Armando Bó (3 May 19148 October 1981) was an

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, director,

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and score composer of the classic era. He is mostly known for his drama and

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s of the 1960s and 1970s starring his favorite actress and romantic partner, sex symbol Isabel Sarli. His works include '' Thunder Among the Leaves'', which features the first nude scene in an Argentine film. Bó's son is the actor

Víctor Bó Víctor Bó (born 8 April 1943) is an Argentine actor and film producer. He is the son of classic actor and director Armando Bó, and father and uncle of Academy Award Winners for Best Original Screenplay Armando Bo and Nicolás Giacobone, re ...

and his grandson is the screenwriter Armando Bó.

Biography

Bó began acting for film in 1939 in '' Ambición'' and made some 50 film appearances as an actor, but by the late 1940s he had already taken up an interest in film production and began as a director, producer, actor, and screenwriter in the early 1950s. He was involved in almost 100 different films during his career. In June 1956, he met Isabel Sarli on a television show. He later offered her the opportunity to star in '' El trueno entre las hojas (Thunder in the Leaves).'' Bo convinced Sarli to be naked in a scene in which she bathed in a lake, though she had previously been told she would wear a flesh-colored body stocking. The film became the first to feature full frontal nudity in Argentine cinema. Bo and Sarli became lovers and she became the primary star of his films until his death in 1981. Their films were controversial at the time and most of them were banned, but this ban led them to be even more successful. Films like '' Fuego'' (1969) and '' Fiebre'' (1970) reached the American and European markets. The banning of ''Fuego'' led to them moving into exile. He was married to Teresa Machinandiarena, and had three children: María Inés, María Jesús, and Víctor. His son,

, was a prominent actor in Argentina during the 70s and 80s. His grandsons are

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winners Nicolás Giacobone and Armando Bó Jr., credited as Armando Bó.

Filmography

Isabel Sarli y Armando Bó en Una mariposa en la noche

Legacy

Renowned filmmaker John Waters has claimed to be a big fan of Bó's filmography, and to have been influenced by it as well. Waters presented Bó's 1969 cult film '' Fuego'' as his annual selection within the 2002 Maryland Film Festival, and it was also a featured film in episode three of the Here! network original series '' John Waters Presents Movies That Will Corrupt You''.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Bó, Armando 1914 births 1981 deaths Argentine male film actors Argentine film directors Argentine film producers Argentine film score composers Male film score composers Male actors from Buenos Aires Deaths from brain cancer in Argentina Burials at La Recoleta Cemetery 20th-century Argentine male actors 20th-century composers 20th-century Argentine male musicians