Leopoldo Torre Nilsson (5 May 1924 – 8 September 1978), also known as Leo Towers and as Babsy, was an Argentine film director, producer and screenwriter.
Born as Leopoldo Torres Nilsson (he later changed his paternal surname from Torres to Torre) was the son of Argentine pioneer film director Leopoldo Torres RÃos, with whom he collaborated between 1939 and 1949. He debuted in 1947 with the short El muro. His mother was an Argentinian citizen of Swedish descent. His uncle was cinematographer Carlos Torres RÃos (1898–1956).
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Leopoldo Torre Nilsson Biography / Wiki
| Name | Leopoldo Torre Nilsson |
| Also Know | Leopoldo Torres Nilsson, Leo Towers, Babsy |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Directing |
| Place of Birth | Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| Date of Birth | 1924-05-05 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 54 |
| Deathday | 1978-09-08 |
Leopoldo Torre Nilsson Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Güemes, la tierra en armas | 1971-04-07 | The story of the wars of independence in Northern Argentina during the 19th Century…. | |
| Regreso a Coronel Vallejos | Self – Filmmaker (archive footage) | 2018-08-16 | A bitter postcard of the town of the Buenos Aires countryside that Argentinean writer Manuel Puig (1932-90) portrayed with singular mastery, based on … |
Leopoldo Torre Nilsson Directing Movies
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Painted Lips | Director | 1974-05-23 | The life and the lovers of a few young women in a provincial town…. |
| The Hand in the Trap | Director | 1961-05-01 | This haunting drama concerns a young woman on vacation from boarding school who discovers her aunt cloistered in the attic…. |
| The Female: Seventy Times Seven | Director | 1962-08-30 | Cora is a Mexican prostitute with typically inconsiderate johns. She is troubled by a hole in the ceiling. The hole triggers flashbacks regarding how … |
| The Mafia | Director | 1972-03-29 | A thinly disguised account of the story of the Galiffi mafia family of Rosario, Argentina, their decadent loves and brutal crimes…. |
| Kid Head | Director | 1975-01-01 | The life of “El Pibe Cabeza”, an authentic Argentine gangster in the ’30…. |
| Güemes, la tierra en armas | Director | 1971-04-07 | The story of the wars of independence in Northern Argentina during the 19th Century…. |
| The Knight of the Sword | Director | 1970-03-25 | The life story of Argentine independence hero Jose de San Martin…. |
| The Seven Madmen | Director | 1973-05-03 | After committing a fraud on the company where he work, a man meets a strange character who will introduce him to a group that plot a terrorist attack…. |
| El protegido | Director | 1956-11-22 | Story of a producer at the time of the big studios, in which the auteur cinema has no place…. |
| MartÃn Fierro | Director | 1968-07-04 | The story of rebel gaucho Martin Fierro, his people, and their life in the Argentine Pampas. Based on José Hernández’s epic poem…. |
| The Terrace | Director | 1963-06-01 | A group of young aristocrats lock themselves up, for fun, on a terrace in a wealthy building in Buenos Aires. Their parents try to get them out, but t… |
| Monday’s Child | Director | 1967-06-08 | The daughter of an American marriage in Puerto Rico forces her parents to find a doll that her father mistakenly sent in a box of aid during a flood…. |
| The House of the Angel | Director | 1957-06-25 | A young teen has been raised by a despotic mother overcome with religious zeal and a father who rules over the household with a heavy, iron hand. Forc… |
| Summerskin | Director | 1961-08-31 | In this drama, a still-young grandmother has a suitor whose son is suffering from an incurable illness. The woman knows that the son has fallen in lov… |
| Days of Hate | Director | 1954-06-03 | Emma Zunz plans to avenge her father’s death and escape the consequences with a risky alibi…. |
| The Crime of Oribe | Director | 1950-04-12 | The story of two men and a mysterious family, who repeat the same day forever in order to save the life of one of its daughters…. |
| Fin de fiesta | Director | 1960-06-23 | This routine drama set in Argentina during the 1930s draws parallels between a family patriarch and a political despot who stoops to any corrupt means… |
| La caÃda | Director | 1959-02-26 | A university student comes to stay with a bedridden woman and her four children. Helping out around the house, she soon grows fond of the mother and c… |
| Diary of a Pig War | Director | 1975-08-07 | A man who is entering old age facing a society in which young people removed the old…. |
| The Kidnapper | Director | 1958-06-01 | A group of poor people living on the bare minimum in a slum, trying to survive in a world that seems to have no place for them. With a tone raw and re… |
| Homenaje a la hora de la siesta | Director | 1962-01-21 | The widows of four missionaries condemned by the Indians to die at the stake, go to the Amazon jungle to pay homage to them…. |
| The Eavesdropper | Director | 1966-09-01 | When a young fanatical nationalist suspects that his fellow pensioners – immigrants and zarzuela players – plan an attack on the president, he reports… |
| Los traidores de San Ãngel | Director | 1967-10-16 | Henchmen of the dictator from a South American country blackmail Nick Thomas into being a government spy. The former smuggler is to pose as a priest a… |
| Once Upon a Tractor | Director | 1965-09-09 | Short film directed by Leopoldo Torre Nilsson…. |
| La tigra | Director | 1954-09-01 | … |
| Un guapo del 900 | Director | 1960-08-18 | The moral conflicts of a conservative politician, his wife and a bully, in the Buenos Aires of the early twentieth century…. |
| Pelota de trapo | Assistant Director | 1948-01-20 | This is the story of a suburb in Buenos Aires, its neighborhood, and how they live together in poverty, conjoined by the games of the children, and th… |
| El hijo del crack | Director | 1953-12-15 | A famous football player faces retirement, but his son is still his most faithful fan…. |
| Graciela | Director | 1956-05-10 | A small town girl arrives in the city to study literature and philosophy, she stays in a house inhabited by a family in decline…. |
| Piedra libre | Director | 1976-09-16 | Eugenia’s parents die. She goes to live with Amalita, her close friend. Her grandmother Amalia Pradere a wealth landlady, takes the orphan under her p… |
| The trees of Buenos Aires | Director | 1957-01-01 | … |
| La luz de un fósforo | Assistant Director | 1940-05-15 | A shy man invents in front of his friends a love affair with a singer but circumstances will lead him to conquer her…. |
| Para vestir santos | Director | 1955-08-04 | A humble woman breaks her relationship with her boyfriend and dedicates herself to taking care of her siblings, as they grow up she is left alone…. |
| El hijo de la calle | Assistant Director | 1949-05-03 | … |
| Un modelo de ParÃs | Assistant Director | 1946-06-21 | … |
| Tres millones… y el amor | Assistant Director | 1946-10-31 | A thief going to rob an unscrupulous industrialist falls in love with a young woman and turns himself in to the police to save a thief friend…. |
| El nieto de Congreve | Assistant Director | 1949-12-07 | The relationship between a suffered gauchito and a foal…. |
| ¡Gaucho! | Assistant Director | 1942-06-09 | A gaucho flees from justice for murdering a man with whom his girlfriend was betraying him. He settles in a place where he falls in love with a woman,… |
| El comisario de Tranco Largo | Assistant Director | 1942-10-21 | A workers’ strike provokes acts of violence and the death of the town’s commissioner…. |
| Sinvergüenza | Assistant Director | 1940-10-30 | A young woman criticized by her family for her dissipated life embarks on a new path…. |
| La tÃa de Carlos | Assistant Director | 1946-08-16 | A young man pretends to be his friends’ aunt to solve certain problems…. |
| Romance sin palabras | Assistant Director | 1948-09-17 | A famous pianist, invited by a girl, becomes interested in her sister, who pretends to be mute to hide a pronunciation defect…. |
| El hombre de las sorpresas | Assistant Director | 1949-10-05 | A man pretends to be dead and his dying wish causes his wife to marry a drifter and lose her inheritance…. |
| El mozo número 13 | Assistant Director | 1941-02-26 | … |
Leopoldo Torre Nilsson Production Movies
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| The Dependent | Producer | 1969-01-01 | Fernandez is a lonely man leading a lonely life. All he does is work for an old man in a hardware store. But all that changes, when he meets the girl … |
| Summerskin | Producer | 1961-08-31 | In this drama, a still-young grandmother has a suitor whose son is suffering from an incurable illness. The woman knows that the son has fallen in lov… |
| The Eavesdropper | Producer | 1966-09-01 | When a young fanatical nationalist suspects that his fellow pensioners – immigrants and zarzuela players – plan an attack on the president, he reports… |
| The Knight of the Sword | Producer | 1970-03-25 | The life story of Argentine independence hero Jose de San Martin…. |
| MartÃn Fierro | Producer | 1968-07-04 | The story of rebel gaucho Martin Fierro, his people, and their life in the Argentine Pampas. Based on José Hernández’s epic poem…. |
| Farewell, Sui Géneris | Producer | 1976-09-02 | Documentary of the phenomenonal band Sui Géneris in its farewell tour at Luna Park on September 5, 1975…. |
| The Hand in the Trap | Producer | 1961-05-01 | This haunting drama concerns a young woman on vacation from boarding school who discovers her aunt cloistered in the attic…. |
| La muerte de Sebastián Arache y su pobre entierro | Associate Producer | 1974-03-20 | Directed by Nicolás SarquÃs… |
| Los gauchos judÃos | Producer | 1975-05-22 | The film recreates the arrival of a group of Jewish immigrants fleeing persecution in Czarist Russia established the first Hebrew colonies in the prov… |
| Pantalones Cortos | Director of Operations | 1949-10-10 | … |
Writing
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Monday’s Child | Screenplay | 1967-06-08 | The daughter of an American marriage in Puerto Rico forces her parents to find a doll that her father mistakenly sent in a box of aid during a flood…. |
| Summerskin | Writer | 1961-08-31 | In this drama, a still-young grandmother has a suitor whose son is suffering from an incurable illness. The woman knows that the son has fallen in lov… |
| Diary of a Pig War | Writer | 1975-08-07 | A man who is entering old age facing a society in which young people removed the old…. |
| Los traidores de San Ãngel | Writer | 1967-10-16 | Henchmen of the dictator from a South American country blackmail Nick Thomas into being a government spy. The former smuggler is to pose as a priest a… |
| The House of the Angel | Screenplay | 1957-06-25 | A young teen has been raised by a despotic mother overcome with religious zeal and a father who rules over the household with a heavy, iron hand. Forc… |
| Once Upon a Tractor | Writer | 1965-09-09 | Short film directed by Leopoldo Torre Nilsson…. |
| The Female: Seventy Times Seven | Writer | 1962-08-30 | Cora is a Mexican prostitute with typically inconsiderate johns. She is troubled by a hole in the ceiling. The hole triggers flashbacks regarding how … |
| The Eavesdropper | Writer | 1966-09-01 | When a young fanatical nationalist suspects that his fellow pensioners – immigrants and zarzuela players – plan an attack on the president, he reports… |
| The Knight of the Sword | Writer | 1970-03-25 | The life story of Argentine independence hero Jose de San Martin…. |
| The Crime of Oribe | Writer | 1950-04-12 | The story of two men and a mysterious family, who repeat the same day forever in order to save the life of one of its daughters…. |
| Pelota de trapo | Writer | 1948-01-20 | This is the story of a suburb in Buenos Aires, its neighborhood, and how they live together in poverty, conjoined by the games of the children, and th… |
| The Hand in the Trap | Screenplay | 1961-05-01 | This haunting drama concerns a young woman on vacation from boarding school who discovers her aunt cloistered in the attic…. |
| The Kidnapper | Writer | 1958-06-01 | A group of poor people living on the bare minimum in a slum, trying to survive in a world that seems to have no place for them. With a tone raw and re… |
| Un guapo del 900 | Writer | 1960-08-18 | The moral conflicts of a conservative politician, his wife and a bully, in the Buenos Aires of the early twentieth century…. |
| El hijo del crack | Writer | 1953-12-15 | A famous football player faces retirement, but his son is still his most faithful fan…. |
| Fin de fiesta | Writer | 1960-06-23 | This routine drama set in Argentina during the 1930s draws parallels between a family patriarch and a political despot who stoops to any corrupt means… |
| El protegido | Writer | 1956-11-22 | Story of a producer at the time of the big studios, in which the auteur cinema has no place…. |
| MartÃn Fierro | Writer | 1968-07-04 | The story of rebel gaucho Martin Fierro, his people, and their life in the Argentine Pampas. Based on José Hernández’s epic poem…. |
| La caÃda | Writer | 1959-02-26 | A university student comes to stay with a bedridden woman and her four children. Helping out around the house, she soon grows fond of the mother and c… |
| Piedra libre | Writer | 1976-09-16 | Eugenia’s parents die. She goes to live with Amalita, her close friend. Her grandmother Amalia Pradere a wealth landlady, takes the orphan under her p… |
| Days of Hate | Screenplay | 1954-06-03 | Emma Zunz plans to avenge her father’s death and escape the consequences with a risky alibi…. |
| The Seven Madmen | Screenplay | 1973-05-03 | After committing a fraud on the company where he work, a man meets a strange character who will introduce him to a group that plot a terrorist attack…. |
| Facundo, el tigre de los llanos | Screenplay | 1952-07-03 | Aspects of the life of Juan Facundo Quiroga, a caudillo who for many years ruled the province of La Rioja in Argentina and was assassinated in 1835…. |
| Güemes, la tierra en armas | Screenplay | 1971-04-07 | The story of the wars of independence in Northern Argentina during the 19th Century…. |
| Fiebre amarilla | Writer | 1982-03-18 | … |
| El hijo de la calle | Writer | 1949-05-03 | … |
| The Mafia | Writer | 1972-03-29 | A thinly disguised account of the story of the Galiffi mafia family of Rosario, Argentina, their decadent loves and brutal crimes…. |
| Santos Vega vuelve | Writer | 1947-01-16 | A singer takes possession of a ranch and receives the mission to avenge his ancestor Santos Vega, that legendary payador, and defeat Juan Sin Ropa…. |
| Homenaje a la hora de la siesta | Writer | 1962-01-21 | The widows of four missionaries condemned by the Indians to die at the stake, go to the Amazon jungle to pay homage to them…. |
| El nieto de Congreve | Writer | 1949-12-07 | The relationship between a suffered gauchito and a foal…. |
| The Terrace | Writer | 1963-06-01 | A group of young aristocrats lock themselves up, for fun, on a terrace in a wealthy building in Buenos Aires. Their parents try to get them out, but t… |
| Romance sin palabras | Screenplay | 1948-09-17 | A famous pianist, invited by a girl, becomes interested in her sister, who pretends to be mute to hide a pronunciation defect…. |
| El hombre de las sorpresas | Screenplay | 1949-10-05 | A man pretends to be dead and his dying wish causes his wife to marry a drifter and lose her inheritance…. |
Other Info
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| El Hombre del Sábado | Second Assistant Art Director | 1947-10-10 | … |
| Facundo, el tigre de los llanos | Supervising Technical Director | 1952-07-03 | Aspects of the life of Juan Facundo Quiroga, a caudillo who for many years ruled the province of La Rioja in Argentina and was assassinated in 1835…. |
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