Personal Info
Birth date
1931-07-18 (93 Years)
Day of death
2011-10-29
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Montevideo, Uruguay
Also known as
-Walter Vidarte
Biography
Walter Vidarte (Montevideo, July 18, 1931 - Madrid, October 29, 2011) was a Uruguayan actor and director of theater, film and television of extensive acting in Argentina and later in Spain, where he went into exile in 1974.
Filmography
Cuéntame cómo pasó
7.2
Overview:
Recounts the experiences of a middle-class family, the Alcántaras, during the last years of the rule of Francisco Franco and the beginning of the Spanish Transition to democracy.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.Tristeza de Amor
7
Overview:
The COI, a radio station, is getting ready to air a new programm, "Tristeza de Amor", in the team they've hired, there are two reporters who used to be well known to the audience, journalist Ceferino Reyes, who just returned to Spain after ten years living in South America, and commentator Carlota Núñez, the woman who, years ago, somehow forced the latter to leave the country. This series deals with this radio programm crew's everyday adventures, and their professional and personal troubles.Outrage
5.8
Overview:
Marco Vallez (Antonio Banderas) is possessed by the beauty of a circus sharp shooter, and from the second they meet he is willing to give up everything to be with her. But one horrifying night sends them both down a road of revenge leaving behind a trail of bodies to the ultimate showdown with justice.Martín Fierro
5.4
Overview:
The story of rebel gaucho Martin Fierro, his people, and their life in the Argentine Pampas. Based on José Hernández's epic poem.Tobi
4.7
Overview:
A story about a little boy who grows a pair of wings on his back, giving him the appearance of an angel. The boy draws the attention of his community including doctors, scientists and schoolmates. The wings are surgically removed but eventually they grow back.Romanza final (Gayarre)
5.7
Overview:
Biography of Julian Gayarre (1844-1890), one of the best tenors of all times. At 19, a professor at the Conservatory of Music in Madrid heard him singing for the first time and offered him a scholarship to continue his studies. His artistic life runs between continued success, becoming the world's greatest tenor. But in 1890, while singing at the Teatro Real in Madrid, a failure in his voice is like a cruel reminder of what would happen a few days later: his death at a young age. The doctors gave a diagnosis, but his friends know that Julian Gayarre died because he could not sing anymore.The Pianist
7.8
Overview:
Mario Gas directed this music-themed Spanish drama set in Barcelona of the mid-'80s. When famed composer Lluis Doria (Laurent Terzieff) visits a transvestite club, he learns his lifelong friend Albert Rossell (Serge Reggiani) is the house pianist. A flashback takes the tale four decades into the past where the younger Rossell (Pere Ponce) rejoins Teresa (Paulina Galvez) after having spent years in prison for helping anti-Franco anarchists. The story continues into Paris of the '30s, the period when Doria and Rossell first met, sharing a mutual interest in music and Teresa, before civil war sent them in different directions.Trout
5.2
Overview:
In a restaurant they're preparing a grand banquet in honor of a sports association of anglers, but several circumstances seem to have conspired to boycott the event.The Night of the Sunflowers
6.294
Overview:
Two speleologists, Esteban and Pedro, travel to a mountainous area located in northern Spain, near a small village, to study a newly discovered cave and determine if it is of scientific interest, while Gabi, Esteban's wife, awaits their return on a lonely road at the foot of the mountain.El hombre de moda
5
Overview:
Pedro Liniers, a literature teacher, comes back to Madrid after his wife has just left him. Meanwhile, Aurora Villalba, came to Spain from Argentina, running away from the militaries, she has a special way of living her own way. Pedro wants to get back the job as a teacher through an old friend, Bruno Baena, who is the head master of the school. Aurora starts going to Pedro's classes. Pedro will become "El hombre de moda", very soon.Akelarre
5.7
Overview:
A small village in Navarre, Spain, XVII century. Garazi's grandmother is burned at the stake when accussed of being a witch and convicted by an inquisitor, something that brings Garazi under suspicion and eventually into prison, where she is atrociously tortured and humiliated.Circe
4.7
Overview:
Delia Mañara is notorious in her quarter of Buenos Aires for the mysterious deaths of two of her fiancés. She lives in a twilight world and gains most satisfaction through the exercise of power over others.Venus de fuego
2
Overview:
A young man falls madly in love with a woman they call La Venus de Fuego and because of her he becomes involved in a crime. They accuse him of murder and he is forced to flee to a place far away.The Truce
7.25
Overview:
A man has to come to terms with his wasted youth, estranged family and grim prospects for the future.Chatarra
NYR
Overview:
Zabu was a dancer in a small cabaret in Bilbao. Twelve years later she is living with her daughter Lola and a small delinquent called Lino in a squalid suburb of an industrial city. She dreams of leaving for Australia.Homer: Portrait of the Artist as an Old Man
NYR
Overview:
Though he is near death, blind Rene, an elderly Italian-French intellectual, continues to make his annual conference abroad accompanied by his self-centered loyal, beautiful assistant Sibilla who may or may not be his lover. Rene's domineering mother strongly disapproves of Sibilla and his continual galavanting, but Rene disregards her and goes anyway. While in Spain, Sibilla falls for a handsome young toreador who also captures the interest of Rene, though it is hard to say whether his feelings for the bullfighter are fatherly or more romantic. It is also unclear as to whether Sibilla and the bullfighter are lovers either. Thus an enigmatic romantic triangle forms until Rene and Sibilla suddenly decide to wed. The character of Rene seems to be closely patterned after Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges.Avisa a Curro Jiménez
4.3
Overview:
Córdoba, Spain. Lord Killarney, representative of the British Museum, acquires an Arabic incunabulum at an auction; but he is murdered and the book disappears. All suspicions fall on El Lince, an antique dealer with a shady background, who asks his nephew to warn Curro Jiménez.My Soul Brother
3
Overview:
Meeting of two very different brothers: Carlos is an ambitious young businessman happily married to Julia, Toni is a nerve that life has given him so many sticks as the people who surrounded him.Three Times Ana
7.2
Overview:
Three different love-related stories -all starring María Vaner as different "Anas". In "The Earth," Ana is a young and idealistic woman on the verge of adulthood when her first relationship with a clerk shatters her dreams of a romantic life. In "The Air," Ana is a rebellious, easy-living type among some beach bums whose sexual leanings tend to tip the scale at active promiscuity. In "The Cloud," Ana only exists in the imagination of an introverted man, who dreams of his ideal woman.The Dependent
6.962
Overview:
Fernandez is a lonely man leading a lonely life. All he does is work for an old man in a hardware store. But all that changes, when he meets the girl of his dreams... and her family.The Venerable Ones
5.6
Overview:
Ismael, the weakest and most unstable member of a supposed group of conspirators with power aspirations, constantly suffers ridicule and contempt for his leader, Lucas, and his other companions. Everything changes when a woman with whom Ismael is in love begins to delve into the macabre logic of the group.Cuentos para una escapada
NYR
Overview:
With the help of drawings and comic strips. brings together short films, on children's themes, in which rights that children and adults should enjoy are defended. For the first time, a whole series of important Spanish directors meet to make a children's film.1919, Chronicle of Dawn
6.111
Overview:
In 1939, José Garcés is in French prison camp after the defeat of Spain's Republicans. To entertain and inspire his fellow prisoners, he tells the story of becoming a man in 1919, the year he realized that learning to live is the same as learning to die. His stiff and demanding father loses a fortune in German war bonds, takes a job in Caspe, and leaves José on his own in Zaragoza to finish high school while apprenticing in a pharmacy. José courts his beloved Valentina via letters, becomes intimate with Isabel, a maid he meets in a cinema who shares his ideas of free love, and comes under the influence of El Checa, an anarchist and gentle teacher who leads a doomed revolt.Acting
2006The Night of the Sunflowers as Amós
2001Cuéntame cómo pasó (1 Episode) as Mauro
2000Lo mejor de cada casa (Una semana en el parque) as Remi
1998The Pianist as Alejandra la Magna
1997Homer: Portrait of the Artist as an Old Man as Unknown
1995Antártida as Hombre mayor
1994My Soul Brother as Alberto
1993Outrage as Unknown
1991Chatarra as Roca
1991El crimen de Don Benito as Unknown
1991Tramontana as Unknown
1989El acto as Daniel
1989Miguel Servet (La Sangre y La Ceniza) (7 Episodes) as Abel Poupin
1986Love Ravings as Hombre en pub (segment "Delirio 3") (uncredited)
1986El rey y la reina as Unknown
1986Romanza final (Gayarre) as Giacobagi
1986Tristeza de Amor (13 Episodes) as Damián Pereira
1984Akelarre as Don Fermín de Andueza
1983La conquista de Albania as Unknown
19831919, Chronicle of Dawn as Unknown
1981Cuentos para una escapada as Unknown
1981Tú estás loco Briones as Antonio
1981Sin alma ni tiempo as Unknown
1980Sus años dorados as Kaminsky
1980El hombre de moda as Jorge Vázquez
1980Tierra de rastrojos as Unknown
1978Tobi as Enfermero
1978Avisa a Curro Jiménez as El Lince
1978Trout as Unknown
1978Venus de fuego as Unknown
1977La Gioconda está triste as Unknown
1974The Truce as Unknown
1974Quebracho as Isfraín
1974Los golpes bajos as Unknown
1973Operación Masacre as Juan Carlos
1971Santos Vega as Unknown
1971El habilitado as Unknown
1970Alta comedia (2, 1 Episode) as Unknown, Pajarito
1969Quiero llenarme de ti as Raúl
1969The Dependent as Fernández
1968Martín Fierro as Picardía
1966Una máscara para Ana as Unknown
1966Life is formidable as Unknown
1965Orden de matar as Nacho
1965Nadie oyó gritar a Cecilio Fuentes as El mochila
1965Los hipócritas as Toño
1964Circe as Unknown
1964Los evadidos as Florencio Sartori
1963The Venerable Ones as Ismael
1962Man on Pink Corner as El Oriental
1961El romance de un gaucho as Unknown
1961Three Times Ana as Daniel
1961Alias Gardelito as Picayo
1960La patota as Benegas
1960Luna Park as Carmelo Maciel
1959Gringalet as Unknown
1958Procesado 1040 as El Zorrito