Jorge Porcel

He has also become a newborn Christian. His last role was in Soylent Green (1973). He is currently touring Latin America to promote an autobiography, visiting such places as Puerto Rico and some other countries in that endeavor. in sum, a Renaissance man"; sadly, he died two months prior to its formal presentation. After he retired from filming movies in Argentina, he moved to Miami, where he starred in a show named A la cama con Porcel (To Bed with Porcel), and was given a cameo in Hollywood production Carlito's Way. Never nominated for an Academy Award, in 1973 he was awarded an honorary Oscar in recognition that he had "achieved greatness as a player, a patron of the arts, and a dedicated citizen .. Porcel had many TV hit shows as well, including Operación Ja Ja (both the 1960's original and the 1980's remake) and Polémica en el Bar (Debate at the café), where he had celebrated moments of comedy with fellow comedian Juan Carlos Altavista. Most of these TV efforts were linked to the Sofovich brothers. That same year he returned to Broadway in "Middle of the Night".

Most of these movies were directed by Gerardo Sofovich or his brother Hugo. In 1956 he had to sell off his large art collection for $3.25 million as part of his divorce settlement with Lloyd. These movies are considered to be the pinnacle of Argentina's sexploitation movie genre. In the 1950s he was called to testify in front of the House Un-American Activities Committee, where he was cleared of all suspicion. Conservative Argentine authorities rated these movies as PM-18 (age 18 and above), except for some movies planned for family audiences, which had "tamer" content. He was a popular box-office draw and was able to avoid flops. Many of Porcel and Olmedo's movies in the 1980's were adult-oriented comedies. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet (1940), he expanded into edgy psychological dramas including Double Indemnity (1944), The Woman in the Window (1944) and Scarlet Street (1945); but he continued to accept gangster roles such as that of Johnny Rocco in the classic Key Largo (1948), one of five films he made with Humphrey Bogart.

(Little Rambo and Big Rambo: First Mission). In the 1940s, after a good performance in Dr. Among the movies they did together was 1986's Rambito Y Rambon: Primera Mision. A sensational performance as the gangster Rico Bandello in Little Caesar (1930) led to him being typecast as a 'tough' for much of his early career in works such as Five Star Final (1931), Tiger Shark (1932), Kid Galahad and A Slight Case of Murder (1938). Many of these 48 movies were collaborations with Olmedo. He married the actress Gladys Lloyd in 1927. Porcel made a total of 48 movies, starting with 1962's Disloque en Mar del Plata, and ending with El Profesor Punk (1988). One of many actors who saw his career flourish in the new sound film era rather than falter, he made only three films prior to 1930 but left his stage career that year and made fourteen films in 1930-32.