Arturo Acevedo Vallarino

Arturo Acevedo Vallarino was born in Bogotá in 1873, the son of a general who administered the salt mines of Zipaquirá, where he spent his childhood. A dental surgeon, he opened a practice frequented by the poets of the city, then devoted himself to the theatre: he founded a society of national authors and toured the country, until a fall into the pit of a theatre left him disabled. Seeing the cinema empty his performances, he sold a forest property to buy a camera and in 1920 founded, with his sons, a production company, the most durable in the country. He died in 1950.

In the catalogue 1

• CinemaLa tragedia del silencioArturo Acevedo Vallarino · 1924Cinema