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Juan José Porta

Argentinian actor

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 31, 2026
Entity authorityQ16584839 ↗
Source-derived summary

Juan José Porta was an Argentine stage and film actor. He appeared in twenty three films during the Golden Age of Argentine Cinema.

Selected filmography

The Minister's Daughter (1943)

Modern Husbands (1948)

The Tango Returns to Paris (1948)

Juan Mondiola (1950)

Valentina (1950)

The Fan (1951)

References

Bibliography

Insaurralde, Andrés. Manuel Romero. Centro Editor de América Latina, 1994.

Editorial summary

“Juan José Porta” enters the record as argentinian actor. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Juan, José and Porta can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1943, 1948, 1950, 1951—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1895. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Juan, José and Porta.
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“Juan José Porta” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Juan, José and Porta provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 31, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q16584839. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1943, 1948, 1950 and 1951.

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This entry incorporates text from “Juan José Porta” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.