--- name: "Hugo Arana" canonical: "https://film.one/person/hugo-arana" fi1m_id: "hugo-arana" imdb_id: "nm0032955" tmdb_id: 228441 wikidata_id: "Q5483854" roles: ["Actor"] born: "23 July 1943" died: "11 October 2020" reviewed_on_fi1m: 1 average_as: "actor" average_over: 1 updated: "2026-09-26T01:18:38.632288+00:00" licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL." --- # Hugo Arana ## Identity Hugo Arana - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/hugo-arana - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** hugo-arana - **IMDb ID:** nm0032955 - **TMDB ID:** 228441 - **Wikidata ID:** Q5483854 - **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Arana, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5483854, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0032955/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/228441 Actor. Born 23 July 1943 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Died 11 October 2020. ## Details - **Work:** Actor - **Born:** 23 July 1943, Buenos Aires, Argentina - **Died:** 11 October 2020 - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Arana, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5483854, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0032955/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/228441 ## Streaming the US now - **Amazon Prime Video:** [*The Official Story*](https://film.one/film/the-official-story.md) (81) For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country. ## Biography Hugo Arana (1943–2020) was an Argentine film, television and theatre actor. He grew up in the Buenos Aires area, studying acting with Marcello Lavalle and Augusto Fernandes, and began his career in the theatre group Errare Humanum Est. Early film roles included *El Santo de la Espada* (1970) and *La tregua* (1974). Arana gained wide recognition in the 1980s through a popular Crespi wine advertisement and his performances in the television sitcom *Matrimonios y algo más*, playing the characters known as the Groncho and Huguito Araña. He appeared as Enrique Ibáñez in the Oscar-winning film *The Official Story* (1985) and later in *A Place in the World* (1992) and the series *Los exitosos Pells* (2008–2009). Arana died in Buenos Aires on 11 October 2020. *Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.* ## On Fi1m (1) - *The Official Story* (1985), Fi1m 81, as Enrique Ibáñez — [page](https://film.one/film/the-official-story.md) ## Complete filmography (67) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *Historias de papel* (2024), Actor - *Boomerang* (2021), as Aurelio - *The Funeral Home* (2021), as Salvador - *Almost Happy* (2020), series, as Padre - *Dedalo* (2020), series, as Domingo - *Tu parte del trato* (2019), series, as Juan Carlos Gianola - *Otros pecados* (2019), series, as Saúl - *Todavía* (2018), Actor - *Yanka y el espíritu del volcán* (2018), as Abuelo - *Sinuous Road* (2018), as Eduardo Siero - *Super Crazy* (2018), as Fernando Salaberry - *Te esperaré* (2017), as Leiva - *Delicia* (2017), as Amado - *Argentine Soldier Only Known by God* (2017), as Antonio - *Angelita, la doctora* (2016), Actor - *La Leona* (2016), series, as Pedro Salvador Leone - *Pistas para volver a casa* (2015), as Antonio - *Death in Buenos Aires* (2014), as Sanfilippo - *Los Vecinos en Guerra* (2013), series, as Ramón - *Daños Colaterales* (2012), Actor - *Para vestir santos* (2010), series, as Horacio - *Los exitosos Pells* (2008), series, as Franco Andrada - *Don't Look Down* (2008), as Padre de Eloy - *Chile Can Do It* (2008), as Octavio - *Reparaciones* (2007), as Gabriel - *El Capo* (2007), series, as Don Chichio Mastrogiuseppe - *Hechizada* (2007), series, Actor - *Killer Women* (2005), series, Actor - *Dangerous Obsession* (2004), Actor - *Cautiva* (2004), as Juez Barrenechea - *Your Eyes Blazed* (2004), Actor - *Seawards Journey* (2003), as Rodriguez - *Resistiré* (2003), series, as Ricardo Moreno - *My mother-in-law is a zombie* (2002), Actor - *Tiempo final* (2000), series, Actor - *Caminata espacial* (2000), Actor - *Good Neighbors* (1999), series, Actor - *El inquietante caso de José Blum* (1999), as José Blum - *Dibu 2: La venganza de Nasty* (1998), as Lencinas - *Quereme así (Piantao)* (1997), as Ástor - *Noche de ronda* (1997), Actor - *El verso* (1996), as Pedro - *The Dark Side of the Heart* (1992), Actor - *Tato de América* (1992), series, Actor - *A Place in the World* (1992), as Zamora - *Las puertitas del Sr. López* (1988), Actor - *Matrimonios y Algo Más* (1988), Actor - *Made in Argentina* (1987), as Cacho - *Chorros* (1987), as Traverso - *Atrapada por el vicio* (1986), as Padre de Andrea - *The Official Story* (1985), as Enrique Ibáñez — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/film/the-official-story.md) - *To Return* (1982), as Angel Ragucci - *Buenos Aires, la tercera fundación* (1980), as Voz - *Este loco amor loco* (1979), Actor - *The Island* (1979), Actor - *No apto para menores* (1979), Actor - *El soltero* (1977), Actor - *The days that you gave me* (1975), Actor - *The Truce* (1974), as Martínez - *La madre María* (1974), Actor - *Dale nomás* (1974), Actor - *La balada del regreso* (1974), Actor - *La vuelta de Martín Fierro* (1974), Actor - *Los golpes bajos* (1974), Actor - *Alta comedia* (1970), series, Actor - *The Knight of the Sword* (1970), Actor - *Chronicle of a Boy Alone* (1965), Actor ## Gallery - ![Hugo Arana](https://film.one/media/person/3924817/gallery-0003c10bfcab.jpg) Hugo Arana — Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/35/Hugo_Arana_70s.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![Imágen promocional de la película El Santo de la Espada. En la imagen Alfredo Alcón (izquierda), Alfredo Iglesias (centro) y Hugo Arana (detrás) (1970)](https://film.one/media/person/3924817/gallery-1f6da86f18f2.jpg) Imágen promocional de la película El Santo de la Espada. En la imagen Alfredo Alcón (izquierda), Alfredo Iglesias (centro) y Hugo Arana (detrás) (1970) — El Santo de la Espada, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/66/El_Santo_de_la_Espada_promocional.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) --- © Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL. Canonical: https://film.one/person/hugo-arana