Leopoldo Torres Ríos
Illustration — Leopoldo Torres Ríos, c. Leopoldo Torres Ríos (27 December 1899 – 10 April 1960) was an Argentine film director and screenwriter notable for his work during the Golden Age of Argentine cinema. His brother Carlos Torres Ríos was a notable cinematographer.
Also recorded as Leopoldo Torres Rios
Leopoldo Torres Ríos

La vida útil. Córdoba, Argentina. No. 6, 2023. p. 64. ISSN 2618-5318 · Public domain
- Born
- 1899 · Buenos Aires.
- Died
- 1960 · Vicente López Partido.
- Nationality
- Argentina
- Occupation
- film director · screenwriter · composer
VALÉORINE Encyclopedia
VALÉORINE documentary reading
Documentary summary
Illustration — Leopoldo Torres Ríos, c. Leopoldo Torres Ríos (27 December 1899 – 10 April 1960) was an Argentine film director and screenwriter notable for his work during the Golden Age of Argentine cinema. His brother Carlos Torres Ríos was a notable cinematographer.
Admitted source layer · organised and presented by VALÉORINE
Reference Check
Propose documentary evidence for Leopoldo Torres Ríos. 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
museum · f2c92e88-f558-4fe9-862e-07349e4cdf27 · wikidata · Q3229821 · wikipedia · Leopoldo Torres Ríos
In this article
As director
As director
His son was the film director and screenwriter Leopoldo Torre Nilsson. Rios initially solely began as a screenwriter, writing for his first film Palomas rubias in 1920 but by 1923 he began simultaneously directing and writing for his films, producing over 40 films between the early 1920s and 1959 when he was taken ill with lung cancer. He died on 10 April 1960, aged 60, in his native Buenos Aires. His film La vuelta al nido (1938) was a commercial and critical failure but has been revalued since the 1960s as a precursor of modernist cinema.
• El puñal del mazorquero (1923) • Buenos Aires bohemio (1924) • Empleada se necesita (1925) • El conventillo de la Paloma (1936) • Lo que le pasó a Reynoso (1937) • Adiós Buenos Aires (1938) • La vuelta al nido (1938) • La estancia del gaucho Cruz (1938) • El sobretodo de Céspedes (1939) • Los pagarés de Mendieta (1939) • La luz de un fósforo (1940) • Sinvergüenza (1940) • El mozo número 13 (1941) • ¡Gaucho! (1942) • El comisario de Tranco Largo (1942) • El juego del amor y del azar (1944) • La tía de Carlos (1946) • La mujer más honesta del mundo (1947) • Santos Vega vuelve (1947) • El hombre del sábado (1947) • Pelota de trapo (1948) • Romance sin palabras (1948) • El hijo de la calle (1949) • Pantalones cortos (1949) • El hombre de las sorpresas (1949) • El nieto de Congreve (1949) • The Crime of Oribe (1950) • El regreso (1950) • Corazón fiel (1951) • La encrucijada (1952) • En cuerpo y alma (1953) • El hijo del crack (1953) • Lo que le pasó a Reynoso (1955) • Edad difícil (1956) • Demasiado jóvenes (1958) • Campo virgen (1958) • Aquello que amamos (1959)
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.
Buenos Aires.
Birth place
Vicente López Partido.
Death place
As screenwriter
• Palomas rubias (1920) • La gaucha (1921) • De nuestras pampas (1923) • El guapo del arrabal(1923) • El puñal del mazorquero (1923) • Buenos Aires bohemio (1924) • Empleada se necesita (1925) • El conventillo de la Paloma (1936) • Lo que le pasó a Reynoso (1937) • Adiós Buenos Aires (1938) • La vuelta al nido (1938) • La estancia del gaucho Cruz (1938) • El sobretodo de Céspedes (1939) • Los pagarés de Mendieta (1939) • La luz de un fósforo (1940) • Sinvergüenza (1940) • La piel de zapa (1943) • El mozo número 13 (1941) • ¡Gaucho! (1942) • El comisario de Tranco Largo (1942) • El juego del amor y del azar (1944) • La tía de Carlos (1946) • La mujer más honesta del mundo (1947) • El hombre del sábado (1947) • Pelota de trapo (1948) • Romance sin palabras (1948) • Pantalones cortos (1949) • El nieto de Congreve (1949) • El hijo de la calle (1949) • El regreso (1950) • La encrucijada (1952) • En cuerpo y alma (1953) • El hijo del crack (1953) • Lo que le pasó a Reynoso (1955) • Edad difícil (1956) • Demasiado jóvenes (1958) • Campo virgen (1958) • Aquello que amamos (1959)
Primary material
Documents and archives
reference work
- “Leopoldo Torres Ríos”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
Reputable secondary · Wikipedia
- Wikidata, structured authority record Q3229821: Leopoldo Torres Ríos
Reputable secondary · Wikidata
Institutional database
- MusicBrainz artist record for Leopoldo Torres Ríos
Scholarly · MetaBrainz Foundation
References
Citations
References
Each reference names the institution holding it, so a reader may go to the document itself.
Institutional database
MusicBrainz artist record for Leopoldo Torres RíosMetaBrainz Foundation
Institutional witnessreference 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 17 August 2026.
Elsewhere in Music memorabilia
42,307 published records in this field, each with its sources named.
- Leopoldo FedericoPerson
- Leopoldo MiguezPerson
- Leopoldo MugnonePerson
- Leopoldo Querol RosoPerson
- Leoš JanáčekPerson
- Leoš SvárovskýPerson
- Lepo SumeraPerson
- Lera LynnPerson
Best supported in this field
For owners
Own a work by Leopoldo Torres Ríos?
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.