Leopoldo Torres Ríos
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Leopoldo Torres Ríos was an Argentine
Argentina
Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...
film director
Film director
A film director is a person who directs the actors and film crew in filmmaking. They control a film's artistic and dramatic nathan roach, while guiding the technical crew and actors.-Responsibilities:...
and screenwriter
Screenwriter
Screenwriters or scriptwriters or scenario writers are people who write/create the short or feature-length screenplays from which mass media such as films, television programs, Comics or video games are based.-Profession:...
. His brother Carlos Torres Ríos
Carlos Torres Ríos
Carlos Torres Ríos was an Argentine cinematographer, film director, screenwriter, film editor and film producer of the classic era....
was a notable cinematographer
Cinematographer
A cinematographer is one photographing with a motion picture camera . The title is generally equivalent to director of photography , used to designate a chief over the camera and lighting crews working on a film, responsible for achieving artistic and technical decisions related to the image...
. His son was film director and screenwriter Leopoldo Torre Nilsson
Leopoldo Torre Nilsson
Leopoldo Torre Nilsson , also known as Leo Towers and as Babsy, was an Argentine film director, producer and screenwriter....
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Rios initially solely began as a screenwriter
Screenwriter
Screenwriters or scriptwriters or scenario writers are people who write/create the short or feature-length screenplays from which mass media such as films, television programs, Comics or video games are based.-Profession:...
, writing for his first film Palomas rubias
Palomas rubias
Palomas rubias is a 1920 Argentine romantic comedy film directed and written by José A. Ferreyra with Leopoldo Torres Ríos...
in 1920 but by 1923 he began siimultaneously directing and writing for his films, producing over 40 films between the early 1920s and 1959 when he was taken ill with lung cancer
Lung cancer
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. He died on 10 April 1960, aged 60, in his native Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires
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