Carlos Gandolfo was an Argentine stage actor and director.

Life and work

Carlos Gandolfo was born in Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires is the capital and largest city of Argentina, and the second-largest metropolitan area in South America, after São Paulo. It is located on the western shore of the estuary of the Río de la Plata, on the southeastern coast of the South American continent...

, in 1931. He was a director in local, independent theatres Teatro de los Independientes and La Máscara during the 1950s and in 1958, received his first film role in Simón Feldman's El negoción (The Bargain). That year, he met an 18-year old aspiring actress, Dora Baret

Dora Baret

Dora Baret is a well-known Argentine film, theatre and television actress.-Life and work:She was born Dora Barrera in 1940 in Huerta Grande, a scenic Córdoba Province town near La Falda. Her parents, Spanish immigrants, relocated to the Floresta section of Buenos Aires when she was six, and she...

, with whom he began a relationship and married, in 1963. The couple had two boys: Matías, an actor, and Emanuel

Emanuel Gandolfo

Emanuel Gandolfo is a well-known Argentine illusionist and stage magician, performing as Emanuel.-Life and work:...

, a well-known local illusionist.

Gandolfo was not a prolific film actor, and his only significant roles were in Agustín Navarro's Una jaula no tiene secretos

Una Jaula no tiene secretos

Una Jaula no tiene secretos is a 1962 Spanish - Argentine comedy film directed by Agustín Navarro.The script was written by Raúl GurruchagaThe movie premiered on October 3, 1962....

(A Cage Keeps No Secrets, 1962), and in Alejandro Doria

Alejandro Doria

Alejandro Doria was a noted Argentine cinema and television director.-Life and work:Born in Buenos Aires in 1936, he first worked for Argentine television in 1965 as a writer for a local variety show, Show rambler....

's banned political satire, Proceso a la infamia (Trial on Infamy), which was made in 1974; but, released in an edited version four years later.

He was, however, well-known in Argentine theatre, where an ancestor, Juan José de los Santos Casacuberta (1818–49), had been a lead actor in its early days. Gandolfo received leading parts in local productions of prominent works such as Medea

Medea (play)

Medea is an ancient Greek tragedy written by Euripides, based upon the myth of Jason and Medea and first produced in 431 BC. The plot centers on the barbarian protagonist as she finds her position in the Greek world threatened, and the revenge she takes against her husband Jason who has betrayed...

, The Seagull

The Seagull

The Seagull is the first of what are generally considered to be the four major plays by the Russian dramatist Anton Chekhov. The Seagull was written in 1895 and first produced in 1896...

, and Mother Courage and Her Children

Mother Courage and Her Children

Mother Courage and Her Children is a play written in 1939 by the German dramatist and poet Bertolt Brecht with significant contributions from Margarete Steffin...

, during the 1950s and '60s.

Diagnosed with a throat cancer

Head and neck cancer

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 in 1972, Gandolfo was forced to end his acting acreer in the theatre, and he devoted himself to direction an instruction, instead. Among his many stage productions were those of George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw was an Irish playwright and a co-founder of the London School of Economics. Although his first profitable writing was music and literary criticism, in which capacity he wrote many highly articulate pieces of journalism, his main talent was for drama, and he wrote more than 60...

's The Man of Destiny

The Man of Destiny

The Man of Destiny is an 1897 play by George Bernard Shaw. It was published as a part of Plays Pleasant, which also included Arms and the Man, Candida and You Never Can Tell. Shaw titled the volume Plays Pleasant in order to contrast it with his first book of plays, Plays Unpleasant....

, Arthur Miller

Arthur Miller

Arthur Asher Miller was an American playwright and essayist. He was a prominent figure in American theatre, writing dramas that include plays such as All My Sons , Death of a Salesman , The Crucible , and A View from the Bridge .Miller was often in the public eye,...

's A View from the Bridge

A View from the Bridge

A View from the Bridge is a play by American playwright Arthur Miller that was first staged on September 29, 1955 as a one-act verse drama with A Memory of Two Mondays at the Coronet Theatre on Broadway. The play was unsuccessful and Miller subsequently revised the play to contain two acts; this...

and Tony Kushner

Tony Kushner

Anthony Robert "Tony" Kushner is an American playwright and screenwriter. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1993 for his play, Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes, and co-authored with Eric Roth the screenplay for the 2005 film, Munich.-Life and career:Kushner was born...

's Homebody/Kabul.

Kushner's play would be Carlos Gandolfo's last production, and he died in 2005 at age 73.