
2010Babilonia, la noticia secreta as Unknown
2007El brindis as Isidoro
2006A través de tus ojos as Lito
2005Cargo de conciencia as Senador Madariaga
2003Sleeping luck as Unknown
2002Common Ground as Farm seller
2002The Last Train as Dante
2000Ángel, la diva y yo as Ángel Ferreyros
2000Cóndor Crux as Dr. Crux (voz)
1998Stolen Moments as Unknown
1998Cohen vs. Rosi as Elías Cohen
1998Tangos Are for Two as Rinaldo Costa
1997R.R.D.T. (55 Episodes) as Isidro Rojas
1996La maestra normal as Unknown
1996Otra esperanza as Unknown
1994A Shadow You Soon Will Be as Coluccini (as Pepe Soriano)
1993Funes, a Great Love as Herminio
1991The Dumbfounded King as Rivadesella
1991Farmacia de guardia (169 Episodes) as Don Enrique Cano
1990Peor es nada (1 Episode) as Unknown
1989The Sea and the Weather as Jesús
1989Miguel Servet (La Sangre y La Ceniza) (7 Episodes) as Juan Ecolampadio
1988El tesoro as Unknown
1988Matar al Nani as Unknown
1988Wait for Me in Heaven as Paulino Alonso
1988Historias del otro lado (13 Episodes) as Unknown
1986Poor Butterfly as Shloime
1986Te amo as Mago
1985Scapegoat as Compañero (as José Soriano)
1984Murder in The Senate as Lisandro de La Torre
1983Los enemigos as Unknown
1982La Invitación as Cambón
1982Pubis angelical as Unknown
1981Sentimental (réquiem para un amigo) as Tano Piatti
1979Grandma as La nona (as José Soriano)
1976No toquen a la nena as El Nono
1975Jewish Gauchos as Unknown
1974Rebellion in Patagonia as Schultz the German
1973Las venganzas de Beto Sánchez as Beto Sánchez
1972Heroína as Unknown
1971El ayudante as Aristóbulo Maresca
1970Juan Lamaglia y Sra. as Unknown
1970Alta comedia (12, 1, 1, 1 Episode) as Unknown, Duque, Samuel, José
1968Psexoanálisis as Unknown
1968Tute Cabrero as Luis Sosa
1967Cuando los hombres hablan de mujeres as Unknown
1966Hotel alojamiento as Unknown
1966Los días de Julián Bisbal as Unknown
1956El protegido as Amigo de Osvaldo
1955Goodbye Boys as Pío Pío