Life and work

Liporace began his career as an actor in 1963, when he was cast in La terraza, directed by period piece

Period piece

-Setting:In the performing arts, a period piece is a work set in a particular era. This informal term covers all countries, all periods and all genres...

 filmmaker Leopoldo Torre Nilsson

Leopoldo Torre Nilsson

Leopoldo Torre Nilsson , also known as Leo Towers and as Babsy, was an Argentine film director, producer and screenwriter....

. He earned extensive credits as a supporting actor in Argentine cinema, television and theatre in subsequent years, working with leading local directors such as Luis Saslavsky

Luis Saslavsky

Luis Saslavsky was an Argentine film director, screenwriter and film producer, and one of the influential directors in the Cinema of Argentina of the classic era...

, Hugo del Carril

Hugo del Carril

Pierre Bruno Hugo Fontana otherwise known as Hugo del Carril was an Argentine film actor, film director and tango singer of the classic era.-Early life:...

, Lucas Demare

Lucas Demare

Lucas Demare was an Argentine film director, screenwriter and film producer prominent in the Cinema of Argentina in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s....

 and Manuel Antin

Manuel Antín

Manuel Antín is an Argentine film director and screenwriter.Manuel Antin was born in Las Palmas, Chaco Province, in 1926. He first wrote for Argentine television in 1956 and made his directorial debut in 1962 with his first film: La Cifra Impar based on a tale of Julio Cortázar...

. Liporace shared an ill-fated relationship with actress Soledad Silveyra

Soledad Silveyra

Soledad Silveyra , is a prominent TV, theater and cinema Argentine actress.She has made over 65 TV and film appearances since 1964. Most of her appearances have been in film and TV where she made her debut in the soap opera El Amor tiene cara de mujer in 1964 as a 12 year old...

 during the late 1960s, though the couple never married.

Liporace's role as Basile, the compromised mining engineer in Adolfo Aristarain

Adolfo Aristarain

Adolfo Aristarain is an Argentine film director whom Variety has deemed a "master filmmaker."After leaving Argentina Aristarain started working as assistant director in the Arcente cinema, and then in Europe during his short exile for Mario Camus, Giorgio Stegani and Lewis Gilbert before...

's Tiempo de revancha

Tiempo de Revancha

Tiempo de revancha is a 1981 Argentine drama film directed and written by Adolfo Aristarain. The film starred Federico Luppi, Haydée Padilla and Ulises Dumont....

(1981) would become one of his best-known, and the following year, he starred in Aristarain's thriller, Últimos días de la víctima

Últimos días de la víctima

Últimos días de la víctima is an Argentine novel, written by José Pablo Feinmann. It was first published in 1979....

. He also returned to the theatre, and acted in Al vencedor, a military drama by Osvaldo Dragún

Osvaldo Dragún

Osvaldo Dragún was a prominent Argentine playwright and theatre director.-Life and work:Osvaldo Dragún was born in Colonia Berro, a Jewish agricultural settlement in Entre Ríos Province, Argentina. After his father's linseed farm suffered from recurrent locust problems, the family left the...

, during the Argentine Open Theatre

Argentine Open Theatre

The Argentine Open Theatre was an independent theatre company in Buenos Aires, Argentina.-Origins:The theatre in Argentina had developed alongside the nation's emergence as a modern economy in the late 19th and early 20th centuries...

 festival of the early 1980s.

The versatile actor played a transvestite man immersed in intrigue in Hebert Posse Amorim's 1985 critique of corporate control over broadcasting in Sin querer, queriendo (Accidentally on Purpose). A series of less notable roles followed, though Liporace remained busy in film and theatre alike. He appeared as populist President Juan Perón

Juan Perón

Juan Domingo Perón was an Argentine military officer, and politician. Perón was three times elected as President of Argentina though he only managed to serve one full term, after serving in several government positions, including the Secretary of Labor and the Vice Presidency...

's calculating Information Minister, Raúl Apold

Raúl Apold

Raúl Apold was the propaganda chief for Juan Domingo Perón. As a close associate of Eva Perón, Apold an official with the General Confederation of Labor.-References:* * *...

, in Juan Carlos Desanzo's Eva Perón (1996), and as the gruff, corner café proprietor given to hiring illegal immigrants in Bolivia

Bolivia (film)

Bolivia is an Argentine and Dutch drama film directed by Israel Adrián Caetano, his first feature-length film. The screenplay is written by Caetano, based upon the Romina Lafranchini story, about his wife...

(2001).

Liporace's later roles include that of a nostalgic, minor-party politician in Fernando Musa's Chiche bombón

Chiche bombón

Chiche bombón is a 2004 Argentine romantic drama film directed and written by Fernando Musa. The film stars Iván de Pineda and Andrea Galante...

(2004), and of a reprise of his earlier role as a transvestite in Daniel Ritto's Plástico cruel (2005). These roles never brought the recognition Lioprace sought, however, and the aging actor instead found success in the theatre, when in 2009 he was cast in Hernán Casciari's play, Más respeto que soy tu madre (More Respect - I'm Your Mother). The play, a slice-of-life tale set during the Argentine economic crisis of 2002, cast Liporace opposite famed female impersonator Antonio Gasalla

Antonio Gasalla

Antonio Gasalla is a well-known Argentine actor, comedian, and theatre director.-Life and work:Antonio Gasalla was born in Ramos Mejía, a western suburb of Buenos Aires, in 1941...

 as the Bertottis, and drew a combined audience of half a million in its first 540 shows in Buenos Aires.

Selected filmography and theatre roles

Film

Year	Title	Role	Director
2009	Franzie	Emanuel	Alejandra Marino
2007	La soledad	Enrique	Maximiliano González
2005	Plástico cruel	Bombón	Daniel Ritto
2004	Chiche bombón Chiche bombón Chiche bombón is a 2004 Argentine romantic drama film directed and written by Fernando Musa. The film stars Iván de Pineda and Andrea Galante...	Manrique	Fernando Musa
2002	Un oso rojo	Güemes	Israel Adrián Caetano Israel Adrián Caetano Israel Adrián Caetano is an Uruguayan-Argentine film director, producer and screenplay writer.-Biography:He's often credited as Adrián Caetano. He works mainly in the cinema of Argentina and at times obtains funding for his films in Europe. He lives in Buenos Aires, Argentina.At age of sixteen his...
2001	Bolivia Bolivia (film) Bolivia is an Argentine and Dutch drama film directed by Israel Adrián Caetano, his first feature-length film. The screenplay is written by Caetano, based upon the Romina Lafranchini story, about his wife...	Enrique	Israel Adrián Caetano Israel Adrián Caetano Israel Adrián Caetano is an Uruguayan-Argentine film director, producer and screenplay writer.-Biography:He's often credited as Adrián Caetano. He works mainly in the cinema of Argentina and at times obtains funding for his films in Europe. He lives in Buenos Aires, Argentina.At age of sixteen his...
1996	Eva Perón	Raúl Apold Raúl Apold Raúl Apold was the propaganda chief for Juan Domingo Perón. As a close associate of Eva Perón, Apold an official with the General Confederation of Labor.-References:* * *...	Juan Carlos Desanzo
1985	Sin querer, queriendo	Lily	Hebert Posse Amorim
1982	Últimos días de la víctima Últimos días de la víctima Últimos días de la víctima is an Argentine novel, written by José Pablo Feinmann. It was first published in 1979....	Peña	Adolfo Aristarain Adolfo Aristarain Adolfo Aristarain is an Argentine film director whom Variety has deemed a "master filmmaker."After leaving Argentina Aristarain started working as assistant director in the Arcente cinema, and then in Europe during his short exile for Mario Camus, Giorgio Stegani and Lewis Gilbert before...
1981	Tiempo de Revancha Tiempo de Revancha Tiempo de revancha is a 1981 Argentine drama film directed and written by Adolfo Aristarain. The film starred Federico Luppi, Haydée Padilla and Ulises Dumont....	Basile	Adolfo Aristarain Adolfo Aristarain Adolfo Aristarain is an Argentine film director whom Variety has deemed a "master filmmaker."After leaving Argentina Aristarain started working as assistant director in the Arcente cinema, and then in Europe during his short exile for Mario Camus, Giorgio Stegani and Lewis Gilbert before...

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2006	Amas de casa desesperadas Amas de Casa Desesperadas (Argentine TV series) Amas de Casa Desesperadas is an Argentine television series, that debuted on Canal 13 on August 30, 2006. Set in the fictional Manzanares Street, a suburb surrounding Buenos Aires, the series follows the lives of four housewives and the domestic problems and daily mysteries surrounding their...
2005	Mujeres asesinas Mujeres Asesinas (Argentina) Mujeres Asesinas is an Argentine drama and suspense thriller TV series, based on trilogy of books of the same name by Marisa Grinstein, produced by Pol-ka Producciones and broadcast since 19 January 2005 on the Argentine TV channel Canal 13....	Miguel
2003	Resistiré Resistiré Resistiré is a 2003 Argentine telenovela. This serial features a gorgeous woman torn between her terrorist fiancee and a handsome tailor. It starred Pablo Echarri, Celeste Cid, Carolina Fal and Fabián Vena....	Aníbal Gamboa
1989	Discepolín Enrique Santos Discépolo Enrique Santos Discépolo was an Argentine tango and milonga musician and composer, author of famous tangos such as Cambalache and many others performed by several of the most important singers of his time, amongst them notably Carlos Gardel.Discépolo was born in Buenos Aires...
1968	Teatro como en el teatro

Theatre

Year	Title	Role	Playwright
2009 — 11	Más respeto que soy tu madre	Zacarías Bertotti	Hernán Casciari
2008	Les Femmes Savantes Les Femmes Savantes Les Femmes savantes is a play by Molière in five acts, written in verse. A satire on academic pretention, female education, and préciosité , it was one of his most popular comedies...	Vadius	Molière Molière Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, known by his stage name Molière, was a French playwright and actor who is considered to be one of the greatest masters of comedy in Western literature...
1982	Al vencedor	Federico Hurtado	Osvaldo Dragún Osvaldo Dragún Osvaldo Dragún was a prominent Argentine playwright and theatre director.-Life and work:Osvaldo Dragún was born in Colonia Berro, a Jewish agricultural settlement in Entre Ríos Province, Argentina. After his father's linseed farm suffered from recurrent locust problems, the family left the...