Pedro López Lagar (18 June 1899, in

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– 21 August 1977, in

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) was a Spanish born Argentine film

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of the 1940s and 1950s. Although born in

he moved to

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as a young man and began acting in film in 1938. He played with Enrique Borrás and

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in '' La sirena varada'', by

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, released in 1934. He made some 20 film appearances but his career was at its peak in the mid to late 1940s, with Lopez appearing in '' Albéniz'' in 1946 and ''

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'' in 1947 in which he starred alongside

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and

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Selected filmography

* '' Son cartas de amor'' (1943) * '' Two Angels and a Sinner'' (1945) * '' Road of Hell'' (1946) *'' Suburb'' (1951)

References

External links

* Argentine male film actors 1899 births 1977 deaths People from Buenos Aires 20th-century Argentine male actors Spanish emigrants to Argentina {{Argentina-actor-stub