Ricardo Castro Ríos (April 2, 1920 – January 21, 2001) was a classic

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- Argentine

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. He came onto the scene in 1945 in the acclaimed 1945 film '' La cabalgata del circo'' in which he starred alongside two of the biggest names in Argentine cinema in the day,

Libertad Lamarque Libertad Lamarque Bouza (; 24 November 1908 – 12 December 2000) was a Mexican-Argentine actress and singer, one of the icons of the Golden Age of Argentine and Mexican cinema. She achieved fame throughout Latin America, and became known as " ...

and

Hugo del Carril Pierre Bruno Hugo Fontana, otherwise known as Hugo del Carril (30 November 1912 – 13 August 1989 in Buenos Aires), was an Argentine film actor, film director and tango singer of the classic era. Early life Born in Buenos Aires, del Carril ...

. In 1947 he then starred in another classic,

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, which also starred

Amelia Bence Amelia Bence (born María Amelia Batvinik; 13 November 1919 – 8 February 2016) was an Argentine film actress and one of the divas of the Golden Age of Argentine Cinema (1940–60). Born to Belarusian Jewish immigrants, Bence began her ...

. He died of cancer in 2001.

Selected filmography

* ''

The Circus Cavalcade ''The Circus Cavalcade'' ( es, La cabalgata del circo) is a 1945 Argentine musical film directed and written by Mario Soffici with Eduardo Boneo and Francisco Madrid. The film was shot on black-and-white stock with a monaural soundtrack. It sta ...

'' (1945) * '' Story of a Bad Woman'' (1948) * '' This Earth Is Mine'' (1961)

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* 1920 births 2001 deaths Argentine male film actors Spanish emigrants to Argentina {{argentina-actor-stub