Guillermo Francella

Guillermo Francella
Guillermo Francella in 2016
Born	(1955-02-14) February 14, 1955 (age 62) Buenos Aires, Argentina
Years active	1984 – present

Guillermo Francella (born February 14, 1955) is an Argentine actor and comedian. Apart from being a television performer, he also has had a long theatrical and film career.

Born in Buenos Aires, Francella made his television debut in 1984, participating in Historia de un Trepador (A Golddigger's Story). In 1985, he made his first feature film, El Telo y la Tele (Telo and Tele). He also participated in the television series, El Infiel (The Cheating Man) as Felipe during that year. 1986 was a very busy year for Francella: he filmed three movies, including Camarero Nocturno en Mar del Plata (Nightshift Steward at Mar Del Plata) and Las Colegialas (College Girls), as well as one television series, named El Lobo (The Wolf).

Francella's television and movie acting career continued on with movies as Los Pilotos más Locos del Mundo (The World's Craziest Pilots), Paraíso Relax (Relax Paradise, released as Casa de Masajes in Argentina) and Bañeros II:La Playa Loca (Beach Bums II:Crazy Beach); as well as television series like De Carne Somos (We are Made of Flesh) and La Familia Benvenutto. The aforementioned works were among Francella's acting experiences during the late 1980s.

In 1989, Francella participated in one of his biggest hits to date, Los Extermineitors, a comedy-action film that offered a satirical look at action movies such as Terminator and Rambo. Francella's next project was a sequel to that film. Extermineitors II: La venganza del dragón, filmed in 1990, was Francella's first acting job of the 1990s. In 1990, he also played a character whose name was a pun on his ("Francachella") in the Brigada Cola (Last Brigade), a comic television series. Two more sequels to Los Extermineitors followed, Extermineitors III: La gran pelea final and Extermineitors IV: Como hermanos gemelos, whose central argument was largely a parody of the classic Schwarzenegger/DeVito comedy Twins. After the release of the last film of the saga Francella took some time off from acting on screen.