
Acting
Apr 20, 1937
Tancacha, Córdoba, Argentina
Javier Portales
Acting
Biography
Javier Portales, whose real name was Miguel Angel Alvarez (Tancacha, Córdoba; April 21, 1937 - Buenos Aires; October 14, 2003) was an Argentine actor and comedian of vast trajectory.
Feature Films (70)

Three different love-related stories -all starring María Vaner as different "Anas". In "The Earth," Ana is a young and idealistic woman on the verge of adulthood when her first relationship with a clerk shatters her dreams of a romantic life. In "The Air," Ana is a rebellious, easy-living type among some beach bums whose sexual leanings tend to tip the scale at active promiscuity. In "The Cloud," Ana only exists in the imagination of an introverted man, who dreams of his ideal woman.
Three Times Ana

Upon finding out that the bank where they work will go bankrupt, some employees decide to rob one of the institution's branches.
Chorros

To continue pretending to be a position they no longer have, a run-down upper-class family moves into the home of a wealthy aunt.
Venido a menos

Two men, a woman, a chimpanzee and a talking horse travel around Argentina to put together a movie.
Cantaniño cuenta un cuento

The adventures of two truckers (one Argentine and the other Mexican) carrying different people and a suspicious trunk
Dos quijotes sobre ruedas

Friends Alberto and Jorge, who work together in an insurance company and live in the same building, are married to two sisters (Elsa and Alicia). When they go on vacation to Mar del Plata, Alberto and Jorge decide to enjoy their "single life". In addition to this, they have to fulfill a duty entrusted by their boss: to find the revue theater entrepreneur Félix Sagastume, to sign an insurance contract. It is in a canteen where they go to look for him, and there they meet two aspiring vedettes (Zuzú and Bibí), who confuse them with important businessmen and see in them a possibility of achieving fame.
Maridos en vacaciones

Friends Alberto and Jorge, who work together and live in the same building, are married to two sisters (Ethel and Gogó). Noticing that their sex life becomes boring, they cheat on them with co-workers. This is discovered and they are fired. Then, they get employed in a beauty institute, where they have many women at their disposal. Their wives learn of this mischief, and go to look for them at the institute, generating hilarious situations.
Hay que romper la rutina
Television & Series (2)

The television comedy focuses on the daily life of an Argentine family living in the Federal Capital in the early 90s.






