
Birthday:
10-06-1935
(89 years)
Birthplace:
Valparaíso, Chile
Biography
Jaime Vadell was born on 6 October 1935 in Valparaíso, Región de Valparaíso, Chile. He is an actor, known for No (2012), The Club (2015) and Coronación (2000).
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The Gift
Act like Pacheco
event2008 star_border 6.4
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A man who has recently lost his wife and forced to retire contemplates suicide. His friends take him on a trip to a senior resort, and invite his former sweetheart.
Post Mortem
Act like Dr. Castillo
event2010 star_border 6.1
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In Chile, 1973, during the last days of Salvador Allende's presidency, an employee at a Morgue's recording office falls for a burlesque dancer who mysteriously disappears.
Three Sad Tigers
Act like Rudy
event1968 star_border 6.5
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A glimpse at the few days and nights in the lives of a brother and sister, Amanda and Tito, in Santiago’s semi-criminal underworld. A rambling portrait of Chilean society.
The Devil's Liquor
Act like Eladio
event2012 star_border 4.3
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Old man Eladio is dying. Throughout the last decades, he has lived alone, working in his old liquor factory. Modernity threatens his spirits business, but he refuses to abandon it. A visit by his oldest grandson will be the ideal moment to save the factory, while at the same time, reconnect with his family.
No
Act like Minister Fernández
event2012 star_border 7.2
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In 1988, Chilean military dictator Augusto Pinochet, due to international pressure, is forced to call a plebiscite on his presidency. The country will vote ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ to Pinochet extending his rule for another eight years. Opposition leaders for the ‘No’ vote persuade a brash young advertising executive, René Saavedra, to spearhead their campaign. Against all odds, with scant resources and while under scrutiny by the despot’s minions, Saavedra and his team devise an audacious plan to win the election and set Chile free.
Amelia Lópes O'Neill
Act like Lawyer
event1992 star_border 4.5
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A well-bred young woman who prizes the virtue of fidelity remains faithful to the doctor who deflowers her, even after he marries her invalid sister.
El Conde
Act like El Conde
event2023 star_border 6.2
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After living for over two centuries, Augusto Pinochet is a vampire ready to die… but the vultures around him won't let him go without one last bite.
Blanquita
Act like Cardinal
event2023 star_border 6.4
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Blanca, an 18-year-old foster home resident, is the key witness in a scandal involving kids, politicians and rich men taking part in sex parties. Yet, the more questions are asked, the less clear it becomes what Blanca’s role in the scandal exactly is.
Our Father
Act like Caco
event2006 star_border 6.9
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Children come to a hospital to visit their dying father they haven't seen for 8 years. They try to recover their relationships before he dies.
Esperando a Godoy
event2023
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A group of left-wing intellectuals take over a building with the purpose of forming a Ministry of Culture, however, the workers oppose the takeover. Intellectuals and workers establish a coexistence pact while waiting for Godoy, a union boss. After conflicts over ideological differences about culture, the takeover dissolves, just when Godoy appears with a totally elitist and apolitical discourse.
Coronation
Act like Carlos Gross
event2000 star_border 5.7
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The elderly heir of a formerly wealthy and respected Chilean family, Andres, suffers from decadence and solitude. He hires young Estela in order to look after his tiranic and almost crazy grandmother. The differences in class and age don't stop Andres from courting Estela, whose fiancé Mario tries to make some money with the passions of his well-off rival. The suffocating atmosphere of the run-down mansion in the outskirts of Santiago represents the deterioration of the bourgeoisie, and sets the scene for the total collapse of Andres.
Aurora
Act like Judge Águila
event2014 star_border 4.3
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After reading in the newspaper that a newborn baby was found in a dumpster, a teacher becomes obsessed with giving it a proper burial.
History and Geography
Act like voice-over
event2024
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Gioconda Martínez, a well-remembered comic television actress, decided to return to her hometown to stage a play about the conquest of Chile, which will allow her to regain the artistic recognition she thought she had lost but never had.
The Club
Act like Father Silva
event2015 star_border 6.9
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In a secluded house in a small seaside town live four unrelated men and the woman who tends to the house and their needs. All former priests, they have been sent to this quiet exile to purge the sins of their pasts, the separation from their communities the worst form of punishment by the Church. They keep to a strict daily schedule devoid of all temptation and spontaneity, each moment a deliberate effort to atone for their wrongdoings.
Desconectados
Act like Rigoberto
event2022 star_border 6.4
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Victoria, a mother addicted to the internet and work, is completely disconnected from her two teenage children, Clara and Julián. Just when he is about to receive that long-awaited promotion, a solar storm leaves the entire world without internet, indefinitely. With her ex-husband stranded in another country, she is faced with the reality that she has to be a mother without the help of apps or the internet.
El huésped
Act like Dr. Bruzzone
event2003 star_border 2
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Five medicine interns in an old public hospital must face all their fears when they start to being stalked by a strange being.
The Plain Of Patience
event2015
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Two old friends meet after 40 years to unearth a treasure they had buried in the desert.
Socialist Realism
event2023 star_border 7.5
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A satirical take on President Salvador Allende's Popular Unity process prior to the 1973 Chilean coup d'état. The film is made up of a series of short stories, in which different worlds cross paths.
Kill Them All
Act like Mr. Reyes
event2007 star_border 4.6
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A story set in Uruguay in 1993. It revolves around an investigation by a law court lawyer, Julia. She's looking into the possibility that a chemist named Eugenio Barrios is being secretly sheltered in Uruguay by right-wing political powers.
The Hyperboreans
Act like Joaquín
event2024 star_border 8.5
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Actress and psychologist Antonia Giesen decides to film a script revealed by a voice within the mind of one of her patients. Seeking collaboration with the filmmaking duo León & Cociña, they craft a crossroads of theatre, science fiction, animation and fabulated biopic, populated by parallel worlds and haunted by the shadow of a Chilean Nazi writer as a demonic figure.
Neruda
Act like Jorge Alessandri
event2016 star_border 6.3
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It’s 1948 and the Cold War has arrived in Chile. In the Congress, prominent Communist Senator and popular poet Pablo Neruda accuses the government of betraying the Party and is stripped of his parliamentary immunity by President González Videla. The Chief of Investigative Police instructs inspector Óscar Peluchonneau to arrest the poet. Neruda tries to escape from the country with his wife, the painter Delia del Carril, but they are forced to go underground.
Nobody Said Anything
Act like Germán
event1971 star_border 5.7
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Four drunken literary bohemians write a short story about a pact with the Devil just as that very story is happening to them.
Julio Begins in July
Act like Torres
event1979 star_border 6.4
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This is the story of a teenager at the turn of the century in the conservative higher classes of Chile and the initiation rites in his society.
Bienvenida Casandra
Act like Father Alejandro
event1996
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Cassandra is a teenager who is seeking God so she enters in the youth group of the Parish. There she meets Father Agustin , who unleashes her in confusion, on the border between carnal love and a fatherly relationship. Everything is accentuated when they go to a spiritual retreat to the coast, where the rest of the group members will show their true colors
Fragmentos urbanos
Act like Ramón (segment "Mandarina Mecánica")
event2002
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Anthology film composed of six standalone shorts.
The Witnesses
Act like Domingo
event1971 star_border 5
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This stark Chilean melodrama concerns itself with the plight of slum dwellers living outside Santiago. For many years they have, with great difficulty, been faithfully paying small sums to a real estate man. This man has said that by doing so they can obtain title to the miniscule plots of land their houses stand on. In fact, he has been swindling them and does not even own the land he has been "selling." One of the aggrieved slum dwellers confronts him about this while he is visiting the slum, and the real estate agent shoots him before everyone's eyes. The question confronting these witnesses is whether testifying against this monster will make their lives even more precarious.
For Rent
Act like Gaston's Father
event2005 star_border 4.9
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Gastón Fernández has arrived at 34 without too much to show or brag about. He has no money, job, girlfriend, friends or life plan. He's a composer that doesn't compose. The one-time "most likely to succeed" at Santiago's Musical Conservatory has passed from promise to failure. He feels he is beginning to wander alone. Isolated and detached. Gastón feels that everyone judges him and see the word loser tattooed on his forehead. At the same time, an alter-ego, a sort of doppelgänger, haunts him.
¡Viva el novio!
Act like Infante's Dad
event1990
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After a hectic love life,Pelao Infante has decided to settle down, marrying his girlfriend.But everything collapses when suddenly his ex appear claiming she's expecting a son from him.
Spider
Act like Don Ricardo
event2019 star_border 6.9
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Three friends are part of a fascist opposition group in the chaotic Chile of the early 70's and together commit a political crime that changes the history of the country and incidentally involves them in a betrayal that separates them forever.
The Expropriation
Act like Agronomo Vidal
event1974 star_border 6.4
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The film captures the activities of the inhabitants in the countryside, in southern Chile, and the CORA (Corporation for Agrarian Reform). Although the action was filmed in four days and four nights in 1971, the movie was only finished in France in 1973, after the military coup.
Bloody Nitrate
event1969 star_border 6.3
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Chilean soldiers try to survive in the desert after they are attacked by Peruvian troops. The 17 survivors are held together by the Captain. The Lieutenant is a civilian attorney who clashes with the Captain as he pursues the valuable rights to nitrate deposits in the area. When the fighting was over, 25,000 soldiers from Chile, Peru and Bolivia had perished while trying to secure the coveted mineral rights for foreign companies.
The Chinese Shoe
event1979 star_border 6
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A taxi driver finds Marlene, a provincial woman, lost in a brothel. Immediately he decides to help her out and take her at his place. Little by little, his paternal protection turns into a bizarre passion
Tendida mirando las estrellas
Act like Grace's Father
event2004 star_border 1
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Nieves has murdered the man who was tried to rape his younger brother. Sentenced to five years in prison, she is immersed in a hard and marginal world, she does yearns to one day being released and fulfill her lifelong dream: to know the flowery desert in northern Chile. When an oversight of her captors allows her to flee, her dreams will have to wait still. She dedicates herself to managing a nightclub where her former jailmates prostitute themselves.
Cinco marineros y un ataúd verde
Act like Captain Stevens
event1999
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In the seas of southern Chile, where the known world ends, in dangerous waters and ghost ports, a space where everything is possible, a group of sailors dare still to dream in mysteries and enchantments...
¿Qué será de Soto?
Act like Soto
event2010
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Two friends reunite after many years, after they catch up with each other's personal lives, one question raises in the conversation "What happened to Soto?"
Santiago Violenta
Act like Noel's Father
event2014 star_border 5.3
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Mauro, Noel and Broco have been an inseparable group of friends since grade school. All grown up, their lives are not what they hoped they would be. Life has become so routine that they do nothing more than wait for the weekends to drink themselves into oblivion. One night, a chance encounter leads the group on a wild and deadly chase from Santiago's most dangerous crime boss... Forced to make increasingly risky decisions, their frantic, adrenaline fueled desperation brings them closer to a violent, life-changing end where the friendship will be changed forever.
Un loco matrimonio en cuarentena
Act like Hernandez
event2021
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A couple must overcome different pandemic-related altercations during their virtual wedding in order to maintain an ordinary and stable marriage ceremony.
Mentiras verdaderas
Act like Self (4 ep.)
event2011 star_border 5.5
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Daily interviews discussing the guest's personal lives and national contingency.
Sigamos de largo
Act like Self (2 ep.)
event2018 star_border 2
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The most important events of the day, with a relaxed tone and high doses of humor. Each episode tackles the most relevant events that dominate the public eye, with guests who contribute their views on the matter.
Sin maquillaje
Act like Self (1 ep.)
event2011 star_border 2
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Interviews with prominent Chilean actors, throwbacks to their careers and personal lives.
El aval
Act like Martin's Grandfather (1 ep.)
event2006
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Psychologist Martín Rivera is one day invited for a coffee by a stranger named José Sagasti, who informs him that his grandfather had made a pact with his boss, "The Devil", who he did not comply. Therefore Rivera, as his only male descendant, becomes the guarantee of said commitment. Martín and his closest ones start to be intensively harassed by Sagasti, until the pact can be finally fulfilled.
Crónica de un hombre santo
Act like Dr. Armas Cruz (1 ep.)
event1990
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The life, work and death of the Chilean Jesuit priest and founder of "Hogar de Cristo" (Home of Christ), San Alberto Hurtado Cruchaga.
Adiós al séptimo de línea
Act like President Aníbal Pinto (10 ep.)
event2010
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The adventures of a Chilean female spy and a small Regiment during the Saltpeter War.
Borrón y cuenta nueva
Act like Santiago Bryce (103 ep.)
event1998 star_border 2
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A billionaire who, as a result of his death, leaves an inheritance of 100 million dollars to his three daughters. But in order for them to receive the money, they must follow some exclusive conditions such as living in his mansion, marrying within a year and arriving there before midnight. Problems scalate when a fourth heir appears...
Aquí mando yo
Act like Pedro Montenegro (160 ep.)
event2011 star_border 2
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Diego and Sofía have agreed a special deal: while she goes to work, he will take care of the house and their daughters Antonella and Kiara, 24 hours a day.
La familia de al lado
Act like Renato Fabres (125 ep.)
event2010 star_border 3.5
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Gone are the days of tranquility for the billionaire family Fabres, strange things happen inside his home and around his people in a place where nothing is what it seems.
Tic Tac
Act like Samuel Gaete (90 ep.)
event1997 star_border 2
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After a seance ghost of a young high-class call Maximiliano Ossa, who died in very strange circumstances, returns from 1925 to 1997 to recover the love of his beloved Pola Santa Maria
Juegos de fuego
Act like Alberto Spencer (88 ep.)
event1995 star_border 2
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Lucas must choose between love and the power he acquires after becoming a renowned sculptor.
Alguien por quien vivir
Act like César Alonso (117 ep.)
event1982 star_border 2
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Centers around the sentimental and existential conflicts of three families from different classes.
La madrastra
Act like Donato Fernández (106 ep.)
event1981 star_border 3.5
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Marcia has grown bitter and full of resentment after being framed for murder 20 years ago during a visit to the United States. As soon as she gets out of jail she comes back to Chile to recover what was taken away from her and search the real killer of the incident that costed several years of her life.
El hombre de tu vida
Act like Padre Francisco (13 ep.)
event2013 star_border 7.5
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Hugo is a widowed father, good, honest but unemployed. In an effort to end his economical shortcomings, he agreeds to collaborate on the crazy idea of his cousin Gloria: a SME that promises to find "the love of your life". Hugo will have to become different men (lawyer, businessmam, etc) to be the ideal date.
Aquelarre
Act like Padre Pelayo (105 ep.)
event1999 star_border 2
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A series of tragedies will haunt the Patiño sisters after the surprising death of the family's patriarch.
Brigada Escorpión
Act like Werner Kinsky (1 ep.)
event1997 star_border 2
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The exploits of an investigative police group that from anonymity, solve intricate criminal cases.
Homemade
(1 ep.)
event2020 star_border 5.8
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Acclaimed filmmakers from around the world channel their creativity during COVID-19 isolation with this diverse, genre-spanning collection of short films.
Vivir así
Act like Domingo 'Chumingo' Mora (41 ep.)
event1988 star_border 2
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A hard-working man witnesses the collapse of his nuclear family.
Amores de mercado
Act like Camilo Ruttenmeyer (103 ep.)
event2001 star_border 5
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'Pelluco' Solís, a young lower-middle class waiter, crosses paths with Rodolfo Ruttenmeyer -a man who looks just like him- in an unfortunate accident that will change their lives forever.
Floribella
Act like God (2 ep.)
event2006 star_border 1
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A 20-year-old girl with a deep passion for music will radically change her life when she finds work at the Fritzenwalden family home as an assistant to Governess Greta, who is in charge of six children who have just lost their parents. What she does not know is that in this house she will aslo discover true love.
Secretos en el jardín
Act like Klaus Cox (101 ep.)
event2013 star_border 2
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A series of crimes occur in Viña del Mar during the 80s. The detective Ramiro Opazo and the journalist Javier Montes will investigate those responsible for the murders and robberies.
El señor de la Querencia
Act like Monseñor (2 ep.)
event2008 star_border 1.5
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An evil and deranged farmer, perversely controls his land and the people who live there during the 1920s.
El día menos pensado
Act like Don Renato (1 ep.)
event1999 star_border 5
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Stories of paranormal activities and extraordinary nature -allegedly- based on real events.
Purasangre
Act like Adolfo Benavides (114 ep.)
event2002 star_border 3.5
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As a result of a vile abuse cause in the past, Violeta Salazar has sworn to herself to take revenge on the Callassis family and all their descendants. She sends her daughter Amanda to make the life of the Callasis as miserable as possible, but love can be surprising, and not everything comes out as planned.
Corazón de María
Act like Bishop (2 ep.)
event2007 star_border 2
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Miguel loses his wife Maria in a tragic car accident just hours after getting married. However, Maria's heart will continue to beat on another woman's body. The transplant that marks the death of María will also be synonymous of Elisa's new life.
Los exitosos Pells
Act like Marcial Balaguer (1 ep.)
event2009 star_border 3
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A failed theater teacher has a chance for success by impersonating Martin Pells, Chile's most famous and influential TV announcer.
Una familia feliz
Act like Víctor Altamira (12 ep.)
event1982
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A man chases success at all costs, by exploiting a false self-image of "winner" and having a "happy family" to promote his businesses.
Hijos Del Monte
Act like Miguel Millán (131 ep.)
event2008 star_border 2
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Five adopted brothers see how their easygoing life in the countryside is changed by the death of their father, who gives part of his land to his only biological child, Paula, who comes to claim what belongs to her.
Pobre Gallo
Act like Onofre Pérez de Castro (160 ep.)
event2016 star_border 2
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Nicolás Pérez de Castro, sick of stress, suddenly must go to the countryside to heal his illness.
Mierda Mierda, la función debe continuar
Act like Self (2 ep.)
event2020 star_border 2
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Documentary series that takes a nostalgic journey through decades of Chilean theater and its history.
Casa de muñecos
Act like Rodolfo (5 ep.)
event2018 star_border 2
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The Falco-Elizalde sisters undertake the search for authentic happiness, after discovering that their parents have separated after 50 years of marriage.
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