Leopoldo Torres Ríos
Leopoldo Torres Ríos (27 December 1899 – 10 April 1960) was an Argentine film director and screenwriter.
His brother Carlos Torres Ríos was a notable cinematographer.
His son was the film director and screenwriter Leopoldo Torre Nilsson.
Rios initially solely began as a screenwriter, writing for his first film "Palomas rubias" in 1920 but by 1923 he began simultaneously directing and writing for his films, producing over 40 films between the early 1920s and 1959 when he was taken ill with lung cancer.
He died on 10 April 1960, aged 60, in his native Buenos Aires.
Santos Vega (1917 film)
Santos Vega is a 1917 Argentine silent historical film directed by Carlos de Paoli.
It is based on the story of the legendary gaucho Santos Vega.
Santos Vega Returns
Santos Vega Returns (Spanish:
Santos Vega vuelve) is a 1947 Argentine historical adventure film directed by Leopoldo Torres Ríos and starring Juan José Miguez, Delfy de Ortega and Pedro Maratea.
It is based on the story of Santos Vega.
Lamman Rucker
Lamman Rucker( born October 6, 1971) is an American actor.
Rucker began his career on the daytime soap operas" As the World Turns" and" All My Children", before roles in Tyler Perry's films
" Why Did I Get Married?
Why Did I Get Married Too?", and" Meet the Browns", and its television adaptation.
In 2016, he began starring as Jacob Greenleaf in the Oprah Winfrey Network drama series," Greenleaf".
Dana Blankstein
Dana Blankstein- Cohen( born March 3, 1981) is the director of the Israeli Academy of Film and Television.
She is a film director, and an Israeli culture entrepreneur.
Ian Barry (director)
Ian Barry is an Australian director of film and TV.
Santos Vega (1971 film)
Santos Vega is a 1971 Argentine historical film directed by Carlos Borcosque Jr. and starring José Larralde, Ana María Picchio and Walter Vidarte.
It was the fourth film to be based on the story of Santos Vega.
Santos Vega
Santos Vega was an Argentine gaucho, and invincible "payador" (a kind of minstrel that competed in singing competitions resembling dialectic discussions), who was only defeated by the Devil himself, disguised as the "payadorJuan sin RopaJohn Clothless").
The myth states he is buried near San Clemente del Tuyú.
President Bartolomé Mitre was the first to compose a poem based on the legend.
Afterwards, Hilario Ascasubi wrote "Santos Vega o los Mellizos de la Flor", a long poem in which the minstrel narrates the events.
Soon after, Eduardo Gutiérrez published the "Story of Santos Vega and his friend Carmona prosecuted by justice" as a feuilleton.
Finally, Rafael Obligado, inspired on Gutiérrez's work, composed his best poem "Santos Vega", one of the top works of Argentine literature.
A 1936 film "Santos Vega" was released.
Peter Levin
Peter Levin is an American director of film, television and theatre.
Santos Vega (1936 film)
Santos Vega is a 1936 Argentine historical film directed by Luis Moglia Barth.
It is based on the story of Santos Vega.

Question: Why did the director of film Santos Vega Returns die?
Answer: lung cancer