Pedro Quartucci
Pedro Quartucci | |||||||||||||
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| Born | July 30, 1905 | ||||||||||||
| Died | April 20, 1983 (aged 77) | ||||||||||||
| Occupation(s) | boxer, actor | ||||||||||||
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Pedro Quartucci (July 30, 1905 in Buenos Aires – April 20, 1983 in Buenos Aires) was an Argentine boxer and actor.
Boxing career
As a featherweight professional boxer who competed in the 1920s, he won a bronze medal in Boxing at the 1924 Summer Olympics in the featherweight division, losing against Joseph Salas in the semi-final.
Acting career
He then pursued an acting career and appeared in dozens of Argentine films and television series from 1931 until 1980. He appeared in films such as Al marido hay que seguirlo in (1948). He died of a heart attack in 1983.
Selected filmography
- Luces de Buenos Aires (1931)[1]
- Dancing (1933)
- The Favorite (1935)
- Goal (1936)
- Palermo (1937)
- Melodies of America (1941)
- Girls Orchestra (1941)
- The New Bell (1950)
- The Honourable Tenant (1951)
External links
- Entry at databaseolympics.com
- Pedro Quartucci at IMDb
- Filmography and photo at cinenational.com
- Pedro Quartucci at Find a Grave
References
- ^ Evaristo, César (2013). 100 tangos de oro (in Spanish) (2 ed.). Argentina: Ediciones LEA. ISBN 978-987-634-727-3. Retrieved 18 July 2015.
External links
- Boxing record for Pedro Quartucci from BoxRec (registration required)
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Categories:
- Olympic boxers of Argentina
- Featherweight boxers
- Olympic bronze medalists for Argentina
- Boxers at the 1924 Summer Olympics
- 1905 births
- 1983 deaths
- Male actors from Buenos Aires
- Boxers from Buenos Aires
- Argentine people of Italian descent
- Argentine male film actors
- Argentine male television actors
- Olympic medalists in boxing
- Burials at La Chacarita Cemetery
- 20th-century Argentine male actors
- Argentine male boxers
- Male actors of Italian descent
- Medalists at the 1924 Summer Olympics
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