Lautaro Murúa
Lautaro Murúa (Spanish pronunciation: [lawˈtaɾo muˈɾu.a]; 29 December 1926 – 3 December 1995) was a Chilean-Argentine actor, film director, and screenwriter. He is considered one of the most recognized figures in Argentine cinema. Lautaro Murúa was born in Tacna, Chile (now part of Peru), Murúa moved to Argentina in the early 1950s.
Also recorded as Lautaro Murua
Lautaro Murúa
Ibermedia · Public domain
- Born
- 1926. · Tacna.
- Died
- 1995. · Madrid.
- Nationality
- Argentina and Peru.
- Occupation
- actor, screenwriter, painter and director.
- Honours
- Silver Condor Award for Best Actor and Silver Condor Award for Best Director.
- Languages
- Spanish.
Reference Check
Propose documentary evidence for Lautaro Murúa. A contribution is never written directly as fact: identity, source, rights and evidence gates still decide.
Sign in to contribute
World of VALÉORINE
Documentary connections
Only confirmed graph relationships appear here. Images are shown only when their identity and reuse rights both pass the documentary gate.
Documentary evidence
Documentary basis
Authority files
wikidata · Q466535 · wikipedia · Lautaro Murúa
VALÉORINE Encyclopedia
The documentary record
Statements marked “Documentary record” are set in the article beside the passage they confirm. Each is read from the authority records of the institutions named here; select “Prove” to see the record it was read from, where in that record, and when.
Institutions cited
Deutsche Nationalbibliothek
Complete reading chain (JSON)In this article
Filmography
Filmography
Before entering the film industry, he studied architecture and fine arts. Although best known for his work as an actor—appearing in over 80 films between 1949 and 1995—he also directed several notable films, including Shunko, Alias Gardelito, and La Raulito, which often addressed social issues. Murúa was an active participant in the revival of Argentine cinema during the 1960s, working with directors such as Leopoldo Torre Nilsson, Rodolfo Kuhn, Manuel Antín, and David José Kohon. In the 1970s, he relocated to Spain but returned periodically to Argentina to continue working in film. He died of lung cancer in Madrid in 1995.
Documentary record
Lautaro Murúa lived from 29 December 1926 to 3 December 1995 and was a director, screenwriter and actor. The birth of Lautaro Murúa is recorded on 29 December 1926 in Tacna, Chile, and the death on 3 December 1995 in Madrid.
1954 - Confession at Dawn 1957 - The House of the Angel (sometimes translated as The End of Innocence) 1958 - La caída 1958 - Behind a Long Wall 1958 - The Kidnapper 1960 - The Party Is Over 1960 - Shunko 1961 - Alias Gardelito 1962 - The Venerable Ones 1962 - Odd Number 1965 - The Amphitheatre 1965 - Pajarito Gómez 1967 - Traitors of San Angel 1969 - Invasión 1974 - Quebracho 1974 - La Raulito 1977 - La Raulito en libertad (Spanish production) 1978 - Las truchas 1980 - Girl with the Golden Panties 1983 - Funny Dirty Little War 1984 - Cuarteles de invierno 1984 - Gracias por el fuego 1986 - Poor Butterfly 1993 - A Wall of Silence.
Lautaro Murúa y Chunchuna Villafañe durante el rodaje de la película Un guapo del 900 (1971), en un reportaje de la revista Gente y la actualidad.
Aldo Alessandrini · Mágicas Ruinas
Film still of La cifra impar (1962), featuring María Rosa Gallo and Lautaro Murúa, used on the film's theatrical poster.
Espectáculos de Acá
Life and career
Dated record
Life and career
The full dated record · 2 entries
1926
Lautaro Murúa born at Tacna.
1995
Lautaro Murúa died at Madrid.
Places
Named by the record
Places
Only places the record itself states, plotted where the house gazetteer settles their coordinates. Nothing is inferred from a name or a nationality.
Tacna.
Birth place
Madrid.
Death place
Text attribution
Licensing
Text attribution
Part of the biographical narrative on this page reuses licensed material. Its origin, revision and licence are recorded here.
The biographical narrative on this page is based on the Wikipedia article Lautaro Murúa, revision 174903607 (ES edition), by its contributors. VALÉORINE has edited that text and built its own documentary record around it. The reused material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, and this page's reuse of it is offered under the same licence. Everything else on this page — the chronology, the holdings, the evidence, the plates and the connections — is VALÉORINE's own record. Sources and licences.
Notes from the source article
Cited by Wikipedia
Notes from the source article
These works are cited by the source article, in its own numbering. They are recorded as its citations, not as sources VALÉORINE has verified.
References
Citations
References
Each reference names the institution holding it, so a reader may go to the document itself.
reference work
Secondary witnessreference work
Secondary witness
People, houses and institutions
Knowledge graph
People, houses and institutions
Teachers, collaborators, publishers and institutions recorded against this person, each on a stated basis.
Citizenship
1- ArgentinaPlace
Established from a fact already recorded on a verified source.
The Encyclopedia exists whether or not anything is for sale. Corrections are recorded rather than overwritten, and every version of this record is kept. Published 14 August 2026.
Elsewhere in Paintings
19,456 published records in this field, each with its sources named.
- Laurent FauchierArtist
- Laurent PêcheuxArtist
- Lauretta VinciarelliArtist
- Lauritz HartzArtist
- Lavinia FontanaArtist
- Lavon VolskiArtist
- Lawren HarrisArtist
- Lawren P. HarrisArtist
Best supported in this field
For owners
Own a work by Lautaro Murúa?
A specialist will read what you send and tell you what the house can establish, what it cannot, and whether the object is suited to sale. There is no charge and no obligation. The object stays with you throughout; nothing is shipped to us unless it is arranged in writing beforehand.