Filmmaker · Argentina
Leonardo Favio
Died in 2012
Fuad Jorge Jury, known as Leonardo Favio, was born on 28 May 1938 in the province of Mendoza, in Luján de Cuyo (in Las Catitas according to Infobae). His father left the home early; as a teenager, he went through reform schools, then made his way to Buenos Aires, where Leopoldo Torre Nilsson gave him a role. He directed from 1965 and sang from the mid-sixties. A Peronist, he went into exile after the coup d'état of 1976, in Mexico according to Infobae. He died in Buenos Aires on 5 November 2012.
In the catalogue 1
- CinemaChronicle of a Boy AloneCrónica de un niño soloLeonardo Favio · 1965Cinema